Tony Laureano Warmup

[anticannobis]

when people will finally learn that trigger are actually a good thing ;)

[RideTheRainbowTV]

What is that buzzsaw cymbal Tony uses or used to use with Nile? Can you get one anywhere?

[B166ERqed]

@RideTheRainbowTV Your local hardware store. It's a circular saw blade. Bring your sticks with you. Some of them actually have pretty cool tones! I use a few on my set for cool bell accents. Cheaper than zilbel's.....

[DiminishedTB]

Care on Triggers they just form your sound better or however you want, watch some kollias vids, you can see him kick way too hard to actually "cheat" with the trigger system

[MostAncientOne]

Man - I was on this tour (playing in Nachtmystium at the time), and Tony was a fucking monster every night. The coolest moment for 1349 IMO, though, was due to an unexpected glitch. One night in the middle of their set, the house P.A. went out for about 3 or 4 minutes, and suddenly there were no triggered drums, no massive P.A. sound - just a raw, ripping black / thrash band tearing it the fuck up.

It was an awesome few minutes of real, blood-and-sweat metal \,,/

[0owirtao0]

I actually don't like the trigger sound :O i know a lot of people love it, but i like the more "real" sound u get out of a bass mic :D \m/

[abacacus]

@0owirtao0

I prefer best of both worlds, sample a real kick drum and use that sample through a trigger.

[0owirtao0]

@abacacus might sound ok that. But i really hate the plastic ,only trigger, sound!

[abacacus]

@0owirtao0

It has it uses, but I prefer my bass drum to sound like a real bass drum as well.

[rootux1]

two three

[HeyYoKillEmo]

Every fucking drummer in a death metal band uses triggers just face it.

[guitarralaraja]

@HeyYoKillEmo that's not real =p

[slaving300]

The triggers doesn't give you any talent, any speed, nothing yust better sound on drums, don't be ignorant. If you put a trigger in your drum set, it will give you powers? c'mon please.

[jp28hc]

Read an interview a few months ago. He says he uses triggers only on the kicks.

[belphegor06]

who cares! every fucking drummer uses triggers, except for pete sandoval for the covenent album... tiggers make drums sound a lot better...

[fatalkill101]

george kolias does use triggers. watch his clinics. you can even hear that he uses triggers when he plays live with nile

[fatalkill101]

SkepticusSpiritus in this video it sounds like hes using triggers to me and i think derek roddy is the drummer that is the least triggered. He only used triggers in Hate Eternal

[jordison215]

george kollias, the drummer in nile, no triggers.

[vermilliondaysthrash]

just triggers

[Dracania]

The only thing to add to this thread, is for anyone to be in a position to critique who is better, one has to have heard every single thing these drummers have done in their professional career. George Kollias - Cerebrum.. this album he features on is insane! More like his work with Sickening Horror vs Nile. awesome cymbal choke variations, complex timing and impressive dynamic control.. Hellhammer - Winds, Age Of Silence.. amazing progressive, emotional brilliance! Tony is awesome, enough said!

[xImpendingChapelxAAF]

1349 fuck!!!!!!!!

[TheMaA3000]

Tony Laureano is not playing with All That Remains because the original drummer broke his hand

[ph0b0rz]

i think there are enough other guys that aren't that present on youtube or the internet. i'd still love to see stuff like that from nick barker.

[cazuu69]

@ph0b0rz im agreed,he pretend to be hellhemmer.....

[jimilufnin]

check out David Haley of the band Psycroptic, his playing is really good

[jayakishore1234]

derek roddy,kollias,tony laureano,frost,inferno ,vitek pete sandoval all good in their respective ways...you cant compare...it is a matter of taste...i try and learn something from each of them

[LapidaDrummer]

I think Tony Laureano is not a good drummer.

No style... He has no power... only trigger...

[tombojombo]

why the fuck do triggers make a difference?

[LapidaDrummer]

I think because triggers can be set to have a "heavy hit sound" when you hit the drums softly... I don't like Death Metal because can't be played decently without using triggers = Fake drummers.

The only ones I can appreciate is George Kollias (Nile), Derek Roddy (Hate Eternal) and Max Kolesne (Krisiun).

[Coreyf24]

Actually triggers are used at high speeds because otherwise the notes would all mesh in together and sound like crap. Plus all the other musicians would float in and out of time because the bass pattern wouldn't be defined enough.

[KHfan4ever23]

dude hes got power! i saw him at Mayhem with All That Remains and he was fuckin loud!

[SkepticusSpiritus]

He's actually one of the least triggered drummers out there in extreme metal... He only triggers his bass drums and his, unlike Kollias' and most of the others', are set at the maximum dynamic range - in other words, he plays the kicks just like they had microphones; that's why you don't hear his double kicks just as clear and clean as Kollias' or Barker's etc. And his slight imprecision (sometimes) seems very feelwise-controlled and soulful to me, he's a very organic-sounding drummer.

[JadeSimonetto]

nisl fjellstrom is in that list and so is fukin pete sandoval man.

[tyrenecus]

inferno is theundisputed god of battery annihilation

Hail Behemoth

Hail Inferno

the blakest ovthe blaaakk!!

[drummessiah]

You're comparing apples to oranges...there's no best and there is no "god"... in my opinion, what makes a good drummer is having a unique style so that you could pick them out on an album without even knowing who was behind the kit. George is a machine and a killer drummer but sounding like a machine isn't always the best thing for a song or band. In his band it happens to work.

[gundorlt]

Oh... Roddy is at the same level as George. Especially now that he's done alot of jazz and other non-metal stuff. And don't forget Romain Gaulon. He's a beast as well.

Oh, and Frost... he falls way behind every other drummer you listed in your comment

[azacool]

hi.

[asvo007]

rofl @ sony1pony

[reyayala]

I'm so glad to be from Puerto Rico!!!

[Stravaganzza07]

ME TOO :-)

[reyayala]

He's Puertorrican!!!

I'm so glad to say that, Puerto Rico fucking rulez!!!

[XGHOSTXOFXFLESHX]

HELL YEAH HAIL ALL MY BROTHERS AROUND THE DARKENED GLOBE .... HAIL BLACK METAL MAY THE DARKNESS BLESS YOU AND GUIDE THY PATH >>> HAIL THE FORBIDDEN LORDS \m/

[fullapekatt]

is he norwegian or somthing?

[darthkevo]

he's puertorrican

[oOJampisOo]

Jan Axel, or "Hellhammer" as he is better known is norweigan.

[fullapekatt]

hes name i Jan Axel Blomberg, yea i know he is norwegian... i am norwegian to..

[darthkevo]

the dude from the video is tony laureano and he's a tour drummer. he has filled for nile dimmu borgir, 1349 ect and he is puertorrican. i know this because i am puerto rican

[ThomasBerry]

Sounds like he's got his kick drums triggered ....

[atrbdm9]

It's nearly impossible to play this fast without triggers. Even if you did, it'd sound all crappy.

[PSPmaster321]

Its impossible to play without triggers at concerts :-/

[drummerofwrongway]

i'm a drummer, but from europe, could you pls explain me what triggers are? xD thx

[PSPmaster321]

Triggers are like little sensors/microphones that amplify the sound of your kick drum.

[qwertylolocaust]

they dont amplify them, you can just amplify the kick tracks on the PA lol.

triggers turn the bass drum strokes into midi kick drums and the volume of them is more consistent so your strokes sound even.

[PSPmaster321]

Erm...yes. Thats what I meant lol

[dartthewarrior]

i think its so cool that 2 of dimmu borgir's drummers use trick pedals!!!

[kaosM914]

I cnat tell who is faster george or tony

[Eklund89]

i bet george is.. but who knows.. they never show of :(

[Dracania]

Dude, Chris Adler is such a frustrating looking drummer. He makes everything look harder than it actually is. Ewe yuk i say to Chris Adler and lamb of god..boring, overated i might add. Tony is one of the most "underated" heavy metal drummers of our time. I mean, what drummer can easily go from Dimmu, to Nile, to 1349!!WTF.. Probably Hellhammer, i mean look at his band history, he can do anything. Nick is great also, I dont know any of his fills that suk. So yeah, no to Chris Adler, yes to Tony!

[atrbdm9]

Hellhammer can go from playing "The Chosen Legacy" in Dimmu Borgir, to playing "Remnants of Beauty" by Winds.

[triplextoto]

laureano is an amazing drummer!..

is fucking god!...

[bigrigs]

Saw Tony with Dimmu, played at like 275 cleanly with his feet!!!!! Tony is the man, along with George, Nick, and HellHammer!!! Don't talk shit

[mouthforwar1]

i forgot which drummer dimmu had that used two duallist pedals for double bass but it was hella cool

[vacateistheword]

right on man.. he was unbelievable at wacken '07.. have no idea why all these fukkin doubters talk shit

[sony1pony]

he *

[Kriegsphilosphier]

Those things about Hellhammer were true, but he doesn't even kick even Kollias' knee.

[spacepope87]

Your stupid. Frost is awesome but hes the worst one of the bunch.

[gonnakillyou666]

is that true???

[CannibalDave]

Frost is a great drummer, but Tony is much better.

[Mysticyautja]

@CannibalDave Im sorry but Im gonna have to call bullshit on that. Tony has no where near the amount of creativity Frost has for fills and overall drumbeats

[XashmanHlukPyco]

@CannibalDave

Fuck you.

[apoteus]

George is faster than Frost. imo. and i've seen both, but frost isn't as fast as you say he is.

[iamqqqqqqq]

I love Frost's long, unrelenting blast passages (lol)

He can get into some cool grooves too

I also like that there are enough badass drummers around that we can poke and prod them like this, they're awesome to watch do their thing

[ph0b0rz]

But he is way more evil! ;)

[karnisna]

what a fuck are you guys talking about.listen carefuly his playing.he can be in almost every extreme metal band playing.you love hellhammer and nick because they have NAME but tony is also on of his kind.so stop talking shits and grab a pair of sticks and do what he can do and then you can say something.

[ProjectVastness]

Strange a lot of people here saying that tony is worst than hellhammer or george....when much of you don't even know how to play a simple drum kit...

And Dimmu Borgir, I have seen it with Tony , and he is much better and accurate than Hellhamer.

About Nicholas I've consider him on of the best of the world ( inside metal of course ) speed and double bass is not the most important.

[123LambofGod123]

True mate, All metal drummers (well most of them anyway) are focasted primarly on speed. Thats why I love Chris Adler, he has speed, but he creates this unique and intricut rhyhtms that is unusual for metal drummers

[atrbdm9]

hellhammer is accurate at high speeds but strangely hes very bad at slower speeds, especially with his double bass, in live songs he plays almost 2x as fast as the double bass should be, i still think nick is the best so far

[SlayerFan1993]

apparently now,kollias is the jordison of death metal drums videos.

[Antichristus16]

jordison sucks huge cocks

[SlayerFan1993]

I didn't mean it in a bad way, Kollias is my favorite metal drummer. I think he's amazing, but he comes up as 'the best' in every video I see that has to do with metal drumming, just like Jordison (although you can't compare the two in skill).

[metalfucker82]

Tony is good, but George is the best.

[huitlacocha]

IS HE PLAYING WITH BRUJERIA?

[Antichristus16]

not anymore bud

[KoKaTa]

i think george is so much better...

[123metalboy123]

he may be a good drummer, but i is nothing compared to Nick Barker and Hellhammer! And he should never have been with dimmu, he just fucks up the drum parts. and i know it i have seen him live with dimmu.

[666satyricon]

Tony Laureano is one of the best drummers in the world....hez amazing! \m/...keep up the good work man!

[killtheworldleaders]

I think it drums sound like shit on shrines. Shrines would have been alot better if the drums didnt sound like gongs.

[bomberbadj]

i agree

[Wigbolt]

i think it's brilliant, those drums. It absolutely doesn't sound perfect, but thats what i like about shrines, it's raw and direct.

[NecropsY1]

fuck yeah Tony rules \m/

one of the best drummers in the world!

no dbout about it

[daycide]

In Their Darkned Shrines Tony Laureano shows how to play fast and powerfull....but the true strenght of his drumming is the fantasy mingled with power and speed....Tony is Great....

[chiefbuzzer]

poor bastards obviously never heard shrines...

[niklas644]

he sucks, hate him

[PaganWinter666]

great

[sneg7776777]

listen guys TONY IS INSANE!!!is that trigger on snare...sound so...i think??

[UnnamedDrummer]

nope only bass drum is triggered

[TrunJun420]

it sure sounds like a triggered-ass snare. not that theres anything wrong with triggering in the first place. <.<

[UnnamedDrummer]

triggering snare sucks imo ^^

[TrunJun420]

i dont think it sucks, i just think its more of a personal preference thing. i personally prefer the wonders of dynamics and being mic'd, but triggers can really really help a lot of the time... either that or they can make things sound worse by exposing how much one REALLY practices. Haha XD

[UnnamedDrummer]

lol agreed, but imo triggering only bass drum is enough, because you should really work on your dynamics and stamina if people only can hear your snare if its triggered -.-

[kranitationdepartmen]

THe thing about snare triggering is that it should be used as an auxiliary, and not a centerpiece, of a drummers tone. Its impossible to be completely consistent with velocity at 250 bpm... but triggering a snare helps give it a feeling of consistency in a live environment. Ultimately, the skill of the drummer is apparent either way... imo.

[Sinuz200]

tony is killer

[Duveaux]

I was looking at this video because I was wondering what Tony could do, as he is replacing Hellhammer at Dimmu Borgir's upcoming concert in Holland! He seems like a good replacement.

[Jessewats17]

Tony is incredible not matter what anyone says.

[FallenGrace2905]

tony is a very very good drummer but from the videos ive seen where hes playing with 1349 he just cant match upto frost's status with speed and endurance.

[anahowana]

THOSE WHO SAID TONY IS SHIT ARE THE SAME GUYS WHO SAY STEVE ASHEIM,PETE SANDOVAL,RICHARD CHRISTY and DEREK RODDY ARE SHIT

listen to ANGEL CORPSE IF U WANT TO ENJOY LAUREANO

[schist99]

I love how everyone has the nerve to call Tony Laureano a siht drummer. When most of them don't even play drums, and worse still, lionize that dunce Joey Jordison as "teh best drummer eva!!1!"

[schist99]

*shit

[seytonic6]

tony is very creative

thats a good thing about him

[jblue23]

tony is bad ass frost is also fuckin bad ass

[Metal213]

king of death metal drumming!

[longbowgold67]

I hope that Belphegor serves Tony well. He's a death metal drummer, not a black metal drummer, and Belphegor may just be the band he needs.

[SicDeathBlooms]

incredible.

[FallenGrace2905]

tony is great but apparently he played shit with 1349 live, off timed most parts, theres a video on youtube to prove it. I Am Abomination live

[jovik]

which one?

[malevolentchipmunk]

Tony is great. There is nothing generic about his drumming.

[grestrep]

Tony Laureano is very underrated. Many people say he is just a generic death metal drummer. I dare you - listen to Sarcophagus (Nile) and tell me if his drumwork on that song is generic

[schist99]

*shit

Goddamn typos! :(

[schist99]

GAHHH! Wrong message replied to! I phails so bad!

Sorry grestrep!