@John doe: Idk who you're referring to exactly, but as far as I understand it, we feature artists who have some something that qualifies as metal, even if it's just a one-off. More rarely so if they haven't, though.

a good drummer is the backbone of any band obviously

Which is my point, it's kind of quality but it's been like this for the past 15-20 years with little variation. Gavin is what makes it even slightly novel these days.

True, although Bruce writes most of the music

@Opethian: the only real merit of TPT at the moment is Gavin's drumming

and yet there is a hip-hop artist here on MS. Sorry, I could not help it

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