Custom Ibanez 7 - Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah

[Tsorovan]

Beginning of next year.

They just released RareTrax, a collection of old demos and songs that didn't cut it + multimedia section with videos. If you ask me, only the videos are worth it, but alas Nuclear Blast, the idiot nazis they are , ****ed up the European release, so no videos on that one :\

[lgascoig]

I love em'. *Sometimes I don't think they are hard enough. *8 strings might help though to get some more evil injected into their sound.

Personally if you want to have hard vocals in a song (deathy) then I'm cool as long as it's used as an accent. *I have been listening to the new System of a Down that came out a couple days ago and I think they're a perfect example of tasteful "hard" vocals. *Sometimes their singer is normal and you can make out everything perfectly, then he'll go "ugggggghawgwgrrrrh" through some crazy distortion effect and it works perfectly with the song. *If you like Meshuggah then check out the new System album Toxicity. *It's technical/nu-metal, very cool IMO.

But back to the point, Meshuggah is awesome. *I think what makes their sound harder is the great rhythm changes they have. *Any pause in an extreme song where you wonder where it's going to pick up again IMO makes it 2x as hard. *Pantera uses that technique really effectively as well. *Speed metal with one of the low strings blazing through the entire song just isn't as hard to my ear.

[Two hands31]

Gave Meshuggah a second listen, I'm hooked. *BRING ON THE 8-STRING!

[DemonicMinor]

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But back to the point, Meshuggah is awesome. *I think what makes their sound harder is the great rhythm changes they have. *Any pause in an extreme song where you wonder where it's going to pick up again IMO makes it 2x as hard. *Pantera uses that technique really effectively as well. *Speed metal with one of the low strings blazing through the entire song just isn't as hard to my ear.

YES!!!! *my thoughts exactally :biggrin:
-Bradius