Paul Bostaph

Paul Bostaph fascinates me as the consummate working drummer. Joining, leaving, and rejoining Slayer multiple times, while also drumming for Forbidden, Exodus, Testament and others, is the resume of someone bands keep calling back, which is the truest endorsement of skill there is. His playing has a relentless, machine-precise heaviness that I find genuinely thrilling, yet it never feels showy. He is the kind of musician who anchors a band rather than grandstands, and I respect that immensely. The fact that he started at twenty and is still summoned to the kit speaks volumes about durability and craft.

Name (English)

Paul Bostaph

Name (Japanese)

ポール・ボスタフ

Reading

ぽーる・ぼすたふ

Born

March 6, 1964 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

San Francisco, California, United States

Occupation

drummer / musician / percussionist

High school

Newark Memorial High School

• Official sitehttp://www.paulbostaph.net
• Xhttps://x.com/bostaphdrums
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Bostaph
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202022

Tags

• California
• drummer
• musician
• percussionist

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.