Flo Mounier rehearsing Cold Hate, Warm Blood

[MrRobsworld6]

@mrsalamander sorrow man, but the drums are not the main instrument. There is no main instrument. I am not accustomed to listening to music where the drums prevail over other instruments. I would rather hear something where there is equilibrium.

[MekanikalDem0n]

Lmao Jose, I was thinking he should of bought it a drink first...

[josuemoraruiz]

that drum kit had to smoke a cigarrette afterwards

[nigelic]

@metal bassist, ya flo is fukin insane, have u seen kollias live on the new tour, hes nuts too, i dunno tho theyre both at the top

[ChrisAdlerWannaBe]

horrible

[DruidxSephiroth]

I think he moves so much to count his shit.

[MikeAsHimself]

wow... lol

[saladino888]

Oh el loco seco =0000000000

[caliban9]

wow übelste scheiße mein lieber alter schwede echt gut

[nigelic]

oh my god, how the hell does he remember all those insane fills and crazyness, wow he is fukin amazing, right at the top with kollias

[metalbassist]

@nigelic dont know hes too insane , sounded amazing live last year when they tour'd with Origin , Origin kicked ass tooo

[vortexofdarkness]

YEAHHHHH!!!!!!!

QUÉBEC

[XxD1sturbedxX]

This is exactly why i like Death Metal. You can play as slow as you want and as fast as you want.

666/5 stars - Keep It Metal

[RideDaFuckinLightnin]

HOLY SHIT!!! this guy defines EXTREME METAL

[GevatterGierhals]

damn i just came

[torsectomy01]

yall are forgetting to mention that not only do flo, george and derek all play awsome death metal, but each of them are awsome, jazz players. you cant judge on only death metal, because theres only so much you can do in the DM business, hence flo's "sell out". But im sure if you had the opportunities flo has and has had you would do the same he has done

[demos182]

I disagree, not all people when presented with opportunities and choices act in the same way or even predictable ways. We all value different things, or relatively more or less and sometimes make decisions irrationally. Not all DM drummers would move in a more commercially acceptable direction if given the chance, flo did. Not a bad thing or a good thing, just his choice.

[torsectomy01]

good point

[blanker666]

Flo rules

[BaptizedInEntrails]

RIP Cryptopsy

[PatrickBickel]

I would say George has faster feet but Flo has faster hands and is overall a little more creative with the fills and cymbal work. Both are really great at what they do though \m/

[Tankard1000]

is not the best what about george kollias, derek roddy or gene hoglan

[italia10588]

The more videos I watch of him, the more I am thinking Shannon Lucas is worthy to mention with those names as well.

[distributionexpress]

Mounier is insane...! Probably THE best drummer of all time...

[sk8nmetalpsycho]

bullshit...theres no "best" drummer of alll time..

[Premdus]

There is... John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham :)

[Premdus]

@Premdus

I wrote that to discusion what drummer is best :)

[Z1NZ1N666]

Nile's drummer are better :P

[aryafuckinghostezz]

yeah fuckin love flo! but now the band is suck!

[phildrummer]

what china is that on his far right, its awesome

[exodus616]

sabian b8

[fletchling]

how the hell do you memorize all the notes on the cd, this guys an animal.

[jjdrummer108]

its not as hard as you think. Its the actual playing that gets ya :)

[Dimebag1234567]

Amen Brother!

[slashBR1751]

greatest drummer ever

[DiseaseOfGod]

Can somebody give me the specs on this kit.

It's exactly what I want.

(excluding cymbals)

Fuck this guy is godlike, I love the minimal amounts of blastbeating too.

[kaosM914]

Go to his website

[Phill6KOA6]

minimal amount of blastbeat = real talent for death metal drumming.. sense of originality.. too bad they flushed almost all their musical heritage with lord worm :(

[BlastedEmpire]

seriously, this man has to be on steroids or meth to keep up that pace... it's plain unrealistic what he does. Amazing

[FaberCastellFilms]

The most amazing part about this is that he knows what he is doing.

[DikingKaia]

jesus! towards the end I could swear the video was sped up but then I looked at the people around him moving normal speed and I was all " O___O "

[lemarmoude]

c'est ca qui est bon!

[chrislikesmenify]

omg if only he bought a louder snare and tightened it a bit more, then i would fucking cry and then vomit :L(with amazement)

[Necronaut]

his snare already does

[psychoticcaterpillar]

*CRY*

so...good...*vomits in amazement*

[burgomaster77]

When I was watching this for the first time, I couldn´t stop repeating the part at about 2:29-2:33.

This guy is truly amazing !

[PJIFKDRuMs]

madness....absolutely...talent­ed....

[blanker666]

this is what what i called GRAT TECHNIQUE

[thekaizer666]

GESUNDENBLAIGHEN.

yeah, that's what this video made me vomit out.

total, utter, gibberish.

*worship*

[serjfan021]

Woo damm he is Insane Damm good drumming ....I wish i was that good

[JOEtheHOE28]

who doesn't? haha

[drook666]

Best drummer in my opinion.

[MegadetH179]

check out George Kollias then even though i like cryptopsy better than nile and flo has a mad cool style georgle kollias like deserves a religion for himself he's just like that amazing his blast beats could break the sound barrier prolly lol

[joeygladsaget]

george is faster on the pedals than flo, but he's not as good on the toms, both of them are monsters though, that is for sure

[HeavyDeath13]

Flo fucks kollias so hard he dies,

kollias is okay in my opinion, but flo is godlike

[epfsoad]

Best drummer FACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dirtpipedan]

flo is the man

[ArchSaur]

Cold hate, warm f-in blood!

[str8playinu]

ozone cymbal

for the win

[thewall300]

Yes it is just amazing!

[wredet]

Just EPIC!

[JBarPlaysDrums]

Holy shit, never saw that coming

[MrSalamander7]

One thing I'd like to change about Cryptopsy's CD music is it's harder to hear flow than it should be. If you look at say Origin, which has a great drummer too, the sound of the drums almost prevails over the guitars half the time. I wish that was the case for Cryptopsy's CDs.

[CursedToExist]

I would say that is the case on "Once Was Not". That's my opinion anyway

[gunglitcher]

Its not in "The Unspoken King", you can't even hear the guitar in it. The CD sucks ass anyways, they should do the same thing with that CD that they did with all those remaining ET games. Bury them in a desert somewhere.

[rockgoddesswannabe]

That is true and its only because the drums are the only thing worth hearing in that crap album... I wish they had the same lineup from none so vile...

[gamefreak113456]

Ur in luck cuz in Once Was Not, Flo overshadows EVERYONE

[MrSalamander7]

sweet. thanks man.

[puff1366613]

@MrSalamander7 if you want to hear a band that i feel really puts the drums out front listen to hate takes its form by dawn of demise the drums really cut through the music

[bizarredude101]

@MrSalamander7 But then you wouldn't be able to hear the amazing guitarists and bassists

[waltermcbobom]

hm can Joey Jordison do this?

i think not.

xD

[ to all faggot slipknot fans ]

[BassKindOfGuy]

honestly, so fucking sick.

[synax444]

3:15 is fucking inhuman... holy fuck... i feel sorry for that snare.

[synax444]

excuse me, 3:22

[drook666]

holy shit, thats talent

[MrSalamander7]

He's no Lars Ulrich, lol.

[BassKindOfGuy]

fuck you

[MrSalamander7]

Calm down man it was a joke, hence the lol at the end. You could give Lars another century of practice and he still wouldn't be able to touch Flo.

[gamefreak113456]

Lol I still about how lars has been drumming for almost 30 years and he still plays like the first day he touched drumsticks..

[MrSalamander7]

no joke.

[Ursinoidi]

I can't hear shit

[DracoGTO]

My wrists hurt just watching this! :)

Very good and very talented. I'm working on my blast technique with thumb and fingers... I suppose there's no "right" way to do it. Keep it up, man!

[sanchetti75]

picture each one of them cymbals being another drum, or every drum being a cymbal........FUCK!!!! lotta hardware!

[indiadrummer]

Triggers aren't cheating, but I personally think they are an easy way to fix a bad bass drum sound. I understand that they're necessary during shows and stuff where the crowd has to hear the bass drum clearly, but I think death metal drummers should mic their drums better in studio and not just rely on triggers. Triggers are useful, but they are relied on a little too much in terms of drum sound.

[FallenGrace2905]

well said dude, now lets go beat

x1xNoisEx1x with sticks

[krokikrisi]

ok!! KILL HIM AND HOOK HIM UP WITH HIS GUTS!!! and if anyone say a bad word about Flo i kill that guy with no mercy :D

[crackhead007]

but dude they just make the bass drum sooo much better....i think there a must for recording because they make you consistant no matter what and the bass drum needs to consistant, plus really high speeds dont sound like poo, and bass drum rolls sound a lot better as well

[warmachine718]

I still don't get this "triggers make ye play faster" craic. I mean your leg, foot & ankle movements/technique is what allows you to play fast, not triggers? At the end of the day it's your foot technique that determines the speed of the kick beats regardless of whether you use triggers or not, the trigger clamped on the bass drum isn't going to magically increase your speed!

[x1xNoisEx1x]

exactly.. triggers just record what you play... they just make bass more dynamic in extreme speeds

[Venturas66]

Another fact is that many drummers that use double bass  ( in live performances ) cannot tune them, to have a equal sound in all two, so they use triggers also for that reason.

Mainly triggers are used to have a clean sound so, in a live performance, despite bad sound of other instruments, drums can be heared very well.

I'm sorry for mistakes with the language.

Bye

[sabria0936]

also in that... allows for clarity in the recording mix... eventually you can go so fast the resonance of the drum can ring and sound like one long ass bass note held.

[cannibalonXthedead]

agreed but still i dont use or like them really but i dont mind them

[gregnoir200]

Also the other reason to this is when your playing fast you cant hit it as hard as you could when your doing it slower. So with trigger you dont have to hit it hard for it to make a sound. Thats why you can play faster with it

[x1xNoisEx1x]

Dumbass!! One moron said here that Flo isn't using triggers... really? Go and see "Flo Mounier Sound Check/Solo" vid, and look closely. Oh my goodness, what is that Red clamp with "DDrum" sign and a cable attached on the bassdrum? Is it a trigger? No, impossible xD He DOESNT use triggers... Hahaha... noone can play that fast on BD without triggers, wake up people...

[x1xNoisEx1x]

Oh, and by saying "noone can play that fast without triggers" I meant that fast keeping the strokes hearable...:) It still requiers technique and muscle development:)

[FallenGrace2905]

ARGH another 'i know what triggers are' dumbass. EVERYTHING you hear flo playing is REAL, triggers only make the drums sound consistant

[x1xNoisEx1x]

I didn't Say it isn't real moron... Just one guy was arguing with me here in the coments, that flo is a "real drummer" because he doesn't use triggers... And I showd him he really does... I know what triggers are, what they do and that you still need to play normal even when using them, read more precise before comenting in the future...;] and chill out

[FallenGrace2905]

fair enough but you did make this comment

x1xNoisEx1x (3 weeks ago)

'noone can play that fast on BD without triggers'

[x1xNoisEx1x]

Yeah, but I also wrote:

"Oh, and by saying "noone can play that fast without triggers" I meant that fast keeping the strokes hearable...:) It still requiers technique and muscle development:)"

:):) One coment higher:)

[Maitzeth]

this drum is so fucking insane!!!

[RutboyNiles]

3:27 O_O

That's some kinda fill-in only flo is mad enough to play, I'm pretty sure, that Derek or George won't be able to play this stuff, even I love their playing.

[boOomer5105]

are u joking. geoge could play this twice as fast....... perhaps. but i m sure he could play it easily

[666demonicspawn666]

flo is, withour doubt, the most talented death metl drummer their is.

its not just speed its about technic.

[RutboyNiles]

It's not his style of playing. Study George's Fill-In Style and you will understand what I mean.

He's playing cleaner than Flo, but Flo has this little bit of insanity in his playing, which can't be wrote down into sheet music.

It is not only about speed all the time

[Incisionator]

When Cryptopsy was still good...

[scolopendracigulata2]

wow!

[pablinquis]

maybe is drumming but if you connect a mic to the snare that make the trigger a little cheat

[nifunifasoa]

You pretend to play in front of a crowd whitout any mics? its like playin guitar whitout amp on a concert. btw triggers on the bass drums arent cheatin, they are a GRATE help and make you sound pretty solid at high speeds. I love the sound that they made at speeds up from 240

[pablinquis]

use a mic

[nifunifasoa]

jaja acabo de ver que eres de chile. soo hablas español, el hecho es que cuando vas como de 220 para arriba ya los golpes no suenan tan duro como antes (tampoco tienen siempre la misma intensidad), entonces el trigger hace que suene del carajo la velocidad ademas de que te mantiene un sonido solido desde el comienzo al final, por eso es que dicen que es hacer trampa, pero es la unica manera de llegar a esa velocidad siendo solido

[pablinquis]

aa no se..que me importa

[x1xNoisEx1x]

Agreed... Triggers make the bassdrum sound mechanic and kickass... I like it also... I even triggerd the bass while recording with my punk/heavy rock band xD My mates warent very happy of that, but I am xD heh...

[GarytheIrishDrummer]

what kind of a moron would say that this aint drumming??? obviously a moron that thinks they know everything but actually knows very little

[jaegeir]

Lars Ulrich Does Not use Triggers idiot.

[Peaulisse]

Ive heard him say in an interview that he doesnt use triggers for practice but he uses them in shows cuz it sounds better. If the guy can play all that in time i dont care if he uses triggers or not.

[pablinquis]

that is a real drummer¡¡¡

not like george kollias or lars ulrich, they cant paly without triggers

[RoMMeL1337ak47]

lol george kollias can play whiteout triggers. its that hes to fucking fast u wouldn't hear the strokes if he didn't use triggers.

[stu798]

whiteout triggers, lol.

[pablinquis]

he say "if you dont use triggers you cant play..."

check the video of the clinic

[SlavesOfNil]

Ugh you're a retard.

[x1xNoisEx1x]

Ulrich does not use triggers moron:] And you obviously don't know what actualy triggers are, If you say that... first - they give enough click and atack to cut through a wall of guitars, second - as you go faster than about 200 you must shorten the strokes and get less power, and the acoustic bass drum would not be hearable... And kollias triggers only the BD. Mounier blasts so fast wothout them, because he plays two foot blasts...

[pablinquis]

so that is not drumming

[x1xNoisEx1x]

damn, you are stiff man... :P heh. It is drumming, he would play the same thing as good without triggers, only with the difference, that you would barely hear the bass drum, because it is IMPOSSIBLE - read again - IMPOSSIBLE to keep enough stroke power at speeds like 260 or up.... ugh. Nevermind...

[NorvegianBlackMetal]

no triggers, respect ! but let`s face it .. even if you`re using triggers you still have to be a good drummer to play this song, so fuck it, triggers just let you play softer and sound heavy.

[6I6Cum6Blood]

This is awesome drumming ! Omfg

[GoKilLmaTe]

one word ... SICK !!!!

[Faststick]

ah thank god! NO FUCKING TRIGGERS! yure da man flo!

[espec1000stbc]

sick.

[LHondrums]

..one of the best songs on drums in death metal..

[nnisisthebest]

that is so fucking sick

[facesmashedhammer]

theres no way he is boring cuz his intensity is non stop and hes always switchin it up. flo is the shit.stick to thinkin joey jordison is a good drummer like most people do. he cant compare.

[Surisis1983]

not so scene :) Thank god.

[kb340]

as far from scene as possible!!!! This is no fallout boy fag bullshit. THIS IS DEATH METAL AT ITS FINEST!!!!!!!!!!! \m/

[MistaJussu]

Intense!

[Aemyh]

Flo is extremely solid drummer. Boring is far from it, it's just different techniques, styles and playing. I'm sure the folks that are finding this boring are used to drummers like Mike P., Tony Roster Jr. and such...

[Hideyaa]

fast!!

[mrkibbles369]

he is reallly fast.....

[drummer1brt2gzs]

Just awesome!

But he needs a different snare IMO. Can't hear the fastest stuff

[ddslave1]

Good shit dude, very nice kit to.

[crypticnivek]

pure jizz

[INVOID666]

Flo is the man! HELL YEAH!

[DanoDeStructor666]

O.O Awsome Drummer

[skipmasta]

fucking nice

[zippy66]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEWS? THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE BEST DRUMMER!!!

Yup you read correctly. Scientists have recently discovered that people have things called "preferences" and therefore everyone has their own image of the best drummer... WOW!!!

That is absolutely fucking INCREDIBLE!!!

[mrkibbles369]

DUDE? where did you hear this? I think I read this in the news paper yesterday, is FOX covering this news?

[zippy66]

Well I saw it on CNN yesterday around 4:20 I sure and it was their top story. I'm pretty sure lots of news outlets are covering this... It's fucking crazy! Preferences? What the fuck is this world coming too?! NOW I CANNOT ENGAGE IN INTERNET ARGUMENTS WITHOUT SOUNDING LIKE A FUCKING IDIOT!

Hey... wait...

[callum0123456]

ha....

that is all.

[danielspital]

mental! i'm gonna try and learn this song on drums!

[iplaywithnoshoes]

This guy destroyed any possible competitor. He's probably the best drummer in the industry if not in music.

[EmbodiedDespair]

Overstatement.

[EmbodiedDespair]

The new guy from Necrophagist? You mean Romain Goulan? He's amazing. He has a ton of rhythmic control, effortlessly switches between 8th, triplet 8th and 16th notes on his hands and feet at high tempos and his drumming is cleaner than Roddy's. But, once again. Apples and oranges. They're all different styles of death metal drummers...

but if they all had a drum off...

....It would be amazing.

[RedOnChrome]

if someone says they think flo is best, its not an overstatement, its the subjective view.

a drum off would be cool, but i think flo stands out. goulon, kollias and roddy are apples and oranges IMO, but flo has his own style, i think flo is more creative in both his rolls and beat choice, not so much all-guns-blazing as the other three. they are much more solid then flo is, but, like you said, you like robots, i like humans;)

[EmbodiedDespair]

And their subject view is an overstatment. It'd be like me saying "the empire state building is the tallest building in the world" because I haven't seen any or heard of any other buildings in the world.

I don't think a drum off would be that good. They're all amazing drummers in their own respects, but, the more you practice, the more like a robot sounding you'll be.

[RedOnChrome]

i disagree, if you practice for robot like perfection, then that is what you`ll get, but if you want more organic, swampy like feel, like flo has, you`ll get that. i am personally not very fond of this over sterile drum machine feel.

[EmbodiedDespair]

lol. That's what lazy drummers say.

[RedOnChrome]

maybe, or perhaps someone who value song writing and creativity before a metronom.

[EmbodiedDespair]

lol. That's what lazy drummers who can't keep time say.

[RedOnChrome]

haha, ok man, if you say so, good thing you got your weak ass rhetoric all lined up.

[EmbodiedDespair]

That's what a person too lazy to argue would say, yet wanting to annoy the other person for no reason at all......

....wait a minute...?

[bommasteam]

WoW!!

[JACKSONGUITARDUDE]

if you can barely hear his bass in this video you are deaf. He's got plenty of power coming from those drums and hes not using triggers here.

[EmbodiedDespair]

Which is why you can't ever hear his sloppy snare work on his crazy fast triplet blasts.

[JACKSONGUITARDUDE]

I can tell your not a fan.

[EmbodiedDespair]

I love flo's drumming and he's inspired my drumming a lot, but damn... people paint him out to be much better than he is.

[JACKSONGUITARDUDE]

i think its cool that he isnt perfect, he doesnt sound like theres a robot behind the kit. Hes got style agreed?

[EmbodiedDespair]

I like when it sounds like there is a robot behind the kit!

But yeah, he's got good solid groove and He's a creative Extreme metal drummer.

[leftyguitarjoe]

he doesnt use triggers. That is highly respectable.

[danwaleby]

You shut your whore mouth. He doesnt use triggers in the kickpedals, he uses hydraulics in his legs. Flo is a fucking robot.

[cleric471]

3:44 0_0

[Th3Mavr1ck]

LOL

extream jerking