Top 6 Live Metal Drummers
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/kBxcZPbP8iQ&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0 My favorite drummers don’t use triggers. Few things kill my buzz like the sight of a drummer futzing with a trigger module. A drummer should come to kill, not to play with MIDI. Here are my six favorite live drum killers. Some have that magic in the studio, too; some don’t. But they all...
Metal Mixtape: 20 Buck Spin Sampler 2009
20 Buck Spin is a label you should know. With releases spanning metal’s spectrum, proprietor Dave Adelson (interviewed here) chooses quality over quantity. This year we’ve especially liked the Stormcrow/Laudanum split (reviewed here) and the Liturgy full-length (reviewed here). But, really, we like everything on 20 Buck Spin. Here is a sampler of the label’s...