Metal drummer extraordinaire Gene Hoglan has posted an update on his myspace blog about his past 12 months of the 13 he has spent on the road touring with Fear Factory for their release of \'Mechanize\'. Gene also comments on his first solo drum dvd, called \'The Atomic Clock\', plus landing himself on the cover of the November 2010 issue of Modern Drummer magazine.\"I am just getting off 12 months on the road out of the last 13. We, being Fear Factory, just ended a pretty non-stop run this year so far with a few shows in Australia, New Zealand and Japan with Metallica. At a very nice dinner that Metallica was gracious enough to invite us to, I did get to relate to James the story of how we met 30 years ago, at a backyard party, when I was a 13 year-old metalhead, and he was the first person I\'d ever seen wearing a Maiden shirt. A homemade, one color print of the first album, but nobody knew Maiden in these parts, let alone had a shirt! So I, being the punk that I was, followed him around that party all night, pestering him to make me one. Of course he told me to fuck off. Repeatedly.\"
Gene Hoglan continues thanking any of his fans who have bought \'The Atomic Clock\' dvd and proudly annonunces that he made the cover of Modern Drummer:
\"Holy moly, can you believe that? Lemme just say, that after plugging away at this career of mine for over 25 years, and this being the absolute highest honor a drummer could imagine for himself, I am still in shock at this unmitigated distinction.\"
In additional news, Gene Hoglan will be hitting the road once again with Fear Factory in December for \'The Industrial Discipline Tour\' in Europe with High On Fire. Confirmed dates are as follows:
