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Tony Scaglione

Biography

• "As a teenager I was listening to a variety of music, I was a really big fan of Rush and Journey (and still am) but I also loved the classic metal bands like [Black] Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest. The first concert I ever attended was Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult at Madison Square Garden in New York. That concert really blew me away and I quickly got more and more into the whole metal scene. Soon after I discovered Motörhead, which was totally different to the standard metal of the day. It was just so much more raw and powerful to me."

Career

• He departed from Slayer in October 1988 to join the hard rock band Raging Slab. He performed drums on Raging Slab.

Style

• "I guess my first really influential experience of extreme metal had to be the first time I heard No Life 'Til Leather drmo by Metallica. Up until that time, Motörhead was the most extreme thing I was into, but they were still based in the rock'n'roll bluesy kind of sound. Metallica, on the other hand, was like nothing Ihad heard before. It was so fast and heavy (maybe not by today's standards) that everyone I knew who had heard it was just blown away. I don't really remember who coined the term 'thrash' but as far as I remember, the first time I saw it used was in conjunction with Metallica."

Discography

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Tony Scaglione originally gained notoriety in the mid-eighties with his powerful drumming on Whiplash’s debut album, “Power and Pain”. Today this recording is still hailed by many as one of the essential thrash metal releases of all time. Throughout the years, Tony went on to perform and record with some of the most popular names in the metal and hardcore scenes while branching out into many other diverse areas. From drumming for thrash kings Slayer (Tony was asked to fill in on the Reign In Blood tour when Dave Lombardo left the band the first time), to southern fried rockers Raging Slab, to hardcore pioneers Cause For Alarm, M.O.D. and Sheer Terror, Tony’s ability to fit into a wide variety of musical genres has established him as a highly in demand musician. He has also played with many other artists including North Side Kings, Eightfold, Jackhammer, Deathrash, Zero Hour, Ludichrist, Cerebral Hemmorhage, power pop rockers Frank Lloyd Vinyl, and blues masters Michael Nitro and 7 Licks. Tony is also very active in the field of drum education with more than twenty years of teaching experience.