Graham

Ra Diaz's purple Spector Coda 5 is lovely

He's the fella from Shellac isn't he? Love his playing and tone

Have you seen that he's joined Mutoid Man as well now? I love the black Gibson Ripper Caleb Scofield played in the Antenna era of Cave In, I can't find a photo of it, so here's him playing it on the Anchor video

One of my all time favourite records

Same, I love Electric Wizard for example but don't touch anything stronger than cocodamol

Pub gig last night, it was dead - I think it being mid-month, the weather being decent and that the venue have changed their name recently all didn't help. I didn't really want to be there and to be honest made more mistakes than usual, partly as it was with a (very good) dep guitarist, so the set-list was a some of our less performed songs. It didn't seem to be an issue with the punters who were there though.

Resurrecting this thread as I've been checking out Cryptic Shift after they were announced for Damantion Festival this year. If you like spacey-death metal with some very good, prominent fretless work, this is well worth checking out - I'm really looking forward to seeing them in November. Plus they're from Leeds, so it's always nice to support home grown talent https://open.spotify.com/album/7cGu80ia5OvMQlxIqTLMA1?si=kcVwj6jwTi2kSQLopOJrUg&utm_source=copy-link&dl_branch=1

Bought a couple of bits on Bandcamp today: Dreamwell - Modern Grotesque https://dreamwell.bandcamp.com/album/modern-grotesque Post hardcore, basically the band I had on my head to start - think a mathier/heavier Touché Amoré Chamber - Cost Of Sacrifice https://chambertn.bandcamp.com/album/cost-of-sacrifice Dissonant math/metal-core, I saw one of Hate5six's live videos and loved it Kowloon Walled City - Container Ships https://kowloonwalledcity.bandcamp.com/album/container-ships Kinda doomy post-metal, the first ISIS record is the closest touch point I can hear, some lovely Alembic bass tone too.

When I used to live closer to most of our gigs, when I got home I'd have a candle lit bath with bath salts, beef jerky, scotch, listen to post-rock and read my book. That really helped, now we have an en-suite I might resurrect that for local gigs again.

Not nu-metal, but Paolo from Trivium has apparently recently switched from Warwick to Kiesel

Yeah, it was only a 15 minute drive home last night, usually longer so have the adrenaline come down in the car. Last night I literally spent hours in bed, not falling asleep - wide awake and ended up with a headache and was just really hot, couldn't shake the heat; like I was still at the gig. I ended up taking paracetamol for my head, which probably lowered my temperature as well.

Yeah, I was really hoping to see them over here, but after that footage I'm not sure I'd want to shell out for tickets, Chad's voice just doesn't seem to be able to handle this sort of thing anymore.

In stark contrast to last weekend, last night was excellent. Back to the usual line up, whole band playing really well and lots of dancers for most of the night which was impressive given how hot and humid the venue was. May have got a wedding booking out of it too, so overall a really good night. On the downside, I found when I got home I simply couldn't sleep, barely slept at all, so pretty exhausted today.

I think you're right looking closer, there's no screw holes and it appears to be part of the body 😀

Mudvayne had their first reunion shows last night and their bassist Ryan Martinie who's been synonymous with a Warwick Thumb for pretty much all his career has switched over to Fodera. The Warwick Facebook groups are aghast. Clearly inspired by a Thumb, based on the pickup placement, but some Yin-Yang influence there too. Personally I don't love the pickguard, but it looks like a great instrument and he must be very happy with it if he's moved away from Warwick after all these years. On what little, low quality footage I found, it just sounded like Ryan, but I'm eager to hear a proper recording.

We very rarely rehearse, we know each other's playing well enough that there's normally little need and can normally debut a song and it's pretty much there. We've also had a lot of deps and know how to work with them, it's usually they're better prepared than last night

Not great last night, we had a dep guitarist, who whilst good, had only a couple of days to learn the set and unfortunately it showed. Nice guy, good player, but it was a bit rough round the edges last night.

If you're using light gauge strings anyway, could you not just tune the 5 string up a tone?

That's a bit sexy

I think it's incredibly optimistic of you that this won't change again within a couple of months 😄 I remember seeing Ashdown share a photo of your rig on Facebook, it took a fair bit of self control not to point out that you'd already sold it on and were using another brand😀

The new Wolves In The Throne Room Shame they've now cancelled their tour, particularly as they had Blood Incantation and Bell Witch/Aerial Ruin with them, but it was fairly inevitable.

I Saw this the other day before it got taken down, I'd love to hear her collaborate with Bell Witch, who are 2 piece drums & 7 string bass/vocals doom band

Came to say exactly this, except the again bit

Power Trip - Live In Seattle As yesterday marked a year since Riley Gale's passing