Metal when one looks at it is not only noise but has a certain technicality to it , and it does take a while to fully appreciate the genius of metal.
So, this comes off... not great. There is a another point further below which will probably circle back into this, but metal is a fairly broad genre. Some of it is primitive and rudimentary. Some of it is pretty basic, lazy, and decidedly non genius.
I think metal belongs to certain generations, just like every generation has it's preferred music.
One day when all the death metal players are grandparents, they will most likely berate the newest latest music trend too.
There are likely many death metal grandpas already. Consider that there were actual adults playing material that would probably still pass the death metal litmus in the early 90s, it's more probable than not.
I think it's classified as death metal that I despise with the low graspy vocals that ruins a perfectly good metal song to where I just end up listening to the music and drummer which are usually really good. Put a really good rock singer in it's place and the difference would be astronomical for me.
This type of stuff exists. Without excessively splitting hairs and going too far down the subgenre rabbit hole, Power Metal largely fits that description.
even at 200 bpm it was a full body workout? My apologies if i offend you , but to me it seems like one does a full body workout at tempos exceeding 280 and going towards 320 . Single stroke double bass is probable till 300 while using the finger technique it is probable around 350 bpm. Me playing around 5 belphegor or nile songs in a row would be tiring but modern metal drummers have the endurance to play around 20 - 30 songs in a row if needed
There's a remarkable difference between a bar of quarter notes and sixteenth notes at say, 4/4 time at 300 bpm. Knowing the nuance and being able to communicate it effectively is important. Furthermore, playing faster doesn't necessarily mean more energy is being used. There's a point at which it becomes as much or more about controlling momentum and rebound than it is pushing a tip onto a head or cymbal.
I've seen plenty of the ultrafast players that hardly break a sweat. Some of that is conditioning, but some of it is because in order to play that consistently fast, you're utilizing more wrist and finger technique (or ankle/toe) than you are the macro motions.
I'm a metal guy yet I only like maybe 1% of it. The rest either all sounds too much the same (and increasingly so) , or is boring, or just not very good. ( I feel this way about just about every genre though.)
The drumming usually lacks dynamics, and even much of the technical stuff is just fast single strokes.
Right. I feel like people lose sight that there is more bad art than good, and that's very much not exclusive to metal, or even music. Even among the best musicians, it's rare that anybody creates great material exclusively, and that's fine. Some of the finest players I know (genre notwithstanding) haven't penned a song that I'm actually going to listen to beyond an exercise.
Nothing shows your skills like being able to wander genres and still kill it (which you know he would if he went metal). Not a drummer, but Alex Skolnick went from metal to a jazz project. It can be done, I tells ya!
This is probably more common among metal players than expected, it would seem. I doubt that there is a corner of the world of music that hasn't been appropriated for use in a metal context, and being able to actual play that stuff well enough to appropriate it is part and parcel. More specifically, there's a lot of players who can make their way fairly seamlessly between Metal and Fusion, and there is plenty of overlap between the two genres in the contemporary setting in terms of chops or motifs.
To offer an anecdote of my own, I got quite a few complements on my shuffles when I was doing the blues jam thing in my late 20s, and the "especially for your age" caveat was often thrown in for good measure. Well, I certainly didn't spend a lot of time practicing my shuffles, nor did I listen to a lot of blues. I'm gonna guess that a lot of the work I put into blast beats was very transferrable to shuffles.
and it will probably be the metaL of the day....
my students, who are metal heads, don't consider Slayer, Iron Maiden, Antrhax, Ratt, Poison, Sevendust, Tool, Pantera metal...they tell me that it is "old people music"...to them metal is the current electronic/hip-hop/hardcore infused stuff...the super fast, computer generated super technical stuff - which I also really like some of...
Yeah, that stuff will always be very much generational. I'm in the age group where some of that list is firmly metal in my perception, and some of it is just rock (perhaps even classic rock)
Maybe the most critical people of metal are metal fans.
This is probably the closest thing to the truth to be read in this topic.
Addendum:
I listen to a lot of metal, although hardly exclusively (Spotify tells me my top 10 artists of the past month are Future Islands, Deftones, LCD Soundsystem, Russian Circles, Charley Crockett, Satyricon, Alamaailman Vasarat, Neurosis, Manes, and Vu, if that offers any insight).
To more accurately answer the question as initially asked: No, I don't think most drummers hate metal. I'd probably even hazard that there are a disproportionately large amount of drummers that play metal. Metal is similar to Jazz into that it's quite the players genre.
More abstractly, I don't think there's any particular overarching hate or animus towards metal drummers on this forum, or at large. If there's anything, there's ignorance towards what metal/metal drumming is, but that's all shaped by experience and perspective, so people will always not be landing in quite the same spaces.
Metal can be like Porn: you can't always delineate exactly what is on paper, but you know it when you see it.