Favourite player out of that lot might well be Chris Kontos for me. Love the drumming on the first Machine Head album.

Bernardo wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 3:58 pm

Krev wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:45 am Andreas Kisser was my favorite musician out of the listed bands.

God no, just look at every single thing he did post-Roots.

I don't like Roots, but he was their MVP prior to that. I'm not considering the post-Max stuff in the equation.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:01 pm Favourite player out of that lot might well be Chris Kontos for me. Love the drumming on the first Machine Head album.

That one was a favorite of young me. I'd say his drumming holds up.

I could never choose Machine Head: while they were musically very strong indeed (debut is great, following 2 are good) they were seemingly incapable of independent thought - it was always success in the paradigm set by visionaries and / or marketplace reality

Just can't imagine Burn My Eyes existing if not for Cowboys... & Vulgar...

Will conceded Kontos plays extra great on BME, there's an unrestrained energy there that was clearly their secret sauce early on.

Above average technical ability is generally a given in metal, it's that something else that makes it interesting.

Also, Sepultura is the perfect example of the difference between a great band and great individual players (which not all of them were). It took the Cavalera brothers plus Kisser at that period in time to come into something that's far bigger than the individual parts. They did not come close once they were apart.

I'd argue Vinnie Paul is the most underrated musician in the bunch, his contribution was far more unique than all the layers of DUMB that made Pantera allowed most to realize.