Hoglan says, “Chuck asked me, ”˜How do you feel about playing a drum solo?’ I’m just like, ”˜Oh, you’re kidding me’. Turns out, he’s been asked by Testament frontman Chuck Billy on their upcoming tour to play a drum solo while he gives his voice a rest for a few minutes mid-set. “The longest drum solo I can imagine myself playing is about 30 seconds,” he says. One thing you won’t find on the DVD, or in any of the gigs Hoglan plays is a drum solo, something that’s often assumed most virtuoso drummers like to do. I like playing that song, I’ve done a complete 180 on it.” I know there’s no double-bass in it, not in the original, I throw little spurts of it now. He adds, “There’s a whole lot of Strapping songs I would love playing and in the Testament set, I’ll freely admit, I was never a fan of this song growing up, but now that I’m playing it, but “Practice What You Preach” is one of my favorites. On The Atomic Clock Strikes Two, Hoglan rips through Testament’s “Native Blood” and “Rise Up” as well as Death signatures like “Overactive Imagination” and “The Philosopher.” And then there’s Strapping Young Lad’s “Skeksis,” which he says is one song he wouldn’t mind playing forever.
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Or ”˜Mean Gene’.”Īlso See 10 Manhwa Series That Can be Turned into Excellent K-Dramas It beats being called ”˜Gene the Machine’ or something like that. Devin said, ”˜Oh that’s cool,’ so we just ended up with the tag. I just don’t know what made him say that, but I thought it sounded pretty fun. “We were rehearsing at a motorcycle shop and he just came in and said, ”˜Damn man, Hoglan is the atomic clock’. He recalls how he got his name the Atomic Clock courtesy of Chris Valagao, his bandmate from Canadian heavy metallers Zimmers Hole and Devin Townsend. The drummer for the likes of thrash metal band Dark Angel and then death metal pioneers Death, extreme metallers Strapping Young Lad (helmed by the madman guitarist-vocalist Devin Townsend) and thrash veterans Testament, there isn’t a beat that Hoglan can play wrong or too slow or sloppily when he’s on stage. No, I leave it in, that’s fine!” he says in his most jovial voice. ”˜Oh that was potentially embarrassing, let’s get rid of that’. Okay, there’s a camera in my face and I’m blowing it, I’m not going to edit this out. In fact, the mistakes are his favorite part of the DVD that covers drum playthroughs, interviews and anecdotes.
“Because I left them all in, you know?” says Hoglan over the phone. If Gene Hoglan, the San Diego-based drummer who’s called The Atomic Clock on account of his faultless work on the drum throne, had to put together a promo for his new DVD ”“ The Atomic Clock Strikes Two ”“ he says he’d include just footage of flubs.
Gene Hoglan, the man behind the kit for the likes of Strapping Young Lad and Death, talks about his new DVD.
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