A Tribute to Chuck Schuldiner

December 13 is the “Death” anniversary of my hero and one of my favorite music personalities, Chuck Schuldiner from the legendary death metal band called “Death”. I was still growing up when Chuck and his band were touring and writing music. But about a year before Chuck passed away due to brain cancer I laid my hands upon the iconic album “Symbolic” . Back then I wasn’t really into heavy music as much , I listened to bands like Pantera, Metallica, Sepultura, etc. But the first time heard the opening riffs of the song ‘Crystal Mountain’ I knew that this was the greatest shit I had ever heard. Lot of people label him as the godfather of Death Metal but I look at him more like a pioneer of innovative heavy music. Progressive might be another word that might describe Chuck. At an age when glam and thrash ruled the world Chuck chose a different path. He created a sound that was never heard before. Beautifully harmonized melodies, thunderous blast beats, guttural vocals and dark-philosophical lyrics. And often people accredit him for his guitar skills but I always thought Chuck was an amazing songwriter as well.

Do you feel what I feel, see what I see, hear what I hear
There is a line you must draw between your dream world and reality
Do you live my life or share the breath I breathe
Lies feed your judgment of others
Behold how the blind lead each other
The philosopher
You know so much about nothing at all

“The Philosopher,” Individual Thought Patterns

You be the judge.

His work truly is, ART. His influence on me personally is endemic. Some argue about his stint with Christianity before his death. It is contradicting to his work, yes, but I hate assholes who think they are conformist to the so called anti-social lifestyle.

Like this paranoid asshole.

http://www.anus.com/metal/about/metal/chuck_schuldiner.html

How metal can you really be? This asshole wrote to chuck’s mother and says this in his own writing “Judeo-Christianity, or Christianity; however you prefer, is the mindset that drives the hatred which drives a desire for a new way or possibility in metal”.

I would like to say to the self proclaimed advocate of Metal, “Speak for your own self- Asshole”. The same lyric that’s quoted above has been used by our friend at anus.com as Chuck’s defense of being a Christian. Chuck was Jewish by birth and our friends at anus.com I believe are Christians by birth, and if anus.com wants to talk about being pro-choice well I do not see why they dislike chuck. He made a choice, he had skimpy voice doesn’t necessarily mean he was gay; he loved cats thus he wore t-shirts with kittens on it. May Leonardo Da Vinci was a homosexual but does that discredit all his works?

Ps. No wonder it’s called anus.com, because it’s filled with assholes.

Chuck was a regular guy, shy, loved animals, cooked and took his mother to the mall for shopping. He was a musician. And just like preachers and god goons people that try to glamorize stuff like Satanism or any ideology about following something are on the same platform to me.

I didn’t wake up this morning wanting to write a blog about chuck but I got provoked and disgusted by the article that I linked above. The Sound of Perseverance is truly the sound of perseverance. I am not glorifying the man here gratuitously but glorifying his work, his art and his talent. What he was in his personal life has nothing to do with “Death” irrespective to all the propagandas. I don’t believe in them and more importantly I really don’t care.