The Buckethead Pikes tour of Bucketheadland. Excellent. Most definitely his best releases in years. After the past few, I had feared he may be getting bored and a tad stale. Fortunately, the giant robot proves his superiority once again.

Aye, this is what good metal sounds like.

This guitar sound is one that seems to be catching on with a certain "off" type metal, and i love it.

Metal is after all really about the composition and structure. That's what differentiates it from hard rock even when the two can use identical sounds.

This is a good sound. This is a real sound.

The vibe of the band is definitely metal, but the vocals are clean and I could cop the tone with the sort of stuff I use.

Metal needs this. As a concept I like metal but good goddamn recursive influenced only by itself...

As an Opeth fan- I know you dislike them- the guitarthing makes sense to me, as they've been doing that for a long while re: chord structure and lower gain, Strat/PRS/Les Paul not-modern basswood EMG millionstring tones. Reminds me a bit of Borknagar in that way too? Which all really reminds me of 1998, in a way. But that was a time where this music said something. Yer modeler and samples say you demo-ed a song when the neighbors weren't home/SO was asleep/etc. And it's the nature of the beast that it would attract those who would do it Just So and dial in That Sound or wannabe producers who'll by-the-book... etc. It's very left-brain music but done best, I feel, by right-brain sorts. If I want to hear a fat lot of bullshit riffs and solos I will record myself practicing? I can and will expound on this, but no one wants to hear it.

Glad you gents enjoy Virus. I love that guitar tone. Just don't know how to create it.

The Fucking Champs, currently the album III. I am enjoy. Thanks Chris

^Da best.

Muchly enjoyed this gem during my commute.



Guess I'm on a Pete kick today. Fuck, are these not the greatest blasts ever?

Thanks to the great Sir Torgeot for his suggestion.

Pete's blast is formidable, ridiculous stamina.

Was.

On the Terrorizer album in particular, just holy goddamn is that ever raping.

this again, fucking loving it at the minute

I have never actually stopped to give Terrorizer a good listen. And WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK IS HAPPENING. That can't be humanly possible..

Dig it! Unprocessed grind, brilliant stuff.

That can't be far from 300 BPMs, bro.

Holyfuckawesome.

Yep. Top tune. Top. Tune.

I don't know why the fuck i didn't notice immediately that this was the dood from Ved Buens Ende. I am pretty out of it lately.

As for the guitar sound on The Black Flux, it sounds almost exactly to me like Duane Dennison's from the Jesus Lizard stuff, so i would guess something similar, a brightish guitar like a telecaster or a strat, into something big and loud and not very distorted, like a hiwatt or a marshall turned halfway up.

The rest of it is just in note choice. If he was playing AC/DC or Who riffs, it might very well sound just like AC/DC or The Who. I wouldn't be surprised. I love how much space it leaves for the bass though. An awesome sound.

I haven't actually listened to that record in fucking years. I used to love it so much though. Destroyed several copies through overplaying.

If you play heavy, it is heavy.

We've all heard shitass local d-bags who use gallons of distortion but sound pissweak.

I contend these are observable troofs.