This isn't Nick

@@dcmastermindfirst9418 No, it's not. Daray has been with them for quite some time now, but I'm sure the point of the comment was about Barker playing the drums on the album this song was on and actually writing and recording the original drum parts for this beauty of a song. And while watching Daray in this video (especially the last and best part from 6:47) , I couldn't help thinking I would have liked to see Barker do a drum playthrough of this :/

@tm_drummer So this isn't him. That's what I'm saying.

@@tm_drummer It's hard to believe, but in the original the drums were programmed. Only the cymbals are "live".

Nicholas barker was the best!!! A freakin' machine !!!!

Sad that Nick Barker went on to play in a bunch of sh1t bands :p He was made to play symphonic black metal.

nah..this song is perfection in every component. riff, drums, composition, construction, solo... everything.

My favourite DB song 🪰

Tbf Vortex Vocals then drums :D

takes actually bigger balls to play with triggers dude

Of course he’s playing nick barkers material lol because nick was an actual artist

Lmao behave

It takes bigger balls to hide behind a fake sample? Hahahahha .. Right. No, it obviously takes far bigger balls to actually play your own drum kit and have everybody hear exactly how it sounds, no pretending.

How about you all enjoy this playthrough, instead of acting like total assholes and pointing out who is better and who is worse? Playing drums requires a lot of work and both of them prove it. Using triggers, not using triggers - who cares? It's their personal choice and they feel better with that.

WHO IS IT???? 😮

@@christianeasley767 Nickolas Barker

Why everybody worship this guy?? This is very sloppy drumming.

@@marioburku-drummer We are waiting for you to post your version

Hellhammer was right before him during ISD and was sic af, but yeah Nicholas Barker was super fast and tight with his playing and writing of this album. Vortex was tight too. Miss the old Dimmu tbh 😅🤘🏼🖤

Same. Powerful

no triggers here :)

@@timo8893 it's good, we are tired of ugly chemichal trigger sounds nowadays... let's hear some real Skin !

@@fandejeanpierremarielle7686 there are situations it’s absolutely needed. Just wanted to point this out for this video

@@fandejeanpierremarielle7686 I love Triggers tho :) I think for metal triggers is the best, unless it's older powermetal stuff. The best thing to do is to mix the real kick sound with the trigger sound, like the drummer from Arch Enemy, Daniel does I know. Cause I looked it up cause the kick sounded so fat.

@@timo8893 pleanty of triggers or else you would no hear the kicks so clearly

+1 exactly what I thought.

I really don't. Its not terrible by any means but I like a bit more "snap" and attack, whereas this seems to have an overall warmth and smoother attack. Ax from Opeth used to have a very similar sounding snare in the more recent era of live Opeth, whereas Lopez always had that very direct, bright, snappy snare. Just imo. This guy is a monster drummer for sure, regardless!

Abrahadabra wasn't that bad too. But in general, I agree.

The sadness eases since I know all Dimmu fans from all over the world have to share the pain.

That’s exactly it. No triggers.

Yes, I saw Dimmu in Cincinnati Ohio probably right around the same year. Nick Barker was on drums at the time. This was back when, like you said, they were good. I haven't listened to them in well over 15 years now.

​@@ericwilliams538 Same. Enthrone Darkness is Dimmu's best, IMO. Puritanical was as far as I went. Their last good album, I'd say. I didn't like Shagrath's change in vocals nor the industrial elements. I like some industrial music but not for Dimmu. Nick's drumming is half the reason I like the album. Mustis is great but I still prefer Stian Aarstad's more simplistic and catchy style. Did you know they remixed and remastered it? There was no need for it. They killed Nick's drums and put them in the background. No personality. I'm sure Nick will be pissed. Buncha dumbasses. If anything needs a remix, it's Stormblast and Spiritual Black Dimensions.

I agree on the cymbal choise.

Dimensions were one of the best... man when I switched from Zildjian to Paiste, my whole sound changed.

​@@Vorgaloth I heard all the remix/remaster and they sound like shit. comparing to the originals, the originals sound WAAAAY better with much wider sound, and better mixing in my opinion

Favourite Vader album... No idea he was the drummer.

my faaavorite vader album and still pains me to this day i cant listen to it on spotify. wonder if there's any lore behind that

There is a long way to perfection, this is a mediocre performance imao

Listen to the man who wrote the drums to this song/album, Nick Barker, who is one of the all-time greats. His drums sound better. Stupid Dummy Burger remixed the album and killed Nick's drums so listen to the original.

@@Vorgaloth I have been listening to that album for years. Barker is a beast on that record. The drums sounds so extremely powerful

Listen to in the Album Impressions in Blood by Vader, this man is insane

@@Vorgaloth because he used triggers in the albumn

Hellhammer has got some nice blast beats too

He sounds just as good

On all metal records now drums are "pro tooled" ... But when you listen to that beautiful natural sound, wooowww !! Why bands do not come back to acoustic sound?

Absolutely, Wish he played the gong drum instead of the hihat during one solo hihat section just to hear that gong drum's rubble!

Who were they?

@@O8SOL3TE nick barker, tony Lareano (played drums for nile not sure I spelled his last name right) and the man in the video daray

@@boydkronberg2632 Okay, I was hoping you'd seen them live with Hellhammer behind the kit, because I think he has the unpleasant tendency to not play the drum parts as they were originally written, even his own stuff. He freestyles too much, I was wondering if he did that too with Dimmu. There's a Tony Laureano interview on youtube where the interviewer asks him how much room there is for improv during a live performance with Dimmu, and Tony said that the band is okay with the drummer coming up with his own stuff, as long as it's always the same on every show. And he added that before he joined the band as a live drummer, the guy they had before would play something different every night and it would kinda confuse the rest of the musicians and decrease the quality of the live performance. But I don't know if he was talking about HH or that other session guy they had at one point, Killrich or whatever his name is.

Nick Barker wrote the drums to this album. I recommend you give it a listen. One of the all-time greats.

@@Vorgaloth I know. But Thanks for the recommendation.

I like the fact you mentioned you hope be is being "treated well" 👍🏽 Sad to see what happened to Nick Barker, and other previous members

@@Beelos666 yeah… I’ve seen a lot of sad things and treatments on tours and behind the scenes. So have a lot of empathy for drummers, especially in metal.

Agreed. Barker relies too much on the triggers, I find, for my taste. Sounds like his kick drums are triggered and not much else, here? You can tell he's not relying on the triggers, especially on the blast beats; he's really beating that snare but good. This dude is fantastic!

Try the new remastered version. A whole new drum sound

@@MaskedRiderChris I could be wrong, but I don't think Daray's kick drums are triggered here. Possible there might be a trigger supporting it, but it sounds like a natural kick drum sound.

@@BW_Drums Educated guess on my end is that perhaps there are room mics picking up the natural kick drum sound as well as them being supported/enhanced by triggers. In which case, he's even more amazing than I thought he was, either way. I think we can still agree he's a fantastic drummer. :)

I know right, the hits are very similar, I love it when drummers respect the original composition.

Yup. You make very, very good points. I would make them myself, but didn't even have to scroll very far down the comments.

Samus still has the best cover of this song. He's a big Nick Barker fanboy and emulates his drumming very well.

@@meowmoooink4225 Strongly disagree. Not to shit on Samus completely, but he doesn't even come close to the feeling that is needed for this song. It's like playing a harp with a roto drill. Technical drummer, but not exactly a man of restraint.

@@NilsFjandannsson Not sure what "feeling" you're talking about. I guess his whole kit being triggered could be part of it, but so was Nick Barker's on the album. In fact, Nick even praised him in interviews and in a comment on another one of his Dimmu Borgir covers.

I hope!!

Let's just hope it's better than Eonian; what a massive disappointment that was, in my opinion.

@@Joose Eonian is actually my favorite Dimmu...

​@@laporteestouvertei rarely ever say this, but that's a wrong opinion

@@Beelos666 If you're able to let go of preconception, bias and nostalgia, you'll realize it's actually a right opinion.

Same here...that's why I play it at my car every day going to work

NO TRIGGERS NEEDED FOR A SLOW SONG... DAHH

Tak! Darek wymiata!