Does this thing suck? I think it looks pretty gnarly and I like the specs from what I remember. I am going to be having around $800 to spend on a new guitar here pretty soon. I want the best v guitar I can possibly get. So, since you guys kick ass all day and shred axe you should point me in the right direction?

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I played one once,it was pretty sweet.Get a Randy Rhodes V though,much better imo.

I am currently shredding a suzuki flying v, it has some fvkking rad pickups and gnarly tone. It plays kinda shady though, and I need to get my viper(ltd) and mockingbird(neck-thru n.j) set up soon with some new pickups and the input always goes out. I am starting to play in front of alot of people 2 times a week at our jam space. People just show up.

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Why would the Randy Rhoads one be much better? The only nice RR you can get for around the same price is the RR-5 and maybe a used RR-1. I haven't played the LTD DV8, but it looks nice. It can't be that much worse from the real one.

Sweet, I need a good axe to gig with. We tune to D standard but for our next album I want to use C sharp I believe it is, a half step under D(so whatever that is.) We also use quater step and a myriad of tunings for various covers. We like to cover obscure shit, like Vlad Tepes or Mutiilation. Sacramentum and Belphegor, black death metal.

Now I'm looking at this 90's mockingbird with a custom paintjob. It's at edroman.com, that dude has some sick guitars. I also like the abstact pagan, and rockingbat. I wouldn't mind saving up and using something like the rockingbird/bat or pagan as my main touring axe when we get that far. So anyone here play shows? My band has been together almost a year, and we have about 7 songs we can play. 3 of them are our own songs, and the other 4 are covers. Darkthrone's transylvanian hunger, Dissection's black horizons, Mutiilation's black as lead and death and Maniac Butcher's Pulnocni Rise(midnight empire.) We are working on Death's Crystal mountain. I assume the reason we only have 3 original songs we can play is the fact that 2 of the band members have less thatn 5 years experience with their instruments. I have played 7 years now, they have around 2-3. So they do just fine, but I want my rythm guitarist to start doing leads, we have about 4 minutes worth of soloing on our best song, entitled Funeral Moon In The Valley. We use alot of theory in the construction of our songs, basing the structures of folk themed scales with strong Scandinavian/European Heavy Metal influences. However, we sound very little like our Scandinavian/European heroes, which include Watain, Dissection, Sargeist, Horned Almighty, Ildjarn, Countess, Necrophobic, Necrophagist, Odium, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Naglfar, Ensiferum, Suidakra, Belphegor, Iron Maiden, Candlemass, Vlad Tepes, Mutiilation, Belketre, Bathory, Destruction, Kreator, Enslaved, Immortal, Aborym, Carcass, etc.

There is a distince psychadelic sense of psychotic adventure in our music. Some of it is very technical, but we do like to keep the kvltists happy with our super raw black metal song funeral hammer. That song captures what Oregon's one and only black metal scene sounds like. We are Oregon's black metal scene, we are the blackened death metal warriors of the Willamette Valley. We are Midnight Empire.

We took our band name from that maniac butcher song, it's a good one.

'when we get that far'... Ugh, you sound like the bassist from my old band

Also, you're not going to get anywhere in the underground metal scene by playing covers, especially if you're playing them in the same style as the originals which, seeing as you're a BM band, is what you're doing. Play more of your own stuff, you should have more than three songs after a year of being together

I have demos up here so judge the music for yourself. Our covers sound nothing like the originals, because we had to tab them out and we use different tunings and drum beats.

I have written well over 20 songs, it is unfortunate we can only play 3 of them. We have 7 of them recorded and demo ready.

The bassist of your old band sounds like the bassist of my old band, and they made it that far. Dude, people show up on free will, lots of people every time we play just because they like what they hear. It's not a big deal, and seeing as how we play "blackened death metal" making it simply means releasing a few demos and albums that are limited and continuing to sell albums, and then start playing tours and shows. We can already play shows any time we want at local bars, we just need to keep rehearsing. So in a sense, we already made it.

I also played with the local band bitter end's axeman, who has 16 years under his belt. That was short lived, but it would have most likely taken off, since we already had a myriad of songs and chops/licks being thrown around at rehearsal. I play music for a living, so I guess I have made it. I have another job of course, but then again what the fuck do you care?

wh... you have seven recorded but only play three? What's stopping you from playing the other four you've recorded?

Take off... as in play a show or two or actually get somewhere?

In all honesty, I admire your optimism. Your local scene is obviously thriving, and I invite you to come to England and punch me in the face when you're touring the world and have a record deal

actuallly i was looking at a DV-8 myself. its got all i want!

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I will be going to glasgow to hopefully visit family in a year. I have had a record label(self owned) since I was 16. So I signed myself, hahaha and I made no cash off of it, but easily could have. I gave away music for free, and that is why people now know of my new band. So by take off, I mean I just want to give back to the underground what they gave to me. A sense of superiority due to the sonic soundscapes that penetrated my skull. Heavy metal was my weapon, and now kids ask for my demos, so they can feel that power.

The thing stopping us is the fact that I right extremley complex music, or at least I think it is. Similar to Dissection, Sacramentum, and Necrophobic in a mild sense. We use alot of dualing leads, and precise bass runs. We have only had a full band set up for 3 weeks, maybe a month. So for a while we were not even rehearsing. It wasn't until November that rehearsing started. So, looking back, the reason we are so far behind(incredibly, to an insipid point regarding my musical values) is because for 6 months I was writing music for them, because they liked bands like Amon Amarth, Entombed, and Testament. I couldnt write like that, but now that 2 of the members left(the founding ones, the people who found the band Jittery Sniper)I write everything myself for myself, and my band members like it.

Also, the other four recordings have me on drums and both guitar parts, and I suck at drums. Blast beats and sloppy kick work.

You seem like a hell of cool guy, keep up the good work. This is the one forums I could always gain something from.