Pestilence

[STINNETT]

Okay, so I'm just wondering if it's possible for me to find another human being that likes the guitar sound on "Spheres" by Pestilence. In fact I would be happy if I could find somebody else that even liked that album at all. I love it but every metal fan that I know just curls up their nose and goes "turn that off....that sounds awful!"
What's up with that? Anybody here dig that guitar sound? I know it's really different and strange sounding especially if you listen to something else back to back with it, but I absolutely love it. I've even been experimenting with recreating that sound to a certain extent becasue I dig it so much. (that might be the worst thing I ever did since so many people hate it... )

Any opinions?

 

[~BURNY~]

I liked that album. Not really the sound but I didn't listen to it for ages.
I liked "Testimony Of The Ancients" better though.
As far as I can remember, they were using zoom units (the one that looks like a diskman) with valvestate amps...

 

[metalizer]

I second Testimony of the Ancients, but spheres is a great album and the guitarsound suits the music just fine to my ears.

 

[STINNETT]

As far as I can remember, they were using zoom units (the one that looks like a diskman) with valvestate amps...

Yeah, that's what it says in the liner notes actually. I'd like to know what they really did with that stuff to get that sound....

 

[metalizer]

It was a Zoom 9010 and a Marshall valvestate poweramp, they also used a Roland gr50 guitarsynth, Ibanez and Charvel guitars with D'addario strings

 

[revolver]

Consuming Impulse!

 

[Y-Zero]

Metalhead28

Okay, so I'm just wondering if it's possible for me to find another human being that likes the guitar sound on "Spheres" by Pestilence.

I love this sound.

 

[Asmus_Thomsen]

I absolutely loved "Consuming impulse" and "Testimony" - and my god was I disappointed when i listened to "Spheres".....

And then the "There are no keyboards on this album"...well, are there any guitars????

 

[STINNETT]

I absolutely loved "Consuming impulse" and "Testimony" - and my god was I disappointed when i listened to "Spheres".....

And then the "There are no keyboards on this album"...well, are there any guitars????

Haha, that's exactly what I'm used to hearing!

 

[James Murphy]

ah.. i do like the last two records but the first two with Martin Van Drunen singing, Malleus Malificarum and Consuming Impulse, are old-school death metal classics that have been overlooked for years, shamefully.

if anyone has the vinyl version of Tesimony Of The Ancients, take a look at the inner dust-cover sleeve to see an old picture of me, hanging on the back patio at Morrisound with Kelly Shaefer of Atheist and the Pestilence boys. Hint: i'm wearing a white Immolation t-shirt from Immo's demo days. \m/

 

[metalizer]

Their first albums were all old school death metal classics at a time where oldschool was still new school, and when they released Spheres in 93 it sounded alot more like Cynic than Death(the band) and most people didn´t quite get the new direction, it´a shame because if they had made a couple of more albums before Spheres with hints of the fusion style to come it wouldn´t have seemed like they betrayed their death metal roots.The same thing happend when Atheist released Elements(their best album if you ask me) and also when Cynic released Focus (my favorite fusion album of all time)those three bands were way ahead of what everone else was doing at that time, and today all those albums are by many considered to be some of the best albums from that period in time.Btw it´s so cool that Atheist are back together let´s hope that Cynic and Pestilence also will do reunions in the not so distant future.

 

[STINNETT]

Their first albums were all old school death metal classics at a time where oldschool was still new school, and when they released Spheres in 93 it sounded alot more like Cynic than Death(the band) and most people didn´t quite get the new direction, it´a shame because if they had made a couple of more albums before Spheres with hints of the fusion style to come it wouldn´t have seemed like they betrayed their death metal roots.The same thing happend when Atheist released Elements(their best album if you ask me) and also when Cynic released Focus (my favorite fusion album of all time)those three bands were way ahead of what everone else was doing at that time, and today all those albums are by many considered to be some of the best albums from that period in time.Btw it´s so cool that Atheist are back together let´s hope that Cynic and Pestilence also will do reunions in the not so distant future.

I agree, and if there is a Cynic / Pestilence reunion I will probably bust a nut. Seriously.

 

[metalizer]

ah.. i do like the last two records but the first two with Martin Van Drunen singing, Malleus Malificarum and Consuming Impulse, are old-school death metal classics that have been overlooked for years, shamefully.

if anyone has the vinyl version of Tesimony Of The Ancients, take a look at the inner dust-cover sleeve to see an old picture of me, hanging on the back patio at Morrisound with Kelly Shaefer of Atheist and the Pestilence boys. Hint: i'm wearing a white Immolation t-shirt from Immo's demo days. \m/

Cool picture James It must have been killer to have seen those albums being recorded, were you present at the recording of Testimony of the ancients?If you were can you tell alittle about it?

 

[PZ]

"consuming impulse" was one of the records that changed my life @ 14. Warts and all, an amazing album.

 

[Tym_ex]

Btw it´s so cool that Atheist are back together let´s hope that Cynic and Pestilence also will do reunions in the not so distant future.

You can forget a Pestilence reunion but I can inform you Patrick Mameli is going to fire up a new project quite soon. Again Patrick is in search for a new sound and this time he will focus on heavy riffing but with groovy hiphop rhythms, the demos sound aggressive as hell

The line-up is:
vox: still searching
drums: still searching
guitars: patrick mameli
guitars: me
bass: tony choy

 

[puremetal666]

I am glad to see Tony back in action, that boy band shit he was doing was an embarassment...

 

[Death Is Certain]

ah.. i do like the last two records but the first two with Martin Van Drunen singing, Malleus Malificarum and Consuming Impulse, are old-school death metal classics that have been overlooked for years, shamefully.

Agreed. One of my bands just did a cover of Out Of The Body at a performance 2 weeks ago and it went over quite well with the crowd. Nothing gets people moving quite like that old style death metal. Van Drunen's vocals on those first two records are insane. I have no idea how he's able to perform those vocals without killing his throat.

 

[metalizer]

You can forget a Pestilence reunion but I can inform you Patrick Mameli is going to fire up a new project quite soon. Again Patrick is in search for a new sound and this time he will focus on heavy riffing but with groovy hiphop rhythms, the demos sound aggressive as hell

The line-up is:
vox: still searching
drums: still searching
guitars: patrick mameli
guitars: me
bass: tony choy

you just ruined my day

 

[Asmus_Thomsen]

Hmmm, I really dig the Cynic and Atheist albums, perhaps I'll give "Spheres" another chance...

Listening back to a lot of old metal records today, I often say to myself "Why did I ever think this was brilliant" (it happens a lot with english bands, such as Benediction) - but "Consuming impulse" is still as brutal and insane as it was then...impressive!!! That really tells something about the quality of that band (to me at least).

 

[Salvatore]

Pestillence video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3to80Vd5YlU&search=pestilence