Stop fooling yourself. The planet is more endangered every day, and humans regress to more comfortable levels of lazy stupidity by the minute. This planet is a pitiful waste of microspace, and the most advanced life form on it is immeasurably insignificant (and luaghably unintelligent).
Gnarly! I first found ABSU maybe seven or eight years ago, didn’t know the drummer was the singer too! Mad respect. He killed this audition too, in my opinion.
Awesome, the proscriptor!! A band I was with in Dallas, Tx. Called Big Iron played a show with Absu back around 2001. I used to see him at many local concerts around Dallas, a really great guy and really awesome musician. Great seeing him in this video. I always would say hello to him whenever I would see him and talk about Absu.
@@SuicidalGrind drumming is up to decisions made and micro feel, the imagination and its capabillity to capture brutality. The slightest change of these "settings" and it just doesnt come across as powerful. So speed, although being also a criteria, is just one of many sectors to valuate
yeah i think i heard he was pretty nervous about auditioning for them. it is slayer after all. and his role in absu is the vocalist and drummer so I think he is used to pushing the pace.
its more like the other way around.Listen to tara by absu and tell me where i can find drumming that Dave's done that even comes close. Oh plus he is lead vocalist of the band also
Man what a great performance from Proscriptor! I also like how effortlessly Kerry King plays these songs. He almost seems bored, especially during Raining Blood.
That’s funny, I saw those huge-ass toms and thought this guy must be a Vinnie Paul fan. It didn’t even cross my mind that he and Dimebag had a band called gasoline.
If Proscriptor really was rejected by Slayer then it was actually a good thing, because he's a god in Absu, the black metal drumming thay add along with the thrashy riffs in Absu is godlike and unique, I love both Slayer and Absu, but Absu wouldn't be the same without Proscriptor so, Hail Slayer and Absu!
His drumming is just the perfect blend of tight and chaotic, which is perfect for the material he puts out with Absu. He would have made money, but he would have been wasted in Slayer, who seem to get slower by the day. I love Slayer, but it's a good thing they're winding down now.
i love slayer too ,but absu's proscrioptor drumming skills are light years apart from slayer, lombardo is a freskin icon,but just listen to tara , the whole album and you can see that proscrptoris another level
"Gasoline," was a short lived band with Vince and Darrell before Damageplan. Yes it is Vince's kit, there's some footage of "Gasoline," on here somewheres.
It seems like Kerry starts playing faster almost taunting him then he realizes he let the beast known as "Proscriptor" loose,this was a sight,thanks for posting,Absu true metal.
he does not want the people to know, what he is thinking about everything, he feels comfortable with the glasses on, isolation, like i-m playing with you, but we are no friends, buddy.
@Burntorangebadass Actually he moonlights as a producer for a few other black metal bands, including his own, and as a studio drummer for a bunch of bands, and a little band called Melechesh,
one reason he may not have made it is his tempo was not particularly steady on postmortem. He may be a great drummer in Absu but he rushed the skank beat parts sometimes and you could almost detect Kerry King looking irritated because of it.
Yup they do play these songs faster live. Obviously this guy is good, and what little adjustments he'd need to make he could easily make. My guess is the reason they passed on him is at this point in their career, slayer really aren't interested in having anyone on the kit they already don't know, they want basically vets they know personally. And I think that has more to do with Tom than anything. After Lombardo left and Bostaph replaced him (again) Kerry wanted Dette back there and said he got out voted and they went back with Bostaph knee injuries and all, which is not a good recipe considering most of Slayer's songs fly by at mach 10 but its what the band wanted *shrugs* Theoretically, if Slayer "were" to continue and found themselves replacing Paul (and they'd have to eventually) I'd see them trying to poach Gene from Testament, its an interesting hypothetical considering Gene is basically Dave Lombardo's godfather. But given their past choices and what they've done (They plucked Paul and Dette away from Testament, Tempesta might have got the call up too had he stayed in Testament and not bail to join Zombie.) Assuming Gene wouldn't stay in Testament, dude seems happy there so I think that seat is filled for now.
It's a fact if proscriptor would have gotten the job he would have pushed Slayer to another level. The question is if slayer was ready for that ?? Russ is just beyond on everything compared to slayer spiritually and musically and philosophical.
Whether Slayer or Lombardo are "the best ever" is a matter of opinion. I'm a huge fan of both of them, no doubt. But Proscriptor is also a well-known and very respected musician in the metal underground for nearly two decades, and has toured the world on his own merits. So I'm sorry but the "Wal-Mart" comment is out of line, man. Slayer clearly respected this guy enough to give him an audition, so perhaps you should be more respectful as well.
got to speak briefly with the bassist, ezezu, who became guest on a local radio station one night..this occurring right after requesting "from ancient times" by absu of course..a most unexpected surprise..
@@MorbidVisions310 Actually, THERE IS that one snippet part on one of the CHRIST ILLUSION songs (sorry don't know the song name) as it was right after Lombardo had rejoined the band in early to mid 2000s again. it was a time/era when Extreme METAL MUSIC/ Drumming was actually getting a fair amount of recognition finally, especially with the internet etc. And so? Lombardo just basically "had to throw a little blast beat section into one of the THEN newer SLAYER songs" to show he was hip OR whatever but... lol. Yeah, THERE IS the ONE song on Christ Illusion that does have a blastbeat in it... I'm MORE of the old school SLAYER fan ,(DIVINE INTERVENTION on back) as again, I cannot tell ya the name of the specific track. 🤘🔥🤘
@ohrblut666 Believe me or not. In my village (in Serbia) lives drummer who can play Slayer stuff perfectly. He is beast, but he is totally unknown. Check band Toxic Trace from Serbia.
Proscriptor has ridiculous amounts of talent.
kerry wasn't ready to cross the sea of uruk.
Couldn't get across the north sea to Visnech.
Alessandro Mola good one
Jejeje yeahh
Haaaaaaa!!!!!!!
Alessandro Mola Hahaa no he was not
i watch this every few years to get hyped on life.
I do that :D
Stop fooling yourself.
The planet is more endangered every day, and humans regress to more comfortable levels of lazy stupidity by the minute.
This planet is a pitiful waste of microspace, and the most advanced life form on it is immeasurably insignificant (and luaghably unintelligent).
@@gavinvalentino1313 "I am very smart"
@@gavinvalentino1313 and yet here you are hahaha
Lol sem
proscriptors like " do u want me to do vocals too" hahah
He would have done it much better than araya
"I'll dance in between songs"
Don't forget to write... 😆
Proscriptor made these legendary songs sound more Intense! Holy Shit...
I know. I love the fills he did during the verse in Reign In Blood.
The most amazing thing is that he is used to sing and play such insane drums at the same time!!!
Proscriptor is just one hell of a drummer. Heard many stories of this audition, it's good to watch/listen it at last.
Hails.
are you still alive?
Just not as good as Dave
@@robertwalker3357 dave is not a drummer
If Dave Lombardo "is not a drummer", then what is he
@@complications9718 Dave Lombardo, he is in a league of his own xD
coolest job interview ever
Best jam ever!!! 🤘😎
I can hear Kerry's thoughts. "Fuck this fast shit,I don't wanna work this hard every night."
haha that's exactly what i said. They can't keep up with him.
Too extreme for Slayer, lol😅
Yeah Kerry kept glancing up at him like slow tf down
This guy is a beast in the drums...
Respect from Curitiba, Brazil
It's fucking true.
Da pra ver que não é decorado! O cara sabe todos detalhes pq com certeza ouve Slayer.
Quem é esse batera?
@@guiprado2620 Proscritor (from black metal band ABSU)
Gnarly! I first found ABSU maybe seven or eight years ago, didn’t know the drummer was the singer too! Mad respect. He killed this audition too, in my opinion.
Phew, close call if you ask me. If Proscriptor had joined Slayer, the gates of hell would have opened, unsure if we really want that !
frfr
I'd become a Slayer fan if Proscriptor had joined the band. They're a whole new beast with him behind the drums.
*DFTR*
Based BÖC pfp
Awesome. I will never listen to Postmortem again without remembering how Proscriptor completely killed it.
Awesome, the proscriptor!! A band I was with in Dallas, Tx. Called Big Iron played a show with Absu back around 2001. I used to see him at many local concerts around Dallas, a really great guy and really awesome musician. Great seeing him in this video. I always would say hello to him whenever I would see him and talk about Absu.
Big respect to Slayer. But this audition Proscriptor shows that this is what the drum should be played. Hahaha. Hail Proscriptor, 666 Salute to you.
this dude is a sick drummer
But no lombardo
@@robertwalker3357 Yeah, because he's faster than Lombardo ;)
@@SuicidalGrind drumming is up to decisions made and micro feel, the imagination and its capabillity to capture brutality. The slightest change of these "settings" and it just doesnt come across as powerful. So speed, although being also a criteria, is just one of many sectors to valuate
@@SuicidalGrindfaster doesn't mean better
Its way better than lombardo, accept it.@@Kalsarikannit72
That drum is from Vinnie Paul and his project "Gasoline"
yeah i think i heard he was pretty nervous about auditioning for them. it is slayer after all. and his role in absu is the vocalist and drummer so I think he is used to pushing the pace.
fuck SLAYER ! PIECE OF SHIT BAND !!!!!!!!!!!!
@@papacharlie5692 slayer rules unlike you who are nothing but garbage and a waste of a human being.
That must have been a dream come true for his inner fan
Proscriptor is a mother loving beast behind the kit. Thanks for uploading this gem.
He's overqualified for Slayer imo, perfect for Absu. Hail Proscriptor!
meh, he would be qualified to hold Lombardos water bottle :P
its more like the other way around.Listen to tara by absu and tell me where i can find drumming that Dave's done that even comes close. Oh plus he is lead vocalist of the band also
@@loraynevenne6829Agree. Proscriptor is a force of the fucking nature.
@@David_Downs you dont know absu
@@David_Downs Lombardo is overrated and you know it.
Awesome video, great drumming
Wild! Great drummer!
Proscriptor is ridiculous!! Soooo good....I feel...kinda....tingly all over.
Man what a great performance from Proscriptor! I also like how effortlessly Kerry King plays these songs. He almost seems bored, especially during Raining Blood.
I think King didn't give a shit about auditioning Proscriptor. He's such a tool!
When you play a song a thousand time that happens
My exact thought, as well-definitely looks bored.
It's like breathing for them after playing them so many times
They're his own songs. Do you not play guitar or write your own music? Why wouldn't they be effortless to play for him to play his own songs??
Fucking great job bro just discovered Absu and its some great shit
So, is that Vinnie Pauls' kit? He and Dime briefly had a band called Gasoline.
yep that's vinnie's kit they had a brief stint with david allen coe
That’s funny, I saw those huge-ass toms and thought this guy must be a Vinnie Paul fan. It didn’t even cross my mind that he and Dimebag had a band called gasoline.
If Proscriptor really was rejected by Slayer then it was actually a good thing, because he's a god in Absu, the black metal drumming thay add along with the thrashy riffs in Absu is godlike and unique, I love both Slayer and Absu, but Absu wouldn't be the same without Proscriptor so, Hail Slayer and Absu!
His drumming is just the perfect blend of tight and chaotic, which is perfect for the material he puts out with Absu. He would have made money, but he would have been wasted in Slayer, who seem to get slower by the day. I love Slayer, but it's a good thing they're winding down now.
i love slayer too ,but absu's proscrioptor drumming skills are light years apart from slayer, lombardo is a freskin icon,but just listen to tara , the whole album and you can see that proscrptoris another level
But he dealt with it in a right way in posportem
Proscriptor IS Absu, so there wouldn't even be Absu anymore.
Ab......who?
Amazing! Proscriptor and Absu rules.
Muy buen baterista! Un groso!
Dude nailed those drums!!!
Not on Paul’s level or Dave’s
@@robertwalker3357😂😂yea okay wheres your vid?
@@robertwalker3357Absu crushes both those fools
Vinnie Paul's drum kit....
I noticed that as well
Rip
That snare says it all.
"Gasoline," was a short lived band with Vince and Darrell before Damageplan. Yes it is Vince's kit, there's some footage of "Gasoline," on here somewheres.
Very nice!
That guy tears the drums a new ass. Very solid
That drummer is amazing 🔥🔥🔥
Holy crap I can't believe I finally get to see this!
That was aaaamazing...
@kpmorgan some people on youtube just arent musicians and dont understand these things. well put brother!
Proscriptor is the most talented guy in the room.
No doubt about that..
Absu never released a song worth listening to while SLAYER released several legendary albums, get it right.
Proscriptor just a stupid name
@@sothis1448 Absu's "Tara" is better than entire Slayer discography
@@JacobsKrąnųg Hahaha, good one.
So much passion
That's because his drum parts in Absu are WAY faster and more complex. (well at least a bit faster)
It seems like Kerry starts playing faster almost taunting him then he realizes he let the beast known as "Proscriptor" loose,this was a sight,thanks for posting,Absu true metal.
What the heck does that even mean? "True metal" I usually only here that from angsty teenagers.
@@philliprobinson129 waste of space
Kerry King is like woah dude, wait for me!
The drumming tho , the sounds to i
His kit is perfect
he does not want the people to know, what he is thinking about everything, he feels comfortable with the glasses on, isolation, like i-m playing with you, but we are no friends, buddy.
Sick!!
Slayer are my 80s heroes but this guy is just too good for them... SO impressing! DDDamn!
bigger paycheck in slayer for sure
a great drumer!
Fucking bad ass! Picking one of the best Slayer songs to audition with and fucking nailing it! Reign in BLOOOOOOODDD!!!!!!
They didn't take him, coz they're to proud to admit that he's better than the rest of them !!!!!!
😂 Bostaph is king
If he was better than he would of got the job, but he didn’t they hired lombardo which was the right choice
He also looks to be playing Vinnie Paul's (pantera) drum kit from their side band Gasoline, cool shit!
Slayer roams the abyss that Absu looks down on
😂 delusional AF
@Burntorangebadass Actually he moonlights as a producer for a few other black metal bands, including his own, and as a studio drummer for a bunch of bands, and a little band called Melechesh,
Badass drummer
I've been waiting to see these vids for a while.. as expected Proscriptor fucking nails it.
Fuckin AWESOME!!! That was RAGING energy!
Kerry didn't survived the third storm of cythraul...
Nice one
OMG! This was terrifying! Or else was kerry King and Proscriptor another routine day(or night).-
This guy is good, he does not seem to strugle like the others that auditioned.
Dude killed it.
one reason he may not have made it is his tempo was not particularly steady on postmortem. He may be a great drummer in Absu but he rushed the skank beat parts sometimes and you could almost detect Kerry King looking irritated because of it.
Ryan Alexander Bloom Thank you...
talking shit, Slayer play it faster live than on record. not much wrong with his timing at all. guy could play it in his sleep.
Yup they do play these songs faster live. Obviously this guy is good, and what little adjustments he'd need to make he could easily make. My guess is the reason they passed on him is at this point in their career, slayer really aren't interested in having anyone on the kit they already don't know, they want basically vets they know personally. And I think that has more to do with Tom than anything. After Lombardo left and Bostaph replaced him (again) Kerry wanted Dette back there and said he got out voted and they went back with Bostaph knee injuries and all, which is not a good recipe considering most of Slayer's songs fly by at mach 10 but its what the band wanted *shrugs*
Theoretically, if Slayer "were" to continue and found themselves replacing Paul (and they'd have to eventually) I'd see them trying to poach Gene from Testament, its an interesting hypothetical considering Gene is basically Dave Lombardo's godfather. But given their past choices and what they've done (They plucked Paul and Dette away from Testament, Tempesta might have got the call up too had he stayed in Testament and not bail to join Zombie.) Assuming Gene wouldn't stay in Testament, dude seems happy there so I think that seat is filled for now.
no kerry couldnt keep up with him. that was the whole problem. proscriptor played it perfectly. kerry king is just a pussy that cant keep up.
@@metalvideos1961 yep
It's a fact if proscriptor would have gotten the job he would have pushed Slayer to another level. The question is if slayer was ready for that ?? Russ is just beyond on everything compared to slayer spiritually and musically and philosophical.
Isn't that Vinnie Paul's kit?
love slayer yah
I always wondered what this went like.
Didn't Russ say that he thought the whole thing was a ploy to get Lombardo back in Slayer?
Fuck yeah! Excellent performance!
Great Drummer!
Only 1 cable going to the wah pedal? is he using a AxeFx?
impressed with the 2 cymbal chokes at 1-36.
Proscriptor audition: Kerry King of Slayer
Kurayami 暗闇 Music with his own song and Kerry failed... 😂😂😂
@@arabe66 true!!!! 😆😆
Vinnie Paul drumkit?
Whether Slayer or Lombardo are "the best ever" is a matter of opinion. I'm a huge fan of both of them, no doubt. But Proscriptor is also a well-known and very respected musician in the metal underground for nearly two decades, and has toured the world on his own merits. So I'm sorry but the "Wal-Mart" comment is out of line, man. Slayer clearly respected this guy enough to give him an audition, so perhaps you should be more respectful as well.
Proscriptor doesnt use drumsticks, he uses Swords of Lapis Lazuli
got to speak briefly with the bassist, ezezu, who became guest on a local radio station one night..this occurring right after requesting "from ancient times" by absu of course..a most unexpected surprise..
PROSCRIPTOR OWNS IT, SLAYER FEAR WAS PROSCRIPTOR HEAD THE BAND !!!!!!!!!
imagine this dude playing necrophobic
Wouldn't say slayer don't deserve the dude but yes man he is a crushing drummer. Abu is brilliant...if not active enough.
Damn that was good
Awesome hope that guitar player made the band...........................
I like how Proscriptor always ends the song before King gets too carried away with his gay whammy bar drives
Wow! That blast beats on Raining Blood is insane, it must be so intense
Where’s the blast beats that he played I can’t hear them ?
There is no blast beat in any Slayer song.
@@MorbidVisions310 Actually, THERE IS that one snippet part on one of the CHRIST ILLUSION songs (sorry don't know the song name) as it was right after Lombardo had rejoined the band in early to mid 2000s again. it was a time/era when Extreme METAL MUSIC/ Drumming was actually getting a fair amount of recognition finally, especially with the internet etc. And so? Lombardo just basically "had to throw a little blast beat section into one of the THEN newer SLAYER songs" to show he was hip OR whatever but... lol. Yeah, THERE IS the ONE song on Christ Illusion that does have a blastbeat in it... I'm MORE of the old school SLAYER fan ,(DIVINE INTERVENTION on back) as again, I cannot tell ya the name of the specific track. 🤘🔥🤘
@@jamescon55 You're thinking of Supremist
Tons of Evil in the Drums 🤘😈💀
he fucking nailed it!!!!!
Is that Vinny Paul's old Drum Kit?
⚔️☠️😡🥊💯 kerry mohol zahrať niečo od absu !!!😊
Vinnie Paul's drums? Nice.
QUIEN FUE ESCOGIDO? por que Dave LOmbardo seguía siendo baterista....
Well there's something rare... Kerry King wearing sunglasses inside, said no one, EVER!
Proscriptor McGorvern!! HAIL ABSU!
Vinnie Paul’s kit??
Such a great rehearsal in EVERY WAY! I personally feel that Proscriptor was too eccentric and completely opposite of the Kerry King machine!
I lost this guys snare during the double-time Thrash section but the crashes still went off fine. What is the deal with those toms? uh ....
Why does he wear sunglasses indoors?
@ohrblut666 Believe me or not. In my village (in Serbia) lives drummer who can play Slayer stuff perfectly. He is beast, but he is totally unknown. Check band Toxic Trace from Serbia.
haha seems like kerry didnt get his 2 hour warm up before this
Is that Vinnie Paul's kit?