Do you think metal bands will ever start playing electronic drum kits?

5 Responses to Do you think metal bands will ever start playing electronic drum kits?

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   voodoo_moonbaby43968 on January 31, 2010 at 11:40 am

   Oh god, I certainly hope not. That would be disastrous.
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   indyred2005 on January 31, 2010 at 12:17 pm

   Def Leppards drummer played one at one time. I don’t know if he still does. This was when he first lost his arm.
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   X on January 31, 2010 at 12:51 pm

   Well, Def Leppard did and look where it took them…
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   kevin g on January 31, 2010 at 1:28 pm

   Def Leppard DOESNT COUNT, as they’re definetly NOT METAL.

   But, as for the question, I think a great deal of the more extreme drummers use triggers on their kick drums. I gues they play so fast real kick drums can’t keep up. (like the dude from Nile. he used triggers on Anhilation of the Wicked for that exact reason).
   But as for the WHOLE KIT? I think not. no matter how good those electronic kits get, they will never sound as good as real drums, and they don’t exactly try to make ‘em sound Metal, now do they? ok maybe gay hair metal, but not real metal.
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   Jim on January 31, 2010 at 2:10 pm

   too late…..they are already using them. when you see advertising and endorsments for ddrum and see a red box(trigger) on the set. they are using acoustic triggers on their real sets. and many are. image is one thing( the look) but what you hear from some of them is from the module. ie. peter criss, tommy lee, neil peart, and if you look hard enough there are many, many more.
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