100 Best Metal Drummers, According To 'digitaldreamdoor.com'

  1. Dave Lombardo - Slayer, Testament (Raining Blood)

  2. Bill Ward - Black Sabbath (The Wizard)

  3. Danny Carey- Tool (Ticks & Leeches)

  4. Mike Portnoy - Dream Theater (Stream of Consciousness)

  5. Cozy Powell - Rainbow, Black Sabbath (Stargazer)

  6. Nicko McBrain - Iron Maiden (Where Eagles Dare)

  7. Vinnie Paul - Pantera, Damageplan (Throes of Rejection)

  8. Gene Hoglan - Death, Strapping Young Lad (Symbolic)

  9. Lars Ulrich - Metallica (Dyer's Eve)

10. Martin Lopez - Opeth (Deliverance)

11. Bobby Jarzombek - Spastic Ink, Demons and Wizards, Halford (Multi-Masking)

12. Hellhammer - Mayhem, Arcturus, Dimmu Borgir (For to End Yet Again)

13. Matt Cameron - Soundgarden (Jesus Christ Pose)

14. Nick Menza - Megadeth (Take no Prisoners)

15. Tommy Aldridge - Ozzy Osbourne, Vinnie Moore (Saved by a Miracle)

16. Scott Travis - Judas Priest, Racer X (Painkiller)

17. Brann Dailor - Mastodon (Capillerian Crest)

18. Clive Burr - Iron Maiden (Genghis Khan)

19. Richard Christy - Death, Iced Earth (Harvester of Human Sorrow)

20. Derek Roddy - Hate Eternal (Faceles One)

21. Mark Zonder - Fates Warning (Nothing Left to Say)

22. Tomas Haake - Meshuggah (I)

23. Phil Taylor - Motörhead (Overkill)

24. Jürgen Reil - Kreator (Terrible Certainty)

25. Virgil Donati - Planet X (Midnight Bell)

26. Gar Samuelson - Megadeth (Wake Up Dead)

27. Tommy Lee - Mötley Crüe (Use It or Lose It)

28. Sean Reinert - Cynic, Death (Secret Face)

29. Charlie Benante - Anthrax (Schism)

30. Paul Bostaph - Slayer, Testament (Killing Fields)

31. Flo Mournier - Cryptopsy (Carrionshine)

32. Scott Rockenfield - Queensrÿche (Take Hold of the Flame)

33. Vinny Appice - Dio, Heaven & Hell, Derringer (Beyond the Universe)

34. George Kollias - Nile (Burning Pits of Duat)

35. Lee Kerslake - Ozzy Osbourne (Over the Mountain)

36. Pete Sandoval - Morbid Angel (Maze of Torment)

37. Mick Harris - Napalm Death (Scum)

38. Nicholas Barker - Dimmu Borgir, Old Man's Son (Kings of the Carnival Creation)

39. Igor Cavalera - Sepultura (Territory)

40. Mike Sus - Possessed (The Exorsist)

41. Joey Jordison - Slipknot (Disasterpiece)

42. Allen Blickle - Baroness (Rays on Pinion)

43. Ray Herrera - Fear Factory (Cyberwaste)

44. Proscriptor - Absu (She Cries the Quiet Lake)

45. Mario Duplantier - Gojira (The Art of Dying)

46. Sean Kinney - Alice In Chains (Sick Man)

47. Chris Adler - Lamb of God (Ashes of the Wake)

48. Matt McDonough - Mudvayne (World so Cold)

49. Aaron Harris - Isis (Not in Rivers but in Drops)

50. Jason Rullo - Symphony X (The Accolade)

51. Shannon Lucas - All That Remains, Black Dahlia Murder (This Calling)

52. Blake Richardson - Between the Buried and Me (Obfuscation)

53. David Silveria - Korn (Got the Life)

54. Brad Wilk - Rage Against the Machine (Snakecharmer)

55. Steve Flynn - Atheist (Mother Man)

56. Mike Smith - Suffocation (Redemption)

57. Mike Bordin - Faith No More, Ozzy Osbourne, Korn (Midlife Crisis)

58. Randy Castillo - Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe (Hellraiser)

59. Trivett Wingo - The Sword (Ebethron)

60. Yanic Bercier - Quo Vadis (Absolution)

61. John Dolmayan - System of a Down (I-E-A-I-A-I-O)

62. Des Kensel - High on Fire (Devilution)

63. Daniel Erlandsson - Arch Enemy, Carcass, In Flames (ehumanizer)

64. Kim Ruzz - Mercyful Fate (The Oath)

65. Ken Owen - Carcass (Heartwork)

66. Dave McClain - Machine Head (Imperium)

67. Ingo Schwichtenberg - Helloween (Eagle Fly Free)

68. Les Binks - Judas Priest (Exciter)

69. Ricardo Confessori - Angra (Caroline IV)

70. Jason Roeder - Neurosis (Locust Star)

71. Paul Mazurkiewicz - Cannibal Corpse, Tirant Sin (Hammer Smashed Face)

72. Tony Laureano - Nile (Sarcophagus)

73. Tony "Abaddon" Bray - Venom (Black Metal)

74. Felix Griffin - DRI (Tear it Down)

75. Daniel Svensson - In Flames, Diabolique (Brush the Dust Away)

76. Ted Kirkpatrick - Tourniquet (Ark of Suffering)

77. Frost - Satyricon, Gorgoroth (Mother North)

78. Fenriz - Immortal (Tyrants)

79. Steve Asheim - Deicide, Order of Ennead, Council of the Fallen (As if a Rose I Wither)

80. Hans Grossmann - Necrophagist (Stillborn One)

81. Scott Columbus - Manowar (Achilles, Agony & Ecstasy)

82. Dave Mackintosh - DragonForce, Bal-Sagoth (Through the Fire & the Flames)

83. Steve Zimmerman - Fates Warning (The Sorceress)

84. John Tempesta - Exodus, Testament, Helmet, White Zombie (See You Dead)

85. Nigel Glockler - Saxon (Motorcycle Man)

86. Deen Castronovo - Marty Friedman, Wild Dogs, Ozzy Osbourne (Saturation Point)

87. Shawn Drover - Megadeth, Eidolon (This Day We Fight!)

88. Travis Smith - Trivium (Falling to Gray)

89. Liam Sweeney - No Quarter Given (Falling Paradigm)

90. Mike Terrana - Rage, Masterplan (All I Want)

91. Rob Callard - Sylosis (The Blackest Skyline)

92. Tim Yeung - Divine Heresy (Bleed the Fifth)

93. Thomen Stauch - Blind Guardian, Savage Circus (When Hell Awakes)

94. Stian Kristoffersen - Pagan's Mind (The Celestine Prophecy)

95. Jimmy Sullivan - Avenged Sevenfold (Streets)

96. Tom Hunting - Exodus (Piranha)

97. Johan Langell - Pain Of Salvation (Fandango)

98. Louie Clemente - Testament (Over The Wall)

99. Adam Dutkiewicz - Killswitch Engage (My Curse)

100. Pete Gill - Saxon, Motörhead (Denim  And Leather)