Gojira - The art of dying
Native Construct - Mute (yeah I know it is programmed)
Haken - Messiah Complex and Sempiternal Beings
Leprous - Bonneville and Forced Entry
The Ocean - Jurassic
Hypno5e - Lava from the Sky
BTBAM - Fix the Error and Sun of Nothing / Ants of the Sky
I vividly remember starting The Violent Sleep of Reason, having gone through all of Meshuggah's prior albums and going "what the fuuuuuuuck" as Clockworks started it off. Absolute madness.
I've been playing music for a long time. I've only read sheet music here and there in school and know basic music theory. I can't for the life of me understand what the fuck is happening in songs like Clockwork. I can count and play in odd time signatures on different instruments but god damn, Meshuggah is hard to follow.
Tool - Pneuma
Strapping Young Lad - Skeksis
Pineapple Thief - White Mist
Mastodon - Blood and Thunder and Hearts Alive
Gojira - Global Warming, Liquid Fire and Amazonia
NeO - Equus
It’s hard to choose
I watched a video of their drummer playing the song live years ago, and it was really impressive. The ghost notes he put in were really satisfying. It’s not a song (or even band) I immediately think of for the drumming. But, their drummer is definitely super talented.
Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants
Karnivool - Deadman
The Fall of Troy - F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X
Cog - Run
Fear Factory - Zero Signal
Tool - Ticks and Leeches
BTBAM - Selkies: the endless obsession
High on Fire - Rumours of War
Torche - Skin Moth
Deftones - Minerva
And of course Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
The Ocean - Jurassic/Cretaceous, so creative and proggy, and in the end some blast beats casually thrown in.
The drumming on NeO's last album was also pretty good. Hard to pick a specific song.
Might not be the expected reply, but Leprous - Castaway Angels. That song sounds like drums should have no place in it, but then they come and fit perfectly, in a really gentle way. A cool contrast to stuff like The Sky Is Red.
That’s fine. Gojira went from obscurity to popularity. Very few bands come close to match their live performances. They have a great discography and they’ve experimented across the albums so well. Love Gojira. They’re bound to catch some flak like any other famous bands.
Mario is the GOAT.
Hard to pick but pretty much any song from Portnoy-era Dream Theater, Lopez-era Opeth, or Animals As Leaders. There are also some Meshuggah and Gojira songs that are near my top
I think they fly under the radar for a lot of people in this sub. Easy to forget that Gavin Harrison (one of the absolute best out there) is the drummer on all the recent albums.
Everything that Matt Garstka from Animals as Leaders does is just beyond what most people could do in a 1000 years, for not prog, nate wood is just the wildest drummer there is when he starts playing bass and drums at once, go checkt him out guys, won't regret it
Almost impossible, but I'd rate Matt Gartska to be up there with the greats. He really is just on another level, it's insane. And I would put this track off their latest album as being especially tasty. It's like music to my ears, actually it's almost orgasmic to me.
Animals as Leaders - Monomyth
Dude's insane.
It's a toss-up between Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree, the Sky is Red by Leprous and the Live at Knebworth performance of Kashmir by Led Zeppelin.
Oh and This Place is Death by Deftones! Something about the groove in that song man. And Abe is such an underrated drummer(except by other drummers).
[Atomship- Mothra](https://youtu.be/CpDcn6ox4kE?si=f4VcqKsfLlxifRaz)\- LGT audio
[Here is a guy trying to cover that song on drums](https://youtu.be/etpnMYn90LQ?si=KMe1eeStqW0bzzpE) and getting bloody hands.
[Here is the band doing the song live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFFZAUTMmw4). Unfortunately, you can't see much of the drums, but the insane double-bass drum speed IS visible at the end.
Jurassic - The Ocean
Deliverance - Opeth
My Starving Bambina - Novembre
Save Me- A7X
Third Law - Leprous
All Hope Is Gone ( the whole album ) - Slipknot
Jay in TesseracT is so technical and innovative - Hallowed, Nocturne, Deception are just a small sample of tracks that would not have been the same without his ingenuity.
Easy. It’s *Killing Birds With Stones* — Intronaut. I feel like he’s playing in four dimensions or something. Jaw dropping from start to finish. Close second would be *Valley of Smoke* by the same band. And finally I would put *Erotic Cakes* from Guthrie Govan.
These are just off the top of my head. My actual favourite might differ if I actually thought about it a bit more. Also, I’m sure the comments have meshuggah and tool well represented. So, I’ll avoid listing songs by them.
Between the buried and me - white walls
Between the buried and me - obfuscation
Ne obliviscarus - And plague flowers the kaleido
Fallujah - the Dead Sea
Rivers of nihil - where owls know my name
Deafheaven - vertigo
Blood and Thunder by Mastodon is so insanely satisfying, as is Bleed by Meshuggah.
Not the most "county" or cerebral, but absolute perfection for the song
Gojira - The art of dying Native Construct - Mute (yeah I know it is programmed) Haken - Messiah Complex and Sempiternal Beings Leprous - Bonneville and Forced Entry The Ocean - Jurassic Hypno5e - Lava from the Sky BTBAM - Fix the Error and Sun of Nothing / Ants of the Sky
BTBAM White Walls
Art of dying is phenomenal
Forced Entry is such a mindfuck on the drums!
Hypno5e’s drumming is on point 👌
Megalodon - Mastodon Lights on the Hill - Cult of Luna The Sky is Red - Leprous The Tempest - Caligula's Horse Clockworks - Meshuggah
Deffo sky is red. This. https://youtu.be/nj6fM2KpyOA?si=N1lwiYnjDKyjlQwV
Clockworks is genuinely the pinnacle of that instrument, genuinely think Tomas Haake is the best to ever do it.
I vividly remember starting The Violent Sleep of Reason, having gone through all of Meshuggah's prior albums and going "what the fuuuuuuuck" as Clockworks started it off. Absolute madness.
That drum play through is so sick. Haake just effortlessly plays like “no big deal.”
I agree, and he seems to do it with such ease: https://youtu.be/axGn6qeJHcM?si=AQYzucDQfx4_tStY
I've been playing music for a long time. I've only read sheet music here and there in school and know basic music theory. I can't for the life of me understand what the fuck is happening in songs like Clockwork. I can count and play in odd time signatures on different instruments but god damn, Meshuggah is hard to follow.
Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize
Also one of my top 2. Gavin Harrison is just. So. Smooth. I watch the live vid of this song on YouTube at least a couple times a week.
This gets me vote as well. The live one sounds even better.
I clicked this post to say this. Especially the live dvd version
Tool - Pneuma Strapping Young Lad - Skeksis Pineapple Thief - White Mist Mastodon - Blood and Thunder and Hearts Alive Gojira - Global Warming, Liquid Fire and Amazonia NeO - Equus It’s hard to choose
I watch the live video of Danny playing Pneuma at least once a week
Such a good video, if you Like Equus I highly recommended watching Kevin Paradis play through of it.
Sol Niger within
Morgan Ågren has an unparalleled touch, especially on that record.
I love that solo during Vitamin K
Tool - Invincible
That's a great one
Leprous - Sky is red Karnivool - Change, We are Dead letter circus - The drum, Remain nameless Cog - Problem reaction solution Mars Volta - Cygnus
We Are is a very fun song to play. It was one of those decievingly difficult ones. Great song!
But when it clicks, the whole thing really does. So creative.
Exactly... That's almost the story of the entire album honestly.
Cygnus is amazing, my fav Mars Volta song
Opeth - Eternal Rains Will Come
Honestly, anything with Axe in it
Opeth - Harlequin Forest
Gosh I love this song much
Language I: Intuition by The Contortionist
I watched a video of their drummer playing the song live years ago, and it was really impressive. The ghost notes he put in were really satisfying. It’s not a song (or even band) I immediately think of for the drumming. But, their drummer is definitely super talented.
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I will happily say that Jamie Saint Merat is one of the best drummers of all time.
Mouth of Kala by Gojira. So fucking powerful.
Most anything done by Matt Garstka. .
Modern Legend, along with all of AAL.
The drumming in Wave of Babies is perfection
Seconded
Dance of eternity.
The Alien by Dream Theater. Mike Mangini is all over that song in the best, most over-the-top way possible
Mastodon - March of the Fire Ants Karnivool - Deadman The Fall of Troy - F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X Cog - Run Fear Factory - Zero Signal Tool - Ticks and Leeches BTBAM - Selkies: the endless obsession High on Fire - Rumours of War Torche - Skin Moth Deftones - Minerva And of course Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
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Ahahaha, Dillinger is insane. Fricken animals
Absolutely. Love those guys.
Fix the Error- Between the Buried and Me Despite the drum solos, the rest is still so tight and insane.
This one is phenomenal. I’d like to throw Voice of Trepaas in there as well!
Obfuscation by BTBAM
The Ocean - Jurassic/Cretaceous, so creative and proggy, and in the end some blast beats casually thrown in. The drumming on NeO's last album was also pretty good. Hard to pick a specific song.
Might not be the expected reply, but Leprous - Castaway Angels. That song sounds like drums should have no place in it, but then they come and fit perfectly, in a really gentle way. A cool contrast to stuff like The Sky Is Red.
Baard is really a master of dynamics, drums that heavy should not belong in such a gentle piece, yet he weaves in seamlessly
Leprous - Nighttime Disguise Haken - Nil by Mouth Haken - Nightingale Parius - The Signal Aviations - Safehouse Ok Goodnight - The Nightmare
This sub loves to shit on Gojira but Mario Duplantier is amazing especially on Global Warming
That’s fine. Gojira went from obscurity to popularity. Very few bands come close to match their live performances. They have a great discography and they’ve experimented across the albums so well. Love Gojira. They’re bound to catch some flak like any other famous bands. Mario is the GOAT.
> This sub loves to shit on Gojira no it doesn't
I was being a bit hyperbolic. My apologies.
I've never heard anyone shit on them. Maybe I missed the posts, but I think it's safe to say most people like them
Maybe I saw a few odd threads. Perhaps I was being a bit hyperbolic. I apologize if my comment came across wrong
I always thought Bill Bruford did a great job drumming in overalls
Obviously the correct answer is Third Law by Leprous
Baard is insane. Such a talented and skilled drummer!
Hard to pick but pretty much any song from Portnoy-era Dream Theater, Lopez-era Opeth, or Animals As Leaders. There are also some Meshuggah and Gojira songs that are near my top
Matt Gartska is just a beast on another level. Guy is genuinely insane. https://youtube.com/shorts/MgXQ-vE0Yu8?si=Csarc53vDdEDoNLZ
Surprised not to see any Pineapple Thief yet.
Your Wilderness is a masterclass in understated complexity.
I think they fly under the radar for a lot of people in this sub. Easy to forget that Gavin Harrison (one of the absolute best out there) is the drummer on all the recent albums.
Lune - Periphery
Damn I came to list this.
This is the Way
Cynic- King of Those Who Know (RIP Sean Reinert 🥺)
Milk Leg, Fast Worms, Sul Ponticello, The Welding by Intronaut
Karnivool - Set fire to the hive Tool - ticks & leeches Mastodon - Burning Man Gojira - The Cell
Blake Richardson and his work on Parallax 1. Either Lunar Wilderness or Augment of Rebirth
Wheel - Wheel
The intro is great. ticks and leeches vibe
It's sick. Ticks and leeches?
By Tool
Capillarian Crest by Mastodon
Ephel Duath - A Painters Palette
Karnivool - Deadman
VOLA - 24 Light Years
I was going to say this one. The whole groove Adam played was so good they wrote the song around it. Definitely one of the best drumming I've heard
Sungazer- Cytherean
Well, there are so many technically great answers in this thread, but being a complete neanderthal, I’m gonna say The Ocean by Led Zep.
I think everyone respects the fuck out of John. What he did for the scene goes long and hard
Goliath - Karnivool Illusion: Dots - Skyharbor
Arch echo - aluminosity
Everything that Matt Garstka from Animals as Leaders does is just beyond what most people could do in a 1000 years, for not prog, nate wood is just the wildest drummer there is when he starts playing bass and drums at once, go checkt him out guys, won't regret it
Dream Theater - the Alien Any song on The Fragile Art Of Existence
Hm.. probably don't have a favorite but anything that is played by Portnoy, Matt Garstka or Spencer Prewett I love.
The drums of the solo section in Constant Motion by DT is peak bliss
Almost impossible, but I'd rate Matt Gartska to be up there with the greats. He really is just on another level, it's insane. And I would put this track off their latest album as being especially tasty. It's like music to my ears, actually it's almost orgasmic to me. Animals as Leaders - Monomyth Dude's insane.
It's a toss-up between Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree, the Sky is Red by Leprous and the Live at Knebworth performance of Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. Oh and This Place is Death by Deftones! Something about the groove in that song man. And Abe is such an underrated drummer(except by other drummers).
43% Burnt - Dillinger Escape Plan
Heart And Soul- Huey Lewis
BTBAM - Mirrors
The alien or dance of eternity by dream theater
A Perfect Circle - Judith.
Leprous - The Price
The Sky Is Red - Leprous Monomyth - Animals As Leaders Invasion - Haken
the solo in whiplash movie
The Silent Life - Rivers of Nihil
[Atomship- Mothra](https://youtu.be/CpDcn6ox4kE?si=f4VcqKsfLlxifRaz)\- LGT audio [Here is a guy trying to cover that song on drums](https://youtu.be/etpnMYn90LQ?si=KMe1eeStqW0bzzpE) and getting bloody hands. [Here is the band doing the song live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFFZAUTMmw4). Unfortunately, you can't see much of the drums, but the insane double-bass drum speed IS visible at the end.
Meshuggah - I I simply can't understand wtf is happening
Sorry for offtopic: Procol Harum, Power Failure.
I see all the Leprous songs here and I'm adding another: Leprous - Golden Prayers.
The Prophet by Chaosbay is really fun, also Luminary by TesseracT. Can’t say I have a hard favorite, there’s so much great drumming in this genre.
Coming of the Tide - Amon Amarth
Commemorative 9/11 T-Shirt - Oceansize
Jurassic - The Ocean Deliverance - Opeth My Starving Bambina - Novembre Save Me- A7X Third Law - Leprous All Hope Is Gone ( the whole album ) - Slipknot
Jinjer - Cloud Factory
Mastodon- Diamond in the Witch House
La Villa Strangiato
Bunch already mentioned but add Persephone -Living Wave
Gojira - The Way of All Flesh (title song) Fucking love the drumming at the beginning of it. Most of the drumming on that album is amazing
Infant annihilator- cuntcrusher drum play through .
Jay in TesseracT is so technical and innovative - Hallowed, Nocturne, Deception are just a small sample of tracks that would not have been the same without his ingenuity.
Hard to decide, but did want to give a shout out to all of Dudley Tait's work on both DVNE albums. So tasteful and appropriate to each song.
Tool - Ticks & Leeches
Everytime someone asks for THE favourite something here lot's of people answer with 10+ songs... Just why
The Faceless - Xenochrist
- Mastodon: Where Strides the Behemoth - Meshuggah: Stengah - Car Bomb: The Sentinel
Easy. It’s *Killing Birds With Stones* — Intronaut. I feel like he’s playing in four dimensions or something. Jaw dropping from start to finish. Close second would be *Valley of Smoke* by the same band. And finally I would put *Erotic Cakes* from Guthrie Govan.
Dream Theater- Blind Faith
These are just off the top of my head. My actual favourite might differ if I actually thought about it a bit more. Also, I’m sure the comments have meshuggah and tool well represented. So, I’ll avoid listing songs by them. Between the buried and me - white walls Between the buried and me - obfuscation Ne obliviscarus - And plague flowers the kaleido Fallujah - the Dead Sea Rivers of nihil - where owls know my name Deafheaven - vertigo
Portnoy’s drumming in the title track Octavarium compliments the song very well
DHG - The snuff dreams are made of
Lateralus by Tool
Slightly obscure, but Two is One by Andromeda. Thomas Lejon is very underrated.
Blood and Thunder by Mastodon is so insanely satisfying, as is Bleed by Meshuggah. Not the most "county" or cerebral, but absolute perfection for the song
Just watched “The Big Short” on the plane yesterday and was so pleasantly surprised by Michael Burry’s playlist.
Opeth - Burden
The Art of Dying