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guitarbomb · 6 months

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Messengers: The Guitars of James Hetfield

Messengers: The Guitars of James Hetfield is a new full-color book full of iconic guitars. James Hetfield, the legendary frontman, guitarist, and songwriter for Metallica, offers a captivating insight into his treasured guitar collection, each with its own unique story and significance in his illustrious career. Messengers: The Guitars of James Hetfield From the iconic Electra OGV that defined…

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brokenpiecesshine · 6 months

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Stefan Helleblad on Instagram, 25/10/2023.

Last week we stopped by ”Coffee with Ola” in Stockholm during our little promo tour, and had a fun chat about the new album and guitars and stuff. And had coffee too. Yum. If you didn’t see it yet, link is in bio.

#2023 #Within Temptation #Wt #Sharon den Adel #Stefan helleblad #Ola englund

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fuckyeahvanhalen86-95 · 10 months

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Back in 2021, Wolfgang Van Halen shared his thoughts on the use of backing tracks during live shows, saying rather frankly that he thought the practice was “lame as hell.”

He did make exceptions for some situations – “unless it's like, for a keyboard part that you can't necessarily get,” he said – but for the case of vocals and guitars, he made himself pretty clear: “You should just stay home and listen to shit on Spotify if they're going to play to tracks like that.”

Well, his opinion on the matter hasn’t wavered one bit, with the Mammoth WVH frontman doubling down on his stance during a recent conversation with Ola Englund.

When asked about his Taylor Hawkins tribute show shredding taking people by surprise – even leading to accusations of using backing tracks – Van Halen replied, “You never know... hell, half the people live, it’s tracks nowadays. It’s just a fucking bummer.”

“Everybody else draws their own line with what tracks are acceptable or not, but it’s like, if you’re pumping in the main guitar riff and the lead vocals and actual fucking drums – like, pre-recorded drums – that’s a problem. You should be able to play your shit.”

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Echoing his earlier comments, Van Halen went on, “I can understand [if] you don’t have a keyboard player so [you] need the pad, that’s fine, you can’t carry around a 60-piece orchestra, so you’ve got the strings – that’s fine. But lead vocal, main guitar, main bass and the drums… you should be playing that.”

The topic turned to the question over whether over-production in modern music has lead to an over-reliance on backing tracks to recreate certain songs, but Van Halen’s approach remained rooted in traditional approaches.

“I never do anything in the studio that I can’t do live,” he asserted. “Sure, there are tricks that you can do to do stuff you wouldn’t normally be able to do, but why would you want to do that? It’s about creating music that you’re capable of doing and you could do live.”

“I got to a concert to see bands play the fuck out of their music. That’s what we try to do with Mammoth. First and foremost, we are playing everything and we’re doing it to the best of our ability.”

The use of backing tracks during live shows is a hot topic of conversation in the guitar world, with Dream Theater’s John Petrucci recently taking a far more laissez-faire approach to the practice, while still sharing some of Van Halen’s sentiments.

“It depends on what people are doing,” he mused to Guitar World, “because some people don't tour with their whole bands, so they have sound effects and things going on. If they're up there playing their asses off, and they have some sound effects backing that up while they're doing it, that doesn't really bother me.”

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His approach further contrasted with Van Halen’s on the subject of bass tracks, specifically, with Trooch saying a “pre-recorded bass player” would be acceptable “to keep the show going.”

But, he stressed, “Having said that, I think that if anybody's up there faking it or pretending, that's a whole different thing.”

Van Halen is gearing up to release his second Mammoth WVH studio album – Mammoth II – which has so far been previewed with Another Celebration at the End of the World and Like a Pastime.

Once again, he called upon some of his father's most notable guitars – as well as his original Van Halen Marshall amp head and cab – for the effort.

#post van halen #mammoth wvh #wolfgang van halen #2023 #guitar world #Ola Englund #youtube #videos #interviews #backing tracks #pre recorded instruments #John Petrucci #dream theater #like a pastime #Mammoth ii #news

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mykeowns · 6 months

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OLD ENGLUND Calls New METALLICA Song 'Old People's Music'

OLD ENGLUND Calls New METALLICA Song ‘Old People’s Music’

Ola Englund shared his take on the new METALLICA song “Lux Aeterna,” and addressed some of the online comments that accused METALLICA of using drum samples in the song. METALLICA has finally announced their 12th studio album titled, 72 Seasons which will be available next year on April 14, 2023. The 77-minute long project was produced by Greg Fidelman with METALLICA‘s James Hetfield and Lars…

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inkcorperated-blog · 1 year

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Kevin Frasard - SWOLA 109 RIFF CHALLENGE [Vocals - Alch3mist]

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Beat Funktion - Skywards - the grand finale & title track of their new album, on which they lean into 70s-style disco-jazz

Finally, the eighth studio album by chart-topping funk maestros Beat Funktion is here, entitled "Skywards". Foot-tapping grooves and electrifying jazz solos grace each and every bar of the Swedish funkateers’ dance-floor-friendly new repertoire… Swedish funk sextet Beat Funktion amazed worldwide audiences back in 2014 when three of their albums, "Voodooland", "Mandy’s Secret" and "Olympus" peaked at #1 on the American and Canadian jazz charts, raising the question how Sweden and funk could possibly have anything to do with eachother. Today, the band has established itself as one of Scandinavia’s most ardent and prolific funk groups, showcasing a delicious Nordic retro-sound with heaps of jazz and psychedelia thrown in. Band members are top jazzers Karl Olandersson on trumpet, Olle Thunström on tenor sax, Johan Öijen on guitar, Daniel Lantz on keys, Pal Johnson on bass and Jon Eriksson on drums - now with guests percussionist Ola Bothzén and vocalist Sara Englund adding extra spice. In a true 70s fashion, "Skywards", boasting 11 tracks, is a rich and varied concept album with a sci-fi vibe, aimed for the dance hungry party-goers as well as the arty, beard-scratching connoisseurs…

#beat funktion #funk #jazz #disco #sweden #2023 #Youtube

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thesinglesjukebox · 4 months

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THROWN - "ON THE VERGE"

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Michelle gets us some metalcore coverage...

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David Moore: Power music, nu metal revival! [7]

Michelle Myers: Metalcore is less a genre than an approach. It's hardcore-shaped music rendered in a metallic palette. In thrown's case, the hardcore is modern, post-Knocked Loose heavy shit with a tough NYHC beatdown influence. The metal is thuddy, dissonant thall, pitched straight down to the depths of hell. In an interview with Ola Englund, Thrown's multi-instrumentalist/producer Buster Odeholm said, "It's 2023. Notes are overrated." Thrown's willingness to eschew melody for texture and rhythm lends their music gravitas. The riffs on "On the Verge" are never sterile, and Thrown's considerable technical prowess doesn't overshadow the intense emotionality of their music. They don't need to play fast. They don't need to squeal like hellspawn. When the breakdown comes, they just chug slower. The new pace allows frontman Marcus Lundquist to add a new layer of despair to his words as he repeats the first verse. "I've tried," he insists, in the past tense, "to come to terms with my mind." He doesn't need to tell you it was an unsuccessful attempt. [9]

Brad Shoup: One of my favorite bits is "Nuggets, but for __". If it worked for garage rock--a very bad style of music--why wouldn't it work for Eurodance or gabber or freestyle? Or metalcore? This would be one for the Children of Nuggets box: the anguish is rendered from a very old and muddy palette. (Referencing "demons" is bad enough; did they really have to rhyme it with "screaming"?) But to their credit, they take their torment and swing it against a brick wall. The track, frankly, slams: the breakdown is sick, the klaxon-like guitar ostinato and rap sample are a nice nod to the massively influential (!) Linkin Park. Another hint we're dealing with a new generation of metalcore: they're out in a breezy 2:15. [6]

Ian Mathers: Satisfyingly chunky, like a good peanut butter. After the relative velocity of the opening salvo, it's a nice change when they downshift into something more stompy. Kind of wish they kept it there, but this is so short I can just play it again. [7]

Will Rivitz: If not for the TikTokicity of this song -- phonk-inflected intro and interlude, verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridges-are-for-suckers structure -- you could have convinced me this came out in 2007. As that was the last time this type of -core featured regularly in my musical diet, I don't mind the throwback at all. [7]

Katherine St Asaph: This wasn't my thing then, and it still isn't my thing if you add a Tyga intro. [4]

Joshua Minsoo Kim: I'm mostly interested in this as a barrage of textures: the phonk intro, the revved-up guitars 40 seconds in, the breakdown's constant pummeling, the way things cohere in the final seconds. And yet, I still feel shortchanged -- there's not enough time for the heaviness to really hit you. [5]

Nortey Dowuona: The snare drum is the most underrated drum in music. It settles a song, makes it translatable and danceable -- a space for vocalists, other instrumentalists and a poet -- but it rarely gets as much praise and love as the bass drum or the kick or the hihats. Here, the snare punctuates the frothy guitar and drowned bass and drags the song back to earth, allowing one to get immersed as the song lurches to a stomp, then a hop, a jog, all made possible by the snare. [8]

Jacob Sujin Kuppermann: Linearly gets more conventional (and less interesting) with time; I was so disappointed when it switched from the very fun groove-like riff of the first half to the more pounding downward spiral of the B section that I immediately ran back to the start of the song. [6]

Micha Cavaseno: One of the more fascinating things about the death of rapper XXXTentacion is just how effectively he helped bring dirtbag aggro rock energy back from seeming death. His flirtations with "screamo" and "nu-metal" (themselves emulating the work of fellow post-Raider Klan rapper Bones) led to a bunch of kids in rap and rock alike taking his DNA and merging it into filthy Adidas Rock wallows, whether for aesthetic purposes or genuine appreciation. "On the Verge" is the same beatdown hardcore knucklescrapes that I've heard for decades, but until fairly recently your average rap homages were funk beats or a guy rambling about his third eye, not fake Memphis-style loops or Marcus Lundqvist barking in a Three Six-style staccato pattern. I can't help but be taken with the idea that we live in a world that's slightly discolored even in the monochrome. [4]

Taylor Alatorre: I spent the better part of a week trying to gather my thoughts for a blurb that would weave together digressions on the etymology of "metalcore," the history of abortive nu metal revivals, the performance of masculine self-loathing, and the ethnomusicology of hardcore shows. Had the footnotes ready and everything. Then, after around my 37th time listening to the mini-breakdown before the chorus ("well I cannot fucking wait"), the urge to write had dissipated completely, and the urge to slam had taken hold. I am no longer thinking about what the next word in this sentence will be; I am astral projecting myself from my office chair into a violently teeming mass of bodies that I'm several years too old to safely be a part of. I am at war, I am at peace; I have given up. [7]

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#thrown #music #metalcore #music writing #music reviews #music criticism #the singles jukebox #Youtube

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EVANESCENCE's AMY LEE On Split With JEN MAJURA: 'Sometimes You Have To Listen To The Universe'

EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee has opened up about the recent departure of guitarist Jen Majura, explaining that "sometimes you have to listen to the universe."

Majura's exit from EVANESCENCE was announced in late May, with the band saying in a statement that " we have decided it's time to go our separate ways."

EVANESCENCE's new lineup includes Emma Anzai of SICK PUPPIES on bass and EVANESCENCE's longtime bassist Tim McCord on guitar.

Amy addressed EVANESCENCE's split with Jen in a new interview with Revolver magazine. Speaking about the band's new lineup, she said: "I am so happy, we are all so, so grateful. Emma Anzai is from the band SICK PUPPIES and we are old friends. We toured together in 2007 and she's just an excellent musician. We're all fans of her and just fits us on a personal level really well.

"We did a little European run in June and then we did a few shows here and had our first photo shoot with the new lineup just two weeks ago," she continued. "Some things are just meant to be. Something I'm getting better at as I get older is not trying to control everything so much. Sometimes you just sort of have to listen to the universe and what's going on and go, 'You know what? Okay, I need to live in the reality of what's happening now and make something great out of it instead of constantly trying to pull things the way I think they ought to go.'

"It's hard to explain what I'm saying without being specific. And we all love Jen; we had a great time with Jen. [I] don't want to make it like it's anything negative there. But sometimes that chapter just ends, and when you feel that and you know that as a band, that's how you keep things going. That's how you keep your team, your band, and everything healthy and moving the way it's supposed to move. It's complicated but at the same time you just need to follow your heart. At the end of the day, when you follow your heart and trust each other, you can move forward into a better place than you could've imagined for.

"This is big time new for us because I've had Tim on bass for 16 years and for the first time he is on guitar, which is fantastic," Lee added. "It's his original instrument, he's great on it, he gets into that position when we're in the writing room a lot. And Emma is just this amazing, seamless ... it's just amazingly cool and the other guys are just thrilled with it as well. We're all really happy right now, we're in a healthy new chapter moment. Those are always really energizing, so we've got a lot of energy and are feeling inspired and excited for the future."

In late June, Majura discussed her exit from EVANESCENCE during an appearance on THE HAUNTED guitarist Ola Englund's YouTube show "Coffee With Ola". At the time she said that she was "still in shock, kind of, because after being married six years, all of a sudden you're divorced."

Asked how she found out that her services were no longer needed in EVANESCENCE, Jen said: "Honestly, I was cleaning my apartment, and I got the phone call. And first of all, I was, like, 'Is this a bad joke?' And I remember, after I got the news, I hung up, and I have this hallway in between my studio and my living room, and I just lay there on the floor, staring at the ceiling, wondering what that was, and literally looking over to my suitcase that I had already started packing, because I was two weeks from going out on the road until pretty much the end of the year."

Asked by Ola if she was "okay" with the fact that her tenure with EVANESCENCE had come to an end, Jen said: "I'm hurt. I'm hurt and still in this blurry confusion of what just happened." But she added: "I'm getting there. Like I said, it would be wrong of me if I would play the 'hey, I'm totally okay' Jen. It's tough. And like I said, I'm still not great. But I'm getting there every day with tiny little things that make life beautiful."

Majura, a self-described "half-Asian living in Germany," joined EVANESCENCE in August 2015 as the replacement for Terry Balsamo.

Majura has released two solo albums thus far, 2014's "Jen Majura" and 2017's "InZENity".

Last year, EVANESCENCE released "The Bitter Truth", its first album in 10 years.

EVANESCENCE has just kicked off a U.S. tour with KORN.

#Amy Lee #Jen Majura #Evanescence #2022 interviews

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Last week's top 20 videos (2023, week 14)

Top 20 videos last week (April 2-8)

Spellbook Guitar Pedal - Doom Metal (by David Ross Musical Instruments)

Paradox TZF2 Green is here (by Foxrox)

The EHX Mini-Synthesizer. And yes, Josh does have both versions, just in case you were wondering. (by JHS Pedals)

PAL800-V3 GOLD Overdrive - Guns N' Roses (Slash) Riffs!!! Mod#34 Setting. (by PAL)

ZOIA 3.0 BETA Firmware Now Available! (by Empress Effects)

AC/DC - Back In Black - Electric Guitar Cover by Kfir Ochaion - Marshall DriveMaster (by katarzis27)

@chaseparker9 on the Ten Spot II V.2 #guitar #guitarpedals #music #gibson (by Wilson Effects)

Strymon Combos: Cloudburst and blueSky #shorts (by Strymon)

Neunaber Audio | Neuron Gain Intelligence (pt2) #SHORTS (by Neunaber Technology)

Walrus Audio Pedal Play: The Fundamental Series (by Walrus Audio)

#BeatBuddy is there ?? #Shorts #Guitarists (by Singular Sound)

MARSHALL SHRED & DRIVE MASTER - Pedal Frenzy (by Ola Englund)

LTD EDITION BLACK KLIPTONITE - OD on FUZZ! (by Stone Deaf FX)

Boss CS-2 Demo! :) (by Cameron Johnson)

Ibanez TS10 Tubes Screamer with a 9v twist. Damn you JHS. (by seattleguitarstore)

Boutique Pedals for Less? - Walrus Audio Fundamentals Series (by AndertonsMusic)

Walrus Audio Fundamental Series Pedals -Drive/Fuzz/Delay (by Shawn Tubbs)

NEW Walrus Fundamental Pedals | Walrus Sound on a Budget! | Thomann (by Thomann)

Ananashead V2 Superfuzz + MARK2 Demo. Genesis - The Musical Box First solo (by Ananashead FX)

Earthquaker Devices : White Light Overdrive | Bass / Bass VI | theoandhispedals (by Amateur Effects Reviews)

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guitarbomb · 5 months

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S by Solar: Affordable Guitars for Aspiring Players

Solar Guitars founder Ola Englund has expanded his musical empire with the launch of “S by Solar,” a brand-new line aimed at revolutionizing the budget-friendly metal and electric guitar markets. With 17 models spanning six body shape categories, all priced under $349. S by Solar In a strategic move, Ola Englund acknowledges the need to make quality instruments accessible to beginners and…

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Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo

As it’s been previously reported, Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown had a shortlist of potential players on their mind when drawing this return up. We’ve since heard that Mark Tremonti and Ola Englund were among those considered and now we’ve got another name: YouTube star Kayla Kent.

That bit of information comes directly from Kent herself, who released a nearly 15 minute video earlier this week detailing her experience being invited backstage for Pantera’s show in Austin back on August 20. And while she goes into detail about meeting Dime’s guitar tech Grady Champion and watching him work, it’s her encounter with Anselmo that’s particularly interesting.

According to Kent, Anselmo immediately knew who she was and complimented her guitar playing. During their interaction, he apparently told her that she as on the list of potential guitar players for the Pantera tribute act.

“He knew who I was, and he came up and hugged me, and had super-flattering things to say about my guitar playing and he wanted a picture. We got chatting for a while and then he told me something I will never forget: he told me that I was on the list of potential Pantera guitar players. I just could not believe it.

“I asked him several times, ‘Are you joking? Are you serious?,’ and he said, ‘I’m 100 percent serious. I don’t bullshit. We actually considered you,” recalled Kent. “After that interaction I went up to Grady [Champion] and Steve [Murillo, Zakk Wylde’s guitar tech] and was like, ‘Is he bullshitting me? Does he just tell everybody that?’ and they were like, ‘He’s not known to bullshit people in private like that.’

“Coming from Phil, who is spearheading the new Pantera thing, obviously it means a lot to me that he said that.”

Could you imagine?! That’s got to be the coolest thing to hear when your entire YouTube channel is based around guitar playing with a specific interest in Pantera and Dimebag Darrel.

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fuckyeahvanhalen86-95 · 10 months

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Wolfgang Van Halen shared some details about the new EVH SA-126 semi-hollow guitar, which he described as a "shredder" semi-hollow.

We've been having bits and pieces of info about the EVH family's latest model revealed so far, as the WVH mastermind has been "crash testing" the ax for some time now. Speaking to Ola Englund in a recent interview, Wolf said that the SA-126, named after Eddie Van Halen's birthday (January 26), came out of the desire to develop a sound of his own. He said (transcribed by Killer Guitar Rigs):

"I'm playing a new guitar that we’re sort of crash-testing with the brand. It's called the SA-126. It's kind of the first semi-hollow. I guess you could call it a performance semi-hollow[-body guitar]...Starting Mammoth [WVH], I thought it was really important for me to have my own sort of tone, my own sort of sound instead of just playing a Wolfgang through 5150s and just kind of calling it a day. So I ended up being attracted to this sort of classic semi-hollows and that sort of warm tone."

According to Wolf, the idea was to combine the traditional aspects of semi-hollow guitars with a "shredder" mindset. He added:

"And the brand does not offer that. Especially since most of the older… I mean, really, the semi-hollows, [they always have] like a really big wide almost like baseball bat neck. And so the instrument didn't really exist. It was fun to merge the worlds of the classic semi-hollows with the performance guitars that the [EVH] brand is known for, and kind of putting them together. And actually, what we're using the neck profile of the Bumblebee [Eddie Van Halen's old custom guitar], the black and yellow. That was like the base. It's definitely been moved around a little bit. But sort of that really thin but wide [neck]. It's a very shredder neck. It's like a shredder hollow-body. It's a fun little marriage of both. It's got a basswood center block. That was dad's choice of tonewood. It’s got a maple top, mahogany sides and back, ebony fretboard. I believe that the neck is maple too."

In fact, Wolf reveals that his current ax isn't the first prototype of the SA-126:

"There's about seven prototypes. We did three early on. And then these new ones that I have on tour with me are sort of the new batch. It's like a new assembly method. So you know, we're just always trying to improve upon what we can do better. But yeah, it's really exciting."

Asked about his level of involvement with the company, Wolf said:

"It's a tough thing. I'm doing everything I can that sort of keep up. Luckily, Matt [Bruck, also known as Eddie Van Halen's tech] has been involved in the brand and involved with my dad and everything he did since my mom was pregnant with me. So, there's no one better to be heading the brand. And you know, dad wanted me there with him. So I'm doing the best I can to kind of help. Dad still had so many fucking ideas. It's like, we have so much kind of cooking, that's really exciting."

Wolf then went on to reveal when we might expect the SA-126 to drop, adding:

"And then we have the SA, which is looking like next year. It will be finally coming out, which is very exciting. But yeah, just kind of doing my best."

#post van halen #mammoth wvh #wolfgang van halen #news #evh gear #2023 #EVH SA-126 #Ola Englund #YouTube #videos #interviews #Killer Guitar Rigs #matt bruck #ultimate guitar

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mykeowns · 10 months

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#Youtube #me #my ugly mug #myke owns #lefty #left handed guitar #lefty guitar #guitar #guitars #metal #riff #instrumental #agile #agile guitars #purple guitars #riff challenge #swola #sunday with ola #ola englund

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en-busca-de-la-ataraxia-2022 · 10 months

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Ola Englund - STARZINGER - Full Album Stream

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