Alex Lopez Suicide Silence "Unanswered" Live

Alex Lopez and Suicide Silence live at the Rockstar Mayhem Festival in Atlanta, GA
August 05, 2014
Song title - "Unanswered"
Alex's current Meinl Cymbals set up is listed in the beginning of the video after the initial credits.
Regarding the sound you hear with this video -
Provided you are listening to the video through decent ear-buds or head phones or decent speakers connected to your computer, you should be able to hear a reasonable audio recording based off of the Zoom Q3HD which was one of three cameras used to record this. The other two cameras are the Go Pro Hero 3 Silver edition model. Their audio is nowhere near as good as the Zoom Q3HD, so that is why I went with it for the sound. (-Chris)

[@kyokushinkuma]

I've been playing drums for 20 years now, and instead of criticizing, these people should just watch, there's always something to learn.

[@el_wilder8860]

kyokushinkuma I been drumming since 1999 and agree w/you but there is absolutely nothing to learn from this guy... this should be a what NOT to do if youre a begginner drummer or a veteran drummer. Unless you want to learn how to not diversify your playing and stay stuck in the same mindset and learn how to play the same generic blast beat or thrash beat on every single song he plays then go ahead. But this dudes style/technique is garbage. Im always open to keeping an open mind thats how I still learn and keep it fresh after all these years. But I try to keep begginners away from this guy or drummers like him because some kids will get stuck in the mindset of oh I wanna blast beat all day and the fall into a bad habit of picking up terrible technique and keeping a closed mind to anything else and then they find themselves stuck in a rut and next thing you know they dont know how to advance their skillset.

[@thegravyisricco2925]

@@el_wilder8860 dude no ones gonna read that

[@gentlevandal7589]

​@@el_wilder8860 as someone who is into metal drumming, can anybody explain why his technique is bad? This genre uses blast beat a lot; so thats normal.

[@MBCMSPR]

@@gentlevandal7589it's not bad at all. idk what he's on about lol

[@AlexG-wk3nh]

this guy aint boring, i saw him finish a show and throw his bass drum into the crowd, the dude is cracked

[@luigitedjoputro3056]

Damn! 😂 Really? That could be a murder attempt, was anybody hurt?

[@AlexG-wk3nh]

@@luigitedjoputro3056 they smashed everything up man, set fire to a guitar and a cab and smashed the drum kit up it was crazy

[@serpentscoil9868]

Not only is he cracked but also his crash and china cymbal

[@kochertv8795]

man, i love his snare sound!!!

[@dhirajsanam8249]

KocherTV 1

[@sm3xym3xican76]

I gotta say his snare and Jay's snare from Slipknot are my two favorites

[@markhendrikx4424]

@@sm3xym3xican76 what is his snare called?

[@sm3xym3xican76]

@@markhendrikx4424 I wish I could tell you, I have absolutely no clue.

[@cbl6520]

Mark Hendrikx It’s a Tama bell brass 14x6.5

[@TerrellB3donie]

By the look of the comments it seems like there's a lot of professional drummers playing over seas and touring. Oh wait... No it's just people who say they can do better but aren't the ones playing shows.... Crazy man

[@rjm_9595]

@Diocletian Not being a professional/massively successful in something doesn't make you unable to criticise others

[@mimigottfried8604]

@Diocletian On top of not having to be a successful professional, you don't even actually have to be better at something to criticize others on that subject, or hell, you don't even have to be able to do it. Example; food critics - they pretty much never cook, they only eat; like how people listen to music and have the right to comment on it without having to play it. How is this such a hard concept for you to understand (and for millions of pther idiotic KZbin commenters)? I don't know. If things were the way you described, your dumbass wouldn't be allowed to comment here anyway, don't forget that, lil tard.

[@dimitripapadinikolaus]

Mimi Gottfried why are you taking it so personally 😂 what a moron.

[@Hugo4104]

that china could cut through a diamond

[@davidckoocie6527]

To everyone who says that hes a boring drummer. This song was one of the erliest songs Suicide Silence did and the whole band just wanted heavy shit They didnt want to complicate the songs too much. But if you check out their new songs from You Can't Stop Me you can listen to much more creative and fun drum songs pls stop the hate ._.

[@dimitripapadinikolaus]

Musa Tariq no he isn’t

[@bonkt]

@@MusaTariq25 first of all it's not sloppy at all, second of all he's getting older??? he can't always be a beast

[@MusaTariq25]

I disagree with my previous comment, I’ll leave a new one for posterity - he’s a hard working drummer who tours constantly (barring the covid situation) and my previous judgement was short-sighted. He has my utmost respect.

[@matthewoconnell1490]

All their songs are wizard honestly. Including the teehee

[@conormorrissey8987]

that fill at 2:04 is about as simple as it gets but i just feel it in my chest everytime when listening to the record

[@michaelneal309]

not gonna lie, I have never have been a fan of this band...as a drummer and a musician however, good goddamn...this guy is absolutely fucking CRUSHING it. If you are saying otherwise, I respect your opinion, but please know you are wrong.

[@HeadbangorGTFO]

A simple song that is groovy and heavy! Way to go!

[@JediXero]

I really envy how he hits cymbals like he can afford it :)

[@nnathangrahamm]

Roman Reigns is that you?

[@thatsacey]

Alex Lopez, Robert Trujillo, and Roman Reigns all look alike strangely...

[@MrSlickmik]

That snare sounds sweet

[@Mitchell779]

One of my favourite drummers!!! :D

[@infame1975]

Es una bestia tocando la bateria...!

[@wizanoctivagos]

i love this beast, he mix like the smooth groveness of pantera and the speed of morbid angel, its all the metal i need, long live uncle mitch🏹🏹

[@codybittick5821]

Alex is a great drummer seen them many times and he always delivers and sounds great. I myself have played LIVE SHOWS for 15 years. Before anyone gets technical about it I have played many shows with Drowning pool, Strait line stitch ect played with many professionals for along time. For everyone bitching about his blast beats. He does half time cymbal accents because it sounds better than the lawnmower garbage you guys want to hear from a kit. Lawnmower drumming is appropriate in spots but not an entire song. So guys please give it a break on bitching about why he’s not doing every song 290 bpm or hyper blasts through every song. No one wants to hear that it’s overkill.

[@Thrashman-ye4cf]

This sounds way better than lawnmower drumming lol. It just sounds more realistic if that makes sense lol

[@vinceward6164]

I think Alex is extremely underrated

[@alexyoung2104]

overrated is what he is

[@TheRandomshite123]

Vincent Ward he has a weak left hand hence why he only hits the china every other beat

[@FuneralChoir2023]

U should be slapped with a drum stick Alex Lopez is one of the most underrated yes but a band is as strong as their weakest member and that said their is always room to grow

[@Clarko-o5x]

@@TheRandomshite123 it's just a characteristic

[@6TheDa6rkOne6]

i like the fill he did around 0:45

[@crismaz2010]

SUPEEEEErrrrrr.......

[@doramasgc1215]

Great drumming and fantastic album. The best by Suicide Silence and one of the best metal albums of all time. Raw and straight to the point. Frustrated haters can just f**k off.

[@prometeo2310]

That poor drum's being rapped

[@gajo1256]

Since when are drums able to rap?

[@marisolgotti6523]

Cómo me enamoran los hombres que tocan batería 🤤🥴

[@n_o_n_t_u]

Man's beating that drum set like it owes him money.

[@黃聖紘-e1f]

That bell.❤

[@1low8te]

Damn He's getting after it..........

[@OfficialCaltura]

can someone tell me some information about this senseless monitoring amplification for the drummers on nearly every stage? aint it stupid to throw all the monitoring through the drums into the microphones again? i mean, yes - the most use in ear monitoring, but i mean monitoring as usual...

[@patrickm.4310]

Depends. I don't really understand drummers who want themselves on the monitors. Most times these are the really hard hitting drummers, who hit cymbals so hard, that they don't hear their kick(s) or toms loud enough anymore without reinforcment. I as a drummer tell these people to play lighter, I as a soundguy keep my mouth shut, because some musicians become easily offended. However you need to hear the rest of the band, don't you? This is the real/original reason for monitoring, but I guess you did already know this. You shouldn't be too worried about the monitors feeding the drum mics. The shells are close-miced and if the sound engineers do a proper gain staging (and gating), the mic won't pick up a lot of the monitor sound. It's a bit different with the overheads. These usually are the mics picking up the most unwanted sound sources. Usually good sound technicians/engineers pay attention to the fact that the drum-fill (as the monitoring system for the drummer is often called) points away from the overheads. Every microphone and every loudspeaker has a pick-up-characteristic. (I am too lazy to look up what it is really called in english. I word-to-word translated it from German.) Most of the microphones and loudspeakers used in life audio are so called cardioid systems, which mostly pick up/put out the sound to their front and a little to their side. If you position overheads and drum fill wisely, the won't interfere very much with each other. However on this video right here it seems the drumfill is located behind Alex and blasting directly in the overhead-mics. Don't know why they did this. Maybe it was because of missing space to the side. Always remember life audio is focused on functioning under given conditions in the first place. If it works you can try to work out a good sound, but life audio is always rougher than post produced audio. You can only achieve a great life sound only on good conditions.

[@mike0near]

Amazing!!!

[@danielarodrigues402]

Olá adorei o vídeo eu vim do canal Fátima Soares com essa conta suporte aí sucesso 👏👏👏👏

[@blastbeatsmedia445]

You can just hear Hermida say _fuck_ twice.

[@J2Drummer]

Came In late at :34 right..

[@adamsylvan5466]

he definitely fucked it up haha

[@J2Drummer]

Adam Kilpatrick alright someone agrees with me haha

[@adamsylvan5466]

haha I heard it as well, and you can see the bass player look back to see what happened just before the breakdown

[@btownshreds1]

He definitely did

[@TayPlaysDrums]

This was when they started playing to a click too so that's why he looked back after and told whoever was in charge to turn the click off 😂😂

[@MrNojam4u]

Wow. Such loud. Very drag. Wow.

[@metalheadblues]

This guy is my role model

[@fritswester2833]

Like a shellfish! Washed up! :D

[@eirizdj]

someone had the nerve to tell me that eddie shouldn't be singing songs from before The Black Crown. -.-

[@romanmanquist158]

Cool attack attack cymbals bro

[@Macho_Man_Randy_Savage]

daym he sits so high lol amazing skillz

[@agurobe]

I wish i could play like this :(

[@opgkoyote7989]

What’s his shirt say? “Fuck waiting around” what’s the last part?

[@ForLorNVuLgaR]

alex youre a beast brother

[@lakselv3768]

Good drummer, still not hitting cymbals harder than 90's Dave Grohl! This guy is a beast tho.

[@btownshreds1]

Harder than Dave grohl huh? Moron

[@lakselv3768]

I think you need to read it again. MORON

[@BigWill2k]

No way those blasts are cutting through the mix during the death metal sections, because he hits so hard on the breakdowns. Help the sound guy out by evening out the dynamics or do a blast on a side snare which is miked more sensitively otherwise it will sound like a soup of bass drums and hihats. Great drummer to watch though, and powerful!

[@IslamFalmi]

BigWill2k I've always wondered that. I still do my rimshots a lot, but I don't know if that will be good for recording and live shows when the kit is miked cos I do a lot of blast beats too. I would say he is hitting pretty hard on the blasts too.. but yeah, they don't compare to the breakdown and skank beat parts. Do you bother to rimshot when your kit is miked? What is your opinion on this to 'help the soundman out' while still trying to get the best sound possible?

[@IslamFalmi]

And no, I wouldn't be able to afford a side snare.

[@matrab6329]

Rip cymbals

[@BOT_Ivan]

where can i get his shirt

[@BigSloppy]

Why is he pulling his sticks up so far? It's not like he needs to be doing it, and if he wanted, his hands could be moving a lot faster if he played with his sticks lower.

[@xonthebackofmyhand]

My guess is to hit harder

[@Clarko-o5x]

You don't understand the fundamentals of style

[@zackpuga5952]

Where's the guitar and the bass?

[@gaspar-animal-ribeiro5414]

I love how he fucks up his own songs, in more than one spot :') He's still a great drummer tho

[@lordgunzerker6901]

I'd call it improv, not fuck ups

[@The_JustJoshing]

@@lordgunzerker6901 0:34 is definitely a fuck up. He came in pretty late on that fill and you can see Dan look back at him. But shit happens, sometimes you’re in the moment and forget things. Alex is still a beast

[@gaspar-animal-ribeiro5414]

@@The_JustJoshing dude, I make mistakes everytime I step on stage. It's impossible not to. I don't usually play material that i wrote, but I do pretty much always go on stage very well prepared - with the exception of 2 session gigs where I had little over a week to learn a death metal set, and 3 days to learn a full deathcore set. Those were not my most confident shows. But even the other 99% of the times when I went on stage fully confident, I have fucked up. Sometimes no one notices and sometimes you fuck up big time. But has you said, shit happens. And I love the fact that he still allowed Meinl to post the video. Anyone could be like "oh, please don't post that. I fucked up!" He just admits it. Easy ahahah

[@armanb08]

people think they are perfect players

[@iprophecy6768]

Alex Lopez: the fucking drumming GOD !!! ⚔️🪦🕳️🔪🪓

[@musisikamar8140]

I think the audience's voice is louder than the vovalist.

[@disasterspice2674]

42 people disliked it because they saw Eddie :(

[@NoiseSignal]

i wonder would he play jazz at home ?

[@siliconbliss]

fuck yes

[@ArlindoCardoso]

Stronger!!!

[@Maine_lyConservative]

R I p Mitch

[@zhamoua]

Dam dam god dam

[@LTSBDRUMMER]

Alex is a great drummer, but did you honestly have to upload the most boring song (Drumwise) ?

[@Kmusic1294]

cool name, Elias

[@Clarko-o5x]

there's something wrong in you

[@csabogurdon]

I came here to hear the Mega Bell ride..Well i didn't..

[@genidipo64]

oooh, poor cymbal

[@mattvdh]

pretty good.

[@lrtone]

Why don't you use your left hand when blasting?

[@CaptainShitacularAVL]

Because it's a hammer blast and also one of the chinas is on his left

[@lrtone]

@@CaptainShitacularAVL yap that's reason why China cymbal put on his left. I never seen Alex Lopez Blast Beat with left hand, are his left hands so weak?

[@CaptainShitacularAVL]

@@lrtone he uses both hands when doing blasts and you can see it in the video, it's not a matter of weakness. It's just a preference

[@keepsafebandpa]

What does his shirt say??? I can tell

[@JOKER6CORE]

Clay Sholly it's a darkest hour shirt. it says fuck waiting around to die.

[@petarcvetkovic8058]

This Eddie Screams like a little Baby, fr

[@The_JustJoshing]

Petar Cvetković They should get a different Eddie to do it. This one sucks

[@edoardo7369]

Cool

[@aldnprm90]

did he made a mistake? 0:35 did he miss? 0:46

[@Clarko-o5x]

no and absolutely not

[@Brennnann13NY]

WHERE IS YOUR FUCKING GOD. RIP MITCH!

[@CrazyUncleDom]

He can hit drums hard. yay.

[@soygenial111]

It's the best feeling there is

[@bowlofnuggets]

you’re jealous cus u r a weakling

[@TheChristopherheath]

his china just looks like its gona burst any second hahaha

[@jevanainger3820]

So your saying that mitch is bad

[@IkanTongkol-s8e]

The best drummer after Joey Jordison

[@austintalley8637]

does anybody know what the fuck his t shirt says

[@Luisricardo-dd5gw]

O suicide silence nao e mesmo sem o micth lucker 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@ceritomedeni1408]

His got lost tempo anytime ??? Im right???

[@Siralexmangipran]

i thought that’s mitch

[@chickenbeforeegg]

How does somebody fuck up their on drum parts? And is there a clicktrack involved here? hahaha

[@newspaperlightbulb]

chickenbeforeegg I think he's playing to a click and it threw him off on that fill. Afterward, you can see him motioning to the sound guy to cut the click.

[@joaoplima1538]

WHAT it is written behind him t-shirt ??

[@scumbag1731]

Joáo Pedro Lima Neto umm

[@scumbag1731]

Joáo Pedro Lima Neto I don’t know

[@krismataslipknot]

Miley Cyrus has huge impact in this song

[@ahmadseptiyanto6754]

Dis tak dis tak dis tak tak tak dis tak tak tak dis tak tak tak

[@SiebenRob]

He show stop himself doing loud rimshot pounding... his snare disappears during blastbeats =/

[@BigWill2k]

YES! Like soupy mess of bass drums

[@tyosataruno597]

Siluman voics

[@SuperHelldrummer]

...

[@goobenzzten4142]

🤔

[@AlexLopez-rf1uu]

My suicide 😢 sorry

[@marshall170]

I bet they hate Eddie

[@BandaDK]

why Unanswered? why not You only live once? much more creative drum track

[@TacticalSoldier14]

Really? That is like the most boring song on drums. It's way too basic

[@Clarko-o5x]

You're wrong

[@zackdoom]

He's just screaming ffs.

[@amazingman2915]

1.5х speed, ha ha

[@asdf12345678995]

Goregrind 😂

[@MariaSanchez-vm2hj]

bunch of panzys up in here

[@jerrycrown3396]

error 031 minuto

[@onuj469]

yeah, that fill is supposed to be inside the same measure with the blast beats. I had to do a retake just to make sure my memory of the song wasn't wrong.

[@Clarko-o5x]

it doesn't matter

[@Damnagora]

Rockstar Mayhem Festival and Vans Warped Tour confirmed to host shit genres ruining metal.

[@GSMetalGamer]

Should have done a more apealing song for the drums

[@el_wilder8860]

why do they always film him playing this generic ass song man

[@Clarko-o5x]

because is amazing. You're so wrong ... this is the exact opposite of generic

[@jevanainger3820]

No mitch no good

[@devon4398]

Quit bitching about Mitch. Eddie's fuckin great.

[@MrFiresoul90]

mitch is a duck on the stage

[@Kmusic1294]

Mitch gave Donald Duck a run for his money

[@jevanainger3820]

look the new guys great but Im just saying to remember mitch he made really good songs

[@Panda_SMM]

oh boy blast beats and break downs. definition of boring.

[@bsm6776]

This music is awful

[@antonfadeev1990]

Bad metronom time