Anthony Radke

 

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When I was a little kid, my uncles would babysit me and crank up the stereo and play led zep and old motley crue ac/dc good classic rock. I always loved the loud heavy beats.. got a little older and my friends older brother showed us Sslayer… Megadeth, Nnuclear Aassault, Eexodus etc. I knew I was metal from day one and I haven’t strayed since. I used to hang out in a used record store and clean up and organize stuff or store credit to get records and tapes. That’s how I found deathmetal. I saw some album covers and thought, dammmmn! What’s that sound like…  it was a Morbid Angel lp, not sure which one.. but, I was hooked since then. I grew up in new york around Dehumanized, Internal Bleeding, Rate, Disfigured, Suffocation and Pyrexia.

I would go to every show and mosh like a maniac… and also watch all the drummers, and go home to try what they did. (on my own kit) I met up with an old friend (MIke) and he was in need of a front man for his hardcore band, so I was kind of trying to do that untill he gave up on it, and handed me down his drums…   He also personally introduced me to Geo torres, drums for dehumanized, and we’ve been brothers since. Showing each other differnt tricks and techniques. Even though we are totally differnt styles, we still see each others advice and point of views.  I locked myself in my garage with that peice of crap drum set for a few years then started shredding tunes with (420) ex members of Repudilation.. For some reason it just didnt work out. I think my drumming skills were too immature at that time.. I jammed with a few guys here and there the guys from Internal Bleeding and Dehumanized and then, out to Arizona and played with excessive bleeding long enough to learn a few songs then realize it wasnt my style. I took a break from music for a few years then came back and joined “prophecy” for a little while but the travel to TX was too much so i found local grind band “something that kills people” after almost a year of that and it not going anywhere really, i left and the next day i got a phone call from meconium and now we are here to bring a new breed of mosh metal to the world.

 

 

 

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