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Eugene (Gene) Victor Hoglan II (born August 31, 1967 in Dallas, Texas) is a well-known American heavy metal drummer. He is famous for his "technical" playing - that is, executing complex patterns on the drums - at extremely high speeds. This has led to some to refer to him as "The Atomic Clock," a reference to a highly accurate time-keeping device.
In 1984, Gene Hoglan began his music career as a roadie (lights engineer) for the seminal thrash metal band Slayer, where he also played the drummer during the soundcheck. At the end of the same year he was asked to join the progressive thrash band Dark Angel as the drummer. He turned out to become the main songwriter of that band as well. He achieved greater notoriety during the mid-1990s playing with Death, at the same time that bandleader Chuck Schuldiner was taking that group into a more progressive style. Subsequently, he recorded one album with the thrash metal band Testament, and made the acquaintance of Canadian multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend, forging a lasting friendship. He has since recorded several albums with Townsend, both as part of the speed/industrial/death metal band Strapping Young Lad and under Devin Townsend's name.
Furthermore, Gene Hoglan is part of a death metal band called Tenet, the brainchild of Strapping Young Lad guitarist Jed Simon. The band has been signed to Century Media Records but has not yet recorded an album.
In 2003, Gene Hoglan stood in for Martin Lopez of the famous progressive death metal band Opeth for three shows on Opeth's Lamentations tour. Asked to come in on short notice (Lopez was suffering panic attacks), Hoglan reportedly learned Opeth's notoriously long and complex songs in a single day. As Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt put it, "We called him up the day before the gig and asked him if he could play 'The Drapery Falls' and he said he hadn’t heard it but Devin had it on disc. Then we played it at sound check and he nailed it the first time. And as the support bands were on he was listening to 'Demon of the Fall' on headphones and then nailed it during the gig.
Other bands have also recruited Gene Hoglan as a session drummer. He has recorded albums with the Norwegian black metal band Old Man's Child and the Danish death metal band Daemon. Additionally he has done production and engineering work for other albums.
Gene Hoglan is completely self-taught