Footage of a Catholic priest taking part in drums to Meshuggah’s Bleed has gone viral.
Father Hyacinth Marie Cordell of St Patrick Church in Philadelphia drums for the worship group Saints Alive Music and steadily uploads his drum performances to Instagram.
A clip of his tackle Bleed was revealed on June 24 and has now been ‘favored’ upwards of 200,000 instances.
Cordell wrote as a caption to the clip: “Catholic priest performs Meshuggah (Bleed half 2, with variations), devoted to St. John the Baptist on the Solemnity of his Nativity”
Watch the video by way of the participant embedded beneath.
Meshuggah launched Bleed in 2008 as a single from that 12 months’s album, Obzen.
The tune shortly grew to become notable for its intricate drum sample, carried out by longtime drummer Tomas Haake.
Haake spoke in regards to the complexity of Bleed in a 2010 interview with Faceculture: “It was a kind of songs the place we didn’t know if I used to be going to have the ability to do it.
“For just a few months, we didn’t know if we had been gonna have it on the album or not.
“The issue for me initially was to get the very sample that the tune relies on. That half, for me, it took a number of time simply to have the ability to play that correctly.
“I simply mainly needed to change my strategy to how I play the bass drum.
“I at all times used to simply, like, pummel actually laborious and solely in single strokes.
“For this one, I don’t play as laborious on the kicks.
“Some songs, I lean on the pedals and hit actually laborious. However, on this one, I lean again extra and you retain your toes up within the air. It’s extra like faucet dancing, so that you play it softer.”
Bleed is now Meshuggah’s most listened-to tune, boasting upwards of 60 million streams on Spotify.