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Deceased -- Chuck Schuldiner, founder of the very cool metal band Death.

 

Death Live -- Back in 1998 on The Sound of Perseverance Tour. (Images captured from the recently released Death Live in L.A. DVD.)

 

Death -- "If I wasn't dead, the irony would kill me."

December 16
Sunday

And Death Once Dead, There's No More Dying Then

now playing:
L'Arc~en~Ciel's Ark (1998)

I just heard that Chuck Schuldiner, one of the best metal guitarist/songwriter guys who ever lived, died on the 13th, around 4pm EST.

He was 30 or so, and had been suffering from some sort of brain cancer type of thing going on, so it's not sudden. It just sucks.

His band, Death, had some very killer albums. Heavy isn't hard to do, and technical wizardry isn't a rare thing anymore, but combining the two into something special was Chuck's forte; and it was, I think, Death's last album, The Sound of Perseverance, that contributed to my segue from the more straight-ahead metal of my youth to the more offbeat scales, beats, and sounds that visual kei bands like Dir en grey do every now and again.

Chalk up another guitar hero I never got to see perform live. I'm 1-for-2 now (I missed out on Steve Clark and Chuck Schuldiner, but I got to see Hide.)

 

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