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The Grudge by Tool Just to make it harder, I'm trying to do it in standard tuning rather than drop D

Also, I love this idea of Jolene the eldritch horror

I particularly like these versions A. A. Williams Lingua Ignota

2 strings? We used to have one and count ourselves lucky

I have one as my main bass, I really like it - very comfortable neck and it has the best sounding bridge pickup I've personally found on a jazz bass - YMMV of course. About a year ago, I tried out some other higer end five strings in London - Sadowsky Metro Express, Sandberg California TM, Stingray Special, Dingwall NG3; but I liked my Lakland more than all of them.

Botch live

For me, this is their best record since Chaos AD

My top 20 releases of 2020 20. Slow Crush and Lost Century Kid - Aurora Redux EP 19. Answering Machine - Bad Luck 18. Fall Of Messiah - Senicarne 17. Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism 16. Mrs. P*ss - Self-surgery 15. Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Vol. 1 14. Body Count - Carnivore 13. Nothing - The Great Dismal 12. Azusa - Loop Of Yesterday 11. Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions 10. Touché Amoré - Lament 9. Make Them Die Slowly - The Bodycount Continues 8. Spirit Adrift - Enlightened In Eternity 7. Deftones - Ohms 6. Sepultura - Quadra 5. Emma Ruth Rundle and Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full 4. Run The Jewels - RTJ4 3. Old Man Gloom - Seminar VIII Lightness Of Meaning/Seminar IX Darkness Of Being 2. Greg Puciato - Child Soldier: Creator Of God 1. Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkment

Anthrax live in 2003, I much prefer them with John Bush singing

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The commercial invoice will state the incoterms the goods have been shipped under, if it's something like DDP, where the duty is paid upfront then I believe the courier will pay the duty and back-charge you the shipper. If it's something like CPT terms, then the responsibility for taxes and duties lie with the importer.

Spirit Adrift - Enlightened In Eternity These guys are going to be big - if you want upbeat, classic sounding metal, that is also up-to-date with some of the best solos in the genre, look no further. They channel Metallica, Iron Maiden et al without sounding like a rip-off and really are a lot of fun

DHL have also brought in a €0.25/Kg/€5 minimum Brexit surcharge for imports into the UK, so there's that as well

Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still Good prog-death metal, but it is a bit like someone thought "What would Opeth sound like if you took all the melodic parts out"

Do I need a five? The way I play, yeah I kinda do as I'm so used to having the low B. Could I make do with a four? Sure, the same way I could make do with three strings. I get what he's saying about a five not being a higher spec, or an upgrade compared to a four, but I'm definitely a five string bassist, so would always pick one over a four.

I would like to get a 55-01 and then swap the electronics out for Nordstrands

Thanks, to be honest, that's a little disappointing - Ampeg B15, SVT, GK RB800, Mesa 400+ are exactly what Line 6 have on the Helix, I was hoping for something different - Darkglass, EBS, Trace, Ashdown, Eden etc

I'd be very interested to see which bass amps have been modelled on this, the interface looks brilliant and the tones in that video are ace

I've seen Opeth several times and they've always been great, but it was mental how tight they were at Download 2009

Looks like I'm the only one who liked it then 😁

A brilliant cover

Cynic bassist and academic Sean Malone has died, he was in his mid 50s https://www.theprp.com/2020/12/09/news/cynic-bassist-sean-malone-has-passed-away/ One Of the earliest adopters of fretless bass in metal, he was a huge influence on many players after Cynic's debut, and for a long time only, record Focus. With highly technical fretless playing, more of a jazz musician than a metal player, Malone will be sorely missed. His work on the subsequent Cynic albums after they reunited in the early 2000s was stunning, as well as his solo record Gordian Knot. Here he is in the studio playing through the opening track of Focus - Veil Of Maya

This rocked up Annie Lennox cover, I've been really enjoying the weekly covers 2M2LN have been putting out during the pandemic.

Mariah Carey Gregg Lake The Waitresses Frank Turner's cover of Last Christmas