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GENE HOGLAN Demonstrates The New Pearl Session Studio Classic Series Drum Kit

Posted by tarjavirmakari on November 4, 2012
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Reversed Records has issued as follows:

Legendary heavy metal icon GENE ”THE ATOMIC CLOCK” HOGLAN (Testament, Death, Dark Angel, Dethklok) demonstrates the new Pearl Session Studio Classic Series drum kit for pearldrum.com. HOGLAN demos the new Session Studio Classic Series kit to the title track ”Dark Roots Of Earth” from the latest TESTAMENT release.
The Session Studio Classic follows the original Session “recipe” with blended Birch and Kapur shells, recreating the classic “Session sound” of strong attack and projection with outstanding lows and punch that you can feel. The reinvented SSC are finished in the same gorgeous high-gloss “31 step” lacquer finishes that are featured on Masters, Reference and Masterworks.

Listen HERE to GENE HOGLAN  demo Pearl’s new Session Studio Classic Series drum kit

Gene Hoglan released his long-awaited instructional DVD, “The Atomic Clock”. Available at Hoglan Industries (http://hoglanindustries.com/) in the U.S. and at Reversed Records (http://www.reversedrecords.com/estore.html)in Canada, the disc showcases Hoglan’s three decades of experience of performing and recording with the world’s most well-known metal bands such as DEVIN TOWNSEND, DARK ANGEL, DEATH, DETHKLOK, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, TESTAMENT, ZIMMERS HOLE, and most recently FEAR FACTORY, along with many others on his resume.

For more information on Gene Hoglan, please visit these websites.

http://www.HoglanIndustries.com/


http://www.ReversedRecords.com


http://www.youtube.com/GeneHoglanOfficial


http://www.reverbnation.com/genehoglan


http://www.myspace.com/GeneHoglan


http://www.twitter.com/GeneHoglan


http://www.facebook.com/GeneHoglanOfficialPage


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GENE HOGLAN – Free Drum Clinic Announced For Fort Wayne, Indiana

Posted by Mohsen Fayyazi on October 22, 2011
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Legendary extreme-metal drummer Gene ”The Atomic Clock” Hoglan (DETHKLOK, FEAR FACTORY, TESTAMENT, DEATH, DARK ANGEL, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD) will take part in a drum clinic presented by Pearl Drums Monday, October 24th at Sweetwater in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Admission is free.

The clinic is described as: “Learn how to supercharge your drumming technique – from a metal master! Acclaimed for his incredibly tight, technical, and powerful drumming skills, Gene will demonstrate his killer technique, discuss his projects, share tips and methods, and answer your questions.”

Head to this location for more details.

As previously reported, Gene will be joining Bay Area thrashers TESTAMENT on the road for select dates on their upcoming co-headlining run with ANTHRAX. Gene will join Testament from October 28th through November 13th. He issued the following statement regarding the upcoming tour:

“As many of you know, I just played on the new Testament record, Dark Roots Of Earth, which went amazingly well. The dudes were kind enough ask me to join them for a couple weeks on this tour with Anthrax and DEATH ANGEL. I’m super stoked to do the shows. It’s going to be a great time. Just so everybody knows, I will be selling my Drum Instructional DVD, The Atomic Clock, at the shows (shameless plug). If you can’t make it out to one of the shows, buy it on line!”

With regards to The Atomic ClockDVD, Hoglan offers the following:

“It’s two hours of super-duper fun. I tried to make it entertaining for all. I wanted to make it something that was for more than just drummers and musicians. It’s for anybody who wants to spend a couple hours in front of the tube checking something cool out; that’s what I designed it for. It’s pretty darn entertaining, and it is chock full of information.”

And Hoglan is a good guy to go to for information on drumming. The DVD (available at Hoglanindustries.com or Reversedrecords.com in Canada) will reveal many of the man’s unusual quirks and attitudes towards bashing the skins – something he’s been doing as a career since 1989, so he knows his stuff.

“I have some unorthodox approaches and philosophies to drumming,” says Hoglan, “so there’s a lot of stuff on there you’ll probably be hearing for the very first time.”

Unlike a lot of instructional DVDs, The Atomic Clock is extremely user-friendly. Hoglan didn’t want to create a DVD that made people feel uncomfortable in any way, as he feels a lot of instructional DVDs actually end up alienating the viewer.

“Absolutely,” he says. “You’ve got this guy with great chops, he’s a killer player, and he has absolutely no personality. It kinda feels like he’s talking down to you, like you’re receiving instructions from a high-school teacher. Who hates you.”

And like his unorthodox playing style, his style for filming a DVD was pretty off the beaten path. For example, with the exception of songs that Hoglan plays along to, all of it is improvised, and the same goes for the “script.”

“All of it is ad libbed, all of it is off the top of my head,” says Hoglan. “Even the drumming on it is completely ad libbed. Except for the songs that I play to a pre-recorded track, every lick on there is pretty much me coming up with it on the spot.”
Source: Bravewords