David "Dave" Lombardo (born February 16, 1965) is a Cuban American drummer, best known as a co-founding member of American thrash metal band Slayer. Lombardo played drums on nine Slayer albums, including the 1986 album Reign in Blood and the 2006 album Christ Illusion, for which he received critical praise. Lombardo\'s music career has spanned more than thirty years, during which he has been involved in the production of thirty-five commercial recordings covering a number of genres. He has performed with numerous bands, including Grip Inc., Fantômas, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, in addition to Slayer. Lombardo is currently playing drums with Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Cross and the Misfits.\n', '

Lombardo is widely known as an aggressive heavy metal drummer. His drumming has been praised as "astonishingly innovative". Drummerworld named him "the Godfather of Double Bass". He has had a significant influence on the metal scene and inspired modern metal drummers, particularly thrash and death metal drummers.\n', '

Lombardo was born in Havana, Cuba on 16 February 1965. He has two older brothers and an older sister. His father owned three meat markets in Havana. Lombardo moved with his family to South Gate, California when Lombardo was two years old. His brothers previously emigrated to the US via Operation Peter Pan. Lombardo\'s musical interest were fueled by his first musical performance when he was eight years old; he played bongos to Santana\'s "Everybody\'s Everything". Lombardo joined his school\'s band and played the marching drum. After noticing his son\'s persistent interest in music, Lombardo\'s father bought him a five-piece Maxwin drum set for $350 when Lombardo was ten years old. Lombardo bought his first record, Alive! by Kiss, to play along with. He learned to play Kiss\' "100,000 Years" by repeatedly listening to the record until he could play the drum solo perfectly.\n', '

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