@@dpark551 I actually seriously enjoy the production of the new album. Those drums are so natural and the production really lends itself to that I feel. I don’t know if I’d enjoy TWOAF as much with the Fortitude production and vice versa.
@@jacee8094 I agree - twoaf they didn't have as many resources so I'm pretty sure Mario had everything triggered. Fortitude you really get the full dynamic range.
Wintersun self-titled, Epitaph by Necrophagist, Planterary Duality from The Faceless, Paradise Lost by Symphony X. Attera Totus Sanctus from Dark Funeral. man the 2000's were good
Here are mine: 2000 - A Perfect Circle: Mer De Noms 2001 - Sevendust: Animosity 2002 - Killswitch Engage: Alive or Just Breathing 2003 - Machine Head: Through the Ashes of Empires 2004 - Lamb of God: Ashes of the Wake 2005 - Gojira: From Mars to Sirius 2006 - Tool: 10,000 Days 2007 - Machine Head: The Blackening 2008 - Gojira: The Way of Flesh 2009 - Alice in Chains: Black Gives Way to Blue
2000: Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World 2001: System Of A Down - Toxicity 2002: Hatebreed - Perseverance 2003: Chimaira - The Impossibility Of Reason 2004: Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake 2005: Gojira - From Mars To Sirius 2006: Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side 2007: Machine Head - The Blackening 2008: Trivium - Shogun 2009: Behemoth - Evangelion
At the moment, my list would be like this, but there are some tuff picks in there! 2000: Immolation - Close To A World Below 2001: Tool - Lateralus 2002: Nile - In Their Darkned Shrines 2003: Vital Remains - Dechristianize 2004: Necrophagist - Epitaph 2005: Opeth - Ghost Reveries 2006: Cannibal Corpse - Kill 2007: The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works 2008: Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh 2009: Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
2005 was amazing year for quality metal. Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor, Opeth - Ghost Reveries, Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked, High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings, Kamelot - The Black Halo, Kreator - Enemy Of God, Strapping Young Lad - Alien, Trivium - Ascendancy, Soilwork - Stabbing The Drama, Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine, Biomechanical - The Empires Of The Worlds, Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic: Calling, Vision Divine - The Perfect Machine, Redemption - The Fullness Of Time, Savage Circus - Dreamland Manor... Oh, man. There's just so many to pick. :D
Loved A.I.C black gives way to blue. Wicked album, and I'm massive Layne fan, but this was a great album. 💯 Agree Ola. 🤘🏼
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This is my 10 best 00's albuns Angra - Temple of Shadows Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance Opeth - Ghost Reveries Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion Behemoth - Demigod Marduk - World Funeral Anthrax - We've come for you all Dark tranquillity - Fiction Testament - The Formation of Damnation
Man, thinking about it the 2000s had an absolute insane amount of awesome albums... here's my list that I'm immediately gonna change my mind about in 5 minutes: 2000 - Pantera - Reinventing the Steel 2001 - System of a Down - Toxicity 2002 - Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence 2003 - Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll 2004 - Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache 2005 - Trivium - Ascendancy 2006 - All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals 2007 - Machine Head - The Blackening 2008 - Scar Symmetry - Holographic Universe 2009 - Sybreed - The Pulse of Awakening
Reinventing the steel kicked major ass! I was at the tour for that album , Slayer and Static X opened. It was a kick ass show and the last time i saw Pantera.
My list: 2000: Malevolent Creation - Envenomed 2001: Tool - Lateralus 2002: Meshuggah - Nothing 2003: Dream Theater - Train of Thought 2004: Decapitated - The Negation 2005: Gojira - From Mars to Sirius 2006: 4ARM - 13 Scars 2007: Machine Head - The Blackening 2008: Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted 2009: Man Must Die - No Tolerance for Imperfection If non-metal albums were included, I'd put American Idiot by Green Day in 2004 and put Nihility by Decapitated in 2002 since they'd no longer be taking up the 2004 spot.
All tough choices but: 2000 - Deftones White Pony 2001 - Entombed Morning Star 2002 - Mastodon Remission 2003 - Anthrax We've Com For You All 2004 - Necrophagist Epitaph or Exodus Tempo 2005 - Gojira From Mars to Sirius 2006 - Russian Circles Enter 2007 - Devil Driver The Last Kind Words & Entombed Serpent Saints (tough choice) 2008 - Arsis We Are The Nightmare 2009 - Obscura Cosmogenisis
These are the guitarists that inspired me. I learned everything I know about playing guitar from playing these guys' riffs and solos. Kirk Hammett James Hetfield Dave Mustaine Marty Friedman Jerry Cantrell Richie Kotzen Alex Skolnick Thomas McRocklin Ritchie Blackmore David Gilmour Jimmy Page Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott
2000: Nile - Black Seeds of Vengeance 2001: Tool - Lateralus 2002: Mastodon - Remission 2003: Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn 2004: Wintersun - Wintersun 2005: Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine 2006: The Sword - Age of Winters 2007: Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia 2008: Meshuggah - obZen 2009: Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
I love that my question is getting extended for more episodes haha For metal albums of the 00s, Chimaira’s self titled has to be mentioned! One of the best metal albums ever made!
interesting opinion: 2007 : United Abominations - Megadeth there's something about that album that just hits different to me, i havent really heard of anyone talking that much about United Abominations but its definitely one of my favourite albums of all time
Your pick for 2009 is also one of my favorite Alice In Chains album. It’s sad that this album doesn’t get more recognition than it does or at least I don’t hear too many people talk about it. Your picks also are making me want to go back and listen to these albums!
2000: Domine - Dragonlord 2001: Bal-Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant 2002: Symphony X - The Odyssey 2003: Lost Horizon - A Flame to the Ground Beneath 2004: Wintersun - Wintersun 2005: Shadow Gallery - Room V 2006: Dol Ammad - Ocean Dynamics 2007: Rob Rock - Garden of Choas 2008: Kalmah - For the Revolution/Equilibrium - Sagas 2009: Immortal - All Shall Fall
Nevermore is the most underappreciated metal band of all time. Absolutely elite. Jeff in his prime was untouchable and the songs were badass af. RIP Warrel.
FAQ: Hey Ola. Are there any smaller, lesser known amp manufacturers that you have been wanting to try out? I happened to stumble across Ceriatone, who specialize in hand wired Marshall clones and they blew me away.
Here are mine: 2000 Ashes you Leave - The inheritance of Sin and Shame 2001 Candlemass - Ancient Dreams 2002 Agalloch - The Mantle 2003 Draconian - Where lovers mourn 2004 Therion - Sirius B 2005 Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness 2006 Electric Wizard - Dopethrone/My Dying Bride - A line of deathless Kings (sorry, can't pick one) 2007 Primordial - To the nameless Dead 2008 Draconian - Turning Season Within 2009 My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
For me, 2000- Iron Maiden “Brave New World” 2001- Tool “Lateralus” 2002- Buckethead “Electric Tears” 2003- Overkill “Killbox 13” 2004- Iced Earth “The Glorious Burden” 2005- Bolt Thrower “Those Once Loyal” 2006- Anthem “Immortal” 2007- Saxon “The Inner Sanctum” 2008- Yngwie Malmsteen “Perpetual Flame” 2009- Heaven and Hell “The Devil You Know” “Those Once Loyal” is my favorite death metal album of all time, and a contender for my favorite album period. It’s just so good.
2000 - Clayman 2001 - Blackwater Park 2002 - Reroute to Remain 2003 - St Anger (hehe) 2004 - Reise Reise 2005 - Ghost Reveries 2006 - Matter of life/death 2007 - The Blackening 2008 - Way of All Flesh 2009 - Black Future
@@xedasxedas I am a Metallica fan and in 2003 I was 9 years old and played the living hell out of St Anger for years. There are "better" albums from 2003 but nostalgia too strong. Tbh St. Anger songs are really good and heavy live. Songs arent bad just some a bit long and awful production.
2000: Deftones White Pony 2001: Slayer God Hates Us All 2002: Otep 2003: Morbid Angel Heretic 2004: Cradle of Filth Nymphetamine 2005: Hate Eternal I Monarch 2006: Slayer Cult 2007:Job For A Cowboy 2008: Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plauge 2009: Behemoth.
I'm a fan dude, good always to see your every vid. I see you on a metal talk show; thanks for sticking through the tough times and bringing us a bit of light in a dim last year and a half of isolation.
Idk about many of the other years of the 2000s but for 2001, Iowa by Slipknot definitely gets my vote, and City Of Evil by Avenged Sevenfold gets my 2005 vote. Honestly the peak of both of those bands
2000 - The Haunted - Made Me Do it 2001 - Carnal Forge - Please... Die! 2002 - Dimension Zero - Silent Night Fever 2003 - Nevermore - Enemies of the Reality 2004 - Dismember - Where Ironcrosses Grow 2005 - Hatesphere - The Sickness Within 2006 - Dissection - Reinkaos (in reality I was on The Haunted - The Dead Eye diet, but I didn't want to repeat the band) 2007 - Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition... Exhibit A / or Gorefest - Rise to Ruin - PRODUCTION! 2008 - Gojira - The Way of All Flesh 2009 - Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know
Black Gives Way To Blue was such a great comeback album for AIC. They could not have possibly found anyone better to fill in than Will Duvall, he's awesome.
Just had a weird realization that I went from watching these hyped waiting for my first guitar to arrive in the mail at the start of this year, to actually being where I am now and I can understand what the hell is even being talked about in questions like the first one. That kinda just makes me happy I went from dreaming all my life of learning guitar to just finally playing the damn thing. Gonna try setting my apollo to 0 input gain from now on to get the cleanest signal too glad I learned that thanks Ola!
I love your little best-ofs for the decades, aswell as the Metal Mornings! I always take at least one band with me, that I didnt knew before and that I learned to really like. Thank you so much! Edit: This ones is Vanden Plas... Loved the one song I heard so far (Beyond Daylight), am hyped for the rest!
20:38 for the next faq. It would be great if you gave us your professional advice for the business side of things. How someone can start a company, prototypes, funding, networking etc. You’re the living proof of someone who started from scratch and made it so well. At least for me you’re the right man to talk about these things. Thanks in advance and all the best 🤟🏻
My heavy rotation during the 2000s 2000: Morbid Angel : Gateways to Annihilation 2001: Opeth - Blackwater Park 2002: Hate Eternal - King of All Kings 2003: Krisiun - Works of Carnage 2004: Behemoth - Demigod 2005: Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked 2006: Vader - Impressions In Blood 2007: Dethklok - The Dethalbum (haha) 2008: Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds 2009: Behemoth - Evangelion
FAQ: Ola how do you prepare your track for solo live performances? are you using complete track or just a drum and bass as a backing track? Keep up the fantastic work bro.
Personal list :) 2000 Pantera - You know the name 2001 Slipknot - Iowa 2002 Black Label Society - 1919 2003 Children of Bodom - HateCrew Deathroll 2004 All That Remains - This Darkened Heart shootout to DamagePlan too 2005 Children of Bodom - Are you Dead Yet? 2006 Trivium - The Crusade 2007 Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos 2008 Trivium - Shogun 2009 Lamb of God - Wrath 2010 Aniihilator - Aniihilator
FaQ: Ola if you didn't play guitar what other instrument do you think you would have made a career out of and could you imagine starting a company like solar making the instrument. Love the show BTW
Ola this is the 3rd time youve played Jullarr ....by the way that guitar is frickin gorgeous...i was asked to re-string and set up a Solar last week ..it was a pleasure ..beautiful.
Holy Crap Ola! I had never heard of Pain of Salvation or Vanden Plas and they are both so kick ass. Thanks for the recommendations again Bro! Also, I totally agree with the nod to Radiohead's "In Rainbows". I remember being so psyched watching the live stream of the entire album live from their jam room the night it released. It was a self-released album and you could pay whatever you wanted for the download...I paid $12 ( the avg. price of a CD at the time). The average price paid was like $6 per download, even though more people downloaded it for free than paid. I think the band made over 3 Million Dollars that day...what Legends!
FAAAAAQQQ!! Hi, Ola. I haven't seen you using a Solar Lime Burst since the promo video. Why is that? They are incredibly beatiful!! I have one and she astonishing. My favorite color for sure.
Huge points for you mentioning Masterplan's Self-Titled. That album is perfect from top to bottom. Jorn absolutely destroys vocally on that record and the guitar-tone from Roland is tremendous. All around killer effort from the band!
Endgame-Megadeth, Paradise Lost- Symphony X, Ashes Of The Wake-Lamb of God, The Way Of All Flesh-Gojira, Train Of Thought-Dream Theater, God Hates Us All-Slayer, The Sickness-Disturbed
love many of those albums mentioned. I'll add these two as some personal faves of mine: Ark - Burn the Sun (best Jorn Lande performance. and that coin drop) Symphony X - The Odyssey
Hey Ola, FAQ: The Swedish legend ABBA is back! ABBA has accompanied a large part of my childhood. The first single sounds as if they were never gone. What does that trigger in you?
Fuk man! I love your channel. Thanks for giving me some shit to listen to. Some new to me, some I haven't listened to in years that I need to go back and revisit.
Shogun by Trivium in 2008, Endgame by Megadeth in 2009, Sacrament by Lamb of God in 2006, Alien by Strapping Young Lad in 2005 and Chimaira by Chimaira in 2005 are my extra picks.
FAQ: Hi Ola and greetings from Fazer-land! I hadn't discovered your channel until very recently when I found the joys of playing guitar again after the pause of several years, so I'm sorry if you have already answered this (I haven't had the time to go thru all the FAQs, YET). By the way, I have found your videos in particular very helpful (especially the pedal related ones) and inspiring, even if modern metal isn't something I listen to that much (old school is more of my thing, no hate involved or anything). But you know, you can draw inspiration from many, even not that obvious sources. THE QUESTION: As of now, do you have time and energy to actively seek out new music, or do you just focus on something you encounter from the news and some suggestions people throw at your direction? As a father of two and having a job I know that can be difficult at times, but you know, I'd like to keep my mind open. PS. Trallpunk? Tycker du om Asta Kask?
2000 - At the Drive-In : Relationship of Command 2001 - Opeth : BWP 2002 - Agalloch : The Mantle 2003 - Edge of Sanity : Crimson II 2004 - Mastodon : Leviathan 2005 - Bloodbath : Nightmares Made Flesh 2006 - Enslaved : Ruun 2007 - Between the Buried and Me : Colors 2008 - Cynic : Traced In the Air 2009 - Obscura : Cosmogenesis
I remember being in high school and listening to the blackwater park double album. It honestly was my introduction to Swedish death metal. Excellent complete album!
Train of Thought is Dream Theater's most consistent thrash album, and I just love it! Aww man you censored the dog porn section!! :-p Seriously though, your dog is such a sweetheart!
2001 - is definitely Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence the best (in my opinion)! Thank you, Ola for Vanden Plas and Tool - two of three my best 2000s albums right there ❤ (2002 Meshuggah - Nothing is the third of them)
Hi Ola! This is Kumar from India, big fan! I just wanted to know your inputs on the song "Centuries of Suffering" by Testament. For me it has some good amount of Swedish metal tropes and riffing style, specially their main intro riff. Love pix 😍
Tough choices. 2000: Godsmack - Awake 2001: Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin 2002: Armageddon - Three 2003: Marty Friedman - Music for Speeding 2004: Damageplan - New Found Power 2005: Firewind - Forged by Fire 2006: In Flames - Come Clarity/Kataklysm - In the Arms of Devestation 2007: Soilwork - Sworn to A Great Divide 2008: Machinery - The Passing 2009: Halestorm - Halestorm
FAQ question: How important would you say the pickups are in a guitar when you're working with high-gain metal tones in a home recording setup with a DI box? I get a lot of flubby, sludgy low end and I've seen a lot of people say that better pickups can help especially for 7 strings like mine, but I always kinda thought pickups were towards the bottom of the recording quality food chain. What are your thoughts?
Pickups are a life changer. Going from a bass heavy pickup to something with little bass and heavy mids will change a ton of your sound but mainly the feel and how it interacts with the low end. I had a lundgren m6 in the bridge in my 6 string tuned to D standard or drop C and put a black winter in and it is so much tighter, not that an m6 isn't tight but still. Pickups matter
Pickups are important for tweaking very specific qualities of your tone. For a problem like you describe, too much low end causing a lack of definition and a flubby sound, put an EQ between your guitar and the amp/sim; set a highpass filter between 170-220hz (tweak to taste) with a sharp enough Q so that the low end is cut aggressively. This should clean up the boomies. Other things to consider is ensuring your pre-amp gain settings aren't too high, your bass knob in the pre-amp isn't too high and, most importantly IMO, your Master Volume isn't set too high. Having your master volume set high only introduces more saturation once your signal hits the power amp. This can manifest as boominess and over saturated low-end which makes everything sound muddy. Most modern metal tones have their master volume settings quite low; between 2 and 4 out of 10. You want to have the MV just high enough to coax some of the goodness out of the power amp, but not so much that it oversaturates your tone.
Pickups and Amp is the most important part of any tone. In a DI box that means pickups are still just as important, as is the plug-in you’re using or whatever you’re reamping to. So yes, pickups matter, A LOT.
Personally, I put a lot of stock into pickups. Typically low end can be tamed on a real amp with a OD pedal in front but sometimes when i record direct into my DAW i feel the OD pedal inside the plugin isn't as effective as a real amp etc. My suggestion would be to experiment with different pickups and every time you swap them out record something in your DAW to keep track of which pickup does what to your tone. my second suggestion would be to experiment with different picks and shore up your picking. I spent a lot of time on my picking this year and it makes all the difference. What tuning are you playing in with your 7?
yo. gotta disagree with the answer on FAQ #1. Ideally, you want the signal to peak at or close to -12 on your daw pre meter. If you always leave your Audio Interface pre at 0, you will get varying results depending on your guitar's output (pickups, active?, etc.) love you channel, ola. not trying to be a know it all, just trying to clear that one up. metal.
FAQ: Hey Ola, have you ever considered making a custom FIshman Fluence modern pickup for the Solar guitars that currently come with Fishmans? Something like the Epiphone prophecy line, where they have basically a custom voiced fluence modern, but with added coil split, which the regular moderns don't have. Regular fluence moderns are cool, but a true coil split would make the current models the best bang for the buck there is on the market, i think.
FAQ: Hey Ola, I noticed that your guitar tone always sounds incredible when you first start off your videos (mixed with drums) but it doesn't sound as good without the mix or drums. Can you go over how you make those intro mixes sound so much better than when the guitar is played by itself? Also, give Pix more belly rubs!
