Jazz drummer reacts: Necrophagist Drumming (Romain Goulon)
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- Опубліковано 11 сер 2019
- Watching this dude filet this drumset. It's a collection of clips of guitar tracks, I think.
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"Their logo looks like a leather chair that's been sun damaged." 😂 Reaction hasn't even started and you already won the video.
I was ROLLING when he said that! so classic
Hilarious. I always say most metal bands look like they use a dog biscuit stencil. Squeeze the logo into a dog biscuit with a sharp n pointy font and you good!
Best description of death metal band logos ever.
My friend said it's like spraying ketchup and mustard bottles.
I literally died lmao
You'll end up liking metal. We metalheads will make sure of it.
Que Viva El Metal y Muerte Al Reggeton!!!
seems like he's already taken the gateway drug
Lots of good metal to get jazz heads into the genre. Blotted Science, Watchtower and Spastic Ink are 3 bands I've regularly used to get jazzheads into metal.
@@nfgpunk6517 Estamos en 2019 y aún hay gente diciendo estas tonterías, lamentable.
@@adriantaylor5778 looks like I got three more bands to check out.
So, I’m a metal guy. You don’t seem like a metal guy, but I’m incredibly proud that out of all the metal songs you’ve been asked to do this to you actually picked such a masterful band. Props!
"He looks like a jazz drummer." Most drummers playing extreme metal genres are extremely versatile and well versed in jazz. They often look at playing death an progressive drumming as a technical challenge to push their limits and build their chops. After you have played music like this anything else just flows very effortlessly, especially by working to develop a light touch with a highly finessed style of relaxed playing. The better metal drummers very seldom play with the heavy handed style of decades past. However, check out even Bill Ward of Black Sabbath who was definitely inspired by the likes of Buddy Rich and Bernard Purdy.
Nah, most metal guys aren't well versed in jazz. Thats a goofy assertion. lol
You said this is like the “new way” of playing metal drums... but this song is pretty old... 2004
i think that says alot though in terms of how ahead these guys were in their music. the fact that even today its regarded as "new" in a way.
@@lugoe98 only to a casual.
@@Zombie_Dingo lol so you arent a "casual" doesnt matter anyway doesnt take away from what i said. their music was way ahead of their time and still is kind of an inspiration to any bands that resemble them today.
He's probably comparing against the early 90s or something, metal drummers didn't sound like that 30 years ago
2004 is still modern
Looks at "Diminished to b"
Garrett: Diminished to flat
LOL such a music joke haha
I've never thought that's what the song name means, is that actually what it means?
@@MrBacondeath Yup. The part where the vocals start is in the diminished scale.
@@8man943 I knew that it meant the diminished scale, but the part I didn't understand was that it meant flat, whereas before I thought it meant b as in the letter of the note.
A flat A note is written A followed by a small “b” in italics and looking like when using a power on a number.
Fun Fact: Marco Minnemann (the drummer for Joe Satriani, Guthrie Govan, Paul Gilbert, Steven Wilson, Tony MacAlpine, etc.) played in this band briefly. Would love to see your reaction to some of his material.
Marco Minnemann. There is no way to not admire his shit. The guy is one of the very very few greatest of all times.
He is the best drummer ever, he can go from this amazing metal style to playing with Guthrie Govan and the aristocrats and everything in between.
Marco is a god
Don't forget Freaky Fukin Weirdoz!
Marco plays this at a concert in Montreal, some of the drummers commenting said this guy was better. I'm not saying it, difficult to tell the difference at this level.
The opening song "Stabwound" from their album Epitaph is probably my 2nd favorite song of theirs. AMAZING band! From Germany I believe
What song is your number one?
@@besnardowski5912 for me it'd be "Ignominious and Pale"
@@xenomorph2056 thanks. I'll check it out!
@@besnardowski5912 you won't be disappointed!!
@@xenomorph2056 "Ignominious and Pale" is a fucking masterpiece
The mispronunciation of necrophagist is something I never thought I'd hear 😂 Nice vid
I can't even figure out how he decided that was the pronunciation... Very weird
His mispronunciation of it follows the rhythmic pattern of "necropolis" (as a closely-related example). It's wrong, but it _does_ make sense from an English language perspective.
@@SiGhast good point, I hadn't thought of necropolis. I was focusing on how the part "necro," is pronounced in other words like necrophilia/necrophile, necrophobia/necrophobic/necrophobe, etc. and could only compare it that way, so necrophagia, necrophagist, and also because of the "ph" cluster after "necro."
So I just incorrectly assumed people would see the same connection and pronounce it "neh-kroh-FAY-jihst."
But yeah, I hadn't thought of necropolis.
Yep, from now on I will pronounce it like him, it's so good. :D
@@beefquirky7986 I'm not entirely sure "necrophagist" is an actual English word ("necrophage" seems to be the word for it). That however led me to the adjective form necrophagous ("that eats dead or decaying animal flesh", e.g. "a necrophagous animal") -- which aligns with Garrett's pronunciation as well.
I checked out an old interview with frontman Muhammed, and he pronounces it "Necro-fahg-ist," arguing its Ancient Latin/Greek roots, but goes on to say that since it's a dead language anyway, any pronunciation is legitimate in his view.
Also, Beef Quirky is an _excellent_ name.
Highly recommend reacting to Matt Garstka's playthrough of Arithmophobia, it's amazing
Thanks I have heard good things about him I'll check it out
@@garrettmillerdrums ANYTHING Matt Garstka does with Animals as Leaders is incredible. I also recommend watching Hannes Grossmann playing with "Blotted Science". Hannes Grossman was actually the one who wrote the drums for these Necrophagist songs. After he left, Romain Goulon took over and learned the parts. Romain Goulon eventually went on to play with "Benighted". On THAT note, and for my last recommendation, I recommend watching Benighted's new drummer, Kevin Paradis.
Okay, maybe one more, last one, I promise: Morgan Sansous. He's a progressive/death metal drummer with an amazing heel-toe and an amazing drumkit to boot. Okay, I'm done (for now...)
Or Kascade, pleaaaase :3
@@garrettmillerdrums yessss matt from animals as leaders is insane
Holy fuck yes dude
Romain's wrist technique is jaw dropping. Perfect stick heights every time, perfect balance of speed and power. Dude has more skill in those wrists and hands than most drummers have in their whole body.
Romain Goulon is incredible. To play at these extreme tempos with that kind of poise and excellent posture is just mindboggling.
Seconding the Car Bomb recommendation! The near-constant time signature and tempo changes are unlike anything I've ever heard. They have an album coming out on the 27th and people are watching! Dissect Yourself, Scattered Sprites, and HeLa are the tracks that have been released thus far!
LoL album coming out the 27th...
@@bokusbadee4315 what?
Going through these videos from this dude, it's making me want to go back and relearn these songs again! Just a complete breath of fresh air reigniting a passion from years ago! Thank you Sir!!
Epitaph is either the first or second death metal album I ever listened to and Stabwound (this song) got me hooked lol. This is actually the first song on the album and the way it jumps from the really catchy riff and crazy sweep picked guitar verses that play for like 40 seconds or so before the vocals start... super influential to me.
This album is actually more than 15 years old. This is not the new wave of metal.
It's not the new wave of metal, but it is the best wave of metal.
this album is timeless. for me it is always actual
yes, haven't listened to this in a loong time. Necrophagist is the squeeky clean little brother of Death. (Gene Hoglan).
I think he said 'new way of playing metal'. As compared to the early 90's. That's how i took it at least.
@PIZZA nah bro
Porcupine tree - Anesthetize (Tillburg live) 17 mins of pure musical bliss!
Gavin Harrison is a drum god!
Oh god yes.
He already did
The euphoric face expressions are just amazing, I can totally see your passion for music
I love the way this guy plays...So relaxed and precise man !!
necro-phā'-gist
Dude I love your channel. I don't even drum but I listen to a lot of metal and seeing someone so knowledgeable talk about the drumming in songs I love is amazing. I can tell your channel is going to be seeing some growth here.
Good video! These samples brought me back. Nice analysis.
He's such an amazing drummer, glad you checked this out!
Loving your videos man!
"you see his chops popping" 😂 brilliant, so glad you just came up in my feed. 👍
I totally enjoy your posts!!!!
Look at Hannes Grossmann
I’d recommend either Alien Utopia or Anticosmic overload.
sooo many songs from Obscura that are good. Anything from the new Diluvium album really shows off that jazz style
Yeah, he never really got to show his creativity in necro, even hannes says so.
@@wabbajackwabbajack6932 he ain't on that or akroasis tho
Wabbajack Wabbajack
Diluvium is a new drummer; that’s Sebastian Lanser (also an amazing drummer and friend of Hannes)
@@thefourshowflip didnt realize they had a new drummer too. I guess that makes sense it does sound a different.
Love your videos
Like your vids man. Great content.
Why not some Ne Obliviscaris. The drummer in this band has his own UA-cam channel where he does drum cam videos of there songs.
His name is Dan Presland
Because Romain Goulon is one of the best drummers in metal and had been doing it for a long time
YES! Dan is one of my all time favorites. The guys legs are like machines that never tire.
Yes Ne Obliviscaris drummer is a beast. He does same as in this video but for 17 minutes songs
Devour me Colossus
He did it
I fuckin love this band! I always wanted to drum but never did. It's a really cool assessment you did man.
Opeth “ Deliverance”
Or the lotus eater
@@Metallicazor Or "hessian peel"
Hey bud just found your channel. I'm a metal drummer myself but have started to work on playing jazz for the first time in years. Your videos are great!
Check out Eloy Casagrande from Sepultura and Blake Richardson from Between the Buried and Me.
This song is amazing!!!!!!! Love this!!!!!!
I like your wardrobe, SO relaxed! 😂 and your vids too. 🤘🏾
Hey dude, cool stuff you got here, Ive been a drummer for 20 years and Im impressed with your knowledge. Ill be binging all your videos now! You got a sub right here. Rock on!
How are things in vice city??
@@saradindumondal2988 Things are great here! You should really come visit sometime!
Please do Tomas Haake - Stengah drumcam. I really would like to hear your input.
Edit: The video is actually called Tomas Haake - Wincent Drumcam Spotlight
Pretty cool that you d some tech. metal stuff, Marco Minneman is actually a jazz drummer who played in necrophagist as well and I think he did an audition for dream theater. I think a lot of people would enjoy a reaction video from you to this audition video (including me ofc! ), cheers from austria. Romain Goulon is so good, incredible guy.
More NECROPHAGIST stuff please
Romain Goulon is the best drummer in metal. The reason I say that is technique. He can play any technique and does them all so well. He teaches or did not sure but he is a master. His own work is incredible, just so many things he can do and incorporate into a song.
Your audience is mainly metalheads because (almost) every good metal drummer has a great jazz background.
Keep it up!
Go for Sebastian Lanser from obscura, sermon of the seven suns!
or Perpetual Infinity!
If it’s Obscura it has to be anything Hannes recorded
Gar Samuelson will always be my favourite Metal drummer with a jazz fusion background, the unique sound him and Chris Poland brought to Megadeth in the early days was so cool 🤘
Dude... Sweet video!
"almost like jazz drummer"
That's because he is a jazz drummer :)
Yeah there was some shit not long ago on his page about how hes walking away from metal. I wanna say thats how Kevin paradis became benighteds drummer instead. Romain now plays jazz
Metal is just fast distorted jazz with different keys/scales.
@@Msyme90 especially if you look at bands like ephel duath
@@Destrodooomocculta Wait, for real? Romain is stepping back from the metal world?
@@motopolak idk months and months ago on his page he said he was and the quit benighted. But ive seen hin doing metal stuff too. Find him on facebook.
Subscribed already I like this guy concept ... Besides he is super pro at the time to talk about any other musician
Marco Minnemann used to play with this band, I think.
Yes he did!
Yes, he was like their first drummer,
I saw him live with them!
For sure. The programmed drum parts on 'Onset of Putrefaction' were actually just Marco messing around with an early-2000s version of CuBase.
@@jsotelo8918 Onset came out in 1999, and Muhammed programmed the drums for that album.
If you hear closely to 'Breath in a Casket' around the 2:04 mark there is an extra drum kick flam note he probably forgot to remove, and it carried over to its re-release in 2004. Which it was done by sampling their (at that time) drummer Hannes Grossmann's real drumset, sort of in the way Catch-33 by Meshuggah was done. (programmed drums with a VST, Drumkit from Hell)
You really need to react to Sean Reinert, he's really a beast too.
You could react to he's drum cam to Evolutionary Sleeper or some of his old live videos with Death (Flattening Of Emotions or Lack Of Comprehension)
And I think you also need to react to Gavin Harrison playing The Sound Of Muzak, Anesthetize or Cheating The Polygraph aaaand I can't forget about his insane playing on Way Out Of Here in the heavy section of the song.
Oh! And I almost forgot about Bobby Jarzombek playing Peppered Cancer.
Nowadays...we have real technician musicians playing metal. They grew up listening to the old thrash and speed gods, wanting to do what they do. So they bought drums and guitars, and took music classes, many of them went to college and got music degrees. They can not only play fast and loud, they can read music and write songs, not just jam out riffs. They know how music works, not just how it should sound. It's a beautiful time to be listening to metal.
"A Leather chair that's been sun-damaged" spot on! XD
Your analysis on drummers are actually educated and awesome! You should do a video on Gojira songs: Art of Dying, Gift of Guilt, L'Enfant Sauvage, The Axe, or literally any of their songs.
Bobby Jarzombek old instructionals (peppered cancer, school, so it ain't) are just timeless displays of open handed metalish fusion badassery.
Romain is a fantastic drummer, he delivered a crazy drumming method called the metal chops matrix which is really advanced. He also plays jazz, of course...
Ain't nobody do it like Necrophagist \m/
You really nailed what death metal band name logos look like.
Awesome video, just found you ... Necrophagist ... subscribed. Cheers from Italy
You should check out "Lights out" by Car Bomb. It is doozey on the drums
Yeah that modulation of the tempo in the intro is incredible, listened to that on repeat when it came out!
Great choice. Would be a good reaction video
Just listened..definitely crazy tempos and HEAVY
Started to listen to these guys not all that long ago. Easily now in my top ten, if not 1,2. It’s not just the sticks alone. He’s also got the pedal work. Insane. If you can find some vids with Hannes Grossman, a former member of the band, he shows in great detail how he goes about his craft.
Romain's delay effect is fucking awesome 👌
I saw Necrophagist a few years ago headline a fest, there were five bands before them the night I was there. I have to say that Necrophagist was in a another league altogether, just insane musicianship from Suicmez and Goulon. Goulon started studying at age 5 at the Conservatory in Paris, if memory serves, he’s like a classical musician.
Been watching for a few weeks, just subscribed. Loving the jazz drummer view on metal.
Firstly. More Meshuggah. The older stuff even has jazz breakdown sections.
Secondly. Marco Minnemann. You may know him from The Aristocrats...but he toured with Necrophagist on one of their cycles and he fucking killed it.
Highly recommend Alex Rudinger from The Faceless doing a playthrough of Xenochrist! It's highly technical and sounds very similar to this. Hope you check it out! Love the vids!
Any videos by Alex will blow your mind!! :)
Xenochrist is a lot easier than this.
Alex has a cover of Stabwound with guitars re-recorded by Erick and Mario from CHON.
@@thisnamesbetter what??? No way
Best Alex's drums are in the (sick stars) band Conquering Distopya
Phonetically- Neck-row-fay-jist. Cool video, I really like hearing perspective on metal coming from a jazz drummer as I am a musician doing the opposite, going from metal into jazz. Would love to hear more analysis of Meshuggah/Tomas Haake in the future.
Stabwound. My favorite song of theirs.
Man you have to check out Hannes Grossman. He's the original drummer and composer on this track.
Anything technics this guy is doing with the grip and playing style is just emulating what Hannes did.
Hannes's best drum track and one you should check from a technical point of view is Alkaloids - chaos theory and practice.
Or as a previous poster said, his work with Obscura on the track. Anti cosmic overload. I think you'll appreciate the shuffle in it.
As a metal drummer 25/30 years . Hannes is one of the most imaginative drummers I've ever heard
I think I could list off another 5/10 drummers to check out but most of your posters have already got it covered.
Really enjoying your videos . Keep them coming.
That head nod hahah you will love metal sooner or later
awesome
Necrophagist was a german band but they disbanded a few years ago. The name means "eater of dead bodies", nekro (dead body, like in necromancer, or necrosis) and phag, meaning to eat.
My favorite metal drummer is Emil Wiksten. 'Aeon - Satanic Victory' is great reaction material!
Cool stuff Garret, Highly recommend Eliott Hoffman from Car Bomb, jaw dropping stuff, and Chris Turner from Ocean ate Alska
AHAHAH, i was just sitting here trying to put together a suggestion bout Kai Hato. Then you mentioned that you reacted to that already ^^
Highly recommend any Opeth song. Heavy but technical. Give it a watch!
Metal is "over". Drummers working to hard will get them blown up! I love the wrestling lingo. It made me pop! You're totally babyface in this video.
Necrophagist is awesome, this album specially
Hannes Grossman was the drummer on the Necrophagist album most of the tracks Romain is playing to here.
Hannes is really awesome.
Anything by his newer band Alkaloid would be awesome.
I am fan of this drummer....I like it
Eloy Casagrande - Manipulation of Tragedy (Sepultura) - Live Session
Neh craf a gest. Hahaha. Great vids
gotta love the couchmen hat
Haha :D Necro - Pha - Gist. We are still WAITING for their 3rd album . . . it should come out before the universe implodes. Lots of great requests coming-in for other drummers in extreme bands (I have a couple of suggestions under your 2nd Meshuggah vid).
"Romain Goulon" (in the video) has a few projects he's worked on since Necrophagist, lots to checkout!
Check out the band The Aristocrats, their drummer used to play in Necrophagist. The Aristocrats is a jam band that compiles a lot of jazz, metal, rock, country, damn near everything...
I’ve become a bit addicted to watching these videos!! You come across a very sound guy (which is what we call a really nice person in Ireland!) and I enjoy your reactions and comments. I’m into metal so I’m curious about some of the phenomenal metal drummers out there. Perhaps check out the drummer Aaron Stechauner from the band Rings of Saturn sometime.
"Diminished to flat" made me spit my drink lol
I used to play in a melodic deathmetal band years ago. Played guitar and used to play drums years prior. I really get what you said about sound. often, especially unexperienced bands, try to overdo it and make everything more extreme when sometimes it would just be better to tone things down a little and everyone would suddenly be able to hear what you're doing.
We had one gig at a small venue where the sound-mixer was this oldschool hippie kinda guy who was NOT into metal AT ALL. I felt a little bad for the dude because he had to sit through a whole night of death and thrash bands whose music he didn't like one bit but he had to actually listen to them because he was there to do sound (and stage tech). BUT the cool thing is: his different outlook actually helped and made everything sound better and more clear because he wasn't trying to make stuff sound MORE extreme but instead toned it down a little. We had one of the best sounds ever that night! :)
I am too lazy to read the comments...... but its Neck row fay just. Great videos man, Ive wacthed a bunch tonight. And as an old drummer from way back, I love your take on thedse, from a fresh prespective. no auto corredt on my chromebook fn pos so wharever haha Cheers
I’d love to see you react to César Vesvre’s Deathspell Omega’s covers. Such intricacy, not to mention stamina.
"I'LL ASSUME THAT THEIR LOGO LOOKS LIKE A LEATHER CHAIR THATS BEEN... ...SUNDAMAGED"
There’s a lot of jazz influences in metal, that’s why.
Buddy Rich and jazz drummers of his time pioneered the blast beat.
Really dope that you can appreciate all kinds of drumming man. Hannes Grossman another drummer of necrophagist is really musical as well I think you would really love his drumming more honestly l. Check out Allan Cassidy of the black dahlia murder!
I love it when you get that i gotta take a shit stink face on parts you dig. Been a long time metalhead i do it often.
Hey man! So "The Almighty Algorithm™" threw this video into my recommendations. I went back to your Meshuggah and Wintersun videos and I'm about to binge your other stuff. Very cool, good insights! I always love these types of reactions as a fellow musician. I'll try to think of something fun for you to listen to and throw it in a comment somewhere. Cheers!
Cool insight! You have to check out a drumcam of Dark Funeral - Vobiscum Satanas
Alot of these metal drummers got their start with jazz.
No drummer anywhere should ever shit on jazz. Ive met a few and it blows my mind
By the way, Necrophagist would mean something like a person who eats dead people.
"Necro-" means dead or a dead body, phage/phag means "eater"/"eater of", and "-ist" means having a specialty/focus/action.
I'm a metalhead but love jazz!!
he´s cymbals must last forever
Band = "Faceless", Song = "Planetary Duality" "Drum cam"
I second this one
If you can find anything played by Nils "Dominator" Fjellstrom (ex-Aeon, ex-Dark Funeral) give it a listen. Worth it.
Dude....Archspire! Go for it