He is equivalent to Sharon Den Adel of Within Temptation in uniqueness and talent. His snare in metal is unique to Sharon bringing in a Kate Bush singing style to metal. Both are awesome whether you like both, one or none of them in uniqueness and talent.
BooNillaHD I love both Mastodon and Gojira, and am lucky enough to get to see both together live in November (yay!). However, I see it differently. Mario Duplantier is like an atomic drumming robot, whose technicality and timing is perfect. Brann, on the other hand, is more groovy and brings his own unique fills and such into it. I've never seen Brann play a song the exact same way twice, but I feel Duplantier's skill is in his technicality. Now that's just my opinion, if you disagree I'd love a link to Duplantier playing that you find particularly impressive (I love his stuff, but I rarely think of him as improvving).
@@BooNillaHD I feel like both of them excel in different ways. Mario is masterful in his grooves, weird timings, and the sort of tribal feel of his drums. While Brann has remarkable speed, creativity, and can turn a lot of randomness and crazy fills/rolls into a headbangable beat, which I think is really impressive
Learning every song on Leviathan growing up probably helped improve my playing more than anything else, including private lessons & 6 years of marching band.
@@bendies1240 that's not an insult? now that i've been learning drums for a bit i can see that a lot of brann's playing is really fast singles and switching between parts of the kit, and practicing that does help a lot?
@@infernalsquid pratice that does everything help a lot. it do sound easy, only signles and switching between parts of the kit, but he does that during the entire show, more than 1:30h playing that fast, and singing most of the songs, is no easy to do
If you haven't, check out Gojira. They're in the same musical realm, in fact the two bands are touring together right now, and Gojira is insane as well. Look up "The Flesh Alive Gojira"
@@munchfive5691 does gojira sound like mastodon and tool, whereas makes my mind travel around and beyond the quantum realm? coz I do whenever I listen to mastodon and tool.
@@luigiaddatu1731 Yes imo. Gojira has a very tribal, rooted feel as opposed to the psychedelic feel of Tool and the masculine feel of mastodon. You'll have to see for yourself tho
Yeah, Gojira worth checking out for . Mario Duplantier is one of the best modern metal drummer outhere. And Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree/ The Pineapple Thief. Insane drumming also
Just practice to a metronome and just groove for three bars and in bar four throw as many single strokes across your snare and rack toms as you can without falling behind the click. Combine that with some rudiments for the accents and your set.
To me this guy is one of the greatest of all time. Yeah I said it. Put him up there with Lombardo, Peart, Bonham and Buddy Rich. So much for less is more. Dude destroys that rule and makes it musical. It's a blessing.
My first mastodon album I bought on a friend’s recommendation. I’ve gone through all my different genres & styles of rock & roll and more importantly my journey through classic metal NWOBHM , thrash , death grind core and any other extreme metal I was turned onto and liked but forming my thrash years when I was 13/14 till my twenties including my death metal as well I just kept thinking faster drums faster riffs nastier the lyrics content meant heavier to me like my sabbath , priest , median, Motörhead seemed like so long ago and the albums I once worshiped like Sabbath’s first 6 especially Master of Reality & Vol. 4 which my 11/12 yr old brain was completely blown and though it was heaviest shit ever made same as sad wings of destiny by priest or screaming for vengeance or iron median piece of mind and for sure power slave . I’d always loved every instrument & vocals great sounding riffs but ever since I first started exploring my dads records at age 8 zeppelin of course but also grand fuck railroad T Rex David Bowe even meatloaf and the who , Hendrix and many more I was drawn to the druming more than rest of band and in a way that I’d listen to songs over and over again til I absorbed ever single note beat symbol hits , groves and fills Always air druming along untill I was obsessed with drummers more than the other members who I still loved but not like the drummers and I began learning their names “ John Bonham , Kieth Moon , Ringo Star, Don Brewer and of course my 2 favourites Ginger Baker of cream and my #1 Mitch Mitchell then at 12 yrs old my friend s uncle played Rushs 2112 for us on his stereo and I needed to immediately know the name of this drummer playing things that seemed almost other worldly he told it was Neil Peart and that he was hands down the new greatest drummer of all time I listened to Hemosphires next which was even more insane then it was a couple years till heard another album which was moving pictures with shorter not so complex songs but the druming seemed even more smooth and every note hit exactly I right spot and of corse it had “ Tom Sawyer” which in his owne words is just as hard to play on tour every night as the first time he nailed it in recording and it’s an accomplishment to get it perfect Anyway I’m totally rambling and writing a novel her So with each new genre and each new band I still loved ever instrument, riff vocal delivery but still had to find out every single thing I could about the drummer Like Dave Lombardo of slayer after hearing reign in blood for first time he was my thrash drum god but Garth Samuelson of megadeeath was close second same with Charlie Benante of anthrax, the teenage kid from death angle, then for death metal Gene Hoglan, Donald Tardy of obituary Ken Owen carcass Paul Mazurk whatever Mike Smith Suffocation and many more but then something happened I heard the heaviest fucking band I’d ever heard with riffs so fucking heavy and chunky sick that hearing them for first time felt like I was run over by semi truck. There’s are still my favourite band fr that day to right now 30 yrs later and still heavier than ever putting out new music CAN U GUESS!!?? Fucking Kirk Windstein and mother fucking CROWBAR!!!🤘🤘🤘 My good friends older brother was playing them when he was giving us a ride to a smaller gig / show that night of DRI , MOD and Canadian punk trash killer band Deglo Abortions. I think we were just turned 18 and in Edmonton so was our first legal age drinking show . It definitely a kick ass gig lots of insane pit time and decent stage dives but it wasn’t the show that had me Fucking so stoked about this band his brother was playing during the drive I heard like 3 maybe 4 songs b4 we got there and each one blew me so fucking away just the heaviness of the riffs and guitar sound the drums making it even more heavy, it was a fresh new style and sound that at first I could quite figure out So when he picked us up after the show soon as I got in car I’m like bro who was the band you were playing on drive to show cause they kicked fucking ass dude He’s like oh CROWBAR you’ve never heard them obviously I hadn’t he’s like I just bought there newest album few weeks ago I think it’s their 3rd called Time Heals Nothing I also have their second one that’s self titled and I heard their first album which has been called a glorified demo “ Obedience Through Suffering “ but I havnt been able to find it So I begged him to play rest of the album he was playing, called Time Heals Nothing, and just like the first four tracks. Every single track literally blew my mind, and I finally figured out what it was other than just the sickest, heaviest, riffs and heaviest drumming, although at times some other roofing was a little bit on the faster side, not quite like thrash, but more like hard-core, but for the most part it was like slow and just grimy and heavy. I later found out it was being called sludge core mix with doom. Anyway, I bought the Time Heals Nothing album the very next time I had enough money and then I bought the self titled and then after a while, I found Obedience Thru Suffering, which I think is a fucking great album and I’ve been buying their albums. Every time they come out with a new one ever since they’ve been my band man and they’ve been my favourite band and put out some of the most heaviest albums and songs ever recorded they opened up my ears, more slower paste, heavy and extreme music which is now become my favourite sub, genre stoner sludge, doom whatever you wanna call it I love all that shit and once I found out they were from New Orleans Louisiana that turned me onto. I hate God and Soilent Green, and then a total hidden gem that I found a little bit later on called Acid Bath such a great band and then I started finding out that you know it was a small group of musicians who just kind of played in each other’s bands at different times like Sammy duet from Acid Bath, I think played on two or three Crowbar albums, Broken Glass, Equilibrium and maybe one other one I don’t know Jimmy Bauer from my God I know he found out later on that. He was crowbars original drummer and played with them and then of course, many many years later one down came out and I was a huge fan right off the gecko. Oh will not forget about Corrosion of Conformity, the crows once and took over that’s the COC I like best I mean the stuff before him was not bad either and then through reading articles from all these bands I kept hearing the name Melvins come up a lot for influence and I think I heard her a song or two but I started checking them outand yeah apparently they’re the original plan slow and sludgy. Now with all that said it was all to get to the point that my first mastodon album that I was turned onto and I listen to first Leviathan, which has a lot of sludgy guitar sound and riffs but the drumming of.Bramn Drailor drumming is on a whole other fucking level Levitation is just full of his obscure time signatures but also mixed in with just some good ole 4/4 groves right at perfect point in songs but his fills are just absolutely stellar and insane He’s taken the prog rock technical perfection of Neil peart making his own style where just like Neil anything goes nothing is off limits “ The Neil Peart of metal druming” and so much more
Been listening to mastodon for years on top of many other bands like lamb of god etc, and yeah...brann dailor is by far my favorite drummer if not the best modern drummer out...u can TRY to change my mind...
If you guys think all he does is play fast and isn't technical or impressive. listen to some of the stuff off crack the skye. or hell even the hunter. I didn't really even like that album but his playing on it was spectacular if you ask me.
Man idk every album they drop is amazing i don’t like/dislike any of them more than the other, Thats what I love about mastodon, so many bands find there ‘sound’ and then that’s all u get - album after album, u get the same sound and tone with different riffs.. Yet, every single mastodon album is a work of art on its own and is different then the album before it and the one after will also be completely different, mastodon loves there themes man
For me he is the best drummer, i just love the way he plays the drums BUT i think Chris Adler of Lamb of God is more complete as a drummer, plays insane with his hands aswell as with his legs.
Brann's snare always sounds good af
The only guy who can make a crap ton of snare sound good in metal!
He is equivalent to Sharon Den Adel of Within Temptation in uniqueness and talent. His snare in metal is unique to Sharon bringing in a Kate Bush singing style to metal. Both are awesome whether you like both, one or none of them in uniqueness and talent.
Mario Duplantier.
Scarecrow545 Mario would do himself a whole lot of good by leaving the snoozefest that is Gojira
Mario duplantier and brann dailor is the two best drummers right now, and probably up there among the best drummers of all time.
@@Lukkern Tomas Haake begs to differ. All have completely different styles though.
Brann is easily one of the best drummers ive ever seen
I like brann a lot, but mario duplantier definetly has him beat
BooNillaHD I love both Mastodon and Gojira, and am lucky enough to get to see both together live in November (yay!). However, I see it differently. Mario Duplantier is like an atomic drumming robot, whose technicality and timing is perfect. Brann, on the other hand, is more groovy and brings his own unique fills and such into it. I've never seen Brann play a song the exact same way twice, but I feel Duplantier's skill is in his technicality. Now that's just my opinion, if you disagree I'd love a link to Duplantier playing that you find particularly impressive (I love his stuff, but I rarely think of him as improvving).
There both great abe cunningham is better than both
Hes the most underrated drummer ever
@@BooNillaHD I feel like both of them excel in different ways. Mario is masterful in his grooves, weird timings, and the sort of tribal feel of his drums. While Brann has remarkable speed, creativity, and can turn a lot of randomness and crazy fills/rolls into a headbangable beat, which I think is really impressive
Learning every song on Leviathan growing up probably helped improve my playing more than anything else, including private lessons & 6 years of marching band.
i’m not a drummer, but aren’t a lot of these fills complicated speed exercises?
@@infernalsquid u do it then
@@bendies1240 that's not an insult? now that i've been learning drums for a bit i can see that a lot of brann's playing is really fast singles and switching between parts of the kit, and practicing that does help a lot?
@@infernalsquid pratice that does everything help a lot. it do sound easy, only signles and switching between parts of the kit, but he does that during the entire show, more than 1:30h playing that fast, and singing most of the songs, is no easy to do
since I've first grinded on some mastodon and doing some research, Brann becomes my favorite drummer and Mastodon is my new favorite band now
If you haven't, check out Gojira. They're in the same musical realm, in fact the two bands are touring together right now, and Gojira is insane as well. Look up "The Flesh Alive Gojira"
@@munchfive5691 does gojira sound like mastodon and tool, whereas makes my mind travel around and beyond the quantum realm? coz I do whenever I listen to mastodon and tool.
@@luigiaddatu1731 Yes imo. Gojira has a very tribal, rooted feel as opposed to the psychedelic feel of Tool and the masculine feel of mastodon. You'll have to see for yourself tho
Yeah, Gojira worth checking out for . Mario Duplantier is one of the best modern metal drummer outhere. And Gavin Harrison of Porcupine Tree/ The Pineapple Thief. Insane drumming also
I don't know how this dude makes it through an entire set.
He breaks his back and cracks his oar, man.
Practice and good stick control.
@@marksanpedro8973 I guess he wishes to prevail 🤷♂️
@ethanstover9859 He might not have an ivory leg to propel him... but his harpoon were thrust in the sky.
Brann is so amazing. His fills are like the best thing ever!
Vindo conferir a performance do Brann depois de ver Eloy tocando no Drumeo 😅😅 duas lendas 🔥🔥
3:56 wtf was that? LEGEND!
I want every album of theirs mixed like this please
Shite, I want to master his fills so bad.
Just practice to a metronome and just groove for three bars and in bar four throw as many single strokes across your snare and rack toms as you can without falling behind the click. Combine that with some rudiments for the accents and your set.
Those are jazz/fusion fills played very fast and pretty loud. Brann's technical skills and his ear for accompaniment are peerless.
Those are single strokes
Gotta love brann tho
Those are Dave Lombardo fills, mate :)
Not everything is jazz
My brain knows exactly what's happening with every hit, but it just can't can't comprehend what my eyes are seeing.
Awesome drummer, does it with the minimum of fuss as it looks like he is hardly breaking sweat here
Practice
Does he sweat? lol. Ive watched lots of his drum cams...n e Just makes it look effortless.fast n hard!!
I was actually at this show and didn't have the sense to realize that Brann was being filmed
I Love, that he has a simple kit.
My new aspiration. So glad i know about this guy now
that sound wave hat is the stuff dreams are made of... wet dreams
To me this guy is one of the greatest of all time. Yeah I said it. Put him up there with Lombardo, Peart, Bonham and Buddy Rich. So much for less is more. Dude destroys that rule and makes it musical. It's a blessing.
We love Brann.
best drummer in the universe
+tmolesky Yes!! 🤘
He's one of the very best in the game, that's for sure
Tony Royster , Thomas Pridgeon , then Brann
Absolutely amazing, clean, precise and creative drum performance!
there is alot of passion in this song
He rolls it so easily!
The bass sounds so crisp omg
The last part of the song is so energic, great drumming.
One can only imagine how much he needs to tune that snare
Damn, no earplugs or in ear monitors, that's brutal.
Dude is cool got to say hi to him after the show.not only is he a good drummer. He's got good pipes.
harpoon thrust in the skye! !!!!!!!!
This dude rocks my world.
Awesome song, awesome drummer, awesome band
Such proficiency at playing everything.. amazing.
Brann is such a fuggin awesome drummer! Mastodon rules!
Can anybody else hear the audience singing along starting at 'split your lungs...? :D
hell yeah
Fuck yes!
Split your lungs with blood and thunder.. When you see the white whale!!
The end, Brann went completely crazy! 😄
Dude kills it but he looks too big for the setup. Like he’s playing his nephew’s drum set 😂😂
I am not a drummer by any stretch of imagination, but even i can tell that Brann is creating something unique here!
Love from the UK
Would love to see one of these for Colony of Birchmen!
I was at this show.
My first mastodon album I bought on a friend’s recommendation. I’ve gone through all my different genres & styles of rock & roll and more importantly my journey through classic metal NWOBHM , thrash , death grind core and any other extreme metal I was turned onto and liked but forming my thrash years when I was 13/14 till my twenties including my death metal as well I just kept thinking faster drums faster riffs nastier the lyrics content meant heavier to me like my sabbath , priest , median, Motörhead seemed like so long ago and the albums I once worshiped like Sabbath’s first 6 especially Master of Reality & Vol. 4 which my 11/12 yr old brain was completely blown and though it was heaviest shit ever made same as sad wings of destiny by priest or screaming for vengeance or iron median piece of mind and for sure power slave . I’d always loved every instrument & vocals great sounding riffs but ever since I first started exploring my dads records at age 8
zeppelin of course but also grand fuck railroad T Rex David Bowe even meatloaf and the who , Hendrix and many more I was drawn to the druming more than rest of band and in a way that I’d listen to songs over and over again til I absorbed ever single note beat symbol hits , groves and fills Always air druming along untill I was obsessed with drummers more than the other members who I still loved but not like the drummers and I began learning their names “ John Bonham , Kieth Moon , Ringo Star, Don Brewer and of course my 2 favourites Ginger Baker of cream and my #1 Mitch Mitchell then at 12 yrs old my friend s uncle played Rushs 2112 for us on his stereo and I needed to immediately know the name of this drummer playing things that seemed almost other worldly he told it was Neil Peart and that he was hands down the new greatest drummer of all time
I listened to Hemosphires next which was even more insane then it was a couple years till heard another album which was moving pictures with shorter not so complex songs but the druming seemed even more smooth and every note hit exactly I right spot and of corse it had “ Tom Sawyer” which in his owne words is just as hard to play on tour every night as the first time he nailed it in recording and it’s an accomplishment to get it perfect
Anyway I’m totally rambling and writing a novel her
So with each new genre and each new band I still loved ever instrument, riff vocal delivery but still had to find out every single thing I could about the drummer
Like Dave Lombardo of slayer after hearing reign in blood for first time he was my thrash drum god but Garth Samuelson of megadeeath was close second same with Charlie Benante of anthrax, the teenage kid from death angle, then for death metal Gene Hoglan, Donald Tardy of obituary Ken Owen carcass Paul Mazurk whatever Mike Smith Suffocation and many more but then something happened I heard the heaviest fucking band I’d ever heard with riffs so fucking heavy and chunky sick that hearing them for first time felt like I was run over by semi truck. There’s are still my favourite band fr that day to right now 30 yrs later and still heavier than ever putting out new music CAN U GUESS!!?? Fucking Kirk Windstein and mother fucking CROWBAR!!!🤘🤘🤘 My good friends older brother was playing them when he was giving us a ride to a smaller gig / show that night of DRI , MOD and Canadian punk trash killer band Deglo Abortions. I think we were just turned 18 and in Edmonton so was our first legal age drinking show . It definitely a kick ass gig lots of insane pit time and decent stage dives but it wasn’t the show that had me Fucking so stoked about this band his brother was playing during the drive I heard like 3 maybe 4 songs b4 we got there and each one blew me so fucking away just the heaviness of the riffs and guitar sound the drums making it even more heavy, it was a fresh new style and sound that at first I could quite figure out
So when he picked us up after the show soon as I got in car I’m like bro who was the band you were playing on drive to show cause they kicked fucking ass dude
He’s like oh CROWBAR you’ve never heard them obviously I hadn’t he’s like I just bought there newest album few weeks ago I think it’s their 3rd called Time Heals Nothing I also have their second one that’s self titled and I heard their first album which has been called a glorified demo “ Obedience Through Suffering “ but I havnt been able to find it
So I begged him to play rest of the album he was playing, called Time Heals Nothing, and just like the first four tracks. Every single track literally blew my mind, and I finally figured out what it was other than just the sickest, heaviest, riffs and heaviest drumming, although at times some other roofing was a little bit on the faster side, not quite like thrash, but more like hard-core, but for the most part it was like slow and just grimy and heavy. I later found out it was being called sludge core mix with doom. Anyway, I bought the Time Heals Nothing album the very next time I had enough money and then I bought the self titled and then after a while, I found Obedience Thru Suffering, which I think is a fucking great album and I’ve been buying their albums. Every time they come out with a new one ever since they’ve been my band man and they’ve been my favourite band and put out some of the most heaviest albums and songs ever recorded they opened up my ears, more slower paste, heavy and extreme music which is now become my favourite sub, genre stoner sludge, doom whatever you wanna call it I love all that shit and once I found out they were from New Orleans Louisiana that turned me onto. I hate God and Soilent Green, and then a total hidden gem that I found a little bit later on called Acid Bath such a great band and then I started finding out that you know it was a small group of musicians who just kind of played in each other’s bands at different times like Sammy duet from Acid Bath, I think played on two or three Crowbar albums, Broken Glass, Equilibrium and maybe one other one I don’t know Jimmy Bauer from my God I know he found out later on that. He was crowbars original drummer and played with them and then of course, many many years later one down came out and I was a huge fan right off the gecko. Oh will not forget about Corrosion of Conformity, the crows once and took over that’s the COC I like best I mean the stuff before him was not bad either and then through reading articles from all these bands I kept hearing the name Melvins come up a lot for influence and I think I heard her a song or two but I started checking them outand yeah apparently they’re the original plan slow and sludgy. Now with all that said it was all to get to the point that my first mastodon album that I was turned onto and I listen to first Leviathan, which has a lot of sludgy guitar sound and riffs but the drumming of.Bramn Drailor drumming is on a whole other fucking level Levitation is just full of his obscure time signatures but also mixed in with just some good ole 4/4 groves right at perfect point in songs but his fills are just absolutely stellar and insane
He’s taken the prog rock technical perfection of Neil peart making his own style where just like Neil anything goes nothing is off limits
“ The Neil Peart of metal druming” and so much more
Been listening to mastodon for years on top of many other bands like lamb of god etc, and yeah...brann dailor is by far my favorite drummer if not the best modern drummer out...u can TRY to change my mind...
I dont need to change your mind because he is one of the greatest metal drummers of all time
What a talented guy!!!!
Dude is a shredder.
My god he's good.
Love to watch brann playing Drums!!
2:55
O, shite! My brann's hurt..
If you guys think all he does is play fast and isn't technical or impressive. listen to some of the stuff off crack the skye. or hell even the hunter. I didn't really even like that album but his playing on it was spectacular if you ask me.
Man idk every album they drop is amazing i don’t like/dislike any of them more than the other, Thats what I love about mastodon, so many bands find there ‘sound’ and then that’s all u get - album after album, u get the same sound and tone with different riffs..
Yet, every single mastodon album is a work of art on its own and is different then the album before it and the one after will also be completely different, mastodon loves there themes man
The only bad part about The Hunter is how unappealing the vocals are. They just went in a weird direction for that one.
Or maybe try to play it, I’ve been playing drums for like 3 years and still am trying to be able to play some of this stuff
I just want them to make one more album like remission and that's it
THE FUCKING MAN.
It is a dream of mine to meet the Brann one day.
That kit sounds amazing, almost as good as the drummer
The tightest lead drummer around. Truly cracking.
As if the original fills weren't enough, Brann goes and adds diddly diddly diddlie's in between the taka-taka's.
He's like watching Niko mc brain but ten times more fills, and still in pocket, lots of butter.
3:55 and the 4:05 blast is my favorite parts
I'M CIRCLE-PITTING WITH MYSELF
Amazing!...
When you watch someone working way harder than you on your best day.
And look him straight in the eyeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Brann is the best. No ear protection though?! :o
i guarantee he has inner ear monitors
No way old school
hes going to have back problems just like phil collins
These videos need more views dammit!
2:11 oof just beautiful
The only best drummer to play this song
fucking amazing
awesome
controlled chaos at its very best
Why does he speed it up on the chorus? It grooves nicely on the record imo
Crazy!
I have yet to figure out the intro. Lol
Mother of God
That is fucking amazing
RIP SNARE
He's so fucking good
brann doesn't use ear monitor.... So amazing!
Coming here because ELOY?😂
Yup 😂
Wow😳😳😳
That snare tho....SHIT.
We get it,meinl cymbals are good,now turn the fucking tom's volume up
Ride cymbals: i have a family, stop it
Modern Bill Ward
How many BPMs do you think this song is played?
+Luis Pedro Martins 186
He reminds me of a modern day Keith Moon. Anyone else?
Hey Brann, you should have a go at flying a helicoptor, I reckon you'd be pretty good at it 😂 xxx ❤
Bad ass
Nice and loose. Perfect
It's the gold tooth.
Morbid Angel lord of the morbid priests!
Not quite death metal.
Anyone remember how sick the drummer from GIZMACHI was?
idol
Fucken lurv it!
You've played before then...
Drum cam halloween
what snare is brann using?
This rocks… but is he not wearing earplugs!?!? 😭😭😭
Got fills?
Wrong, All Mastodon is an underrated band....
Being a drummer SUCKS when you’re a little band with no roadies
For me he is the best drummer, i just love the way he plays the drums BUT i think Chris Adler of Lamb of God is more complete as a drummer, plays insane with his hands aswell as with his legs.