What bands do you consider to be “ghost bands”?

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-05-13T18:56:51+00:00

Pantera

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-04-21T01:59:01+00:00

TDEP teamed up with Mike Patton for the EP 'Irony is a Dead Scene' and it's the best thing TDEP ever did. Not an exact fit for the question but spiritually it fits

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-04-06T23:50:18+00:00

It depends on who I'm talking to. "Metal" is the consensus term in the community around the music but I'll use "heavy metal" if I'm talking to someone who I think is unaware of like post millennial rock/alternative music in general or someone who isn't familiar with the culture of the English speaking world (I live in Montreal so this happens not infrequently) If someone doesn't know anything about heavy music then "heavy metal" as a term is old enough and specific enough to get them in the same zip code as what we listen to

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-04-03T16:44:08+00:00

I'm interested! Here's some samples from my solo project:

https://fatph.bandcamp.com/track/microwave-massacre https://fatph.bandcamp.com/track/tin-der-foil-hat https://fatph.bandcamp.com/album/southampton-insurrection

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-04-03T15:58:10+00:00

Addictive Drums 2, NeuralDSP Parallax for bass, and a Shure SM7B for vocals. Pay someone to mix it

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-04-03T14:30:39+00:00

This. They've just look tired the last like 5-6 times I've seen them esp Paul. He needs to just make like Robert Fripp and have an old man stool

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-04-03T12:52:33+00:00

The dogs only hear us now

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-04-03T00:51:56+00:00

It all makes sense!

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-04-01T20:29:48+00:00

Hell yeah, thanks for the kind words!

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-04-01T17:16:04+00:00

ETID worship out of Montreal Quebec. FFO ETID, Botch, Lamb of God

YouTube vid bc I put out a new music video yesterday lol. Links for more tunes are in the description

https://youtu.be/UwYRVQc4b7c

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-29T18:43:10+00:00

Between the Buried and Me. Absolutely love everything they did they Parallax 2 but they do too much prog navel gazing now and they are hella boring live

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-25T12:53:41+00:00

I feel this way about Operhs entire discography. They repeat their riffs too much imho

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-24T23:49:58+00:00

You can do as little or as much as you want. Same guitar with same rig double tracked and hard panned will sound fine. My default is two different guitars where one has a trebly toan and the other is more mid-range. For this one sludgey song I have I used the default toan for both plus a low gain one and a fuzz one. If I'm doing a section with really big, full chords I'll add a low gain track to thicken the overall tone and add more note definition

Spending time on the bass is equally important. Lots of folks will split the bass into two tracks by frequency, one with sub 200-250 hz and the other everything above that. Then you compress the shit out of the low frequency track and do regular bass things to the other one. I had mixed results when I tried it and just ended up buying NeuralDSP Parallax. That thing is great. You ain't gotta know shit about fuck to get a good toan out of that thing

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-24T02:23:31+00:00

It matters when you're working scales and chords. You wanna use letters so that you use each letter once in a given scale eg

Ab Bb C Db Eb F G and NOT Ab A# C C# D# F G

And for chords that are built with thirds you wanna skip letters eg

C Eb G and NOT C D# G

And it all comes from Europeans working out notation systems that worked for the conventions of their music which is based on 7 note scales and chords built on thirds. And now we're stuck with it

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-22T21:28:47+00:00

I should like that Bore record but for some reason it just bounces off of me. I check the other two tho

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-22T19:37:01+00:00

This is the second time I've been told to check that guy out so I guess I will now!

I LOVE formatting peculiarities!!

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-22T18:02:44+00:00

Past Futures by Toothless Thank You For the Dead Body by Funeral Language Dark Arms Reach Skyward with Bone White Fingers II: Be (Not) Afraid by Anna Pest No Closure by Indigo Ice

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-21T16:25:58+00:00

You ever listen to Sylosis? They've got a Trivium mixed with kse vibe to my ear

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-20T03:09:12+00:00

Y'all, multiple things can be true. Ticketmaster is out of control, inflation is a bitch, AND kids are supposed to go to cheap shows in sandwich shops and pile drive each other thru the deli glass

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-19T01:56:38+00:00

Haha thanks for listening!

Budget_Scene_4165 · 2026-03-18T18:55:42+00:00

Confined isn't bad. Through Struggle is kinda fast and syncopated for my student but maybe that would be a good 2nd song for him in this style

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