Phenomephrene

Deli-sliced turkey, muenster cheese, honey mustard, and my home-made pickles, on wheat.

Aye. It helps with my anxiety, can be an excellent escape and provide a different frame of reference on things, is a way I deal with extreme pain, and overall just enhances quality of life.

Highly recommended.

All of the above depending on what your budget is.

Many software emulations are more than serviceable, and again depending on your budget can offer some really advanced parameter controls to mimic different types of speakers in differently sized cabinets being recorded with different types of mics in different recording spaces.

Pedals can still vary widely in quality, but there are some really good ones out there that can serve as a backup in case there’s any on-stage technical problems, or even serve as a completely fine fly rig in and of themselves.

Kemper makes the top of the line stuff these days (so far as I know, it’s been a couple years since I payed very close attention to cutting edge tech). Their profiling amps allow you to make complete profiles of real amps and cabs through recording a series of signals through that rig. These profiles can be shared online and downloaded straight onto their “heads” which can be rack mounted in a studio setup. For stage use they have versions that serve as a typical amplifier head would, or use the form factor of those multi-effect floor units. They sound incredible.

Guitar tube amplifier emulation.

I love it because as absolutely horrid as it was when it was emerging tech, those sounds along with every other link in the chain comes with certain nostalgia for music that was created using it in whatever intermediary period it was at in that time. Today we’ve basically hit endgame in that the emulations of today’s tech are so close to the real thing that they’re basically indistinguishable from the genuine article. We have access to the full range of sounds from Boss DS-1’s to the old Line6 Pods to modern Kempers. If you’re a guitar player who likes experimenting with the over all sound of your rig, this is the good stuff.

Yeah, can’t be certain, but it would have had to have been one of four that I remember from my earliest years:

Pong Space Invaders Super Mario Bros Duckhunt

Yeah, that’s fine.

I’m just saying there was plenty going on between '86 and '94 to challenge the limits of chugga-chugga as you put it. And I won’t argue against Destroy Erase Improve being a watershed album, and I’d even consider it a respectable stance if you want to say it might be the heaviest record ever if that’s your opinion, but it’s not like it’s an unquestionable monolith that no other records from around or before then could stand up to.

This is an interesting analysis. ‘Heavy’ is a nebulous enough concept in music that being so definite with assertions like this is basically inviting contention. It can only ever really be a discussion as opposed to anything concretely absolute.

My current vehicle is The Blue Meanie.

Previously, I had a Kia that I called The Kill Ya, a cavalier that I dubbed The Crasholier, and my first car I called The B-Mobile.

The worst recorded sound that I have ever heard was Kurt Cobain doing a mic check on a Nirvana live bootleg. Like a tortured cat with laryngitis.

Who is raising their pinky finger while they are eating corn dogs?

Lee Kum Kee is what I’ve found that is a) available, and b) close to indistinguishable from Huy Fong as far as I can tell.

Corn dogs for sure. Fuckin’ love me some corn dogs with ketchup.

On fries I really only do ketchup. I use Sriracha on almost everything else that’s primarily potato, but not fries. I used to use A1 steak sauce every so often a while back. I hadn’t thought of that in years; might need to go pick up a bottle.

If you’ve got the head shape to pull it off, go for it. You don’t really know until you try it. I tried…

Eh, some of us are just balding and it’s the least bad option.

I’m not sure there’s much in the way of branching off from Eneferens. I thought you may have heard of them due to label affiliations. At any rate, glad you are receiving these positively. And yeah, trust that the Hexvessel album is worth some deeper dedicated listening. That’s a special album imo; I don’t know of anything else that’s quite like it.

If you care to, let me know what you think of these. I think I’m on the right track, but I’d be curious to hear how these strike you.

Ok, I can work with that. If you are a Panopticon fan you may already be familiar with this, but if not it’s worth a listen: Eneferens. A little more toward the VVilderness vibe, but essentially purely folk, check out Ekstasis. And to go with the psych vibe, if you haven’t heard Hexvessel - Dawnbearer then give that a spin and thank me later.

What types of metal do you like? I can try to aim if I have an idea of what you’re into.

If I’m going just for an out of the blue rec, maybe try Emptiness - Not For Music if you’re not already familiar. Belgian black/death band having turned toward the avant garde have left nearly every indication of their more extreme roots on this album, and it’s fantastic. All the tracks are great but if you’re looking for the “single” maybe try the track Ever.

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