I am sooooo glad I checked these guys out when I saw the Human Abstract tour poster. Best music find for me in months. These guys are amazing. Holy shit.
just so you all know this video is overdubbed with the original recording, still though... Grant is playing part for part with the exception that he is doing some things differently. Great drumming and a really well written song!
@FocusFight Thats simply because they happened to use a different take of that fill and didn't have the video clip to match. This may indeed be the natural drum sound.
@FocusFight they film him doing the actual sound take, and then they film more shots for fun camera angles, and he did something a bit different. Quite common in this type of videos
@Mattelliott1234 this video was dubbed, he did actually record but since meinl didnt use it, i guess it was easier to just dub it over the orignal song
@metalhippie27 I heard/saw it too. Seems that this is not the original audio, because at a few places you can hear a crash instead of a china. They must have mixed up their different takes to make one vid.
I had no idea what Lamnidae actually was then when I was in biology I discovered that it's a shark family. A big one. Seems a fitting name. This is pimping sweet.
Why does it matter? His technique works for him, and its done him incredibly well. Besides, we're playing Metal, its all about aggression! Don't get any of that with wrists!
@wonderingthesestreet this sound comes mainly from processing with EQ (cut mids) and compression (quick attack), it's nearly impossible to get a tom to actually sound like this.
It's not a drum cover, it's a play through the dude was the old drummer of this band the sound is straight from the record. Besides you can see him 99% of the beats can't you? isn't that good wnough
@DWdrummer1995 It's an Evans Hybrid. It's a cross between a marching and a kit snare head. It's like $50-$60. It lasts a loooong time and sounds amazing
At 1:16 the sound of a crash cymbal can be heard being choked but he hits an open hi hat that closes, showing that the audio doesn't match up with what he's playing.
MidasMisfortune the entire audio track is not synced to the video. Ever seen him play live? I bet you couldn’t keep pace for more than a few bars. He’s the reason they were signed. His drumming is almost too perfect. Almost sounds like a programmed track... but it ain’t. Natural quantizing ability.
@PetriesLakeHouse No man. He left to work with Carson Slovak at Atrium Audio in Lancaster. I guess he didn't feel like touring for the rest of his life, understandable. Same thing happened with Logan from Texas in July, except he went to school.
@capronct i just need to start trying them out in stores before purchase. the challenge is is that it might sound different when you sit down and play it on the kit. i've had a custom fast crashes for years and they haven't cracked yet. i'm not as hard as a hitter though i guess
@kbckiwi Oh, I can't tell if he's playing with it or not, like I said you can only hear him hit the hihats at 0:03 not the china, that's why I thought this track's audio is just the original mp3
Anyone notice at 2:16 that he does a drum fill on the video that doesn't come up in the video, so he's pre-recorded the drums then just faked the video? don't really understand that point of that ....
![Grant McFarland - [This Or The Apocalypse] playing "Charmer"](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TNunjWeoPwY/mqdefault.jpg)
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![Grant McFarland - [This Or The Apocalypse] playing "Toro"](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/QUs-U8TroMg/mqdefault.jpg)
omfg, I wish this incarnation of the band was still around. What a phenomenal band. Way underrated and slept on.
They are still a band but under a different name, HAWK. Sadly I don't think grant is actually drumming for them anymore
@@angusmackenzie3763Grant hasn't since 2010-2011. Long time ago
I ahree
🔥🔥🔥Checking in from the year 2023
I'm still learning this song😅😅
Sad to not see Grant playing anymore. Come back to his videos all the time still, same with Adam Gray!
You should look up Galactic Empire if you aren't already aware. Grant drums for them.
@@ChristopherJCroft Did not know this, thanks for the comment
People surprise me more and more every day. How can you hate on his drumming? This is awesome
TOP 5 DRUMMERS FOR SURE! I LOVE YOU GRANT!
Once again goes to show you just how badass this guy is he's no joke ladies and gentlemen good job Grant
Still holds up in 2024. We need a TOTA Tour!
This version of the band has sadly been gone for a long time. Would be sick tho
DUDE, make more of these. OMGaaahhh I love em!
You just entered my top 3 fav drummers list. I'm gonna try and find and listen to your music more from now on. \m/
Without you, there is no Galactic Empire.
Big Galactic Empire fan, and you're right. I'm pretty sure he's the one who made the band happen.
This guy is phenomenal.
Cheers from France! 🍻
TOTA definetly lack his drumming skills and writing now... Grant is amazing I wish he'd still be in a band playing shows ans recording stuff !
Most professionally produced Drum Videos on youtube... hands down!
WE RECORDED HERE WOOO Grant is so beast thumbs up from Black Friday
1:47 the sound of the snare on those blast beats SUPREME
This video got to 5 seconds and I hit the sub button haha! Nice work man!!
I am sooooo glad I checked these guys out when I saw the Human Abstract tour poster. Best music find for me in months. These guys are amazing. Holy shit.
I didnt know about you, and now that I meet you I want to tell you that you are amazing :D!
I LOVE IT! ! ITS AMAZING! KEEP IT COMINGGG!!!
BAMF! Dude this is amazing, your my hero
I watch this all the way thru, just because of how good he is.
@NeverSettleFilm
When can we expect to see this kind of video for Adam Gray? Can't wait!
Aaaaaaand this is why he is the best in this genre
just so you all know this video is overdubbed with the original recording, still though... Grant is playing part for part with the exception that he is doing some things differently. Great drumming and a really well written song!
keep coming with the drum videos guys this is awesome!
soo sooooo sooooo amazing teach me mighty Grant
Beautiful!!! drum!!! excelent drummer!!! yeahhh
coming from a 14 year old probly wont mean anything but grant inspires me so much, i would give anything in this world to meet him and play his set..
Awesome friend..... Good movement on drums
so glad he went with meinl
@FocusFight Thats simply because they happened to use a different take of that fill and didn't have the video clip to match. This may indeed be the natural drum sound.
crazy ghost notes at 2:17 !
lmfao
BUSTED! LOL!
I was watching the great playing and cinematography, and thought "nah", but then i saw the stick tricks and I can't help but say yes to that.
if adam gray had vids like this my head would explode...thumbs up so NeverSettleFilm could see this..I NEED TO SEE ADAM JAM
Love the stick flips! Great cover too
wow! inspirational saving up to get myself a drumset, cant wait!
great drumming, awesome song too.
I love his groove at 2:45 with the accent splash hits.
you guys are under rated I don't say that about everyone.
What a badass technical drummer, great cymbal work! \m/
I've never seen any drummer play that technically with such a chillness around him.
Check out Alex Bent's playthroughs
@FocusFight they film him doing the actual sound take, and then they film more shots for fun camera angles, and he did something a bit different. Quite common in this type of videos
@Mattelliott1234 this video was dubbed, he did actually record but since meinl didnt use it, i guess it was easier to just dub it over the orignal song
Broken, Relentless, Show that we're heartless lards, SHOW THAT WE'RE HEARTLESS LARDS!!! lol
@FocusFight They don't have to be constantly be played to be a ghostnote, just a tiny rebound after every afterbeat or whatever is a ghostnote,
All you haters are just jealous. You know Grant is one of the sickest drummers alive.
He is great yeah. But he is far from sickest drummers alive. :/
I said one of them. There are many
It's actually probably the clip of him tracking the song so it probably is the actual sound.
sadly there is a recording playing over the video...but still! woot woot!
grant mcfarland is amazing
Good god this is so bad ass.
He was the drummer for TOTA when this was filmed..
you have that seat god damn low..
and on the other side yout work is god damn good, keep it up;)
Excellent job i must say!! @bstad4321 that bass drum is a beast lol my orange county kits bass is 22x20 freakin love it
Thanks for choosing Truth. Best drums out there
I'm using exactly the same china cymbal! And I LOVE the sound of that snare!
@BubbleRapOwns wow, nice catch haha I missed that one
jesus, look at that bass drum. f-ing huge.
Great job man. I've wanted to see a quality cover of The Seventh Trumpet by ABR for a while. Think you could give it a go?
@metalhippie27 I heard/saw it too. Seems that this is not the original audio, because at a few places you can hear a crash instead of a china. They must have mixed up their different takes to make one vid.
Still slays 🤘 BROKEN RELENTLES NEVER GIVE IN
@Ozzathawildy Yes sir, from one drummer to another, this guy ROCKS
FUCK. That kit is beautiful, especially the kick drum.
how can this end up not being used?! -.-
@FocusFight it probably is hims playing, they just used different segments of film and he just so happened to play it differently
His new Truth kit is so dope.
Awesome drummer!
the first 10 seconds are amazing :-)
from those 60000 views i'm over the 30 000. I can't beleive it yet.. SICK
Super sick. You guys endorsed? If not you should be!
the chops master!
BEAST!
YOU ROCK
@computernerd01 Totally liked this video.
I love it!!! Man you're a sick drummer!!!!! =:O
ROCK ON
i subscribed after 15seconds!
I had no idea what Lamnidae actually was then when I was in biology I discovered that it's a shark family. A big one. Seems a fitting name. This is pimping sweet.
Why does it matter? His technique works for him, and its done him incredibly well.
Besides, we're playing Metal, its all about aggression! Don't get any of that with wrists!
@wonderingthesestreet this sound comes mainly from processing with EQ (cut mids) and compression (quick attack), it's nearly impossible to get a tom to actually sound like this.
It's not a drum cover, it's a play through the dude was the old drummer of this band the sound is straight from the record.
Besides you can see him 99% of the beats can't you? isn't that good wnough
I just want to go there so I can just drum and sound amazing with your mixing.. haha
@DWdrummer1995 It's an Evans Hybrid. It's a cross between a marching and a kit snare head. It's like $50-$60. It lasts a loooong time and sounds amazing
@TheAbeyant How are they the worst!? And by the way what you're hearing isn't those cymbals, this ist the studio recording.
@ghundeep12345 its not a cover this is his band, its a video of him recording it.
Insane
At 1:16 the sound of a crash cymbal can be heard being choked but he hits an open hi hat that closes, showing that the audio doesn't match up with what he's playing.
MidasMisfortune the entire audio track is not synced to the video. Ever seen him play live? I bet you couldn’t keep pace for more than a few bars. He’s the reason they were signed. His drumming is almost too perfect. Almost sounds like a programmed track... but it ain’t. Natural quantizing ability.
He WAS the drummer of the band.
@PetriesLakeHouse
No man. He left to work with Carson Slovak at Atrium Audio in Lancaster. I guess he didn't feel like touring for the rest of his life, understandable. Same thing happened with Logan from Texas in July, except he went to school.
super bad -ass you are very talented
@capronct
i just need to start trying them out in stores before purchase. the challenge is is that it might sound different when you sit down and play it on the kit. i've had a custom fast crashes for years and they haven't cracked yet. i'm not as hard as a hitter though i guess
@kbckiwi
Oh, I can't tell if he's playing with it or not,
like I said you can only hear him hit the hihats at 0:03
not the china, that's why I thought this track's audio is just the original mp3
Who is actually the drummer for TOTA? Grant McFarland or Brent Caltagirone?
Anyone notice at 2:16 that he does a drum fill on the video that doesn't come up in the video, so he's pre-recorded the drums then just faked the video? don't really understand that point of that ....
That bass drum is alive man
Holy crap! Anyone know what snare he's using?
If meinl didnt use my video, id reshoot it using zildjian cymbals lol
Wow, nice, use of the sticks man!!!!!!
@DWdrummer1995 I looked it up a while back when i first found about it. If i'm not mistaken, it's a marching head? and it cost like $30? o.o
Nice set.
wish i could do drum covers with production this unreal!!
@FocusFight
chances are this is just a play along they did for promotional purposes, he may have just changed the way he plays the song after the fact
Grant Mcfarland at 0:05 ''Shit here it comes''
Grant Mcfarland at 0:09 ''Get at my level kids''
Damn, he's such a badass drummer, I wish he was in another band.
really nice video but one quick question is this the drum track of this recording or is it from the song?