- Reed St. Mark
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Name = Reed St. Mark
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Origin =United States
Instrument = Drums
Genre = Heavy metal
Occupation =Musician
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Associated_acts =Celtic Frost
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Notable_instruments =Reed St. Mark is an American
drummer best known for playing with the avant-garde Swissheavy metal bandCeltic Frost .Reed St. Mark joined
Celtic Frost in 1985 for the recording of their "Emperor's Return" E.P. and the highly influential "To Mega Therion" and "Into The Pandemonium" albums. After extensive touring with the group, Reed left Celtic Frost in 1988 only to later join thefunk metal groupMindfunk , playing drums on their self-titled debut album for Sony/Epic in 1991. Reed left Mindfunk in 1992 to re-join Celtic Frost for the writing of the unreleased 'Under Apollyon's Sun' album.During his time with Celtic Frost, Reed St. Mark's various trademarks included rows of women's
high-heeled shoes arranged on his drum kit and playing drum solos with oversized sticks. He was also noted for his highly visual and flamboyant drumming style as well as hitting his drums exceedingly hard. He was said to have destroyed drum heads on a daily basis as a result of his hard-hitting technique.Reed is currently involved in a new project called
Triptykon with former Celtic Frost band mateTom Gabriel Fischer . He is also listed as a contributing artist for theSeptimus Orion project which released its first album in 2008.Related Links
* [http://www.reedrum.com Reed St. Mark's official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/reedstmark Reed St. Mark] onMySpace
* [http://www.celticfrost.com Celtic Frost's official website]
* [http://www.septimusorion.com Septimus Orion official website]
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