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So from Dawn of Victory to Power of the Dragonflame, the drums on Rhapsody albums were played by a mysterious Season drummer called 'Thunderforce'. There were roumors going around that "Thunderforce" isactually a drum machine pretty much like "Angelo Sasso" from Running Wild was. The band keeps saying that it was a drummer whose name they couldn't reveal due to contractual problems. Did anybody actually figure out who this guy was? Or is he really just a drum machine?

Ragehead91 wrote:So from Dawn of Victory to Power of the Dragonflame, the drums on Rhapsody albums were played by a mysterious Season drummer called 'Thunderforce'. There were roumors going around that "Thunderforce" isactually a drum machine pretty much like "Angelo Sasso" from Running Wild was. The band keeps saying that it was a drummer whose name they couldn't reveal due to contractual problems. Did anybody actually figure out who this guy was? Or is he really just a drum machine?

Yeah, it's probably the same Angelo Sasso Or Roland Korg (another Running Wild drummer, AFAIR)

Man, power metal drums are so boring to play...they couldn't just hire a session drummer?? (better yet, one of those buskers who shreds a plastic bucket!!)
I only listen to rhapsody before going epic quests to the top of the coal mountains in my town. (and before fighting pop tarts in the forest of evil christopher lee's)

Shurik wrote:

Ragehead91 wrote:So from Dawn of Victory to Power of the Dragonflame, the drums on Rhapsody albums were played by a mysterious Season drummer called 'Thunderforce'. There were roumors going around that "Thunderforce" isactually a drum machine pretty much like "Angelo Sasso" from Running Wild was. The band keeps saying that it was a drummer whose name they couldn't reveal due to contractual problems. Did anybody actually figure out who this guy was? Or is he really just a drum machine?

Yeah, it's probably the same Angelo Sasso Or Roland Korg (another Running Wild drummer, AFAIR)

Roland Korg? I can't find anything about it. Krog is actually a keaboard manufacturer. They only had "Angelo Sasso". And another Grindcore band who also used a drum machine called it "Angelo Sasso" too and made fun of it. Than the roumors that Sasso was real startet to come up again as a german webzine published an interview with them. But in it they referenced the above mentioned Grindcore band and the influences that "Sasso" mentioned were all drum machine producers. It turned out that it was a joke by the webzine because Rock N'Rolf decided to sunb by not giving a scheduled interview.

Some pro drummers are saying that Rain of a Thousand flames is nearly impossible for a human drummer and I do think the sound on that album hints toward a machine.

Yet I do think it was a real person.

Ragehead91 wrote:

Shurik wrote:

Ragehead91 wrote:So from Dawn of Victory to Power of the Dragonflame, the drums on Rhapsody albums were played by a mysterious Season drummer called 'Thunderforce'. There were roumors going around that "Thunderforce" isactually a drum machine pretty much like "Angelo Sasso" from Running Wild was. The band keeps saying that it was a drummer whose name they couldn't reveal due to contractual problems. Did anybody actually figure out who this guy was? Or is he really just a drum machine?

Yeah, it's probably the same Angelo Sasso Or Roland Korg (another Running Wild drummer, AFAIR)

Roland Korg? I can't find anything about it. Krog is actually a keaboard manufacturer. They only had "Angelo Sasso". And another Grindcore band who also used a drum machine called it "Angelo Sasso" too and made fun of it. Than the roumors that Sasso was real startet to come up again as a german webzine published an interview with them. But in it they referenced the above mentioned Grindcore band and the influences that "Sasso" mentioned were all drum machine producers. It turned out that it was a joke by the webzine because Rock N'Rolf decided to sunb by not giving a scheduled interview.

Or maybe it was a joke I've read somewhere.
Forget it

mayhem-for-all wrote:Some pro drummers are saying that Rain of a Thousand flames is nearly impossible for a human drummer and I do think the sound on that album hints toward a machine.

Yet I do think it was a real person.

+1. My friend (who BTW is a great drummer and knows about this topic) stated that those drums played at "Rain Of A Thousand Flames" are ridiculously impossible to replicate: Although there are some stating the opposite, but you know how this world works

I beg to differ, but it seems to me it ACTUALLY was a machine, sadly