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Daniel Wse Whitfield

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  1. Girl drummers are quite rare. I personally don't know many and the ones I do, don't make it into my top numbers. Bit of trivia on me. I met my Fiance when I was younger at a gig, she was the drummer for one of the bands we were playing with. She was one of the only Female drummers I've actually ever came in contact with. (She is now not a drummer) No one can doubt the ability of a female drummer, or that they could play at the same standard as a Male drummer. I do believe there will be some disadvantage for a good majority of Female drummers. Metal Drumming is a stamina, power instrument. Naturally (Not all) males have got more of a powerful build,at least to start with. I'm guessing this can help? I like some of what ICine is saying. I think Females in bands can be used as gimmicks, I also think its more beneficial having a Female at the front of the stage and especially singing. I believe they may enjoy this aspect more as well. This would explain not wanting to go near the back of the stage? If I turned up to a show and there was a female drummer in another band, I'd probably imagine her being amazing. They are so rare, they can only be amazing if they are playing more seriously at a semipro/pro level. I'd most certainly be sticking around to see her. Its nice to see someone so enthusiastic and interested though. I wish you all the luck.
  2. Deftones by far. System of a Down are fantastic, one of my favorites. I don't know if they could be classed in this genre though. They are a hard one to nail down.
  3. I agree pete had some great lyrics. I do believe they take some getting used to.
  4. Yeah, plenty of overpriced Bentleys here In England. Give me a Lexus over a Bentley any day. Built to be just as luxurious, smaller price tag, More for your money.
  5. Muscle cars for me. Probably because i live in England and we done have any.
  6. I've been getting the same thing. I just refresh a few times and all is well with the world.
  7. Not sure I understood what you were saying there. I just hope you are not saying Lamb of God are Unimaginative.
  8. I didn't say Spotify was great, its just a step better than downloading it for free!! haha There is no great option now. No one will pay full price and hardly anyone will play small amounts. I believe the band should get far more of the profit on spotify. Still a low-ish a month fee for people, though more revenue to the band.
  9. Thursday - Sunday. I get plenty of leave now
  10. Like most bands you will get the Fan Boys, they are needed to keep bands going. Unfortunately I can't let LoG slip into the discard pile. They ARE a good band. Not the best, but consistently bashing out great material.
  11. You have some really interesting points. Some I feel are you dislike and possible misunderstanding of what we are going for and others hit the nail on the head. As for the riffs, obviously exploring riffs further is always good and can be beneficial. Though i personally enjoy, not a complete riff fest, though i don't like to linger too much. I like to keep it moving and fresh. We will be aware and increasingly we are paying more attention to repeating parts and sections or expanding on certain parts. Though I myself enjoy being more erratic and ever changing with riffs throughout a song. I will be taking a lot of this away with me. Its interesting and I know will be in the back of my mind at my next band practice.
  12. Sounds like an awesome idea. Would need to be aware of time differences though.
  13. Thank you, some more great comments. I always love it when people use the word groove to describe what they hear. Makes me a very happy drummer. Using our bassist as a vocalist is only very recent and I'm sure we will end up expanding on this. I'm enjoying this honesty. I can tell its a different style to what people may enjoy on this forum, so i appreciate that you guys are trying to look from a neutral perspective. I know its very hard. The sticking to your own genre comment can be made to any band, no matter how big or small. No one is original, its just the angle you look at it. I believe we go for a more simple view. Play what we enjoy and see what happens next band practice. We most certainly don't sit around pretending to be anyone else. We are too negative, we hate everyone.
  14. Sorry for not reading the 20+ pages but I honestly could not bring myself to do it. Game of Thrones is fantastic, I'm now waiting for the next series (4?) Its great, though I didn't expect the amount of sex involved. Its practically a soft-core porno with a fantastic storyline and real actors.
  15. I don't mean to fire back what seems an answer to everything you commented on. I respect and value everything you said. I'm not defending, I'm just explaining. Believe it or not his vocals are his own. Hes not trying to be anything, that's just the way he has always done it, liked doing it and basically built his voice up. We have other tracks and if you listen back through our small back catalogue you will hear him experiment adding more lows, or just going full highs. This is what he has came to know and love. A mix of both. As for the music, I of course I will disagree, though I cant see many points in my band where we stick to any sort of traditional pattern. We have aspects of all types of metal, obviously its hard to be complete original and you can only really play what you enjoy to hear. Our songs are packed with plenty of different styles and that is mostly down to the range of music we all listen to. I personally listen to Very little metal in comparison with the rest of my band. I believe examples like this give us another edge to play with, as I have no actual idea what things "must" sound like, which I think gives us more of a distinctive sound, less generic. I believe we sit somewhere between Simple but effective and overly technical. Interesting sections, though some slow, simple parts that just make you bob your head. Too technical, you are trying too hard to be others who try too hard. Too Simple and you end up being called lazy or generic, or mainstream. Smack Damn in the middle where you play what you want, from any of the things above is exactly where I want to stay. I agree with out performance. I'm not happy with the video, it was more just something to help promote the song. Its a simple performance video on the cheap basically.
  16. Granted I may of jumped the gun on what this post was. I noticed others doing it, then followed suit. <- Sheep. My apologies.
  17. Don't worry guys, I'll be sticking around... ..Though at first this may seem a positive. I'm sure within the week you will be wishing me away. All part of my plan.
  18. Thank you for the opinion, i appreciate it. I will be taking on board what you said about the Dissonance. Obviously we are in a genre that is stuck at all sounding very uninteresting and similar. We try not to think of anything when writing, just what we feel is right. or what we enjoy. We have older stuff also on spotify/youtube. We have changed direction quite a bit recently. If you have the time, check them out. Its interesting to see the path we have made to get to the style we are now. Thanks again.
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