Daniel Ekeroth Demonstrates Swedish Death Metal Guitar Sound
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2008
- From www.swedishdeathmetal.com, SWEDISH DEATH METAL author Daniel Ekeroth demonstrates hilarious technique for achieving the legendary Swedish death metal guitar sound, invented by Leif Cuzner of Nihilist and perfected at Studio Sunlight in Stockholm. Great clip, but the book is better than the movie!
#swedishdeathmetal #hm2 #deathmetal
[video by Dianna Dilworth] - Hudba
![Entombed - Wolverine Blues [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uNi0tsCU-6g/mqdefault.jpg)
Since I was actually at Sunlight Studio when "Left Hand Path" was recorded, here is the truth:
Uffe Cederlund played ALL rhythm guitars on that album. There are three rhythm guitar tracks. Two of them (panned left and right) use the HM2 and one in the middle use a DS1. The amp was a Peavey Bandit and the guitar was an Ibanez Destroyer with EMG pickups downtuned to B (five half notes).
This makes sense. Besides, nobody seems to mention the guitar track in the middle.
that's why its a lot chunkier than just a hm2 signal. Adds a lot of substance to the tone, and that bass and clarity the hm2 doesnt have + that lovely lovely grit. i just tried it, spot on.
Really? Active pickups? Ew
Did they use heavy gauge strings back then? I am curious if loose down tuned strings are part of the sound
@@lillehammerexperimental I read entombed used 10-46 for their guitar tuned to b.
Amp designers spend countless years engineering the perfect tone for certain genres. This dude really just cranked up a distortion pedal and said yup good enough. And that sparked one of the most influential tones in death metal.
No, you're wrong, they put a ton of though into the sound even though it's nirvana 2002's sound
@@aegisraven1284 They put in a ton of effort to make it sound like a Marshall stack, which it fails at extremely well. This was definitely not the intended use for the pedal
@@zachiswayposi1 no they didn't try to do that all since the used peavey bandits exclusively. You need to educate yourself on metal history . They actually got the exact nirvana2002 tone they wanted
@@zachiswayposi1 also you obviously don't know entombed triple tracked their guitars. They were NEVER going for the marshall sound lmfao lots of Marshalls were sitting in that studio. Derp. Epic fail. Entombeds hm2 tone, based on nirvana2002's original tone, was meticulously crafted using three different amps with different settings and blended perfectly. Slightly more than an accident . Educate yourself!!!!! Idiot
This particular pedal actually does something pretty unique, and it has nothing to do with volume or gain
When the High Tone knob is cranked it spikes mids in a very special way. The pedal has very little gain or headroom actually
He forgot to mention that you have to tune down to B or C.
+David Guerra If people don't already know that, they're noobs!
+David Guerra people into the genre will notice the tunings anyway due to the key most songs are played in
***** Those bands don't have the classic Swedeath sound, though. They don't count. (Two of my all-time favorite bands, though)
He also forgot to make sure to plug in all the equipment.
I’m more of a black metal guy myself but I bought an hm2 and I want to play some entombed what tuning so they use?
this is the most metal video ever, "just turn it all to 11 and you'll have the greatest guitar sound of all time"
0:55 Spinal Tap moment right therrrr
The riff he plays is Entombed's "Drowned", the 2nd track from the LHP album.
0:07 i'm always ready to start headbanging so i felt stupid when the song didn't actually start playing lol
Just picked up the book. Excellent work. Incredibly thorough. If only there was an Ekeroth for every metal scene--someone who was
1. there 2. motivated to document the scene/time period 3. gifted with the ability to deliver this information clearly and entertainingly.
Guitar sound can only take you so far. I'd rather people analyze how and why the old Swedish masters wrote such good songs than servilely copy the surface attributes of the music (production, down-tuning, guitar sound, vocal styles, etc.).
Substance > Aesthetics
akuljah To be fair, Swedish death metal is boring compared to it's Finnish counterpart. It might be the unpopular opinion that I'm preaching here, but I'm not going to claim Swedish death metal is superior just because it sold more albums or was more internationally recognised.
I suppose go listen to Rippikoulu, no it isn't doom metal, it just has a slow tempo sometimes.
+akuljah That's why you need both, lol.
+Alex Paulsen It's not about how much they sell tho, you know you're leaving out a lot of influential music to other bands internationally, and they weren't influential because they sold a lot, but because people loved their stuff. It's all bloody good music.
Elias Marklund
That's the thing though, I just can't get into Swedish death metal, which means it's not "all bloody good music" (relatively speaking).
+Alex Paulsen To each their own
I love the Phantasm cover at the end. My favorite movie since I was a kid. I have always wondered how they got that sound. to bad I sold my HM-2 years ago
Boy!!!
which riff is it? love the little snippet he plays but it always sounded like drowned to me
@@vigaren Starts a 1:17
There’s lots of companies who have really cool takes on HM2s nowadays. Might be worth checking out something like the Abominable Throne Torcher for a more tweak-bale take on it, or the HM-2 Cult Chainsaw if you’re looking for a 1 to 1 replica of the original
Just to finish this once and for all.
Just checked with Entombed and I was 100% right on pedals, tuning etc. However, Left Hand Path was recorded using a 30w Peavy combo (not Bandit). It then broke so from Crawl and onward a 50w Peavy Bandit was used.
My fave DM albums are of the other type of tone (scooped); "Effigy...", "Butchered at Birth" and "Harmony Corruption" but I like albums with this type of tone, too, like "Like an everflowing Stream" or "Indecent and Obscene"!
early Dismember and Entombed ... my favorite guitar sound ... ever
I was asked what I wanted for christmas.
Another great way to use the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal is as a boost ( gain on the pedal around 11 O'clock in front of an amp that is on a slightly dirty channel. For example the lead channel of a 5150 with the pre amp gain set to about 5 and a half and EQ set to taste. This will get you the chainsaw tone without all the hiss and feedback that maxing out the pedal will do. You can also get a very similar tone to Rotten Sound,Bloodbath,Entombed etc. using a Boss DS-1 with the tone set at 4 o'clock and the distortion set around 11 o'clock with a Ibanez Tube Screamer used as a boost in front of the DS-1. This combo sounds crushing to say the least.
Ds-1 sounds pretty good as a boost with the amp dist too
I don't have a tubescreamer but I may try that with a bad monkey
I have one of these, and I absolutely fucking love it. With the right settings, a riff through this pedal will crush every bone in your body.
great vid man...help me so much 🤘🤘
The Devil has a name and his name is Boss HM-2. The most insane guitar pedal.
Daniel Ekeroth. We thank you. It's a great book. We knew all your new emerging teams. However, Poland also worked underground. A bit of news was in the Polish version of Metal Hammer, a lot more in Polish zines. In Poland, if your musical trend was already noticeable. In addition to Bathory, Anti - Cimex, Nihilist, have become very poularne: Entombed, Carnage, Dismember, Unleashed, Grave, Edge of Sanity, Therion, Carbonized, Tiamat later Hypocrisy, General Surgery, At The Gates and Cemetary.
I play in a band like Entombed and this video, while kind of funny, is dead on accurate. Hm-2 cranked to 11. Nailed it. Behringer hm-300 will actually work too... and its only like $20 and you can get it easily.
you should check out Lone Wolf Audio's 'Left Hand Wrath' pedal. Does an awesome buzzsaw job
My guitar player got a left hand wrath recently and it sounds great. not cheap, but it does what they advertise.
I've recently bought two of these (one as a backup) and have started using them as a boost through a Mesa single rec on the modern high gain channel and it's devestatingly heavy
Love your book!
diis levels mast åll be törnd mäx mäx ... mäx! I love Swenglish :P
I guess we learn it similar in Russia.
i need to get one of this for me :p
i question for all ...
the line 6 pod 2.0 can make the same stuff ?
love that album. but clandestine is my fav. it is actually my fav of all cd's ever. i can listen to it anytime and I have to listen to the whole thing once I put it on.
So badly produced tho. Musically great but sounds like shit
I use a LTD EC and behringer HM clone through a peavey bandit and get the same sound.
Did he seriously say that you can't find that pedal anymore because the members in the band dismember collect them and they have 20 each and that's the reason they are scarce?
This pedal really works!
skwisgaar
You can also nail this tone with a Blackstar ID TVP pretty easily. OD2 and EL84, mids and ISF at 9 o'clock and all other knobs maxed out.
left hand path at the beginning, such a good intro
yesterday i was at a concert with entombed and i was looking after the Boss HM-2 but I couldn't find it. He had lots of other pedals. Are you sure de still uses them?
you forgot about the blown-out speaker that made Dismember famous sound like through handkerchief
"they've never been able to make another pedal that works"
is that because this was 10 years ago? because now there's the Berhinger, Left hand wrath, Arion, Dunwich, all of which sound very similar if not the same...?
That guitarsound is invented in Canada by Slaughter ;)
+1 too fukking right, glad someone else brought that up. 👍
🤘 Update - Oh, and it DOES matter, because: i) too many new age try-hard (fake) Swedeath posers think that guitar tone started in Sweden (nothing against the early Swedish death metal scene, CLASSIC scene, but there are too many posers jumping on that bandwagon in recent years) ii) Slaughter from Canada do NOT suck, they are a legendary cult band who pioneered not only the chainsaw Boss HM-2 sound, but also helped pioneer extreme thrash and early death metal. Too bad some posers do not know good cult evil thrash when they hear it.
Strappado!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@wilhelmklieschnikov7185 Make way for the *INCINERATOR!* 🔥🤘
Spot on!
Lots of modern bands have been using this tone, Rotten Sound, Trap Them, and Black Breath for example.
Dude, that does sound actually really good.
That riff from Drowned so badass.
Now this I need to remember ( Have to got those pedals somewhere ). I've been wondering how the sound is created. Now I know. Thanks for the upload \,,/
KEEP THE OLD-SCHOOL KULT ALIVE AND KILLING \m/
still hilarious and accurate
Entombed is a great band but At the Gates is my personal favorite Swedish band. You can't beat that Gothenburg sound
Just bought one and it works perfectly on a tube amp and quite well on a transistor amp ! fucking killer sound !
Simple and elegant :D
His accent is pleasing like the guitar tone
The behringer hm300 is about the closest they've come to making another Boss hm2
Bought one! (jan. 2011).Sounds amazing,better than I expected.
For those that say "Nooo,the volume (the left knob) shouldn't go all out,right?",
yes: the volume too goes to 11.All 4 knobs!
i have a boss GT-8 lol how do i make that sound from my pedal board?
@timninerell is that the entombed left hand path longsleeve as well
The genius of getting this sound is that it is fairly simple, there isn't much more to it than what he said. It's just all in the equipment, you need a Boss HM-2, and a Marshall combo with a Gibson (though I am sure any other decent guitar would work as well). Entombed on left hand path tuned to B, so I would go with that as well... but really that's it.
I beg to differ. The Metal Zone pedal does a damn good job getting that ultra-heavy, saturated, scooped-mid sound that's perfect for death metal.
@ Anton H...The exact quote is " These got you eleven"....
I've seen this one already Dismember demonstrated their signature tone from their docu film
Daniel Ekeroth plays bass in Insision,a brutal death metal band from sweden
Is it better to use an amp with low watts or high watts? Any particular brand btw?
Well I have both of those so awesome.
thanks man
@WoWHeroin Entombed - Drowned from the album Left Hand Path.
Cool! I will try this in my next record session :) Excuse me for the stupid question but about that guitar riff - what is the name of the song from
Drowned by Entombed
It's the outro, or whatever, from the song Left Hand Path on Entombed's Left Hand Path album. It's from some movie (I think), but I forgot what movie.
I managed to get that sound by plugging boss ds1 (all settings maxed) and boss sd1 (small boost) to a distorted amp
whats the song at the end of the video?
what kind of amp is recommended for the sound??? JCM800? Peavey???
What's the song at the very end of the video? It sounds like a metal cover of the theme to Phantasm.
90s was so experimental
but what about on the amp. How much mid, low, reverb etc. should you have to get the sound??
That's great, Ian! ERIC
Left hand path, By Entombed. And the stuff he plays is also from Entombed, Drowned.
@swedisheinherjer behringer hm-300 are supposed to be near exact copies.
what was that song playing in the beginning
Ive gotten the dismember tone with a metal zone pedal with a line 6 it took a about 2 hours to get it down but i managed with it :)
bilibom1 The song is Drowned by Entombed, of course!
I really LIKE that he says that the metal zone pedal SUCKS, he says the TRUTH!
Where Can I Get That Pedal =)?
@Stuckmusic1 bet you cant find that shirt anymore'' inst that the left hand path shirt its a little different then what ive seen''
what song is at the end?
how does the amp have to sound with the pedal bypassed?
As far as i know was the Canadian band SLAUGHTER which used the HM-2 Pedal for the first time, using that sound on Strappado, before Leif Cuzner/Nihilist...
@WoWHeroin It's Left Hand Path by Entombed
i cant find a boss hm2 so im thinking either get the mt2 or ml2 whats better
super sick riff
@metalhead76250 Oo yes it does. Do you have the pedal yourself?
i have the BOSS Hyper Metal pedal...it looks exactly the same....all black with orange knobs....will it do the trick?!
hey somebody knows what is the song of the ending???????????????
@diabolusksk The intro music is the intro to Left Hand Path by Entombed. The bit at 1:18 is from the middle section of the same song. You need to get that album dude!
are jackson guitars good for death metal? and the death metal petal?
@darktimothy330 Entombed Left Hand Path, the last section which is played over the theme of Phantasm movie.
@psilodump
It makes sense that if this pedal is out of production and everyone in the genre is collecting them that they would be scarce. But I thought he said very specifically that they were hard to find because the members of only those two bands he mentioned collected them and had "like twenty or so each". Which didn't make sense. Perhaps I just misheard though.
So does any one here know just how rare they are? or about how many were made before they quit?
alright
you can either get the Heavy Metal on ebay
or you can buy the Boss OD 20 Drive Zone, which is practically every (or most) of Boss' overdrive/distortion pedals in one, though it costs more of course
Best tutorial ever
Has this been censored? I can barely hear the guitar playing.
his book is amazing!
@WoWHeroin btw the riff he plays is from the from Entombed-drowned but in this video he plays it at a slower tempo on the record it's faster sounds badass both ways.cheers
@DivinityOfDoom I agree completely, but the reason I only mentioned Left Hand Path is simply because people kept asking what song was what in this video. I figure that if they made it to this video, they should've already known what these classic songs were. Drowned, Left Hand Path, But Life Goes On, Morbid Devourment... Fuck I love this album!
Dis is de ongly one dat werks.
Gotta love the acsent
It's awesome how much Skisgaar sounds like him...
My uncle gave me that book for Christmas
@maarakthepatient It actually is, Left hand path by entombed, The outro is actually the phatnasm theme, Left hand path made that theme quite famous :)
i think to use the HM-2 for that sound you have to put it on the crunch chanel, maybe they used a distortion pedal to have a better crunch
No, he's not joking. This is the pedal and those are the settings for basically ALL old Swedish Death Metal albums.