And the best drummer in the world right now, and arguably of all time is...

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lol, there's nothing particularly bad about mastodon's lyrics when taken as a whole. It's a little off in places, but what isn't? If anything, Mastodon show considerably more evidence of literacy than mostly all other mainstream metal banRAB.

Far as the singing goes, HinRAB may not have the best voice but, like with Billy Corgan, it's the imperfections that end up contributing to the overall sound (that is, for those who like the sound). A good voice isn't really required to get the job done. It just has to work.

Ultimately though, it's the range of ideas they play with that sets them apart from most of the competition.
 
Jon Theodore is pretty awesome. Ben Koller (Converge) is really good, too.

Speaking of Converge, if someone could put No Heroes up for me somewhere, that'd be cool.
 
...Brann Dailor, Mastodon.

He beats Danny Carey, Dave Lorabardo or anyone else you might care to mention by a walk. No-one really touches him.

DISCUSS!!!
 
lol no.

Rob Jones>>>Dailor.

Plus the fact I don't even like Tool and can respect Danny Carey says alot about his drumming. Mastodon sucks.
 
^Agree with you there...but it depenRAB on what you define greatness...
Speed, complexity of drum beats and fills or just general consitiancy...
Im a huge fan of Mastodon at the moment, Blood Mountain was such a good metal album in my opion. But I wouldn't say the drummer is the greatest ive ever heard...
 
There is no "best drummer". My personal favourites would have to be Bill Ward, Bill Bruford, Utrillo Kushner, Billy Cobham, Dale Crover, Tomas Haake, Nick Mason, Jon Theodore, and Danny Carey.
 
As it goes, the drumming aspect of Opeth never struck me as being particularly remarkable. I'm surprised anybody would shortlist Martin.
 
not bad, but he isn't the greatest IMO. The blast beats he tries to pull in the second video sounRAB terrible. But he can do some pretty fast double bass. Thats just my observations from the videos.
 
There are Jazz drummers out there who blow the arse off most drummers if it was purely technique, but sometimes technique alone can be clinical and cold.

Here are some of my faves and in no order:

John Bonham-his sound is generally recognised as THE definitive rock drum sound-check out DAZED AND CONFUSED for some awesome drum rolls.

BILL WARD-technique? not too much, but his application was spot on, his drumming is so integeral to SABBATH'S sound. Simplicity is sometimes a beauty to behold.

DAVE LOrabARDO-again, never over-elaborate. pure clean aggression and one of the Thrash originals.

NEIL PEART-technique par excellence. He uses EVERY aspect of his kit as well as anyone out there.

SASHA POP0VIC-who? MOTHER TONGUE debut album 1994-check out the track BABY BURN (the rest of the album is **** hot too) but this is an incredible piece of drumming.

Sorry I'm not a drummer so cant describe peoples techniques too well!

The drummer from the French band GOJIRA is ****ing excellent too!
 
Regarding the lyrics: the fragmentary nature of it is precisely the idea. They are even written in order to get that exact point across, i.e. that they are fragmentary and unrelated, in the CD artwork booklet (each sentence is separated from the next by fairly large circles, as if separating the names of two different songs. That the theme is clich
 
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