Meinl Cymbals - Matt Garstka & Josh De La Victoria - "Iris" 

One of the greatest things about being alive on this planet is being able to watch Matt Garstka and Joshua de La Victoria playing together.

I like the fact that they do this kind of thing without resorting to (the now cliche) becoming dark and heavy. It's a more colorful type of Prog.

Music is the best invention.

Josh's playing is so clean and tight. Also his sense of harmony is such a pleasure to listen to. Matt isn't too bad either 🙃

Love where Garstka's gone with his choices in drum and cymbal texture in recent years. The level of nuance and finesse the drier (but not dead) sound allows to come through is such a pleasure to hear.

The real question is, where is their album?!?!? This is so good and fresh

Damn that metric modulation at 2:18 was beautiful

Matts one of the best modern drummers IMO. Been following him for years.. complex but groovy. Dude can shred. Saw him with AAL years back he ripped the kit with every ounce of sweat. Dude is a champion.

I may not be a musician, but I know enough to recognize tight playing when I see it. 3:41 onwards gave me shivers.

I think every drum company should just let Matt design their stuff. He's made my favorite sticks, favorite china, favorite stack, and probably top 3 hi hats.

Damn I love this song

Three of a Perfect Pair She is susceptible He is impossible They have their cross to share Three of a perfect pair He has his contradicting views She has her cyclothymic moods They make a study in despair Three of a perfect pair

3:42~ This Riff is very very solid and clear sound. I love it....!!!!

Brilliant. This and "Kepler" make an excellent pairing.

I don't know if there's any current drummer on Garstka's level with limb independence. The dude looks soooo insanely fluid for such awkward patterns, and time signatures I swear just watching him makes me feel like I'm going to have an aneurysm.

gaaaaddddAAAAMMMMM 3:05

His Tama kit and that snare sound soooo good. Really loving his new signature hi hats too. They sound so good in the mix.

The atmosphere that Matt gave this song it's just fucking amazing!! Wow

I was waiting for this and so were you

sick Sick SICK! can’t get enough of this. i found myself descending the escalator reinventing plane geometry trying to find the 1. brilliant.

2 of a perfect pair

Such a great song! need more from these two!

Both performances perfectly gorgeous

Everything in the video is just stuning. Audio quality is killer, the song, the creativity, damn man... never seen nothing like this before. You guys rule!

Amazing drum sound; insane playing.

One thing's for sure: Matt Garstka is the first to apply quantum math technology to drums!

Love post for Josh, he's amazing.

3:05 when your CPU goes from 60% to 95%

That's mesmerizing

I was waiting for this clip for so long!!

a perfectly written song

Bad to the bone!!! Great job!!!

Unbelievable talents displayed

2:18 reads to me as a battle of who can destabilize the other rhythmically haha :) amazing song!

2 mostri!!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I really like how these guys explore all the feels each time signature. Josh's licks are super entrancing and dead on time and Matt is a true master of switching feels on the fly and does it basically perfectly every time... watched this guy in slow motion many times... Also the song sounds really nice and not abrasive at all. Reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaally great stuff you got goin' on there. Keep it up

I love this stuff. So much great music happening right now.

That snare :o

This is outstanding! Why am I just discovering this masterpiece now? 🤧

I can't get enough of these videos! geeeeeeez

Guitar player here who watched for Matt, and was given riff envy and solo envy by Josh. First time seeing Josh play. Awesome work guys.

You know when you hear a kick ass song and it’s only like a minute and 53 seconds? I must’ve listened to this song atleast 67 times today and it’s almost 5 min long but I was in such a trance that when it ended I’m like “damn, why are the coolest songs always so short? This should be longer!” 😆 THIS WAS AMAZING!!!!!!

Amazing !!!! Great Song !!! I've never heard of Josh De La Victoria before but now he's on the Radar ! Matt Bro your from another Planet !

This seems more like a guitar demo than a drum one. And I loved every second of it. Never heard of Josh before but wow this guy is good.

3:41 yeah let's fuckin go

I need to hit this “like” button 1000 times more

This is the coolest thing I think I’ve ever seen from Matt. It’s hard for me to get into AAL because the melodies don’t connect with me and the constant unfamiliar time structures they build and change throughout the songs make it hard to follow if I don’t listen to the song more than a few times. This kept my attention throughout the entire performance rather than getting tired of the constant fluctuation. I looked forward to the changes and syncopation rather than dreading/being annoyed by them. Great songwriting and the shred added to the song rather than detracting, it definitely shows talented and tasteful writing in a genre where few bands can walk that line well.

I think the thing that shocks me the most about professional musicians is just how they play things like this ☝️ with zero mistakes. Like, exactly zero

This is fantastic . Amazing job !!!!!👏👏👏🔥

Hey Meinl, can we PLEASE get a Matt Gartska album featuring the Gem project plus all the tracks he does with this amazing guitarist? PLEEEEEASE? Seriously, if this exists I'll buy one for me and more for all my friends.

That's your guy's sound!!! Great stuff as always. Thanks Josh and Matt keep it up!!🔮❄️🖤🆙🔣

Holy shit that was absolutely sick to death 💀 just incredible 🔥

Amazing

brutal!

holy jesus my jaw actually dropped at parts.

Holy technical variety! Beautiful song and an excellent job to you both!

love it!!

I NEED MORE VIDEOS

Ahhh this song was so refreshing to hear!!!! The ending left me on the edge of my seat!

Cool stuff guys, keep up the awesome work

Btw victoria is the name of the band not Josh's. Though nice song. It uses some complicated rythem and if you want to know. More abut check out yogev gebay about this song and Kepler

INSAAAAANE

🙏🏽

I need an album of this stuff man plssssss

That's my fave on that matt🤘🤘

Dope as usual.

Oh Yeah 🤘🏼😎

As a drummer committed to the craft and onstage often I look at Matt's skill and think "Man, maybe I should have stuck to keyboards" Matt you are an inspiration for sure, and de la victoria - crazy together. Where is the album? Please please keep making videos..this is the SH-T!

MAN this is so amazing wow

It's not every day you see someone with a 7-string playing with a slide.. I'm loving it. I'm all for the "outside the box" approach. As for that harmonizer line, I think Steve Vai would approve. I personally think harmonized guitars need to make a come-back. Harmony lines were what made me love bands like Slayer and Death. It's a hell of alot more effective than that octave up/octave down bullshit that Djent does to death.

Genius... love it man 👍🏻

S T U N N I N G ❤️

Wow! Beautiful work

Friggin sweet!

Just incredible

This is so insanely great

FINALLY!

Gorgeous! Thank you guys for the effort and the Music!

Love this

Really like this style

Потрясающе !!!

Fatt Gratska killin the drums

Brilhant❤

YESSSS AH.

Please release this in Deezer

Monster

1:42 love it

dude drop an album with these collabs

Not enough time signatures...;)

Clean as always. Groundbreaking!

This track has a strong Final Fantasy 6 vibe

It's about time... rhythm that is.

I see Josh is a man of good taste and plays Mayones. The dancy fucking 7/4 groove at the end has my eyes crossed.

It really hurts matt. Matt gold 🤘🤘

Digs!!Tight!! Cheers!!

Sheeesh!!

Demasiado brutal , saludos desde VENEZUELA.

"Cooper what are you doing?" "Docking" 1:30

Here in 2023

So what time signature should we do? *throw these darts at the dartboard and whatever fraction it is, that's it*