This is what happens when you put a massive, all-new drum recording in the hands of three of modern metal's most in demand producers.
What happens when you put a massive, all-new drum recording in the hands of three of the most in demand producers in modern metal, let them bring it to their own studio environments and equip them with an unparalleled set of audio shaping tools? You not only get a collection of nine custom drum kits – you get a rampant battery armed for complete audio destruction. A nine-headed behemoth that leaves nothing but rubble behind. Nothing.
The Metal! EZX is based on a new drum recording engineered by Daniel Bergstrand in Norway’s highly unique Tanken Studio. The raw material was then individually remixed by Mark Lewis, Jason Suecof and Daniel Bergstrand himself into nine drum kits tailor-made for metal. Between them, these three producers have worked with some of modern metal’s most influential acts as well as those pioneering today’s multifaceted scene: Meshuggah, In Flames, Trivium, Whitechapel, DevilDriver, The Black Dahlia Murder, God Forbid and Dimmu Borgir, to name a few. The Metal! EZX also comes with a versatile collection of grooves and fills performed by Soilwork and metal drummer extraordinaire Dirk Verbeuren.
Sometimes the word metal just isn’t enough, it needs an exclamation mark!
KICK
18×22″ DW Collector X-shell,
Mark’s private samples
SNARE
Ludwig Black Beauty,
7×14″ Tama John Tempesta Signature Series
TOMS
8×8″ DW Collector X-shell
8×10″ DW Collector X-shell
9×12″ DW Collector X-shell
16×18″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
18×20″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
KICK
18×22″ DW Collector X-shell,
Mark’s private samples
SNARE
6,5×15″ WFL 1954,
6,5×14″ Tama Bell Brass
TOMS
8×8″ DW Collector X-shell
8×10″ DW Collector X-shell
9×12″ DW Collector X-shell
12×14″ DW Collector X-shell
14×16″ DW Collector X-shell
KICK
18×22″ DW Collector X-shell,
18×22″ Sonor,
Mark’s private samples
SNARE
Ludwig Supraphonic,
Jeff Ocheltree Spirit of 2002,
6,5×14″ Tama Bell Brass
TOMS
12″ Ludwig 1962
13″ Ludwig 1962
14″ Ludwig 1962
16″ Ludwig 1962
18″ Ludwig 1962,
DW Collector X-shell
KICK
14×26″ Ludwig Stainless Steel,
Mark’s private samples
SNARE
7×14″ Tama John Tempesta Signature Series,
Ludwig Black Beauty
TOMS
8×8″ DW Collector X-shell
8×10″ DW Collector X-shell
9×12″ DW Collector X-shell
12×14″ DW Collector X-shell
14×16″ DW Collector X-shell
KICK
18×22″ DW Collector X-shell
SNARE
4,5×14″ Ludwig Pioneer,
Jason’s private samples
TOMS
8×8″ DW Collector X-shell
8×10″ DW Collector X-shell
9×12″ DW Collector X-shell
12×14″ DW Collector X-shell
14×16″ DW Collector X-shell
KICK
18×22″ DW Collector X-shell,
16×24″ DW Collectors Series
SNARE
4,5×14″ Ludwig Pioneer,
7×14″ Tomas Haake Custom
TOMS
8×8″ DW Collector X-shell
8×10″ DW Collector X-shell
9×12″ DW Collector X-shell
12×14″ DW Collector X-shell
14×16″ DW Collector X-shell
KICK
18×22″ DW Collector X-shell
SNARE
BeatHeadDrum 7×12″ Padouk,
14″ Ludwig Brass Shell,
Jason’s private samples
TOMS
10×14″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
16×18″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
KICK
18×22″ DW Collector X-shell
SNARE
4,5×14″ Ludwig Acrolite 1973,
6,5×14″ Ludwig Supraphonic 402
TOMS
8×8″ DW Collector X-shell
8×10″ DW Collector X-shell
9×12″ DW Collector X-shell
12×14″ DW Collector X-shell
14×16″ DW Collector X-shell
KICK
18×22″ DW Collector X-shell
SNARE
6,5×14″ Sonor 1975,
Ludwig Black Beauty 1940s
TOMS
8×10″ DW Collector X-shell
9×12″ DW Collector X-shell
12×14″ DW Collector X-shell
14×16″ DW Collector X-shell
KICK
18×22″ DW Collector X-shell,
Daniel’s private samples
SNARE
5,5×14″ Conn
TOMS
8×8″ DW Collector X-shell
8×10″ DW Collector X-shell
9×12″ DW Collector X-shell
12×14″ DW Collector X-shell
14×16″ DW Collector X-shell
KICK
26″ Ludwig,
Daniel’s private samples
SNARE
5,5×14″ Conn
TOMS
10×14″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
16×16″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
16×18″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
18×20″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
KICK
18×22″ DW,
Daniel’s private samples
SNARE
Ludwig Supraphonic 1962
TOMS
10×14″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
16×16″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
16×18″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
18×20″ Ludwig Quadra Plus
15″ Sabian Artisan
14″ Zildjian Z Custom Master Sound
CHINA
18″ Sabian HH
19″ Sabian AAXtreme
CRASH
19″ Sabian Artisan
18″ Masterworks Crash Jazzmaster
18″ Sabian Artisan Vault
20″ Masterworks Crashride Jazzmaster
17″ Sabian Artisan
22″ Masterworks Crash Jazzmaster
19″ Masterworks Custom
20″ Masterworks Crash Jazzmaster
SPLASH
10″ Sabian HH
12″ Sabian HH
SPOCK
Spock Trash hit
RIDE
21″ Sabian HHX Groove
22″ Sabian HH Power bell
2 GB of free hard disk space, 1 GB RAM.
A working EZdrummer 1.4 (or above) or a Superior Drummer 2.3 (or above) installation.
