The two featured kits, handpicked from the Death & Darkness SDX, display two kindred but fundamentally different beasts of razor-sharp, pristine and crystal clear drums designed to cut through in anything from rampant tempos to dense walls of guitars and extremely layered productions. It was recorded by acclaimed engineer/mixer/producer Mark Lewis at the impeccable room at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, and sampled by legendary drummer Sean Reinert (Death, Cynic). This is where the Death Metal EZX takes its vantage point – to bring you timeless drums, tailored for modern death metal production. Today, although fragmented and more of an umbrella to a host of sub-genres, death metal has never been more alive.
Arguably no genre has evolved in a more organic way, with a constantly rejuvenating fanbase and steady increment of bands. Ever since, trends in heavy music have come and gone, but death metal has stayed its course and stood its ground. By then, the rest of the world had caught on and death metal as a phenomenon was a fact. On the other shore of the North Sea, in Scandinavia, bands such as Entombed, Therion and At the Gates all added their own blend to the mix. At the same time on the opposite continent in the UK, the likes of Carcass, Benediction and Napalm Death advanced with their own breed of death. Then, by the early 1990s, acts like Death, Morbid Angel, Cannibal Corpse and a handful other US bands predominantly from the Florida and East Coast areas started gaining traction. In the mid-to-late ’80s, death metal was a peripheral genre of underground bands.
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