Forty-seven years ago today, drummer Dave Lombardo was born in Havana, Cuba. Never heard of Dave? That’s okay. If you’ve listened to any heavy metal in the past 25 years, you’ve definitely heard his ...
"I put way more emphasis on a drummer's personality than technique." It's a surprising statement, coming from Mike Portnoy, one of the most admired drummers in heavy music for the past three decades.
The double bass. Everyone knows the double bass—it goes "boom, boom, boom." Sometimes, to paraphrase Sophia Loren, it goes "boom, boody, boom." In the hands of a virtuoso it does so much more than ...