Brann Dailor Of Mastodon At PASIC On Being Chased By A Wolf

[slumberjammer]

THE BRAN is LOOSE !

[TheOu7law7orn]

This just shows what a great drummer he is

[basskid24]

Just when I thought I couldn't love this band more, Bill is wearing a Converge shirt. Absolute badass.

[ThePunkbebe]

how the hell does he play the last leg of this song?...or the entire song as well as the rest of a set live? he is the man

[TheDJJorgy]

I don't think even high-speed cameras can keep up with him.

[TheSchoolsux345]

hahaa its pretty scary

[smwinchester]

I love this drummer. Like I saw on a diff vid, that buddy rich style is pretty bad ass.

[BennickGAdeus]

It's not just a wolf you're being chased by... it's a 300 foot tall mega wolf made out of flame and despair that leaps 1000 feet at a time melting time and space around you. @u@

[dovaswillreighn]

my jaw is on the floor..melting..

[StaticXFM]

the camera can't get his speed :D

[3adCompany]

The wolf is loose!

[samsmith09]

He's cheating! clearly playing with 8 arms at 2:00

[Myfriendfats8]

Like this? Check out danny walker of intronaut. badass drummer and band. HAIL MASTODON!!!

[theunicorntaxi]

@Myfriendfats8 yessssssss. intronaut are fucking gods and danny is a monster on the drums. valley of smoke is up there with CTS in my opinion!

[SuperToother]

look at his fuckin sticks! and his hands! theyre too fast for the camera!

[thehorsehunter]

The Wolf Is Loose!! RUUUUNN!!!

[Gilhfree]

Mastodon also has a song called Motherpuncher. Is Motherpuncher what it sounds like when you're punching your mom?

[TheMan750]

@Gilhfree good question

[DEEVIOUS1S]

@monalisasmilesforyou Oh no, criiiiiiiiinge.

[thespivinator]

Fuck converge fuck cro mags.

[XxStrongDrums1996xX]

I feel bad for the guy in the audience who got chased by a wolf. Atleast Brann understands.

[BlackVoid133]

666 videos, CRAZY! haha

[Metaalhoofdje123]

Brann is not human

[MrPeaBuddy]

Haha the guitar player at the start is wearing a converge Tshirt

[bladecatcherX99]

@MrPeaBuddy FACT: Converge blows

[davethehostage]

@bladecatcherX99 FACT: Converge have accomplished more than you or whatever shitty band you probably play in can ever hope to. Mastodon know, this and that's why they like them. Go play in traffic.

[bladecatcherX99]

@davethehostage damn, so i dislike one band and make my OPINION public, and i get raped, even though i said fact it doesnt make it any less of an opinion since i said it, and if your wondering im not in a band, never have been, and am not the type of person to play in a band, and nah, ill stay away from the traffic :)

[davethehostage]

@bladecatcherX99 That wasn't a raping, what's coming your way is a raping.

I understand it's your opinion, I simply feel that your opinion is a stupid opinion and it should stay in the basement with all of the other stupid opinions.

But that's just my opinion.

[bladecatcherX99]

@davethehostage well sir i respect your right and opinion to counter my opinion and state what you have to say :)

[DarkmindedProduction]

@MrPeaBuddy I'm pretty sure that's Bill

[Willferox]

@EveryonePickedMyName I'm sure someone from the Evil Dead will wanna swallow your soul

[paulwall1981]

By god Brann has some of the quickest hands going it is amazing fast he gets those hands. Good stuff.

[SweatyDinosaurMask]

What the fuck! Why would anybody dislike this!

[steveoler94]

omfg what a fucking beast. his drum parts are just so tasteful and creative and he sure can move around the kit with those epic fills. mastodon ftw!

[23DNicholas]

i dont know how i feel about his playing...

[MatthewStout]

@23DNicholas Cause its more fusion/jazz than metal. Dont compare it to death metal drumming.

[sweetrevenge191]

Godamn I wish I was in mastodon

[muncy1977]

His fills are utterly god like...

[MrSchizos]

i just learned this song and its so fun to play! i get so intense! lol

[SOADVSSOAD]

God Damn He Moves Fucking Fast...It's Not Fair He Can Play Like That :( And I Can Only Play So Slow....

[WORMED3]

@SOADVSSOAD

Just keep on keepin' on, baby ;^D

[WORMED3]

@SOADVSSOAD

Also, in all seriousness, when you watch a drummer from a profile-view, the optic blur makes it all seem so much more "out-there", ya know? Just try tappin' along with it, and you'll see that it ain't that bad ;^D...even though it's totally Bad-ASS! XD

[FatalNemesis0]

@SOADVSSOAD at first when your trying to get faster you wont notice or think that your getting any faster at all, it just takes a bit and a lot of practice and youll be like "wow i never thought i could do this" im just telling you this from experience.

[Tru5tno1]

insane

[DrummingAddict88]

I wanna see how his snare drum looks after a set.

[IronMaidenFan1705]

Man i saw them two days ago in Germany, and

i remember one point, i was scared that

the snare drum would blow up. He hits the fucking

snare with so much power it's unbelievable.

Such a great drummer, imo one of the best modern drummers!

[DrummingAddict88]

That's awesome! I really wanna see them live. If not one of the best modern drummers, than he definitely has the most unique style!

[Senbonzakura1989]

@DrummingAddict88 He must go through a head every other set LOL

[acorn9345678]

i wanna know how the fuck he can remember everything he plays

[EIMRAIZZU]

practice the fills and patterns over and over again until you get sick of it but still continuing on.

[SkateHack1]

he doesnt remember it exactly.. its impossible for how comlpex the stuff he makes up is.. his fills are a little diff when he plays live

[acorn9345678]

yeah i thought so...thanks man just curious

[SkateHack1]

no prob

[exavier091]

brann dailor's rhyhm management is amazing, his beats are ridicolous in his more jazzy stuff (the middle of march of the fire ants)

[LastGunfighter]

Bill's wearing a converge shirt

[mrbgnle]

Looks easy, I can do this!

[soulformusic4020]

i wish i has this music playing when i was being chased by a wolf.

[austinb7861]

This song is actually The Wolf is loose.

[radiant8goddess]

Sigh...

[exavier091]

my friend plays drums and he is really good, we both love mastodon. he said "the wolf is loose" is one the easier songs to play on drums. Honestly, that's pretty fuckin scary once u think of it

[sanddybusum]

true it is cos most of the stuff is easy but i tried playing oblivion and completely failed u just can match his hands probably the best in metal drumming

[exavier091]

thanks for replying, his stuff on crack the skye is very jazz influenced, so it's hard on the hands. my friend said his other really hard songs were capillarian crest, the intro to megalodon, hearts alive, parts of island, and pretty much all of remission he said. do you agree?, plz respond, thx =)

[sanddybusum]

yeh remission is insanely hardm umm i can like part of capillarian crest but other stuff is just ridiculous to get it perfect cos u don't actually hear like all the ghost notes on the track it's only when u see him play do u notice how intricate his parts are if your friends wants to learn a mastodon song then he shud learn either blood and thunder, crystal skull or divinations

[exavier091]

yeah he knows iron tusk, parts of hearts alive, and crystal skull, colony of birchmen and he's working on march of fire ants. he LOVES crystal skull.

i do agree with you on the ghost notes part, he music is extremely complex

[115thWisconsinANG]

in a drum-off who would win brann dailor OR tony royster JR

[darthjoey13]

Tony by a long shot. No offense to Brann, but he's not in Tony's league. He won the Guitar center drum-off at 9, as well as having been educated by Dennis Chambers. Brann is good, but Tony is king of young drummers.

[greeborhys]

brann's a robot from the future...

[TroyRiot314]

he doesnt have a set time for his stuff. He was self-taught mainly and got this style by fucking around by playing along with guitar work. i dont think he sits there and tries to find the correct rhythm for a song and sticks with it, the guitar players do that as well

[ThatTastyJuiceBox]

now that i think about it, if i was being chased through the forest by a fucking crazy wolf, this would be the epic get away song, fuck yea, mastodon fucking rocks!

[udiie]

is he playing with someone from converge?

[Steve128967]

Pretty sure it's Bill Kelliher. It's kinda hard to tell though.

[misterdon666]

it is. brann and bill are best friends and had a band together before mastodon

[Reesy666]

yeah i'm 99% sure it's Bill Kelliher because in one of the other tracks he says "hit it Bill"

[TroyRiot314]

you can obviously tell by the tattoos as well

[FaithDead]

@Reesy666 it is Bill, he plays his guitarlicks from the songs, as a guitarist i recognize them. Great vid

[DangerRifai]

Brann's fills are fucking ridiculous.

[h3rsh3y94]

3:40 gives me chills when I hear it

[WORMED3]

It's severely understandable, why he would initiate, AND follow through the song at such a high BPM...GLORIOUS!!! XD

[hotwheelz20072]

dude i love the concept for the names!

[SSSavio]

He is really sick. Hes track are full of fills everywhere. He is super fast and really creative. I like him so much.

[stond125]

tomas is sick as well, brann has more of a signature style though with busy single stokes, triplet tom fills in 4/4. tomas thinks more outside the box with odd time signatures.

[sonorpaiste702]

Haake plays in 4/4, everything he does is based around odd-note permutations in 4/4.

[stond125]

He makes good use of hemiolas, hi-hat in 4 and snare on off beats.

[sonorpaiste702]

Actually, most of his patterns go 1 2 snare 4, which is essentially half-time.

[stond125]

a bit but he plays alot of his snare on the & not the downbeat. Hi-hat in 4 but everything else diff meter, hence the hemiola.

[sonorpaiste702]

It feels that way, but it's not so. Haake has stated that everything he does is in 4/4, even the foot patterns, he just uses odd-note permutations to get it to feel that way.

[meshugganaut]

fuck the wolf!! i can hear this music playing when im being chased by my ex girlfriend!!!!!!

[BlackStarzzzX0X]

LOL!

[roccooccor]

chased by your ex? damn, dude! every wolf looks like a kitten compared to an ex!

[SkateHack1]

@meshugganaut lmao

[apexpein39]

@meshugganaut  lol,

[Pelleman666]

@meshugganaut The ex is loose does not sound as horrifying though..

(even though it's worse in reality:P)

[beserker1912]

@Pelleman666 the bitch is loose

[GingerCrashDummy]

@meshugganaut LMFAO AGREED

[Shippingshit]

I would sell my soul to play like he does.

[IronJura]

@Shippingshit I would sell my soul to play just as half as good as he does.

[Sabin41]

@IronJura Get a kit if you haven't already and practice hand technique. It won't help with the creative side of things but after developing some basic independence the key to playing how Brann does is just learning how to pull off really quick fills and still keep time.

[naoseiee]

@Shippingshit i would also sell my kidnees =D

[STPHNOWNAGE]

@Shippingshit how about sell all your useless bullshit like tvs and video games, buy a drumset and become better than him? that's more realistic than selling your soul!

[themadtapper]

@STPHNOWNAGE agree. plus, if you are gonna sell your soul to be better than someone. i'd choose another drummer already better than braan.

[shredder731]

@themadtapper dude, whos better than brann? lol

[themadtapper]

@shredder731 plenty of drummers. not knocking Brann. guy has major talent, lots of energy, but he is still "young". there are plenty of drummers that for sure Brann looks up to with great respect Danny Carey being one of them for sure. Thomas Haake of Meshuggah, Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree but these guys have years of playing over Brann, so don't get all offended b/c your favorite drummer is everyone elses creme of the crop. 

[dankspanktank]

@themadtapper but brann dailor is more metal for sure.

[AlexanderCosB]

this is called the wolf is loose

[Rockband2stream]

i could totally picture that drum track going thru my head while being chased by a wolf XD

[punk4ever08]

amazing

[NYGSD]

his singles are killer!

[supermetalheadbang]

fucking amazing your the greatest drummer!!!! and from the gretest band yall rock!!!!!

[requiem879]

i agree on that with the fast bass drumming

[MrBigwhiteballs]

i like his ghost notes=) he does it almost every song

[acandycolorednick]

Beast

[benzona666]

to me, being fast on double bass or blast beats isn't really talent in my interpretation, it's like going to the gym every day, eventually you will learn but the way brann feels rythm and plays, thats really not just something you can learn or teach, you're born with it, IMO!

[TimeForAPsycoHoliday]

blast beats take a different type of talent but being rhythmic and having dynamic is just as hard as learning a blast beat you just have to learn of acquire it in a different way.if you get what im saying.

[MegalodonHunter1]

I agree with you there. Fast feet is more or less something you can pick up after practice... at least for me it was.

[nucularboomb]

he self-tutored man

[whitefreeney93]

I love this song

[codeaires]

I love him.

[BTeeper]

hes incredible but the thing is death metal drummers are the best in my opinion is they play wierd time signatures in blazing fast tempos and they overall are just super talented

[cabotthe3rd]

Agree with you most of it. Really though half the "tempos" that you would hear in metal(not nu metal) is rythmic illusions which can be like hearing a cut time beat(1/2) in a 4/4 mark time or a 6/8 beat in a 3/4 mark time tempo which can give the seemingly fast tempo. blast beats just really cover every beat in every measure. drumming like branns though is unique and like that of a jazzy style. If theres any drummer in here that can read sheet music then you probably understood what i was saying

[BTeeper]

ya man i totally agree cause brann dailor has a jazz background because he had a jazz drum teacher and he also adds his jazz background to metal music which is revolutionizing metal. he is very unique but blast beats are so difficult and can be put in wierd time signatures, plus death metal drummers play super fast double bass which take years to master and is incredible exhausting, so are blast beats. its one of those things where you have to condition yourself. george kollias is my fav

[nucularboomb]

You mean like polyrhythms?

[h3rsh3y94]

I dont consider constantly hitting your triggered bass drums talented. read up on triggers and why some metal bass drums sound like plastic and why they play so fast

[BTeeper]

well dude i have been playing drums for 5 years and let me tell you drum triggers are not cheating nor do they make you go faster. all drum triggers do is clear up each stroke on the bass drum so it doesnt sound like a blur of bass drum strokes. this is because they go so fast that they need these

[h3rsh3y94]

No u

[FallenGrace2905]

yeah i agree. im starting to get really bored with death metal drumming at the moment what with the constant blasting and double bass. its fucking cool and that but to listen to brann its a breath of fresh air

[kevinm4435]

one of the best out there right now, in any kind of music.

[espChris93]

brann is great because he has that perfect touch hes got that finesse in his playing where no matter how fast he plays everything is dead on and even never sloppy or muddy sounding especially with his rolls

[JsvartkorpJ]

Regarding his finesse, no matter how fast or how slow

[espChris93]

yea very true some drummers actually lose their touch when they take it slow

[Sp3cu]

i would like to see him playing Crusher Destroyer

this is Mastodon's sickest song.

[megadeth232]

He is a fucking monster at drums. He is easily the most talented drummer of this whole decade.

[Sortsylic]

He is most talented drummer ever. He is only 35 years old, but his style is the new thing in music. Like all of Mastodon

[Infuzor]

He's 34 :)

[nucularboomb]

Him, Tomas Haake, Mike Portnoy, Nick Yacyshyn and Jon Rice are all awesome

[ashgrinder]

yeah dude Nick Yacyshyn from textbook rules

[AnubisLashonda]

Don't forget Virgil Donatti. He's probably my drumming hero right behind Brann and Tomas

[StarFace1992]

This dude is insanely good live

[fullmooneve]

this is incredible, the dude doesn't even break a sweat!

[kciskciskcisremmurd]

0:45 damn

[GabeTheGear]

Dude's a BEAST.

[jcboomer2112]

This guy is sick. A HUGE part of Mastodon's reckoning sound.

[mbanda07]

pretty cool

[RollingStone000]

The cat's got great skills, not only are his rolls and fills smooth they all sound even, you rarely hear him hit the snare or toms too loud or too soft. His strokes are all at an even volume.

[JacamusMaximus]

totally agree, people sometimes forget the importance of dynamics and accenting! and he is immaculate in maintaing a constant standard level of volume throughout his playing. know who else took pride in his dynamics? mr bonham

[radiopinkzeppelin2]

right youn are sir

[acandycolorednick]

two of my favorite dudes in the world, hes so fucking quick and skilled, and Bill he can really pick that six string

[ironcobra8]

wonder how fast he goes through heads.

[elharto]

2:45ish love the fill into that beat and riff..... so so good.

[redhorserainbow]

I have my snare that low and i always thought i had really bad technique, but if it works for Brann, it's cool for me!

[jewelcaseface]

i hate having my snare low lol

[dethymn]

ive got mine that low too and thought the same thing when i saw his. haha, i like how rimshots turn out with it that low but it does look sorta weird but who cares right? brann does it!

[HauntedPunto]

amazing! he's so damn fast!

[georgecochrane]

Amazing !!

[MasterChiefNewb]

if this how it sounds to be chased by a wolf i want to get chased by one

[walkman666thedude]

awesome drummer...thats all folks:)

[Whisp360]

Its not fair this is the last one i watched of the 3.. i want more :(

[m0wdamn]

Quote from Brent about Brann on Crack the Skye: "He plays his ass off"

[Redlegnav]

HELL YES!!!!