Lindberg at least has vocalated and guitard on a good lot of hardcore and crust punk records over the past twenty years, so that may just be his schtick at this point- even if it doesn't really fit with the rest of what the band does. At least he has some cred there and isn't just pulling it out of his ass to seem contemporary. I get what you're saying though re: a consistent and appropriate aesthetic. I suppose the counterpoint is frontman-as-distinct-from-band, for which there's a solid case to be made. Eh. Either way, you or I would have gone for a completely different thing there visually, given the same shots and music. Is what it is, but I digress.

I did get the chance to hear the whole thing last night, and it is damnfine. It's a worthy successor to SOTS. I'm not sure it's quite as hooky- that record has as solid hooks as you're ever gonna get out of death metal- but it's not sub-par and it's not a straight-up clone, either. There's some riffing there that's a bit different than they might have done back in the day, and Mr. Björler has developed into a pretty impressive lead player. Very refined and smooth, lots of tastefully phrased legato. My friend who I was discussing it with told me he'd left The Haunted to play fusion, and that made immediate sense.

Jam with those guys went well, we pretty much have a full band setup already just need a 2nd guitarist although the bassist said he reckons it'd work as-is. Got a couple crap recordings on my phone, its obviously a bit rough being the first jam and nobody knows my stuff but they love the music and the vocal style is kinda what I was hoping for. Made a few mistakes on these though haha

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/150 ... gs/BSB.mp3
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/150 ... Track2.mp3

Gonna take my laptop and sm57 to record it next time, should sound a bit better.

That's some burly sounding shit. Awesome, and cheers.

In my case, it seems my lady won the fight with the snake. She decided to use her car engine to slay the serpent. Of course it wasn't quite as large as the one in either Chris' or Snaxie's photo, but it seems she wasn't taking any chances. Really she had no idea what was making all the clang clang noise, I found the the body a few days later. I'm kinda worried since she has asked to up my life insurance. Hoping the snake wasn't a practice run


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cheers I'm not sure if I'll keep it up with these guys yet as they're quite a bit older and don't really have the party/drinking attitude that I'd like to go with this sort of music I'm gonna give it a few more jams to see how it goes. It felt awesome to play my tunes with a band for the first time ever though. And you know shit's going down when the only pedal the bassist owns is a bass overdrive

ps Cameron, that Different Face is sounding pretty rockin'

Any damage to the automocar? Also, i guess it is probably a good idea to make sure you are holding the keys, when/if she asks you to check something under the hood in the future. In general, i think you are probably safe though. Most people don't fit too well in there, and we also have the evolutionary upper hand, in that we don't tend to seek out warm engine blocks to take naps on.

It does sound good. I dunno what it is like out there for bandstartings. I probably mentioned before that if you were around here it would be very easy to find the appropriate Clutch-loving partymetal types to drink and cause ruckae with.

These guys seem to be capable of doing the sound part of the equation, and seem largely to understand what it is you are looking to do, in an audio sense. At the very least it is probably, as you say, a good chance to get together with real people and play some of your songs more or less properly as a band a few times. Which will probably even be helpful to you if you don't continue with these guys. Playing as a band brings out all kinds of interesting things, from playing or gear issues you didn't know you had with playing loudly with a real drummer, to things that just work differently when you try to get someone else to understand what sort of harmonic or rhythmic feel you are aiming for in a certain part, and how to convey that sort of information in a way that gets things done the way you are looking to get them done. Or indeed, potentially, through the process of trying to get things done by others how you want, winding up with something new that you like better than what you started with.

To me this sounds good though. But sounding right and being the right sort of group of personalities maybe isn't the same thing. On the other hand, the older less-drunken folks tend to show up on time and play the songs correctly at shows. Play with them some more and see what will work and what won't.

I don't know that i am 100% sold on the singer, though i do see that he is not too far off, vibe-wise. For a first practice, the drummer seems pretty good though.

True but us ninja type like to hide on weird places and "BAAHHH" atcha.... I guess I will leave the ol' engine compartment off my list. No damage to the car except it made a loud enough racket that I though a bearing went so had the car towed to Kia and by that time there were no remnants of snake (we didn't find the snakes body for a week and had no idea it was snake going whop whop whop) but we did an oil change and battery and some update that needed to be done....


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Yeah you've pretty much summed up how I feel about the whole thing. Definitely giving it a few more goes to see if it clicks. And agree with the older people being way more reliable, its been impossible trying to get my mates together to get any kind of a proper jam done. And I feel that way about the singer, he said he was having an off day but I'm sure they all say that got the right kind of sound though just needs to be a bit more tuneful I think.

In gear related news, I am getting my JCM combo all prettied up. Been running through other peoples' rigs (power tubes died right before I left) but I wanna jam my amp again for obvious preferential reasons. I've been primarily jamming in AADGBE and have been wanting to try a speaker swap so I ordered one of them Weber Legacys with the custom order 55hz cone and 80oz magnet. Also getting a full retube. I think it should be proper rockin' and loud for a 1x12.

So it's not one of those quiet JCM 800s?

What are the specs on the speaker, anyhoo? Do they say? What little I could find re: the Legacies says the 40oz magnet is 98dB, the 50 is 99, so the 80oz magnet should be proper loud? In which case your 1x12 Marshall should be a li'l cube o' violence.

What t00bs are you putting in there?

Also: holy shit, we're actually talking amps on here.

Definitely not. With the V30 that was in there it could hang with a full band no problem and could already put out serious volume when cranked. Specs as I know them: 65 watts, ceramic magnet, 55hz cone for the extended low end. Even with the V30 the bass with the low A on there was pretty fucking gnar. I've recently started replacing the .52 in my set of 10s for a .56 for a little more tension and tone. Barred chords on the two A strings sound like an electric being backed up by a bass essentially, atleast the frequencies are there if not the timbre.

As for tubes, I am not sure yet. Recommendations would be radical!

Heyheyhey, cut that out, you two. What kind of a place do you think this is?

Re: low end, my experiences with vintage Marshalls told me while there wasn't as much low end compared to the modern Marshall designs, what they did have was better- deeper, clearer. So you wound up with more useful low end. Not surprised by that.

If you're tuning to A, I'd go with the 56, definitely. At least. I've actually been using a 46 in standard E as of late, and honestly I think it's a bit light, especially in drop D. I used to use 12-56 in B and A just because it was the biggest thing I could readily find in a store. My general thought on strings is bigger = better up until the point it starts becoming a pain in the ass to do what your playing style demands re: bending and vibrato. If you're, say, the guy from Iced Earth and play nothing but thrash rhythm in a reasonably normal tuning, than by all means, use 13s in standard E or whatever. If you ever have to bend a note, then you have to start asking questions.

Re: tubes, my usual compliment was JJ pres, Sylvania EL34 power tubes for Marshalls. It's been long enough other things might be available re: preamp tubes- Mullard and Tungsol RIs, for example- and Sylvanias would be NOS now. I preferred the JJs in the preamp section to tame the top end a bit- darker and thicker, and because they were a bit gainier. Long-plate Russian 12AX7s weren't bad- I believe Groove Tubes used to sell these as their 12AX7R2s. I do like the Tungsol RIs, but haven't tried 'em in Marshalls. Note though I was always trying to smooth Marshalls out and add weight. This might not be your goal- if you want bright and cutting, I might not be the guy to listen to here. I figured they had enough of that built into the design. YMMV fer your own personal use.

That is kind of what I like about this particular amp. Not a ton of bass in the preamp like more modern designs but that is kind of ideal for my setup. There's a lot of lows going on with the A string that could turn to flub if it weren't for a tighter response from the amp.

I typically use 10-52 for E standard and played solely like that for quite awhile until I started adopting this new tuning. The A was actually pretty usable with the .52 but the .56 is a good bit more audible simply because of the physical size of the thing. I think it's the perfect gauge, it's just kind of a taut feeling guitar, but when I tune down the A to G it gets properly djenty thanks to the not entirely tensioned .56. The .52 that low would do it surprisingly well too, but it was clearly at the very end of it's rope.

It is pretty funny, playing a Deluxe Tele with an aftermarket vintage spec Wide Range bridge pickup into a Marshall JCM combo.. To play fucked up major key circus metal.

Also, regarding tubes: I am not entirely sure if smoothing the thing out is what I want to do. I feel like the speaker is going to do a lot of that for me, so I do not know exactly what I shall go about doing.. But I will figure it out!

I like JJ tubes in the pre also, but have been experimenting with an array of tunes, but my power tunes tend to be of the winged c type. Have them in the Bogner


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Just decided to try out EZDrummer 2. Sounds pretty good with the Rock! kit. Not sure if I've quite got the timing right for this one though

https://soundcloud.com/tom_the_beast/ez-drummer-2-test

I am considering stringing my silverburst Tele with 12s for B-tuned metal porpoises. I wind up playing a ton more having an amp at home these days, and I need something to fill that gap for the time being. The bridge pickup isn't far off from an aggressive lower output 'bucker- it's way hotter and thicker than any other single I've run across- it just, well... Hums. I've been toying with this metalriff record idea for a while anyhow, and I should probably have something kicking around so I can get ideas down at all times.

I've decided my next guitar is gonna be a tele strung with 12s and left tuned 2 steps down, should sound pretty powerful.