Samus Paulicelli (born September 14, 1987, Ridgewood, New Jersey) is a multi-instrumentalist who has toured and recorded with many national acts including Decrepit Birth, Devin Townsend, Goatwhore, and Abigail Williams. Despite being a talented one-man band in his solo project “66Samus”, he is best known for his technical drumming work, specializing in blast beats and double bass drumming.

Samus began his musical endeavors at the early age of 2 when his parents noticed him playing drum beats on his diaper, so they started setting up the old pots and pans for him. A year later they purchased him a junior drum kit. He began drum lessons a few years later once he was old enough for someone to want to teach him, and that’s when it all started. Once Samus reached the age of 14, he had developed a keen interest in double bass drumming and realized that he had learned all he could from his local teacher, so he quit taking lessons and bought Mike Portnoy’s Liquid Drum Theater VHS tape. He has taught himself ever since and has now been playing the drums for over 30 years.