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Poll Question: Who's your favorite? Can be a drummer from any metal genre
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    Posted: May 04 2009 at 16:58
This is a list I just made off the top of my head. It is composed of some of my personal favorites, as well as others I could think of that are pretty good. I tried to get some from all genres of metal.
This is was off the top of my head...and I am sure I left a lot of worthy ones off.

So what do you think?
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1. Danny Carey
2. Tomas Haake
3. Sean Reinert

BIG fan of Shadows Fall and Jason Bittner but those are my top 3. :)
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I'm gonna go with Kollias. His blastbeats are unmatched in creativity and speed, although my favourite metal drummer ever is John Merryman of Cephalic Carnage.



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Tomas Haake ftw.
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Hoglan.
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Personally, I say Haake. The guy can split his mind into 3 separate places! Or he has 3 brains, which wouldn't really surprise me. 
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Jason Rullo gets my vote this time,
Portnoy and Dailor a very close second and third.
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You also should have mentioned Vitek of Decapitated. He's a monster.
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Dave Lombardo.
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Originally posted by aapatsos aapatsos wrote:

Dave Lombardo.


Embarrassed Oops, I forgot about him.
Some others  I thought of that deserve mention:
Van Williams (Nevermore)
Richard Christy (Death, Control Denied)
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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Personally, I say Haake. The guy can split his mind into 3 separate places! Or he has 3 brains, which wouldn't really surprise me. 


LOL His playing is stunningly complex; yet  Carey's style just has this groove about it  that always leaves me mesmerised. Gotta choose Carey.


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Mike Portnoy.
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other;  Tommy Aldridge
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Tomas Corn
Fenriz
Flo
Trym



but from your list, Haake.


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Originally posted by moe_blunts moe_blunts wrote:

Tomas Corn
Fenriz
Flo
Trym



but from your list, Haake.


AAAAhhhhhhh Tomas Corn of Lykathea Aflame I believe? I actually thought about putting him but did not know if anyone would recognize him! LOL
One hell of a drummer!
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With those options, I gotta go with Reinert, though I wouldn't call him a pure metal drummer.  Hoglan is a beast and for a man that big he makes it look simple.
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Oh yea, I tried to vary the list and get drummers from all over, that play at least some type of metal.

Glad to see some love for Rullo and Hoglan, but I am a little surprised there are no votes for Martin Lopez.
Also, don't let Fear Factory fool you! Raymond Herrera is one hell of a drummer!
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Actually hold on... There's this guy, right, called Bobby Jarzombek, and he's a hell of a drummer as well. I reckon he's up in the standards of the listed.
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^  spectacular guitarist Ron Jarzombek's brother, they play together on Ink Compatible for one
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I chose Portnoy, but not just because of his work with Dream Theater.  He is quite a driving force in the band's dynamic, but I admire the tightness and conciseness of his drumming more as it appears in Transatlantic's music.  I think you should edit the poll options so it also mentions that he drums for Transatlantic.

Of course, there's a lot more Dream Theater out there to sample for his drumming technique (I can't wait for the new Transatlantic album!), and also, he isn't really a -metal- drummer in Transatlantic, it being a chiefly progressive group.  So, it's probably fine the way it is.

But yeah, definitely Mike Portnoy.
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