Charlie Benante

Charlie Benante at an autograph session in 2009

Charlie Benante (born November 27, 1962 in New York City ) is an American musician and drummer for the thrash metal band Anthrax . In addition to drums, he plays guitar and keyboard and works as a music producer . Benante is considered to be one of the fathers of blastbeat , a drum technique that is played very quickly.

Live and act

Charlie Benante (2010)

Benante comes from a middle-class American family, his mother and grandfather played the guitar. He has two older sisters. Benante was supposed to start playing drums at the age of five. After he was rejected by various music schools because of his age, a jazz drummer gave him private lessons after an audition . A little later, Benante's father died. After a few years of teaching, he took over the drums in a neighborhood girls' band after the original drummer left college . When Benante was 14, Frank Bello , the son of his older sister Rose, moved in with his family. Both jammed together and it was Benante who got Bello to switch from guitar to bass.

Charlie Benante made his first live appearances at the age of 15 as a member of a cover band that had up to four appearances in the evening and played pieces by The Who or The Cars . Playing cover versions did not satisfy Benante and he left the band to begin training at an art school. In May 1983 he became the drummer for Anthrax . Still with little part in the songwriting for their debut Fistful of Metal , he was one of the main songwriters of the band from the 1985 album Spreading the Disease . In addition to his commitment to Anthrax, in April 1985 he was one of the founders of the SOD project , which is one of the pioneers of metalcore . With SOD, the musicians who originally came from metal wanted to implement their idea of how hardcore punk should sound in their opinion.

In addition to his membership in Anthrax and SOD, Benante works as a session musician and music producer . For the hard rock band Heavy the Fall from Chicago he played the drums for the 2007 EP , which he also produced. Since 2008 he has also appeared as a live drummer at various concerts of the band. The end of 2009 it was announced that he, the debut album of Heavy the Fall produce and will record the drum parts.

Benante is married with a daughter and a stepson . The family lives in the US state of Illinois . He is a supporter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence , which campaigns against the misuse of firearms. The passionate coffee drinker offered his own line of coffee products and hand-signed mugs in 2008 via the online shop of Dave Mustaine's wife . At the beginning of 2010 a Charlie Benante signature snare drum was released by the drum brand Tama .

Discography

with anthrax

with SOD

Speak English or Die (album, 1985)
Live at Budokan (Live album, 1992)
Bigger Than the Devil (album, 1999)

with Heavy the Fall

Heavy the Fall (EP, 2007)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b John Leland: My Son the Headbanger . In: Spin Magazine . July 1987, p. 51 f .

^ Ian Christe: Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . It Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4 , pp. 175 .

↑ ANTHRAX Drummer To Enter Studio With HEAVY THE FALL. (No longer available online.) Blabbermouth.net, November 13, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved May 13, 2010 (English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2
↑ ANTHRAX: CHARLIE BENANTE's Signed Coffee Mugs For $ 39.99. (No longer available online.) Blabbermouth.net, May 2, 2008, archived from the original on July 5, 2009 ; Retrieved May 13, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Product page Charlie Benante Signature Snare Drum. (No longer available online.) TAMA website, archived from the original on May 27, 2010 ; Retrieved May 17, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

Web links

Commons : Charlie Benante - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Charlie Benante in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Charlie Benante at Allmusic (English)
Charlie Benante on anthrax.com (English)
Charlie Benante at MySpace (English)
Artist Interview: Charlie Benante. Tama online , April 25, 2006, accessed May 13, 2010 .

personal data
SURNAME	Benante, Charlie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	american drummer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 27, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	New York City

[spin-1] A ^b John Leland: My Son the Headbanger . In: Spin Magazine . July 1987, p. 51 f .

[2] Ian Christe: Sound of the Beast. The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal . It Books, 2004, ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4 , pp. 175 .


Studio albums	Fistful of Metal • Spreading the Disease • Among the Living • State of Euphoria • Persistence of Time • Sound of White Noise • Stomp 442 • Volume 8: The Threat Is Real • We've Come for You All • Worship Music • For All Kings
Extended plays	Armed and Dangerous • I'm the Man • Penikufesin • Inside Out • Summer 2003 • Anthems
Live albums	The Island Years • Music of Mass Destruction • Alive 2 • Gigantour • Caught in a Mosh: BBC Live in Concert • The Big Four Live from Sofia, Bulgaria • Chile on Hell
Compilation albums	Attack of the Killer B's • Moshers… 1986–1991 • Return of the Killer A's • Madhouse: The Very Best of Anthrax • Classic Anthrax: The Universal Masters Collection • The Collection • The Greater of Two Evils • Anthrology: No Hit Wonders (1985 -1991)