Back in December 2006, the Greek edition of
Rock Hard magazine published a tribute to late
DEATH mastermind
Chuck Schuldiner, including statements and stories from many of the people that played with
Chuck — such as
Kam Lee,
Chris Reifert,
Terry Butler,
Steve DiGiorgio,
Richard Christy and
Paul Masvidal — plus music industry notables who dealt with
Schuldiner, and other musicians, among them
Michael Amott (
ARCH ENEMY),
Niklas Sundin (
DARK TRANQUILLITY),
Donald Tardy (
OBITUARY),
Alex Webster (
CANNIBAL CORPSE),
Trym (
EMPEROR),
Dan Lilker (
NUCLEAR ASSAULT),
Kelly Shaefer (
ATHEIST), and
Tony Choy (
ATHEIST,
CYNIC). The magazine has now posted all the individual statements from the article (which came out in Greece on December 27, 2006) at
this location.
As previously reported, 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 has 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.
Schuldiner passed away on December 13, 2001 after a battle with pontine glioma, a rare type of brain tumor. He was 34 years old.
