First... The Life:
The Love:
The Story:
... June 1984... I was born to see the world, which I do like in many ways and do not like in other ways...
Soon after my birth everybody knew I'd play music. I couldn't walk yet, but I was busy drumming on things allready. After a few toy-drums, my dad got a bit euhm... bored about getting me new toy-drums whole the time, so in 1987 he got me a real drum-kit.
So I started to play the drums more and more, and started to listen to bands like U2, Falco, Uriah Heep, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath,...
In 1990, my dad bought a keyboard, on which I started to play as well. This influenced my life a lot as well, when I came at some point of experimenting with 2 keyboards and recording-material... Life went on for a while... and I started to listen to more different music, such as Mike Oldfield, but as well for the (bit) harder stuff as Metallica, Nirvana, Kiss... which was more like a discovery-period.
1996... my first guitar/bass guitar fell into my hands... in the beginning it all sounded like junk, but... after a while, I discovered I could do much more with a guitar than just only making crappy noises. This was the year I was getting very interested in Metal-music. First Metalband I heard was Sepultura with their song "Roots Bloody Roots". Soon other bands joined my knowledge... such as Napalm Death, Channel Zero, Fear Factory... later on... Pantera came in...
In 1997 I came on stage for the first time. I played some drumsolo at school.
time went by... until in 1998 I started to record some stuff. I became a lot into mixing and experimenting on my own.
1999... the first band I played in... we didn't had a name yet... and were only with 2, but we made some great songs back then.
end 1999/begin 2000, there were 2 projects I was in. One became with jamming for a free-podium for school (that got out of hand :-p), the other because of some add in a local paper (which gave me the opportunity to play in some cover-band, which thought I was too young). The two bands were called: Belayed Death and Hold My Own. Hold My Own recorded their first Demo in April 2000, which was a hit in the Underground-Scene. We made a second version of it containing 12 tracks (instead of 5), and was made to promote ourselfs for shows.
In 2001 Hold My Own made a full-CD (12 tracks), which was never brought out in public. In December we even played in Germany next to the band Hard Resistance, which was a great experiance.
From the ashes of Belayed Death, Devastator was born with a new singer, and a new line-up.
2002... A whole new year of possibilities... Gorlab (check them out at www.myspace.com/gorlabmetal) came inside my life, first as a singer, then as keyboardplayer and now (and that'll stay that way) as a drummer. In August/September 2002 Hold My Own made their (second) full CD, which was brought out in December 2002.
Next to playing shows and stuff, "the Coeckey"-project moves on and on as well with recordings, which never got upon the soil of the earth... which I think it's a pitty...
In 2003 Hold My Own said goodbye to me, and I was thrown out for some reasons that are still unknown to me...
In 2004 I recorded a Demo with Devastator, which was called "100% Osschotse Boerecore" (6 tracks). Not only Devastator went for a Demo, Gorlab went for a Demo as well (with 4 tracks).
Later that year I joined a new band called In Exile. Something experimental with electronical stuff and Metal.
Graspop 2005, I was preselected to join a drumcontest. From the 5 preselected drummers I ended up as 3rd. At the end of 2005, I was thrown out/went away from Devastator because of some kind of a clash with the "new guitarist".
2006... A promosingle was recorded for In Exile, and played at Pragatown, Herselt. Praga Khan was the headliner. Went with the band "Aegrimonia", which was in need for a new guitarist. And won a drumcontest in Herenthout (1st out of 4 drummers).
2007 started out to be a great year. Gorlab will hit the studio's and record some new stuff. They'll also get the chance to defend theirselves at the preselections for Pragatown 2007 (in which I've played last year with In Exile)... Gorlab has also the ability to play at some tour they're planning together with 4 other Brother-bands, called New Blood Alliance...
...oooh yeah... and I'm not only into music though... I'm drawing as well...
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