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Sweet & Lynch - "You'll Never Be Alone" off the upcoming album Heart & Sacrifice out May 19th through Frontiers. Their third album, from about the only supergroup I know to actually put out worthwile records.

Nice setup @Saapanael ! Yes. This is what to do. Especially with older style distortion pedals, and then I'm talking about Boss DS-1, MXR Distortion+, RAT etc. I do this for my setup into a clean amp with the two former pedals. Modern pedals with enough gain in themselves might not like an...

Read Far from the Light of Heaven (2021) by Tade Thompson. Afterword concludes it probably isn't space opera after all. I disagree, but would like to add it's also a 'whodunnit' murder mystery and adventure tale in space, set on an advanced ship heading for a human colony - and features aliens...

Read The Space Between Worlds (2020) by Micaiah Johnson. There are 380 alternate worlds close enough to "Earth 0" to be traveled to, and our main Cara is dead in all but 8 of them. This means she is in high demand as a traverser, since people can only travel to other worlds in which they are...

Read Behind Her Eyes (2017) by Sarah Pinborough. A supernatural thriller - and I stress, supernatural. I watched the series on Netflix first, and while the story is very well translated between the mediums, I thought it worked better visually than it does here. An exposition-twist where a killer...

Just finished Atomic Anna (2022) by Rachel Barenbaum, my sixth book so far this year. An SF-novel focused on time travel and a plot to prevent the Chernobyl disaster. If you've read 11/22/63 by Stephen King I would say this is a great companion piece to it, no doubt inspired by it. Character...

Watched Terrifier 2 (2022) at the pictures. An old-school, gory slasher. There's lots to like with this genre-study of a film, and it was a fun experience. At 2 hours 18 minutes it's a good deal too long, and the final fight goes on a couple times longer than you would reasonably expect, but I...

Tied between Stockholm and Edinburgh.

Watched Ancient Apocalypse (2022) on Netflix. Pseudo-archaelogist/historian (pseudo-everything really) Graham Hancock goes on a rant towards archeologists and historians and how everyone is wrong and that there was an ancient advanced civilisation which died out at the end of the last ice-age...

No. The Boss CS-3 is awesome. Compression makes everything smoother and less spikey. If you play distorted you get this smoother feel, right? Well with a compressor you can add that to your cleans without the distortion. It's also good on distorted guitar, because you don't need as much...

Late reply, but I would avoid ultimate-guitar.com and Reddit r/guitar and r/guitarpedals if you don't already have your stuff down. Lots of very bad advice and weird bias there.

I love the DS-1. It's still one of the best distortion pedals on the market. Bear with me, I've used it live and been complemented on my tone... Until I told them I was running a DS-1 into a clean channel on the Marshall JCM I borrowed. It cuts like nothing else, and at high volumes that tone is...

Really like them. More the first album than the second because of the production. "These Are the Hands" is my favourite song by them, followed by "Lost Worlds". Great drumming, cool songwriting and a vocalist who's right down to my taste.

Read A History of What Comes Next (2021) by Sylvain Neuvel. Being the author of Sleeping Giants and it's two sequels - I knew what I was getting into. Dialogue heavy, fast reading science fiction. This book is the start of another trilogy. Very similar to his previous efforts, except for taking...

Watched the first season of House of the Dragon (2022) on HBO Max. Welcome to the new season of Netflix' The Crown. We added some fantasy elements, weird diseases, a bit of gore and seasoned it all with a bit of incest. - HBO Where Game of Thrones was relatively focused in time, this series...

https://blabbermouth.net/news/george-lynch-explains-decision-to-return-to-using-lynch-mob-name-for-his-solo-project He explains the name change here.

Chez Kane - "Children of Tomorrow Gone" off her new album Powerzone, out last Friday. Written, produced, engineered and performed by Crazy Lixx-vocalist/bandleader Danny with Chez on vocals.   Possibly my favourite song of 2022. I'm totally down for retro 80's music and Chez Kane really fills...

Watched The Time Traveler's Wife (2022) on HBO. Started watching expecting it to be a 6 episode mini series. Last episode we realised it wasn't, and that a season 2 was planned and canceled. In the end, I felt I was pretty satisfied with the 6 episodes we were given. Some loose ends, but all...

Not really a weird choice though. It was a weird thing to want to change it in the first place.

Watched Rings of Power season 1. Expertly crafted narrative, sublime casting and beautiful visuals. I expected something like Disney's Star Wars films or series, instead I got something that is equal or in a few bits even surpassing Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies. Been on board since...