Favorite Metal Drummer

^ Yes! I need to put on some Fight next !


Edited by bonnek - 15 Feb 2011 at 4:08pm

Lombardo, one of the few metal drummers with a signature sound and style.
I was in fact just listening to him

I also like that dude that kicked Judas Priest back in shape in 1990, don't remember the name and too lazy to reach for the CD.

hard to choose, for now

Martin Lopez!!!

Of course drumming doesn't have to be amazing to be good.

As I said, the point of a drummer is to keep the rhythm, throw down something else once in a while. If you hit the crap out of em even better.

I'm a ok with that. BUT I prefer a bit more is all.


On that note, listened to a good bit of Sepultura today.
Igor was one hell of a drummer!

Also, Van Williams from Nevermore still blows my mind! Shame he, and Jeff Loomis, are on one of the more obscure bands (though they seem to be getting bigger).


Edited by The Angry Scotsman - 24 Jan 2011 at 2:32am

Certif1ed wrote: Nevertheless, it's still fair to say that there's metal drumming before Metallica, and then there's metal drumming after, even if it's only months after, or if someone was doing it first, but didn't record it until after... Not even Jaguar, Vardis or any of the other speed freaks of the NWoBHM got the drumming quite right for full-blown thrash.    There are all sorts of ideas on the first 4 albums which may be accidental, but are perfect for the music - and make an important contribution to the fact that Metallica's first 4 albums are among the most influential in metal history. Lars may have "bashed the wossname" out of the drums, but on tracks like "Fight Fire With Fire", someone is drumming amazingly to my non-drummer ears.   No, influential <> good, but it has to be some sort of "good" to be influential, and some sort of "very good" to be "very influential".   So to me, at least, Lars is one of the greatest drummers - and I could care a great deal more about technique. Technique is technique, and good playing is something quite different.   On Lombardo, surely he has at least two drum styles? There's the style he used on "Criminally Insane" for the intro, and the style he used for the rest of the song...   Style doesn't have to evolve or be technically amazing, it only needs to be good. Ahem. AC/DC. Case closed.

You have a valid reason to like Lars. The reason we may be elitists though is because of all the Metallica fanboys who state that Lars is the "best drummer ever", or whatnot, where quite frankly he isn't anything special technique wise. He doesn't really have any technical expertise, and he isn't particularly fast, especially when compared to other thrash drummers at the time. Not to mention he's a bit sloppy, especially in one studio documentary where they had to bring in another player for one track. In his case, I'd say he's just an overrated drummer, and because so many say he's good the naysayers are biased against him.

If I had to state my opinion, he's nothing really more than your average drummer playing in a very influential band.

Yeah that�s right Mark the intro to Criminally Insane was one of his rare "experimental" moments

Glad to see some love for Lopez, always been one of my favorites.

Oh and just so I can be balanced, despite my bashing on Lars notice one of my top favorites was Raymond Herrera who was pretty much all feet and intensity. Also used triggers.
So there ya go!

The Angry Scotsman wrote: Lars is not AWOL, I left him off purposely! He really is not a bad drummer, but even in his prime I never saw what was so great. Lars got the job done, which is fine. Never blew me away on any song. I am very open minded and not attacking, just curious why you think he's criminally underrated? Lombardo IMHO was actually not that great until the last few Slayer albums! He's on the list though as the father of thrash drumming. He's Lars but amped up in every aspect, his out right speed and intensity, (and endurance) was mind boggling and his double bass blew everyone else out of the water then.

This is true. I lol'd when heard of "djent" especially since it was just a meshuggah thing. Then I saw it really is a growing genre!

Gar is great. I felt strange putting him up since he only did 2 albums, and on the first you can't hear his true greatness that well (re master is worlds better though). No doubt Gar was awesome.