Yo!
Have you ever heard about something called Swedish Death Metal?
You probably have
and sometimes you may even have heard about a thing called Gothenburg Melodic Meath Metal
And maybe even Stockholm Raw Death Metal.
Okay, so a quick little lesson on Sweden for you noobs
The capital of Sweden is Stockholm
Stockholm is placed on the eastern side of the country and Gothenburg is placed on the west side
Some refer it to the Swedish front side, but since I'm from Stockholm I refer it to being ...
the Asshole of Sweden.
It's a joke, don't get offended
But it's true.
You get to point: 2 different cities, 2 different styles of Death Metal.
The Gothenburg sound is what people refer to as the Swedish Melodic Death Metal
with bands like In Flames, At The Gates, Dark Tranquillity ...
... bands like that.
Stockholm had a more raw Death Metal sound, with bands like Entombed, Dismember, Nihilist ...
and yeah, a bunch of them.
So, many of these awesome Death Metal bands, that have influenced a lot of other bands to come
had one thing in common
This.
This is the Boss HM2 pedal
a classic pedal that is the main ingredient for the typical Swedish Death Metal guitar tone
And okay, you might ask
"Ola, show us your best settings for the Boss HM2"
And I'm like: "Okay, here you go, buddy"
Max it all out, like this.
"But shouldn't I back down the gain huh ... "
NO. Stop that shit. Everything on max, okay?
That's all you need to do and just plug it in to any guitar amp that has a clean channel
And today I'm very excited, because I have a new amp to try out as well
It's a Marshall Valvestate, It's an old classic amplifier, and it has a clean channel
So, let's try out this Boss Heavy Metal 2 into the Valvestate clean channel and see how it sounds.
All the settings maxed out, okay? Very important.
Also very important is to have a sip of coffee
Think about life ...
Nah, I don't have a life. My life is YouTube.
So, for this demo. I'm using a Solar A2.6 guitar
For that I also need a cable, to hook it up.
And if you're wondering: "Haha, where is the volume knob, Ola, you stupid son of a bitch?"
I have no idea, to be honest. it's gone.
I took it off and now I can't find it anymore, so there's no volume knob on this guitar.
And capturing all this beautiful awesomeness is this Beyer Dynamic m160 microphone
that's micing my Hesu212 cabinet with Demon Speakers in it, okay?
So *BURP*
And since we're talking about Swedish Death Metal, maybe I should make the rest of this demo in Swedish.
Okay?
That's just f***ing awesome. I love that eller ... på svenska.
Yeah, definitely gives, like, immediately that old Dismember and Entombed sound
Entombed was like one of the ... Like, the first main Death Metal band that I listened to back in the 90s
You know, Left Hand Path is an awesome album if you like the HM2 sound
but I think my favorite album was Wolverine Blues or "Woolverine Blues", I don't know how you say that.
Tell me in the comment section. Is it "Volvo-rine" or is it "Vulva-rine"?
Who cares.
Wolverine blues was my favorite album of Entombed back in the day
And yeah, it's just, you know, It's a killer f***ing band to be honest. Check them out.
If you have not heard about Entombed, you need to ... you need to ...
you need to ... educate yourself, okay?
I mean, it's just a lot of fun and the cool thing is that you can have the cheapest amplifier ever
but it will still sound like this because this pal is just generating this sound
and it's unmistakeably a very unique type of sound
And it's like, for me personally, I love this type of sound, because it just brings back all the memories
of all these old old-school Death Metal bands.
I think a more recent band that are using the HM2 it's the band Bloodbath
and also The Resistance, with Marco, who also sings at The Haunted. They used the HM2 for their album
So yeah, it's f***ing killer
Remember: do not touch the settings, max out, at all times, okay?
This just makes me very happy!
Let's hydrate for a little bit.
Okay, let's try the overdrive channel and see how that sounds.
Okay, just a little bit of gain, let's see how it reacts now.
Yes!
Damn, I mean this is ...
This is awesome.
I'm having a good time, you guys. This is what I love about making demos
when you kind of like get a really cool groove going, you even get like ...
you can see all the riffs I'm playing around, it's like really ... Yeah, really inspiring.
Maybe I'll make a song out of this, I have no idea. We'll just see.
So ...
So, a band obviously that used the HM2 was At The Gates
I think they also used a Metal Zone as well
So they used an HM2 and a Boss Metal Zone to get that At The Gates Gothenburg Melodic Death Metal sound
So, let's try it out see if I can replicate it.
I think that's too much gain.
Obviously I'm in drop now, so I can't play the song.
Okay, maybe I need to bring my seven string.
Awww shit.
♫ My neighbors will love me, my neighbors will love me, but I love you, too ♫
F***ing hell man
That's ...
let's try the At The Gates sound.
Sorry I do not know this song, exactly how it went, but yeah that was a lot of fun.
I think that was a little bit too extreme
Compared to the sound on the Slaughter Of The Soul album
Alright.
Shit, that was a lot of fun, damn it.
So there you have it: if you want to replicate a lot of the Swedish Death Metal tone, this is where it starts
It basically f**** up your tone in a great way and makes it so grindy and unpleasant to listen to
that you cannot do anything, but just love it, you know?
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Check the description of this video as well if you want links for the stuff I'm using.
These are not being made anymore, but there are replicas like this. I'll throw up a link up there, you'll see it
and blahblahblah
Okay, alright. Thank you so much. See you next time