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I've been listening to this loads since it came out. Great stuff, added bonus of having '666 fucking beer' enter my daily parlance thanks to the Abigail cover.

You'd probably save money buying one of the Sunn Beta preamp pedals out there. Moose ocassionally does them locally, or there are various ones (EAR, Fuzzlord,Blue Colander, Kuro etc) that while not cheap would probably get you there cheaper than that amp

I had a run of similar yokes (Amnesian) that I also keep putting off doing a re-run of, basically the back half / EQ section of a Beta Lead with a clean front end.  They are grand but work better with an OD in front of them.  Probably a sign to rebuild it with a boost built in lol

If you do that you have one customer here anyway!
Been intrigued by those beta lead pedals, I see someone on Adverts has been selling handmade ones on and off.
Despite saying yesterday that I love having a small setup, I'm also very tempted to finally start running a bass amp and guitar amp (though a guitar in A through a bass amp has done me fine). Between all members of the band there are 4 sovtek heads floating around, but I still can't justify the boot space and back pain bringing them to smaller gigs. I might just make up a small plaque to put next to the small head that says 'My other amp is a mig100'.

resurrecting this for the craic..and because i'm about to have an Orange Dual Baby delivered in the next few days. I've had a Marshall origin 50  for the last while that I like but which wasn't quite what I wanted. Also I'm old and tired of lifting big amps so I'm more than happy to get something smaller and lighter. I rarely gig but it'll be nice to have something easier to carry when I do. Excited to try it out.

I'd be keen to know how you get on with it. I'm with you on the heavy amps, sg have been playing through cheap tc electronics bass heads the last year or so for convenience. I have no amp in my house but I was thinking a 1x12 and small head would be nice at home. Have also started using 2x12s for gigs cos the rooms we play in are tiny and we're a drive around in a small car band now so the big yokes can stay put.

I like the look of the quilter heads for portability but I don't gig enough to justify the price.

Not all metal but all heavy:
I come back to De Novissimis and Wreck of the Hesperus a lot, never gets old.
Drainland get a lot of revisits too, somehow never had And So Our Troubles Began on record so ended up getting it on Discogs last year.

I go back to Slomatics - Kalceanna quite a bit too. I like what they're doing now but the vocals and slightly lo-fi approach of Kalceanna always gets me.

Every few years I revisit Putrefaction, would have loved another album from them.

I go back to My Name is Satan - Refuse to Kneel a lot too. I bought it twice from Discogs after insisting someone take a copy who'd never heard it.

I was going to say that most of these also benefit from nostalgia for the time they came out or the time I first heard them, but I don't think that nostalgia carries the experience at all, they still stand up well.

Side note, you'd get another fine thread from 'Irish bands you wish put out something/put out more' too. There's a few unreleased albums lurking around that I'd love to see get some kind of release.

They only seem to have the vinyl, annoyingly. I'm fucked if I'm buying it from Evil Greed, their postage rates are nonsense.

Could be worth emailing to see can he order a CD for you.

Sounds deadly. Loved that button factory gig. I like what I've listened to of Sumac but never listened enough to get how the vocals fit in, though that might be more a case of me not listening enough, I like his voice in general. I think Turner sounds great contrasting with Von Til on this. As Jamie said, the electronics seem to have a nice place on it too. Distrotable (based in Sligo) are doing pre-orders if anyone wants to get it with local postage: link

I've been in the same (slow and unproductive) band for 20 years now, with absolutely no plans of stopping. We're slow by design, the band has to make room for life outside the band. We played more gigs in 2025 than we have in years and it felt great and it's vindication to get a new album recorded etc.

Gigging isn't what it used to be, I'm afflicted with a lot of nostalgia for the 2000's 2010's DIY scene where there was a lot of crossover and a lot of weirdness. I've been in other bands who were more productive and shorter lived, and I'm craving writing with new people, but it all has to feel right.

I've never been strictly a metal player, anything I've done has been odd in one way or another, and I don't want to change that, but the last few years I've been dreaming of doing something in metal that merges all the stuff I love and feel I don't hear enough of, unfortunately for that to work I think it'd have to be with other people, I don't have that kind of one man band in me.

VYK were deadly alright, taking in a lot of stuff and making it all sit together naturally. Immediate points for singing in an unaffected accent too.

Hadn't seen Wild Rocket in so long, loved it, sticking a Volvo sticker on an MS-20 definitely makes it sound better. Pink Glasses also managed to do Harry Pussy style wonk without it sounding like a total mess. Most fun I've had playing with SG since we started gigging again.

I feel like there had been less of these varied heavy weird nights the last few years but maybe they're on the way back, always been my favourite kind of gig to play or go to. Fair play Moose for putting this together anyway

This is deadly, sounds great, tone is perfect, vocals are excellent too, good balance of clarity and grit.
I love the website, nice to read the process and see detail on how it was made. Looking forward to more!

I'm mostly into music as a way to repeat myself.
I think the last doom thing I got really into that had plenty of nastiness was Disrotted. Maybe more on the sludge side of things.

I never went any further than Sub Templum with Moss for some weird reason.

I went back to Cthonic Rites and Sub Templum a few months ago, would have been the first time in years I listened to either. I remember being the same, a lot less drawn in by Sub Templum but they both still sound great to me. Tons of nasty atmosphere but never felt over the top. Nicely stripped back and raw. I don't know of much that's done that kind of thing as well since. Been tempted by the records on Fuck Yoga, might be a good excuse to finally get that Bacterium record while I'm at it...

Is there any horrible sounding stuff like this from the last few years I might have missed?

Might as well say hello, I was also decy on MI (been decy my whole life actually), though I didn't post much for years.
I'm regularly waffling on about missing chat about music online, I read the entire Local filth thread the other day and was weirdly nostalgic.

Having said that I probably won't post much here.