Dutch drummer Dennis Leeflang moved from Holland to New York City in 2004, where he now works full-time as a session- and touring drummer. Not unnoticed by the international drum press!
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As published in the October 2005 edition of DRUM! magazine:
He is Leeflang, and he will stick it to you. Bearing a last name that sounds like the long-lost 27th rudiment and hailing from an impossibly out-of-the-way town in The Netherlands, Dennis Leeflang can play. Really play. He started on trumpet at the age of eight but soon came to his senses, put the horn down, and picked up the sticks. Many music lessons, live shows, and recording sessions later, Leeflang crossed the Atlantic and is now making headway in New York\'s music scene. The Squid was sent a taste of what\'s being dished out in the Big Apple - a spicy six-song demo, chock full of drumming goodness. Clearly at home in different styles, Leeflang played with easy aplomb straight-forward rock, odd-metal jams, laid-back ballads, and double-bass prog. Even Hendrix\'s \"Fire\" received the Leeflang treatment - tight kick ruffs and cleanly executed kick/tom combinations. It\'s track 5, though, that got the water all inky: chop-laden, funkified metal at a fast tempo. The fellow must have broken his pedals. Accompanying Leeflang\'s impressive and eclectic demo was a short bio in which he described himself simply as a \"respectable all-round drummer\". The Squid likes modesty.
Dutch drummer Dennis Leeflang moved from Holland to New York City in 2004, where he now works full-time as a session- and touring drummer. Not unnoticed by the international drum press!
