Brann Dailor (Mastodon) - Blood and Thunder

April 16th 2012, Tennesee Theater

[BooNillaHD]

Brann's snare always sounds good af

[bdl]

Brann is easily one of the best drummers ive ever seen

[CamxCam.]

Learning every song on Leviathan growing up probably helped improve my playing more than anything else, including private lessons & 6 years of marching band.

[pierredessein]

The only guy who can make a crap ton of snare sound good in metal!

[luigiaddatu]

since I've first grinded on some mastodon and doing some research, Brann becomes my favorite drummer and Mastodon is my new favorite band now

[DeadRingerMachine]

I don't know how this dude makes it through an entire set.

[EchoLog]

I want every album of theirs mixed like this please

[AI-]

Absolutely amazing, clean, precise and creative drum performance!

[oleksandrisaienko]

Shite, I want to master his fills so bad.

[EnvyMachinery]

My brain knows exactly what's happening with every hit, but it just can't can't comprehend what my eyes are seeing.

[Aaron_Gentry]

I was actually at this show and didn't have the sense to realize that Brann was being filmed

[ZackMester]

My new aspiration. So glad i know about this guy now 

[radiopinkzeppelin]

that sound wave hat is the stuff dreams are made of... wet dreams

[lucasfsl]

Vindo conferir a performance do Brann depois de ver Eloy tocando no Drumeo 😅😅 duas lendas 🔥🔥

[interstellish]

Those are jazz/fusion fills played very fast and pretty loud. Brann's technical skills and his ear for accompaniment are peerless.

[MDGolfaddict]

Awesome drummer, does it with the minimum of fuss as it looks like he is hardly breaking sweat here

[jhoggatt]

Dude is cool got to say hi to him after the show.not only is he a good drummer. He's got good pipes.

[rafanj]

The last part of the song is so energic, great drumming.

[novic]

One can only imagine how much he needs to tune that snare

[DanikaSimpson-vddg]

My first mastodon album I bought on a friend’s recommendation. I’ve gone through all my different genres & styles of rock & roll and more importantly my journey through classic metal NWOBHM, thrash, death grind core and any other extreme metal I was turned onto and liked but forming my thrash years when I was 13/14 till my twenties including my death metal as well I just kept thinking faster drums faster riffs nastier the lyrics content meant heavier to me like my sabbath, priest, median, Motörhead seemed like so long ago and the albums I once worshiped like Sabbath’s first 6 especially Master of Reality & Vol. 4 which my 11/12 yr old brain was completely blown and though it was heaviest shit ever made same as sad wings of destiny by priest or screaming for vengeance or iron median piece of mind and for sure power slave . I’d always loved every instrument & vocals great sounding riffs but ever since I first started exploring my dads records at age 8
zeppelin of course but also grand fuck railroad T Rex David Bowe even meatloaf and the who, Hendrix and many more I was drawn to the druming more than rest of band and in a way that I’d listen to songs over and over again til I absorbed ever single note beat symbol hits, groves and fills Always air druming along untill I was obsessed with drummers more than the other members who I still loved but not like the drummers and I began learning their names “ John Bonham, Kieth Moon, Ringo Star, Don Brewer and of course my 2 favourites Ginger Baker of cream and my #1 Mitch Mitchell then at 12 yrs old my friend s uncle played Rushs 2112 for us on his stereo and I needed to immediately know the name of this drummer playing things that seemed almost other worldly he told it was Neil Peart and that he was hands down the new greatest drummer of all time
I listened to Hemosphires next which was even more insane then it was a couple years till heard another album which was moving pictures with shorter not so complex songs but the druming seemed even more smooth and every note hit exactly I right spot and of corse it had “ Tom Sawyer” which in his owne words is just as hard to play on tour every night as the first time he nailed it in recording and it’s an accomplishment to get it perfect
Anyway I’m totally rambling and writing a novel her
So with each new genre and each new band I still loved ever instrument, riff vocal delivery but still had to find out every single thing I could about the drummer
Like Dave Lombardo of slayer after hearing reign in blood for first time he was my thrash drum god but Garth Samuelson of megadeeath was close second same with Charlie Benante of anthrax, the teenage kid from death angle, then for death metal Gene Hoglan, Donald Tardy of obituary Ken Owen carcass Paul Mazurk whatever Mike Smith Suffocation and many more but then something happened I heard the heaviest fucking band I’d ever heard with riffs so fucking heavy and chunky sick that hearing them for first time felt like I was run over by semi truck. There’s are still my favourite band fr that day to right now 30 yrs later and still heavier than ever putting out new music CAN U GUESS!!?? Fucking Kirk Windstein and mother fucking CROWBAR!!!🤘🤘🤘 My good friends older brother was playing them when he was giving us a ride to a smaller gig / show that night of DRI, MOD and Canadian punk trash killer band Deglo Abortions. I think we were just turned 18 and in Edmonton so was our first legal age drinking show . It definitely a kick ass gig lots of insane pit time and decent stage dives but it wasn’t the show that had me Fucking so stoked about this band his brother was playing during the drive I heard like 3 maybe 4 songs b4 we got there and each one blew me so fucking away just the heaviness of the riffs and guitar sound the drums making it even more heavy, it was a fresh new style and sound that at first I could quite figure out
So when he picked us up after the show soon as I got in car I’m like bro who was the band you were playing on drive to show cause they kicked fucking ass dude
He’s like oh CROWBAR you’ve never heard them obviously I hadn’t he’s like I just bought there newest album few weeks ago I think it’s their 3rd called Time Heals Nothing I also have their second one that’s self titled and I heard their first album which has been called a glorified demo “ Obedience Through Suffering “ but I havnt been able to find it
So I begged him to play rest of the album he was playing, called Time Heals Nothing, and just like the first four tracks. Every single track literally blew my mind, and I finally figured out what it was other than just the sickest, heaviest, riffs and heaviest drumming, although at times some other roofing was a little bit on the faster side, not quite like thrash, but more like hard-core, but for the most part it was like slow and just grimy and heavy. I later found out it was being called sludge core mix with doom. Anyway, I bought the Time Heals Nothing album the very next time I had enough money and then I bought the self titled and then after a while, I found Obedience Thru Suffering, which I think is a fucking great album and I’ve been buying their albums. Every time they come out with a new one ever since they’ve been my band man and they’ve been my favourite band and put out some of the most heaviest albums and songs ever recorded they opened up my ears, more slower paste, heavy and extreme music which is now become my favourite sub, genre stoner sludge, doom whatever you wanna call it I love all that shit and once I found out they were from New Orleans Louisiana that turned me onto. I hate God and Soilent Green, and then a total hidden gem that I found a little bit later on called Acid Bath such a great band and then I started finding out that you know it was a small group of musicians who just kind of played in each other’s bands at different times like Sammy duet from Acid Bath, I think played on two or three Crowbar albums, Broken Glass, Equilibrium and maybe one other one I don’t know Jimmy Bauer from my God I know he found out later on that. He was crowbars original drummer and played with them and then of course, many many years later one down came out and I was a huge fan right off the gecko. Oh will not forget about Corrosion of Conformity, the crows once and took over that’s the COC I like best I mean the stuff before him was not bad either and then through reading articles from all these bands I kept hearing the name Melvins come up a lot for influence and I think I heard her a song or two but I started checking them outand yeah apparently they’re the original plan slow and sludgy. Now with all that said it was all to get to the point that my first mastodon album that I was turned onto and I listen to first Leviathan, which has a lot of sludgy guitar sound and riffs but the drumming of.Bramn Drailor drumming is on a whole other fucking level Levitation is just full of his obscure time signatures but also mixed in with just some good ole 4/4 groves right at perfect point in songs but his fills are just absolutely stellar and insane
He’s taken the prog rock technical perfection of Neil peart making his own style where just like Neil anything goes nothing is off limits
“ The Neil Peart of metal druming” and so much more