Favorite Metal Drummer

I can't say I know much about drumers or drumming (believe me, I suck so much you wouldn't believe it).

Tupan wrote: Well, just add  "Neil Peart" to the list, and the question and all this debate will become irrelevant.

Well, once again I have to go with Other here.

^You know, good instrumentation it's not only technique, it's feeling and creativity.

Igor Cavalera is a great drummer, I am surprised no one voted on him yet!

Second post; the explanation.

I think Dream Theater has yet to announce their latest drummer. They've been having auditions though.

Mike Portnoy.

I liked Scott Travis in Racer X

bonnek wrote: 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.

That would be Scott Travis. I find him to be a rather dull drummer, especially on the newer releases. On "Painkiller" he did his job well.

It's really hard to pick out just one, and there are a couple of names I thought someone would have already mentioned but are missing. From those on the list, I would probably go for Jason Rullo, who really is left in Portnoy's shadow for no real reason. Not that Portnoy is bad, a great drummer also.

But for the ones no-one has mentioned would be:

Mikkey Dee, especially in his King Diamond days. His drumming really adds more value to the tracks on the first four King albums, most notably on "Them".King Diamond wasn't quite the same after he left. His playing in Mot�rhead is quite different, but tight as hell and fits to the bands music like a glove.

Thomen Stauch from Blind Guardian has also added much to BG's music. Very interesting stuff in some parts rhytmically, special mention for the albums "Imaginations From the Other Side" and "A Night at the Opera", where his drumming is not just drumming, it belongs to the songs. Changing the drum tracks would be almost as bad in some parts as changing the vocal melodies. Yet again, Blind Guardian isn't the same band after they lost Thomen.

Nigel Glockler of Saxon fame. This one is even more of a personal favourite than Thomen (Mikkey, I think, is quite respected drummer, correct me if I'm wrong), but man those drumfills he did in the 80's Saxon albums, they sound somehow so organic and fluent. A hint of the 70's perhaps? Very groovy sticksman.

And ofcourse as a huge Iron Maiden fan I am compelled to mention Nicko McBrain, whose prime was on the "Somewhere in Time" and "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"-albums. Has gone a bit dull on the 21st century records, but still one of the first drummers I really was amazed of.

Not the most technical or the fastest players in the world, but what they "lack" in comparison to some more modern drummers they win back in style and taste. I should include Cozy Powell, but there was a gentleman who already mentioned him.