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Chuck Schuldiner

Death founder, guitarist and songwriter whose increasingly ambitious records helped define and then expand death metal.

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Life, work & what’s documented

Chuck Schuldiner was born 1967-05-13 and died 2001-12-13 at age 34. Death founder, guitarist and songwriter whose increasingly ambitious records helped define and then expand death metal. Death's founder helped define death metal, then repeatedly pushed its musical boundaries.

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Why They're Awesome

Death's founder helped define death metal, then repeatedly pushed its musical boundaries.

Essential works: Scream Bloody Gore · Human · Symbolic

Contribution and influence

What changed because they were here

Contribution: Helped define death metal, then expanded its technical, melodic and progressive possibilities through Death.

Influence: Death's increasingly ambitious records became a durable reference point for later extreme-metal musicians.

Connections: Founder of Death; connected to death metal and progressive-metal development.

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DeathFounded / Chuck Schuldiner founded Death.Relationship source / confidence: high
Death metalContributed To / Chuck Schuldiner helped define death metal and repeatedly expanded its musical boundaries.Relationship source / confidence: high
Progressive metalContributed To / Death's later work connected death metal with increasingly progressive structures and technique.Relationship source / confidence: medium

Statistics / evidence

Context is not destiny

Born 1967-05-13; died 2001-12-13; age at death 34. These dates provide historical context, not a mortality model.

Death context: Chuck Schuldiner died on 2001-12-13 at age 34. This profile states only the sourced date and age until a reviewed cause or circumstance source is attached.

Historical illness and age are context, not proof of a current crisis or a factual mortality forecast.

Astrology / interpretation

The cosmic file

SunTaurus 22.0°

MoonGemini or Cancer 0.0°

MercuryTaurus 24.2°

VenusCancer 3.7°

MarsLibra 16.1°

JupiterCancer 28.5°

SaturnAries 8.4°

UranusVirgo 20.4°

NeptuneScorpio 23.0°

PlutoVirgo 18.0°

Time-stable natal aspects

Sun conjunction Mercury orb 2.8°
Sun trine Uranus orb 2.2°
Sun opposition Neptune orb 1.5°
Sun trine Pluto orb 4.5°
Mercury trine Uranus orb 5.0°
Mercury opposition Neptune orb 2.3°
Venus square Saturn orb 5.2°
Mars opposition Saturn orb 7.8°
Jupiter trine Neptune orb 5.6°
Uranus sextile Neptune orb 2.6°
Uranus conjunction Pluto orb 2.3°
Neptune sextile Pluto orb 5.0°

These placements are deterministic astronomical calculations. Interpretive meaning is presented separately and uncertainty is retained.

Calculation confidence: date_based_reliable. Moon: calculated with uncertainty. Rising sign: birth time needed. Date-based geocentric placements use a noon UTC reference. Moon is evaluated across the full UTC day. No Ascendant or houses are inferred. Astrology is interpretation, not fact, medicine, or mortality prediction.

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Sources & provenance

Wikidata item Q266544Wikidata / 2026-08-26 / identity / confidence: mediumSource ID chuck-schuldiner:discovery_index:1. Verification: identity_discovery_only. Claims: identity.
Official website candidateOfficial site / 2026-08-26 / biography / confidence: primarySource ID chuck-schuldiner:official_site_candidate:2. Verification: selected_for_editorial_use. Claims: career summary, official legacy.
Death artist pageRelapse Records / 2026-08-26 / biography / confidence: primarySource ID chuck-schuldiner:label-legacy:1. Verification: content_reviewed. Claims: good deed or positive legacy, legacy treatment.

Official links

Official siteOfficial Site

Batch adw-publication-batch-2026-08-26-01. Research package completeness 96/100. Claims are linked to the source IDs retained in source notes.

Research last updated 2026-08-26.

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Portrait provenance

Chuck Schuldiner photo by Griffyguy at English Wikipedia; Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.; CC BY-SA 3.0.

Exact source file · CC BY-SA 3.0 3.0 · Retrieved 2026-08-27.

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