Modern Drummer Magazine

A veteran jazzer proves that you can make a mark outside New York City—if you retain your intensity and keep yourself open to change.

Shinedown’s master of bombast is expert at building glorious mountains of rock out of the good ol’ 2 and 4. But without his attention to detail, it wouldn’t amount to a pile of beans.

You know who it is the second you hear the crack of that snare drum. Like a musical fingerprint, Alex Van Halen’s sound and style are singularly his own.