Scott Travis's Drum Setup on Judas Priest's Firepower (2018) | MetalForge
Scott Travis recorded Firepower (2018) on a ddrum Dominion Series kit with a ddrum Scott Travis Signature snare.
Complete breakdown of Scott Travis's drum setup on Judas Priest's Firepower (2018) — the Grammy-nominated, UK Gold-certified album that paired Andy Sneap's m...
Frequently Asked Questions
What drums does Scott Travis use on Firepower?
On Judas Priest's Firepower (2018), Scott Travis played the ddrum Dominion Series shell pack in Piano Black finish — two 22"x18" bass drums, 10"x8" and 12"x9" rack toms, 14"x14" and 16"x16" floor toms. His snare was the ddrum Scott Travis Signature 14"x6.5" with die-cast hoops. It's the same long-standing ddrum setup he used on Painkiller (1990); the 22"x18" bass drums are two inches deeper than the 22"x16" kicks he used in 1990, adding low-end weight for Firepower's more mid-tempo material.
Was Firepower Grammy-nominated?
Yes. Firepower's single "Lightning Strike" was nominated for the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. The album itself debuted at #5 on both the UK and US Billboard 200 charts, earned Gold certification in the UK, and represented Judas Priest's strongest commercial chart performance since Painkiller in 1990 — twenty-eight years earlier. The Grammy nomination was the band's first since 2010's "Dissident Aggressor" win from Best Metal Performance in 2010.
Who produced Firepower?
Firepower was co-produced by Andy Sneap and Tom Allom — a deliberate, historic pairing. Andy Sneap is the modern metal producer behind work with Accept, Exodus, Testament, and Megadeth, and Firepower was recorded primarily at his own Old Mill Recording Studios with additional sessions at Witchroom Sound. Tom Allom was the producer behind every classic Judas Priest studio album from British Steel (1980) through Ram It Down (1988) — Firepower marked his first Priest studio production credit in thirty years. The dual-producer dynamic combined Sneap's contemporary engineering and mixing with Allom's classic-Priest arrangement and dynamics perspective.
How does Scott Travis's Firepower setup compare to Painkiller?
Scott Travis has been a long-time endorser of ddrum, Paiste Cymbals, DW Pedals, and Vic Firth Drumsticks across his entire Priest career, and the 28 years between Painkiller (1990) and Firepower (2018) show refinement within that same lineup rather than a brand change. Kit: the ddrum Dominion Series shell pack carried through both albums, with bass drums going from 22"x16" to 22"x18" — two inches deeper for added low-end weight. Snare: the ddrum Scott Travis Signature 14"x6.5" is unchanged. Cymbals: the Paiste RUDE/2002 combination is unchanged. Pedals: the DW 9000 Series double pedal is unchanged. Travis still runs two independent bass drums rather than a connected double pedal — that philosophy has not changed since 1990.