Best metal Drummer

[RedStorm]

say your favorites! here are mine

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Mark Zonder. I've seen some complaints that his drumming is too AOR or something, I guess because he often uses electronic pads and doesn't hesitate to use shiny pretty percussion instruments on occasion, but I love it when prog drummers are more heavy on patterns and light on fills.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJNV26I3TY

But there are many others I love as well, including Dustin Donaldson (first two Thought Industry albums), Joey Daub (Believer, esp circa Dimensions), Rick Colaluca (Watchtower), Clive Burr (Killers has god-tier trad metal drumming), Brian Downey (great sense of how to shuffle and groove in a rock/metal context), Dave Browne (obscure pick; drummer on the first Taramis album and my single favorite old-school metal drum performance), and some others.

 

[waif]

Fuckin' Bill Ward. Y'all recognize.

 

[Baroque]

Pete Webber of Havok is among the best new wave of thrash drummers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg2cZqSq8WU

Blake Anderson of Vektor for complexity/technicality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSb1eJ_R_e4

Dave Lombardo for quality classic thrash drumming

 

[Dak]

How was Gene Hoglan not spammed already?

 

[waif]

Because you guys are faggots who need to recognize.

 

[Dak]

Well if we need to recognize, how bout yalls recognize Dirk?

 

[waif]

Yeah he's super tight, but Bill Ward took the subtlety and feel of jazz and blues drumming and made it work in a heavy metal context while inventing heavy metal at the same time. Recognize.

 

[Mort Divine]

Fuckin' Bill Ward. Y'all recognize.

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[TechnicalBarbarity]

Dave Lombardo
Gene Hoglan
Flo Mounier
Hannes Grossmann

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

All around Gene Hoglan is the best. At least the best metal drummer. Other great and somewhat overlooked drummers are:

Van Williams: ex Nevermore
Daniel Liljekvist: ex Katatonia
Tomas Fredén: Beyond Twilight
Jarmo Pikka: Omnium Gatherum

 

[Onder]

Hey OP, I thought I would appreciate you going to a different forum to post your threads and then call yourself a retard after everyone tells you how dumb they are. Unfortunately, you've chosen a forum about classical music, where I go too, coincidentally. So it didn't really help in the end.

EDIT: Also I'm not specifically talking about this thread so don't plug in your butthurt generator machine just yet.

 

[RedStorm]

Hey OP, I thought I would appreciate you going to a different forum to post your threads and then call yourself a retard after everyone tells you how dumb they are. Unfortunately, you've chosen a forum about classical music, where I go too, coincidentally. So it didn't really help in the end.

EDIT: Also I'm not specifically talking about this thread so don't plug in your butthurt generator machine just yet.

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[Onder]

ok

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[nizzon]

Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka was awesome...

Krimh playing Day 69

 

[puggy]

Martin Lopez, maybe.

 

[divine_torture]

Nick Barker. Whether you like Cradle and Dimmu or not, dude has chops

Vitek wasn't as good as he's said to be post-mortem, but he was a machine on the kit for sure.

Flo Mounier and the gravity blast deserve props.

Daniel Liljekvist is a phenomenal drummer, less in a metal way, though.

Martin Lopez is a beast.

Gene Hoglan is easily a contender for best, along with Pete Sandoval.

Mike Smith, anyone?

Bill Ward is tight, yo.

 

[EspaDa]

Flo Mounier, Mike Smith, George Kollias, Pete Sandoval and Dave Hollingshead

 

[The Butt]

Bill Ward
Flo Mounier
Varg Vikernes (just the feel. His drumming on Jesu dad is frantic as fuck)
Pete Sandoval
Dave Lombardo

 

[SweptbackFlame]

Yanic Bercier hands down for me, technical as fuck