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2025 END OF THE YEAR LISTS: BEST DRUMMER

What a great year 2025 has been for music. So many great albums, tours, songs, you name it. And now the time has come for…

The 2025 Audioeclectica End Of The Year Lists begin with the list for Best Drummer. As always the stipulation for this is that an Album or EP had to be released in 2025.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

01) Adam Carson- AFI
02) Patrick Bellinger- Nine Necks
03) Dave Rosenberg- Deadguy
04) Eliese Dorsay- Blackwater Holylight
05) Billy Graves- Guiltless
06) Justin Forrest- SOM
07) Kyla Foster- The Anti Groupies
08) Moe Watson- Blood Vulture
09) Sam Loeffler- Chevelle
10) Art Quanstrom- The Owling

2023 End Of The Year Lists: Results

Thank you all for making 2023 a great year for Audioeclectica. I hope you all found new and old bands to love and delve into. As 2024 begins, there will be new things coming to Audioeclectica including the long awaited return of The Audioeclectica Podcast as well as Radio Show, also coming are new topics, a revamp to the look of the site and many more surprises. Also don’t forget, I am putting on shows with The Cobalt Presents (aka The Cobalt Cafe), so if your band is coming through the greater Los Angeles area, reach out to me and let’s see if we can’t make a show happen!

And now… The Results Of The 2023 End Of The Year Lists (the results are based on readers votes):

01) Best Drummer: Glenn Chu- Iress & Sebastian Thomson- Baroness

02) Best Bassist: Nick Jost- Baroness & Michael Maldonado- Iress

03) Best Guitar Duo: John Baizley/Gina Gleason- Baroness & Graham Walker/Michelle Malley- Iress

04) Best Producer/Mixer: Paul Fig- Filth Is Eternal & Alex Estrada- Iress

05) Best Guitarist: Brian McClelland- Filth Is Eternal

06) Best Vocalist: Michelle Malley- Iress & Lis Di Angelo- Filth Is Eternal

07) Best Album: Iress- Solace & Filth Is Eternal- Find Out

Thank you all who voted!!!

2020 End Of The Year List: Best Drummer
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Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2020 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Drummers. The only stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

01) Jimmy Chamberlin- The Smashing Pumpkins
02) Chris Hornbrook- Greg Puciato
03) Ben Koller- Killer Be Killed
04) Morgan Rose- Sevendust
05) Alex Bent- Trivium
06) Sean Radcliffe- Loathe
07) Abe Cunningham- Deftones
08) Jess Gowrie- Horseneck/Miss Piss/Chelsea Wolfe
09) Santos Montano- Old Man Gloom
10) Mark Nash- In Paralell

2019 End Of The Year List: Best Drummer

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Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2019 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Drummers. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

01) Ray Marte- Moon Tooth
02) Ray Luzier- Korn
03) Sebastian Thomson- Baroness
04) Cory Blaine- Seizures
05) JR Conners- Cave In/Nomad Stones
06) Gavin Wallace-Ailsworth- Bent Knee
07) Jay Weinberg- Slipknot
08) Dan Smith- Low Dose
09) Hozoji Matheson-Margullis- Helms Alee
10) Jesse Shelley- He Is Legend

2018 End Of The Year List: Best Drummer

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Next up on Audioeclectica.com’s 2018 End Of The Year Lists, the Top 10 Drummers. The stipulation is that, an album/EP had to have been released this year.

Vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

This list is also in NO PARTICULAR ORDER!!!

 

01) Sean Kinney- Alice In Chains
02) Mike Miczek- The Atlas Moth
03) Kellii Scott- Failure
04) Jimmy Chamberlain- The Smashing Pumpkins
05) Ben Koller- The Armed
06) Jon Syverson- Daughters
07) Jon Boecklin- Bad Wolves
08) Dan Searle- Architects
09) Riley Breckinridge- Thrice
10) Casey Hansen- Cult Leader

 

 

End Of The Year List: Best Drummer

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The second annual Audioeclectica Awards continues: The fourth category is best drummer. Here are the requirements to be in this category. The nominee but have played on an album/EP must released this year. And It doesn’t matter if the band is signed or not! With that in mind here are the nominees! Vote in the comments!!

 

Kellii Scott- Failure
Noah Burns- Wild Throne
Morgan Rose- Sevendust
Mike Bordin- Faith No More
Tommy Lee- Smashing Pumpkins
John O’Connell- He Whose Ox Is Gored

End Of The Year List: Best Drummer

The first annual Audioeclectica Awards continues: The fourth category is best drummer. Here are the requirements to be in this category. The nominee but have played on an album/EP must released this year. . And It doesn’t matter if the band is signed or not! With that in mind here are the nominees! Vote in the comments!!

1. Chris Robyn- Black Map
2. Mike Land- Aeges
3. Brian Hollenbeck- And We Are Them
4. Ben Thatcher- Royal Blood
5. Noah Burns- Wild Throne
6. John O’Connell- He Whose Ox Is Gored
7. Morgan Rose- Sevendust