CANNIBAL CORPSE’s PAUL MAZURKIEWICZ Discusses The Mystique Of Pre-Social Media Days

The day of pre-social media meant studying magazines and digging by the liner notes to search out out about your favourite bands. After which possibly, simply possibly, you will get to see ’em reside and have a fast chat. Now yow will discover out what their drummer ate for lunch and what they consider present affairs in about three seconds, touch upon it, and possibly begin an argument.

Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz lately dove into the subject in an interview with the Nothing Stunning podcast, saying his emotions on the matter are a little bit difficult. On one hand, Mazurkiewicz definitely appreciates the connectivity with followers and having the ability to discover out extra about nice bands, however alternatively is aware of that social media is usually a little bit of a ruiner for some issues.

“It is a robust one. It’s a robust one, as a result of, clearly, I really like what the Web and know-how has introduced us, the place you’ve got acquired the whole lot at your fingertips, bands having the ability to take action a lot and know a lot. It’s cool, however I suppose my old-school mentality or being from the technology previous to that, you sort of do miss the mystique of the previous days the place you did not know a lot about bands and also you needed to get your data from going to purchase {a magazine}, what little data you probably did get from that or what have you ever, or it is word-of-mouth sort of stuff. So I sort of miss the previous mystique of the metallic again within the previous days like that due to not figuring out and never having the whole lot at your fingertips.

“It is a robust one, as a result of alternatively, it is good to remain related with the followers and so many individuals can… We would not be doing this proper now if it wasn’t for that know-how. So it is a robust one. However I must say, simply wanting again at how I grew up and all this, it had that sure mystique. Now possibly once I was youthful, I might have preferred it to be like it’s now, as a result of you may suppose again, what I might have recognized or may have recognized or this and that, which you do not know any higher since you simply do not even consider that, after all, when that is all developing sooner or later and also you’re simply residing within the now.

“However I look again at how I grew up, and it was enjoyable going to document shops and discovering new bands that approach and that is how you bought into plenty of the bands, or studying about ’em in {a magazine}. If not, you’d go right into a document retailer and go, ‘Oh, take a look at this document. Wow. That appears cool. Let’s put it on. Wow. That is superior.’ And that is the way you discovered new music and the way you bought into bands. Now, after all, who’s gonna try this? It is by no means gonna occur. So I miss that mystique and that approach of the way it was. However that is a factor of the previous, I suppose. I suppose I am simply pleased to be part of that.”

“I all the time inform folks I am simply pleased… I acquired fortunate, I suppose. Everybody’s gotta be born once they’re born and I simply occurred to be born in that complete transitional period with metallic… Being a young person proper then at the moment within the early ’80s after which rising with the music and the altering of the scene day by day. Look how a lot change occurred within the metallic scene from ’80 to ’90. It is unbelievable. Or from ’82 to ’85, or ’85 to ’88. And we have been part of that as a hungry teenager that is not even certain what… You are moving into your bands and never even certain what you are absolutely into but, since you’re nonetheless getting molded and all.

“So I really feel very fortunate that I am a part of all that and having these transitions and being part of the motion, so to say. It was an awesome period to be rising up in. And if it wasn’t for that, Cannibal would not be what they’re, and clearly I would not be the drummer I’m and the musician I’m. So the whole lot occurred for a purpose and that is the best way it goes. However, yeah, thrilling occasions. Positively.”