The news breaks that Chuck Schuldiner, one of the most crucial musicians ever to inhabit the swamps of death metal, has died from a brain tumour at the age of 34. Schuldiner’s former band ...

Schuldiner’s idea was to infuse old-school metal with the concussive force of death metal and the melodic possibilities of prog. That idea blossomed into Control Denied: Schuldiner’s far less ...

That alone would have been enough to cement Death’s legend. But Schuldiner was Schuldiner for a reason — which is to say, throughout his life, he was never afraid to stop growing as an artist. As the ...