The Contortionist - Exoplanet (Full Album Drum Cover)

Exoplanet is obviously a HUGE album for a lot of prog-metal nerds like myself and I've known a few of the songs for years so I thought I'd try my hand at doing a full album cover.

This was a massive undertaking and something that took WAY more work than I thought it was going to.

I didn't beatmap the entire song like I normally do for one song cover videos as that would have taken SO much time so there's a few entrances that I biff slightly just cause I'm listening and guessing.

But anyways I hope you enjoy it! :D

IG & Twitter - @jamesplaysdrums

[Striball]

The is one of the best metal albums ever created and I can’t believe we have a cover of it in its entirety. Joey is entirely too underrated. This album and the 2 after speak to his ability

[robbybaca]

So sick man. You're a phenomenal player!

[Leviplaysdrums]

Baca's drumming on this album is incredible.
Awesome work dude

[cauapaulon]

Man, you´re insane! Congrats for the effort you had to rec this all, you deserves more recognition!

[media]

Quite possibly the best thing to wake up to. Cheers mane!

[abramkoucheki]

Dude this is absolutely AMAZING! You put so much work into this and it deserves a lot of credit!

[forestcityexoticsco.]

Amazing drumming man! This is definitely the best Contortionist drum playthough out there💥🤘

[timbofromkeno]

James, you did a great job on this. I'm having so much fun watching now. Your hard work paid off!

[woodseer]

Amazing cover on one of my favourite albums of all time. Great stuff man!

[GraveyardWarden]

This man out here...
Doing gods work. .

[JasonLee-krhi]

Super underrated album, beautifully done dude!

[nikkoharrison]

Stellar performance mate! So sick doing the whole album. Terrific job!

[danpotcner]

Video is sick. I came here to try to figure out how the polyrhythm in the crash works at 40:32 and I still can’t wrap my head around it

[ken]

Absolutely loved the contortionists they were a huge influence for me for drumming. gotta tell you brother, you absolutely crushed it. good job!

[JamesDavisIV]

DUDE AMAZING! I'm working on learning this whole album too. And my name is also James lol. Killer job bro. Exoplanet for life!

[damienhelmold]

Working on learning alot of this album and let me tell you man. It's so much more fun playing to this vs the album.

[christiangabucci]

The hard work paid off that was awesome!

[fyredust]

Holy shit! The precision! 🤩 very faithful to the original, well done!!!

[bigwillthang]

Broooo! I'm not even done with Primal Directive and I'm so stoked. Can't wait to jam this whole thing repeatedly.

[next_man]

dude please consider doing the contortionist - apparition album playthrough. 🔥🔥🔥