After This Drumming Spectacle, You Have to Wonder If Church Worship Band Members Let Him Twirl a Stick With Them Again

Ah, drummers.

Keith Moon. John Bonham. Tommy Lee. The jokes about skin bashers' over-the-top behavior and wild personalities are fun to rehash, even though they may be grossly stereotypical most of the time.

Motley Crue's Tommy Lee during his roller coaster 360 drum solo in 2011. (Image source: YouTube)

Okay, maybe not.

Anyway....when it comes to drummers for church worship bands, images of driving automobiles into pools, conjuring up mayhem, and straining for headlines probably don't come immediately to mind.

Not that the drummer for this particular church worship band mirrors the aforementioned characteristics, but one listen to his performance during the band's at-first serene rendition of "Oceans (Where Feet May Fail)" and you might agree that he's not going for much nuance.

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Things kick off with the camera trained on a woman singing and playing a relatively gentle, atmospheric keyboard.

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And then...heavy metal thunder!

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The band does its best to continue amid the overpowering beats, bless 'em.

A couple of minutes are all you need to get the full effect in the below clip:

It's unclear when the video was recorded and where, but it seems to be hitting a viral stride, having been viewed just over 600,000 times since it was posted on YouTube last Monday.

This story has been updated.