Jazz drummer reacts: Death-The Philosopher (Gene Hoglan) 

Gene Hoglan was the drum technician for Slayer in the early days. He taught Dave f***in' Lombardo how to tighten up his double kicks ffs. Gene Hoglan deserves all the praise he gets.

When metal and jazz musicians meet they are like : - Dude you are so cool - No you are cool - You are unbelievable performer - No man you are an unbelievable perforner - Man I am in love with you - No man AM in love with you And that is how Prog. Metal musicians are born

Gene's drumming with Death was always about being tasteful and mixing groove with power, something that a lot of "tech" bands seem to lack these days. One of the reasons why an album that's a quarter century old sounds as great today as it did then.

Gene's work on Strapping Young Lad is absolutely out of this world...

Although I really dig Gene's parts with Death, the true innovator is Sean Reinert, who is Gene's predecessor in Death, Gene himself said that he was really inspired by Sean's parts in Human (4th Death album), you should check him out

Gene’s one of the old guard and still a legend. Also, he’s left handed so that’s where the left hand hand mutes, leading with the left foot, etc all come from. He got the nickname Atomic Clock since he could keep consistent tempos at high speed before a bunch of modern metal drummers caught up with him. Anyway, check out his work with Strapping Young Lad / Devin Townsend, or the Mechanize album from Fear Factory if you’d like a better showcase of his abilities at higher speeds. Edit: holy shit thanks for all the likes 🤘

Gene played two shows back to back when he covered for Anthrax's drummer. He played a full set with Testament and then would do a full show with Anthrax

Is there anything more metal than GENE HOGLAN? Answer: NO

Keep in mind, Gene needs massive drums because hes a giant. Literally. Hes like 6'8 & 300+lbs i had the pleasure of meeting him & getting an autograph.

Gene is one of those dudes that when you look at his resume you're like "oh shit! He played on that!?".

When I read jazz-metal or metal-jazz, "mother man" of the band Atheist comes to mind.

5:26 "He's not running out of ideas" - Ofcourse !! Its Gene Hoglan one of the TRUE MASTERS!!

"Is this Death Metal" Lol dude, THIS is Death Metal, much more like most of the things you reviewed so far. Death were some of the major originators of the style and it's one of the best bands the genre ever brought for

He doesn't just wear combat boots, he also wears ankle weights when he plays.

Gene "The Atomic Clock" Hoglan. Rumor is that he's never hit a wrong note, lol

You still need to check out some Opeth drumming. They have a lot of jazz influence in their songs :)

Gene is a legit god in the metal drumming world. Strapping Young Lad is my favorite band and he laid down genius tracks with them. Also, would love to see a reaction to “Archspire New Song 350BPM.”

You should check out his play through of Skeksis, Hoglan's a friggin monster

Death: Chuck Gene Digiorgio Andy The best 🤟🏻

Listen to Strapping Young Lads album called ‘City.’ I saw the live tour for that album and Gene scared the shit out of everybody

3:47 "Is this death metal?" Not only is this death metal, this is OG death metal. Besides Possessed's Seven Churches (which coined the term "death metal"), Death's first album is considered the genre's pioneering album. This track is from their 5th album, Individual Thought Patterns, after they'd evolved into progressive death metal. It's amazing to think that the same band (really the same guy, Chuck Schuldiner) pioneered two different metal genres. Anyway, Hoglan is definitely one of my favorite metal drummers; you should definitely check out his work with Testament and Strapping Young Lad too.

Gene Hoglan is by far my favorite metal drummer.

"This is hip" not something I ever thought would be used to describe Death.

I love your videos man! ;) Keep the coming and thank you.

Love you dude, keep doing what you're doing! It's so refreshing to have someone to watch who isn't trying too hard, just being natural and giving good vibes. Hope the reactions keep coming, I think you might genuinely be the only channel I've subbed to hahaha

You should really react to Billy Reimer playing When I Lost My Bet from his band The Dillinger Escape Plan. My favorite metal song of all time.

Absolutely stoked you reacted to Gene. The mans an absolute legend and coming from a guitar players perspective it's great to get a deeper understanding of what hes doing rhythmically keep rocking man.

Love watching your channel! Keep up the awesome!

You have to watch his playthrough of skeksis by Strapping Young Lad

saw Gene play a Testament set and turn around and play an Anthrax set at the same damn concert like it was nothing. Legend.

Hey man, really enjoy your vids and glad to see you appreciating all sorts of metal goodness! :)

What an awesome Drumming🤘🤘🥁🥁‼️

Exactly, there’s no triggers..just old school metal drumming and huge dimension of balls. 🔊

Now you gotta check out Sean Reinert

This song is actually on of my favorite songs rn. And btw love your content.

Hell yeah dude! Individual thought patterns is one of my favorite metal albums of all time. Super solid work!

He also plays with ankle weights for the "slower" double bass songs then takes them off for the fast ones

You stillllll gotta listen to Darkside from Mgla play Exercises In Futility V, absolute necessity for metal drumming

I know nothing about drumming but this is my new favorite thing to watch on RU-vid. Thanks for keeping things positive Garrett!!

Love thsi dude, humble and delivers

I remember when I met Gene at a Soilwork show and it was one of the few times I didn't wear my Death t-shirt. I didn't want to bother him and ask too many questions but I know if he saw me with that shirt on, it would've naturally progressed in that direction. Brief interaction but very cool guy.

Death was quite a special "band" or basically Chuck Schuldiner playing musical chairs with a pool of really good musicians who are incredibly influential and who are very much well acquainted with jazz music. Probably metal drummers are much more into jazz than jazz drummers into metal, or at least that's my perception. It wasn't only Death. It was also all the related bands and projects. Sadus, Cynic, Atheist, Gordian Knot, Control Denied. They might not be so well known, but they are quite groundbreaking, especially in terms of bringing metal and jazz closer together.

The amount of times I listened to this song and other death songs when I was younger is just unreal haha

I know this is old but I seriously enjoyed this reaction. Love your personality!!

This song is perhaps a bit more straight forward than some other songs Gene has played over the years but he's one of those drummers that is on so many records you can basically find examples of him playing anything that's remotely related to metal and basically owns the shit out of any of the styles really.

What about the "goldly" bass playing of Steve digorgio!

This is such a fantastic piece of old school death. His drum phrases on the bridge like parts and the end are incredible.

Absolutely love this, you have got to do some more Gene Hoglan videos, he is the ultimate metal drumming mercenary because he's drummed for a crap ton of awesome metal bands throughout the years.

legend and one of the Top 10 in Metal, hands down 💀

Other Gene Hoglan excellence: His pioneering thrash metal drumming in Dark Angel ( oh yeah, he wrote not only drum parts, bur most of the music on ALL of the other instruments, AND played almost ALL the other instruments on the recorded tracks on the albums). Gene was playing so many beats, patterns, fills, polyrhythms, and novel instruments for new sounds, before many drummers playing metal today were out of diapers, before some were born. Many things that are common in tech and prog metal today didn't exist before Gene Hoglan brought them to metal for public consumption. Up until recently he not only wore boots, he would play warm ups, and the first five or six songs WITH ANKLE WEIGHTS ON! Try it sometime, play his stuff in boots and ankle weights. Dethclock, a TV show about a death metal band that is... hilarious. But cool metal. His videos and instructional recordings, where he talks about the fact that when he is not playing or practicing with one of the metal bands he is in, most of the music he plays is Funk, and he is by the way, it's a fantastic Funk drummer. He is currently in a band called Testament. Testament is one of the original thrash metal bands from the Bay Area that helped found and pioneer the earliest days of thrash metal. They were more progressive than most of the other thrash bands of the time, and they have always retained that ability to bring other influences, especially jazz and some classical, into their music. Testament's last two albums, which have featured Gene Hoglan on drums, have been in my opinion their best albums of their career.

Really enjoying your channel! Keep it up Cheers from Canada

Carrying the flag and putting some goddamn respect on these drummers who have gone underappreciated for way too long. Cheers!

Evolutionary sleeper by Sean Reineart (Cynic)

I wish Chuck was still around to show these kids what metal is. I want to add I am not saying kids can't or don't play real metal just these days music has seem to take a step back

i love how you are getting more happier as you go with more reaction vids

it's been great watching your channel explode, great personality for it. I've been streaming and I often find myself commenting on my gear changes in the pursuit of "good sound" which is doubly weird since we're not talking drum gear.

oh i got one for you, "the gardens all nighters" by the number 12 looks like you

Gene is Death Metal Vinnie Paul basically.

I didn't think I'd like this, but was pleasantly surprised! Cool vid dude, I like your insight.

I could listen to Death - Symbolic just for the drums! Love his enthusiasm and creativity in every track I’ve ever heard him on!

Understand that the founder of this band, Chuck Schuldiner, passed away nearly 20 years ago. This band helped found the genre of Death Metal, but by the third album they were moving away from Death Metal and more towards a progressive metal sound, which also had not yet really been created. More importantly, understand that Gene Hogan created this drum part for this song in the early 90s when it was recorded. In the early 90s nobody was doing what this band was doing and I had not heard any drummer doing what Gene Hoglan was doing at this time. It seems like solid metal drumming now, but at the time it was written it was completely Innovative relative to everything else that was going on in the metal world at that time. And, at the time this was written and recorded much of the music world was wearing flannel shirts, and playing Ultra simple grunge tunes

There is a reason they call him " the Atomic Clock"

This song is a piece of history. Nice vídeo, great reaction.

Gene is a beast. One of my faves in metal. I first saw Gene with Brandon Smalls on the Dethklok album and became an instant fan. Liked and subbed

Nice choice! Still waiting on that Baard Kolstad (Leprous drummer) reaction. Music suggestions: Moon, Bonneville, Illumimate,...

We need some black metal !!! Exercises in Futility V - Mgła (Dumcam)

Met Gene at a show and such a humble and good dude. One of the greatest of all time

Gene Hoglan, one of my favorite drummers, saw him live once and he is INSANELY accurate

Obscura - Sebastian Lanser...awesome technical stuff from Germany. The guy is is precise

"Robotdick in my face" got me giggling :D

Mr Gene Hoglan brother!!!!! Sick drummer and sick band!

fookin' love death. Appreciate the videos!

Hey, I just discovered your videos and I've already seen a couple of them, I recommend you react to something from the first two Megadeth albums (Killing Is My Bussines... and Peace Sells But Who's Buying) the drummer on those records was a Jazz drummer too! Anyways cheers from Argentina

To answer to your question : Is it smooth death metal or is it death metal at all? Actually, Death is the first Death Metal band, that's where the name ''Death'' metal come from !!

Legend has it during his days in Death Angel, he wore leg weights to ensure he was properly warmed up for the 1st half of the set. Apparently, so I'm told, he used "alternative" items on his kit, such as a hovercraft fan blade and an artillery shell casing.

i really appreciate your take on this one

Jared Klein - Rivers of Nihil. There's a nice playthrough of Death is Real.

Check out his Strapping Young Lad play through of SKESIS. 🤘🏼😏

Gene is a beast, his parts through strapping young lads - skeksis are unreal, the syncopation is perfect

Gene Hoglan is a living legend, he's been going hard for decades. Skeksis is probably one of my all time favs.

Gene "The Atomic Clock" Hoglan! 🤘

Florida metal represent.

Yaassss! Thank you 🙏 😁 Love Gene’s drumming, got to meet him when he was on tour with Zimmer’s Hole, just the coolest dude, super chill! Definitely check out his other groups especially Strapping Young Lad! Also check out Billy Rymer from Dillinger Escape Plan, he does a play through of Prancer on Drumeo which really showcases his mind boggling style!

Your videos are awesome bro! Keep doing death metal bands!

Just continuing my campaign for Lille Gruber

If you enjoyed this, particularly as a jazz drummer, I think you might find some stuff to really dig into with records from Atheist.

I’m just loving the open hand it’s gotta be one of those things you just naturally do.

Fantastic... He may not have been interested in blasting very often, but his technical approach and fluid movement around the kit is something to be inspired by.

I very much recommend reacting to Sean Reinert (formerly of Death and Cynic) :) First video that comes up when searching his name, "Evolutionary Sleeper" would be a great option!

"Is this Death Metal?" Yes, Progressive Death Metal to be more precise.

Watched strapping young lad 22 years ago in Melbourne for the 'City' album tour. Never seen a gig anywhere near as good since. Gene is a beast.

solid, cool, gifted ! yes ! it's all Gene ! and a hard worker for sure -

Gene "The Atomic Clock" Hoglan!

Requesting that you take a look at Maciej 'Darkside' Kowalski from Mgła. /watch?v=wcsTJ1n2jkE (Good video from Brutal Assault Festival 2019) Also, on your comment on drumming in combat boots - look up Pete 'Commando' Sandoval from Morbid Angel. He got his nickname because he always plays/played in combat boots. Also, also, Death is the fucking truth!

Met Gene at a Testament/Anthrax concert in New Orleans (my first ever show) and he signed a show used stick for me. Absolute humble person and he’s super light hearted!

I love it when different genres collide and appreciation happens

You should react to Jamie Saint Merat, he's a beast of a drummer...

"he's playing in combat boots?" Just wait until you get to Hellhammer...

death ! and nothing else! masters of genre! pure amazing skills on guitars , bas, and drums!

4:46 left upstroke on the crash. Gene has so many nuances to his drumming. It's amazing how relaxed he always is too.