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I saw Layer Cake yesterday and loved it. I think I'm going to have to watch it again after the way it finishs.

I normally start with a jam recorded onto a phone/ portable recorder or through audacity on the PC. From there I write out the guitar riffs in guitar pro, add bass and drum ideas and then work the rest of the song in guitar pro, adding parts as I write them on the guitar and then follow up with drum and bass. Keyboards feature in a few songs but generally I'm not skilled enough with them to know what to put. Lyrics are usually wrote after the song and try to reflect the mood or story I'm trying to convey. Last song was parody Pirate theme death metal. Shame we never got round to recording any of the stuff.

Devin Townsend Project - Hyperdrive! If you like rock, buy Devin.

I caught 3 kerry king picks at a concert once. Kept 2 and sold 1. I also have a puppet and some piano tuition guides that was made in the 1950's from a box I found in the office. Also an unopened first vinyl print of Never Mind the Bollocks, Heres the Sex Pistols and Black Sabbath (technically both my Dads but meh).

Never been to an outdoor rave but been to a few house ones (most noticeably at my house lol). Managed to ram 40 odd people into my garage and blast them all with music going through my computer system (logitech Z2300 - 2.1) and out to my old bands PA for the extra speakers. Nobody was rolling, just a few stoned guys and the majority were on alcohol. Despite my best laid plans of keeping the party in the garage, the house still got trashed. Broken mirror, hammock, door and a 2 foot purple stain all over the carpet.

No love for Leftfield yet? I also like a bit of Infected Mushrooms, although I can't take a full album at a time.

I'm torn on the anchoring issue. I don't think it matters overly as some of the best players out there anchor but I've always found it restrictive to single note shreddy kind of things. If I'm sweeping I anchor my hand to the bridge and play from there but that's a damn bad habit to get into. I reconstructed my whole right hand technique recently to loosen up my hand from being in a palm mute position all the time and get it playing closer to the neck pickup to produce a warmer sound.

I download songs nowadays only for use on a BTEC music course or for my mum to use as a School Teacher. I've had to learn 20+ songs from 10 or more different artists and I don't have the cash to buy an album for each of them only to listen to a few times. I hate legal MP3 downloads as well as barely any money gets to the artist and I don't have any hard copies at the end of it either. All the artists have been The Beatles, Elvis... etc though so it's not like I'm robbing some indie artist who's living a regular life. I started buying CD's about 2 years ago and I've easily got 70+ now, mainly metal/ rock artists who don't really have a lot of cash even if they are managing to actively go on tour such as Devin Townsend.

Pink Floyd - On the Run :ugeek: :P

I'd recommend DevilDriver to anyone, even non metalheads. It's got to be some of the catchiest music ever and it's unbelievable groovy a lot of the time. The first album has some brilliant music on it and is quite a good place to start if you want to hear the band progress. If you want more metal (s/t was very nu-metallist) but still pretty groovy the latter two albums are equally brilliant. Elitists don't like them, but DevilDriver is great.

Strapping Young Lad - Love? Brilliant Song, heavy yet mindblowingly melodic at the same time.

I think some Final Fantasy music is just brilliant. Final Fantast VII and X had the best in my opinion.

"They are stealing my water!!!" He's the best character too IMO, any episode with him in it is great.

Haven't posted on this forum in a while but it was one of my favourite threads so I thought I'd post an update. Protest the Hero - Kezia Radiohead - Kid A Gunz N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Muse - Black Holes and Revelations Pendulum - Hold Your Colour Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet I've been trying to get out of the habit of buying only Metal CD's and tap into rock, dance and much more Proggy kind of things.

Just saw 21. I thought that there was something missing throughout the film. Not sure what, but then again I'm really tired typing this and I'll probally remember what it was at some point. 7/10

This. Next time your bored, go read wikipedia or something. I'm going to lock this as it's spam.

I love most of Dream Theaters Instrumentals. Erotomania and YTSE jam especially.

IMO melody can make something heavier. It's not all about speed and low tunings, eg. A guitar solo can be incredibally heavy when played over the right backing. The solo in Homage for Satan is a prime example of that and thats why it won IMO, I wasn't looking for pure brutality. The heaviest song I've heard since then is probally Electric Wizard - Funeropolis, which is incredibally slow and bluesy but builds up into a churning behemoth of riffs.

I enjoy Jackass for what it is, stupid humour. Some of the stuff they get up to is really funny. Tasteless and moronic but very funny. I do doubt how real the stunts are sometimes and how much is cheated/ acted.

I went through a similar phase. Except I didn't really delve into that much Brutal Death Metal as I didn't find it that "heavy" just fast and low pitched. I was also looking for the heaviest song rather than a band in general. I guess I was looking for a different thing. The songs which I ended up concluding were the heaviest ever were: Deicide - Homage for Satan (winner) I can't post the video due to some nasty content) Meshuggah - War (close second) L7q1ke35DNQ Honourable Mentions: Behemoth - Slaves shall serve Oey85FGHOHc The Bezerker - Reality (Video is unpleasant again) Strapping Young Lad - ****storm 3aiDQcP6L_E&feature=related In the end I realised that no one song would be the heaviest because different things would press my buttons at different times. Homage for Satan won though because I've never had such an adrenaline rush off music before - the first time I listened to it was literally a white knuckle experience. It was my first death metal track and I loved it. Edit - Saw that you were looking for just a band. The heaviest band I listen to is The Bezerker without a doubt.

About a year ago I went on a downloading spree and downloaded a load of trance, dance and techno. I really got into it for a while but then totally forgot about that kind of music. I was then going through my music today and deleting all the rubbish I had downloaded since I can afford CD's now and don't really download anymore. I came across some Infected Mushroom and found it amazing. The songs were Extacy, Spiritual Trance and Hallucinogen. I went onto Last FM to find out which album these songs were on and there was very little information available. This leads me to believe that either Infected Mushroom was not the artist or they aren't well known songs. Questions - Does anyone know which Artist did the tracks mentioned? If so which albums are they on. - What are the essential psychedelic trance/ dance albums. Other than that, discuss dance/ trance etc here.

Favourite moment at the moment (I'm watching the entire show through from episode 1) is when the cult leader from episode 3 is trapped in the house with Stewie. Dialogue (Paraphrased probally) "I want to get out of here!!!" "I'm afraid we're fresh out of that, all we have left is some untimely death..." "What the hell is this" "It's a boy" *zaps with laser beam*.

Various bands i've been in. Deadline, Communication from Elsewhere, Office Working Junkies, New Unity. All the same band, just we realised the names we've had so far sucked and moved on. Doesn't really lose us fans due to confusion seeing as we have no-one outside of our immediate friends group who bothers to come and watch us play. :(

If you have a fender stat, the tone isn't going to get much better than that. You just need to learn how to get a good tone using your amp (which is the main factor in how you sound). If you're playing through a squire, thats not really a good place to be as they are cheaply made. The best starter guitar for under £150 IMO is the Yamaha Pacifica. If you have a good amp, you can get great tone out of almost any guitar.

Mastodon - Blood Mountain (Album) Brilliant CD, it has a very distinct, organic feel about it.