Tag: toontrack metal month

A collection of drum MIDI grooves performed by technical death metal pioneer Sean Reinert.

The pack features 50 individually engineered guitar tones, all modeled after some of the most genre-defining albums and bands of the past 30 years of death metal.

The Death & Darkness SDX merges two world-class studios with two of today’s most in-demand modern metal producers: Mark Lewis and Tue Madsen.

Matt Heafy and Trey Xavier collaborated on a new song.

TesseracT guitarist Acle Kahney has written a guitar riff that needs drums to go along with it, and it’s up to you to come up with the gnarliest drum groove you can!

The fusion, the subtlety of jazz and the raw, unfiltered power of metal intertwine to a form a polyrhythmic alloy of hard-hitting, ghost note-riddled sophistication.

One song featuring Stevic Mackay from Twelve Foot Ninja, Vicky Psarakis from The Agonist, Sahil “Demonstealer” Makhija from Demonic Resurrection, Per Nilsson from Scar Symmetry/Meshuggah/Nocturnal Rites, Gus G of Firewind and ex-Ozzy Osbourne, and Russell Wells of Riffs And Chugs TV.

A collection of signal chain presets for modern metal guitar and bass tones.

The final installment of our “Drumception” series!

Part of our ongoing “Drumception” series.

Listen to the collaboration between two metal legends.

Expansions stacked on plug-ins, stacked on expansions, stacked on plug-ins…

This collaboration between two of progressive death metal’s best is monstrous.

Part of our ongoing “Drumception” series, in which you, too, can download Mario’s drum tracks and record your own guitar parts!

Part of our ongoing “Drumception” contest, in which you, too, can download Mario’s drum tracks and record your own guitar parts!

Part of our ongoing “Drumception” contest, in which you, too, can download Mario’s drum tracks and record your own guitar parts!

What new recording software products will Toontrack release this year? Watch the trailer for clues.

Win a copy of Toontrack’s award-winning drum programming software.

The gorgeous video was shot in Joshua Tree, California.

In this quick Q&A we talk about Matt’s new “Metal MIDI Fusion” expansion pack, the gear he uses, the influences that’ve shaped him as a drummer, the pros of using e-kits and more.