Drums

[The Great Cull]

Yeah yeah Lars is shite etc... He was class in his day.

[pete]

Bongo solo!

[Bürggermeister]

Chamberlin. Fucking genius, makes it look so easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t50AitbL4II?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA0sNVueB78

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEBOQWf4zJY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do3tSdZucyA

[Ducky]

His playing on the last bit of The Everlasting Gaze is fucking amazing (as is everything he's ever played on really).

Probably the best drummer in rock music (after Neil Peart, maybe).

[The Butcher]

Brilliant drummer. Always was impressed with the drumming on Jellybelly

[Bürggermeister]

Almost forgot this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SPmKBjltfkg

[Pentagrimes]

in perhaps my most predictable post ever, I'm throwing in a certain Hank Amarillo of a young Darkthrone here, cos his playing on "Goatlord" is particularly class. Technical without being technical, expressive, inventive, and the lad had swing for days. Can't think of a lot of drummers of that era of death metal with that sense of style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmAJk-wKby8

listen to about 0:50 to 1:05, how he builds with the bass drums. Absolutely class.

[Ollkiller]

Ya chamberlin is a fucking awesome drummer. His feel and the beats he comes up with are second to none.

[astfgyl]

I was watching this last night and yeah the album is only OK as it goes (well the first 4 tracks are great) but it's hard to argue with the quality of the drumming. Was going in to the random metal thread and hadn't even seen this one so that's a nice surprise.

Edit: as evidenced from Portnoy's general output, having good drumming does not equal great tunes. I can't stand Dream Theater

[Ducky]

I love the first DT albums (plus the Change of Seasons EP) - Portnoy's reputation is what gave me the impetus to check them out to begin with. And sure enough, there's fuck all reason to stay around after those albums as there's chops, but no tunes.

Honestly, same thing for Tool with 10,000 Days and Fear Inoculum.

[The Butcher]

When talking about Lars in terms of energy back in the day, this chap also had that but with some power and cool creativity. That snare roll at 0:41 

[astfgyl]

I love the first DT albums (plus the Change of Seasons EP) - Portnoy's reputation is what gave me the impetus to check them out to begin with. And sure enough, there's fuck all reason to stay around after those albums as there's chops, but no tunes.

Honestly, same thing for Tool with 10,000 Days and Fear Inoculum.

I think the first 4 tracks on Fear Inoculum are better than the whole 10,000 Days album. I'm just at the end of Invincible there now and fair enough the album has a bad rep but those four are actually very good tunes, perhaps slightly let down by the less aggressive vocal approach but still I think 10,000 days only really has the first three tunes to prop it up and this has four. Coincidentally it was always the vocals that gave me the rot with Dream Theater as well even though some of it isn't bad without the awful singing

[Ducky]

I love the first DT albums (plus the Change of Seasons EP) - Portnoy's reputation is what gave me the impetus to check them out to begin with. And sure enough, there's fuck all reason to stay around after those albums as there's chops, but no tunes.

Honestly, same thing for Tool with 10,000 Days and Fear Inoculum.

I think the first 4 tracks on Fear Inoculum are better than the whole 10,000 Days album. I'm just at the end of Invincible there now and fair enough the album has a bad rep but those four are actually very good tunes, perhaps slightly let down by the less aggressive vocal approach but still I think 10,000 days only really has the first three tunes to prop it up and this has four. Coincidentally it was always the vocals that gave me the rot with Dream Theater as well even though some of it isn't bad without the awful singing

Yeah agree entirely about the first four tracks. FI kinda felt like Lateralus Part II; familiar but just not as good.

Yeah vocals for DT were grand in the early days, but the dude got a dose of food poisoning, puked his brains out, and ruptured his vocal chords. So he went form "guess the vocals are tolerable" to "sweet titty-fucking Christ above, how is this man employed as a vocalist" overnight.

[Blizzard Beast]

in perhaps my most predictable post ever, I'm throwing in a certain Hank Amarillo of a young Darkthrone here, cos his playing on "Goatlord" is particularly class. Technical without being technical, expressive, inventive, and the lad had swing for days. Can't think of a lot of drummers of that era of death metal with that sense of style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmAJk-wKby8

listen to about 0:50 to 1:05, how he builds with the bass drums. Absolutely class.

Yeah drumming is excellent on that album.
A good album also.

[Ollkiller]

10000 days and Fear Inoculum are great if you have insomnia.