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David: Well, I have quite many on my list. My main www.dwdrums.com
thrash inspiration comes from Believer s Joey Daub.
He s a fast punk version of another drum hero
of main, Dave Lombardo. Jayson Sherlock (Early
Mortificaton) taught me how to play death metal.
Sean Reinert (Death, Cynic) reformed my death SDM: With Norway having a pretty vast history for
metal perspectives. Ben Koller (Converge) is insane producing black/death metal, do you find being in
and huge inspiration. Billy Cobham just makes me a Christian metal band any more challenging, being
angry would give anything to get his skills. I ve where you are from?
studied Neil Peart and Bill Bruford quite a bit also. I
must not forget to mention Thomas Pridgen. David: Definitely! It s been a challenge from the
very beginning. We were always heavily involved in
the normal metal scene in Norway, so our Christian
faith and perspectives were confronted from day
SDM: Your drums sound great on the record! What
was the recording process for this album and one. Sometimes it felt like we had to be twice as
tracking the drums? good as the other bands to get a fair recognition
for the music we played, like a compensation or
David: Thank you. I m super happy with the sound, something. But it came to a point where we had
and it s most likely the first time I ve been truly to ignore the criticism and semi-discrimination. In
satisfied. For the past 10 years I ve been stuck 2013 I don t see this being a big issue.
with the DW s. I have a beautiful maple set-up
with 2 x 22 kicks, 14x5.5 snare, 14 and 16 floor
toms. For this recording I wanted to finally get that SDM: What advice would you give to young
punchy, shiny, seventies fusion rack tom sound, so drummers looking to make it in the scene today?
I brought in a 14 Roto Tom. And that was where
the magic appeared. Because we never got to David: Practice is the most important thing in the
rehearse as a band before the recording, the whole world, gear always comes second. Make sure you
album this time recorded with a click track. This get to play in circuits where the chemistry is good
is something I hate big time, but it was needed and try to focus on one band only, hehe... Aim for
to make things work. The production ended up your own signature, don t copy.
being tighter than ever, but the click track explains
all of that, haha... It helps with good studio gear
as well. We used API and Neve pre s on all mic s
and followed Jens Bogren s recommendations for
configurations. Jens mixed the album and should
get all credits for how it all ended up sounding.
SDM: We re hoping you bring a lot of the new
material live... Any plans for a tour yet?
David: Unfortunately. Peter struggles with tinnitus
and a can t stand loud stage volumes. This makes marylin mansons Jason Sutter and NEW DW9000 Series pedals.
us a bit handicapped. Hopefully it is something that Speed, Feel, power.
can be solved so we can return to the venues and
play all of our songs in the near future. If so, we ll
play several of our new songs, I believe. The reimagined, reengineered 9000 Series bass drum pedal. Only from DW, The Drummers Choice.
Westside Distribution • 0141 248 4812 • westsidedistribution.com
©2013 Drum Workshop, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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9000SERIES
David: Well, I have quite many on my list. My main www.dwdrums.com
thrash inspiration comes from Believer s Joey Daub.
He s a fast punk version of another drum hero
of main, Dave Lombardo. Jayson Sherlock (Early
Mortificaton) taught me how to play death metal.
Sean Reinert (Death, Cynic) reformed my death SDM: With Norway having a pretty vast history for
metal perspectives. Ben Koller (Converge) is insane producing black/death metal, do you find being in
and huge inspiration. Billy Cobham just makes me a Christian metal band any more challenging, being
angry would give anything to get his skills. I ve where you are from?
studied Neil Peart and Bill Bruford quite a bit also. I
must not forget to mention Thomas Pridgen. David: Definitely! It s been a challenge from the
very beginning. We were always heavily involved in
the normal metal scene in Norway, so our Christian
faith and perspectives were confronted from day
SDM: Your drums sound great on the record! What
was the recording process for this album and one. Sometimes it felt like we had to be twice as
tracking the drums? good as the other bands to get a fair recognition
for the music we played, like a compensation or
David: Thank you. I m super happy with the sound, something. But it came to a point where we had
and it s most likely the first time I ve been truly to ignore the criticism and semi-discrimination. In
satisfied. For the past 10 years I ve been stuck 2013 I don t see this being a big issue.
with the DW s. I have a beautiful maple set-up
with 2 x 22 kicks, 14x5.5 snare, 14 and 16 floor
toms. For this recording I wanted to finally get that SDM: What advice would you give to young
punchy, shiny, seventies fusion rack tom sound, so drummers looking to make it in the scene today?
I brought in a 14 Roto Tom. And that was where
the magic appeared. Because we never got to David: Practice is the most important thing in the
rehearse as a band before the recording, the whole world, gear always comes second. Make sure you
album this time recorded with a click track. This get to play in circuits where the chemistry is good
is something I hate big time, but it was needed and try to focus on one band only, hehe... Aim for
to make things work. The production ended up your own signature, don t copy.
being tighter than ever, but the click track explains
all of that, haha... It helps with good studio gear
as well. We used API and Neve pre s on all mic s
and followed Jens Bogren s recommendations for
configurations. Jens mixed the album and should
get all credits for how it all ended up sounding.
SDM: We re hoping you bring a lot of the new
material live... Any plans for a tour yet?
David: Unfortunately. Peter struggles with tinnitus
and a can t stand loud stage volumes. This makes marylin mansons Jason Sutter and NEW DW9000 Series pedals.
us a bit handicapped. Hopefully it is something that Speed, Feel, power.
can be solved so we can return to the venues and
play all of our songs in the near future. If so, we ll
play several of our new songs, I believe. The reimagined, reengineered 9000 Series bass drum pedal. Only from DW, The Drummers Choice.
Westside Distribution • 0141 248 4812 • westsidedistribution.com
©2013 Drum Workshop, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
48 49
9000 Pedal Ad 2012 Sutter(drummer).indd 1 1/16/13 11:03 AM
