A Better Tomorrow #3: Primitive Black Metal
Illustration of Fenriz by Nagawika There must be some happy medium between “Pro Tooled to death, on Nuclear Blast/Century Media” and “recorded in a dumpster under two damp mattresses, wants to be our MySpace friend.” Then again, black metal shouldn’t be about happy mediums. In this third installment of A Better Tomorrow, Jess Blumensheid goes...
Pedal to the metal
. . . For $95, you can sound like Bathory. That is the premise of Dragonfly’s Black Metal Pedal, a tribute to the music’s first wave. The demonstration video here shows off suitably raw tones, though it’s hard to tell anything with YouTube’s audio quality. Note that the pedal’s controls are “Power,” “Hatred,” “Attack,” and...