Man yeah like God of Emptiness by Morbid Angel after listening to Maze of Torment. First two songs on my daily pre work commute playlist for like a month now, funny you mention them.
My favorite Slayer songs are the slow and mid-tempo tracks(such as "Dead Skin Mask", "Seasons in the Abyss", "Divine Intervention", "Expendable Youth", "Beauty Through Disorder", etc. Those songs have a powerful darkness that the fast songs lack in my opinion.
Love playing those songs something about them that puts me into this mood when play them everything clicks and I'm in a different state of contentions at that point its like my 3rd eye opened
i completely agree i am a huge fan of leaving space between notes and brooding atmosphere. i love the bangers etc but i also love a great build up. i mean its always fucking slayer lol. and this guy is right they used to go into the writing process with ideas then rehearse the shit out of those ideas and build on them, and then record the album. so in this new era of recording its fucking crap. when i last recorded shit i recorded on a fostex 4 track. it fucking sounded awesome i thought i was james hetfield lol. alas i turned out to be a skilled slave. anyway i digress.the thing was to catch the magic of the people together and not just the parts that make up a song.
I always liked South of Heaven the most, my friends who were Reign in Blood supremacists thought I was crazy, but when Slayer slows down then pure evil starts to churn and they gain like an another level of heaviness. This video turned out amazing man, worth the wait! :D
I started with Seasons, then South of Heaven THEN Reign in my teens and thought RIB was the most mental album I'd ever heard (I was 14 in 93) then, when I came back to it later, I just thought it was slopppppppyyyy!
Slow Slayer is more evil. Hell awaits is a great example; the beginning of that song is slow and it’s diabolical. South of Heaven is a perfect album. No filler. Live Undead is probably my favorite song on there. The tempo changes, multiple riffs, and drum chaos is amazing.
It's a corollary to the loudness wars: if there is no slow, there is no fast. Especially compared Slayer's later works. Super aggressive, yes, but it just becomes a blur of monotone, lacking the visceralness of the South of Heaven era.
I am a Bostaph fan. It's kind of popular to diss him in some circles. I dont feel that liking Bostaph means I dont like Lombardo, both great drummers. Slow Slayer is my favorite.
CIRCLE OF TONE?! What year is this?! Lol glad to see you back bro, I've seriously missed your gear deep dives. ...also I'm very jealous of that sick ass Ergodyne.
Owen, Great to see and hear from you, Great job as always on diving into the sound of these bands. Hope you keep them coming. Type O Negative weather is here in the Northeast at night.
It was a glorious period when all the Bay Area thrashers had hit 29-30 and finally decided to try something new. Megadeth and Metallica did some of their best stuff in the same period too.
South of Heaven and Seasons are my two favorite albums of Slayers. There are songs from their whole catalog that are incredible but those two albums blew me away. They felt more orchestrated and yes more wicked. Wonderful stuff, thank you.
AH! Brother, you're back and swingin'! (and I don't mean the 'clean bits' of the video LOL). That was awesome with the Slayer 'South Of Heaven' action. I remember when that came out and I too consider it THE BEST Slayer album. Nothing like it before or after. It's like 'Don't Break The Oath' by Merciful Fate (suggest you tackle that at some point? Great guitar work there.) I agree about the DAW thing, especially running the studio. We've been doing a lot of work lately, but trying to keep everything as real and natural as possible. We don't use sample replacement, rarely use click tracks on anything we personally record, and most clients don't request them. Forget grid snapping. Awesome to see you're doing good. I'm looking forward to more videos in the future. You need to feed those Marshalls some wattage for a bit. Oh! Besides the Merciful Fate I mentioned, how about a look at Kings X, their guitar and bass (especially) sounds? There's some fun there. They just put out a new album and it's very good. Anyway, great work! Cheers!
Great insight into the recording of metal music. The talent has always been there, even the experts have to agree on that, what is missing is the group dynamics. The interaction between band members. That's when the magic happens, where it lives, not on a computer program. Take out the human emotion and you get what you get. Might be good but not stellar. In my opinion you hit the nail on the head.
@@CIRCLEOFTONE There's not a ton of info about what exactly was used on that album in detail. But from what research I was able to find in DOWN forums back in the day and from interviews with Guitar Magazines was that Pepper Keenan and Kirk Weinstein both used their respective live rigs from their own bands, plus a few Marshalls and other miscellaneous amps that Phil Anselmo had in New Orleans. Pepper Keenan was primarily using Gibson SGs and a Les Paul with P90s into Mesa Boogie .50 cal+ and a Marshall cab. Kirk was using Explorers with a boss metal zone as a boost into solid state Randall's. I'm not entirely sure what Marshalls were used or what any of the other amps used for layering were.
Liked, subbed, all that shit. First time I've ran across your channel, and I gotta say. The title lured me in, the slow Slayer hooked me because I believe that too, Jeff was my favorite guy in Slayer and I say the same thing about Gary Holt in the band that you said. I agree with your opinions on Kerry, and the little rant about how everything's changed was interesting as hell! I completely agree with you! Its almost like you read my mind and made this fucking video! So this was a very fortunate thing for me to run across your channel, man! Thanks for this video! 🤘😈
Great cover, think your tone is thicker than on the album. I never really got to grips with the guitar tone on this album, I thought it was a bit thin compared to Reign....
Dude you really knock these topics and tunes out of the park man !!!!🤟🤟🤟🤟 I wasn't a big fan of slayer back in the day but I wasn't a fan of thrash when it came out so I may have overlooked their slower stuff !!!!!!!! Saw them with Priest tho 🤟🤟
I always liked South of Heaven, the slowing down made their music sound a lot less two-dimensional to my ears. Most notably were Araya's vocals and Lombardo's drums. Obviously, if you're not going a million miles an hour all the time it opens things up to be a bit more musical and melodic as well. It may not be that popular but a recreation I'd like to see/hear is Static Age era Misfits. For an album that likely cost about two-bob to make I still think it sounds fantastic.
Seasons in the abyss is my favourite slayer album , all the aggression of reign in blood ,all the musical expertise of South of heaven , in my opinion it's slayers best album .
Great video man, South of heaven is the best Slayer album no doubt. We loved your final rant! As a band we recorded our albums live in the same room in a day., for the same reasons you say in this video. We are MAGMA a power trio of Dark Hard Rock from Mallorca (Spain) Keep it up man! Rock on!
South of Heaven is my favorite Slayer album. When is came out we were floored at how up front the drums were in the mix. Reign in Blood is their masterpiece. Their Sargent Pepper.
Dude! Awesome vid. Loved the rant! I feel the same way, things in the 'mainstream' metal are too polished, too on the click... We need a little mud, some sludge and filth! 🤘🏼 That rant perfectly complements goes with your RAT pedal video. Thanks for your content!
Fair play mate I’m a big slayer fan classic era ,Jeff is greatly missed still till this day and I think the point about daws becoming the bog standard effecting that raw band dynamic is spot on.
I couldn't help but think about the nude piano player in Monty Python! Glad to have you back on yt and also to see you do Slayer. I've lost count of how many times I've had to try to correct other guitarists who think Slayer's sound was scooped, only to be ignored.
Too true about metal/rock becoming too nice. What happened to the bad ass lead guitarist of the '70's. How many times have I read in comments sections people slagging off EVH calling him an asshole thanks to Hagar's constant bitching. Or Ace Frehly being drunk, unreliable etc thanks to Gene bitching that band members aren't as reliable and professional and nice and polite ike his accountants. Usually I leave a comment saying something like that's the way I like my rockstar lead guitarists drunk and badass then I cop abuse. Good to see you back bro, keep the vids coming, the guitar community needs you.
The early Tame Impala record from 2012 is recorded on Boss BR-864 . There is a lot of info about that . "Innerspeaker" is great sounding album recorded in a very cheaply way . These Boss digital recorder feature a kind of synthic effect which became also part of Tame Impala's tone , f.e. on "Alter Ego" , "Why won't you make up your mind"
Brian G, one of your patrons, is here! Great video. Could you take a look at Diabolus In Musica? There is something inherently dark about that album and I would love to know more about the recording/production.
Scott used a Marshall JCM800, some TC Electronics distortion pedal, a Jackson Randy Rhoads with a Floyd Rose, and a Gibson Flying V. Both guitars have Seymour Duncan JB's. Danny used some Acoustic amp with Scott's TC Electronic pedal. He never said what bass he used but I'll assume it was a Rickenbacker because that's what he used primarily at the time.
Wow! You are truly hilarious, insightful, intelligent, well educated and skilled!!! So refreshing. Glad that you are back! I will say that one band that rocks and blew up from the DAW generation is Rammstein. Mechanical and heavy They were birthed from the likes of Laibach, Ministry etc
Good point about Kerrys look. He is balls out scary. Even for my friends who claimed to be into thrash and really just listened to Megadeath and Metallica. Slayer was a step above, darker, meaner, leaner.
Great explanation of a great era created by real musicians. This is a age of tiktok everything is expendanle almost and temporary. The era of crafted things has gone but will be back sooner or later. True art never dies maybe slows but never dies. Cheers man. Great episode again and you nailed it !
Totally agree. Slayer has great fast songs, but the slower songs are what got me into the band. It sounds creepy and dark and I always wished there was more of it!
South and Seasons have always been my favorites. Always thought too much praise was thrown on Reign, although lately been revisiting it and the production is way better than I remember and so are the songs, like Postmortem. So it all just goes in a circle for me.
I really enjoyed the points you made. There is just something different about music that comes from a bunch of musicians actually playing in the same room, at the same time, hashing things out, jamming, etc. Feeding off the feeling of the rhythm and or what the drummer is specifically doing for an example. I think it makes for what I would call, more "inspired" music. For another example...Its amazing how if one player is doing a specific thing, it can instantly cause you to look at a riff differently and possibly change it in a way that makes it better. Anyways, thats my rant. Great video. Edit: Another example. Now a days when metal bands don't have a drummer and they use electronic drums ( Not sure if thats the right term but I think you know what I mean...computer generated maybe? ) The feel and the groove is almost instantly lost for me. The backbone is just simply gone. No computer generated drum track can match the feeling of a Bill Ward, or a John Bonham or any living, breathing drummer who has a specific style and subtleties and nuances to their playing.
Agreed. It's a massive oversight that the industry seems to be blind to. The listening music public hate it without knowing why. It just does not grab them.
I don’t know if I missed it but what speakers do those 1960 Marshall cabs had in the 80s? I’m not familiar with Marshall cabs and I think speakers are a big influence in the tone.
Long time patron, I knew you’d get back at it. As cringe as Manowar can be I’d love to see a video on them, in particular the Ross the Boss era, those albums were legit. I love the fact they went out their way to be the loudest band ever. Fancy giving Bolt Thrower another crack?
Dead Skin Mask is probably my favourite Slayer song, sounds so different to most of their other stuff. Love fast Slayer too, but after a while the songs almost blend together.
South of Heaven is still my favorite Slayer album. Also Kerry King is my favorite guitar player of the big 4 thrash bands and always has been. I have hero worshiped that guy since I was a kid. No one else sounds quite like him and you can always pick him out in a track.
No horse in the race. Came of age in the ‘90s and Divine Intervention is my favourite Slayer record. I wish Kerry King didn’t put tribal patterns on all his sigs.
Talking about DAWs and metal music: It realy depends on the band and how you use it. It’s easy to quantise everything to the grid. But, the thing is still if you do it or not. You can still record a band live, including microphone bleed. For example jazz bands still do it. Because it’s part of their music to interact with each other. Metal/rock bands could do that as well, if they wanted to. So I think it’s more a choice of sound and even more of a choice of to little talent of at least some bands, it’s not the DAWs fault. It’s just the thing that makes it possible. The choice is still by the producer and bands.
These are great videos. So detailed and interesting. Yes digital recording has ruined a lot of magic . Just like in ear monitoring has sucked the power and connection out of live shows.
Not necessarily. It depends on the song. Psycopathy Red, Unit 731, Angel of Death, War Ensemble, Jesus Saves, Silent Scream, Hell Awaits - all examples of fast slayer songs that are brilliant. Live Undead starts off at a slow pace but gets extremely fast at the end. One of my favourite songs to drum along to. So slow Slayer isn't necessarily better. It's a perspective that depends on the taste of the individual listener and what they're in the mood for.
I love it when bands who normally go kind of fast slow down- Morbid Angel, Nile, etc. have some awesome slow, crushing songs
Agreed. Mesmerized by Celtic Frost is my fav of thiers
@@CIRCLEOFTONE Totally- slow CF is the shit. Oh man, the version of Procreation of the Wicked that Tryptikon does is so heavy haha
Man yeah like God of Emptiness by Morbid Angel after listening to Maze of Torment. First two songs on my daily pre work commute playlist for like a month now, funny you mention them.
@@jeradrhone8773 I love the contrast- like right after Dominate it slams right into Where the Slime Live- that contrast is so goddamn heavy, I love it
My favorite Slayer songs are the slow and mid-tempo tracks(such as "Dead Skin Mask", "Seasons in the Abyss", "Divine Intervention", "Expendable Youth", "Beauty Through Disorder", etc. Those songs have a powerful darkness that the fast songs lack in my opinion.
Yep. It's so evil and crushing.
GEMINI. That somes up what your saying. Bostaphs fills are so nasty. I love that tune.
Love playing those songs something about them that puts me into this mood when play them everything clicks and I'm in a different state of contentions at that point its like my 3rd eye opened
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i completely agree i am a huge fan of leaving space between notes and brooding atmosphere. i love the bangers etc but i also love a great build up. i mean its always fucking slayer lol. and this guy is right they used to go into the writing process with ideas then rehearse the shit out of those ideas and build on them, and then record the album. so in this new era of recording its fucking crap. when i last recorded shit i recorded on a fostex 4 track. it fucking sounded awesome i thought i was james hetfield lol. alas i turned out to be a skilled slave. anyway i digress.the thing was to catch the magic of the people together and not just the parts that make up a song.
I always liked South of Heaven the most, my friends who were Reign in Blood supremacists thought I was crazy, but when Slayer slows down then pure evil starts to churn and they gain like an another level of heaviness. This video turned out amazing man, worth the wait! :D
im exactly the same, except Seasons was my favorite album by them.
Absolutely! hail Satan and his minions .
I started with Seasons, then South of Heaven THEN Reign in my teens and thought RIB was the most mental album I'd ever heard (I was 14 in 93) then, when I came back to it later, I just thought it was slopppppppyyyy!
South of Heaven is a masterpiece. Some of the best drums ever recorded. I always think they show perfect comedy timing too.
Most Powerfull album...
Comedy?
@@GordonHeaney Yeah I think their timing is funny, eg the feedback bridge into Silent Scream. Best not to take Slayer too seriously IMO.
Lombardo never been equaled
100% agree ...
Slow Slayer is more evil. Hell awaits is a great example; the beginning of that song is slow and it’s diabolical. South of Heaven is a perfect album. No filler. Live Undead is probably my favorite song on there. The tempo changes, multiple riffs, and drum chaos is amazing.
The eye contact during the "naked" part made me laugh far too hard!!
Then the wink.
I lost it. LOL!!
You gotta give the public what they want
@@CIRCLEOFTONE lol spot on :D New subber here :D
Just when I thought I was out, they pull my back in
Our true enemy, has yet, to reveal himself...
Incredible and overdue episode! Yes, slower Slayer is better. The music had room to breath and came off powerful.
Thanks man! Agreed.
It's a corollary to the loudness wars: if there is no slow, there is no fast.
Especially compared Slayer's later works. Super aggressive, yes, but it just becomes a blur of monotone, lacking the visceralness of the South of Heaven era.
@@quintessenceSL yep. Add modern mastering and when everything is huge, nothing is huge. I talk about it here ua-cam.com/video/YCoqAjrGOo8/v-deo.html
I am a Bostaph fan. It's kind of popular to diss him in some circles. I dont feel that liking Bostaph means I dont like Lombardo, both great drummers. Slow Slayer is my favorite.
Damn Bro, Looking Great! its been awhile from last check in, looking fresh crisp and still rocking! love your channel!
So glad to have you back.
Great video and I'll spread the message!
Glad to see you in it. I was wondering for awhile.
CIRCLE OF TONE?! What year is this?! Lol glad to see you back bro, I've seriously missed your gear deep dives.
...also I'm very jealous of that sick ass Ergodyne.
Thanks man. It's a poor man's Warmouth haha. Love it.
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Owen, Great to see and hear from you, Great job as always on diving into the sound of these bands. Hope you keep them coming. Type O Negative weather is here in the Northeast at night.
Yeah I wish I was there for the late summer and Autumn. Florida is a gas cloud of heat right now.
Missed you, big man. So good to see another from you.
Thanks man!
I discovered Slayer in the 8th grade when Reign in Blood was released and I warped my mind in such a beautiful way. been a metal head ever since
Seasons In the abyss is my favorite. Not fast not slow but groove tempo. Good to see you making videos again
It was a glorious period when all the Bay Area thrashers had hit 29-30 and finally decided to try something new. Megadeth and Metallica did some of their best stuff in the same period too.
Jeff and Dave are the sound of Slayer. Jeff wrote all the best riffs and defined the sound of Slayer. Not surprised Kerry hates it
Man, you seriously nailed the tone here, fantastic video as always Owen.
That was very satisfying. It's not every day my favorite band of all time gets their tone recreated. Keep up the awesome work
Thanks man. Appreciate it!
South of Heaven and Seasons are my two favorite albums of Slayers. There are songs from their whole catalog that are incredible but those two albums blew me away. They felt more orchestrated and yes more wicked. Wonderful stuff, thank you.
They are so evil and creeping.
wow a new video nice that you make your great gear and guitar speakers videos again
Always enjoy your vids, great work again
Thanks man
Amazing tone! well recorded! 👍👍👍👍
Great Video as always !! Thanks Owen for the awesome content
Awesome episode. Jeff in my eyes was Slayer
This is awesome dude! Great video!
Great to see you back
AH! Brother, you're back and swingin'! (and I don't mean the 'clean bits' of the video LOL). That was awesome with the Slayer 'South Of Heaven' action. I remember when that came out and I too consider it THE BEST Slayer album. Nothing like it before or after. It's like 'Don't Break The Oath' by Merciful Fate (suggest you tackle that at some point? Great guitar work there.) I agree about the DAW thing, especially running the studio. We've been doing a lot of work lately, but trying to keep everything as real and natural as possible. We don't use sample replacement, rarely use click tracks on anything we personally record, and most clients don't request them. Forget grid snapping.
Awesome to see you're doing good. I'm looking forward to more videos in the future. You need to feed those Marshalls some wattage for a bit. Oh! Besides the Merciful Fate I mentioned, how about a look at Kings X, their guitar and bass (especially) sounds? There's some fun there. They just put out a new album and it's very good. Anyway, great work! Cheers!
Good suggestions. I almost had the merciful fate gear lost but then he ghosted me. Haha
@@CIRCLEOFTONE Ah damn! That would be interesting to find out. Good to see you back and out of the gate with a really good video t'boot!
excellent video bro, good points, i loved it when they slowed down too..
Good to see you Owen 👍.
Good to see you back. I'm waiting for a reignwolf episode...even though he is not among the most popular artists his live sound is so unique
Great insight into the recording of metal music. The talent has always been there, even the experts have to agree on that, what is missing is the group dynamics. The interaction between band members. That's when the magic happens, where it lives, not on a computer program. Take out the human emotion and you get what you get. Might be good but not stellar. In my opinion you hit the nail on the head.
Can you do a deep dive into DOWN someday? I feel like that first album "NOLA" is an absolute masterclass of an album.
That would be a good one
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There's not a ton of info about what exactly was used on that album in detail. But from what research I was able to find in DOWN forums back in the day and from interviews with Guitar Magazines was that Pepper Keenan and Kirk Weinstein both used their respective live rigs from their own bands, plus a few Marshalls and other miscellaneous amps that Phil Anselmo had in New Orleans. Pepper Keenan was primarily using Gibson SGs and a Les Paul with P90s into Mesa Boogie .50 cal+ and a Marshall cab. Kirk was using Explorers with a boss metal zone as a boost into solid state Randall's. I'm not entirely sure what Marshalls were used or what any of the other amps used for layering were.
@@Forests0fFantasy mostly Peppers 50 cal+ i think the Marshall was a 2203 Super Lead
It definitely is.
First album is definitely a work of art. Everything after is super meh for me. But that first one...
Looking svelte and healthy there O! Glad to see you back on the scene, I'm sure you've been missed brutha.
Liked, subbed, all that shit. First time I've ran across your channel, and I gotta say. The title lured me in, the slow Slayer hooked me because I believe that too, Jeff was my favorite guy in Slayer and I say the same thing about Gary Holt in the band that you said. I agree with your opinions on Kerry, and the little rant about how everything's changed was interesting as hell! I completely agree with you! Its almost like you read my mind and made this fucking video! So this was a very fortunate thing for me to run across your channel, man! Thanks for this video! 🤘😈
How did you know I needed one of your videos? Nice to see you back... although I guess there's a tone of older ones I should check out
Absolutely nailed it on the death of vibe through digital production. Cheers, mate.
Dave & Jeff had groove!
The slow middle part of Angel of Death is my favourite Slayer riff . . .wish it was an entire song!
Maybe best metal breakdown ever
Dude, you're getting shredded, look at those shoulders. Keep it up!
Great cover, think your tone is thicker than on the album. I never really got to grips with the guitar tone on this album, I thought it was a bit thin compared to Reign....
Dude you really knock these topics and tunes out of the park man !!!!🤟🤟🤟🤟
I wasn't a big fan of slayer back in the day but I wasn't a fan of thrash when it came out so I may have overlooked their slower stuff !!!!!!!! Saw them with Priest tho 🤟🤟
Spill The Blood is a perfect example. Groovy and evil as hell.
That Godflesh name drop was just icing on this video
Hehe. I did a vid on Godflesh guitars a while back: ua-cam.com/video/jWmYkeRoRPA/v-deo.html
lombardo plays such groovy memorable parts and catchy killer fills.
I always liked South of Heaven, the slowing down made their music sound a lot less two-dimensional to my ears. Most notably were Araya's vocals and Lombardo's drums. Obviously, if you're not going a million miles an hour all the time it opens things up to be a bit more musical and melodic as well. It may not be that popular but a recreation I'd like to see/hear is Static Age era Misfits. For an album that likely cost about two-bob to make I still think it sounds fantastic.
Seasons in the abyss is my favourite slayer album , all the aggression of reign in blood ,all the musical expertise of South of heaven , in my opinion it's slayers best album .
Great video man, South of heaven is the best Slayer album no doubt. We loved your final rant! As a band we recorded our albums live in the same room in a day., for the same reasons you say in this video. We are MAGMA a power trio of Dark Hard Rock from Mallorca (Spain) Keep it up man! Rock on!
Great video!!!
Spill The Blood was always a killer track. Agree on the slow Slayer being great.
4:42 the tan face JCM 800 Jeff is with proudly belongs in my collection.
Awesome
South of Heaven is my favorite Slayer album. When is came out we were floored at how up front the drums were in the mix.
Reign in Blood is their masterpiece. Their Sargent Pepper.
Dude! Awesome vid. Loved the rant! I feel the same way, things in the 'mainstream' metal are too polished, too on the click... We need a little mud, some sludge and filth! 🤘🏼 That rant perfectly complements goes with your RAT pedal video.
Thanks for your content!
Fair play mate I’m a big slayer fan classic era ,Jeff is greatly missed still till this day and I think the point about daws becoming the bog standard effecting that raw band dynamic is spot on.
I couldn't help but think about the nude piano player in Monty Python!
Glad to have you back on yt and also to see you do Slayer.
I've lost count of how many times I've had to try to correct other guitarists who think Slayer's sound was scooped, only to be ignored.
Haha. Laughed out loud at that python ref. Loved that sketch.
When you said "naked", I didn't think you meant literally. Lol
Drink it in hehe
@@CIRCLEOFTONE I definitely had to drink something strong after seeing that, especially the creepy grin. Lmao.
Sweet medley bro!
This track and Seasons In The Abyss are my favorite slayer tunes
I have to say, we were discussing this last friday, while cranking SOH..we all agree, we like the slower grinds
Too true about metal/rock becoming too nice. What happened to the bad ass lead guitarist of the '70's. How many times have I read in comments sections people slagging off EVH calling him an asshole thanks to Hagar's constant bitching. Or Ace Frehly being drunk, unreliable etc thanks to Gene bitching that band members aren't as reliable and professional and nice and polite ike his accountants. Usually I leave a comment saying something like that's the way I like my rockstar lead guitarists drunk and badass then I cop abuse.
Good to see you back bro, keep the vids coming, the guitar community needs you.
ive been saying the same for a while. the perfectionism in recording using protools has killed that raw feel that was so amazing about rock and metal.
Bro, awesome shirt!
Yeah I love it. Looking forward to the new evil dead movie.
12:08 What a great point you make right here
Nice! So many thoughts on this! XD 👍👍👍
Back sounding great and looking good. Where the hell have you been?
I've been traveling, moving around etc with the fam.
The early Tame Impala record from 2012 is recorded on Boss BR-864 . There is a lot of info about that . "Innerspeaker" is great sounding album recorded in a very cheaply way . These Boss digital recorder feature a kind of synthic effect which became also part of Tame Impala's tone , f.e. on "Alter Ego" , "Why won't you make up your mind"
Great demo. Nailed their tone. Totally agree - Slayer slow just feels so much heavier & interesting than flat out speed. Cool vid - tks
Fantastic video. Loved it. Agree with so much. Love all Slayer albums. South of Heaven and Seasons is my favorites though.
Classic to me. Reminds me of high school. 🤘 South of heaven and seasons are the 2 best Slayer albums. 🤘
Brian G, one of your patrons, is here! Great video. Could you take a look at Diabolus In Musica? There is something inherently dark about that album and I would love to know more about the recording/production.
Gemini is one of their best songs and it is a slow, grooving song. Probably my favorite Bostaph performance as well.
Nice. Infinite by Forbidden is my fav Bostaph performance.
@@CIRCLEOFTONE That whole album is killer. Criminally underrated band as well.
Bostaph's whole performance on the Shovel Headed Kill Machine album is a masterclass.
Great video. Been waiting on this one for a while. Would also love to see a tone recreation of S.O.D.'s monster tone on Speak English...
Yeah that's on the cards.
Scott used a Marshall JCM800, some TC Electronics distortion pedal, a Jackson Randy Rhoads with a Floyd Rose, and a Gibson Flying V. Both guitars have Seymour Duncan JB's. Danny used some Acoustic amp with Scott's TC Electronic pedal. He never said what bass he used but I'll assume it was a Rickenbacker because that's what he used primarily at the time.
@@gavin6666 I know the gear he used, I would just love to see a tone match video. To get close the settings as possible.
Wow! You are truly hilarious, insightful, intelligent, well educated and skilled!!! So refreshing. Glad that you are back!
I will say that one band that rocks and blew up from the DAW generation is Rammstein. Mechanical and heavy
They were birthed from the likes of Laibach, Ministry etc
Yep I'm suprised industrial isn't bigger now since it had so much in common with EDM.
I could not agree more with you on King! Thank you Owen!.. the solos of Slayer are as much of a middle finger as the rest of it!
25 years ago I used to use a boss bass EQ pedal In front of my Marshall to boost the mids and lows Because I was the only guitarist in the band.
I AGREE....MY OINION of course but I love ALL slower metal than the faster stuff...slow steady head banging...GREAT video dude....love South of Heaven
Good point about Kerrys look. He is balls out scary. Even for my friends who claimed to be into thrash and really just listened to Megadeath and Metallica. Slayer was a step above, darker, meaner, leaner.
Well, in Kerry's case, not leaner lol 🤣🤘🏼
Kiss or Richie Blackmore would be awesome welcome back brother.
What your are saying is so true. Thanks.
Great explanation of a great era created by real musicians.
This is a age of tiktok everything is expendanle almost and temporary. The era of crafted things has gone but will be back sooner or later.
True art never dies maybe slows but never dies. Cheers man. Great episode again and you nailed it !
I love the fast and slow slayer. They are at their beat when they do the mid tempo grooves and have parts that speed up and slow down.
Totally agree. Slayer has great fast songs, but the slower songs are what got me into the band. It sounds creepy and dark and I always wished there was more of it!
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This is awesome!!!!!!!!!
South and Seasons have always been my favorites. Always thought too much praise was thrown on Reign, although lately been revisiting it and the production is way better than I remember and so are the songs, like Postmortem. So it all just goes in a circle for me.
Killer! Great vid!
Seasons on the Abyss is my favorite album and South of Heaven is very good too.
I really enjoyed the points you made. There is just something different about music that comes from a bunch of musicians actually playing in the same room, at the same time, hashing things out, jamming, etc. Feeding off the feeling of the rhythm and or what the drummer is specifically doing for an example. I think it makes for what I would call, more "inspired" music. For another example...Its amazing how if one player is doing a specific thing, it can instantly cause you to look at a riff differently and possibly change it in a way that makes it better. Anyways, thats my rant. Great video.
Edit: Another example. Now a days when metal bands don't have a drummer and they use electronic drums ( Not sure if thats the right term but I think you know what I mean...computer generated maybe? ) The feel and the groove is almost instantly lost for me. The backbone is just simply gone. No computer generated drum track can match the feeling of a Bill Ward, or a John Bonham or any living, breathing drummer who has a specific style and subtleties and nuances to their playing.
Agreed. It's a massive oversight that the industry seems to be blind to. The listening music public hate it without knowing why. It just does not grab them.
@@CIRCLEOFTONE yep, well said
I don’t know if I missed it but what speakers do those 1960 Marshall cabs had in the 80s? I’m not familiar with Marshall cabs and I think speakers are a big influence in the tone.
Back then they were usually g12t-75 but I don't have proof of that one.
That's why I love to listen to audience live recordings. Musician playing together and the audience reacting.
Great video! Hanneman was always the superior songwriter.
I didn't understand the "cold naked beauty" comment until I saw it... now I do... now, I do.
Long time patron, I knew you’d get back at it.
As cringe as Manowar can be I’d love to see a video on them, in particular the Ross the Boss era, those albums were legit. I love the fact they went out their way to be the loudest band ever.
Fancy giving Bolt Thrower another crack?
Good suggestions man! Yeah Bolt Thrower would be a good one. Seminal stuff.
Dead Skin Mask is probably my favourite Slayer song, sounds so different to most of their other stuff. Love fast Slayer too, but after a while the songs almost blend together.
South of Heaven is still my favorite Slayer album. Also Kerry King is my favorite guitar player of the big 4 thrash bands and always has been. I have hero worshiped that guy since I was a kid. No one else sounds quite like him and you can always pick him out in a track.
No horse in the race. Came of age in the ‘90s and Divine Intervention is my favourite Slayer record.
I wish Kerry King didn’t put tribal patterns on all his sigs.
Talking about DAWs and metal music:
It realy depends on the band and how you use it.
It’s easy to quantise everything to the grid. But, the thing is still if you do it or not.
You can still record a band live, including microphone bleed. For example jazz bands still do it. Because it’s part of their music to interact with each other.
Metal/rock bands could do that as well, if they wanted to.
So I think it’s more a choice of sound and even more of a choice of to little talent of at least some bands, it’s not the DAWs fault. It’s just the thing that makes it possible. The choice is still by the producer and bands.
These are great videos. So detailed and interesting. Yes digital recording has ruined a lot of magic . Just like in ear monitoring has sucked the power and connection out of live shows.
Jeff was the best RIP
Not necessarily. It depends on the song. Psycopathy Red, Unit 731, Angel of Death, War Ensemble, Jesus Saves, Silent Scream, Hell Awaits - all examples of fast slayer songs that are brilliant. Live Undead starts off at a slow pace but gets extremely fast at the end. One of my favourite songs to drum along to. So slow Slayer isn't necessarily better. It's a perspective that depends on the taste of the individual listener and what they're in the mood for.
Without ever even knowing who in the band did what South Of Heaven to me has always been Slayer's best album by far.