The Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Billy Rymer and Mike Portnoy (Adrenaline Mob, ex-Dream Theater) battled each other at the recent “Drum Fight IX” in Amityville, NY earlier this month. You can watch footage of that below:
they used it on the "city of champions" song as well. the new song 'banshee" is not my favorite.
- MARIACHI EL willX
I remember seeing Death Rattle on Sponge Bob. That definitely made me lol.
- damn
Can't hold a candle to hacktivist.
- warofallwars
I had also heard about this a while ago but was under the impression it would be a new song. Nice choice though. One of...
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Wow, didn’t expect it to be that sick!
well..we all know the apparent winner of that fight…
Rymer bp
Here’s Johnny!
Wow Rymer fuckin killed it.
Rymer absolutely destroyed. The part where he went into 6:00 sealed the deal.
It’s almost funny how Rymer kills Portnoy. Portnoy does his stereotypical hyper-doublebass shit, while Rymer includes great grooves AND then beats Portnoy at his own game.
Said to myslef befor i pressed play, Rymer of course and i was right.
Damn that was awesome.
Everything you can do I can do better! Rymer, and it wasn’t even remotely close.
rymer def won this face off, but in all reality you have to know portnoy is a better drummer.
Uh… no?
The drumming on “Option Paralysis” is better than anything Portnoy has ever done. Yes that includes Dream Theater.
i’ve always wanted to see portnoy getting hatefucked.
This is why I hate getting into drummer discussions with guys over 40. To them, there hasn’t been a talented drummer since Neil Pert. I try to talk to them about drummers like Rymer, but they always say, “just because they can play fast, doesn’t mean they’re good”, but while I’ve listened to Pert, Bonham, and Portnoy, they have never listened to a modern metal drummer.
Thing is: Portnoy can’t do anything but play fast.
hate to say it, but that’s because there hasn’t BEEN a talented drummer since Neil Pert. This coming from someone who is 32 and has been playing guitar for 20 years.
There will never be a drummer who comes anywhere near Pert’s ability to do what he does with the drums. Ever. Period.
Why are you all saying Neil Peart’s name wrong if you’re such big fans?
misspelling his name constitutes giving these guys a Neil Peart Necklace.
You aren’t going to hear me hate on Peart, but what does you playing GUITAR for 20 years have to do with your knowledge of drummers? I’m a fan of Rush and Neil, but to say there is no one better than him is just plan ignorance.
*plain
If you had said there hasn’t been a BETTER drummer than Peart, I would say, “cool, you’re opinion, maybe you’re right, but I disagree.” But you said there hasn’t been a TALENTED drummer since Peart. I’m not even sure which way to begin this reply, so I’m just going to say you’re wrong.
Try talking to someone over 50, to them there hasn’t been a talented drummer since Keith Moon. har! I refer people to Bill Bruford, Billy Cobham, Carl Palmer, Simon Phillips and Terry Bozzio, but I also think an argument could be made that Neil Peart is the originator of progressive rock drumming. Bill Ward was good & heavy, but Peart combined speed, consistent finesse and steady power, a unique sound for its time that noone would (could?) duplicate for years.
Throughout history there has never been a shortage of great drummers, but I think overall drumming in music has improved over the years due to technology and style crossover.
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So the question is: Is Rymer better than Pennie?
it’s definitely close
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