>When I tried to make beats in the 90's, I actually sampled >swedish death metal band Edge of Sanity due to a really cool >"open" drum-fill in one of their songs (can't remember which >song but it was on their album with the for metal weird, >organic drum-sound-maybe dalecooper knows which album I'm >referring to, it was the early 90's)
I'm guessing "Spectral Sorrows," that has the most organic-sounding drums of their early albums to my ears, and a tighter/higher snare that I could almost picture in a hip hop context. But if not, maybe "Nothing but Death Remains."