Pete Sandoval

[AdventRising]

The guy is godly....truly a legend and still brings it.....I think Morbid Angel is working on new material, they have a new song floating around on youtube for those of you who care

 

[Walls1441]

eh Trey is definitely the key member of that band.

 

[AdventRising]

eh Trey is definitely the key member of that band.

true but they are both twin demons!

 

[Walls1441]

i agree, and its especially difficult to stand out in that kind of music. I think drummers like Brann Dailor, Kai Hatho, the last 2 BDM drummers and lopez stand out more because they seem to bring something completely unique and at the same time fit the band almost perfectly. Don't get me wrong i love Pete Sandoval especially on Covenant but i think more than 75% of the time he's playing what anyone else in his shoes would be playing.

 

[Tubbs]

Pete Sandoval would be even better if he stopped using annoying drum triggers.

I really like MA though; everyone in it has something to offer!

 

[AdventRising]

i agree, and its especially difficult to stand out in that kind of music. I think drummers like Brann Dailor, Kai Hatho, the last 2 BDM drummers and lopez stand out more because they seem to bring something completely unique and at the same time fit the band almost perfectly. Don't get me wrong i love Pete Sandoval especially on Covenant but i think more than 75% of the time he's playing what anyone else in his shoes would be playing.[/QUOTE

Yeah but Pete was one of those who set the blueprint..cant fault the guy there

 

[JontRevolting]

I heard that some kid claimed to be his son a few years ago and Pete went along with it only to find that the scum was lying,messed him up a bit from what i heard,anyways Pete is my all time favourite drummer!!

 

[Walls1441]

i agree, and its especially difficult to stand out in that kind of music. I think drummers like Brann Dailor, Kai Hatho, the last 2 BDM drummers and lopez stand out more because they seem to bring something completely unique and at the same time fit the band almost perfectly. Don't get me wrong i love Pete Sandoval especially on Covenant but i think more than 75% of the time he's playing what anyone else in his shoes would be playing.

Yeah but Pete was one of those who set the blueprint..cant fault the guy there

I think the difference between him and the people i listed is that they're constantly improving and becoming more original/unique (its hard to say that without sounding like an elitist). Overtime he seems to still be the same drummer he was in 1989 and not really offering anything new. On the other hand morbid angel is still kind of the band they were in 1989 and i would assume they have tried to stay that way. eh whatever.

 

[Alteredmindeath]

cheers to pete for inventing blast beats in metal.

 

[AdventRising]

I think the difference between him and the people i listed is that they're constantly improving and becoming more original/unique (its hard to say that without sounding like an elitist). Overtime he seems to still be the same drummer he was in 1989 and not really offering anything new. On the other hand morbid angel is still kind of the band they were in 1989 and i would assume they have tried to stay that way. eh whatever.

actually you are wrong pete used to use 2 feet for his 16th note blasts, now he uses one foot for his standard blast and plays two for his 32 note blasts......and he become faster and more tech as hes become older...Im a drummer..believe he has improved

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

Pete Sandoval would be even better if he stopped using annoying drum triggers.

I really like MA though; everyone in it has something to offer!

He doesn't trigger anything but his kicks iirc? And for someone going that fast he pretty much has to use triggers.

Sandoval pretty much innovated the blast beat in extreme metal. Saying that he's doing things that the people who came after him would be doing, well no shit. He innovated it, they copied it.

He definitely is not the same drummer that he was back in 88/89. Listen to anything he did on Covenant, or Formulas, and tell me that some of his patterns are the same as on Altars.

Brann Dailor annoys the shit out of me. Amazing drummer, but it's really not necessary to throw in 32nd-note snare rolls every fucking bar. We get it dude, you're very fast with your hands and you took jazz drumming classes. We get it. I really hope his drumming is subdued on "Crack the Skye." A whole album of that is really irritating.

 

[Walls1441]

actually you are wrong pete used to use 2 feet for his 16th note blasts, now he uses one foot for his standard blast and plays two for his 32 note blasts......and he become faster and more tech as hes become older...Im a drummer..believe he has improved

becoming faster / doing what you could do with 2 feet with only one doesn't count as innovation. thats like me playing something with only downstrokes, then realizing i could use alternate picking and saying i improved when it sounds exactly the same.

and i could be wrong but i thought he always used one foot, but i mean, i just heard that from word of mouth.