Hailing from Santa Rosa, California metal drummer Daniel Rice placed second (1,039)during the Worlds Fastest Drummer preliminaries at NAMM Summer Session 2007 in Austin, Texas. The only person faster, Canadian sticksman Thomas ‘Tommy Gun’ Grosset, blazed 1196 single strokes. Riccardo Merlini of Italy placed third (1,013).



Daniel Rice has been playing drums for over 11 years. Syas Rice: "I have a style that comes from all different inspirations from clasic rock to metal. I fuse many genres together to create the sound I do in semipro touring artist Shattered Dreams." He names Neil Peart as a source of inspiration.