Metal drummer performs Metallica in mesmerizing Toad cosplay, voice included

polygon.com:

There’s cosplay, and then there’s cosplay with a character doing something totally unexpected.

This is precisely the incredible cognitive dissonance inspired by “Toad Drummer,” a musician who has dressed up as Toad, and then performed metal songs in-character, including the drumming, on Twitch and TikTok. Watching someone in Toad cosplay absolutely whaling on the drums is already an incredible sight. But hearing Toad deliver those famous lines: “Darkness imprisoning me,” feels like an out-of-body experience.

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Sunfyre first dressed as Toad on January 8, for her Twitch stream, performing Metallica and Slayer “a cappella as Toad.” When she uploaded the clips from her live stream to TikTok, the views started piling in. As of 2020, she had 5,000 followers — a number that started to grow when she posted Slipknot covers. But it wasn’t “until I did Toad everything blew up!” Sunfyre told Polygon via email. At the time of writing, she has more than 317,000 followers on TikTok.

“Since I was little I’ve always been goofy and liked doing silly high pitched voices especially when I’m streaming,” Sunfyre said. “I just become super goofy, as some may say I have ‘chaotic energy,’ always joking around with different voices and dancing out of nowhere on my live streams. I just want to make people laugh and it just happens randomly.”

A drummer since age ten, Sunfyre grew up playing in talent show bands, and later started playing in local venues as a college student in New York. Three years ago, she decided to begin drumming on Twitch, with an e-kit given to her by a viewer. She’s also no stranger to drumming in cosplay — she began drumming