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Curse of the drummers

Dave Lombardo
Feb 22, 2013 Updated Feb 25, 2013

This year's Soundwave festival has been hit with a spate of drummer-related disasters to rival those of Spinal Tap...

Blink-182, Anthrax and Six Feet Under will all be without their regular skin bashers for this year's festival, and now Slayer's Dave Lombardo won't be making the trip either, after being unceremoniously dumped by the band.

Lombardo says he was dropped after he complained about the way money was being handled and refused to sign a new contract with the group which forbade him from doing interviews or making statements about the band.

Soundwave boss AJ Maddah tweeted “Drummers are seriously ruining my week”. 

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David Lombardo is a Cuban American drummer and co-founding member of the American thrash metal band Slayer. He has performed with Slayer on seven albums, including their groundbreaking 1986 release Reign In Blood and their 2006 release Christ Illusion, for which he received critical praise. Lombardo's music career has spanned more than 25 years, during which he has been involved in the production...

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