David Lombardo
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David Lombardo is a Cuban American drummer, best known as a co-founding member of American thrash metal band Slayer. Lombardo played drums on nine Slayer albums, including the 1986 album Reign in Blood and the 2006 album Christ Illusion, for which he received critical praise. Lombardo’s music career has spanned more than thirty years, during which he has been involved in the production of thirty-five commercial recordings covering a number of genres. He has performed with numerous bands, including Grip Inc., Fantômas, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, in addition to Slayer. Lombardo is currently playing drums with Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Cross and the Misfits.
Lombardo is widely known as an aggressive heavy metal drummer. His drumming has been praised as „astonishingly innovative”. Drummerworld named him „the Godfather of Double Bass”. He has had a significant influence on the metal scene and inspired modern metal drummers, particularly thrash and death metal drummers.
Lombardo began the creation of his first art collection, „Rhythm Mysterium” in early 2014. To execute the project, Lombardo worked with art team Scene Four in Los Angeles, California. The art collection is titled „RHYTHM MYSTERIUM”. Containing 13 works, the collection is built from the new medium of rhythm-on-canvas. FIRST EDITION BOOK: In 2015, Lombardo unveiled an extraordinary visual and audio experience with the release of „LOMBARDO”. Inside the book, readers get a comprehensive look at Dave Lombardo’s artwork built from rhythm. Simultaneously on vinyl, readers hear Lombardo’s improvised drum interpretations for each art piece within the book.