Another drummer that I’m a big fan of is Aaron Harris of the band Isis. Isis’ music, in case you aren’t familiar, is a blend of post-rock and art rock and has a heavy vibe to it, similar to Tool. A lot of the bands songs have large portions with no vocals, when there are vocals, they are more tonal than traditional, usually not emphasizing words but sounds.

Aaron Harris is the pulse of the band. Usually emphasizing weird accents and including a lot of syncopation into his playing, he tends to push and pull the songs, a bit like a jazz player.  His drumming through odd time sections is usually keeping a steady, simple yet effective approach, until Isis’ last album “In The Absence of Truth”.

After becoming good friends with Tool drummer Danny Carey, as well as tour mates, Aaaron Harris’ playing became noticeably more complex and involved.  His playing on this album defintily shows Danny Carey’s influence but also some new techniques all together. I highly recommend checking out his drumming on this album, it is some of the best I’ve heard in the past few years.

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*(Photo courtesy of Heilsound.com)

I’ve been listening to a lot of Messugah recently. If you dont know, Messugah is a metal band but not in the traditional sense. They play an almost jazz-like form of metal. Tomas Haake is their drummer. Since the band plays in odd time signatures, many of the bands songs feature polyrhythms, tribal beats and intense and fast blast beats. Their last record even featured all programmed drumming.

Haake is also known for stacking various cymbals such as crashes, hi hats and chinas to create different sounds. He is definitely a master of odd time signatures as evidenced here, this is amazing…

Tomas Haake @ Drummer Live 2006

*(Photo courtesy of Arbiter UK - http://www.arbiter.co.uk/drums/)

I wanted to post this video, because I found it not too long ago and I think Igor Cavalera (formerly of Sepultura), is completely sick (in a good way). Igor Cavalera is pretty underrated especially when you think of the influence he has had on heavy drummers and heavy music in general.

Check it out. This is from a Pearl Drums TV commercial run in Brazil…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91K-WxSFYUg

Since is the first post on the site, I’m going to just say a little about what you can expect here.

I’m going to be mainly writing about drums; everything from reviews of drum sets, drum gadgets, drum news and of course drummers.

Expect to see show reviews as well, there’s nothing better than seeing one of your favorite drummers live. Stay tuned…