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misterstomach wrote:

christianatl wrote:Stairs at Magic Stick in Detroit...

have you guys toured in the UK yet? ugh. if not, you're in for a treat, and by treat i mean lots of long steep narrow staircases in buildings that predate elevators. there's a venue in glasgow we did that takes the cake. third floor, steep and punishing stairs. brutal.

Damnit, don't put him off a UK tour.

Don't listen to him, all our venues have elevators that dispense free beer, and pedals

Stinkbug wrote:I still have a lot more listening to do, but Asunder is fucking awesome. So is Mournful Congregation. I had already heard Bell Witch, and they are insane. I definitely agree that it is unreal that it is just two people.
Thank you guys so much! Y'all are awesome!

also, no list would be complete without mention of my dying bride. hopefully you're already a rabid fan. at times a little more on the gothic doom side of things with some theatrics, moreso than most of the bands mentioned, but the whole genre in it's current form is indebted to them to a degree. certainly the current or recent bands mentioned here are. if you're not already a fan, "as the flower withers" is a good starting place. if you find yourself looking for more of the gothic funeral doom type of sound, check out mourning beloveth. they're great. i'm super picky about clean singing in doom bands and i don't really like theirs, but they keep it below a tolerable threshold on most albums.

also, i know katatonia/october tide are a bit too rocking to be funeral doom, but you could put them on a mix tape next to any of these bands and it'd be a pretty smooth transition. you might already know them too, but if not definitely check it out. you'll probably end up getting a tattoo of the cover of katatonia's "brave murder day" on your face cause it rules so hard. if you don't know the back story, katatonia, in a tale we all know too well from other bands, used to be so amazing and made the best music you've ever heard, i.e. brave murder day, and then at some point they decided to stop doing that and start making worthless shitty music and putting it out as though they were still this great band. sad story. fortunately for us, a handful of the members realized that their old music ruled too hard to stop doing, so they formed a side project called october tide which has two or three fucking amazing albums that sound exactly like the good era of katatonia.

anyway, that's some classic shit you should know if you don't already.

i've been on a real death metal kick recently so it takes a bit of gear shifting in my brain to think about funeral doom.

so on that note i'll leave this here.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPGbtY6a1fg[/youtube]

christianatl wrote:Stairs at Magic Stick in Detroit...

Do you load up the front steps or is there a back door?

Good news bad news: the stick is closed now anyway.

misterstomach wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPGbtY6a1fg[/youtube]

Killer band. They are super punishing but still have very memorable riffs and songs.

odontophobia wrote:

christianatl wrote:Stairs at Magic Stick in Detroit...

Do you load up the front steps or is there a back door?

Good news bad news: the stick is closed now anyway.

BOOOOOO. We had a great time there earlier this year with Retox, Child Bite and Them Hooves.

What do you guys think about the BAT LSTR?

That's his aggressive Big Muff. Super saturated, etc. I have the Badascan, which is the LSTR with the Pharoah's tone controls, and it sounds so fucking good.

christianatl wrote:

odontophobia wrote:

christianatl wrote:Stairs at Magic Stick in Detroit...

Do you load up the front steps or is there a back door?

Good news bad news: the stick is closed now anyway.

BOOOOOO. We had a great time there earlier this year with Retox, Child Bite and Them Hooves.

I've seen so many good shows there. Total bummer.

Better than Saturday morning cartoons. Doom riffage on a one string diddley bow. I blame everything after 4:00 on whiskey and darkness. Dang fretless sticks with no markers anyway.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekmDHaIui-U[/youtube]

odontophobia wrote:
Good news bad news: the stick is closed now anyway.

Well, renamed and redesigned, anyway. It's unclear to me what music they intend to feature going forward. I went to an EDM/dubstep show there in Oct, so maybe that's the new normal.

christianatl wrote:Hey dudes. I'm looking at getting a drive pedal that's more than my Xotic AC Boost, but less than a fuzz. OCD? DLS? What say you?

Very late to the party here, but whatever. Black Forest is solid and versatile. I've been gassing for an EQD Crimson Drive for similar reasons recently. But I haven't played one, so it's not like I have anything aside from blind consumerism and some youtube clips to offer here...

AxAxSxS wrote:So that was Friday and on Sunday the good peoples at Devils Child records hit me up saying they want to put it out for us in the Trve form and fund it and pay us in records.



They weren't going to do another one so soon as they are a small start up kinda DIY (literally mom and pop) but they told us they decided they couldn't pass it up. I have no words. So we'll have CD's and Digital DL ready come new years, and the vinyl early summer. I'm realizing that we do not have enough to go around of the first order of CD's, as we want to have some available at shows, but sneaky on the DL pm's might get you everywhere.

Fucking am EXCITE. Sorry for going on about it but the DR has been home for me for the heavies and I wanted to share it with you guys. Advice from here these last few years has been crucial in making things sound the way we want and I don't know how I can thank you all enough.

Great news dude! Keep us posted on the releases and I will throw dollars at you when shit is ready.

pelliott wrote:*whispers*

the new Baroness album is good. it's not super metal. which is fine.

That's good. I couldn't even make it through Yellow/Green.

celticelk wrote:

odontophobia wrote:
Good news bad news: the stick is closed now anyway.

Well, renamed and redesigned, anyway. It's unclear to me what music they intend to feature going forward. I went to an EDM/dubstep show there in Oct, so maybe that's the new normal.

Yeah, I was told that EDM/Dubstep is the new norm there.

Have not been in here in a bit. Work is very time consuming so little building

However, got this going

Another fuzz for the Slomatics guys





And a modulation design that is still working the kinks out

Not a phaser or a flanger. Its more like a modulating Q filter of sorts.

John Matrix wrote:

misterstomach wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPGbtY6a1fg[/youtube]

Killer band. They are super punishing but still have very memorable riffs and songs.

Love this band. Pure greatness.

That Terminator pedal looks rad. I couldn't really tell much from the clips on my cell phone but it sounds like it will be pretty rad. Is it gonna be a 1 off thing or will it end up in a run of pedals down the road?

KT66 dudes, tell me about them. I retubed my Soldano a while back and the 6L6 I put in there are way better than the 5881 that were in there before. I got more headroom, the highs aren't nearly as harsh and the low end kinda blooms out a little bit more. Just wondering how the KT66 will compare. Its getting close to time to retube the Matamp so I figured I might get a set while I'm ordering some new EL34L for the Matamp to save shipping.