Graham

Next one is Damnation Festival in November (Electric Wizard, Anaal Nathrakh, Julie Christmas, Deadguy, Amenra, Unearth, Akercocke, Undeath, Rotten Sound, Nordic Giants, Bossk and others) Then I've got a ticket for Botch in March, cannot wait for that one

Better Lovers in Brighton last night - it's 3/5 of Every Time I Die, with producer Will Putney on guitar and ex-Dillinger Escape Plan singer Greg Puciato on vocals Superb - seriously tight and put on a great show. Wasn't a long set - 35ish minutes as they've only released four songs so far and played those along with three new ones and a cover of Soundgarden's Rusty Cage Really looking forward to the full album and hoping to be back at the same venue in March for Greg's solo tour

I use it as a pay per album streaming service, could download the albums I've bought, but never have. Hopefully this new take-over, after the Epic one won't have any issues but I may need to re-evaluate the not downloading if starts going wrong

Bono's performance isn't great is it? I'd love to see what Tool would do with something on that scale

Been listening to the complete Mutoid Man discography ahead of seeing them tomorrow night https://spotify.link/KdJLwTNd4Cb

Pretty decent, 50th birthday party in a social club, so went exactly as you'd expect it to. Had a slight issue with my slimmed down pedal board, I think a connection came loose at one point so I went silent. No drama, just by-passed the pedal board and went straight into the amp until there was a moment to re-jig. However what it did highlight is what an integral part of my sound the TC Spectracomp is. Without it, the sound was thinner and lacked some umph, turning on my EBS amp's built in compressor was no comparison either. Just set to 12:00 on the default tone-print brought out some very pleasing frequencies and filled out the sound. It's remarkable how good the Spectracomp is, particularly for a one-knob pedal at it's price point

More manufacturers to have a paint shop like G&L - all those finish options, available to order in whichever combination of wood, colour and pickguard you want. Instead of short runs of very limited colours - you can't buy an American Precision in red at the moment, that seems nuts.

Sounds like a great project, I'd be particularly interested to hear the dulcimer like parts

Can't wait for that set

Steve's quite active on social media, you could try contacting him and seeing if he still has a copy of the original review

Anyone going to Damnation Festival this year? Electric Wizard, Katatonia (twice), Amenra, Ahab, Khemmis and Tuskar would probably all appeal to folk in this thread

I'm convinced there's certain guitarists, bassists and drummers who have learned a decent number of Megadeth songs to be ready for when Dave inevitably fires someone else

On The Burning Red, Rob asks you to "watch me fall" definitely nu-metal 😁 And yes, agreed about Supercharger

Machine Head as a rule aren't nu-metal, but The Burning Red absolutely is. I did hear a story that they'd not planned to record the cover, but were jamming it in the studio and Ross Robinson persuaded them to put it on the album

Oh, I quite like the Smooth Criminal cover, partly because it's fun and also because it is very nostalgic for me - I was exactly the right age when it came out

There's a number of nu-metal bands who did some awful, earnest covers Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes Machine Head - Message In A Bottle

I really like this Capdown live album, it really captures their energy with (or so the liner notes claim) no overdubs https://open.spotify.com/album/6MuvnSI9rxIqUgiLbLw8Ja?si=CKdZOZq1QMqLPN5yV14g7A&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6MuvnSI9rxIqUgiLbLw8Ja

I've just thought, back when I was in a Melod-death band, the guitarists were in drop B, but I just played in B standard as I'm not a fan of drop tunings. Made for some awkward fingerings (and who hasn't in their youth?) But I preferred that to the intervals shifting and messing with my head

I like Carcass because they tuned to B, so it's easy on a five string But most metal seems to be in C or C# tuning, which is just a pain. Or modern stuff which is super down tuned to low F#/drop E where the bass is almost pointless

So many metal songs I've never learned as I can't be fecked with messing about with tunings, even on a five string

Can you get pantomime gigs in December? A drummer friend made his most regular income for the year in November/December playing pantos

I did see them play Mariner in full in 2016, best gig I've ever seen

I love Mariner so much, quite possibly my favourite album of all time