DestroyYouAlot said

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Thing is, if you were a rock-solid drummer who could anchor a band, I'd probably have overlooked an awful lot of douchiness (or at least been able to stomach it for longer). You're not, though. You're powerful with mid-paced shit, and your fills are creative as hell. You're an unexciting player on slow stuff (MORE SABBATH, PLZ), but that's not a fatal flaw in a metal drummer. However, you want to be Mr. Blastbeat all the time and do SICC BROOTAL STUFF DOOD. Two problems: A) You feather the snare, and it's inaudible when you blast. You are already aware of this, because you've told us that this was a problem in previous bands, but you never do anything about it (like it's our problem). B) As soon as you start to blast, you lose the ability to count to 8. 12345678 1234567 12345678 123456 isn't raw and br00tal, it's sloppy. This also isn't fatal - plenty of bands deal with this, to be honest - except that your accents are in completely random places, the fills either go over or drop beats, and you insist on always doing straight double bass along with, so there's not a damn thing to lock onto. And when nobody can follow, you blame everyone else. If I didn't know any better, I might have believed you, but I've played with drummers who can actually blast (Tim from Nadir and Marc from Steve & Dave, for example), and never had a hard time following what was going on. Playing beyond your ability is one thing (that's how people improve, to a certain extent), but nobody can tell you anything because you KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING, so it never changes. From what I heard about the amount of drum edits required to make the Hekseri demo possible, this is nothing new. TAKE A LESSON, SMELLHAMMER.