Metal Drummer – Session drummer
I played live session drums for ASPHYX in January and February 2025. For the first show, in Portugal, I had 5 days to learn the 1 hour headlining setlist. Curious how that went? Check out the drum cam compilation video of the show at Mac 3 in Bordeaux, France!
Here’s the ASPHYX live video from France, Feb 22, 2025. I made this drum cam compilation out of footage shot by Philippe of Metal is the Law with my Sony Music Cam:
I’m playing an exclusive live show with black metal misanthropes WALG! This drum rehearsal video includes some hickups and tempo drifts, because this is where I was with the song at the time. The drum sound is recorded with my S10, can you believe it?
WALG LIVE at PITFEST (NL), 11 – 13 July 2025: https://pitfest.nl/line-up/walg
As is often the case with me, this drum video was sitting on my hard disk, waiting for me to do something with it. So, I decided to do something with it. Here’s a blast from the recent past:
Netherlands based death metal band DICTATED released their new album PHOBOS in October 2019. I created a play-through video, to show you what’s played on the drums and how I play it.
While writing drums for Lysso, a very diverse song and the fastest on the album, I went beyond the ‘usual’ blast beats & double bass. I dipped into my marching drum roots, as well as Hoglan/Reinert influenced cymbal work and Cavalera-like tribal drums. Be sure to watch till the end if you’re into Dirk blasts!
This video was recorded entirely in my own drum studio. I got a drumless mix of the song from Double Impact studios and mixed my own drum recordings to it. Like what you hear? Contact me if you need professional drum tracks for your music.