Posts Tagged ‘Gene Hoglan’

This is off their new “Mechanize” album, whose only positive contribution to metal is to further prove the point so truthfully made by myself in the post below.

Now the video got off to a good start in my book (never mind the “government is evil” text in the beginning); I was genuinely interested in the whole slow-mo, black and white, nazi-looking dude with dogs scaring a random naked dude. But then it quickly degenerated into a retarded slide show of cliche “metal” imagery (holy shit the bible!). It features dog carcasses, so it may hold value in a scientific way to a certain food connoisseur that I know, but apart from that it’s total crap. I could do a better guitar solo if I were to simply fart on my guitar and record it.

Also, it seems Dino is well on his way to make Fear Factory the first all fatass metal band. The only odd member here is the vocalist, who apart from sucking ass really hard at vocals, looks like a lesbian. Dino will prolly eat him anytime soon. Anyway, the only reason I’m posting this is because Gene Hoglan is in it and I like that dude. Thanks again Mr. Cazares for giving the big fella a job and not letting him sleep on the streets.

You may remember Zachary mentioning Tenet some time ago on the podcast. The then side project from Strapping Young Lad’s second guitar, Jed Simon, has apparently evolved now into a full band. And guess who is joining Mr. Simon in this new adventure? The Fat Duo of Doom of course, Byron Stroud and Gene Hoglan.

We didn’t think much of the demo tracks back then and I still don’t think much of them now. There’s 2 of them up on their MySpace which are from their Century Media debut album, “Sovereign”, which is apparently out already. They’re pretty much generic old-school thrash/speed metal with the addition of weird vocals. And no keyboards because Jed Simon says keyboards in metal bands are gay.