Meinl Cymbals Matt Halpern “THE WAY THE NEWS GOES“ - Meinl Drum Festival Video 

I never though a blast beat could be so happy.

if a cymbal is not moving, hit it.

The blast beat to the melodic part makes this song different from the usual arrangement. Out of the box! Great performance!

fuckin monster man. Matt reminds me so much of a djent and technical version of Chad Smith haha

2:12 that "t-t-TING t-t-TING" pattern on the ride... the 2 people I see use that the most seems to be Matt Halpern and Matt Garstka. It's the Matt Pattern. Its the Mattern.

i love how the cymbals are literally dancing at 3:30

so much groove, so much energy.

Meinl is killing it right now, I'm not even a drummer but I love these playthroughs.

Oh yeah, such complete mastery of his instrument, so fun to watch!!!

Matt the drumming monster! Long live Periphery!!!

I love the way that Matt hangs the stick over the cymbals when it's done to accentuate a cymbal hit, makes it look like he's telling someone off.

elitists: Blastbeats are for death and black metal only Matt Halpern: Hold my beer

This song has become my favorite within 5 mins .

This song is as deep as Matt's V. And Matt never fails to impress. So much love for this video!!

so much emotion honored to have had some lessons with this monster you rule matt!!

Im amazed by his right snare accent during the blast beat

The Chad Smith of prog metal

This man is easily my favorite drummer. The perfect blend of technicality and groove.

I love his energy and the fact he always finds a groove and dances while he plays

So much groove... and those blasts!!! Insane... He's massively diverse and flexible as drummer. Great stuff.

Grammy nominated drummer's band for the song "the Price is Wrong" off this same album. Explosive!!!

you can tell how much he loves what he does, so much respect to Matt! Possibly the most talented modern metal drummer!

I think half the views are me, I watch this at least once a day it's just this good

Matt plays with such emotion and has amazing time and feel. Such a great drummer to listen to and watch.

Matt is a king! His gear sounds AMAZING. Drums and Cymbals. 100% badass.

tight and clean performance.

His playing is so fluid! And he plays with so much swing

Love it! Great mix. His cymbal all the way to his left has great attack and tone. Flawless performance and REAL feeling put into this.

I think this guy is officially my favorite drummer

Matt seems like a genuine hard worker of his craft, always seeking to challenge himself and grow musically.

The cymbal work is amazing. Just a phenomenal performance.

2:46 - 2:50 probably my favorite 4 seconds of any periphery song, so groovy!

I love how Matt went from using one tom to five and adding another crash and a splash haha.

This is such a amazing drumming!!!! Thanks Matt Halpern for this!!

that might be the only blast beat I've ever heard in my life, that sounded musical and actually added to the song. what a great player

This video always gets my heart pumping. Great stuff!

I learn my salsa moves by watching Matt smash his cymbals in reciprocal manner

absolutely phenomenal. well done, mr. halpern!

Awesome! So groovy. Perfect dynamic in each note.

I've been watching this video a few times a year since 2016

Best rock drum ever. 10/10 Absolutely perfect. Congrats.

This was amazing. Probably the best I've heard his kit sound ever! And he made a blast beat actually musical wow... Killer job bro. If they kept making songs like this I would listen more, the singer drives nuts sometimes...

this is really good Matt thanks for being an awesome drummer! :)

His playing flows naturally. Matt is a beast on drum. Amazing performance!

From a non-drummer it's so interesting to see how the cymbals are played more than anything, and not like the snare as many would think. It's almost if the snare is used for time keeping.

Just a fantastic drummer, few are this level of entertaining to watch. Great style

Absolutely amazing

My nose is bleeding and I cannot closed my eyes and my mouth...😂😂😂😂

he always looks like he's having such a good time. dang.

Who the hell's gonna dislike this? Those people need to explain themselves.

What a great drummer, what a great band!!!. Mr Halpern, you're a monster!!

Holy Cow. Matt doing blast beats. That's awesome.

Try muting the volume and study Matts technique. This is how you get the best sound out of your cymbals. Regardless of brand, if you hack randomly at em, they'll sound like crap. Beautiful playing Matt. \M/

the happiest blastbeat in music history

Matt Halpern is so god damn good and I wish I could take some lessons from him.

The Outro is soooo 🤘🤘 such a masterpiece

what an amazing outro!! 😊

Beautiful.

Meinl was my favorites. This drummer now is my idol XD he can makes the cymbal "singing"

I’m so proud to see this level of musicianship in this day and age. Beautiful drumming

I love this chorus so much

incrível parabéns Brasil aqui 👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🤗🤗🤗

So much groove the cymbals can't stop dancing

Matt is just simply the best out there

Incredible. Nice blast beats too

That blast was freakin great ! Never saw or heard him blast before

I think I’m the only one who actually likes Spencer’s voice

Liked before I even watched the video

Look at him just cruising along at god level 🖤

Der hats einfach drauf! Inklusive der anderen Musiker. Fällt mir schwer was anderes zu hören!

Really interesting take on a blastbeat at 1:43. Almost like he's treating the snare like a cymbal...

Wow those blast beats were amazing

Eu amo esse vídeo 🖤

Hell yeah! Wish this was the actual drum mix on the album \m/

1:51 is the shitttt lml

I need some of those hi hats! They sound amazing...

The man in incredible. such flow.

Man that was awesome

AWESOME Drumsound

my god, what an awesome musician

Those cymbals are dancing!!

Matt is one of the best drummers of all time. I say that as a mediocre drummer... but who can argue that? Long live Periphery.

wooooww,it's so crazy for the blast beat!!!!!!!

Excelent drummer !!! Excelent band !!!!!

Ol Matt knows how to make anything cool.

Sooooo good

amazing

"The way the news goes" was the first Periphery song I ever listened to after they toured with Shinedown and Zach Myers said to check them out. Was ready to turn song off until that "drum blast" (you all are calling it that I didnt know it had a name) and the emotion of that drum part with the rest of the song is what has me now hooked to Periphery and saying confidently Matt Halpern is the greatest drummer in progressive rock or rock in general for that matter. Taylor Hawkins incredible Danny Carey incredible Lars Ulrich incredible but Matt Halpern has them all beat.

The man Matt Halpern, amazing as always! OCD is bothering me with the inconsistent and cluttered video titles though.

that blastbeat never gets old

He's the man!

This song is such a blast to play and I can't even play if for shit.

1:43 Matt Halpern made a blast beat groove, now that's...groovy.

this guy is so good

I hope dude can keep his body in tact to play this high of a level for a while

daaaaamnnnnnn awesome

2:11 = me when I've walked up a flight of stairs.

How this video can only have 100k views like for real!

Great!

bad ass good job matt