Favorite drum riff/passage of all time??
 

This is a hard one!!



Mine would have to be Tjoldalv's rhythm from 3:42 - 4:28 of Dimmu Borgir's "Mourning Palace" (Enthrone Darkness Triumphant). This is one of my favorite black metal passages of all time, anyway, but the drums in particular are what gets me. They're just so fluid..... SOOOOOOOOOO powerful.

Tjoldalv is one of my favorite drummers on the face of the Earth (would make my all-time Top 5 list, for sure).




A VERY closer runner-up would have to be Children of Bodom's Jaska Raatikainen during the first verse of "Downfall" (album - Hatebreeder, 0:52 - 1:12). I love the sound of the double-kick drum, and he uses it in this song better than anyone I've ever heard, despite being only 22 years old!

Easy for me...

Napalm Death - The Chains That Blind Us - drum interlude after the giutar solo...
Painkiller - Morning Of Balachaturdasi - drum intro...

Oh yeah, Mick Harris is my "only" influence in drumming, lol...

i was listening to Vital Remains the other day and was reminded of this thread...Forever Underground, something around 5:45min. mark is a kickass bit of drumming excellence...nothing too complicated, but it just sounds soo awesome, perfectly fitting in w/the song

I'd say tracks #3 and #4 off Immolation's Failures for Gods.

I love the sound he gets out of his double-bass drums.




Actually.....just about that whole cd is awesome for drumming.

I still say the first part of Raining Blood just gets me off ever time I hear it plus the drum solo in that song "Snot" by Snot. I like the sound he gets out of his Snare. Its got a real bright sound.

every single thing tjoldalv (old mans child)
did on the pagan prosperity and the
ill natured spiritual invasion was awesome

the intro to dying fetus' cover of scum and the end of pissing razors' domination.

Dying Fetus covered Napalm Death??????

Dying Fetus covered Napalm Death??????
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you never heard that? must get get it as soon as possible, its awesome.

by the way, so did mortician.

Mine would have to be either the intro to 13 Steps to Nowhere by Pantera, or the beginning drum riff with the tremolo guitars in Morbid Angel's Dawn of the Angry.

Judas priest - painkiller
iced earth - the coming curse (the chorus is REALLY fast drum kick)
dream theater - take the time (for the timing)



Pablo

Any song from the Crown or At the gates
Janne Saarenpää and Adrian Erlandsson are amazing drummers

Right now I think of a part from kingdom gone from At the gates

I agree with bob here....the into to Pantera's 13 Steps to Nowhere is pretty kickass....the drum part on Suicide Note II is pretty fucking cool.

DC, I did know about the Mortician thingy...

That's why I checked them out, because they did cover Napalm Death. Too bad they're too shitty to write any good songs. And they use fuckin' drum-machines.

And if someone wants to be a grinder here, starts to listen to Mortician, because it's entitled as a 'grind' band by metalhammer, and the only grind shirt what 'headbanger' has is the newest Mortician.

Perhaps ill natured spiritual invasion by Old Man's Child was so awesome because it was Gene Hoglan on drums? You know, the guy from death, Dark Angel, Strapping Young Lad and Testament. But tjoldalv is a good drummer too.

the main drum beat to "Puritania" by Dimmu Borgir. It has a real haunting and gothic feel to it. That, or "Necrophobic" by Slayer. Man thats FAST!

DEATH - TO FORGIVE IS TO SUFFER INTRO (FROM THE SOUND OF PERSEVERANCE)

ANY DEATH DRUMS RIFF

ANGRA - NOTHING TO SAY MAIN RIFF (FROM HOLY LAND)

CHILDREN OF BODOM - WARHEARTS THE WHOLE SONG

I'd have to say that this song is one of my favourites. However, my favourite passage comes after the long-high pitched scream at about 4:10 until 4:25
(followed by one friggin mad riff)

I REALLY DIG THE REALLY FAST DRUM PASSAGE IN FUCKING HOSTILE WHEN
PHIL SAY "VINCE" JUST BEFORE THE GUITAR SOLO.

OR THE INTRO OF THROES OF REJECTION AND OF COURSE 13 STEP.

the intro to Computer God by Black Sabbath