Gene Hoglan is the ****in' man!

Karl Hungus

No doubt about it, the man is an exceptional drummer, and I thought I'd just have to give homage to him with a thread.

He's been involved in some absolutely phenominal music over the years, what with Strapping Young Lad / Devin Townsend, and of course, having been on two of my favourite Death albums, Individual Thought Patterns and Symbolic. I haven't really listened to Dark Angel, but it's definetly going on my to-do list. He's also recorded and/or toured with Testament, Old Man's Child, Opeth, and I just found out... He's the real 'Pickles The Drummer' on the cartoon Metalocalypse, and the upcoming DethAlbum! :eek:

Can't wait for that...

Doctor J

Karl Hungus wrote:

I haven't really listened to Dark Angel

:eek:

Then you don't don't know Gene Hoglan at all. He wrote most of their tunes, get Time Does Not Heal right now and don't come back until you are intimate with all 9 songs, 67 minutes, 246 riffs! Then get Darkness Descends into you, stat!

projectmayhem

had no idea he's pickles... fantastic stuff!

legend drummer alright, seems like a nice guy too!

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

:eek:

Then you don't don't know Gene Hoglan at all. He wrote most of their tunes, get Time Does Not Heal right now and don't come back until you are intimate with all 9 songs, 67 minutes, 246 riffs! Then get Darkness Descends into you, stat!

I know, I know... Shamefull... But I will definetly get around to it! Promise!

Are you familiar with much Strapping Young Lad though Doc? Seems Gene did most of his work with them, aswell as some of Devin Townsend's solo albums.

projectmayhem wrote:

had no idea he's pickles... fantastic stuff!

legend drummer alright, seems like a nice guy too!

I know, I always assumed that seeing as series creator Brendon Small played all the instruments and wrote all the music and lyrics, that he just sequenced the drums himself or something, but it's actually Gene the machine!

Doctor J

Karl Hungus wrote:

Are you familiar with much Strapping Young Lad though Doc? Seems Gene did most of his work with them, aswell as some of Devin Townsend's solo albums.

Yeah, heard a lot of their stuff but never really got into SYL, dunno, just never clicked with me. Dark Angel are fantastic though, when you consider what everyone else was coming out with in 1986, Darkness Descends is in the same league as Reign In Blood as a breakthrough in speed and ferocity. Gene's lyrics are pretty raw, especially on Time Does Not Heal, I remember reading the inlay of TDNH when I was a kid, thinking "Gene, you sick ****"

Oh yeah, the track Darkness Descends also contains the ... ahem, inspiration let's say, where Lars got his famous double-kick bit for One

Ph3n0m

I too second Dark Angel - in fact listening to Time Does not Heal - absolutely superb stuff

Karl Hungus

Dude, stop making me want to buy more CDs!

I love SYL, but I know a lot of death metal fans don't like them because they're too tounge-in-cheek as it were. I really do love the humour of them, because it's not a piss-take or a parody of anything, and of course they make some incredible music. I won't presume it's because of the humour that you're not into them though, because you're a terrible man to try and second-guess. I mean, for a lot of things musical, it seems like we're singing from the same album sleeve as it were, but then there's things I like that you just seem to hate.

Anyway, you've guided me towards Atheist and Cynic in the past, so chances are you're not lying about Dark Angel.

Alucard II

Karl Hungus wrote:

He's the real 'Pickles The Drummer' on the cartoon Metalocalypse, and the upcoming DethAlbum! :eek:

yeah, i read that and thought "jaysas, Pickles' drumming ability is about to go through the roof"

Morf

i'll 3rd darkness descends, cracking album .. . i much prefer it to RIB

LightofDarkness

Dark Angel are indeed the business. The Gene Machine has always been one of my favourite drummers, Gene + Chuck = music god wish he wrote. And I would definitely take Darkness Descends over RIB any day. And MOP for that matter. I'll just outright say that Dark Angel are possibly the greatest thrash metal band I've heard. They're right up there with Testament and Death Angel, only in an entirely different and more brutal/visceral league of their own.

Also try the Almighty Punchdrunk for some GeneHog insanity. And SYL were pretty good, City was good and so was Alien.

120_Minutes

I remember meeting gene after the SYL gig a few years ago, bringing him to fibbers and getting him pissed up on vodka.

That man is sound, and loves his vodka!

BuCkoTroN

One of the best drummers in metal or as they call him "The Atomic Clock" his best playing im my opinion is on ****storm or Home Nucleonics
"The Beat Starts Here"

neGev

Darkness Descends is one of my favourite thrash albums ever, it's aggression and speed to the point of insanity!

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BuCkoTroN, you're not allowed have animated sigs. Plus that gif is too large.