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DEEP PURPLE’s Ian Paice and MESHUGGAH’s Tomas Haake are the latest hard rock and heavy metal musicians to get ancient fossils named after them. Ophiopetagno Paicei and Muldaster Haakei are two fossils of extinct brittle stars retrieved from 428-million-year-old rocks from the Swedish island of Gotland.
“Analyzing fossils the size of a dust grain and delving deeply into complex evolutionary patterns can be mind-wrecking,” explains Dr. Ben Thuy from the Natural History Museum Luxembourg, lead author of the study. “The music of DEEP PURPLE and MESHUGGAH really helped us blow off steam, renew inspiration and calm our minds.”
As for why the drummers were specifically chosen to be honored, Prof. Mats E. Eriksson of Lund University, co-author of the study, said: “Ian Paice of DEEP PURPLE and MESHUGGAH’s Tomas Haake are two of the most prolific and influential drummers of all time.” Furthermore, Dr. Thuy is a metal drummer himself. “During the time our study was compiled, I recorded the drums for the upcoming album of Luxembourg-based metal band SLEEPERS’ GUILT, so it was an obvious choice to honor two of my idols,” he explained.
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