Yanic Bercier is a

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and

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. Aside from being the former drummer for melodic

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band

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and the more traditional death metal band Violence Unleashed, he also sessions for other bands such as The Coalition, and Empyreal Dominion.

Career

Bercier was largely self-taught for the first 15 years of his drumming career. In 2004 he began to work with

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drummer

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and Keith Brown, Professor in the Faculty of Music at the

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. Bercier is known for his technical melodic death metal band

. The band won the Canadian Metal Album of the Year Award from Chart Attack in 2001. Bercier has been featured in ''Modern Drummer'' magazine, which remarked, "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). Bercier was a member of the original Quo Vadis lineup upon the band's foundation in 1993. He played on all the band's released material to date. However, on 6 September 2008, Quo Vadis played a concert at The Medley in Montreal, at which vocalist Stéphane Paré confirmed that he and Yanic would be leaving the band.

Discography

With Quo Vadis

*Quo Vadis (demo, 1995) * Forever... (full-length, 1996) *

Day into Night ''Day Into Night'' is the second full-length album by the Canadian melodic death metal band Quo Vadis. It was released on March 30, 2000. The album was accompanied by a music video for the song "Dysgenics". Critical reception Greg Platt for '' ...

(full-length, 2000) *Passage in Time (compilation, 2001) *

Defiant Imagination ''Defiant Imagination'' is the third and final full-length studio album by the Canadian melodic death metal band Quo Vadis. It was released on November 4, 2004 by Skyscraper Music. Track listing Personnel ;Quo Vadis * Bart Frydrychowicz � ...

(full-length, 2004) *Defiant Indoctrination (DVD, 2005) *Live In Montreal (live album, 2007)

With Empyreal Dominion

*Forever the Fallen (EP, 2004)

With Violence Unleashed

*Spawned to Kill (full-length, 2007)

With Gone in April

*We Are But Human (full-length, 2011) *Threads Of Existence (full-length, 2016) *Shards of Light (full-length, 2019)

External links

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Quo Vadis Official SiteDr Yanic Bercier in Radiosurgery
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