Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor How 10 Famous Metal Musicians Got Their Nickname Exploring the origins of some well-known and some lesser known nicknames of metal legends.

Former Motorhead drummer Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor died on Wednesday (Nov. 11), ex-bandmate "Fast" Eddie Clarke confirms. He was 61. "My dear friend and brother passed away last night," Clarke ...

Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, former drummer for the iconic Motörhead, has passed away at age 61 after a long battle with an unspecified ailment, Blabbermouth reports. The cause of his death at a ...

The end of 2015 was particularly brutal for Motorhead fans who had to deal with the losses of classic drummer Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor in November and frontman and all-around legend Lemmy ...

Heavy metal band Motorhead says former drummer Phil Taylor, an iconic metal thrasher nicknamed “Philthy Animal,” has died. He was 61. “Fast” Eddie Clarke, guitarist with the Grammy-winning ...

Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, who has died aged 61, was the former drummer of Motörhead, the unsavoury-looking heavy metal band which established a reputation for playing, and living, louder ...

In the late 1970s, the Motörhead drummer, Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, put the thrash in metal by simply doubling up the kick-bass-drum pattern on “Overkill”, the title track of the band ...

Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, who played drums on Motörhead’s iconic early catalog, has died. Guitarist “Fast” Eddie Clarke, who played in the same lineup with Taylor, announced the ...

Phil 'Philthy Animal' Taylor, the former drummer with British rock band Motorhead, has died. Taylor's death at the age of 61 was reported by his friend and bandmate Fast Eddie Clarke ...

LONDON – Heavy metal band Motorhead says former drummer Phil Taylor, an iconic metal thrasher nicknamed "Philthy Animal," has died. He was 61. "Fast" Eddie Clarke, guitarist with the Grammy ...

Some very sad news from the Motörhead camp this evening: ex-drummer Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor has passed away at the age of 61. The band’s former guitarist Eddie Clarke broke the news ...

(Picture: Getty) Former Motorhead drummer Phil Taylor, affectionately known to fans as Philthy Animal, has died at the age of 61. The musician, who joined the band in 1975 and remained with them ...