Cosmo Valdemar

Five Hundred Miles - Shadows

Metal is a very broad spectrum. Judas Priest and Immortal are both metal but are nothing alike. A lot of Priest - and Maiden - is nice tunes you can hum along to. I don't think metal is necessarily designed to be challenging, although some of it certainly can be, particularly to non-believers 😄 I'd imagine a lot of musical genres have extremes than can prove difficult.

But can they figure out how to make sub-75 minute albums?

How did you get on?

Quicksand - Bowie

Solitude - Black Sabbath

Repeat - Manic Street Preachers

Spicks and Specks - Bee Gees

I prefer Precisions in every way.

I actually really liked the last album, even though it could have easily lost 4 or 5 sub-par songs. Spit Out The Bone was the best thing they'd done in a decade. This new song just sounds so... limp.

Out of nowhere. Now, I do love Metallica, and have done for nearly 30 years, but I have to ask myself, is this really the best they can do? Really?! It will probably sound a lot better live with the guitars dominating rather than those ridiculously loud drums.

You Never Give Me Your Money - Los Paranoias

The Caterpillar - The Cure

Dig Up Her Bones - Misfits

7 and 7 is - Love

Ahem.

One of the songs that instantly reduces me to tears. So, so sad.

Telstar - Tornados

And, I just bought it back 😁 Jason kept the pedal in immaculate condition and packed it very well for postage.

Violenza Domestica - Mr Bungle

Going Mobile - the 'oo

I've been considering buying a new Ashdown ABM. PMT are selling them with £200 off, so I bought one.

Music influences music.

The EBS tone knob adjusts the frequency of the drive channel.

There isn't one - there are independent clean and drive volume controls, the clean side is your unaffected tone. Billy explains things better than me: