The masked members of Sleep Token have largely maintained their charisma whereas regularly staying away from media interviews, however Sleep Token drummer II (two) has granted his first video interview with Drumeo. He goes in depth on his drumming methods and influences whereas showcasing a few of his enjoying as nicely.
In maintaining the thriller, II’s voice can also be masked, however he does supply a couple of extra particulars surrounding his musical background, particularly the place it involves his drumming influences.
The drummer notes, “I’ve at all times personally taken numerous inspiration from the U.Okay. dance music scene, and listening to varied subgenres of drum and bass particularly enable me to include stylistic traits from these genres into my vocabulary as a drummer.”
Moving into specifics, he identify checks 4 completely different drummers as being influences. At one level, when talking about his drumming model, he cites Eric Moore, the 2003 Guitar Heart Drum Off champ who has toured with Bobby Brown, Sly and the Household Stone, Infectious Grooves and Suicidal Tendencies, however it was his work with a extra gospel model of drumming that caught the ears of II.
The drummer acknowledged, “I’ve at all times been an enormous Eric Moore fan and gospel drummers usually. However I’ve taken a whole lot of affect from Eric’s licks and so they discover their manner into my enjoying.” He then shared an instance dissecting a triplet phrasing that leaves the drummer three notes in need of resolving itself, thus forcing him to be artistic to fill out the rest.
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He additionally shared three different drummers on the heavier aspect that caught his consideration, explaining, “After I first began enjoying, I, like many others in my era, had been closely into drummers resembling Joey Jordison, Matt [McDonaugh] from the band Mudvayne, in addition to the extra excessive pace gamers resembling Derek Roddy.”
Try extra of II’s interview with Drumeo beneath.
Sleep Token Drummer II Speaks With Drumeo
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