Mike Ranne is a drummer from NY who plays for the SC-based death metal act Through The Eyes Of The Dead (Eone Music). He has also done time in My Bitter End, Circuit Of Suns, We Are The Romans, and as a session/touring drummer. Mike is currently looking for a touring gig. He prefers to play technical death metal but is open to all opportunities.
Dementia is the opening track on the band’s 2010 release ‘Skepsis’ out on Prosthetic Records.
The track was recorded and mixed at Backroom Studios in Rockaway NJ by Kevin Antreassian.
Videography by Gabriel Francis.
Revered as one of the groups that pioneered the aggressive and abrasive mixture of death metal and hardcore that permeates the modern heavy music landscape, the East Coast-based Through The Eyes Of The Dead triumphantly return with Disomus. Disomus is the long-anticipated follow up to their last LP, Skepsis, released in 2010. Disomus marks the second consecutive album with vocalist Danny Rodriguez and drummer Mike Ranne (a first in the group’s impressive history) together with longtime bassist Jake Ososkie and founding guitarist and songwriting engine Justin Longshore. Disomus doubles as the studio introduction of new guitarist Steven Funderburk (also of Wretched) and the return of original vocalist Anthony Gunnells and his successor, Nate Johnson, via strong guest appearances, bringing Through The Eyes Of The Dead full circle.
“Disomus” is the medical term describing an abnormal fetus with two bodies but one head. The album’s subject matter includes the tale of a man buried alive by a cult (“Obitual”), a dark magician’s creation of a malignant entity via sacrificial killing (“Haruspex”), underworld spirits doomed to roam the earth (“Dismal”), the Styx River of Greek myth (“Vortices in the Stygian Maelstrom”), the themes of the Alien/Prometheus film franchise (“Teras,” alternately named for an abnormal fetus with two heads and one body), and the real-life tragedy and horror discovered by Rodriguez, a Chicago police officer, when called upon to check on the well being of an elderly person who lived alone (“Till Solace, She’ll Haunt”).
“Hate the Living” is not only the name of the first track on Through The Eyes Of The Dead’s first album in seven years but part of a battle cry of sorts that has adorned the band’s t-shirts for years. The second half of the phrase is “Love the Dead.” Like the best of death metal’s past, present, and future, Through The Eyes Of The Dead is the kind of band that makes living with death worth loving.
Mike Ranne’s Gear In This Video:
Pearl Masters Custom 6-Piece Wood Finish
10″ rack tom
12”, 14” floor toms
1 x 18″ kick
14″ snare
10″ Grover side snare
Cymbals:
Sabian AAX 18″ china
Sabian AAX 18″ crash
Zildjian 19″ A custom projection crash
Zildjian 10″ A custom splash
Zildjian 21″ mega bell ride
Sabian 19″ Neil Peart signature china
Zildjian 14″ oriental china
Turkish rock beat 13″ hats (right)
Zildjian 13″ A custom hats (left)
Turkish 10″ bell
Pearl Demon Drive Double Pedal
Mike’s Links:
www.facebook.com/mikerannedrums
www.youtube.com/user/mikerannejr
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