Top 5 Drummers: your all-time list

[FLuX]

5. Terry Bozzio (Solo artist) - Hes a killer drummer, don't know how well i;d really like him in a band situation thoguh. amazing at what he does.

4. Danny Carey (Tool) - A stereotypical pick (as are all of these ) but Carey is very tastefu land stil ltechnical. awesome stuff.

3. Neil Peart (Rush) - Rush kicks ass, and hes just the cherry o ntop. I love the xylophone type stuff too.

2. Richard Christy (Iced Earth, EX-Death/Control Denied) - LISTEN TO DEATHS "the sound of perseverance" album to find out!!!!

1. Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater) - the man needs no introduction.

 

[Cat5Messiah]

5. Akira Jimbo

4. Terry Bozzio

3. Richard Christy (Played with Death during TSoP)

2. Neil Peart (Rush was badass in concert)

1. Mike Portnoy (Can't wait until the concert)

 

[|ngenius]

I'm late, but I wanted to add my grain of sand on this thread. I haven't checked out every single message on this thread, but I think nobody named Dave Weckl in their top five. This jazz-fussion drummer is absolutely astonishing.

As for the rest, the winner seems to be Mike Portnoy, who dwells into every living heart, here. And I do agree, he's great.


|ngenius.

 

[Luis]

The winner seems to be Mike Portnoy, who dwells into every living heart, here. And I do agree, he's great.


|ngenius.

I dont like Portnoy either. Hes one of the most over-rated drummers of progressive metal. I bet 7 of 10 drummers agree with me.

 

[Bombasaura]

Jason Rullo is the best alive drummer there is.

 

[fulltosmedvetslos]

I'm a drummer self and I choose.....

Vinnie Calaiuta

Jason Rullo

Bill Bruford

Billy Cobham

Cozy Powell

 

[anonymousnick2001]

1. Raymond Herrera(Fear Factory/Brujeria)-Most devastating double-kick work I have ever heard, plus, him and the guitarist are so tight, it's unbelievable. He does the drummer's job, and never goes overboard.

2. Flo Mounier(Cryptopsy)-Listen to his blastbeats. This guy's playing jazz...at 480bpm.

3. Mike Portnoy(Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment)-Anyone who can memorize a Change Of Seasons or 6 Degrees Of Inner Turbulence on drums is amazing in my book.

4. Richard Christy(Death, Control Denied, Iced Earth)-Mike Portnoy with faster double kick and slightly more creativity. IE really limits his style, but with Death he was great.

5. Igor Cavalera(Sepultura)-The master of tribal beats, and he can play thrash on top of that. He was outdoing Lombardo and Benante at age 16.

 

[NITRO666]

My fav drummers are:
1 Virgil Donati
2 Dennis Chambers
3 Simon Phillips
4 Jason Rullo
5 Peter wildoer

6 Myself,lol.

 

[Ultimate_Symphony]

In no particular order:

Peter Wildoer
Richard Christy
Flo Mournier
Bobby Jarzombek
Virgil Donati

 

[Alexander TG]

I think the best metal drummer is Nick Barker, the speed of his fills man, I could listen to them all day, snare, tom, tom, tom, tom - better than sex

 

[TheEdgeOfThorns]

6.Nicholas from Dimmu Borgir
5. Danni Carry
4.The new drummer for Angra
3. Rullo
2. Portnoy
1.Peart

 

[Prismatic Sphere]

1. Neil Peart
2. Mark Zonder
3. Jason Rullo
4. Tom Walling
5. Clem Burke(of Blondie)- I don't care what ANYONE on this fucking board says, this guy is the most underrated drummer there is, period.

 

[MorphineChild205]

Hmmm...

01. Jason Rullo
02. Neil Peart
03. Mike Portnoy
04. Nicko McBrain
05. Terry Bozzio

 

[Jeremy Krull]

Virgil Donati

Mike Mangini

Morgan Agren

Nicholas Barker

Ed Warby

 

[aiwass]

Virgil Donati
Jojo Mayer
Terry Bozzio
Thomas Haake
Hellhammer
Thomas Lejon

Sorry, I know that's not five, but...

 

[Medusa's eyes]

I'm a drummer myself too, and I don't know anything about other drummers lol. Okay, that's stupid.
Anyway, Mike Portnoy is amazing. I realy like the Finally Free solo of him on the Live Scenes From New York album.
But Jason Rullo is better IMO. He does very creative things on the drums and he's really fast.
Ed Warby is great too. Everything he does, he plays it on the right moment.
Finally someone who mentioned Raymond Herrera. I never heard someone playing the double bass as fast as he can.
Besides these drummers I also like Virgil Donati, Nicko McBrain and Terry Bozzio.
and Lars Ulrich... uke:

 

[joeshabadoo]

Billy Cobham
Trilok Gurtu
Jerome Braily
Tyrone Lampkins
Norm Leggio (Psychotic Waltz)

Hell fuckin yeah Cyclopssss, Billy fuckin Cobham. I was wonderin when someone was gonna dig this thread outta its good metal drummer hole. ne ways, heres my list

1.Billy Cobham (Mahavishnu Orchestra, various other projects)
2.Jimmy Chamberlain (Pumpkins, solid as a fuckin rock)
3.Tomas Haake (Messhugah)
4.Tobias Ralph (KIF, others)
5.Mike Portnoy (DT, others)

 

[Hellholming]

my favorites:

Mike Portnoy
Neil Peart
Jaska Raatikainen
Richard Christy
Flo Mounier
Chris Kontos
Tomas Haake
Nick Barker
Nick D'Virgilio
Dennis Chambers

 

[Skullgrinder]

5. Vinnie Paul
-Hard hittin' bastard-

4. Horgh
-Speed, stamina and Norwegian-

3. Frost
-See above-

2.Mike Portnoy
-Excellent rythm and mood perfectioner-

1.Dave Lombardo
-Feeling-based, uses all of his drums. A GENIUS!!-

 

[Yngtchie Blacksteen]

Ian Paice - Deep Purple
Mitch Mitchell - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Neil Peart - Rush
Keith Moon - The Who
Mike Portnoy - Dream Theater