Drummers take a lot of shit for being the silent, stoic members of most bands, but metal is the one genre where they’re regarded as the geniuses that they are. It’s generally acknowledged that without performers like Dave Lombardo, Gene Hoglan, Joey Jordison and Thomas Haake, metal wouldn’t be where it is today. At the same time, listening to the mechanized warfare that is extreme metal drumming, it can be hard to see how the work of old jazz drummers eventually became the furious blasting of the modern-day metal drummer. Now, a video has resurfaced of Duke Ellington drummer and double-bass pioneer Louie Bellson slamming away at the kit that might provide this missing link.As you’ll see in the video below, Bellson is performing a drum solo on the track The Hawk...