rockarollacola
09.09.20 | I like my snare like I like my women; Fat and loud.
I'm gonna have to go with that Demolition Hammer record. Snare is beefy as fuck. |
Sharkattack
09.09.20 | I like my snares like I like my women: tight and snappy. |
Eakflanderyof
09.09.20 | Old cryptopsy albums |
Eakflanderyof
09.09.20 | one that I've been listening to recently with a great snare sound is that first myrkgrav album |
rockarollacola
09.10.20 | "If she ain't 280, she ain't a lady."
- Some black dude I worked with, 2020 |
YoYoMancuso
09.10.20 | The Way of All Flesh by Gojira has a perfect drum mix |
evilford
09.10.20 | Where is all idols fall before the hammer |
Jots
09.10.20 | stanger |
porcupinetheater
09.10.20 | Always loved the tone on Hacksaw to the Throat’s Wastelands |
Morningrise767
09.10.20 | Leprosy's snare always seems to punch me in the face whenever I hear it : ) |
porcupinetheater
09.10.20 | Good call |
Minushuman24
09.10.20 | sT. aNgEr |
Emim
09.10.20 | The snare on White Pony is godly |
el_newg
09.10.20 | no way would I say And Justice for All. I'm used to the drum sound now after listening to the album for years but those are not good sounding drums. Black Album on the other hand, is one of the best produced rock/metal albums ever made imo. if you want a good sounding snare listen to literally the first second of Don't Tread on Me. the thing is beefy as hell. |
Dedes
09.10.20 | Mgla snare best snare |
TronaldDump
09.10.20 | Lateralus, Danny knows how to make a drum kit, not just snare, sound good. |
Rowhaus
09.10.20 | I’ll add more tomorrow for sure since this was pretty rushed. Dude you’re crazy if you think AJFA has bad drums. Listen to the intro of Frayed Ends bro that shit slays HARD. |
cinnamoncakeface
09.10.20 | Autumn Aurora by Drudkh has crisp drum sound and all killer playing. |
el_newg
09.10.20 | the bass drum sounds like plastic imo lol |
wildinferno2010
09.10.20 | Everything on AJFA sounds dry, especially the drums which sound really clicky. I guess it works for the album okay, but still.
The snare on White Pony is godly [2] |
Morningrise767
09.10.20 | "Everything on AJFA sounds dry, especially the drums which sound really clicky."
Yes very true, but I actually really dig that sound haha |
OmairSh
09.10.20 | Here are some I really like:
Opeth - Watershed, GR
Fates Warning - Theories of Flight
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Dream Theater - FII (yes the snare sounds thicc and amazingly crisp) |
Morningrise767
09.10.20 | yeah the snare on GR sounds sweet, well everything on that album sounds great haha |
dedex
09.10.20 | ctrl + f 'anger' 2 results
yes once again sput doesn't disappoint!!! |
Scheumke
09.10.20 | 5 and 9 so hard.
"Porcupine Tree - Deadwing" agreed, also Fear of Blank Planet. Harrison's entire kit sounds amazing on both tbh. |
wildinferno2010
09.10.20 | "Dream Theater - FII"
Pretty much any Portnoy post-Awake. Dude knows how to tune his kit |
JeremiahBullfrog
09.10.20 | Glam Metal / Hard Rock
Black Veil Brides "IV" and "Wretched & Divine" snare pops like a balloon.
Also, Rowhaus, agreed Blood Of Kingu is so fucking damn good, whole album slays. |
garas
09.10.20 | "the bass drum sounds like plastic imo lol"
Man of culture!
*Fenriz's seal of approval* |
TheNotrap
09.10.20 | I never really thought about it, but I do love the snare sound in And Justice for All and South of Heaven. |
Madbutcher3
09.10.20 | a lot of osdm has great sounding snares (usually cus of scott burns or colin richardson)
cynic - focus
bolt thrower - for victory
resurrection - embalmed existence
obituary - cause of death
otherwise
gutslit - amputheatre
leeway - born to expire
machine head - burn my eyes
queensryche - empire
trivium - shogun
coroner - mental vortex
exodus - exhibit b
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HarryBoBerry
09.10.20 | Dope list with dope comments. Snares are so satisfying.
I came here to mention Isis - Oceanic. Aaron Harris' snare as a beautiful pop to it. |
BenThatsMyJamin
09.10.20 | Helmet got that hardcore popcorn thing going on and me likey |
Rowhaus
09.10.20 | added a whole lot more thanks guys |
OmairSh
09.10.20 | "I never really thought about it, but I do love the snare sound in And Justice for All"
I thought we were friends Trap |
SgtShock
09.10.20 | I love Austin Lunn's snare sound. Sounds like a gunshot inside of a dumpster.
(Edit for example: Panopticon - Roads to Winter, Saor - Aura) |
RogueNine
09.10.20 | Russian Circles - Memorial |
Rowhaus
09.10.20 | thanks Rogue |
rockarollacola
09.10.20 | That snare drop on Immortal Rites is perfection [2]
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Ziggity
09.11.20 | Vein - errorzone
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bloc
09.11.20 | Excellent picks |
OmairSh
09.11.20 | The sputnik brain dump. With all our powers combined! |
Rowhaus
09.11.20 | You da man ziggity |
wildinferno2010
09.11.20 | I don't I've looked up music by snare sound before. Some good shit on this list tho |
evilford
09.11.20 | all idols fall before the hammer [2]
I wasnt joking |
Eakflanderyof
09.11.20 | "I don't I've looked up music by snare sound before. Some good shit on this list tho"
Its mostly a drummer thing i think |
ReturnToRock
09.11.20 | St Anger.
...Just kidding. |
wildinferno2010
09.11.20 | @Eakflanderyof I am a drummer, still never done it lol |
Eakflanderyof
09.12.20 | I get ya. I've been playing for 12 years but its really only been the last 3 to 4 years that I've gotten super nerdy about drum sound in albums. There are some albums I used to like that I find hard to listen to now because the drum sound is too synthetic sounding (something a lot of modern tech/prog metal and just a lot of post 2000 metal in general suffer from).
Really like that live drum sound that a lot of 80s and 90s metal has. Modern production and triggering sucks the life out of the kit especially snare and kick
Sorry for the rant lol |
Eakflanderyof
09.12.20 | "Have any of your albums been recorded with all real acoustic drum notes and no trigger sample, drum sample editing or quantization?" |
wildinferno2010
09.12.20 | ^I got that reference, nice haha
I feel you on the production thing, bad sounding drums are points against an album for me too, it's one of my biggest gripes woth a lot of metal these days. Natural sounding drum tracks ftw |
chemicalmarriage
09.12.20 | Toe ya dumb bitch |
wildinferno2010
09.12.20 | Yea, but Toe isn't a metal band |
rockandmetaljunkie
09.12.20 | What about St anger? That album is like the apotheosis of snare. |
deathschool
09.12.20 | Psychostick - The Flesh Eating Rollerskate Holiday Joyride
You probably wouldn’t even like the album that much. But I think about how great the snare in that album is a lot. |
Rowhaus
09.18.20 | Added some more. Also ford I can't find that. What's the band name? |
Ziggity
09.18.20 | 63 is fun as fuck, I absolutely love that album. The drumming is insane on there. |
AggroCrag
10.23.20 | Where Owls Know My Name - Rivers of Nihil
snare slappppps |
Emim
10.23.20 | Damn, deathschool I haven't thought about Psychostick in a few years. |
AggroCrag
10.23.20 | also Sun eater by job for a cowboy. check the track son of nihility https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDo-VEam_JA |
Eakflanderyof
10.23.20 | Want to add deathspell omega - fas-ite.
Forgot how great the drums sound on that album |
teamster
10.23.20 | Alcest - Kodoma |
TheAntichrist
10.23.20 | list is missing bathory - octagon and metallica - st. anger |
Rowhaus
10.23.20 | basketball snare haha |
Madbutcher3
10.23.20 | Cannibal Corpse - Gallery of Suicide has a good snare, just about the only good thing about its production.
Exhumed - Necrocracy
Stratovarius - Destiny
Brutal Truth - Need to Control
Psychotic Waltz - Mosquito
Heathen - Victims of Deception
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys Part 2
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evilford
10.24.20 | @ row
Adversarial |
Rowhaus
10.24.20 | you're on the board ford :] |
Hyperion1001
10.24.20 | Korn - Issues
in general nu-metal had and has the best snares in the business imo |
AggroCrag
10.24.20 | god i hate to agree with the above but thats where the money is..... LISTEN TO THIS SNARE (Ben grosse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3MqtYdTpmQ
Also, anything done by Mark Lewis
white chapel - the valley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfD97Xo3nUU
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AggroCrag
10.24.20 | I need to stop flooding this thread and i will but devin townend also mixes incredibly huge drums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhcoLO8vZZU
edit: lied |
AggroCrag
10.24.20 | "Really like that live drum sound that a lot of 80s and 90s metal has. Modern production and triggering sucks the life out of the kit especially snare and kick"
While I totally get this opinion and personally love real drums with some compression and EQ, some metal has evolved with techniques so fast they cant be heard loud enough to be played live (heel toe, blastbeats, etc). Fallujah would be a good example of this
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chemicalmarriage
10.24.20 | Devin townsend for sure. Takin that black album to the next level |
chemicalmarriage
10.24.20 | "The drums are perfection but the music is stale bread."
Crouton is the preferred nomenclature. |
Madbutcher3
10.24.20 | triggers are useful for modern metal but excessively compressed and overbearing drum sounds are really common and are either tiring or sound like garbage
also forgot but Mercyful Fate - Melissa has a great drum sound and good snare |
Eakflanderyof
10.24.20 | Yeah i get why bands need triggers using advanced techniques at fast tempos and the like but im kind of a boomer about it I guess. Its impressive, but like madbutcher said, it's tiring to listen to. I can't listen to overly triggered drums for very long |
Madbutcher3
10.24.20 | the triggers aren't really the problem usually, it's how they're used with compression and limiting. kick drum samples are usually super scooped, tonnes of bass and clicky attack, so pushing them with tonnes of compression tends to lead to a lot of extreme frequencies constantly. the trick is probably using a more natural sound and compressing that, and leaving the triggers fairly dry |
Eakflanderyof
10.24.20 | Well yeah, that's what I mean when I say overly triggered even though that's not the proper way to describe it. I don't mind kick drum triggers live. I've used a kick trigger live myself in fact. It's the mix of drum samples and editing in the studio that kills the drum sound for me. Takes all the life out of it |
Sinternet
10.24.20 | probably morbid angel with the best drum sound ever in metal probably |
TheAntichrist
10.24.20 | covenant for best drum sound imo. those bass drums in particular sound so powerful |
Eakflanderyof
10.24.20 | Agreed hard on morbid angel. That's like the prime example of that live drum sound i was referring to for early 90s metal. Sandoval pulled off some incredibly fast and clean playing with all natural drums. All his fills are so tight and clean, it makes me wanna quit playing lol |
TheAntichrist
10.24.20 | he beat a drum machine at its own game lol |
Eakflanderyof
10.24.20 | I mean, it goes without saying, but morbid angel was really just on another level |
Hyperion1001
10.24.20 | which is funny because sandoval helped popularize the use of triggers live back in the day.
and yeah, acoustic vs. triggers doesn't matter. most acoustic are replaced with samples in postproduction anyways. as long as you have a engineer who knows how to mix it's usually a good result. |
Eakflanderyof
10.24.20 | Yep, I'm not contradicting any of that really. I've been in the studio to record multiple albums and that's absolutely the case. Overcompression and over editing is more of a problem in the djent/core genres than anywhere else where its done to the point that it sounds like electronic drums. But yeah, pretty much every engineer uses drum replacement for sure |
Eakflanderyof
10.24.20 | Whoops double post |
chemicalmarriage
10.24.20 | Post a link to your music eakflander I wanna check out your drum tones |
Madbutcher3
10.25.20 | sandoval used triggers from domination onward i think or to some degree in the studio earlier, but his kit sound on covenant is really amazing |
TheAntichrist
10.25.20 | i can tell he used them on domination. they sound like shit, but at least the album and his playing are good |
DDDeftoneDDD
10.25.20 | Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
The snare is atrociously good |
DePlazz
10.25.20 | Revocation's Deathless, no? Phil Dubois rules on that one |
EphemeralEternity
11.22.20 | all I can really imagine is melinoe cause I'm listening to it right now so...melinoe.
Or Behemoth's satanist had sick sounding drums from memory |
Deathconscious
11.22.20 | For some reason i love the snare in Nuclear Desecration - Desecrated Temple of Impurity. It pops so good. |
JeremiahBullfrog
11.23.20 | Nice Inclusion of Gorgoroth's "Ad Majorem" as the record has niiiice everything |
DrGonzo1937
11.23.20 | yes! Reise, Reise has an awesome sounding snare, glad it isn't just me thinking it |
Rowhaus
11.23.20 | Melinoe slays and I haven't heard that ND album but I'll give it a listen. Keep those snares tight |
Samano89
11.25.20 | Kudos man cool list! I like how you put “And Justice For All” on there, I hear plenty people complain about the sounds on that album but it’s my personal favorite Metallica album and I love Ulrich’s drum sound on it. I’d love to hear if you like any of these that I personally would add: Infester - “To the Depths In Degredation,” Eucharist- “A Velvet Creation,” Massacre - “From Beyond.” |
Rowhaus
11.25.20 | Sweet recs. I haven't listened to Infester in forever and Massacre basically took a nosedive after their debut. |
CalculatingInfinity
11.25.20 | A list after my own heart, one of the main things I want in metal. Some great picks here. |
Rowhaus
11.25.20 | Looks like sput has a quite a few drummers lurking around |
Keyblade
11.25.20 | ghost reveries and ashes against the grain |
Rowhaus
11.25.20 | added a few more of my own m/ |
Rowhaus
11.30.20 | Determined to get this to 100 |
NeroCorleone
11.30.20 | Archagathus - Dehumanizer |
Rowhaus
12.01.20 | almost there |
TheAntichrist
12.01.20 | where is st. anger snare? |
Deathconscious
12.01.20 | ^ someone had to do it, i guess. |
TheAntichrist
12.01.20 | not even kidding tho lol |
Deathconscious
12.01.20 | Oh. what the fuck. |
TheAntichrist
12.01.20 | so bad it's awesome |
Deathconscious
12.01.20 | Like The Room of snares? |
TheAntichrist
12.01.20 | even better |
Rowhaus
12.01.20 | for me 91 is what SA should've sounded like |
Rowhaus
12.22.20 | finally finished this beast |
DungeonBoy
12.22.20 | the snare on 13 is comical, but it works so well. That album is pure treble |
Rowhaus
12.22.20 | yeah that's my go-to clackitty snare album lol |
