Derek created this forum to help extreme metal drummers improve as drummers. You notice I didn't say better extreme metal drummers, I said drummers period. Derek has been in this business a very long time, and he knows the industry. Derek wants to help the whole lot of us get better, but not just as drummers. He realizes that we could all be 250 BPM gods, and it doesn't mean a damn thing. Because outside of our tiny little community, everyone has an extremely negative stereotype of us, the extreme metal drummers.
What is that stereotype? That we are all petulent adolescents. That we are a sideshow exhibition, come watch the kid who can hit 250, and that's all there is...no musicality, no ability beyond speed for speed's sake. That's the perception...the perception of the manufacturers who are looking for endorsees, the music business as a whole, the press, etc. They think we are all just a bunch of drugged up, mal-adjusted teens with no future, and no actual talent. That's the hard fact of it. Derek wants to change that, for himself and for all of us. He wants extreme metal drummers to get the credit they deserve and to have the same opportunities to make a living off of the craft that drummers in other genres do. That's why he created this forum, to help us as drummers, and to open our eyes.