When we started with EmptyWords about three years ago, we could never have forseen where all this would lead, and what life had in store for Chuck. We rushed passionately into this adventure, as fans and for fans. Death was 'our' band, we knew what kind of difference Chuck could make in a life, both musically and lyrically.

After Chuck passed away, we were asked what would happen with the site. Now, a few months after his death, we believe it is an even more important task to promote Chuck's musical legacy. In the future, his musical genius will be discovered by new fans who will want to read the background stories of this great composer as well, we are convinced of that.

Kees & Yvonne Kluitman, April 2002
 

 

We would like to thank:

Adam, Colleen, Aaron & Adam For editing our English in early days, we owe you...
Matt Medeiros For being our faithful grammar/style watchdog (nowadays)...
Luca Minieri For your great EW artwork...
Maciek Dzikowicz For keeping an eye on the typos...
Ali Arjmandi, Mahyar Mohyeddean & Mohammad Pazhutan For your "voices"...
Chuck For still playing the notes that send shivers down our spine...
Jane For the confidence and your implicit support...
Bethann & Christopher For your hospitality and the gifts...
Maria Abril For your involvement and support from the very beginning...
Gene For your time and your kind words, you're amazing...
Richard For your Sunday visit at Jane's, you're amazing too...
Scott & Craig For that evening of magic at Pinto's...
Tim Aymar For your support and your time...
Jim Dofka For your friendship...
Liz Ciavarella For helping us...
Trav Smith For your encouraging words...
Jim Morris For your hospitality and your time...
Perry Grayson For the wonderful articles and for being me(n)tally ours...
Eric Greif For sharing your memories and for your kind words...
Wendy The For inspiring us as for web lay-out...
Henk Westbroek For that sneaky little hour on tuesday nights, those were the days...
Götz Kühnemund For giving us a free hand...
Robbie Woning For keeping an eye on it ;)...
Brian Kersbergen For the benefit thing...
Ula Gehret For making several back catalogues complete...


Thanks to all the mags, webs & sats
Aardschok, About Heavy Metal, All Music Guide, Altars of Metal, Aversionline, Blabbermouth, Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles, Chronicles of Chaos, Deadtide, Decibel Of Death, Digital Metal, Edge Of Time, Enslain, Enterzone, Foundry Music, Grind Zone, Guillotine, Guitar School, Guitar World, Hard Rock Magazine, Heavy Metal, Heavy Oder Was, Heavy Rock, Hellfrost, Ill Literature, Kerrang, Kondemned, Lamentations of the Flame Princess, Legacy, Martelgang, Masterful Magazine, MetalBite, Metal Dreams, Metal Eagle, Metal Edge, Metal Forces, Metal Hammer, Metal Judgment, Metallian, Metal Mania, Metal Maniacs, Metal Nightmare, Metal Review, Metal Rules, Metal Shock, Metal Storm, Metal UK, Metal Warriors, Mirgilus Siculorum, Modern Drummer, MTV, Oor, Pit Magazine, Possessed, Prog Archives, Proggnosis, Read Between The Lies, Renegade2k, RIP, Rising Power, Roadie Crew, Rockaxis, Rock Hard, Rock Out Censorship, Rock 'n Roll Reporter, Rock Station, Rock Tribune, RoughEdge, Rox Magazine, Scream Magazine, Sea Of Tranquility, Sentinel Steel, Short Wave Warfare, Slagwerkkrant, Snakepit Magazine, Sounds Of Death, Spark Magazine, Terrorizer, The Final Verdict, The Metal Crusade, The Metal Observer, Thrash 'n Burn, Transcending the Mundane, True Metal, Unchain the Underground, Unrestrained, Vibrations Of Doom, Viva Plus, Voices From The Darkside, WATT, Zero Tolerance.


Also very special thanks to
Aitor Agirre, Emre Aliefendioglu, Samir Alorchi, Andrei Andronov, Hendrik Attema, Thomas "Awayfromgod", Ellen Bakvis, Mike Baltierra, Antoine Baril, Jeff Barnhart, Michiel Barten, Jens Bauer, Brian Benson, José Emmanuel Luna Bernal, Jason Beter, Andrei Beznosov, Matteo Binaschi, François de Bock, Marc Bogojevic, Dallas Bolen, R. Scott Bolton, Martin Bouchard, Gino Boucher, Pieter Bronselaer, Suzanne Bruckshaw, Burzum, Manuel Caldas, Skot Carino, Kevin Carssow, Walter Chavarria, Fernando Cheppe, Vincenzo Chioccarelli, Rock Clouser, Jon Cole, David Velez Contreras, David Coulthurst, Cy (at possessed.de), Yochai Davidoff, Mike Dee, Ruud van Delden, David Delhorme, Miroslav Denkovsk, Mike Desmond, Jeff "Destroyer666", Lokesh Dhakar, Konstantinos Diamantis, Justin Dones, William Doty, Remi Doucet, Kostas Doukopoulos, Jerry Ducasse, Patrick Duffy, Betty "MQM" Dworatschek, Erwin van E, Maurice "Mutilator" Egberts, Haytham El-Khouja, Jeff Eppen, Peter Erdélyi, Michele "Eternal Warfare", Grant Evans, David Ezquerro, Ryan "Death 8699" Fanucchi, Dana Farnsworth, Mark Fields, Oscar Rojas Fleming, Dan Ford, Sakis Fragos, Bruno Gabai, Jeff Gardiner, Martín Gasa, Laura German, Oana Gheorghiu, Dave Gilchrist, Kris Godlewski, Goldsmith, Robert Gossett, Erwin "Grinroth" Greven, Eddie Grider, Alco de Groot, Giedrius Gudaitis, Mariusz Gumowski, Ewan "Kondemned" Gurr, Brandon Hall, Bill Hansen, John Hanslip, Robin van der Harst, Gavin Harte, Frank Healy, Erik Hendriks, Phil Hinkle, Jochen Hofmann, Robert "Blackacid" Hough, Jimmy Hubbard, David Hunt, José Hurtado, Jason Hyde, David Isberg, Joab Jackson, Jamey Jasta, Matt Johnsen, Frode Johnsrud, Nickola Kanchev, Yordan Kanchev, Remi Karlsen, Paul Aaron Kenny, Ann Kermans, Nebojsa Kesic, Danial Khazaeli, Jeff Kitts, Frank Klaster, Chris Kloczko, Kas Kluitman, Ingrid de Koster, Michael Kowalski, Jérôme Lachenal, Jokum Larsen, Jeff Laserstein, Gianluca "Legion", Fabian "Letheansound", Jean-Georges Levasseur, Todd Lovell, Familia Luna, Fabio Magliano, Patrick Mameli, Rafi Manoukian, Gaje Mansfield, Aaron McKay, Erik Meade, Alejandro Lebrija Medel, Valerie Melzer, Mirgilus, Marcus Moes, Edward "Corpse555" Montejo, Dennis Mulder, Andrea De Muro, James Murphy, Jason Muxlow, "MyBlueShip", Jay "Nepenthes", Erik Nishime, Scott Novak, David Nuñez, Elöd Oberst, Iside Occella, Jorge Olate, Deniz Özbilgin, Yener Ozturk, Zlaja "Voice of the Death" P, Megan "Paganbaby", Richard Page, Chris Peterson, Steve "Photorize", Francois Picard, Fabian Pinneteau, Dave LaPlaca, Peter Poe, Alex "Portugalia", Martin Pronczuk, Olivier Pruvost, Mike Reeves, Mike van Rijswijk, Alvaro Saar Rios, Kim "Dan" Robinson, Diego Rodriguez, Nuno Rodriguez, Mark Rosner, Frank Rowe, Ed Saad, Alireza Saeidian, "Salvation 211", Jubie Santos, Thiago Sarkis, Patrick Savelkoul, Aurel Savin, Chris Scapelliti, Burkhard Schmitt, Jew Scott, Michele Scotti, Lukas Sedlacek, Jonathan Selzer, Sameer Singh, Mathieu "Siroa" Sirois, Sean Sitka, Sebastjan Skupek, Sören Slaug, Greg Smith, Mark Smits, Laurent "Snakepit2", Tim Flohr Sørensen, Mike Sowers, Fabio Staccoli, Frank Stöver, Mauri "Symbolic", Jeremie Tamburini, Jarno Taskula, Mohammad Tasooji, Tony Torres, Vladislav Trotsenko, Martin Valk, Kerry Vick, Ernesto Martínez Villaseñor, Andrej Volcansek, Charles Vosvick, Jaap Wagemaker, Carsten Wagner, Tom Walsh, Michael Warner, Andrew Westerhouse, Daniel Weymouth, Anton de Wit, James Williams, Van Williams, Eric Wilsevich, Yakuza "Yakuzadojo", Jerad Yarborough, Arthur Yin, John Youngsman, Melissa Zappa, Joel Zart.