ricorre oggi l'anniversario della scomparsa del cantante e fondatore dei Death..
CitazioneThe heavy metal underground lost a true pioneer on December 13, 2001, when Chuck Schuldiner,
founder of the death metal group Death, died at 34 years of age following a lengthy battle with a brain tumor.
The energetic metal axeman and gravel-throated vocalist didn't always have 8 studio albums under his
belt. He was born Charles Schuldiner on May 13, 1967 in Long Island, New York, the son of Mal and Jane
Schuldiner. Chuck's began a long way from the famous Whisky in Hollywood or the Dutch Dynamo Open
Air Festival. In the quiet Orlando, Florida suburb of Altamonte Springs Chuck spent most of his life. It was
late 1983, according to metal journalist Borivoj Krgin, when Chuck was joined by guitarist Rick Rozz (a.k.a.
Frederick DeLillo) and drummer/vocalist Barney "Kam" Lee to form the Mantas, the precursor to Death.
The primitive metal birth pangs for Chuck & Co. were filled with an urge to shock audiences, fueled by
bravado and clashing personalities. Par for the course for teenage kids forming a band, much less one
of the heaviest metal acts on Earth
Schuldiner, a native of Florida, was just 16 years old when he formed Death in 1983. While Death didn't
release their first album, Scream Bloody Gore, until 1987, it didn't take long for the group to become one
of the leading forces on the underground scene, thanks to widely circulating homemade demo tapes and
international fanzine coverage. In these early years, Schuldiner had somewhat unremarkable skills as a
guitarist, but his penchant for writing razor-sharp riffs and his powerful vocal growl introduced legions of
American headbangers to the grinding art of death metal, an extreme style of music already made
popular in Europe by bands like Celtic Frost, Venom and Sodom. At the time of his death, Schuldiner—who in the late Nineties had also formed the group Control Denied—had grown into not only a proficient
musician and expert songwriter but an underground legend as well.
Schuldiner was diagnosed with pontine glioma, a type of brain tumor more commonly associated with
children, in 1999. With no health insurance, Schuldiner and his family struggled to afford consistent
treatment. He underwent surgery in January 2000 and responded well to the operation, but in the months
that followed, his condition worsened. By 2001, the tumor, which had continued to grow, had proved to be
inoperable.
The Schuldiner family still faces the exorbitant costs associated with Chuck's illness.
grazie Chuck
Un Grande.
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e rileggere i suoi testi dà una sensazione di impotenza davanti al destino...
CitazioneTime is a thing we must accept.
The unexpected I sometimes
fear.
Just when I feel there's no
excuse for what happens,
things fall into place.
I know there is no way to
avoid the pain that we must
go through, to find the other
half that is true.
Destiny is what we all seek.
Destiny was waiting for you
and me.
grazie di tutto
Grandissimo :(
E' vero...Bravo.. :(
r.i.p.
era il nietzsche del metal....
Chuck rest in peace 8B: