Blog: INVISIBLE ORANGES - THE METAL MP3 BLOG

Extreme metal is full of interesting characters. You'd have to put Brutal Truth drummer Rich Hoak near the top of the list. He's a walking set of contradictions: a yoga practitioner with little use for an ascetic lifestyle; a pessimist who talks about the slow motion apocalypse, yet is quick with a laugh or joke; a man excelling at a musical form invented and usually played by people half his age. Behind his stripped-down drum kit, Hoak looks like Lon Chaney reincarnated, a man of 1,000 faces. There's the snarled lip, the open mouth, the clenched [...]