I 100% agree with The Butcher, I don't pay attention to the lyrics of wrestling themes either (at least not past the first phrase or two). Usually Cole is arguing with JBL or Lawler during the wrestlers entrance(s), so it's too hard to try to pay attention anyway. I'm not usually the type who listens to wrestling themes on their own, either. I just hear them on Raw/SD!/iMPACT, etc. I know entrance music is important to a character's overall persona (to get the audience in the correct frame of mind, give the character depth, etc), but it's not like I'm going to put wrestling themes on my ipod or anything (unless you count wrestlers who use real music; like CM Punk, or the original ECW guys did).
I know, most people don't pay any attention to the drums in most music. A lot of times with drums (bass guitar too), some of the best beats are the ones that you barely notice. In the case of Kane's theme(s?), I notice the drums almost straight away (and I don't mean that in a good way). I think more of an "industrial" drum machine sound would work better. A "dirtier" sounding drum kit would add a lot more depth to this song, IMHO. Just adding a tiny bit of overdrive/distortion to the kit would make the track sound completely different. You'd be surprised how much of an effect different drum sounds can make on an overall recorded song, just by tweaking the sound ever so slightly...and that kind of thing matters when you're trying to make the listener feel a certain emotion (in this case, an angry/sad mood is what they're after).
Hell, even an acoustic drum kit would work; as long as the drummer would just beat the hell out of the skins. The Finger 11 drummer sounds like he's just plunking along with the band, and that just doesn't work for a song like this (again, this might just be me). It sounds like a jazz drummer, or something. Too much finesse, not enough raw emotion in the way the drums sound. To make a song like this truly sound angry, I feel like the drums play a major role; just as much as the vocals and/or guitar(s) do. I know part of this could be the fault of the engineer/producer who recorded/mixed/mastered this song, but again - it sounds like the drummer isn't giving it his "all". It could have also been the way the drums were miked at the time of the recording....at least more so than the way the drummer played. Then again, who knows? All I really know is that the pussy sounding drums take me right out of the mood of this song.
On a completely different note, do you think Finger 11 just added the "11" part because there already was a band called "Finger" (à la "Blink 182", "Sum 41", "Dinosaur Jr.", etc)? ...because my brain always seems to think that all the guys in the band want to Finger 11 year olds. Gross.
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