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Yanic Bercier is the drummer for Canadian melodic technical death metal band Quo Vadis, as well as being a session drummer for other bands such as The Coalition and Empyreal Dominion.

Biography

For the first 15 years of his drumming career, Yanic was self taught. Later on, in 2004, he began to work with Spastic Ink drummer Bobby Jarzombek and Keith Brown, Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in order to further his skills. Yanic's most notable accomplishment is drumming for technical melodic death metal band Quo Vadis, which won the Canadian Metal Album of the Year Award from Chart Attack in 2001. Yanic has also been featured in Modern Drummer magazine, which made numerous remarks on his playing, "…This guy can play, as his blinding chop infestations and shifting time signatures on 'In Contempt' and 'To The Bitter End' demonstrate…" (August 2005 issue). Yanic is also highly educated, he has a Ph.D. in Physics and a M.Sc. in Medical Physics from McGill University in Montreal, and a Bachelor of Engineering Physics from École Polytechnique de Montréal.

Equipment

Drums: Yamaha Maple Custom

10 x 9 tom
12 x 10 tom
13 x 11 tom
14 x 12 tom
16 x 16 floor tom
14 x 5 1/2 bamboo snare
22 x 18 bass drum

Cymbals: Sabian

14" bright hats
19" AAXplosion crash
10" AA china splash
18" AAX metal crash
10" MAX-stax
8" MAX-stax
20" AAX metal ride
19" AAX metal crash
19" paragon chinese
17" AAXtreme chinese

Sticks: Vic Firth American Classic Hickory 2B

Discography

With Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis (1995)
Forever... (1996)
Day into Night (2000)
Passage in Time (2001)
Defiant Imagination (2004)
Defiant Indoctrination (2005)

With Empyreal Dominion

Forever the Fallen (2004)

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-'''Yanic Bercier''' is the drummer for Canadian melodic technical death metal band [[Quo Vadis]], as well as being a session drummer for other bands such as [[The Coalition]] and [[Empyreal Dominion]].
+'''Yanic Bercier''' is the drummer for Canadian melodic technical death metal band [[Quo Vadis (band)|Quo Vadis]], as well as being a session drummer for other bands such as [[The Coalition]] and [[Empyreal Dominion]].
 == Biography ==
-For the first 15 years of his drumming career, Yanic was self taught. Later on, in 2004, he began to work with [[Spastic Ink]] drummer [[Bobby Jarzombek]] and Keith Brown, Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in order to further his skills. Yanic's most notable accomplishment is drumming for technical melodic death metal band [[Quo Vadis]], which won the Canadian Metal Album of the Year Award from Chart Attack in 2001. Yanic has also been featured in Modern Drummer magazine, which made numerous remarks on his playing, "…This guy can play, as his blinding chop infestations and shifting time signatures on 'In Contempt' and 'To The Bitter End' demonstrate…" (August 2005 issue). Yanic is also highly educated, he has a Ph.D. in Physics and a M.Sc. in Medical Physics from McGill University in Montreal, and a Bachelor of Engineering Physics from École Polytechnique de Montréal.
+For the first 15 years of his drumming career, Yanic was self taught. Later on, in 2004, he began to work with [[Spastic Ink]] drummer [[Bobby Jarzombek]] and Keith Brown, Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, in order to further his skills. Yanic's most notable accomplishment is drumming for technical melodic death metal band [[Quo Vadis (band)|Quo Vadis]], which won the Canadian Metal Album of the Year Award from Chart Attack in 2001. Yanic has also been featured in Modern Drummer magazine, which made numerous remarks on his playing, "…This guy can play, as his blinding chop infestations and shifting time signatures on 'In Contempt' and 'To The Bitter End' demonstrate…" (August 2005 issue). Yanic is also highly educated, he has a Ph.D. in Physics and a M.Sc. in Medical Physics from McGill University in Montreal, and a Bachelor of Engineering Physics from École Polytechnique de Montréal.