Matt SKITZ Sanders

FAVOURITE FISHSTICKS:

5B HAMMER BLASTS.  THESE STICKS OFFER A POWERFUL AND DYNAMIC ATTACK. PERFECT FOR HARD HITTING BLAST BEAT SAVAGERY!!!

HOMETOWN:  Adelaide

FIRST KIT: I bought a second hand 'Dolphin' drum kit in 1988.. It was pretty shit but got me started..

CURRENT BANDS: Diabolic Rites, Plasmodium

PREVIOUS BANDS: Damaged, Sadistik Exekution, Abramelin, Terrorust, Hobb's Angel of Death, Cemetery Urn, Humonic, Gravetemple, King Parrot, Urgrund, Funerary Pit....

FAVOURITE DRUMMERS: Phil Rudd (AC/DC), Mikkey Dee (Motorhead/King Diamond),  Dave Lombardo (Slayer), Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel), Ventor (Kreator),  Pete Sandoval (Morbid Angel/Terrorizer), Steve Asheim (Deicide), Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), Hellhammer (Mayhem), Tony Laureno (Angelcorpse), Nick Barker (Lockup/Dimmu Borgir) Bard Faust (Emperor/Blood Tsunami) 

BANDS I'D LOVE TO TOUR WITH: Marduk, Belphegor, Possessed, Sodom, Angelcorpse, Blasphemy, Goathammer, Venom Inc. Archgoat

MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS: Recording my first album with Damaged, 'Do not Spit' in  July 1993..

 - Supporting the mighty 'Bolthrower' 1993

 - Druming for Sadistik Exekution for the European tour,

  'Sex, Cyber, Rock 'n' Roll', 1995 with Absu and Finnish maniacs, Impaled Nazarene..

 - Playing support shows for Morbid Angel 96

 - Australian tour supporting Entombed 1998

 - Supporting Strapping Young Lad and drinking with Gene Hoglan

 - Damaged 2000 tour with Kevin Sharp (Brutal Truth/Lockup)

 - Sepultura/Damaged tour 2003

 - Terrorust/Deicide Oz tour 2006

 - Terrorust supporting Celtic Frost, Melbourne 2007

 - Playing drums for Gravetemple, (Stephen O'Malley - Sunno)

Atilla-Mayhem) European tour and Live album recording in Paris 2008

 - Recording two EP's in a week, Humonic - The Modern Nihilist, and   Insidious Torture - Lust and decay

- Bali Death Metal Festival 2010 (Humonic)

- Hobb's Angel of Death Scandinavian tour.  Playing with Slayer,

Blasphemy, Archgoat, Impaled Nazarene at Jalometalli in Ouluo

Finland... Playing with Blood Tsunami (Bard Faust) and using Hellhammer's drum kit in Oslo Norway...

- Touring USA/Canada with King Parrot for 50 dates in two months 

and playing gigs with Cattle Decapitation, and finishing the tour in Jakarta, Indonesia for the Hammersonic festival, alongside, Kreator, Morbid Angel, and Belphegor.. - Forming my new band "Diabolic Rites' in 2017 and recording our full length album 'Litanies of the lecherous.... 

Store: http://diabolicrites.bandcamp.com/album/litanies-of-the-lecherous

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiabolicRites/

Store: http://plasmodium-ritual.bandcamp.com/album/entheognosis

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