CHARLIE BENANTE Explains His Love For DIMMU BORGIR’s Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

Charlie Benante – the drumming powerhouse behind Anthrax and Pantera – has a reasonably assorted style relating to what he is listening to and influenced by. And naturally amongst every thing Benante listens to is a healthy dose of heavier music.

In an interview with Consequence, Benante touched on his love of Dimmu Borgir‘s 2001 album Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia and the drumming of Nick Barker. Benante mentioned he remembers listening to the monitor “Blessings Upon The Throne Of Tyranny” and being fully blown away by Barker‘s drumming, and later explains why Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia probably appealed to the plenty.

“Within the early 2000s, when this file got here out, it was a type of moments the place my head spun. Again within the ’80s, there was a band that Scott Ian and I did with two different guys, and it was known as Stormtroopers of Death. And we had a track known as ‘Milk.’ And it was like the primary time {that a} blast beat had actually appeared on a file. And I bear in mind at the moment folks had been asking me, ‘What are you doing there? What are you doing there?’ And I’d try to show and present them. In order that complete factor sort of took off.

“Afterward, the black steel bands began to choose up on the blast beat. I used to be doing like a one foot blast mainly again then, however then they had been doing it extra independently with two ft. So, Nick Barker, particularly had simply mastered it so properly. And once I heard Dimmu Borger‘s [sic] Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia album, and I heard that track ‘Blessings Upon the Throne of Tyranny,’ it was a type of moments the place I needed to go as much as the audio system and simply ask myself, ‘What’s going on right here?’

“To me, that is a black steel file that I believe the plenty sort of can absorb as a result of it was produced very properly. The enjoying was fucking killer and the songs had been nice. However, out of every thing, Nick Barker shines on that file. His drumming, his tasty fills, simply blew me away.”