Mark W.rites

Drums

Early version of Cadaverous Quartet logo with four corpses huddled together singing which overlays a texture created from letters and magazine articles.

Following is a story about my six-year journey as a drummer in a death metal band you’ve probably never heard of whose collection of recordings is being republished by a record company you also probably haven’t heard of—26 years after we called it quits.

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A young Neil with shoulder length hair, wearing headphones, peaking out from behind the small spaces between his drums and cymbals, with a pleasant smile.

In high school I was often found listening to records in my living room, air drumming, trying to reverse engineer what I was hearing on my favorite records. Mostly I was trying to learn records by Death, Metallica, Slayer, and Rush.

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Blurry distant photo of Alice in Chains on stage on the Dirt Tour in Tucson. It's smoky and everything is dark except for the stage, where the band is rocking out.

Every once in a while this story resurfaces in conversation. It’s pretty cool, so I thought I would go ahead and write it down for posterity.

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