"It sounds like something out of Disneyland in Japan," he muses, after recording a first take drum part which he admits "is like completely pissing all over someone else's art." "In my world you have ...

Progressive rock/metal, characterized by advanced musicianship, lengthy songs, and the blending of different musical styles, certainly seeks to innovate heavy music in new ways. As countless ...

The post The Consequence Drummer Survey: 65 Drummers Name Their Favorite Drummers of All Time appeared first on Consequence. Consequence’s Drum Week couldn’t have come to fruition without the help of ...

Toontrack has announced the release of the Progressive Metal MIDI pack, a collection of drum MIDI grooves performed by TesseracT drummer Jay Postones. This marks the seventy-ninth individual drum MIDI ...

Metal fans know that Dave Lombardo has worn a hat or two in his day. The former Slayer stickman has held down the fort for bands across the heavy spectrum ranging but not limited to Misfits, Suicidal ...

"Shannon Larkin, now in Godsmack, is a god to me. In this song, he rips through a series of tom fills that still makes my blood boil. It sounds like he's rolling across twenty different toms -- sized ...

Everybody's gotta start somewhere. Even a musician as great as Dream Theater and The Winery Dogs drummer Mike Portnoy had to put in his due diligence studying the masters of the craft on his way to ...

Here are the 11 best prog metal songs of 2025! It’s truly been difficult to keep track of all the outstanding progressive metal songs released this year by both top-tier acts and artists who’re either ...