Hey all,

Just thought you'd like to know that Gene Hoglan will be doing drum clinics in all Australian capital cities in May.

GENE HOGLAN
The undisputed metal master. Live and incredibly loud!

Gene is on a mission. To show you things you thought not possible. To change your drumming life. His resume boasts endless thrash luminaries: Death, Testament, Opeth and Strapping Young Lad. Hoglan is the undisputed metal master. See the “Atomic Clock” blast on Sabian APX live…or else!

Melbourne
Allans Music City Store, 152 Bourke Street - CITY
Monday 19th May@ 7pm
Tuesday 20th May @ 7pm

Sydney
Allans Music Alexandira, 108 Botany Rd, Alexandria
Wednesday 21st May @ 7PM

Brisbane
Allans Music Brisbane, 90-112 Queen Street Mall - CITY
Thursday 22nd May @ 6.30pm

Adelaide
Allans Music, 58 Gawler Place, Adelaide
Friday 23rd May @ 7pm

Tix available in store NOW - $20
BOOK NOW TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!

See you there, woohoo...2 Melbourne shows.

so what exactly does he do in these clinics and do you need to be a drummer to go?

Cool. I hope somebody will youtubize it.

so what exactly does he do in these clinics and do you need to be a drummer to go?

He shows you a bunch of drum stuff, I guess. I'd say anyone is free to go.

Yeah its mostly just drum techniques and showing off his new ATX Sabain drum symbols.

I'll be taking my camera to both days in Melbourne, so I'll make sure to get some blast beats on Youtube.

Oh, that is awesome. I mean, I don't intend on going because I'm not a drummer, but it's nice that he's doing that.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, b_t_g!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, b_t_g!

Haha!! Thanks.

I recently put up the Gene Hoglan interview I did on Metal Obsession, hope you enjoy it.

http://metalobsession.net/interviews

We will also be giving away a double pass to Gene Hoglan's drum clinic in Melbourne, so stayed tuned for that in the next couple of days.

We've got 2 free tickets to give away to the Melbourne show on Monday, to be in the running to win these please go to http://www.metalobsession.net and follow the instructions.

Cheers all, good luck.

The Melbourne clinic last night was fantastic. Really mellow atmosphere and just awesome to watch Gene do his stuff.

He shared alot of great stories from his time in Death right upto SYL of course, alot of questions about Chuck and Devin and the usual assortment of drum questions.

He stayed back and signed some stuff for people which was cool, I got my photo with him along with some shots of him doing his stuff. We weren't allowed to tape anything as most of the stuff he was playing was not released yet. He said his new tech DVD will be out this year, he would have released it sooner but he got abit lazy. This is one question I forgot to ask him in the interview I did.

Really down to earth and just great to talk too.

I'll upload the photos later this afternoon.

Make sure to check out the other clinics if you can, you wont be disappointed.

Here are the pics I promised.

The last pic isn't me, its Sab, otherwise known as sj_2150.

Awesome BTG, I'd love to catch a clinic with the man. Did he play any old stuff or was it just unreleased material?

Awesome BTG, I'd love to catch a clinic with the man. Did he play any old stuff or was it just unreleased material?

One guy asked if he'd do the blast beat section of Individual Thought Patterns I believe, because he wanted to know how he actually did it since it sounds so bloody fast on the album, but thats about it, the rest was unreleased stuff which he'll be releasing this year along with his tech DVD which will show everyone what he was doing last night and tonight and for the rest of the tour.

Holy god damn fingernails