Balázs Pándi

{{short description|Hungarian drummer (born 1983)}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Balázs Pándi

| image = File:Merzbow & Pándi Balázs.jpg

| caption = Merzbow & Pándi Balázs performing together on April 13, 2011 at the OCCII in Amsterdam.

| birth_name = Pándi Balázs

| alias = 666 Cent, Mustache

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|08|06}}

| death_date =

| origin = Budapest, Hungary

| instrument = Drums, accordion

| occupation = Musician, composer

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Grindcore
• free improvisation
• free jazz
• heavy metal
• noise
• breakcore
• IDM
• drum and bass
• experimental rock
• noise rock
• harsh noise
• concrete
• absolute
• dark ambient
• jazz fusion
• trip hop
• avant-garde
• electronic
• math rock
• punk jazz
• experimental

}}

| years_active =

| label = {{flatlist|

• Ad Noiseam
• Ohm Resistance

}}

| associated_acts = {{flatlist|

• Venetian Snares
• Otto von Schirach
• Merzbow
• Mats Gustafsson
• The Blood of Heroes
• Obake
• Wormskull
• The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
• Zu
• Rope Cosmetology
• Slobber Pup
• To Live and Shave in L.A.
• Joe Morris
• Sunn O)))
• Attila Csihar
• drMáriás

}}

| website = [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Balazs-Pandi/198964333447092 Facebook]

}}

Balázs Pándi (born 6 August 1983) is a Hungarian drummer and journalist. He has worked and toured with various acts from all around the world including Venetian Snares, Otto von Schirach, To Live and Shave in L.A., The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and Zu. He also played drums for the Blood of Heroes project.

Since 2009 he has frequently played drums live with Merzbow,{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/arts/music/28merzbow.html |title=A Fusillade of Sound Made for One Noisy Night in Greenwich Village |last=Ratliff |first=Ben |date=September 27, 2010 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=July 24, 2015}} and they have released three live records together. They headlined the experimental stage at the Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Florida in 2012. More recently, he and Merzbow have performed as a trio with Mats Gustafsson. They released Cuts in 2013 on RareNoise. For the follow-up Cuts of Guilt, Cuts Deeper (2015), they were joined by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth.

Balázs started an electronica-metal-breakcore project with Bong-Ra called Wormskull in 2010 (their first album "Sound of Hell" was released in 2011). Most recently he joined the Italian experimental instrumental band Zu. His current projects include Italian doom band Obake, Metallic Taste of Blood (featuring Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree, Eraldo Bernocchi of Obake and Jamie Saft), and Slobber Pup (Saft, Joe Morris and Trevor Dunn). From 2012 he started to play solo shows on selected festivals under his own name.

From 2013, he worked as a journalist at Hungarian news site Index.{{Cite web|last=Karpati|first=Laszlo|title=Kreatív Online - Az Index bármit megírhat|url=http://kreativ.hu/cikk/az-index-barmit-megirhat|access-date=2021-07-17|website=Kreatív Online|language=hu}}{{Cite web|last=Captain|first=A38|date=2013-10-10|title=Pándi Balázs {{!}} Ha a megfelelő emberek egymásra találnak, a zene megírja magát|url=https://blog.a38.hu/2013/10/10/_ha_a_megfelelo_emberek_egymasra_talalnak_a_zene_megirja_magat_interju_pandi_balazzsal_es_koncertbeh/|access-date=2021-07-17|website=Az A38 Hajó blogja|language=hu}} After the resignation of the majority of the staff in July 2020, he moved to Telex.