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My Take
Paul Mazurkiewicz commands my respect for sheer endurance. Anchoring Cannibal Corpse, one of death metal's most notorious bands, demands relentless precision: those punishing blast beats are closer to athletic feats than ordinary drumming, and he's sustained them for decades. I love that a man from snowy, blue-collar Buffalo became the rhythmic foundation of such an extreme act. Whatever controversy the band's lyrics and artwork stir, the music's brutal coherence rests on his metronomic consistency. Drummers rarely get the spotlight, especially in a genre built on velocity, yet without that engine room nothing holds. He's a craftsman of controlled chaos, and I admire it enormously.
Overview
Paul Mazurkiewicz Jr. ( mə-ZER-kə-wits; born September 8, 1968) is an American musician best known as the drummer of the death metal band Cannibal Corpse.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Paul Mazurkiewicz
- Name (Japanese)
- ポール・マズルケビッチ
- Reading
- ぽーる・まずるけびっち
- Born
- September 8, 1968 (age 57)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Virgo / Monkey
- Origin
- Buffalo, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- drummer / musician / percussionist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.