![]() I think I can safely say that Fjellström is an example of what can happen when you disregard social life and the indulgence of any other hobbies for the sole pursuit of the fastest, most extreme, most heavy-hitting drum style humanly achievable. Becoming one of the most famous extreme drummers ever during his time in the black metal band Dark Funeral, he has also set his mark on the tech-death scene, not least when he played with Aeon. "Another one of those drummers that most people in the scene should know by now. Nils Fjellström (Nordjevel/The Wretched End/Dark Funeral) I remember when I reached the age that Vitek was when he tragically passed away because it was only then that I fully realised how far ahead he was of every metal drummer of his generation."ĩ. When someone like Vitek starts to play extreme metal music earlier than they might have without the influence of an older sibling, the extremely fertile mind of a teenager seems to be able to reach great skill much faster than they would if they started a few years later. The relationship between the brothers Vitek and Vogg (guitars) is similar to that of the Abbott brothers from Pantera in my mind. I don´t think I really need to explain to anyone even slightly familiar with death metal the imprint that this version of the band left on the scene forever. Devouring their first three full-length albums, Organic Hallucinosis was released later that year and has been in my rotation ever since. "When I joined my first ever metal band at 16, the other guys who were a little older got me hooked on popular bands of that era, such as the aforementioned Spawn Of Possession, Hate Eternal and not least, Decapitated. This album has influenced me in many ways ever since I first heard it." I can only guess that the relatively weak metal scene in Denmark of today is one of the main reasons. Sinfully underexposed in the scene, in my opinion. The drummers name is Morten Løwe Sørensen. It sounded like the drummer was trying everything to make fast drumming interesting again. It may not strictly speaking be tech-death, but this album has so many brilliant drum ideas and original takes on blast-beats and skank-beats. It turned out to be The Arcane Order with their album In The Wake Of Collisions. In one such shop in Switzerland I saw a cool CD cover with some planetary space artwork and bought it because of that. This means I frequently visited Geisladiskabúð Valda (Valdi´s record store) in downtown Reykjavík, and any other record shop I could find when I travelled abroad with my parents. ![]() "Entering the extreme metal scene around 2002/2003, I barely caught the end of the CD era before everything was downloaded and stored on mp3 players. Morten Løwe Sørensen (Amaranthe/The Arcane Order) I haven´t even really checked out what he did after Necrophagist because I´m just still processing it."Ĥ. His career is a testament to what happens when innate talent is crossed with unimaginable commitment to hard work. Grossmann is just so talented that it leaves us all in awe. God knows how ridiculous it can be to try to play drum parts written by guitarists, imagine how hard it is if they´re written by someone who is to a degree inventing a new style of music at the same time. At the age of 21 he had pieced together three different skills that usually take the rest of us mortals most our lives to achieve: speed and brutality, deep fundamental musical maturity and groove, and the ability to learn hit-by-hit the incredibly complex tech-death drumming as it was written by one of the best guitar players ever to honour the scene, namely Muhammed Suiçmez. Grossman´s live drum cams from his era with Necrophagist are examples of video evidence that make your mouth gape every time you watch them. "There are a few online drum cams that manage to pass the threshold from masterpiece to mythical. Hannes Grossmann (Triptykon/Eternity's End/Obscura/Necrophagist)
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