The family of late DEATH/CONTROL DENIED mastermind Chuck Schuldiner has launched a web site, www.chuck-schuldiner.org, to help raise funds for the completion and eventual release of the long-awaited second CONTROL DENIED album. After you join the members-only site for a $25 fee, you will receive an exclusive commemorative T-shirt and be given an opportunity to participate in a memorabilia giveaway (by writing and submitting your essay on the subject of "What Chuck's music meant to me"). The winners of the giveaway will be announced on December 13, 2009.

Chuck — who passed away in December 2001 after a battle with pontine glioma, a rare type of brain tumor — began work on the second CONTROL DENIED album (tentatively titled "When Machine and Man Collide") in 2001 but never managed to complete the effort before his health quickly deteriorated in the months leading up to his tragic death. The remaining members of the group — bassist Steve DiGiorgio, vocalist Tim Aymar, guitarist Shannon Hamm, and drummer Richard Christy — subsequently announced their desire to complete the CD and release it in Chuck's memory, but legal hassles between Schuldiner's family and Hammerheart Records (to whom Chuck was signed at the time of his death) put the entire project on hold. (Karmageddon Media — formerly Hammerheart Records — have since issued various incomplete demo recordings as two separate low-quality albums, "Zero Tolerance" and "Zero Tolerance II".)

Chuck's mother, Jane Schuldiner, had previously stated about the unfinished recordings: "[Chuck's] last masterpiece deserves more than to be released as unfinished bits of rehearsal room recordings on CD, or to be grabbed for free on the Internet. It deserves to be finished by the rest of the band and to be released on a full-length album, titled: 'When Machine and Man Collide'."

To coincide with what would have been DEATH mastermind Chuck Schuldiner's 40th birthday (Chuck was born on May 13, 1967), the official DEATH web site Empty Words posted the Schuldiner tribute article (entitled "Lust for Life") which was published in Guitar World magazine's April 2007 issue. Check it out at this location.

Chuck Schuldiner memorial video made by his mother (and which was shown at his funeral):