Jazz drummers sound more technical because your brain can actually keep up with them. Flo and John Longstreth play drums in a way, and with such technicality that, at their speeds, you can't possibly take it all in. Not to say they are MORE technical than anyone else, but how could you possibly know? These drummers you speak of play 2 very different genres, and doing so, must write 2 very different ways to fit the element of their music perfectly. With metal's best you can pick up on certain parts, even have a general idea of how the beats sound as a song of their own in a foggy kind of way... but we are talking about beats that are mere fractions of seconds. Which leads me to my next point. If you heard a beep that lasted exactly 1/4 of a second, once every minute, and you were told you'd get $1,000,000 if you could point in the direction it was coming from, but you only could get one guess (but could take as long as you wanted to guess), you'd never find it (And you'd never guess either!). Because of these two reasons, I believe our brains aren't meant for drums. They are playing at a speed that really relies on an incredible instinct that they have literally programmed in themselves, at inhuman speeds, for testing amounts of time (not to mention all the practice time that leads up to their ascent of Mt. Perfection). And you think you can have a say in who's the better drummer? I don't care who can outplay who, I say we leave that arguement to the population holding the sticks. That is...
Unless you're holding sticks.
