Bob Kasha, who knows a thing or two about making drums, has seen his knowledge and input paid off handsomely in these drums. Every facet looks, feels and sounds right. The individual components ooze ...

Whether you’re a beginner drummer, a marching band student on a budget or a home studio owner, chances are you’ll want your drums to be durable and affordable but also sound great. The snare drum in ...

1. Once past the £100 mark, every aspect of your snare should improve. Look for a better quality steel shell, or maybe even one in bronze, brass or aluminium. Steel is loud yet sensitive and ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Though a snare is familiar to every drummer behind the ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. What would The Beatles be without Ringo Starr or Rush ...

The Kompressor range comprises 14”x5.75” and 14”x6.5” models across the three shell types, however the Kompressor Brass is also offered as a 13”x7” drum, while the Kompressor Aluminium comes in 14”x8” ...

Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich has defended the much-maligned sound of his snare drum on the band’s 2003 album ‘St Anger’. Fans and drummers have consistently criticised the thin, snapping sound of the drum ...

Care to match our obsessiveness? The first reader to correctly name the song order of our snare solo supercut will receive a surprise. Email your guess and address here. U.S. residents only, sorry. 1.

A drummer on YouTube has made a video playing classic Metallica songs, but with the drum sounds of St. Anger. Indeed, they replaced all the drums on the tracks with the ringing, open-snare drum tone ...

Metallica’s career is littered with questionable production choices. The lack of bass on …And Justice For All, the polished gloss of The Black Album, the brickwalled master on Death Magnetic… the list ...

In 1981, the all-female pop-punk band The Go-Go’s set a new precedent for girl power in rock music, belting out a chorus of “We Got the Beat” to drummer Gina Schock’s pounding rhythm. It’s an anthem ...