Saturday, September 26, 2009

Death Metal with Ballerinas

Entombed performed their song “Chief Rebel Angel'” with the Stockholm Royal Ballet for the Swedish Grammys

The male ballerinas look gay…if i was Alex Hellid i would knock them unconscious with my guitar backstage so i wouldn’t have to share a stage with them.. lol!

 

Friday, September 25, 2009

Old-School Pumpkins Videos!

Back when Corgan had hair!

 

Paul Gilbert’s Airplane Flanger AF2

Paul Gilbert’s signature flanger pedal was released earlier this year:

http://shadowerk.blogspot.com/2009/01/paul-gilberts-airplane-flanger.html

 

Here’s Paul unboxing & demoing his own signature pedal!

 

Here’s another review by some German dude:

 

It does have that “Paul Gilbert” sound… & the “take off” sounds awesome!

 

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Mike Byrne Replaces Jimmy Chamberlain in The Smashing Pumpkins

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Beaverton 19-year-old goes from McDonald's employee to Smashing Pumpkins drummer

Billy Corgan chose Byrne out of the 12 drummers that auditioned…

 

READ MORE:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/beaverton_19yearold_goes_from.html

A Pedal for the Metalheads!

Tone Box, Inc. has made a Skull-shaped 3D stompbox, called the Skull Crusher.

The Skull Crusher spots a stainless steel body and has Red & Blue LED's that illuminate when the pedal is activated. 4 finishes are available: gun metal, stainless steel, aged and ancient.

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The Rockmodules technology inside the Skull Crusher was designed according to the Kasha Amplifiers Rockmod sound, described as "the world's first overdrive pedal with eight distinct analog voicing's and can be used with guitar, bass or any other musical instrument."

Controls:

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There are VOICING, TONE and GAIN controls. There are 4 presets for VOICING: CLEAR (3dB up), ICE (11 dB up), CHAINS (15dB up) and BODY (18 dB up).

Estimated Price - $399.00 USD

Friday, September 18, 2009

Singapore Kane??

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Singapore Kane is an unsigned Rapper from Boston, Massachusetts.

According to what i’ve read online, his name doesn’t seem to have anything to do with Singapore (the country), but strangely his album spots the moon & stars too like the Singapore flag.

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I’m not particularly into rap music, but he sounds ok….the DJ is actually pretty decent.

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Famous PedalBoards –> Richie Kotzen

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Richie Kotzen! One of the few guitarists who can play & sing equally well!

Kotzen prefers not to use too many pedals, therefore his chain is rather simple:

Boss Tuner TU-2

Sobbat Drive Breaker DB-3

Sobbat Glow-Vibe

Boss Digital Delay DD-3

Zoom G2R effects processor (Kotzen’s signature model)

Kotzen Live in Brazil, Playing “Remember”

Zoom G2R Demo

 

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Meza Virs @ Baybeats 2009

 

Darn…..i should have gone!

 

Drummer Spotlight: Yanic Bercier

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Yanic Bercier is the ex-drummer of the Canadian band Quo Vadis, which i am a big fan of.

He is recognized as one of Canada's top heavy metal drummers,  known for his double bass drumming speed and accuracy.

Mostly self-taught Bercier has also learn from Bobby Jarzombek (Rob Halford, Spastic Ink, Demons and Wizards, Riot) & Keith Brown (a Professor in the Faculty of Music at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville)

Apart from music, Bercier has a Bachelor degree in Engineering Physics in 1998, a Master's degree in Medical Physics in 2000 & a Ph.D. degree in Physics in 2002.

Yes, he is a smart Metalhead.

 

Bercier in Action!!

Official Website:

http://www.yanicbercier.com

 

Thursday, September 10, 2009

New Album Release

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Megadeth’s 12th album “Endgame” will be release on the 15th of September 2009, this album will feature Chris Broderick on Guitars!

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In April this year, Ólafur Arnalds created the 7-song series ‘Found Songs’ – recording a song a day for 7 days.

Low res mp3s can be found here:

http://foundsongs.erasedtapes.com/

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Sister Hazel will release their 7th album on the 18th of August 2009, titled "Release".

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Porcupine Tree will release their 10th album titled “The Incident” on the 15th September 2009, the album will comprise of 2 CDs.

 

 

Tuesday, September 1, 2009