Hey errybody

[jjsawka10]

Yo my name is Jason, im from Winnipeg, MB Canada. I love bands from pretty much every sub genre of metal, but i'm mostly into progressive metal these days. The bands i've been listening to the most lately are Between The Buried And Me, The Contortionist, Monuments, Intervals, Animals As Leaders, Scale The Summit, Pomegranate Tiger. I death metal like Spawn Of Possession and The Faceless and Behemoth. I also love punk stuff like Refused and The Flatliners, NOFX and Propagandhi. I enjoy early such as The Guess Who, Bachman Turner, Led Zepplin and Pink Floyd aswel, although metal is my main genre. I dabble in jazz and classical guitar too and i quite enjoy that. I'm a pretty serious guitar player, i currently play a 7 string '91 Ibanez Universe green dot which i loaded with bareknuckle pickups, which i tune to drop G# atm with Kalium/circle k strings. I am quite knowedgable about rock and metal, and love to go off about it so hit me up. If there are any other guitarists around here feel free to hit me up with questions regarding playing technique, theory, set ups, and general inquiries. Im happy to help fellow musicians [emoji2] Have a good day fellas

[FatherAlabaster]

Hey, welcome, nice to have another musician on board. It doesn't sound like we have a lot of overlap in the bands we enjoy, but I have been getting back into tech death a little bit over the past few months. I've got a Bareknuckle "Cold Sweat" in my Gibson Explorer, great sounding pickup although I doubt I'd drop the cash for another. I love Circle K strings as well, I have a custom set on my Gibson in C# and I use various gauges on my Steinberger baritone.

[jjsawka10]

Nice, i really want to try a headless guitar one of these days. I have a set of bkp aftermaths and they sound pretty awesome. It took me a while to in dial my amp with em, but im really diggin the tones and bareknuckles just have insane clarity compared to anything ive tried. I dont know if i would spend that much cake on a set of pickups again tho [emoji14]. Ill probably stick with dimarzio

[FatherAlabaster]

I tried the Aftermath, but the output was too high and I couldn't get any clarity. I love the Cold Sweat. I took the 498T out of the Gibson and put it in the Steinberger, it suits that guitar really well. In some ways it's the best instrument I have, though there are some issues with it that make me not want to play it live.

[FatherAlabaster]

BTW do you have any recordings of your own music? What kind of stuff do you play?

[jjsawka10]

I dont have any recorded music atm, because i dont have any recording equipment right now. I'm going to buy an axe fx in the next couple months though, so that should be the end of that issue. I have been playing a lot of classical guitar in the past year or two, getting theory down aswel as chord arpeggios and different scales, so i havent been learning much metal lately, but i know a lot of thrash songs like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer. I know a bunch of BTBAM tunes aswel because i was completely obsessed with them for a few years. Usually when i pick up my electric i just experiment and come up with unique chords riffs and melodies, and i use those to put songs together

[GorboGorboze]

Hey Jason, welcome to the forum. Here are some flowers. Keep it coming with the Canadian slang such as "hit me up" and "Spend that much cake on" and so forth. I, for one, will be endlessly interested in Canadian slang. I hope you enjoy it here and will stick around, as we badly need a Canadian around here. We have seen them come and go, but they are as hard to hold on to as Scots for some reason, we don't have one of those either at the moment. We don't share musical taste, you and I, but that is just the way it goes. Except that I like some BTO myself. I am not much of a musician myself, though I do try to play the bass. BTO has a pretty bass forward mix with simple bass parts so I sometimes try to play along with the one record I have of theirs. If you so stick around, and I hope you do, please considering putting on an avatar. And again, Welcome.

[jjsawka10]

Thanks bud. What bands are you guys into?

[jjsawka10]

Also, if you like canadian slang, i hope you have seen Trailer Park Boys before

[FatherAlabaster]

My most played bands at the moment are probably Gorguts, Katatonia, Opeth, and Ulcerate, but I listen to a lot of death and black metal in general. I tend to dislike newer djenty "prog" metal, but I do enjoy old prog rock, especially King Crimson and Rush. Been on a huge kick with the latest album by Tigran Hamasyan - he's a jazz piano player with influences from prog rock, Armenian music, metal, and 20th C classical. He writes beautiful melodies and his drummer can rock some amazing polyrhythms. I'm also into Eastern European and Scandinavian folk music, medieval chanting, and some more recent hip hop.

[GorboGorboze]

Also' date=' if you like canadian slang, i hope you have seen Trailer Park Boys before[/quote'] I can only handle a little Trailer Park Boys at a time, but it's wicked funny for sure. I'm into doom metal, and stoner and sludge stuff. I listen to more power metal than I let on. Pagan Alter, Candlemass, Solitude Aeternus, The Gates of Slumber, Cathedral, Orchid, The Sword, Acid Witch, those are my favorite bands, pretty much in order, plus anything with Wino. But I also like glam rock, and I most especially like 80's pop, and I have a soft spot for Bollywood. I used to listen to Jazz, but not so much anymore, though I still really like polished female Jazz vocalists.

[Natassja]

Hello there, what other punk bands you into?

[jjsawka10]

The Dillinger Escape Plan, if that counts, Cancer Bats, Comeback Kid, The Greenery, The Offspring, Transplants. my favourite punk bands atm are The Flatliners, Refused, and Propagandhi. If you like punk you should def check those 3 bands out, although they are very different from eachother

[Natassja]

Nice, I like Tim Armstrong, Rancids' fifth album was excellent, I'm more into older punk and hardcore. Welcome

[BlutAusNerd]

Welcome. Like FA, I can't say that it seems as though we have a ton of overlap in our listening, but I do quite enjoy music from plenty of Canadian bands. I'm actually wearing my Voivod shirt at the moment, and some of my other favorites include Mitochondrion, Razor, Slaughter, Gorguts, early Cryptopsy and Kataklysm, Antediluvian, etc...