Best Alternative Rock Drummers

Unlike Progressive Rock or Heavy Metal, Alternative Rock isn't known for extremly talented musicians! Still these drummers managed to become legendary, not only in their genre, but also in the whole music history!
The Top Ten
1 Dave Grohl David Eric "Dave" Grohl is an American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, producer and film director. He is best known as the former drummer of the hugely popular 90s grunge band Nirvana and the vocalist/guitarist for the alternative rock band Foo Fighters. He has sat behind the drums for many bands and artists, most notably: Queens of the Stone Age, Tenacious D, Ghost B.C, Them Crooked Vultures, Tom Petty, Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, David Bowie, Scream, Probot and many, many more.
2 Danny Carey Daniel Edwin "Danny" Carey, born May 10, 1961 in Lawrence, Kansas, is an American drummer and instrumentalist best known for his work in American Grammy Award-winning progressive rock band Tool. He has also contributed to albums by and played with such artists as Zaum, Green Jellÿ, Pigface, Skinny Puppy, Adrian Belew of King Crimson, Carole King, Collide, The Wild Blue Yonder, Lusk, and the Melvins. ...read more.

Legend. One of the best and most unique drummers out there.

3 Jimmy Chamberlin James Joseph "Jimmy" Chamberlin is an American drummer and record producer. He is best known as the drummer for the alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins.
4 Josh Dun Joshua William "Josh" Dun is an American musician. He is currently the drummer for the band Twenty One Pilots.

Slightly biased because of my love for twenty one pilots, but Josh puts so much energy into his drumming. Even though some of these drummers may be more experienced and can drum 'better', the energy from Josh Dun does not compare to any other. He truly gives the best performance whilst drumming!

Should be number one. Clique unite!

Josh should be high!

Come on amok josh!

5 Patrick Carney Patrick James Carney is an American musician best known as the drummer for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio.
6 Chad Smith Chadwick "Chad" Smith is an American musician and current drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which he joined in 1988 and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
7 Brad Wilk Bradley J. "Brad" Wilk is a musician, actor, and activist from the United States. He is best known as the drummer of the rock bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets of Rage.
8 Chad Szeliga Chad Szeliga is an American drummer and percussionist from Elyria, Ohio. He is best known as the former drummer for the band Breaking Benjamin.
9 Meg White Megan Martha "Meg" White is an American drummer known for her work with Jack White in the Detroit rock duo The White Stripes.
10 Scott Phillips Thomas Scott "Flip" Phillips is an American musician and songwriter. He is the drummer and co-founder of the bands Creed, Alter Bridge, and Projected.
The Contenders
11 Tre Cool Frank Edwin Wright III, known professionally as Tré Cool, is a German-born American drummer, best known as the drummer for the American punk rock/pop punk band Green Day. He replaced the band's former drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1990.

Really?!? How is Tre not on the list?!?!?

12 Joey Jordison Joey Jordison, was an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work as the former drummer and co-songwriter for the heavy metal band Slipknot as well as guitarist in the Horror-punk band Murderdolls. He is the co-founder and drummer for the Blackened Death Metal band Sinsaenum and a Heavy Metal side project VIMIC.
13 Taylor Hawkins Oliver Taylor Hawkins (February 17, 1972 - March 25, 2022) was an American musician, best known as the former drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters.
14 Gavin Harrison
15 Matt Helders
16 Matt Cameron Matt Cameron is an American composer, and musician. He is mostly famous for being the drummer of the three grunge bands Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Temple of the Dog.

How is the drummer of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden not on the list yet!

17 Philip Selway Philip James "Phil" Selway is an English musician, singer, and songwriter best known as the drummer of English rock group Radiohead.
18 Steve Shelley
19 Austin Lynn Austin

The drummer for the God Machine. He is one hell of a drummer, one of my favorites ever!

20 Darren King
21 Boris Williams
22 Ben Gillies
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