By Miranda on Dec 1, 2011 | In Sick Sounds, Features | Send feedback »
Cross-rhythms are an increasingly common way of twisting the listeners ear and blurring the meter, so that anyone wishing to tap their foot along to the music will require several years of formal music training and a degree in applied mathematics. Our exclusive lessions from Sick Sounds 9 talk you through these...
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By miranda on May 16, 2011 | In Sick Sounds | Send feedback »
Bands that focus entirely on dissonance can often begin to sound less brutal, as there are no contrasting sections to make the heavy riffs sound heavier.
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By miranda on Apr 29, 2010 | In Sick Sounds, Video Lessons, Features, Features
Ol Drake's Shred SchoolOn pages 38 and 39 of Sick Sounds issue 2 you will find the music to accompany Ol's lesson below. Anaal Nathrakh's Unruly Interview VIDEO EXCLUSIVE!!!Mick Kenney talks about his approach to guitar playing and producti…
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By miranda on Apr 28, 2010 | In Fun, Sick Sounds
At the moment in the Sick Sounds forum, Jonathan Horsley is asking: What are your favourite riffs, the coolest riffs of all time? Best/most articulate posts will (probably) go in the magazine.Feel free to be obscure.
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By miranda on Apr 26, 2010 | In News, Announcements, Sick Sounds, News
I have never encountered a band as tired as Mastodon. When we hooked up with them they were totally zapped, crushed against the windshield of their remorseless calendar, wearied by the globe-spanning stretch of air-miles they’ve clocked up in support…
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By miranda on Apr 25, 2010 | In News, Background, Announcements, Sick Sounds, Video Lessons, Features | Send feedback »
Here is the video footage to go with the lessons in the very first issue of Sick Sounds. To get your hands on a copy of this incredible magazine and the music to go with these videos, Click Here.(EXCLUSIVE) ALEX WEBSTER INTERVIEW/LESSONThe Cannib…
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By miranda on Apr 21, 2010 | In Sick Sounds | Send feedback »
Fear Of A Black Metal PlanetAfter a long, steady ascent, 2009 saw Adam ‘Nergal’ Darski reach metal’s Olympus as a true musical behe-moth. Jonathan Horsley talks ‘Evangelion’, riffs and Shakira with the man himself.‘Evangelion’ is the sort of box office l…
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By miranda on Apr 19, 2010 | In Sick Sounds | Send feedback »
Orange Amplifiers, the British based company specialising in guitar amplifiers, have announced the launch of their all-in-one computer amplifier speaker – The OPC. The project has been several years in the making and as a pioneering force in guitar ampli…
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By Miranda on Apr 18, 2010 | In Sick Sounds | Send feedback »
(First published in Sick Sounds #1, available here)Flourishing in the sonic fault lines that run between Mastodon riff largesse and Thin Lizzy wor-ship, Baroness have been a band that have blossomed in the shadows. The critical acclaim of ‘Blue Record’ h…
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By Miranda on Apr 18, 2010 | In Sick Sounds | Send feedback »
SHREDUCATION FOR THE WICKED:SICK SOUNDS MAGAZINE IS HERE From the makers of Terrorizer comes the first and last word in Extreme Metal.Sick Sounds is the world's first ever magazine for extreme metal musiciansIt is the sister magazine of Terrorizer,…
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