Pestilence Family Tree
This is a project aimed at making it easy to see who inspired the bands you love or even hate. For this I try not to use any influences that the band don’t claim themselves. There will be a focus on predecessors but successors will be added as they site the band. These trees become more and more interactive as new bands are added, allowing you to click any band that has a tree and jump to it.
We want our lists to be better. If you know something that belongs on this list, let us know. When in doubt we will leave it out, so we need reliable sources.
Pestilence started with a death/thrash sound. By their second album they were fully death metal. Their album Spheres brought in a jazz fusion and was a much more progressive death album. Since then they have been playing technical death metal. The heart of the band has been Patrick Mameli on guitar and vocals with the exception of the first two albums where he was only on guitar. Along side guitarist Patrick Uterwijk the two of them wrote the music with Mameli doing most. Bass/Vocalist Martin van Drunen and drummer Marco Foddis wrote lyrics while in the band. Bassits Tony Choy and Jeroen Paul Thesseling each wrote an instrumental on Testimony of the Ancients and Spheres, respectively. Patrick Mameli has written everything since Resurrection Macabre. This list will only focus on Patrick Mameli’s influences. I was unable to find any for Uterwijk.
Chick Corea
Allan Holdsworth
Steve Coleman
Dave Weckl
Scott Henderson
Wolfgang Muthspiel
Tha Dogg Pund
Patrick says he doesn’t listen to metal anymore. Before discovering heavier music he was listening to bands like AC/DC and Kiss.
I have been unable to find influences or even interviews with Patrick Uterwijk, perhaps there just aren’t any English ones.
Sources:
https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/pestilences-patrick-mameli-im-not-influenced-by-anything-i-dont-listen-to-metal/
https://www.metal-rules.com/2018/06/30/pestilence-interview-with-patrick-mameli/
https://www.emptywords.org/InterviewPatrick.htm
http://www.metal-discovery.com/Interviews/pestilence_interview_2009_pt2.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf3w9kUZSYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1QG1FIvHHI
http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles.aspx?id=1-1094