Claudio Strunz
Argentine musician and businessman
Claudio Marcelo Zurita (11 November 1966 – 20 July 2026), known as Claudio Strunz, was an Argentine thrash metal drummer. He worked in Heinkel, Hermética, Malón and Simbiosis.
Life and career
Claudio Strunz, born in La Tablada, began his career in Heinkel, a band that would be renamed Jeriko. The band's rehearsal room was located in the Belgrano neighbourhood, which was very distant, so he created a new one at his home. El Reloj hired this rehearsal room as well. He created later a new one in Mataderos, which was hired by the thrash metal band Hermética. He played with that band during tests when the drummer Tony Scotto was absent. As a result, when Scotto left the band Strunz was selected as the new drummer. He joined the band in 1991, just in time for the recording of the LP Ácido Argentino, and stayed with the band since then. Hermética received a golden record for the sales of Ácido Argentino, and a second one for the 1994 CD Víctimas del Vaciamiento.
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