Blind Guardian - Precious Jerusalem | drum playthrough by Thomen (Mentalist | ex- Blind Guardian)

[@RichardRG86]

Phenomenal!!! A Night at the Opera is my favorite album of all time!!!

[@andmusicforall]

Thomen's ability to play WITH vocals instead of behind them is unparalleled. The drums always seem fully composed and not as much as an afterthought as so many others.

[@LexHansenGuitar]

The drums on this whole album are awesome 👌

[@nickvoyages1608]

I started writing about how much I love and adore this song and this album, which was the first thing I have ever listened from BG, 15 years ago. And then I stopped and start reading the commends, there I felt it. The pure appreciation and respect about Thomen, about his exceptional drumming, about the soul, the power, the creativity he put in this and every other thing he ever did, especially though in this album. Guys, I'm proud for the love we share about Thomen and I cannot stop wanting more from you my friend, we feel different when we listen/seeing you playing, it is just different in the best possible way!! Much love to you and again, THANK YOU for doing those playthroughs!! 🙏❤

[@ThomenDrumChamber]

My dear friend, thanks a million for these kind words!

[@Uranus_is_the_size_of_a_planet]

Listening to Jerusalem I always wanted to know what the hell is going on at 4:37. Man it's like one of the coolest things on the whole album. Great job Thomas!

[@josearalat]

My first BG album. I discovered european metal later in life and i'm so glad i did.

[@AlexanderHolovachov]

You are my favorite drummer. Please, make a playthrough of Wait for an Answer and Age of False Innosence - those are my favorite songs of you!

[@brunoraffo7195]

He made already Wait for an answer (my favourite as well)

[@AlexanderHolovachov]

I can't yt or google it - can you share a link? Mb we're talking about different songs?@@brunoraffo7195

[@afillies]

Awesome, Thomen! I'm happy you're posting more A night at the opera stuff! Can't wait to see under the ice and punishment divine!!

[@juanrivero5495]

Precious Jerusalem is in my top 3 songs from BG. Still impress me to this day!!! There is no other song like it💗

[@goth_ana]

Precious performance!

[@hiredgunsg6178]

Omg! This song is absolutely beautiful!!!

[@brunoraffo7195]

SPEECHLESS ❤

[@matiasa769]

Another masterpiece of creative drumming

[@AllanKunhaDrums]

I love A Night at the Opera! One of my favourite albums. The best drums line of all times. Thomen is the beast! 🤘🔥🤘🤘🔥🤘🔥🔥🔥

[@veitjacob9764]

Hammer! 👏

[@ELyAvErEX]

Whata amazing track...

[@livio83333]

Majestic song

[@CYON4D]

Always a pleasure to watch these drum sessions, thank you for all the music throughout all these years, cheers!

[@justin.hombach]

Die Steigerung ab 4:37 war auf alle Fälle einer der Momente der mir mit 12 gezeigt hat wie unfassbar geil Metal Musik ist 🔥🔥🔥

[@patryckicarvalho5592]

It's really awesome to see you playing the ANATO songs, hope you'll play Punishment Divine 🤘😁

[@christianguedes319]

Lindo! Lindo! Lindo Mestre! ❤

[@rodrigo_pel]

What a performance! What a song! What a drummer!! Man, how I wished to watch it live. Is one of my favourites drums of all times, you are undoubtedly among the finnest!

[@ThomenDrumChamber]

Wow, thank you sooo much, dear Rodrigo! 🙏🫶🫶

[@malvadaogms]

1:39 Dude, fantastic!

The Best!!!

[@galisiski6334]

Thanks so much,I got this album,and I love this song, great work, it's a pleasure to see you 🤘🤘

[@A_Ducky]

Excellent 👍

[@Micke_K]

I love this album and the most tragic thing that happend to Blind Guardian is when Thomen left. Blind Guardian without Thomen is like barbecue without meat and beer. 🤘 Gute arbeit wie immer 😊🤘

[@giacomoflorini3312]

LOVE

[@KawaiiGames]

One of my fav BG songs! Great job! 🤘

[@TheSequentCalculus]

Vor ungefähr 25 Jahren hab' ich Dir in der Szene in Wien ehrfürchtig beim Spielen zugesehen und darauf hin beschlossen, selbst Schlagzeuger zu werden; und während das Schlagzeug dann im Laufe der Jahre zunehmend von Notwendigkeiten verdrängt wurde, ist die Ehrfurcht geblieben. Schön, Dich wieder spielen sehen und hören zu können.

[@PhillipPSee]

Wish you’d do this whole album 🙏

[@Bo0m3R57]

Fantastic as always 🤘❤️ ANATO was your best drumming ever on BG albums

[@BorisJeric]

Wonderfull

[@staubea5742]

Wow Brüderchen, da bleibt mir die Spucke weg!!😮 Hammer 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@ThomenDrumChamber]

Hihi, danke, Schwesterchen! 🥰🥰🥰

[@akisquentin1983]

Memories

[@NIL6300]

Thank you.

[@Gpppx]

I recently relistened to the whole a night at the opera album and its such a juggernaut of drumming. On par with the very best in metal imo

[@majo1717]

🤘🤘🤘🤘😎

[@ralfbrandao23]

🤘🤘🤘

[@danielflores4278]

I used to buy every album blind guardian released...this was the last one ...the last studio album. Then I bought the live CD and the DVD "imaginations through the looking glass". But anyway the live CD and the live DVD were part of the A night at the opera album too. I also was in the concert in the tour in 2002. After that I didn't buy any other albums by blind guardian because I didn't like the style. Since those years... A night at the opera was the new album by blind guardian and I still say:" the best of the new albums by blind guardian is a night at the opera" and my friends laugh at me say:"new album?". And since those years I have considered that this track is one of the most complex in terms of drumming...I don't know if you Thomas think the same...or if there are other tracks which are more difficult than this. Anyway...it is great to see that you performed it. I asked you that since you performed Battlefield. And a couple of weeks I asked it again. And you said you would do it. And so it was!!! Wonderful... Really cool. What a performance! Tommy the never disappointing bloody drummer!!!

[@gringochucha]

I remember buying A Night at the Opera when it first came out, and when this song (the first song on the album, as we know) came on, I was like "wtf is this shit", but then I listened to it a few more times and fell in love. This album is such a masterpiece and your drums are so interesting and powerful throughout. I'm not a huge fan of Charlie Bauerfeind in general (the new Helloween album sounds terribly sterile), but I love the massive sound of your drums on that album. Thanks so much for doing more songs from ANATO!

[@KiroProstoto]

Who is a fan of Charlie😂😢 He screwed so many albums already… He even destroyed the B.G. orchestral album with his totally sterile mixing…

[@gringochucha]

@@KiroProstoto He did produce Angra's first two albums, which still sound great in my opinion. Other than that...

[@KiroProstoto]

@@gringochucha indeed. Almost everything he has done needs a remix one fine day. First we need to wait 5 years for an album and then 10 more for a proper mix eventually…

[@HeavyMetalGamingHD]

Charlie effed up so many albums. he's holding back so many blind guardian albums. never understood, why they work with him. beyond the red mirror is the worst offender

[@gringochucha]

@@HeavyMetalGamingHD I really wish Blind Guardian and Helloween would work with a new producer for their next albums, but that's very unlikely, as at a certain point bands usually stick to a producer they're comfortable with and no longer wish to challenge themselves with someone new.

[@NYMetsNo1]

Would love to see you cover my other favorite German band - 🎃

[@Gabriel-pz9ct]

Amazing performance! That double bass, damn!

[@DadoSimicStudiostriver]

Oh. I remmember like it was yesterday, when i bought the album in my middle school days. It was pure magic as it is today. I simply adore this album, and your drum works are one of the best i ever heard on any other Blind Guardian album, and metal music in general. Simply outstanding and everlastingly inspirational. 🙂 Thanks you for making this video, thou i noticed you improvised some parts compare how it was played on the original recording, i still enjoyed like never before this close up scenes. Looking forward to watch any new cover from Night at Opera. Kind regards. \m/

[@venusversus3240]

Woah. Drums sounds more aggressive rather then on album.

[@bertxo]

Beauty.

[@fridgeguy2537]

Einfach schön einem Meister bei der Arbeit über die Schulter zu schauen! Ich liebe diese Akzente von den Cymbals einfach. Bei jedem Schlag passt die Tonhöhe einfach genau zum restlichen Song. Synphonie auf dem Schlagzeug.

My praises were heard!! Thank you for this awesome video!! As always, unlimited POWER and CREATIVITY in your drums. \,,/

[@joseluiscastillo4730]

It's so awesome the way drums enhance the song into a hymn of thunder and despair, your playing is beyond perfect thank you for the video 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@emmanuelgallo]

One of the things I really love about your style is that you have really interesting drum patterns. You know, guitars usually have great riffs repeating throughout the songs and you always wait for that moment, and you are the only drummer I know that does that with drums in every single song. You know when people make fun of drummers and tell they don't make music, just noise? This is really not your case. Your drumming always sound very musical and very inspired. I'm not a drummer myself, but your drums always sound and look SO FUN to play 😆

[@ThomenDrumChamber]

Thank you very much! Great, how you see my style and how you explain it. 😊🤘🏻🤗🤗

[@RB-ey5se]

Wowowow! Absolutely stunning. The drumming on this album felt like the spirit of Keith Moon embedded in and expanded into a metal context - one of the few recordings where the drums feel like a thunder storm in the best way possible. The part at 4:37 and the "I hear angels sing" part in Punishment Divine are my all time favourites. Thank you so much for creating these videos. Hope Punishment Divine is around the corner.

[@aroik7745]

Epic song my friend your job that's great,!!!!

[@luizgustavovalimiglesias7159]

A genius in action, just see throught the comments and we can easily notice how the drums work in ANATO makes this album a masterpiece of BG. Keep bringing more from ANATO, plzzzz masteeeerrrr!!! \,,/

[@msoulforged]

I always loved the drums of this song, its beautiful!

[@sacredgodslayer]

The only Blind Guardian drummer

[@Luisf1909]

AWESOME!!!! Love the drumming work on this album, so rich, so creative. The beats are unstoppable on every f*cking second of this album. In this song I love this evolution here on 4:36, the work with the tom-toms, bass drum and snare drum, so cool 🤟 Congratulations for the masterpiece you've accomplished on this album dude, although we know it's not your favorite in terms of music direction. But let me tell you your work on it it's amazing(particularly my favorite one in terms of drumming 😊).

[@aljoshaschottner2121]

A song I was waiting for, one of your best performances! Just some triplets in the second half were missing 😉. Punishment divine would be awesome to see here, too. As well as some Savage Circus Songs🤘

[@ThomenDrumChamber]

Thanks a lot! 🤗 Things like with the triplets can happen always, when I play songs. I never play exactly the same as for example on the albums. I always improvise a bit on songs . That's part of my drumming character, style and love to play variations, whenever I feel those while playing. 🤘🥰🥰

[@historiaomnia7795]

Wonderful 🤘 thanks Thomen

[@chimetalx1962]

That was great Thomen!

[@ChrisNIN64]

I’ve always wanted to see this done. Thank you!

[@thenomad4123]

I remember trying to play the drums of this awesome song when the album first came out. It reminded me I had a looot to learn yet lol. Loved to see the master play it :)

[@Pedrucius]

Amazing, as always.

[@NorthEndMetalAllStar]

That was incredible!! Bang on with the album. I'm a sucker for a "note for note" recreation of the album version. Thank you sir! Would love to see the Soulforged like that. 🍻 👏

[@PauleraCast]

Bravo! Such a great album! The last with Thomen with BG! 😥 Edit: Forgot how the double bass matches the killer riffs on this song.

[@martenwolff426]

Sehr geil.

[@CoreyButler1970]

Precious Jerusalem is in my opinion the best song from A Night at the Opera. The drumming section from 4.37 - 4.51 gives me chills every time. Well done Thomen. Another masterclass in how drumming is done. 🤘🤘

[@MrAcacioVidal]

Pra mim esse álbum é o ápice que o blind guardian conseguiu atingir. Tecnicamente superior em tudo. Veio do Imaginations 10/10, seguido pelo Nightfall 10/10 e culminando no A Night the Opera 10/10. Pra mim é neste álbum que estão suas melhores ideias de bateria. Parabéns e obrigado por realizar meu sonho de ver Precious Jerusalém. 🔥🔥🔥

[@fabioc.9682]

please do And Then There Was Silence! best BG song, from their best album!

[@ThomenDrumChamber]

I did already! 🤣🫶

[@AnlOkay]

please do some savage circus playthroughs too.

[@ThomenDrumChamber]

Sorry, but i have my personal reasons why i don't play Savage Circus or Iron Savior songs here. Please simply accept that. Thanks! 🤗🤗

[@AnlOkay]

@@ThomenDrumChamber I was not know that Thomen. I am a huge fan of your music please keep posting great stuff!

[@ChrisNIN64]

Savage Circus sometime??

[@dontanton7775]

Thomen, the master of toms and parts. Song changes something -> Thomen changes something. Makes the songs much more dynamic. So few drummers do it nowadays. Most of them just keep going. So boring! I think Lars Ulrich also was one of the drummers that wasn't "technically" "the best" but he had the same feeling for changing things on drums when the song needed it.

[@alexanderklein9433]

Fand schon damals bei Release das da gewisse Igor Cavalera Tribal Drum Fibes drin waren. Das Album ist aber leider ein total Unterschätztes WERK. Weil man halt ne gewisse zeit braucht bis es Knallt . Aber dann knallt es umso mehr.