MESHUGGAH's Tomas Haake: "I Feel More Like An Office Rat"
March 24, 2008, 16 years ago
Aquarian Online has issued an interview with MESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake. The following is an excerpt:
Q: The band in general is heralded as being technically fantastic, but you tend to regularly get ‘Best Metal Drummer’ here, ‘Top Five Metal Drummers’ over there. Do you get a trophy or anything? Do they send you a medal?
A: "No. (laughs) No, they don’t. It, of course, is flattering and all that, to get accolades in reader’s polls, to be mentioned among the top drummers of the world, but at the same time, I have a hard time dealing with that too, because for long periods of each year, I stay off the kit, and I’m usually never really in the shape I want to be as a drummer. With Meshuggah being a company now, there’s so much office work, I feel more like an office rat (laughs), you know."
Read the full feature at Aquarian Online.
