Axe's drumming in TLE
- Thread starter Slaydon
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Axe rocks, but I kinda miss that stuff that made Opeth more unique because of Lopez (not saying that they aren´t anymore) , e.g. stuff like him playing Djembes in some sections or simply those soft jazzy parts best heard on Deliverance. It somehow sounds weird to me if Axe tries to play something like that. He is a good metal drummer, and that makes him nothing very special imho. To get back to the initial topic, yes that part is good, but I think Mike somewhere said that he quite held his fire on WS, so I´m curious about how he is going to develop.
Annihilat0r
TRINITY WATCH IN AMAZING!
He is amazing ... yet still, at some few parts of the album, especially in Derelict Herds, I wonder how Lopez would have sounded, with more groovy drumming. Not saying this to criticize Axe though
I have actually been playing a ton of Derelict Herds lately, and I think it really made me appreciate/connect with Axe's drumming. I agree that it does make you wonder how ML would have done with the song, but Axe really slays it IMHO.
Overall I think Axe is fantastic, but I still cannot stand that gawd aweful section from 2:15 - 2:30 in Porcelain Heart. It really is a distraction from the song as a whole.
CadenZ
Son of Crom
^ That section is awesome IMHO! It brings the heavy riff to a nice culmination point/closure before the soft stuff with the high guitar note cuts in.
Korlich
So Judah fucked it up
They should get lopez back and have two drummers. Axe for the heavy shit, Lopez for the mellow 
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.Well, he has just played in 1 album so far, maybe he'll develop more his mellow side, just like Fred has developed his acoustic guitar skills like he said on the documental.
