Graham

https://consequence.net/2022/03/sergio-vega-leaves-deftones/?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-consequence&utm_content=later-25203537&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio I think this is a mistake by Deftones and one they'll come to regret. Based on Vega's statement and singer Chino Moreno's Instagram post, he seems to have been treated pretty poorly. Vega's playing - particularly on the most recent record Ohms - was excellent and he seemed to bring a lot to the table. Perhaps the band don't care and he did nothing but play notes as directed by others, but it seems unlikely. Still, the last Quicksand album was very good, so hopefully we'll get more of that.

I'm really bad for this, Cave In are my favourite band, but I got into them when they were on hiatus, back together now so that's good. The Dillinger Escape Plan are another, liked them when they were together, after they split got really into them and they're a top five band for me now. I reckon if I'd heard The Downward Spiral around the age of 20 then Nine Inch Nails would have been a huge band for me, I only really started listening to them a couple of years ago though. Napalm Death, Converge, Faith No More, Judas Priest - all bands that took me far longer than it should have done to give them a go.

It's not often I've owned the object of folk's desires, but I had not one, but two of those - the first one fell off it's stand and fractured the neck, claimed it on insurance and bought a second. Very good basses if you can get over the 12th feet inlay and like the very shallow neck profile. The electronics were a bit weak, but could be easily upgraded

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come I'm as habitually late to the party as ever and finally got round to listening to this album which is widely (and fairly) regarded as a classic. Hearing it now, reminds me of when I finally got round to listening to At The Drive In - clearly excellent and has influenced many others as I can hear how it's sound has trickled down to many later bands.

I saw Rolo Tomassi last night in London with Pupil Slicer and Heriot in support. Heriot were great, not heard much by them but really good crushing hardcore. Pupil Slicer were really why I was there, I've been a big fan since they released their debut record last year and did not disappoint. Chaotic mathcore with some excellent bass playing, lovely to hear a Modulus Flea in the wild too. Then Rolo came on, I'm a bit late to the game with them as they've just put out their sixth album and I've only really got into them the last couple of years, but they were sublime. They were everything I want from a band at the moment, the comparison doesn't quite stack up but I'd call the a cross between Muse and The Dillinger Escape Plan and are now firmly ensconced amongst my favourite bands. All in all, an excellent night out

I've been working on bass for a grindcore album, after a mate who I see once a year at a festival asked if I wanted to play on it. I've not done original music for the best part of a decade and have found the process to go something like this: Sure, I'd love to play on your album These are cool songs, quite quick though, I'm sure they'll be fine This is cool, okay I got this Hang on. No, I do not have this I am bad and should not be allowed at music That's......better? I can't hear the difference between good and bad anymore Nope, that's out of time .....and that's out of tune.... And that's just plain wrong Jesus, he's not a bassist and his bass part is much better I need to email him and tell him I can't do this Oh. That works I think this is good? Timing sounds about right? I think I'm happy with this I've now uploaded to Dropbox and will await feedback from the songwriter

All very on brand for UPS, not sure if it's happened recently but at work we used to regularly have their drivers turn up demanding cash on delivery for the imports they were delivering - same deal as your buyer. Goods-in would point out (again) that they don't have cash, we'd paid the import duty by deferment and that we have a credit account with UPS. Most courier firms are hard to deal with, worse since Brexit/COVID, but in our area at least, UPS are by far the worst.

Neurosis- Live At Roadburn

The Mars Volta - Deloused In The Comatorium I'm going to controversial here (ooh get me) and say I think this is Flea's best bass performance

From Saturday night in a busy pub, this sounds a lot better than I thought it did when I was playing https://fb.watch/b0VIjLHeDt/

It was fine

I'm Your Man as well, they had some brilliant performances

Next up is Rolo Tomassi and Pupil Slicer in London this month Then Cult Of Luna's Beyond The Redshift festival in March In September there's Akercocke and Cryptic Shift in Brighton In November it's off to Manchester for Damnation Festival Thinking about Incendiary in June and Lingua Ignota in October, but will have to see how things line up with my own gig schedule.

If you picked the top three or four songs from St Anger, cut about 30% out of those and then called it an EP, it could have been great. Actually thinking about it, that's what they should have done for Death Magnetic and Hardwired too.

Zao - The Crimson Corridor

The singer quit the tour that was going on, releasing a statement that his guitarist brother was actively trying to get him fired from the band. He then came back to play TID The Season shows (ETID curated Christmas festival). Last week the UK tour was cancelled, due to "logistical issues" - this wasn't particularly surprising as all the European dates had been cancelled previously, but the singer's spoken word tour was still going ahead. Very difficult circumstances when family and business clash

Yes, very sad news. To be honest, I'm surprised it took as long as this after the revelations in early December

This photo is from a big gig at a racecourse, as you can see I was leaping around like I was in The Dillinger Escape Plan. That all came a cropper when a poorly planned jump lead to a badly sprained ankle and I couldn't drive for a couple of days. My heavily pregnant fiancé was thrilled

And now this, but the blu-ray of the livestream, rather than the album The livestream is now available on YouTube and well worth watching

I'm learning grindcore songs for a recording project, hope to have the first one recorded this week. It's been ages since I've done any original music, feels great.

I listened to the first three Mastodon albums at work today - Remission, Leviathan and Blood Mountain Remission is superb and criminally good for a debut. Blood Mountain is excellent and better than I remember it being. Leviathan is a stone cold classic though, easily one of the best metal albums of the 21st century and deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as Master Of Puppets and Reign In Blood.

I've been learning a couple of the songs from the new Disney film Encanto - We Don't Talk About Bruno is a really fun Latin track

I suspect that's going to be stuck in my head for about a week