Dan G

I had a one man goregind side project about 5 or 6 years ago (seriously) . It was called Korpse Fukka and the album was called "Sedated, Cremated, Penetrated" Never intended on actually playing any music to be honest, but I drew a nice album cover during a lecture... it was a man bumming a skeleton and the skeleton had a big grin and was giving the thumbs up. Some song titles were: Graveyard Gangbang Dig 'em Up and Bend 'em Over Exhumed For A Ride If the Coffin's Rocking, Don't Come Knocking Maggots On My Penis Dead Give Head Morgue-azm Wish I could remember the others... it amused me at the time. So that means I have 21 and (very debateably) 23.

Our video is getting premiered on MTV2's "Headbangers Ball" programme this tuesday at 10pm! Having been a fan of Headbangers ball since I was a kid (when it was originally on - anyone remember the days of Vanessa Warwick etc?) it's really cool to now be on it. So if anyone has Sky and is interested to see our mugs on the box then please remember to tune in. We'll also be on the Extreme Sports channel come January and maybe other stuff too.

Some of the playing and the riffs are really cool, especially the fast stuff around the 3 minute mark. The first clean section with heaps of delay is really good, reminds me of Tool which I guess is what you are going for. Although I'd say the song doesn't necessarily need to break down into clean again... (around the 5 minute mark). That section seemed a little unnecessary. I think it's weakest aspects are the heavy guitar tone which is very thin, and not powerful enough to make a heavy band like yourselves sound as heavy as you should. And also the vocal delivery. I like a lot of death metal vocals but these sound very generic. Constant low grunts sound very undynamic - which is a shame, when your band could have a lot of dynamics. Also I know you are going for the whole prog thing, but I'd say the song needs a little work on the structuring to give it an element of being a 'song' rather than a collection of riffs and ideas. Latter period Death, Atheist and Cynic would be good reference points in terms of structuring a death metal song progressively, yet with a sense of direction rather than riff soup. I'd say there is loads of potential in there though. With a better production (guitar tone in particular), some vocal variation (not necessarily a fucking vocoder like Cynic!) and some structure refinement and you could be onto a real winner.

This is definitely the best thing you guys have done. The playing is tight and the sound quality is good. Reminds me of a slightly less brutal cannibal corpse during the verse. I really like the fast synth section, and the 4/4, 4/4, 5/4 bit before it adds a bit of interest. The only annoying bit is when tony's higher pitched vocal parts seem to distort too much (at the end of a lot of the sentences). Keep up the good work chaps. where was it recorded and mixed?

You can now get the single from iTunes, so please feel free to get splashing out!

the first 3:00 of 'Lucky Like Kokura' can now be streamed from our page, and for those with cash to burn the whole song can be downloaded from iTunes for 79p... the link to iTunes is half way down our myspace page: MySpace.com - MY MINDS WEAPON - NEW VIDEO!! - Aberdeen, UK - Metal / Hardcore / Progressive - www.myspace.com/mymindsweapon

Listened to it twice so far, and enjoyed it. A logical next step from vheissu to be honest, which I also thought was great.

Thanks very much for all the kind comments. The drumstick bit is just random really, no real story involved: Nick dropped a stick during one of the takes and that is ben chucking it back to him. Obviously we had the option of cutting it from the video but thought it was pretty funny left in there. And that's not talcom powder on the drums... it's years worth of dust and decay and other evil things that should be in metal band videos.* *ok, it's talcom powder. But it is real pigeon shit all over the floor....

Duran Duran - 'Ordinary World' Possibly my favourite song ever. The majority of Thriller and Bad albums by Michael Jackson are classic. 'Comfortably Numb' by Pink Floyd as well. Might not be considered what is typically referred to as 'pop' music, but considering they are one of the biggest selling artists in the world, I'd say it counts as popular music.

Hello all. We have recently filmed our first video which can be seen here: YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. It's for the song "Lucky Like Kokura", which is a relatively old one - but it's got a few new bits thrown in, as well as decent production this time round. The video is to coincide with our 2 week UK tour in November with Blueprint For A Downfall (from Manchester), the dates of which can be found on our myspace: MySpace.com - MY MINDS WEAPON - NEW VIDEO!! - Aberdeen, UK - Metal / Hardcore / Progressive - www.myspace.com/mymindsweapon It would be nice to see a few old and new faces at the Drummonds gig on the 1st November.... This will also be our first proper gig with our new guitar player, Mark 'Lucky Like Kokura' will also be released shortly as a download-only single on i-tunes etc, more news on that to follow.

Yet remarkably the only Uk band to be signed by relapse. Listen to Annotations of a Loltopsy, they're not too far off....

Check out 'Enter' the new album by Russian Circles. MySpace.com - Russian Circles - CHICAGO, Illinois - Indie / Experimental / Progressive - www.myspace.com/russiancircles For fans of Pelican, recent Tool and Red Sparowes I'd say.

This thread is half a year old. What's with the sudden excitement?

I love the pantera guitar sound, on vulgar and driven especially... I have just always thought that if someone else played his rig, it would never have worked. On that note, the Pantera production in general is amazing.

And the difference between making good gear sound decent or very good! Dimebag would have probably had rubbish tone if he wasn't so amazing.

There's also a 2 minute clip of one of our other songs on our label's site if you wanna check that one out - "the killing horizon", it's pretty heavy: MySpace.com - BASICK RECORDS - NMS PRE-ORDERS NOW !!! - blastin fuck outta the, UK - Progressive / Metal / Hardcore - www.myspace.com/basickrecords We also have a forum that has only just gone up recently for the one or two people that may be interested...: Basick Records • Index page

Fuck yeah, i'm famous now! Cheers for posting that [EDIT: furthermore, Rory from Enter Shikari uses Diezel after I let him share mine (cos his ENGL blew up) for 3 days of one of our tours with them. That's my claim to utter z-list fame]

That's what I used to use back in my Loaded days - as long as it was a 'valvestate' (which were great) rather than an AVT which were pretty minging. Metal zone pedals sound far better through a solid state amp rather than a tube amp though. After the 100W valvestate combo, I moved onto the Marshall DSL50 head/cab set-up and ditched the Metalzone. Some kid once insisted on borrowing my head but using a metalzone distortion instead of the amp's distortion. I tried to convice him otherwise... and it sounded awful. I can't imagine that Bob is quite after the same sounds as you (or I) were though... However none of this 'tone' business matters if you don't: a) know how to set up an amp very well, and/or b) don't have good tone in your fingers.

Agree with that definitely. No stomp box can replace/replicate a 500+ all tube amp head.

Yes I know that, and I am in the same boat as you - hence why I made that point about myself regarding LP and Meshuggah so it didn't seem like I was only having a pointless dig. (Although to be fair I stick up for/reference/publically herald Metallica at every available opportunity. Was never that into Ash though, but quite enjoyed Symposium. I was still more into the heavier stuff back then but couldn't play Pantera and megadeth that well after few months of playing guitar ) Holy shit! One reviewer didn't like one cannibal corpse record so therefore an entire magazine is shit! That's fucking stupid. I remember 'Kill' by cannibal corpse getting 10/10 in metal hammer so does that not make it an amazing magazine now? That's one of way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that 30 years ago Iron Maiden were making more extreme music than anyone else and along with Black Sabbath and Judas Priest basically invented the whole genre. I love Cannibal Corpse as much as I do Maiden, but Maiden have a lot of songs based very intellectually on literature, poems and history. Cannibal corpse (along with heaps of other death/gore bands) have playground lyrics about fucking mutilated bodies. So the whole "cheesy" comment doesn't really work if you're trying to use it to make death metal sound credible. To me, you sound like someone who ONLY listens to Death metal - (I could be wrong) and I find people who are only into one genre to have a very biased and narrow minded view on other genres. Despised Icon, Beneath The Massacre, ion Dissonance etc would never have existed without cryptopsy. Not that that is a reason to have to Cryptopsy, of course... but like all pioneering bands (e.g. Maiden, Black Flag, Sex Pistols, Beatles, Metallica, Celtic Frost) people will have strong opinions on them. I hate Neil Young and Bob Dylan, but love Tom Petty. Horses for courses, music is subjective etc etc.

Both vocalists left dude. Justin and dan weller are in a band together called Minutes who play amazing epic piano driven pop... Sikth are still together and are getting a new vocalist. Dan let me hear heaps of riffs and ideas for their new album and it sounds amazing!

I don't think it's as much about being "underground" as much as it is about being credible and cool. It's always been accepted by everyone to say you like Pantera and Slayer, yet those are two of the biggest names in metal. What makes a band cool is hard to put into words, but if I play a gig wearing a Cryptopsy, Dying Fetus or Death shirt kids always come up and say "man, nice shirt" or Cryptopsy are amazing dude" or words to that effect. Yet when I wear a Megadeth or Maiden shirt I never get that because those bands aren't seen to be as cool as the others. In much the same way Maxi goes on about all his cool post rock/doom/screamo/real emo bands, but never about the fact that he also loves Stereophonics, Idlewild and Pearl Jam because those bands aren't seen as being cool. Everyone wants to be seen as being cool, no matter what they say. I love Meshuggah, but I also I love the first Linkin Park album. Now who do you think I'm gonna publically revere? [And yes I'm aware that in the above I have used the word 'cool' in the same way your parents do. At least I didn't say 'hip'....]

Like medichi, I disagree with a lot of that. Especially the "music scene in britain barely even recognises it as a viable musical genre" bit. Utter lies. Terrorizor magazine is sold in WHSmith, and Metal Hammer has an extreme metal section every issue. Both popular magzines that are widely available. You want people to recognise and appreciate death metal? As soon as that happens it becomes popular. As soon as something becomes popular, it becomes mass produced, watered-down lowest common denominator shit. Look what happened to metalcore. A Few years ago it was a breath of fresh air in the metal genre. Now metalcore is an oversaturatd market and the new nu-metal/emo/whatever other musical trend to bash. Furthermore, every metalcore band exsists due to Carcass and At The Gates. So from a certain point of view, the most popular and commercial form of metal right now, is directly linked to a couple of classic death metal bands. And I don't like death metal because it "represents something pure in a corrupt industry of mass commercialized bullshit". Cannibal Corpse have sold over a million records so the jury's out on that one.... Dying Fetus are undrground in as much as they are relatively credible etc, but they are on Relapse and one of the biggest names in grind so it's all down to your perception on what 'underground' is.

But the problem to me sir, is that the initial "dink etc" comment never gets 'moderated' until after I've stepped in and said a few words... at which point it then it all gets removed and cheaply summed as (words to the effect of) "mmw and spd being a bunch of children". (Which makes me sound like a perpitrator, rather than defending myself...) Like you say yourself, it is inevitable (and always has been) that on a mmw thread, Scroge will come in with some banter - but like watching a car crash, it's as if the mods are just waiting to see it all kick off before stepping in and clearing up - rather than removing the initial post on sight. And if that isn't true, then it seems a bit of coincidence that it's always me that just so happens to spot scorge's post (and manage to reply) before any of the moderators see it and go "hang on a minute, this could be trouble". And let's be totally fair here, when mmw are concerned it's not as if his initial post is ever something constructive that may turn out all dandy in the end. For the amount of times I've heard a moderator bang on about how sick they are of "all these mmw/spd fueds", I find it very surprising that the initial wind-up comment is never removed sooner... Unless you're waiting for the day that I don't retaliate? But as we've recently seen, that only allows Scorge the freedom of going "what, no good comeback?" if I don't. if you're all that fed up, here's a solution: remove posts BEFORE waiting to see if it all kicks off, or ban Scorge. Personally I wouldn't want either of those because the odd argument amuses me, and I also find Scorge's contribution to this site more entertaining than most with his below-the-belt jokes on the humour forum etc. (this isn't specifically aimed at you frosty... I'm lumping all the mods and anyone-who-ever complains-about-a-mmw-thread-yet-can't-keep-their-eyes-off it into the same boat here)

Agreed!