And the best drummer in the world right now, and arguably of all time is...

[Crazy B]

There is no "best drummer". My personal favourites would have to be Bill Ward, Bill Bruford, Utrillo Kushner, Billy Cobham, Dale Crover, Tomas Haake, Nick Mason, Jon Theodore, and Danny Carey.

[loaded_n_ready]

keith moon was better.

[FlyBikes]

As it goes, the drumming aspect of Opeth never struck me as being particularly remarkable. I'm surprised anybody would shortlist Martin.

[Crazy B]

the drummer for Yellowcard shreRAB
*hides*

[David Devoted]

not bad, but he isn't the greatest IMO. The blast beats he tries to pull in the second video sounRAB terrible. But he can do some pretty fast double bass. Thats just my observations from the videos.

[Peace Maker, Advice Giver]

There are Jazz drummers out there who blow the arse off most drummers if it was purely technique, but sometimes technique alone can be clinical and cold.

Here are some of my faves and in no order:

John Bonham-his sound is generally recognised as THE definitive rock drum sound-check out DAZED AND CONFUSED for some awesome drum rolls.

BILL WARD-technique? not too much, but his application was spot on, his drumming is so integeral to SABBATH'S sound. Simplicity is sometimes a beauty to behold.

DAVE LOrabARDO-again, never over-elaborate. pure clean aggression and one of the Thrash originals.

NEIL PEART-technique par excellence. He uses EVERY aspect of his kit as well as anyone out there.

SASHA POP0VIC-who? MOTHER TONGUE debut album 1994-check out the track BABY BURN (the rest of the album is **** hot too) but this is an incredible piece of drumming.

Sorry I'm not a drummer so cant describe peoples techniques too well!

The drummer from the French band GOJIRA is ****ing excellent too!

[Rasheed H]

Regarding the lyrics: the fragmentary nature of it is precisely the idea. They are even written in order to get that exact point across, i.e. that they are fragmentary and unrelated, in the CD artwork booklet (each sentence is separated from the next by fairly large circles, as if separating the names of two different songs. That the theme is clich

[you like to cheat]

Is English a second language for you?

[outburst95]

Danny Carey
John Bonham
Neil Peart
Jimmy Charaberlain
The drummer for Pearl Jam

[lindseyp1977]

Mastodon is doing more for the genre than people realize. Even though i like Dailor, Neil Peart still kicks ass after all of these years.