Bands/Albums with kickass or unusual drums

[NinjaGeek]

Things like

-drums mixed in louder than normal
-use of drums bigger(bassier/lower) than the standard bass drum
-use of tribal drums or other unusual/non-standard drums
-anything where the drums just sound more unique or kickass than normal

Please no recs just because a band has really fast or really technical drumming. Fast and Technical is fine, as long as you're recommending it for one of the traits I mentioned above and it just happens to also be fast or technical.

 

[skeptik]

Goatlord - Reflections Of The Solstice
Gorgoroth - Under The Sign Of Hell

 

[CF87]

Neurosis.
Evoken.

 

[ohiogrinder]

Worship on the split with Agathocles

 

[waif]

really fucking obvious, but...Behemoth - Demigod. Gold standard for drum sounds, imo.
Sepultura used tribal stuff on Roots...too bad it sucked
Manowar's drummer allegedly uses stainless steel drums so he won't break them...

 

[SouthernTrendkill]

There's definetly some tribal stuff on Nile's Ithyphallic. I don't remember which song(s) though...

 

[MetalLeviathan]

Slayers South Of Heaven had a really strong emphasis on the symbols for some reason. No complaints here but it was different than most albums ive heard.

 

[Seditious]

http://media.putfile.com/Temnozor-FatherlandDemo
nothing especially different about these drums, I've just always enjoyed them, they really make the song for me.

Shaman also seem to rock the bongos occasionally

and I've always enjoyed Solgrav's frequent use of the whole cymbal family
http://media.putfile.com/Solgrav-Sampler

 

[Zephyrus]

Melechesh

 

[cookiecutter]

The drumwork in Wormed has always impressed me

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

^ that. Andy C. fucking kicks ass in Wormed. Also LOL @ DEMIGOD BEING GOLD STANDARD FOR DRUMS WTF!? Horrible!!

Check out Arckanum for good BM drumming. It's raw, contemplative, and naturalistic, but Shamaatae was in Grotesque in his younger years and it shows because he's EXCELLENT.

Also Lykathea Aflame. Tomas Corn is fantastic on drums on Elvenefris. They may have an annoying TONE at first, but he's just a great all-around drummer and complements the music perfectly.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Metallica - St. Anger

lol

 

[Killbot]

Although it's unlikely you haven't listened to them yet, Mastodon has some of the best drumming of any metal band imo.

 

[mutantllama]

Manowar's drummer allegedly uses stainless steel drums so he won't break them...

I like the Manowar drumming.

 

[Burkhard]

Things like

-use of tribal drums or other unusual/non-standard drums
-anything where the drums just sound more unique or kickass than normal

Are you only looking for metal artists/albums which fulfil these requirements?

 

[MasterOLightning]

The drum programming on TWWTG by Blut Aus Nord sounds like no way a human would actually play drums (mostly). It's good enough to check out regardless.

 

[nissan]

Pitbulls in the Nursery - because of how well the drums are mixed and how unique the drummer is and how unique his drums sound.