Music Radar's Top 10 Drummers
2009-11-06 by Alex C. Murderface | 38 Replies | 1590 Views

Music Radar has counted down the "Top 10 Drum Heroes" of the current generation of music, including Zach Hill (Hella, Marnie Stern), John Stanier (Helmet, Battles) and Ben Koller (Converge).

http://www.musicradar.com/news/drums/10-new-drum-heroes-you-need-to-hear-223219

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Prophet178


Comments: 3081
11.06.09


What a good list.

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AnotherBrick


Comments: 877
11.07.09


nice seeing mark heron on this

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Oswig328


Comments: 13
11.07.09


Surprisingly great list. Any list that has drummers from Converge, The Bad Plus, and Acoustic Ladyland gets a thumbs up from me.

Benjajinj


Comments: 10
11.07.09


Never heard of any of them, and the only one that actually impressed me was the Oceansize drummer.

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Homewrecker


Comments: 20
11.07.09


For listing Converge they sure picked an unimpressive song. There's so many more with much better drumming.

americanmusicmachine


Comments: 346
11.07.09


good to see greg saunier on there.

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Lions


Comments: 683
11.07.09


I enjoyed this list.

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Dougie


Comments: 3593
11.07.09


A diverse list = win.

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Atru


Comments: 57
11.07.09


mark heron is the only great drummer here

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random


Comments: 106
11.07.09


John Stanier is amazing.

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StrizzMatik


Comments: 1287
11.07.09


^^ Moron alert

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shade


Comments: 820
11.07.09


awesome list

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random


Comments: 106
11.07.09


Strizzmatik, I only said John Stanier is amazing. How does that make me a moron?

americanmusicmachine


Comments: 346
11.07.09


think he was talkin' bout atru

random


Comments: 106
11.07.09


Oh, Ok.

Aids


Comments: 532
11.07.09


Sweet list. I had never heard of some of these bands. And now I have

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Atru


Comments: 57
11.07.09


nah, i'm not a moron. ben koller is overrated. john stanier isn't amazing, he's good. mark heron is great.

Iluvatar
Staff Reviewer


Comments: 11097
11.07.09


list needs more jon theodore. duh.

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Glomp


Comments: 59
11.07.09


Awesome list, Chris Corsono, John Stanier and Greg Saunier are the bomb.

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EVedder27


Comments: 1358
11.07.09


Needs Gavin Harrison

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theacademy


Comments: 2049
11.07.09


n33ds more slipknot band members

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JAV


Comments: 591
11.07.09


Stainer is awesome.

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Jethro42


Comments: 158
11.07.09


Needs Jojo Mayer

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Ghostechoes


Comments: 113
11.07.09


I uploaded that Oceansize video, lol, hopefully the inclusion of Mark Heron in that list will help to increase the number of visits.
List needs some Chris Pennie.

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Powerban


Comments: 83
11.07.09


Needs Dave from Russian Circles.

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Klekticist


Comments: 607
11.07.09


I second jojo...

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chambered89


Comments: 1819
11.07.09


dude from immolation

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ninjacat11


Comments: 143
11.07.09


Only things I would have added are Brann Dailor and Thomas Pridgen.

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Aids


Comments: 532
11.08.09


^Brann Dailor, yes good call.

JDthatsme


Comments: 391
11.08.09


that a cool list

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Casablanca


Comments: 10
11.08.09


agreed with ninjacat about Thomas Pridgen

a very respectable list
but as I was going through it, I noticed Pridgen's exclusion particularly

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Prophet178


Comments: 3081
11.08.09


Probably because he only has one album for reference.

Jethro42


Comments: 158
11.08.09


Jojo Mayer (See the third drummer KJ Sawka above) is the most fascinating of all modern drummers. Sawka is only following the footsteps of Mayer.
Well ok, ok, Mayer is tied with Dennis Chambers and Dave Weckl. Bill Bruford is also among the greatests, but he's from the old school =]

jredmond


Comments: 129
11.08.09


haha the dodos.. awesome

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StrizzMatik


Comments: 1287
11.08.09


nah, i'm not a moron. ben koller is overrated. john stanier isn't amazing, he's good. mark heron is great.

No he's not, he's deserving of all the praise. His work from Jane Doe to Axe To Fall is unreal.

Auto-fail on the comment about Stanier. Guy was a legend back in Helmet, his work on Battles speaks for itself and his beats on Tomahawk's records are a key part of that band.

The only thing you're right about, concerning Heron.

elephantREVOLUTION


Comments: 472
11.09.09

Album Rating: 1

great list. should have jon karel though.

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MrPoopular


Comments: 667
11.09.09


yeah stanier is incredible. I saw battles live and he was great

arobdrummer


Comments: 6
11.09.09


Its a good list, but I think you can't list off drum heroes, because they are personal choices. But everything on this website is. I just don;t like when we pick who the best is, it creates a stereotype that isn't fit.



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