Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California. Formed in 1999, the group consists of vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ.
They are known for their diverse heavy metal sound, dramatic imagery in album covers and t-shirts.^[1][2][3][4] Avenged Sevenfold emerged with a metalcore sound on their debut Sounding the Seventh Trumpet but their style had evolved by their third album and first major label release, City of Evil into a hard rock/heavy metal sound. The band continued to explore new sounds with their self-titled release and enjoyed continued mainstream success before their drummer, James "The Rev" Sullivan, died in 2009. Despite his death, the band continued on with help of now-former Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy and released and toured in support of their fifth album Nightmare in 2010 which debuted on the top spot of the Billboard 200, their first number one debut.^[5]

Bullet For My Valentine’s Michael “Padge” Paget - From pedalbored to pedalboard

Said to be the new heroes of guitar bands, up there with Metallica and the like, Welsh metalheads Bullet For My Valentine is enjoying international success with sold-out headline tours in Europe, US, Australia and Japan. Simultaneous Top 5 chart entries for their latest album "Scream Aim Fire" are popping up across the globe. "Scream Aim Fire" sold 53,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release debuting at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Combining a modern approach to metalcore and emo ballads with old-school 80s metal virtues, lead guitarist Michael “Padge” Paget lets his G-System handle the effects management while he’s busy handling the uptempo riffing and harmonic shredding mayhem. Just home for a few days after an extensive Euro/US tour only to take off for Australia and Japan shortly after, the obvious focus of this interview is how his G-System performed on the recent tour. “Well, nothing short of brilliantly” is Michael’s blunt reply to that question, followed up by “no problems whatsoever.” This comes from a guitarist that hadn’t had his G-System more than a couple of weeks before taking off on tour.

Pedalboard trimmed down
Before turning to the G-System, Michael had a huge board packed with pedals, separate delay pedals for different delay types and decay times etc. And with two amps to select channels on and switch between for dirty and clean sounds generating the array of dynamics and intensity shifts that make up the signature of Bullet For My Valentine’s hard-edged music, there’s plenty of need for the control and effects management that G-System provides. “I spent more time tap dancing than I did playing guitar,” Michael recalls. “G-System has really simplified things. It allows me focus my energy on playing rather than constantly being distracted by having to worry about which pedals to apply next – now one button gets the job done,” he continues.

Once connected to the G-System relay connectors, switching channels on your amp is pedal simple: All you have to do is dial in the desired channel just like any other parameter setting you want to store in the preset bank that holds up to 200 user presets.

Less is more
Besides having G-System simplifying his setup, with the insane range of different stompboxes out of his signal chain, Michael has also experienced a remarkable sound improvement; “It may appear to be a hackneyed phrase, but less pedals in your signal chain clearly equals less signal loss and less noise” Michael declares with true conviction in his voice.

However, noise elimination alone doesn’t do the trick. What really makes G-System shine is its unsurpassed sound quality. Michael elaborates on his choice: “There’s just no getting around the fact that TC offers the ultimate delays and reverbs. Delay is my favorite G-System effect, but I also use its compressor to color my sound and add uniqueness”.

Drag-and-drop easy preset sharing
Usually, guitar virtuosity goes hand in hand with gear nerdry. Not so with Michael. Being one helluva guitar player he is surprisingly indifferent to the technical side of things as long as he’s got premium sound.
“I’m really not much of a gear nerd,” Michael says. “I have Kevin, my guitar tech, set it all up, doing the programming and stuff. Cool thing; when we hit the US leg of our recent tour, I was really amazed with how easy it was to just copy the settings from my European G-System preset bank to the US board which the backline rental company had ready for us when we arrived.” Thanks to the G-System Editor, aligning presets between two units has become drag-and-drop easy. This is not just convenient to meet increasing weight restrictions on most airlines, it is also pretty neat when you want to exchange great presets with your friends or when you want to get the tone of your favorite guitarist.

Bullet For My Valentine

Begin from a called band of 12 of Pints last Of My Girlfriend’s Blood turn into Jeff Killed John. First formed in English in the year 1997, they still bring songs of Metallica and other. Besides playing metal band songs they also make song alone. In the end year 2002 those of release EP entitling You Play With Me. Containing EP this 2 song become last first release at the same time them.

In Fact that Jeff Killed John moment have owned new items and ready for recording their music demonstration. That moment band of nu metal like korn and Limp Bizkit is going up leaf and personnel of Jeff Killed John inspiration is blind music like them. But moment they will enter studio, the bassist, Nick Crandle set mind on to retreat.

Nirvana - Nevermind CD

A few years after the matter, even the album cover appears vaguely symbolic: an innocent babe, braving the hazards, lunging for the seductive prize at the end of a hook. Few would've given good odds that the youngster would actually be able to snatch the green, swim back to shore, and laugh triumphantly in the fisherman's face; and history has made fools of those who thought it couldn't be done. NEVERMIND not only gave Nirvana the prize the band had reached out for, it included some epic consequences in the bargain--raising the Seattle grunge trio to the status of Godhead, and forever changing the face of the pop music market.

As ground-breaking albums go, NEVERMIND seemed expressly designed for a post-modern existence. The punk energy and aesthetic ("Territorial Pissings," "Drain You") were its lifeblood; melody, harmony and structure ("Something In The Way," "Come As You Are") were its selling points; the roaring guitars and sub-conscious intellect ("Smells Like Teen Spirit," "In Bloom") were its heart and soul. Nobody had come up with an album like NEVERMIND before, because no one could conceive of an album like it--not since Husker Du had broken up, anyway.

But the place where NEVERMIND struck the most firmly and personally was in the gut. Cobain's throaty roar, mumbled speech, fumbled appearance all confirmed that he was of us, with us, and for us; his gift for combining melodies with acerbic insights showed that he was unlike us. "Here we are now, entertain us" may have come and gone as a catch-phrase, but as an insight into a generation's bitterly restless tide, it ranks right up there with "I can't get no satisfaction."

22 track collection of previously unreleased songs & demo versions of others recorded between 1969-1970. Includes 'Love You 'Til Tuesday', 'That's A Promise', 'Silly Boy Blue', 'Over The Wall We Go', 'When I Live My Dream' and Let Me Sleep Beside You'. 1997 SPQR Records release. The full title is 'The Forgotten Songs Of David Robert Jones'.