First Sabbath, Opeth, and Gojira, then Maiden and now Mastodon?! I'll be putting my money where my mouth is soon for more Mastodon. Like others I was put onto them when I went to see Gojira on tour earlier this year (they were monstrous live as expected) but Mastodon blew my mind. Their range from heavy sludge metal, to a masterclass of progressive metal, and great use of 3 unique vocalists, while always sounding like themselves, makes them one of the only bands I listen to these days. Glad you enjoyed this, looking forward to much more! Their range and musicality is seriously enormous.
Branns' drum sounds on the last few albums is the best in the business imo. His drums actually sound like you're sitting behind a real drum kit, just perfected.
Just went to Mastodon recently with Gojira. I feel like Blood and Thunder was the only song they did that Brann didn't do the majority of the vocals on. He was the "front man " in my opinion, for the entire show. He never missed a beat. They are a great band to see live.
There’s a MEINL Cymbals live drum cam video of “High Road” in which Brann sings and of course plays drums in. Also on their channel is live drumming and singing footage of “Dry Bone Valley” one of my favorites. Love the videos! 🤘🤘
One of the things I like the most about Brann's drumming is how he does so much on the snare alone. So many rock drummers do the classic fills with their 87 Tom's and 68 cymbals, but Brann does wild snare fills like some drumline escapee.
Saw them a few times in small clubs around Remission & early Leviathan tours. First time the place was half-empty but I remember standing there along with my band at the time's singer - both of us with mouths open like idiots while having our faces thoroughly melted! Brann is such a monster. Fill God. EDIT: Leviathan is a masterpiece. The whole album from start to finish.
Brann is like the King of the drumfill. Their most recent album is alot more mellow (but still awesome!) Check out "more than I could chew". Brann does alot of the clean vocals on the later albums (And he has got a quite nice voice)
This is really someone you should do a deep dive with, Mastodon goes from almost grunge era sounding stuff all the way to really really heavy stuff in their early years. But Brann is a machine, you did the Ghosts of Karelia wayyyy back and I’ve always asked why you haven’t gotten back to him. You said you would and FINALLY you have. He is one of the greats and I think his style is one that will be right up your alley.
Brann Dailor is probably the most underrated drummer. He has amazing chops and can sing while playing complicated drums parts. He didn't sing on the first couple albums
Battle at Sea from Call of the Mastodon is still one of my favorites! What i also love about this band is, that in the past 20 years I've heard them evolve their sound with each album and i love their oldest stuff as well as their newest stuff... no matter how their style changes, it still sounds uniquely mastodon
Cap Crest is one of the craziest songs ever but somehow makes perfect sense. I love when Brent pulls out his banjo skills on guitar riffs. Blood Mountain sits so perfectly between Leviathan and Crack the Skye to me
Brann is so unique and unusual for a metal player in that much of his focus is around the snare rather than going around the kit of double kick etc. Incredibly unique. Awesome songwriter too.
I love Mastodon and have seen them live a few times. They put on a great show. Side note, they have great artwork on their albums and on the merch at their shows.
Their 3 first records where recorded without a metronome and that is why there are not alot of drum playthroughs of brann playing the songs except from some live drum cams. He made 3 more meinl videos though from the latest albums
A band you could throw a dart at and find a great track. Their earlier stuff like this is definitely more intense than where they are now. But they have held on to a great progressive vibe throughout.
Brann usually improvises even on the album drum tracks. But with Blood and Thunder, I'm pretty sure it's their most played song, so Brann has a set way of playing it, almost identically every time (from what I´ve seen)
I was on a shoot for work around 2005 and one of the crew members heard my team making fun of me for loving King Diamond. We started talking, and he LOVED Mastodon. I said I hadn't really listened to them, and I'll always remember what he said: They are incredibly important for our kind music right now. I bought the first two albums the next day.
Wow I’m late to this video. Great one Andrew! Spot on analysis at the end. To your wondering if he composes his drum parts with room for improvisation on the fills, making it different every show etc.. This is pretty damn note for note with the album, fills and all. He’s gone on to say he’s always played with guitarists growing up so developed a style that constantly follows them instead of a rhythm section so to speak. So it definitely sounds like this on pretty much all their music, which has gotten more mainstream over the years, but becomes more sludgy math Metal when you dive into their early works. Take care!
Brann definitely comps or plays with the guitars and bass. He grew up playing with only guitar players and tried to emulate with fills and such. And he plays live most spot on very few if any changes because of how the fills sit with the giutars
The members of Mastodon decided to form a band while they were attending a High on Fire show! I enjoyed their earlier albums, haven't checked anything else out though.
Hello hello all...I saw Mastodon in 2016 on the Mayhem Summer Festival and although I didn't know much about them they kicked arse...They are very talented and all can legitimately sing and have sang thier parts in the studio and live and they still have a hook somewhere in the song structure A very interesting band indeed 🧐✌️🤘
There are a few videos on youtube where it focuses on Brann and the rest of the band is kind of muted if you'd like to get a better feel for his play (Black Tongue for example).
Andrew - PLEASE do yourself a favor and take some time to listen to this album('Leviathan') all the way through, it's a MUST, an incredibly executed concept album(the music fits the story amazingly well). This is the album that got me 'over the hump' with metal, this is the first one where metal stopped sounding like "they're just putting too many notes in" and I actually started to hear the story being told by the instrumentals & vocals. Following the 'Moby Dick' telling as the album moves along, it's incredible how they translate it into music. Without a doubt, a GOAT prog metal band!
Greetings! Not sure if you’ve caught onto this yourself, but from recent interviews Brann revealed he was reluctantly pushed into singing when they were working on a song that the other vocalists just couldn’t execute to their liking. He gave it a go and then the rest is history. Also, turns out his unique drumming style is due to his beginning stages of learning on his own. Someone eventually revealed to him that he should be in sync with the bassets rather than the guitar. Haha! ✌🏼🖖🏼🤘🏼 (peace, live long and prosper, rock on)
Mastodon is always so fun, on your own time check out some of their music videos. They're always like short films and very entertaining. Mastodon is so interesting and fresh and innovative and creative. You can randomly pick any song and always hear something you've never heard before. Enjoy Andrew, I think you've just discovered another rabbithole worth going down!
Long time viewer. I know you did the video on Brann Dailor drumming to Ghost of Karelia, by Meinl Cymbols. He has several more videos on that same kit (with Rodney Dangerfield on the bass drum) that are great. Ember City, Ancient Kingdoms, Precious Stones, and Blasteroid I believe. PLEASE react to them.
I'm still fairly new to Mastodon but I properly got into them about 4 or 5 months ago... I've been pretty much playing them no stop. Check out steambreather that's a brilliant song!
Man, I was THIS CLOSE…II… to picking this one or Seabeast as my next pick … but the cool thing is, its perfect timing cuz my next pick kinda sounds like a Hardcore Punk Mastodon
hola Andrew como estas? si podes escucha un show acustico que hizo Mastodon en un acuario creo que en el 2021. Es de lo mejor que escuche. yo creo que te va a gustar porque hacen temas de los que no suelen tocar en vivo. hay una trilogia de temas basadas en el Elephantman Josep Merrick que son increibles. Por favor tene en cuenta esta recomendacion, al menos para que la escuches fuera de tu casa. gracias por tu trabajo y un fuerte abrazo desde Argentina
Great video, as always. You have to take a look at them. - Ben Shanbrom - "Let The Truth Speak" Official Drum Playthrough. Greetings and keep up the good work.
The earlier stuff was a lot heavier, but still had a great deal of musicality and melody. Brann didn't start singing until a few albums in, but he was always actively involved in the songwriting, particular the lyrics. I've never sat down and compared live to the records, but if his drum parts are not verbatim, they're pretty close. The whole band throws in little improvs here and there, but the core still remains. Cheers!
Yup. Very close live to recorded. Brann's drumming is basically what holds the music together - it would make a lot less sense without his fills over riff changes.
Killer(whale) song and performance. For more Mastodon and more of Brann's singing I would recommend Stargasm or Motherload. Both great songs but dangerous to drive the car with because of the amount of air drumming it generates. Remember safety first people
First Sabbath, Opeth, and Gojira, then Maiden and now Mastodon?! I'll be putting my money where my mouth is soon for more Mastodon. Like others I was put onto them when I went to see Gojira on tour earlier this year (they were monstrous live as expected) but Mastodon blew my mind. Their range from heavy sludge metal, to a masterclass of progressive metal, and great use of 3 unique vocalists, while always sounding like themselves, makes them one of the only bands I listen to these days. Glad you enjoyed this, looking forward to much more! Their range and musicality is seriously enormous.
I loved this! 🤘
The Mastodon ep "Cold dark place" from 2017 is a freakin' masterpiece.
Can't wait to check out more
Branns' drum sounds on the last few albums is the best in the business imo. His drums actually sound like you're sitting behind a real drum kit, just perfected.
The bass player once described Brann as an octopus sitting behind a drum kit, and I think that's strangley fitting
Just went to Mastodon recently with Gojira. I feel like Blood and Thunder was the only song they did that Brann didn't do the majority of the vocals on. He was the "front man " in my opinion, for the entire show. He never missed a beat. They are a great band to see live.
I hope to see them!
Brann didn't start singing in Mastodon until their release of Crack the Skye in 2009. Leviathan released in 2004.
I saw that show here in Vegas with Lorna Shore. One of the very best shows I've ever seen hands down top 5.
Brann is a beast, one of the best metal drummers out there; and killer vocals as well. Great video
Playing chops and vocal chops are A+.
There’s a MEINL Cymbals live drum cam video of “High Road” in which Brann sings and of course plays drums in. Also on their channel is live drumming and singing footage of “Dry Bone Valley” one of my favorites.
Love the videos! 🤘🤘
Brann is like Randy Rhoads but on the drums.
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One of the things I like the most about Brann's drumming is how he does so much on the snare alone. So many rock drummers do the classic fills with their 87 Tom's and 68 cymbals, but Brann does wild snare fills like some drumline escapee.
Saw them a few times in small clubs around Remission & early Leviathan tours. First time the place was half-empty but I remember standing there along with my band at the time's singer - both of us with mouths open like idiots while having our faces thoroughly melted! Brann is such a monster. Fill God.
EDIT: Leviathan is a masterpiece. The whole album from start to finish.
One of the best shows I've seen was Mastodon, Primus and All Them Witches. Bang for your buck.
Awesome pick! I hope there is a deep dive. Such a powerful and talented band. 3 singers taking turns with songs. Badass.
As a huge Mastodon fan, I'm really happy to see they're back. Thank you!
Brann is like the King of the drumfill. Their most recent album is alot more mellow (but still awesome!) Check out "more than I could chew". Brann does alot of the clean vocals on the later albums (And he has got a quite nice voice)
I need to check out some of his vocals
I love how you pronounce "Galicia" absolutely perfect, lovely, cheers from Spain 🤟
🙏🇪🇸
This is really someone you should do a deep dive with, Mastodon goes from almost grunge era sounding stuff all the way to really really heavy stuff in their early years. But Brann is a machine, you did the Ghosts of Karelia wayyyy back and I’ve always asked why you haven’t gotten back to him. You said you would and FINALLY you have. He is one of the greats and I think his style is one that will be right up your alley.
Brann Dailor is probably the most underrated drummer. He has amazing chops and can sing while playing complicated drums parts. He didn't sing on the first couple albums
Yeah he's awesome
Battle at Sea from Call of the Mastodon is still one of my favorites! What i also love about this band is, that in the past 20 years I've heard them evolve their sound with each album and i love their oldest stuff as well as their newest stuff... no matter how their style changes, it still sounds uniquely mastodon
Mother Puncher is an absolute beast of a tune.
For the drummer and the listener.
Mother puncher is so GOATed, shit rips so hard live
Awesome! Please do more mastodon. Capillarian Crest is a drumming clinic
I'll get there!
Cap Crest is one of the craziest songs ever but somehow makes perfect sense. I love when Brent pulls out his banjo skills on guitar riffs. Blood Mountain sits so perfectly between Leviathan and Crack the Skye to me
I found this video while searching for a Capillarian Crest reaction.
Brann is so unique and unusual for a metal player in that much of his focus is around the snare rather than going around the kit of double kick etc. Incredibly unique. Awesome songwriter too.
I love Mastodon and have seen them live a few times. They put on a great show. Side note, they have great artwork on their albums and on the merch at their shows.
they have different artists do individual artwork for each show and sell the posters at the gig
Saw them 2010 at the Big Day Out Sydney, they were middle of the day, one of the most fun crowds I have been in, they kill it live
Their 3 first records where recorded without a metronome and that is why there are not alot of drum playthroughs of brann playing the songs except from some live drum cams. He made 3 more meinl videos though from the latest albums
Oh I love this trivia!
A band you could throw a dart at and find a great track. Their earlier stuff like this is definitely more intense than where they are now. But they have held on to a great progressive vibe throughout.
Brann usually improvises even on the album drum tracks. But with Blood and Thunder, I'm pretty sure it's their most played song, so Brann has a set way of playing it, almost identically every time (from what I´ve seen)
Have always loved the sound they get from sliding the pic up the string, it reminds me of a bullet ricochet
Definitely worth checking the album version of this too and Drumeo of course
I saw them at Roskilde Festival in 2004. Would love to see them again.
You stumbled upon one of the best festival gigs ever! So jealous.
I was on a shoot for work around 2005 and one of the crew members heard my team making fun of me for loving King Diamond. We started talking, and he LOVED Mastodon. I said I hadn't really listened to them, and I'll always remember what he said: They are incredibly important for our kind music right now. I bought the first two albums the next day.
Wow I’m late to this video. Great one Andrew! Spot on analysis at the end. To your wondering if he composes his drum parts with room for improvisation on the fills, making it different every show etc.. This is pretty damn note for note with the album, fills and all. He’s gone on to say he’s always played with guitarists growing up so developed a style that constantly follows them instead of a rhythm section so to speak. So it definitely sounds like this on pretty much all their music, which has gotten more mainstream over the years, but becomes more sludgy math Metal when you dive into their early works.
Take care!
Brann definitely comps or plays with the guitars and bass. He grew up playing with only guitar players and tried to emulate with fills and such. And he plays live most spot on very few if any changes because of how the fills sit with the giutars
The members of Mastodon decided to form a band while they were attending a High on Fire show! I enjoyed their earlier albums, haven't checked anything else out though.
Hello hello all...I saw Mastodon in 2016 on the Mayhem Summer Festival and although I didn't know much about them they kicked arse...They are very talented and all can legitimately sing and have sang thier parts in the studio and live and they still have a hook somewhere in the song structure A very interesting band indeed 🧐✌️🤘
I only know Mastodon from that album and I bought it on the strength of the drumming alone, so a good choice for a reaction.
Good one! Mastadon is one of my favorite bands.
There are a few videos on youtube where it focuses on Brann and the rest of the band is kind of muted if you'd like to get a better feel for his play (Black Tongue for example).
Yeah I need some drum cam!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums th-cam.com/video/hmDeimvvLrE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=f1bMfoVFmP6cwa5l
Thank you for all of your content!
Andrew - PLEASE do yourself a favor and take some time to listen to this album('Leviathan') all the way through, it's a MUST, an incredibly executed concept album(the music fits the story amazingly well).
This is the album that got me 'over the hump' with metal, this is the first one where metal stopped sounding like "they're just putting too many notes in" and I actually started to hear the story being told by the instrumentals & vocals. Following the 'Moby Dick' telling as the album moves along, it's incredible how they translate it into music. Without a doubt, a GOAT prog metal band!
So many options with MASTODON. but here’s a few. BLACK TONGUE, IRON TUSK, CRYSTAL SKULLS
Great band, always evolving but consistently themselves
Greetings! Not sure if you’ve caught onto this yourself, but from recent interviews Brann revealed he was reluctantly pushed into singing when they were working on a song that the other vocalists just couldn’t execute to their liking. He gave it a go and then the rest is history. Also, turns out his unique drumming style is due to his beginning stages of learning on his own. Someone eventually revealed to him that he should be in sync with the bassets rather than the guitar. Haha! ✌🏼🖖🏼🤘🏼 (peace, live long and prosper, rock on)
LOVE IT!
Thanks for those insights
If you really want to see what Brann's doing on the drums during this song then watch this video: th-cam.com/video/q8B4mSW5e88/w-d-xo.html
Thanks Aaron!
@@AndrewRooneyDrums You're welcome :)
This is fire 🔥
SPLIT YOUR LUNGS WITH BLOOD AND THUNDERRR ⚡⛈
A classic.
Mastodon is always so fun, on your own time check out some of their music videos. They're always like short films and very entertaining. Mastodon is so interesting and fresh and innovative and creative. You can randomly pick any song and always hear something you've never heard before. Enjoy Andrew, I think you've just discovered another rabbithole worth going down!
Long time viewer. I know you did the video on Brann Dailor drumming to Ghost of Karelia, by Meinl Cymbols. He has several more videos on that same kit (with Rodney Dangerfield on the bass drum) that are great. Ember City, Ancient Kingdoms, Precious Stones, and Blasteroid I believe. PLEASE react to them.
Still my favourite mastodon song, first one I ever heard by them too
You should listen to Mastodon - Trilobite, if you like conversational drum fills.
More Mastodon vids please!
I'm still fairly new to Mastodon but I properly got into them about 4 or 5 months ago... I've been pretty much playing them no stop. Check out steambreather that's a brilliant song!
Yeah this is good stuff!
Brann’s Subdivisions have subdivisions
HAHAHA
Leviathan and Crack the Skye are GOAT albums.
🤘
Man, I was THIS CLOSE…II… to picking this one or Seabeast as my next pick … but the cool thing is, its perfect timing cuz my next pick kinda sounds like a Hardcore Punk Mastodon
Mastadon 4 the win.......
Troy doesn’t get enough credit for his vocals.
Yeeeeeeeeeeesssssss🎉
YOOOOO
Man you owe it to yourself to listen to all the Mastodon
I will!
This is a drum cam version - th-cam.com/video/q8B4mSW5e88/w-d-xo.htmlsi=zwCZux0LvF5ugiBU 🤘
You are on the right track.
You should check out Thomas Haake from Meshuggah if you haven't already.
Brace yourself.
hola Andrew como estas? si podes escucha un show acustico que hizo Mastodon en un acuario creo que en el 2021. Es de lo mejor que escuche. yo creo que te va a gustar porque hacen temas de los que no suelen tocar en vivo. hay una trilogia de temas basadas en el Elephantman Josep Merrick que son increibles. Por favor tene en cuenta esta recomendacion, al menos para que la escuches fuera de tu casa. gracias por tu trabajo y un fuerte abrazo desde Argentina
Great video, as always. You have to take a look at them. - Ben Shanbrom - "Let The Truth Speak" Official Drum Playthrough. Greetings and keep up the good work.
The earlier stuff was a lot heavier, but still had a great deal of musicality and melody. Brann didn't start singing until a few albums in, but he was always actively involved in the songwriting, particular the lyrics. I've never sat down and compared live to the records, but if his drum parts are not verbatim, they're pretty close. The whole band throws in little improvs here and there, but the core still remains. Cheers!
Yup. Very close live to recorded. Brann's drumming is basically what holds the music together - it would make a lot less sense without his fills over riff changes.
Brann does have drum lessons/playthroughs on YT that might be more interesting.
I'll get to them!
Not something I would normally listen to but that was a solid performance.
Yeah I dig it
There is actually very little improv. This is what his drumming sounds like on the record.
Brann does a lot of back vocals to this song. He isn't singing since the camera would be on him mostly.
Ah right! Thanks
You should listen to megalodon by Mastodon
Killer(whale) song and performance. For more Mastodon and more of Brann's singing I would recommend Stargasm or Motherload. Both great songs but dangerous to drive the car with because of the amount of air drumming it generates. Remember safety first people
he's a metal drummer, but with a distinctly different flair. He does not sound shreddy and technical, even though he is.
Yeah this is a bit different for me
check out John Stanier
The only i can say here is this: Mastodon
Reacciona al estepario siberiano Godzilla de Eminem. Es una locura
If you are reacting to drumvideos, you should definitely never do live videos unless they are drum cam
Considering the rest of the band looks like they're 5 minutes away from raiding the next settlement, the drummer looks surprisingly not metal at all.
Without brann dailor mastodon would be so boring
And he doesn't sing in this one!
Rooney soft stuff sucks and boring - - Heavy stuff much more and more interesting !
Terrible video to react to his drums to. They barely show Brann.