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I've been listening to a lot of NME, Hellhammer, the Samael demos, Sarcofago, and a bunch of demos from the early 90s of Scandanavian metal bands lately.  All the piercing guitar tones, questionable timing on the blast beats, poor production, indeciferable vocals, and bass playing that sounds like the bassist only started learning the instrument the day before has sparked my creative drive....

So I did this.  I have four more songs....

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I like it!

and bass playing that sounds like the bassist only started learning the instrument the day before
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:laughing11: (it's only funny because I've been there)  "Naw its easy... you just gotta do 4 notes! c'mon lets go!"

so do you play this stuff at the jewelry store?
 
Volitions Advocate said:
so do you play this stuff at the jewelry store?
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HA!  Yes, but only in the times when the front door is locked and the flashing "Open" sign is off. 

There's something about big musical ideas that are nearly derailed by bad recoding quality, poor musicianship, youthful stupidity, and juvenile unprofessionalism that just strikes me as brilliant and unbridled fun.  Either I have horrible taste in music or the entire world are fools, I think the truth is somewhere in between.  That said, I also love The Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Manitas DiPlata (flamenco), Django Reinhardt, Mozart, and Pink Floyd.

My vision tor the Legion of Total Bastards is to complete a fake demo of an early Death/Thrash/Black metal band, in a mid to late '80s style and sound, then do a fake EP that shows a little growth, perhaps a second fake demo, fake split LP with another fake band called "Dragonfart"(or simalerly named), then a fake first album, perhaps a third.  Then I'll get some friends to help out with a real one, and release it on CD baby or some willing independant label.  I have enough old songs left over that I wrote, some of them dating back to the mid '80s when I was a teenager and the only one in his high school who even knew who Celtic Frost was (hell, I still listen to Morbid Tales about three times per week, why aren't they bigger than the Beatles??!?!?!?!?).
 
I'm really loving these becuse of their awfulness, so not sure if I'm part of your demographic :P
The squealing microphonics, indecipherable singing (?) and sort of haphazard drumming are priceless!
 
No, you're part of the demographic of you're into the awefulness.  My intention was to create something that had all those elements.  Not a parody, but still god aweful, because I actually like the original first bands that did this in the '80s, back in the '80s.  I just never had a band together to do this sort of thing.  Now I have a studio in my basement and I'm doing what I should have done when I was a kid.

There'll be more. 
 
Boss HM-2 petal with all the knobs cranked to eleven.  Couple that with a crappy made in 80's solid state Peavey keyboard amp and you have the sound. 
Patrick

 
And Yet, another....

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Patrick from Davis said:
Boss HM-2 petal with all the knobs cranked to eleven.  Couple that with a crappy made in 80's solid state Peavey keyboard amp and you have the sound. 
Patrick
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What I'm using is a cheap off-brand (Galveston) Warlock copy, it sucks.  I spent hours and hours adjusting it, setting it up, filing away at fret ends, just to make it playable.  Now its okay, not great.
For distortion, I'm using the Dragonfly Black Metal Distortion Pedal, #13-666.  Meaning they made only 666 of them and mine is #13.  Its extremely cool, IMHO.  It does go way over the top, but turn it down and you have a distortion that's useful for a variety of styles.  But follow the instructions (meaning, turn all the knobs up, all the way) and you have that horrid piercing black metal sound.
For an amp, well I cheated.  I used the modeler that's built into my BOSS BR1180CD.  I dialed in a clean tone on a champ model, speaker simulator was direct, then I dialed way up the extra low end, dialed out the low mids and mids, and cranked the highs.  Plus lots of compression and noise gate.  And, of course, too much reverb.
For the bass, I just used a clean tone and used the Black Metal pedal.  And I miced the drum set from across the room.

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Huh, I looked at the Thread Title and thought this was another rant about Gibson!  :doh:
 
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