Flo Mounier Drum Solo

[@Metaldrumma7]

Very rarely do you find a death metal drummer who can groove as well as plow. Being a drummer of 15 years myself, Flo is one of the better drummers I've ever seen.

[@koekhapper]

He's a great jazz drummer to, he's really good, my #1 drummer. Never seen faster tighter blastbeats, and he also plays some nice grooves in between in stead of all the machine gun drummers. That's what makes him the best for me.

[@kryp7777]

Yeah man, the snare sounds so awesome! He is really one of the fastest guys Ive ever seen, insane!

[@bastilift]

God on drums! In every single way! Sometimes, when I see a drummer, who seems to be better than Flo I use to think "Wow, this guy is the master!" ...but then Flo comes up with something what is even sicker than that! EVERYTIME!!! NO EXCEPTION!

[@ElGrapadora]

i love his tom sound...he doesn't just muffle the shit out of them and add reverb like so many other metal drummers, they actually have a nice natural resonance...

[@rexlupis]

For those who mentioned Hellhammer and Dimmu; the thing that Flo has on both those drummers is that they rely heavily on drum triggers to reach those speeds (as they should.) Flo, in this video and on the albums "Blasphemy Made Flesh" and "None So Vile" reaches incredible double bass speeds without the use of triggers; he has to exert far more force on each pedal hit to get the clean bass drum sound he does. I do love drummers who have the ability to play fast, but Flo is a technical master.

[@userggg]

that kit sounds incredible id love to play it

[@Zaothus]

He's the drummer for Cryptopsy, a Canadian brutal death metal band and one of my favourites. You'd be well advised to check them out.

[@macadoolahicky]

I find it weird how a band that recieves so little attention has a very legendary drummer

[@PropheciesForetold]

Dude, don't forget that Cryptopsy plays technical death metal haha

[@Draclord35]

Maybe the best blast beats I've ever heard !

[@a1aa2]

Flo is Beast

[@Rukazor]

Flo has always been one of my favorite drummers. His solo'ing has always been blinding when it comes to pure technical skill, but lacks in musicality. He really shines with the music he creates with Cryptopsy... Once Was Not, None So Vile, and Whisper Supremacy are the albums I highly recommend checking out. Once Was Not is my personal favorite when it comes to a pure drum-performance album. His style has always been best when applied to extreme metal music. Either way, love it.

[@WTP2k]

I second that. I've got the DVD, and the instructional and performance parts are both top notch

[@FrankTdrumz]

That kit sounds awesome! Flo is out of this world.

[@AV57]

I liked the fast part.

[@MUSICTEACHER2012]

everything is fast.

[@AV57]

MUSICTEACHER2012 Yes.

[@hedcase23]

i'm amazed at his use of dynamics here and you can see (a little) more facets of his drumming. excellent vid.

[@deathwalkingterror88]

One of my biggest influences, brutal, tech and versitile. great shit

[@coolsoad250]

i've saw him at a drum clinic in quebec november 6 2007 playing on a custom roland TD-20.... awesome! fkng great drummer!!

[@semiquavertriplitz]

far out that was fast. Good to watch someone with this kind of skill level as it gives me somthing to aspire towards

[@SimonBLOODHAMMER]

I love the new album! the unspoken king is a great album

[@BLAQANAL]

i noticed that too...i use a b8pro ride that in probably older than me and has had tremendous weather damage and the thing still sounds great.

[@offreda]

FANTASTIC DRUMSET !!!!!!!!!!!

[@SevereRepugnance]

Insane, uber impressive. Gotta get this DVD.

[@Kidcat490]

Dude that totally rocked!!!

[@KroxiGore07]

I really love flo's drums on the whisper supremacy album. He's one of the metal drummers with the most jazz influence. Great job!

[@doolb666]

@TrollandDie thats the way i look at it cuz thats how i came across metal, i found slipknot and fell in love with the music immediately and progressed into a love of black metal, then thrash then death metal and now quite a bit of everything

[@yogibaer05]

yipiiih! nice lights, very good sound... good playing ...for a pro

[@albanovonhammer1991]

he is complete, fast and musically great. period

[@21sabiandrummer67]

no im not forgetting about anyone, i simply used George Kollias and Pete Sandoval b/c most drummers into the death/black metal genres know who they are. Dont get me wrong though, Inferno and Frost are two amazing drummers, there just not as well known.

[@melgibsonfan9082]

Saw these guys with GWAR and wasn't a fan of Cryptopsy (not my genre) but I absolutely can't deny noticing that Flo is insane. Just hearing him tune his kit before the show you could tell immediately that this guy was savage.

[@buikspiertje]

I've got his autograph =) He is a great drummer!!!!

[@Diatonic5th]

That kit sounds really nice!!

[@TomCatDrummer26]

love the drumset bro

[@drumfreak567]

Flo Mounier is one of the best death metal drummer of all times dude, he is fucking creative

[@frfsssful]

realy great

[@DistortionVoid]

if you focus on the drums on cryptopsy albums, you will see just why he is the greatest

[@mag30th]

AWESOME

[@MasterOfDisaster407]

that dude kicks ass!!!

[@Dimerzl]

Nasum T-shirt! +10 to awesomeness :D

[@TrollandDie]

@doolb666 As I can tell from your Exodus thumbnail; one of my favourite bands. :)

[@wertt1]

His toms sound awesome!

[@たかちゃん-q9x]

very awesome..

[@kisharpj]

passaggi ed esercizi velocissimi groove scontatissimo!!

[@smurf100000]

love the cymbals your good

[@samidoo182]

hes good.... i remember goin to a clinic of his a while back... and i agree with blaqanal that i find that old beat up cymbal sound better :P... im getting ready to buy a new kit but debating wether i shuld get a 10 inch tom to my left or an extra floor tom to my right. and i want to get to seperate bass drums for double bass-age

[@silkscreen07]

FREAKIN' BEAST!!

[@Dblake_]

Beast mode, keep it up, 5 stars.

[@user-wf2kx4mc5e]

2021 anyone?

[@Brinkmandrummer]

FASTER HARDER LONGER LOUDER. YYYYYYAARRRR great JOUUUB

[@Skakhti]

Holy shit, look at that set, it's bigger than the Sun itself.

[@doolb666]

@TrollandDie haha hell yea man, love me some exodus, saw em last year and they tore it up

[@MoltarTheGreat]

I still can't fathom why people say Joey Jordison from Slipknot is the best drummer of all time when musical geniuses like Flo Mounier are still around.

[@watchlistenlearn]

Nobody says joey was the best in the world. Joey just played his heart out

[@SpacecowBand]

The swivel (as far as my own experience as a drummer) is a technique used to keep time only. It exerts no downward force needed to use the pedal.

[@CorridorOfChameleons94]

Spacecow Official swivle seems to help me play faster speeds :)

[@SYNDRONE]

6:17-6:21, amazing groove!

[@ElrichBros1992]

@Steve128967 Not to be a dick or anything, but Slaves Shall Serve is 270 in the studio and he has played it as fast as 290 live. Another great example of Inferno's blasting ability is in the song Shemhamforash off of the new album, where he goes 275 in studio. and if you listen carefully throughout Behemoth's catalogue, he switches what type of blasts he does, sometimes within a song, although I'll admit that the one you described is probably his most popular.

[@SzybkieNewsyMagiczneKonusy]

BRUTAL DRUMMING

[@drumteacher43]

Nice job, i like it...DT43

[@TheDenres192]

in where band this beast play ?

[@Ben95inferno]

Insane. How do I get my bass drums to sound that good

[@Pettenderk]

Have you ever played along with some cd?... Try it!!

[@eggybeanmilk]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[@rigo71]

really fast and good solo

[@SimonBLOODHAMMER]

if you want to play fast as this dude you must can play with groove I LOVE HIM! I'm a big fan of cryptopsy!

[@bonzo1989]

thank youuu

[@raokin466]

proud to be Canadian, to live in Quebec

[@antonio610]

@ultimatefighter187 This IS death metal drumming... The way Flo Mounier does it.

[@masterseb4]

wtf thes is the best i have ever heard

[@777EZekiel]

The kick sounds fcking mighty!! And damnniceset an a very talented drummer!!

[@sanketjariwala]

Seems like he's playing this in a nice fireplace lit chalet in some mountain in France, with all the wooden walls and yellow diffused lighting

[@metalking21]

Very talented drummer, it shows hes a metal drummer with technique if you look at his cymbals, the crashes are sabian hhx evolutions which are thin, it shows that you dont need z customs or rudes to get the job done if you have the technique,and I find these sound much clearer.

[@RadoDani]

@Rajatuje He goes for that more organic funk-latin sound … that's why he uses that snare. :)

[@55mrfuckhead]

Great!!!!

[@fermar92]

what snare is that one? i love it!

[@tambian89]

So do I. I used a clave in one of my band's songs (but used octobans instead of cross-sticking, even though I play very technical Thrash metal. Too many metal drummers play blast beats and double bass drumming and take no time for actual grooves.

[@SuperUltra]

Was that directed towards me... because I don't think I made any negative comments. I just made A comment. I have his DVD, so that says it all, how I feel about his skills.

[@macc305]

AWSOME

[@alasamk]

@patrickforpresident these are some great names i think you would find the following drummers interesting: adam jarvis, danny herrara, ken owen,chris adler and rob proctor

[@kleonholiday]

@ultimatefighter187 you're absolutely right

[@krisq14]

i wud like to think tht flo and I have a very similar soloing style-though me being slower (obviously) I think hes amazing.

[@BelialsGenuflect]

@zsector Well it's something that you have to slow down in your head, that's the way death metal is, you have to get used to it.

[@AJonVolk]

@Lobones0066 look at romain gouldon from nechrophagist or derek roddy, george kollias jason bittner and many more i play metal as well but i practice jazz probably twice as much everything ties into each other right now im looking how to use the death metal gravity blast in jazz music so dont assume that metal drummers cant play jazz

[@theinmortal6]

@7behindthemask7 Well, if you don´t consider Kill ´Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets and ...And Justice for All Metal... I don´t know what else can be. Black Album is not just Metal, but a lot of American Rock influence there.

[@knutm]

You can get his dvd from his website...I got mine on ebay from someone else.

[@TrollandDie]

@drumninmer34 It was his work with 'Human' that got me into it but I'm still a big fan of Cynic. :)

[@SuperUltra]

Good to know.

[@Dol-si5fg]

0:58 Fuck Great!

[@たかちゃん-q9x]

Dol 81103 That is inhumanity drumming.

[@crack87]

nice drum solo! how long have u been playing when u recorded the video?

[@woodenpunk]

the are actually the older pearl eliminator pedals look at the foot board as well as the head

[@abacacus]

@Lobones0066 Let's be a bit more exact. Metal is more physically difficult (speed power and endurance) and jazz is more mentally difficult (feel, dynamics, and coordination). Fair enough?

[@TheDrumminMan08]

@ElrichBros1992 OK, I'll admit I was proven wrong, though your tempo analysis is somewhat off, Slaying the Prophets is more like 250 and Slaves Shall Serve is 140, BUT he's basically doing a double time blast in that he's playing a 16th pattern except with kick and snare on every single hit as opposed to two of each in one beat.

[@MegaMetallica97]

awsome

[@tonynapolidrums]

dums sound great whats your tom tuning

[@XxBenightedxX]

Flo Kicks ass!

[@bassistfromhell94]

Ha! all the super nice HHX and Hand Hammered cymbals.. and a B8 pro china!

[@BoomHaaften]

@zmanbrody in this video he uses the aax studio hats, but at this moment he plays 13" aa hats

[@raedenjay]

i will do that, thanks. i'm canadian too. woot..

[@mt85]

Esa ténica de jaz, le da mucha soltura a su muñera para hacer esos redobles y blastings por sobre los 220 bpm...o más, creo yo...Muy bueno su kit, el juego de platillos es genial.

[@GeorgRavioli]

Hehe, after practising building up speed for up to 20 years, it's probably counter-intuitive for him to play slowly :D

[@TheDrumminMan08]

@pyropeople117 As a matter of fact, Inferno isn't much faster than Joey, they both cap at 16ths at approx. 220-230 bpm. Music-wise I'd rather listen to Joey consider Inferno is basically all double bass, blasting and tom rolls.

[@dominatelife]

the way he reacted to the fans who hated unspoken king.