Graham

I really enjoy the podcast; I've been acquainted with Gav for years as I've been going to Damnation since 2007 and have becone part of their volunteer crew and am the admin for their Facebook group so already have an interest in the festival, but it's still a very enjoyable listen It's Damnation this coming weekend, anyone up to Manchester for it?

The new Blood Incantation, again A stunning record mixing death metal and prog, set against a cosmic backdrop. Even if death metal isn't your thing, it's well worth checking out. https://youtu.be/hWIsZId2P-A?si=sTSVJe0UIwjx_vuE

I had a Mayones Be4, superb bass; I've considered getting a Baphomet 5 as they're very well priced for what you get

Damnation Festival in Manchester first weekend in November Then Better Lovers in January, all I've got booked at the moment

First bass - Squier Affinty Precison, your standard starter bass in 2002 2nd bass and first 5 string - Ibanez K5, 18th birthday present in 2003 First (and only) bass with custom options - Mayones Be4, bought under endorsement when I was in a metal band, something like 2008 After that, nothing else really jumps out as a milestone until (Almost) new American made Stingray 5 Special, in 2024 - about a month ago, partly for my 40th next year. The best quality instrument I've ever owned and right now I can't imagine liking anything else more

Just ordered one, thanks - I'd been thinking about a line selector recently

Yes, agreed she's got a similar vibe, having Johannes on there again helps - it's my top abum of the year so far and there's not much coming out that could dethrone it

Oceanic is in my top 5 albums of all time, I adore it - also part of the reason I play a Stingray

This probably my favourite album Cult Of Luna & Julie Christmas - Mariner https://youtu.be/25qg0SKa-N0?si=tX2lUhoS9IvVYftu

Bossk are brilliant, seen them a few times, last year at Damnation was great - they played Audio Noir in full on the Friday then filled in for another band who dropped out at the last minute on the Saturday and got Johannes from Cult Of Luna to join them for Menhir, which was epic Their new album is in my top five of the year so far I'm into a fair bit of post-metal and post-rock, the new Hippotraktor and Oh Hiroshima albums are very good too

I'd start with this https://youtu.be/4FRFcE-jsQo?si=nTGTF4yJcxulpQUi

Those genres all mean something to me as I've invested a lot of time and effort in more obscure music - I'm someone who considers if I'm listening to brutal death metal or slam death metal for instance Whilst there is certainly similarities between some of the genres you've named, there is also nuanced differences Doom, stoner and sludge for instance will have elements of their sound that crosses over - in these cases they probably all love Black Sabbath - but there will be differences between a doom band and a sludge band and stoner one will be different still dreampop and shoegaze are very close bedfellows and you wouldn't be wrong to say the same for mid-west emo and indie, however you can make a distinction between them if you want You don't need to sub-divide genres at all if you don't want to, but then some folk will have vigerous debates about for example, what makes a band post-hardcore rather than emo The purpose, as I see it of these categorisations and sub-genres is to aid communication when describing to others what a band sounds like, so I have an idea of what I'm going to hear and how to find similar sounding acts if I like it However, there's no need to make the distinctions if you don't want or need to. Apologies for what is probably a very autistic answer

Can anyone recommend a toneprint for the TC Specracomp that is more like valve compression than the stock toneprint?