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Okay, single of the year is here... Chez Kane - "Powerzone". Well-produced, great vocals and guitar solo. Love the cover. They've kept everything almost exactly the same as on the debut. Debut album was the best album of the year 2021 and certainly my most played. Best vocalist out there...

Most of the glam / hair metal stuff of the 80's have aged better than pretty much everything. Insane production values that still hold up compared to present day and songwriters and performers at their absolute best. Examples: Dokken - Back for the Attack, Ratt - Detonator, Mötley Crüe - Dr...

Chez Kane for me as well. Great album and I was already a huge fan of Crazy Lixx so it was a given must have. Also felt the same about The Darkness... Seem to like every other album since the reunion. Hot Cakes - meh, Last of our Kind - amazing, Pinewood Smile - not that great, Easter is...

I mean the V847 is based on the spec of the very original wah, and it's good but there are more exciting options. I got a new Dunlop Crybaby GCB-95 which costs the same and the switch doesn't need your whole weight to push down and it's not sucking as much tone. As for the actual wah-effect and...

Was about to post this, but then I realised the thread is about the best new stuff... Do we have a thread about releases which are bland, uninspiring, and probably best to avoid? Just another super group-project from Frontiers with my least favourite new vocalist.

Well, I listened to this... How is Jon Bon Jovi doing? He hasn't only lost his voice completely, he is so off pitch AND beat that it makes me worried for his health.

Used to. Maybe some old teachers still do (especially in classical) but I've been taught B. It varies, but in popular music you'll probably find it rare.

Got too many guitars to get them all in one photo, or to make a list. My pedalboard built March-April this year however (first one ever), is very simple and I'm super-pleased with how it turned out. Korg Pitchblack > Cry Baby > BOSS CS-3 > BOSS LS-2 A(BOSS BF-3) B(BOSS SD-1 > BOSS DS-1) > BOSS...

All effects have their place. I'm mostly chasing 80's sounds anyway. Reverb is nice to have playing by yourself, but in a live setting delay wins everytime as it can be controlled more.

Bought some pedals and a Pedaltrain Classic 2. Current board is Korg Pitchblack > Dunlop GCB-95 > BOSS CS-3 > BOSS SD-1 > BOSS DS-1 > BOSS BF-3 > BOSS DD-3T. All powered by a Cioks DC-7. Lots of space left and got a BOSS LS-2 on the shelf, so I'm considering making it two channels with a boost...

New single from Crashdïet taken from their upcoming album Automaton out 29 April. Together with the lead single No Man's Land (posted here previously) this is shaping up to be a very strong release. I like... everything about this. Having seen this incarnation of the band live, Gabriel Keyes is...

Hardcore Superstar released Abrakadabra last Friday, 25 March. Fantastic record - their absolute best in 12 years. I have still gone to their concerts, but C'mon Take on Me (2013), HCSS (2015) and You Can't Kill My Rock n Roll (2018) place at the bottom of the catalogue for me. You have to go...

Got the Super Distortion in a Kurt Cobain Jaguar and my brother has the old Dave Murray sig. I don't think a pickup would make that much of difference, honestly. Try amp and effects first. But I agree about marketing in the business in general. What they actually play... You could write...

Good choice and certainly different than a Super Distortion. I haven't found any other pickup I like as much as the JB Jr. Rolls off super well in my American Standard Strat and also works perfect for a Maiden sound (Janick Gers uses them in all his Strats).

Yeah! The JB Jr is a technically totally unrelated pickup (Alnico V vs ceramic rail magnet) in single coil format meant to replicate the sound of the full size JB. Which it does, really well, but to me it sounds even better.

Sure the pickup is not wired wrong? Sounds like a weird decription of the Super Distortion to me. I like it, but I prefer a JB (or even better actually, a JB Jr which has all the tone but more focused).

I am very worried about the situation of course. Growing up during the 00's, Russia invading was a joke in Sweden. As for the Swedish situation we have tried to have the cake and eat it diplomatically for years. "Neutral." This country has been at war enough through history, I agree, but we'll...

Don't think so. Seven Inches of Satanic Panic is clearly a stand-alone single consisting of "Kiss the Go-Goat" and "Mary on a Cross". As a casual fan, "Square Hammer" and those two songs are my most played by Ghost.

Yeah, I've got that using several overdrives on top of each other (at a lower setting) can work just as well as stacking compressors for a more complex and nicer sound. The Wah I have is a VOX V847... Supposed to be good, but low sweep range and a rather mellow tone are drawbacks (a Crybaby is...

I have listened a bit to Hammerfall in the past. I think what it always comes down to is that the music is so similar and simple all the time harmonically that it just gets grating for me. They're doing the power metal thing spectaculary well, and Joacim Cans is a great singer who always sounds...