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Brett Fugate's Blog:

December 01, 2017

Fugate Inc. awarded contract for Tower Of Voices.

May 02, 2017

Fugate Inc. now has Woodwind and Brass instruments.

April 17, 2017

Appeared in the feature film "Karaoke Knights."

July 31, 2013

Musser in La Grange, IL closes its doors.

May 15, 2013

Appeared in the Suburban Life newspaper discussing the Chicago Cubs.

December 17, 2012

Fugatedrums.com was launched.

November 29, 2012

Filed United States utility patent: Drum and Method for Tuning and Making a Drum. If anyone is interested in purchasing any of my cutting edge drums please contact me for details.

October 26, 2012

Received a certification for CNC Wire EDM operator from Mitsubishi.

September 18, 2012

Michelle Akin leaves Idiom.

September 16, 2012

Church of Misery finally releases an album we recorded in 1993.

August 25, 2012

RIP Neil Armstrong. I attended Neil Armstrong grade school in East Peoria, IL and was a great admirer of his.

August 19, 2012

Auditioned for a sci-fi film called "Porting."

July 20, 2012

I appeared in Arthur Lipner's documentary film on the marimba called "Talking Sticks."

July 3, 2012

RIP Andy Griffith. No one understands Andy Griffith like I do. I always wanted to have an Idiom album with Andy Griffith and Rob Halford singing a duet.

March 27, 2012

I was published in NCBI database for the DNA sequence I discovered (accession number JQ397635). Check it out: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/JQ397635.

January 31, 2012

Audition for Earthen, a Chicago based metal band.

December 5, 2011

Awarded provisional patent for Drum and Method of Tuning and Making a Drum.

Concerning Contacting Me:

Please read this in full before you consider to contact me.

I am not interested in trading with you unless it is for something I have on my want list. I am not interested in trading just to trade from my collection. And no I will not "digitize" anything for you. Right now the only band I am pushing is Idiom. So I will consider trades for Idiom discs with other bands for their original cds, tapes, or vinyls just for trading. Otherwise, I am happy to help you with history or information that can be used for the database.

My Musical Library:

I am very much into rare/obscure metal. I have an extensive collection of cassette demos I acquired during the tape trading days. Plus, I have more releases on both vinyl and compact disc. By the way, nothing from my collection is currently for sale (so don't bother me with that). Also, I have been trying to (when I get time) to rearrange my music collection by year. Yes, I am abandoning this alphabetizing non-sense and I am embarking on a numerical classification system. I believe that this will help me to put music into a chronological perspective by identifying the bands that were earlier or later.

Opinion on What is True Metal Music:

I think bands that use drum machines are weak and they are not metal and do not belong in this database. I can understand that musicians use drum machines much like those of us whom practice with metronomes. But the bottom line is that a true metal band would never use a drum machine on a release. Furthermore, I also feel the same way about "symphonic" metal bands that use synths instead of hiring or maintaining the real instruments or musicians. No matter whether they dub themselves as "exclusive sophisticated black metal" or "symphonic metal" their music is not true.

Thus, I believe that the staff at Metal-archives.com should start a new genre called "Synthetic" metal and dump all of these bands in there leaving the only true symphonic bands to be Deep Purple, Metallica, and whoever else performs or has performed with real orchestra(s)/big bands. So I guess largely I am saying that these bands are not true metal and again belong on this forum as much as ZZ Top or Winger belong here.

Guide to Understanding my Review system:

I have developed a rubric for reviewing bands on the Metal Archives forum:

Genius - 100%
Ph.D - 89% - 99%
Master of Science - 75% - 88%
Bachelor of Arts - 60% - 74%
Associate of Arts and Science- 45% - 59%
High School - 25% - 44%
Toddler - 1% - 24%
Idiot - 0%

Personal:

My passions are performing, writing, collecting, and studying metal and music in general. I am a composer, virtuoso, molecular biologist, inventor, and marimba tuner. I am a professional musician and my career spans the acquaintance of over 20 metal bands. Feel free to contact me if you need to hire a drummer/percussionist for your project(s).

Musical Background:

The following is a list of bands that I have been involved with (in no specific order):

Bands Profiled in the Database:

Idiom
Akashah
Church of Misery
HeXaH
Evil Incarnate
Leviathan
Mortuary Oath
Impetigo
Coma
Necropolis
Insomnia
Angelkill
Altered Existence
Java
Molotov
Terata
Forgotten Silence (honorary membership)

Bands That are Not Profiled in the Database:

Brain Gun
Serpent Bearer
The Casey Jones Express
The Musser Quartet
Macomedy
Ginger Dandy
Gespenst
Tragic Vitality
Arsonick Scum
The Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra
Petting Zoo
The Neil Hardesty Experience/Orchestra
Redrum
The ICC Jazz Band
ICC Philharmonic Chorale
Michael E. Miller
The Kyle Campbell Band
Exoskeleton
Spawn
Joe Fro and the Tune Ups
First Jason

Bands Auditioned For:

Hell 'n' Back
Vital Remains
Spinal Tap
Axen Province
Danny Nikolnic
Burcak Kadercan
These are They
Sallah
Earthen
Two Ton Anvil
Estuary
Queen's Teeth
Horrific Demise