Hey Andrew, thanks for checking the video and of course for the fun reaction!! Just a little side note. Sport/lifting weights is helping to somehow manage to make it through the years while playing that fast. Cheers

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Simon! Thanks for taking the time to comment man! Good to know. I also find a really obvious parallel between exercise/progress/commitment and the drums also. ie One big hero work out session lasting 6 hours is neither sustainable or going to make you Look like Arnie. All about the consistency yeah? Thanks again man. We should talk sometime for my podcast bro!?

@MBlast666

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Simon.

@bringerovlight8412

2 жыл бұрын

hes really good did our drums

I get lactic acid buildups just by watching this.

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! These guys are insane

It's like watching a medieval precision archer reacting to a guy with a rotary autocannon :D

"Stamina + speed". Perhaps together it abbreviates to "stampede".

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

HAHA YES Lukas!

Kevin Paradis from Benighted is someone you should check. He made a “competition cover” video with him playing with music and then drums only, and it’s also quite impressive :)

@nmac3718

3 жыл бұрын

It's not impressive its bloody ridiculous whewy

Another amazing drummer is Prosciptor McGovern of Absu, a very talented musician! 👍

@blindguardian1979

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, I'd definitely want a Proscriptor video...unfortunately there really aren't great drum cam videos of him. I think there is a decent Manannan and Highland Tyrant Attack but neither close to HD. Might not be quite a fast as Shilling or The Dominator but more variety and he does vocals at the same time

@seb79

3 жыл бұрын

@@blindguardian1979 I agree with you. 👍

@D1ssilience

3 жыл бұрын

He's great but not really considered special because he isn't a modern drummer

@blindguardian1979

3 жыл бұрын

@@D1ssilience well, I wouldn't say that any drummer who isn't modern can't be special. yes, he doesn't have outrageous blast beat speed/stamina as someone like Simon Schilling but he still had a very unique style and his double bass in Tara is as fast as any modern drummer. There aren't many albums like Tara where the drums are almost the focal point of the album

Simon’s skill has exploded in the last few years. The impact/power he achieves each stroke at breakneck speed is phenomenal. Love his technique. Edit : I reckon Simon has an outstanding posture when blasting.

Me and my boys play all types of music, but we LOVE playing extreme metal. There is nothing that feels better than the mastery of this type of music. Its just like anything else that people master. We just have a passion for the intensity. I have been in the scene for some time and there is no escaping it. We play it because we love it. Most of the guys I have known through the years arent pigeonholed into listening and playing only extreme metal. We might be one of the few genres that take inspiration from everywhere. Napalm death got me into Cocteau Twins and shoegaze music. Exodus got me into bluegrass. We all listen to virtually everything, but there are few things better in life than playing and executing this challenging music live while entertaining fans.

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome comment Ben! Great to appreciate all kinds of stuff!

@Kerosian1

3 жыл бұрын

Dude same. Its epically hilarious to play a crushing extreme metal set after you just got out of the car listening to A Love Supreme by Coltrane, or hell rocking out to Katy Perry on the radio. We love it all, especially if you have chops!

@speedchopperbass

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kerosian1 love me some love supreme

AMAZING MIRACLE

Yes! I've been waiting for this to happen!

Love watching your reactions and interesting take and view points of all these drummers and songs you listen to X) Thank you for starting and maintaining your channel!

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Too kind Derek! Thanks for watching and subbing bro!

The guy reminds me of a wind up toy drummer that spits everything out mechanically perfect at inhuman speeds. The music is not my cup of tea, but I have to respect the technical performance. Amazing! Thank you for the video. Very enjoyable

The toll taken on the body nust be extreme, imagine playing this 4-5 nights a week in a live-set scenario!?

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

I don't want to imagine it... LOL

@danieljordison0793

3 жыл бұрын

Plus the fact that most of these bands don’t have a big crew to help with equipment, if they even have a crew at all ://

Amazing stick control

The orginal drummer for this track was Matte Modin. Some drummers in this style, like Hellhammer, have been playing this way for 30+ years. I wonder what they've been doing to keep themselves able to play all these years.

Bloodhammer 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

Dark funeral... that's a name I haven't heard in a long while... looking forward to this!!

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Great!

@kaozdrums

3 жыл бұрын

Also don't forget about Simon's current band Marduk. They're insane too.

Would love to see a reaction to Lille Gruber from Defeated Sanity, a classical guitarist who, strangely, also happens to have the best drum chops in all of death metal. Not to mention his compositions are always mind-bendingly complex.

as a drummer with a double kick and short arms, a remote hi hat stand SAVED MY DAMN LIFE! you can clamp the arm to your snare stand, the pedal is on a cable and has its own feet so just set it where you want and forget it. hell you could even put it next to your right foot if you wanted! i know gibraltar makes one but im sure pearl and dw do too

Simon is the perfect drummer for Marduk \m/

I get the talent and athletic ability it takes to do this, I used to play like this for years, but I find it so boring now , but what a talent this guy is.

Watching from Rotorua, NZ. Good stuff bro.

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching bro!

Dude is a beast!!👏👏👏

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no Susanne. I've turned you into a metal head! Not my fault BTW!

@susannebass5503

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewRooneyDrums yes it's taking hold darn it🤪

For those who don't understand bands like dark funeral they're black metal band most traditional black metal bands style revolve around certain melodic and classical notes played in a repetitive and Atmospheric manner there's definitely a lot of skill and musicianship in the composition of the music in fact a lot of black metal bands use a lot of classical scales

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the info!

@jio5341

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewRooneyDrums anytime Mate keep up the good work

I noticed zero mention that hes nailing nils from dark funerals material as loud or louder and afew bpm faster and doing it grossly on point Andrew lolol I discovered this crazy fellow a few yrs ago myself jamming to belphagor from Austria and his career has been heading up hill ever since and now hes in marduk a class act of this genre== kudos to him !!! I'm damn proud of his effort and this music is my realm but he shocks me too

@LycanthropicArt

2 жыл бұрын

This song (The Arrival of Satan's Empire ) was originally played by Matte Modin on the Dark Funeral album Diabolis Interium. But, yeah, Dominator is a fucking beast! Skål! - Wulf

You definitely need to do a video for these songs. Despised icon - unbreakable Shadow of intent - under a sullen moon Slaughter to prevail - demolisher

Everybody is talking about lactic acid and exhaustion xD My observation: He hits with less power than Dominator (former DF drummer), which I suppose is not a bad thing, also his sticks seem to be a tad lighter. And then look at his blastbeats: No wrist movement, using the thumb/index grip as a fulcrum, bouncing the stick with his small/ringfinger as relaxed as possible = efficiency of movement. Of course I'm not denying that it takes a lot of stamina, but I think he does the extreme speed the right way.

love that 'spicy' analogy. So true. Just like a chili-head can't explain to someone who likes medium salsa but has no desire to continue. Nailed it.

Changing hands on the blast beat at 4:30 is insane. Showing off indeed. Jealous? And I literally was flexing my hands cuz it does make you sore just by looking at it. It also inspires you to be better seeing someone with raw talent dump everything into Thier craft. I always wanted to play faster and I barely got the finger technique down for blast beats before I gave up music forever almost 15 years ago. Still haunts me to this day. Edit: my back.... MY BACK

Love it!!!!!

@AndrewRooneyDrums

2 жыл бұрын

🥁👊

Love the metal drumming you've been featuring here lately. I know you did some Opeth songs already but if you check out their song Lotus Eater it has been blast beats and jazz inspired "pocket" style drumming. For me, songs that feature a range of metal and other drumming styles are the most fun to play.

@hammersmashedspud4345

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's a great song

Jamie is an amazing drummer. I guess we'll be seeing Ulcerate drumming videos reactions soon :O .

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Need to ask him nicely first :)

@MortPure

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewRooneyDrums Of course :) . Have a good one dude! Thx for the upload.

HAHA. I have double bass with 4 toms. My hi-hat is almost behind me. The high-hat out front is foreign to me.

Simon in incredible drummer. Definitely up there with the best of them. From a technique perspective, the leaning forward acts with the fact in extreme metal drumming you must sit on the entire sit instead of just the end. This is because at such fast tempos for double bass you need to have less pressure on your legs going from up to 170bpm with full leg motion and more upright, then maybe up to 220/230bpm with just ankles and beyond 240bpm the swivel motion. And for ankle and swivel motion you almost need to be hovering with only pressure on the balls of your feet because swivel is made from pressure to motion. Everything is acting as a moveabke counter balance at such extreme tempos

Check out Nicholas Barker, Gene Hoglan, Dirk Verbeuren, Hellhammer, Flo Mounier, George Kollias, etc. They've all been doing it about 30 or more years.

Check out Steve ashiem, the drummer of deicide, hes around 50 and he still smashes it like this, its so impressive.

Andrew, you should do a “Top 5 Olympics of Drumming” for each year! Choose your top 5 and discuss pockets, creativity, mind-blowing first impressions, etc.

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

I did think of that. I meant to do a top 10 of what I had seen so far!

@SauceBoss69

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewRooneyDrums Great idea! It can help condense all your material and overall ideas into a good quarterly/annual summary.

4:40 he's switching the snare from off to on beat, I guess it's a bit easier that way...

It's all about technique and energy conservation. It may look like he's hitting them hard, but it's quite controlled so the dynamics are even

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Nailed it Matt!

@Virvum_Juggernaut

2 жыл бұрын

He is hitting them hard. Simon has developed an insane technique over the years and his stick control is second to none. The impact he gets at speed on his strokes is mind blowing.

I've always wanted to see one of these big strongk stamina and speed drummers stick a drum stick right thru someone.

Let's go Mate Anothrr dark funeral

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Yup!

Murdak is actually pronounced like merdoc. There is actually a lot tricks like fly finger which most of them do, instead of using your forearm muscles. Heel up is the easiest way to play the double bass parts or there is heel toe technique which I can’t do pretty much it’s the technique you learn with your left foot on the hi hat but you use it with both feet which makes playing double stroke rolls easier. Black metal is in your face with overly satanic lyrics the inventors of the style were Bathory, Hellhammer and Sacòfago.

Well... That was an unearthly performance. 😲

Ready for some prog-metal again! I suggest Ray Hearne from Haken playing The Architect, or Josh Griffin from Caligula's Horse playing Rust. Or both.

@kraterkop

3 жыл бұрын

Yes both. Add Jay Postones also

want to see Nicko McBrain drum solo reaction... one of the best drummer ..

@robertvarga5788

3 жыл бұрын

Iconic drummer! Playing single pedal

@amorpatriaenostralex3822

3 жыл бұрын

Man, every black/deathmetal drummer plays his set one handed.

Oh you gotta see Marco Pitruzzella aka Lord Marco

Lol, welcome to the world of real drumming.

Trust me, it will catch up with the body......and when it does, it is game over. Enjoy it while you can. I speak from experience.

Can't make out the song in the background, is it by Marduk? Dark Funeral? Belphegor? *edit* Found it: Dark Funeral - The Arrival Of Satans Empire. Original vid here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qqKCwcWyc8jUoZc.html

Highspeed-Blasbeats = sacrificing your skills to Satan. The faster you can play, the more precious is you sacrifice. Or something like that...

You should never crossover and always stand up. I am a multiply signed Death Metal Drummer. Simon you are right and you can go hard and fast and preserve you back.

You are funny guy.

I checked if I had selected the right speed in the video

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

HAHA Andre!

You need to react to Romain goulan from necrophagist. Warning it's super fast metal. Speed metal if you will.

This playing sounds like a Machine Gun

5:56 was that intentional? :D

I can do the ride part at 3:53. Other than that I'd have to practice a wee bit more.

Andrew. If you listened to more metal, you would know the true beasts that are out there!!

I wonder how many of these extreme drummers joints will have just been reduced to sawdust by the time they hit 50.

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

HAHA!

How many shillings does he charge an hour for lessons?

I think that Dominator Fjelstrom first played that on df album 🤔

@AndrewRooneyDrums

2 жыл бұрын

Right on

@LycanthropicArt

2 жыл бұрын

This song (The Arrival of Satan's Empire ) was originally played by Matte Modin on the Dark Funeral album Diabolis Interium. But, yeah, Nils "Dominator" Fjellström is a fucking beast! Skål! - Wulf

You always apologize for stopping and comments,,,,,,, I like it ,,, I wanna hear what you think

Did u react to the Dominator, Nils Fjellström?

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Jan! A couple of vids on him :)

@amorpatriaenostralex3822

3 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewRooneyDrums thanks for the fast answer. Lets check it out!

I think he removed this from his page and how sad because it's so badass

the black metal tendinitis is real

Mr.Universe....but i miss the Groove...the Groove rule`z!

Nils Dominator might be faster

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Both are machines!

I think a refreshing and very needed reaction from you is a song GOAT by Polyphia! I apologize as I can’t be a patreon but their drummer clay is an absolute animal and has such a unique style and sound. Please check out the drum play through following this! kzread.info/dash/bejne/gGWAsrJ-oK7clbg.html

Never been able to get into this norsecore stuff so much when comes to black metal. It's extreme stamina etc, but i just feel gets old quickly when entire songs are blasting and speed fills

@EPKKC

10 ай бұрын

Then you have to use "tic-tic" magic as you ride cymbals. We once had a "tic-tic" Lord in Fredrik Andersson. Opus Nocturne is a tic-tic Masterpiece of Art. So wish there was drum cams when this guy was around.

You could react to Miloš Meier

I'm pretty sure Simon Schilling said something along the lines of Vobiscum Satanas! Hail Satan!

You cant hear the music in these df vids

are you trying to say metal is an acquired taste?

Have you ever wondered... one thing is to cover on drums this stuff. Other is.. who the f**k composes this???

@AndrewRooneyDrums

2 жыл бұрын

100%!

@CoreDian

2 жыл бұрын

@@AndrewRooneyDrums Andrew you need to check this drummer out.the video is live, the sound is from the recorded album. chap doesnt miss a single beat...

Oh, long time no see... 😂 Just in case you didn't read my answer on the last Harrison video, here's another video you might find interesting: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iol1wdBpZKaXktY.html

@AndrewRooneyDrums

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

This video is not that good. He goes slower than the song, misses some parts, lazy hits on the hihat. His fills are very good, but the song is too much for him. (Look at 3:33, where he starts with those lazy hits on the hihat, so he can speed up the hits on the snare). He definitely couldn't play it as fast as the original version (which is the one that plays in the background)

@Backpflaume666

2 жыл бұрын

Dude what are you talking about? There are some minor imperfections here and there (maybe, it is hard to tell by the overall sound quality) but always keep in mind that this video is more or less unedited. There are no cuts at all, he plays this song in one take and even adds some fills. It is his own take of the song and he changes the drumparts here and there, but I don't see any problem with that. What is really impressive, is Simons consistency and the fact that he nails super fast songs on live concerts: Many KZread drummers often have troubles with that due to the fact that they can't edited their recordings until they are perfect when they play live.

Crazy stamina, great drummer, extremely boring to listen to though...

It´s absolutely crazy how those Black Metal guys and so on can keep on blasting for a whole live set, but I still think it´s sooooo boring to watch or listen to. If I want to see and hear awesome metal drumming, Alex Rudinger or Chris Adler are more entertaining and fun to listen to.

Not as tight/consistent and powerful as Dominator. He is slowing down and speeding up in places. Still a great drummer though!!

Stamina and speed - sure, pretty impressive. But otherwise it's boring af. There, I said, I meant it, I'm here to represent it.

oh boy.... no thanks.

I admire the ability to do them with speed, consistency, and precision, but god I hate blast beats.

fast but boring

This is very boring music.