Fred Di Gerlando | SoultoneCymbals.com

Fred Di Gerlando

Fred Di Gerlando

I am proud and very honored to be part of and to have joined the Soultone cymbals family.

My name is Fred I am currently the new drummer of the extreme metal group IN HELL from LILLE From France, with 2 albums "Satanica Mundi" released in 2019 and "Lex Divina Terrores" released in 2021 available on all streaming platforms and distributed by Season Of Mist, I joined the group in April 2022.

My CV as a drummer is quite complete with a fairly diversified musical background, I come from the music school of Nancy (FRANCE) the M.A.I (Music Academy International)

I continued to take lessons with internationally renowned drummers from the French metal scene with among others ; Franky Costanza (ex-Dagoba, Blazing War Machine, Les Tambours du Bronx) ; Niko Bastos (ex-EDC, ex-Deep In Hate, ex-Dagoba) to continue to perfect myself in the middle of extreme metal and to perfect my double pedal game.

I have stage and studio experience, having played for several local French bands, I also recorded several demos for several small local bands, I was the session drummer in 2011 for the deathcore group Parisiens "When Reasons Collapse" for the promotion of an ep "Full Of Lies" released in 2011.

I was one of the co-founding members of the metal band "Chabtan" from Paris (France), then for a while I had to stop the music because of an accident.

It was in 2019 that little by little I started working on my drums again, I give a few lessons in parallel, because I love to pass on my passion for drums and all my knowledge to students who share this same passion, to that they can flourish, progress in their approach to the instrument and to music.

I am very eclectic, knowing how to play both jazz and metal, very open-minded and knowing how to inculcate various techniques.

The difference that makes Soultone cymbals better than other brands is that they are much more elaborate, the finish is really very successful, the hammering is very identical on each shot, the sound of the cymbals is unique and really glued, it is of a sharpness and the note lasts really a long time, one distinguishes well the difference between each sound of cymbals.

What I like about cymbals is that they are very homogeneous and that the cymbals are not made and confined to make only one style of music.

We can not say that they are better than another brand because each brand of cymbals has its own trademark and its own brand.

On the other hand, what I can say is that they are far above the others and that they stand out well from the others by their finish which is really very clean, their precision, their sound which is very warm and does not break. not the ears and especially I press well on the point that they are really of very good qualities.

I think that drummers and I even advise other drummers to try them as I have doneā€¦ I wanted to try SOULTONE because I knew the name and I like to change regularly despite the fact that I was more loyal to a brand before that and for a few years.

I had an opportunity so I took it and chose to trust SOULTONE and I am not disappointed.

For the moment it is too early to say because I have just been part of the soultone family but within a year we will be able to take stock. And draw some positive constructive, negative or positive conclusions.

My Soultone Set: 

Heavy hammered prototype :

H.H _ 14"
Crash _ 19"
_ 20"

Custom brillant series :
H.H _ 13"
Splash _ 8"
_10"

Custom brillant RA series :
- China _ 14"

Explosion series :
- Ride _ 21"

Fxo series :
- Bell _ 9"
- China FXO 6 _ 19"