The first thing I said to the Keep Of Kalessin guys when I had my interview with them was that I can't play Vengeance Rising :D No problem with my hands, but I can't hold that speed with double bass long enough yet. But I think I am getting there ;)
DUDE I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU MADE YHIS VIDEO. Keep of Kalessin is a very underrated band Also when you mentioned blast beat it was mostly during the double bass parts which aren't blast beats.
Cool video, slightly inaccurate title - I've often heard insanely fast double bass patterns referred to as blast-beats, but for the record, the two are not the same. A blast-beat is defined by Adam MacGregor (of the math-metal band Creation Is Crucifixion) as "A repeated, sixteenth-note figure played at a very fast tempo, and divided uniformly among the bass drum, snare, and ride, crash, or hi-hat cymbal." Oddly enough, you can see both Vyl and Nechtan playing examples of actual blast beats in some of the clips you featured. This is definitely one of those ones where I think one has just been generally mistaken for the other in common parlance. For anyone else interested, Here's a fairly comprehensive video on the different types of blast beat, as compiled by Sam Paulicelli of Decrepit Birth, aka 66Samus ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B4KNXi-SWWc.html Here's an example of another black metal tune with an insanely fast blast beat ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-plh22lTpnjY.html And here's some more footage (just for fun) of Nechtan playing some not-as-fast-as-Vengeance-Rising double bass but over a longer period ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0NWZdEQ5vek.html
Digital Deathsquid- it is very bizarre that you quoted one of my buddies (and former bandmates) Adam MacGregor (a guitarist, not drummer to boot!) on blastbeat definition. How and why did you arrive at this reference? ✌
@@TupDigital This archived review he did of an Agoraphobic Nosebleed album, by way of Wikipedia web.archive.org/web/20081221133749/www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/2945
I believe the song "Apex Blasphemy" by Cattle Decapitation has a bomb blast (feet doing 16th note double bass with hands doing 8th notes each) at around 290 bpm or so, their drummer uses double strokes on feet, but the hands are still very fast.
I FREAKING LOVE YOU, YOU RESPECT METAL and you've accepted that you couldn't play somethingwith your feet (you must learn the double stroke at the double base drum to do it)
I think this is my favorite vid of yours, so far!! Funny as hell! Love this kinda video idea! Lol lol a few times , even when I think back! Thanks for sharing!!
I like how Eric plays the quadruple feet part "hand to hand" split, rather than the typical 4 - 16th note triplets per set of feet hemiola that everyone does. So played out.
😂dude you crack me up! Another great vid. Why the heck would those first couple "cover" guys even post a vid like that, excepting perhaps a before&after deal? Yuck.
that first dude is trying to do RRLLRRLL and i get alot of drummers do that but at this speed you just cant unless your using triggers and your bass head is so tight the head is gonna bust. thats why over the years of playing metal drums, i wasnt going to stoop down to basically bouncing my beaters on the head doing RRLLRRLL and calling myself a double bass master. ive always done RLRL and i always will. and because of that its easier to go that fast.
I Personally disagree. Have you seen for example drummers like Aaron kitcher, or the drummer from slaughter to prevail? Heel Toe certainly isn't cheating. I'm currently trying to learn it and although it may seem like "cheating" I guarantee the drummers that use it well have spent YEARS just to get it clean. It is insanely hard. But at the tempos some songs are at, it is nearly physically impossible to play double bass RLRL. And for the record, I don't use triggers or table tight bass drum heads and I am still able to achieve heel toe doubles? Also I disagree that it is easier to go fast RLRL. Its quite possible that because you haven't worked on heel toe enough, you just cant play the doubles. But being a complete ameture at heel toe a I can play much faster (granted not cleanly) than I can play singles after all of my double bass practice.
