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Thomas

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About Me

I'm Thomas, drummer and songwriter for Cardamon and ex drummer from Detonation. I've been slaying drums since 1992/1993. I'll try to get some pics up from my first drumkit, which was a selfmade kit (buckets) with 'handcrafted' (crap) drumheads, a working twin pedal and custom made (crap) cymbals :)I'm up for session drumjobs, as long as it's doable besides my main bandz, so if ya need a drummer for your album, contact me!I also play guitar, do backing vocals here and there (check the debut album of Cardamon - The Primrose Path) and write music in different styles for commercials and television. Besides, i also work as an editor.

My Interests

Music, movies, TV, reading (never have the time though), National Geographic magazine, Discovery Channel.

I'd like to meet:

You!

Music:

Depeche Mode, Anathema, Porcupine Tree, Katatonia, Iron Maiden, Metallica, The Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Bach, The Cure, Sepultura, Death, Morbid Angel, Orphanage, Gorefest, Textures, Pestilence, Porcupine Tree, Blackfield, Tiamat (esp. Wildhoney), the Gathering, Emperor, Nile, Gothenburgmetal, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Slipknot, Slayer, Opeth, Malevolent Creation...And: Moloko, Imogen heap, Sade, Pat Benatar, Timbaland, Him, Coldplay, Scooter, Duran Duran, INXS, U2, Deus, Guano Apes, Samuel Barker, Calexico, Yann Tiersen, Abba and different soundtracks such as Amelie, Hable con ella and A Monster's ball.

Movies:

Fifth Element, Pulp Fiction, Amelie, too much to mention...

Books:

Dan Simmons: Hyperion+sequels (SF), some literature a well.

Heroes:

Drummers: Nick Barker, Ed Warby, Hans Eikenaar, great (metal)drummers in general.

My Blog

Me and Detonation part ways

Dutch death/thrash metal act Detonation have announced parting ways with drummer Thomas Kalksma. Kalksma was one of the original founders of the band and had been part of Detonation for over ten years...
Posted by Thomas on Fri, 02 May 2008 03:56:00 PST

Back from the UK tour!

It was great, met a lot of nice people and the gigs where great, especially Reading, Weymouth (Finns fucking rocks!) and London! Thanx for all the support to everybody, friends and...
Posted by Thomas on Tue, 08 May 2007 06:05:00 PST

Detorecordings

Getting ready to record the drumz for Detonation album number three. I'm so fucking excited, it's gonna be great! I've rehearsed my ass off last month, on my own and with the band. We're gonna start t...
Posted by Thomas on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:46:00 PST