Chuck schuldiner biography

Chuck Schuldiner never wanted to be The Godfather Of Death Metal. It was a genre tag he could never shake off during his short life, and one that’s only grown in stature in the years since he passed away.

His reticence was understandable.

Chuck’s band, Death, were conceived in the s as a brutal eruption of noise and viscera, but the course they sailed across their seven-album lifetime took them into uncharted waters. As their singer, guitarist and chief architect, he was one of extreme metal’s iconic figures, a restless spirit in perpetual forward motion.

“Death were so far ahead of the curve that other people were playing catch-up,” says Matt Heafy, Trivium vocalist and Death fan.

“Chuck was so ahead of his time that it became a hindrance. If Death were still around, they’d be massive.”

He hasn’t been forgotten, but neither is his influence as