10 Best Metal Drummers Of All Time

10. Brann Dailor

When it comes to progressive music, Mastodon have been one of the few bands carrying the torch for complicated riffage in metal. With each member sharing an equal role, Brann Dailor certainly leaves his stamp as the band moves from strength to strength on each record.

From the band's sludge metal beginnings to the trippy madness of their later years, Dailor has plowed through each album with tremendous power. The way in which each drum fill locks in perfectly with Brent Hinds's rhythm guitar makes it feel like the band has a musical telepathy of some sort. Once you've wrapped your head around the fact that the man is pulling off lightning-fast rhythms, it gets even more mind-numbing when you realize Dailor also provides vocals on quite a few of the band's songs.

Across 7 records of no let-up, Dailor's tenacity is something truly not of this Earth. When you blast a Mastodon track, each drum attack feels reminiscent of the long math problem that you never understood in high school. However, if you're into metal and are more of the calculus variety, Dailor is a drummer to add to your heroes list without question.