My top 5 favorite Drummers are

1 Buddy Rich
2 Steve Gadd
3 Louis Bellson
4 Bernard Purdie
5 Dave Weckle

My choices are

1. Joey Jordison
2. John Otto
3. Chad Smith
4. Alex Acuna
5. Jaff Porcaro

My favourites are

1. Lars Ulrich
2. Chad Smith
3. John Otto
4. Billy Cobham
5. Dennis Chambers

Heres mine

1. Tre Cool (Green Day)
2. Travis Barker
3. John Otto
4. Dave Grohl
5. Sean Moore (Manic Street Preachers)

My choices are
1. Elvin Jones
2. Jack de Johnette
3. Daniel Humair
4. Mitch Mitchell
5. Aldo Romano

Neil Peart
Lenny White
John Bonham
Bill Bruford
Phil Collins

Mike Portnoy
Vinnie Paul
Dave Weckle
Kozo Sagunama
Terry Bozzio

Vinnie Colaiuta,Elvin Jones,Bernard Purdie,
Omar Hakim

Every Drummer has a gift to bring.

1. John Bonham
2. Travis Barker
3. Tre cool
4. John Otto
5. Gene Krupa

My favorite drummers:
Buddy Rich
gary novak
dave weckl
vinnie colaiuta
pepe fotorresi

Dave Lombardo
Gene Hoglan

1 vinnie paul of pantera (awesome)
2 pete sandoval of morbid angel (awesome)
3 raymond herrera of fear factory (awesome)
4 paul bostaph of slayer (awesome)
5 the dude from cannibal corpse, forget his name (good)

1 dave weckl
2 dennis chambers
3 peter erskine
4 hendrik havekost
5 virgil donati

Name Band

1. Pete Sandoval - Morbid Angel
2. Steve Asheim - Deicide
3. Max - Krisiun
4. Gene Hoglan - Ex. Death, Old Man's Child
5. Dave Lombardo - not sure but he's good

Abe Cunningham
Joey Jordison
Jon Wysocki
John Otto
SpAg
David Silveria

(not in any order)
1.Nick Barker (Dimmu Borgir)
2.Trym (Emperor)
3.Hellhammer (Mayhem, Arcturus, The Kovenant, Thorn)
4.Frost (Satyricon)
...
In my opinion the best drummers are playing in metal bands.

the best drummer is larry fro u2

1 John Christensen
2 Jack DeJohnette
3 Yogi Horton
4 Stewart Copeland
5 Zigaboo

John Otto is the fastest for me and but Chad Smith is the best.Has anyone seen Chad in concert(notlive tv/dvd/vcr). I have It's so amazing and I'm very particular about drummers cos i'm Londons no2 and GB no9!!

In no order 1.Richard Christy of Death 2.flo of cryptopsy 3.Danny Carey of Tool 4.Pete Sanoval of Morbid Angel 5.John of Orgin. fuck it and Kevin Talley of Dying Fetus and Dave Lembaro of slayer

In my opinion alot people in this forum are just stating the drummers from their favourite bands who aren't actually that good
I think that the best drummer is some who has that all-round open-mindedness of being able to play jazz and death metal or punk and pop
That's why I choose
1. Chris Adler (Check him out he's an amzing drummer check him out, don't get scared by the band, just listen to his drumming)
2. Danny Carey (Amazing capabilities of fucked up time signatures)
3. Dave Lombardo (Amazing speed and creativity)
Any one who says Joey Jordison obviously is very oblivious to he fact that he's overrated and all he can play is 4/4 time signatures and really fast, there's nothing amazing about speed, it's about technicality, precision and diversity