Gene Hoglan

Infobox musical artist
Name = Gene Hoglan


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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Eugene Victor Hoglan II
Alias = The Atomic Clock
Born = Birth date and age|1967|8|31|mf=y
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Instrument = Drums, Guitar
Genre = Heavy metal, Thrash metal, Death metal
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 1984–present
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Associated_acts = Dark Angel, Death, Testament, Strapping Young Lad, FatTooth, Meldrum, Unearth, Zimmers Hole, Pitch Black Forecast, Dethklok
URL = [http://www.myspace.com/genehoglan Gene Hoglan MySpace page] [http://hoglanindustries.com/ Gene Hoglan Official Page]

Eugene "Gene" Victor Hoglan II (born August 31, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is an American extreme metal drummer. He also plays guitar, although not on any records (save for some riffs on Dark Angel's "Leave Scars" and "Time Does Not Heal" and one lead on SilentScream's record "From the Darkest Depths of Imagination"). He is acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including usage of odd devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms (using what he calls "kick triplets")Fact|date=March 2007. His highly technical playing is extremely accurate at very high and challenging tempos, earning him the nickname "The Atomic Clock". He is best known for his works with the bands Dark Angel, Death, Strapping Young Lad and Testament [" [http://www.moderndrummer.com/updatefull/200001317 Moderndrummer.com - 2004 - Gene Hoglan: Haulin' With Strapping Young Lad] " 2004] .

Career

Hoglan got his first drum kit when he was 14 and is completely self-taught. In 1984, Hoglan began his music career as a roadie (lights engineer) for the thrash metal band Slayer, where he also played the drums during concert soundchecks [ [http://www.voicesfromthedarkside.de/interviews/darkangel2.htm Voicesfromthedarkside.de - Dark Angel interview] ] . He was also part of the band War God with Michelle Meldrum [ [http://www.voicesfromthedarkside.de/interviews/darkangel2.htm Voicesfromthedarkside.de - Dark Angel interview] ] . At the end of the same year he was asked to join the thrash metal band Dark Angel as the drummer [ [http://www.voicesfromthedarkside.de/interviews/darkangel2.htm Voicesfromthedarkside.de - Dark Angel interview] ] . He penned most of the lyrics for Dark Angel's next three albums. He achieved greater notoriety during the mid-1990s playing with Death, at the same time that bandleader Chuck Schuldiner was taking that group into a more progressive style. Subsequently, he recorded one album with the thrash metal band Testament, and made the acquaintance of Canadian multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend, forging a lasting friendship. He has since recorded several albums with Townsend, both as part of the speed/industrial/death metal band Strapping Young Lad and under Devin Townsend's name.

Hoglan was also part of death metal band Tenet, a side project of Strapping Young Lad guitarist Jed Simon, from 2003 to 2007. Hoglan left the band on amiable terms in January, 2007. He was replaced by Adrian Erlandsson only to return to the group in June of the same year. Hoglan recorded his drum parts for the entirety of the following album in a mere two days.Fact|date=February 2008

In 2004, for the Vancouver, British Columbia show of progressive metal band Opeth's Lamentations tour, Hoglan stood in for Martin Lopez, who was said to be having panic attacks [" [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=50878 Blabbermouth.net - April, 2006 - OPETH Mainman: We Don't Know If Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ Is Ever Coming Back] " April 11, 2006] . Opeth's drum tech had filled in for the two previous dates on the tour and Lopez rejoined the band for the Seattle, Washington show.

In 2005, Hoglan stood in once again for Lopez for the majority of the Sounds of the Underground tour when Lopez began having more panic attacks [" [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=50878 Blabbermouth.net - April, 2006 - OPETH Mainman: We Don't Know If Drummer MARTIN LOPEZ Is Ever Coming Back] " April 11, 2006] . Hoglan played double duty by playing a set with Strapping Young Lad then later that night performing with Opeth. It was later announced Lopez had a rare blood disorder and was seeking treatment. Hoglan also appears in Opeth's music video "The Grand Conjuration" as they filmed it on the tour while in Los Angeles, California.

Other bands have also recruited Hoglan as a session drummer. He has recorded albums with the Norwegian black metal band Old Man's Child and the Danish death metal band Daemon. Additionally he has done production and engineering work for other albums and demos. He was also asked to do drums for death metallers Nile on their album In Their Darkened Shrines, but he turned this down, citing Tony Laureano for a better choice. He was then asked again to drum with them, but (along with Derek Roddy) recommended Greek drummer George Kollias to drum with them, citing that Nile was "not of his musical tastes". Since then, Hoglan and Kollias have been close friends, and both are well respected drummers within the extreme metal community.

Hoglan is working with Dethklok, the band from the animated TV show Metalocalypse. The show was co-created by stand-up comedian/actor/musician Brendon Small, who also composes or performs all of the music. Hoglan features in Dethklok's debut album, "The Dethalbum" which was released on September 25, 2007. [" [http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/Blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=64285 STRAPPING YOUNG LAD's GENE HOGLAN Laying Down Tracks For DETHKLOK Album] " Dec. 23, 2006.] He toured during the summer of 2008 with the live band as the drummer.

Hoglan filled in as the drummer for Unearth when the drummer at the time, Mike Justian quit on tour. He has also joined the metal band Pitch Black Forecast, with former Mushroomhead singer Jason Popson, as the band's permanent drummer. Even more recently, Hoglan was announced as the drummer for the reunited Bay Area Thrash metal band Forbidden's reunion tour, replacing original Forbidden drummer Paul Bostaph.

Hoglan played drums for Zimmers Hole's third studio album When You Were Shouting at the Devil...We Were in League With Satan in 2008.

Discography

(Gene Hoglan played drums, unless otherwise noted)
* 1983 - Slayer - "Show No Mercy" backing vocals in "Evil Has No Boundaries"
* 1983 - Wargod - "Wargod" (demo)
* 1986 - Dark Angel - "Darkness Descends"
* 1989 - Dark Angel - "Leave Scars"
* 1990 - Dark Angel - "Live Scars" (EP)
* 1991 - Dark Angel - "Time Does Not Heal"
* 1992 - Dark Angel - "Decade Of Chaos" (best of CD)
* 1992 - Silent Scream - "From the Darkest Depths Of The Imagination" (mixing, production)
* 1993 - Death - "Individual Thought Patterns"
* 1995 - Death - "Symbolic"
* 1995 - Naphobia - "Of Hell" (guest drummer)
* 1997 - Strapping Young Lad - "City"
* 1997 - Testament - "Demonic"
* 1998 - Old Man's Child - "Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion"
* 1998 - Strapping Young Lad - "No Sleep Till Bedtime" (live)
* 1998 - Devin Townsend - "Infinity"
* 1998 - Devin Townsend - "Christeen plus 4 Demos" (EP)
* 1999 - The Almighty Punchdrunk - "Music For Them Asses"
* 2000 - Cranium - "Speed Metal Satan" (engineering)
* 2000 - Devin Townsend - "Physicist"
* 2001 - Devin Townsend - "Terria"
* 2001 - Just Cause - "Finger It Out"
* 2001 - Frygirl - "Someone Please Kill Me" (conga's)
* 2002 - Daemon - "Eye For An Eye"
* 2003 - Strapping Young Lad - "Strapping Young Lad"
* 2003 - Tenet - "Sovereign" [demo]
* 2004 - Strapping Young Lad - "For Those Aboot to Rock" (DVD)
* 2005 - Strapping Young Lad - "Alien"
* 2005 - Opeth - played drums on the video for The Grand Conjuration, a song off of the Ghost Reveries album .
* 2005 - Ani Kyd - "Evil Needs Candy Too"
* 2006 - Strapping Young Lad - "The New Black"
* 2007 - Meldrum - Blowin' Up The Machine (guest drummer)
* 2007 - Dethklok - "The Dethalbum"
* 2007 - Tenet - Sovereign (Not yet released)
* 2008 - Zimmers Hole - "When You Were Shouting at the Devil...We Were in League With Satan"
* 2008 - Pitch Black Forecast - "Absentee"
* 2008 - Dethklok - "The Dethrecord"

References

External links

* [http://www.hoglanindustries.com/ Gene's Official website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/genehoglan Gene's official myspace page]