In a brand new interview with “Reckless” Rexx Ruger of Pod Scum, drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz of long-running Florida-based loss of life metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE was requested to call his greatest musical influences. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “SLAYER‘s Dave Lombardo is my greatest affect, in fact. If it wasn’t for him, I in all probability would not be doing what I am doing. He is the king of thrash, double bass and all that, in order a young person, listening to him play within the mid-’80s, clearly I wasn’t enjoying at that time but — I [was] simply beginning out — so that basically solidified me desirous to play the best way I play as we speak, what he was doing and nonetheless is doing. However all these bands and all these influences we had within the mid-to-late ’80s, going from, I suppose, any of the heavy metallic like IRON MAIDEN, because it progressed, into bands like METALLICA, SLAYER after which the thrash bands of… KREATOR and issues like that, DARK ANGEL, that basically, actually had been the forerunners of loss of life metallic and what we do in CANNIBAL CORPSE. So, I imply, so many, so many influential bands and drummers again then, however, yeah, Lombardo can be my greatest one.”
Requested how he has held up bodily after enjoying excessive metallic drums for greater than three and a half many years, he stated: “Fortunately, I’ve held up fairly good. I am feeling pretty good for my age. And, Jeez, if something, there’s plenty of occasions I believe, ‘Man, I am enjoying higher than I ever have been,’ which is, I suppose, factor. However you have gotta make these tweaks, you have gotta make these changes. You possibly can’t simply depend on younger adrenaline and simply pure fury, such as you may need accomplished while you had been youthful. So, it’s important to sort of possibly attempt to deal with your self somewhat bit extra so. I imply, all of it comes all the way down to the fundamentals. The best way I take a look at it anyhow is that if you will get good sleep, you keep hydrated, you eat pretty effectively and also you observe, these are the primary keys. In fact, having some good genes maybe. Sadly, you hear [about] these guys that simply have issues, again issues, and there is nothing you are able to do. Fortunately, I suppose I do have fairly first rate genes in that regard the place I by no means had any main illnesses in that manner. So, if something, you have simply gotta actually play much more.”
He continued: “I’ve seen my routines have actually stepped up and particularly simply in observe, in fact. Understanding if I am gonna preserve, effectively, I’ve to be there working further arduous, tougher than I ever have up to now. So so long as I am doing that, then I believe the whole lot’s all proper, I suppose. However, yeah, I really feel fairly good. So, yeah, [as drummers] we do have a strenuous job, arguably essentially the most strenuous [in any band]. The benefit of, I suppose, drumming for me, I take a look at it as, like, effectively, it doesn’t matter what, I am gonna all the time be enjoying the best way I play at observe or on the highway. There is not any half-assing it at observe. You are enjoying precisely like it’s good to be enjoying on the highway. So, so long as you’ll be able to maintain that schedule going and have that consistency, then observe to the highway ought to segue fairly seamlessly. So, often it does. However, yeah, I’ve simply gotta stick with it, man. That is all you are able to do. You possibly can’t cease.”
CANNIBAL CORPSE‘s sixteenth studio album, “Chaos Horrific”, was launched in September 2023 through Steel Blade Information.
Since 1988, CANNIBAL CORPSE have been on the forefront of loss of life metallic, shaping and defining the style. In 2021, they raised the stakes once more with “Violence Unimagined”. And in 2023, the band’s thirty-fifth anniversary, they returned with its successor, the equally monstrous “Chaos Horrific”, beginning a brand new chapter of their storied legacy.
Mazurkiewicz named “Chaos Horrific” and his cohorts felt it was a terrific illustration of the band. Topics coated embrace combating off hordes of zombies (“Chaos Horrific”),the collection of a random particular person to be dismembered and sacrificed (“Summoned For Sacrifice”) and the violent revenge of victims of human trafficking (“Vengeful Invasion”). The album art work by longtime collaborator Vince Locke can also be suitably CANNIBAL CORPSE-esque, that includes a chaotic tangle of the residing and the undead, evoking the lyrics of the title monitor.
Paul Mazurkiewicz picture credit score: Alex Morgan / Dave Lombardo picture credit score: Becky DiGiglio