Gene Hoglan

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On The Beat with Gene Hoglan: Talks Recording, Tracking, and Gear

Greetings everyone, it’s your buddy Gene here. The fine folks at Modern Drummer have graciously allowed me to write a few words (even though, as many of you already know, the terms “Gene” and “a few words” rarely go together)…

Modern Drummer
Nov 16, 2017

Gene Hoglan Auctions Studio/Touring Drumkit for Charity

Gene Hoglan has performed with his Pearl Masters Custom set during Ozzfest, tours with Opeth, Strapping Young Lad, Unearth, and on Hoglan’s first DVD, The Atomic Clock. The set was also used to record Strapping Young Lad’s The New Black,…

Modern Drummer
May 24, 2017

Gene Hoglan To Release New DVD

by David Ciauro Thirty years into a career of trailblazing thrash drumming, Gene “The Atomic Clock” Hoglan shows no signs of slowing down. Between touring and/or recording with Testament, Dethklok, and Meldrum, conducting drum clinics, and filming an instructional video,…

Modern Drummer
Oct 1, 2013

The Gene Hoglan Experience: An Intimate Gathering for Metal Fans

The Gene Hoglan Experience is an intimate gathering of metal fans brought together to celebrate the legacy and thirty-year career of one of metal’s most legendary drummers. Gene Hoglan is currently planning a series of these appearances to take place…

Modern Drummer
Aug 1, 2013

Bonzo Bash NAMM Jamm 2013 Featuring Nicko McBrain, Carmine Appice, and More

Natal drums and Marshall amplification will present the Bonzo Bash NAMM Jamm on Thursday, January 24, 2013 at the Observatory in Santa Ana, California. Co-hosts will include Nicko McBrain of Iron Maiden, Carmine Appice, DJ Uncle Joe Benson from KLOS,…

Modern Drummer
Jan 10, 2013
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Exclusive: Gene Hoglan Dethklok Studio Clip (VIDEO)

Check out this exclusive Modern Drummer Online video featuring Gene Hoglan recording Dethklok’s brand-new long-player, Dethalbum III. Dethklok is the band featured in the animated TV series Metalocalypse, whose creator (and Dethklok multi-instrumentalist), Brendon Small, provides extensive commentary on Gene…

Modern Drummer
Oct 9, 2012

Gene Hoglan: Making Dethklok’s Metalocalypse

by David Ciauro Rock stardom can sometimes happen in strange ways. In death metal drumming trailblazer Gene Hoglan’s case, it took having a cartoon alter ego named Pickles to finally put him—and the genre itself—at the top of the charts.…

Modern Drummer
Sep 29, 2010

Gene Hoglan

Drummer Gene Hoglan didn’t have much downtime after guitarist Devin Townsend put Strapping Young Lad on hiatus in early 2007. Fairly quickly, Gene got a call from Brendon Small, creator of the animated series Metalocalypse, featuring the fictional death metal…

Modern Drummer
Jun 20, 2008

Gene Hoglan: Furious Kick Drumming

In the midst of Strapping Young Lad's otherworldly barrage of guitars, screams, bass rumble, and samples, Gene Hoglan's kick drums blast through in furious, amazingly accurate 32nd-note flurries. Hoglan, thirty-seven, was in on the beginnings of the thrash metal movement,…

Modern Drummer
May 12, 2004
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