Malt Peters

Keep up with Malt here:

http://www.myspace.com/fearfeedsmyapathy
http://www.youtube.com/mahalleblast

I’m malte peters, currently a 16 year old metal drummer from Berlin, Germany. I started playing when I was 12 after discovering my friend’s kit. I took private lessons from a cool old school 70’s hardrock kinda guy. He taught me a lot of basic stuff but I never learned playing with notes. After 2 and a half years he stopped teaching me so I went on teaching myself.

I was always into music so I just played after songs from bands I liked. That’s how I still practise today. When 14, I joined a punkrock band and one year later a deathcore band, which is still the band I’m playing in.

Malt Peters Interview:

SD.com: How old were you when you started playing?

Malte: 12 years old

 

 

SD.com: Did you play in a school band or any drum corps?

Malte: my band is a freakin school band haha

 

 

SD.com: Who are your top 5 influences?

Malte: in chronological order: Joey Jordison, Jordan Mancino, Elliot Sellers, Navene Koperwies, Alex Pelletier

 

 

 

 

SD.com: Assuming that influences doesn’t mean favorites, who are your favorites?

Malte: umm. I love the cymbal work of Elliot Sellers and Navene Koperwies. There are so many awesome metal drummers who play very fast and clean. I love Alex Pelletier, Derek Roddy and the new guy in Necrophagist, Romain Goulon. One of my special favs is Nick Barkers work in Dimmu Borgir, but these are only a few examples.

 

 

SD.com: Let us know 5 CD’s that are in your current rotation

Malte:

on solid ground – self titled ep

from the shallows – beyond the unknown

between the buried and me – colors

gang starr – hard to earn

as we said – ep 2008

 

 

SD.com: What do you do to warm up before a show?

Malte: mostly nothing lol. If I don’t forget it, a little stretching and maybe fooling around on the kit, moments before the show

 

 

 

 

SD.com: Do you have a favourite brand of drums or cymbals?

Malte: not really, I like meinl effect cymbals

 

 

SD.com: If you could give one piece of advice to younger drummers, it would be…

Malte: keep practising and having fun. If you don’t have fun when you’re playing drums, you probably shouldn’t do it.

 

 

SD.com: Who gave the best live performance you’ve ever seen?

Malte: Shannon lucas of the black dahlia murder was killer

 

 

SD.com: If you had to stop drumming, what would you want to do with your life?

Malte: probably play an other instrument otherwise I couldn’t imagine playing trumpet or stuff.