Yanic Bercier

Yanic Bercier Ph.D is a Canadian physicist and musician. Aside from being the drummer for melodic technical death metal band Quo Vadis and the more traditional death metal band Violence Unleashed, he also sessions for other bands such as The Coalition, and Empyreal Dominion.

Biography

For the first 15 years of his drumming career, Bercier was self-taught. Later on, in 2004, he began to work with Spastic Ink drummer Bobby Jarzombek and Keith Brown, Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in order to further his skills. Bercier's most notable accomplishment is drumming for technical melodic death metal band Quo Vadis, which won the Canadian Metal Album of the Year Award from Chart Attack in 2001. He has also been featured in Modern Drummer magazine, which made numerous remarks on his playing, "…This guy can play, as his blinding chop infestations and shifting time signatures on 'In Contempt' and 'To The Bitter End' demonstrate…" (August 2005 issue).

Besides his musical talents, he has a Doctoral degree in Physics. Recently, through his website, he has been sharing this other side with his fans by incorporating Physics and Music.

Education

Ph.D. Physics, McGill University in Montreal

M.Sc. Medical Physics, McGill University in Montreal
Bachelor of Engineering Physics, École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Equipment

Drums: Yamaha Maple Custom
*10 x 9 tom
*12 x 10 tom
*13 x 11 tom
*14 x 12 tom
*16 x 16 floor tom
*14 x 5 1/2 bamboo snare
*22 x 18 bass drum x2

Cymbals: Sabian
*14" bright hats
*19" AAXplosion crash
*10" AA china splash
*18" AAX metal crash
*10" MAX-stax
*8" MAX-stax
*20" AAX metal ride
*19" AAX metal crash
*19" paragon chinese
*17" AAXtreme chinese

Sticks: Vic Firth American Classic Hickory 2B

Discography

With Quo Vadis

*Quo Vadis (demo, 1995)
*Forever... (full-length, 1996)
*Day into Night (full-length, 2000)
*Passage in Time (compilation, 2001)
*Defiant Imagination (full-length, 2004)
*Defiant Indoctrination (DVD, 2005)
*Live In Montreal (live album, 2007)

With Empyreal Dominion

*Forever the Fallen (EP, 2004)

With Violence Unleashed

*Spawned to Kill (full-length, 2007)

External links

* [http://www.yanicbercier.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.quovadis.qc.ca/ Quo Vadis Official Site]
* [http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=MPHYA6000030000002000111000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes/ Dr Yanic Bercier in Radiosurgery]