“I’m Actually Playing Better Than I Ever Have”

Paul Mazurkiewicz has been crushing it for Cannibal Corpse since 1988 and he is exhibiting zero indicators of slowing down. In a latest interview with The Downbeat Podcast, Mazurkiewicz talked about how he feels he is enjoying higher than he ever has, and the way his method to Cannibal Corpse now’s manner totally different than within the early days.

“You recognize, it is bizarre as a result of I feel I am truly enjoying higher than I ever have,” stated Mazurkiewicz as transcribed by Steel Injection. “I feel the older you get, you find yourself utilizing your thoughts extra. You actually attempt to work in your approach extra, to have the ability to do it at this age. I look again after I first began – it was a really primitive, very primal. It wasn’t about any approach or something. It was nearly fury and adrenaline and going for it, proper? That is all of the early Cannibal data had been. I feel as we received older we’re going ‘okay, we’re getting extra intense with our music and it is getting extra cerebral’ so to say, as a result of a number of the songs are beginning to get a bit of extra technical and all of that.

“I actually labored exhausting within the final 15 years, attempting to refine my drumming to be simpler the older I get. I am simply engaged on minimizing my actions on the equipment and sitting correctly and all these sorts of issues, so I really feel that that has helped me tremendously. I have a look at my enjoying now and I really feel that I am arguably enjoying the perfect I’ve ever performed.”

It is all the time fascinating to listen to guys like Mazurkiewicz discuss their method to excessive steel as they grow old. Clearly the style does not get much less demanding, and that recent Cannibal Corpse single sure as hell isn’t yacht rock, however right here we’re over 30 years out from Eaten Again To Life and Mazurkiewicz is as livid as ever. Simply y’know, a bit of extra accountable.