The best blastbeats

[BurnoutBomberman]

When it comes to playing music, I've always valued style over speed. This is my aspect in blastbeats also. I think that Kai Hahto from Rotten Sound has the most intense touch in blast beats. He varies with symbals and adds great fills in rapid bpm's, which makes his battering original and impressive.

 

[byrne]

dave haley - psycroptic is a wicked drummer.

 

[dorian gray]

Just look at his drumset!

ha! is that the dudes backporch?

 

[foulwing]

i cant find a great drummer being held as great just of how fast he can do blastbeats...

thats just lame.

 

[Stormwatch]

Doc from Vader.

 

[rumbly_bumbly]

This is sort of a shoot-off of the 'Favourite drummer' thread. To all those of you who actually appreciate blastbeats to some extent, who do you think nails them the best? Different drum sounds, different drummers, different accenting all contribute to different sounds...

My personal favourite is Trym. He is by god, the fucking master of extreme drumming. I'm listening to Emperor's 'Prometheus' at the moment and it's just re-embedding in my mind that nothing in extreme metal has touched this album, nor the pure technical mastery of the drumming.

Prometheus is fantastic but its 100% triggered, A better judge of his drumming is on Zyklons most recent album.

I believe that drummers in metal should be judged on their live performance as this is unedited and shows the drummers true ability.

 

[rumbly_bumbly]

Pete Sandoval from Morbid Angel invented blast beats back in 1986. If you want all out guts and blood blast beats, Frost kicks some major ass in his band 1349. When I put in their album Liberation, and blasted the stereo up I noticed the whole cd is like flying to hell with the devil.

Billy Cobham of Mahavishnu orchestra invented blasts in the 1970's

 

[marduk1507]

Hannes Grossman
Derrek Roddy
Inferno from Behemoth
Doc from Vader
Trym
Frost
Nick Barker
Kevin Talley

 

[Stormwatch]

Daray from Vader.