Shredders of Metal

[DoctorAction]

I dunno if this should be in the TV section, but I stumbled across season 3 of BangerTV's Shredders Of Metal on the tube today.

The first two seasons were guitar players shredding head-to-head and had Alex Skolnick among the judges.

Season 3 is drummers and they have Chris Adler on the judge panel.

Really good fun to see these local musicians hammering it out. 

https://youtu.be/sgl5Y42GIn4

[wolfking]

I've seen little bits of that.  Most of the guitarists though were pretty average from what I saw so I didn't dig through that much.  I remember seeing a few that we're pretty bad and watching Skolnick was the highlight.  He's such a cool dude though and was always a gentleman towards everyone.

[DoctorAction]

Yeah, he was great in it.

[Lowdz]

I've seen little bits of that.  Most of the guitarists though were pretty average from what I saw so I didn't dig through that much.  I remember seeing a few that we're pretty bad and watching Skolnick was the highlight.  He's such a cool dude though and was always a gentleman towards everyone.

Most of them made me sound good. They were pretty deluded about their talent.

I wonder why no decent players bothered with it?

[DoctorAction]

Ah, those guys deserve more empathy than that, I think. I didn't expect to see another Petrucci there, just some metal-tainment. Good on em, I think. I just love that they've done three seasons of this. It's a great example of what YouTube can do compared to mainstream TV.

[Lax]

I saw them with my wife and enjoyed more the drummer edition, even if I'm a guitarist, too ear tiring

[Bentower]

I'm also a guitarist and yet this last season was easily my favourite so far. Even if the drum sounds left something to be desired, it was still a lot easier on the ears and the level of musicianship among the drummers was way better. More of this would be alright with me and I wouldn't mind if they did a bass/vocals/keyboard editions as well.

[DoctorAction]

Nice. I'd love to see more variations on it.

I always thought that the talent TV shows of the last couple of decades missed a huge trick by not pulling in the musical side, and just ended up really annoying, reality karaoke shows. Actually there were a couple a while back here in the UK that had some songwriting coaching and stuff but they quickly removed all of that, unfortunately.