This collection of drum grooves and fills is loosely based on Sean’s discography and further draws from several decades of his experience being a drummer, musician and composer. Already back in the early 1990s, his limitless playing introduced a sound that managed to forge trudging brutality with a nuance reminiscing that of a jazz or fusion drummer – a style where the drums were allowed to paint with all-new colors and much broader brushes than what was customary in death metal up until then. Sean Reinert is a perfect example of just that. The Death and Darkness SDX and the Death Metal Guitars EZmix pack are two of the highlights we’ve covered here.ĭeath metal is more than blast beats and artillery-like bass drums in rampant tempos, it’s about subtle finesse, technicality and grace as well. This also marks the sixth new release during Toontrack’s ongoing Metal Month. This marks the eighty-sixth individual drum MIDI pack in Toontrack’s ever-growing collection of drum MIDI for EZdrummer 2 and Superior Drummer 3. Other than that, Toontrack mostly just has grooves for song that have been already made (Metal Head Grooves being Meshuggah songs and Metal Machine being songs that John Tempesta has played on.Toontrack has announced the release of the Deathlike Fusion MIDI pack, a collection of drum MIDI grooves performed by technical death metal pioneer Sean Reinert. Metal Foundry has useful Dirk Verburen Grooves that will go well with almost any other Groove pack with him(LoEI-III, Metal Beats) since they fit his style, the Gene Hoglan Grooves unfortunately are kinda worthless unless you plan on just practicing Guitar with them(and they make for some damn good practice.) The Peter Fredlander Straight Rock Grooves is nice for the more rock oriented stuff you may come up with. With that out of the way, you can buy the loop packs of Metal Foundry and Metalheads. Essentially DFH is $53 for Grooves since you will most likely never use the Kit. If you like the idea of having Barebones grooves that you will most likely have to quantize in your daw somewhat for a more Human feel and add a cymbal hit here and there, then go for it. While DFH gives you the widest range of Loops for any expansion you could possibly purchase, they are bare bones and robotic sounding, unless you use the DFH Guest Loops. Its a nice change from everything having double kicks. Metal Beats Fills in the Gaps that you don't get with the Library of Extreme Packs. LoE II I use almost every time I'm working on a track, and LoE III has a nice range of Fills. LoE I is just Blast Beats, so just to let you know ahead of time, if you don't plan on using blasts, don't buy it. DFH is just outclassed and MH sounds good, but it's an Expansion that has been somewhat improved upon by the later Metal releases.įor Loops: Every Library of Extreme is worth it if you play Fast Metal. Since you already own MM and M! I wouldn't recommend DFH or MH. It also has a wider variety of Kit options compared to the other 3 Expansions.
Lately I have been moving more and more towards Metal! since I enjoy the amount of Crack the Snare has on the Default Kit. I own DFH, Metalheads, Metal Machine, Metal! and Metal Foundry.