I used to work in a music shop and one of the guys in Dismember used to get his guitars setup and fixed by me before/after tours. One time he came in with a HHM-2 that had a busted pot. (For like the fifth time since they didn't use gates back then, just stomping it on and off between breaks) Anyways... Since i knew what the settings was i asked him if it wasn't simpler to just remove all of the pots and solder "straight through" "Shure why not.. I'm not turning those suckers anyways" We ended up with a HM-2 with no knobs what so ever... and since all the nobs "steal" a little even att full throttle that one ended up being the "Turbo-HM-2" Later he told me he used it on "Where Iron Crosses Grow" since it had a little more of everything.
Back in 1996 I had this pedal in a black metal band with Martin Lopez and Martin Mendez (opeth) and we recorded a demo before they move to Sweden, lots of good memories :)
Claro que si pero solo por descarga :) mega.co.nz/#!4Qxj2YAI!HxDJKMUJL_RmIWIyhUdCEkZuWRuQ4IlrR28qS5vLmgM Y aca hay unas fotos del dia de grabacion www.metal.com.uy/foro/viewtopic.php?t=234 Un abrazo! \m/
Since you have this amp, it would be great if you made a video about Chuck Schuldiner's guitar tone (he used the same amp on most of his albums). Cheers!
“W”olverine like “Water”. By the way, the hm-2 is suppose to go into a DIRTY channel. For that over saturated death sound. Preferably with an EMG 81 pickup in the bridge.
I consider myself a youtube veteran. I have seen a lot of youtube videos over the years. This is one of the best videos i have seen. It is informative, it is fun, it is iconic, and it is sophisticated on several levels, while also being moronic in a good way. For one second I thought Göteborg was in Denmark, but then i remembered that we (I am danish) suck at making good metal :-(
Wolverine Blues AND To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth are extremely underrated... But I mean, Metallica steals from those albums all the time so that says a lot.
Here's how you find the lost volume knob: go out and buy a new one. When you get back from your local music store, that missing volume knob will be at the door to greet you upon your return. 😉
Damn, I have been wondering how to create that sound for years. Amazing. This video makes me want to go back and listen to Clandestine or Left Hand Path.
Interesting video. The HM-2 is an awesome pedal, it was the first pedal I bought back in 1984, for £25 second hand and I'm still using it now. Best distortion tone ever, I've bought numerous pedals since but none match the tone of the HM-2.
i think everybody sets every amp to sound as they personaly like...not the way the amp is ment to be set up...for example i like bass 7.8, mids 6.5, treble 4.5 OR bass 7, mids 4, treble 4....in every amp try...then if is not sounding how i like it...i start analyzing the amp: is it focused in lows, mids or highs? and then start dialing again
One if my ex-girlfriends is from Gothenburg. In fact, she moved back there, eventually. I remember hanging out with her & her mom when I was younger. I was on acid & they spoke in Swedish. It freaked me out, because I thought they were speaking backwards. 😂 Crazy trip. I wonder what Ola thinks of Hexenhaus. They weren’t death metal, but Mike Wead’s rhythm guitar work with that band was a MAJOR influence on my rhythm playing. I listened to “Tribute to Insanity” & “Edge of Eternity” a lot when I started playing thrash metal (before that I played punk).
Some non-swedish bands that use the Boss-HM2 swedish style : Atavisma - Doom/Death from France Horrendous - Melodic Death from the US Dragged into Sunlight - Blackened Sludge from the UK SpaceWitch - Stoner from the UK Nails - Powerviolence from the US Ssanahtes - Progressive Sludge/Hardcore from France Implore - Grindcore from Germany Ekpyrosis - Death Metal from Italy The Secret - Hardcore from Italy Graveyard - Death Metal from Spain All Pigs Must Die - Hardcore Punk from US. Have fun with that !
The HM-2 (edit!! and MT-2) and MZ-2 get so much hate but they were great for that late 80's/early 90's full on metal tone. I think they stand up today, too! You got your sub, amigo! I enjoyed your playing and humour :)
At the gates didn't use the HM2 to distort the sound, but rather to shape it. The main pedal that was providing the distortion was the metal zone. also, some say they used another overdrive or boost pedal
Hmm...let's take a midrange instrument & cut out the mids. Genius. Congrats on not only destroying ur tone but also standing on ur bass player's dick. Kudos on multitasking...
I talked to Alex Hellid from Entombed before a show in CA when Clandestine came out and I asked him about his setup, when he told me all he used was the Heavy Metal pedal from Boss I didn't believe him but yup, pretty much that's all he used. They sounded great live, identical to the album.
The old Marshall Valvestates were unreal. I remember it being my first 'serious' amp and it had a really nice sounding distortion. Hard to find these days in good condition like that one.
Nightmares Made Flesh was indeed recorded using the HM-2, but the sound was so heavily edited/mixed by Dan Swanö that it sounds nothing like that classic Swedeath sound you hear in this vid. Both are great tho, not trying to bash either one. Personally prefer the NMF sound.
Det här är inte vad jag letade efter men jag är glad att jag valde den här videon (this isn't what I was looking after but I'm happy that I chose this video) SUB
I got one of these from my neighbor. He bought a old Squire strat thatcane with the pedal or $20. Love this pedal it sounds killer through a cheap practice amp.
Marvel ruined Norse religion to the point of parody. Marvel’s Odin and Thor are as heterosexual as Greek Hellenist belief which survives today even in marvel but in the afghan national army with the soldiers whom seem more attracted to little ‘tea boys’ and grooming them with hard drugs....ugh.
Sorry but this is the moment that the real Scandinavians and their North East British descendants/cousins can effortlessly tell each other apart via readiness to use HM-2s
From booklet of Slaugher of the Soul reissue: I know that Anders has been hassled for seven long years about the “Slaughter of the Soul” guitar sound… This is how you do… Are you ready…; One Boss Heavy Metal Distortion pedal, One Boss Metal Zone distortion pedal, One Peavey Supreme 160 amp… and here’s the tricky part; Anders´ home build cabinet with 2x10” and 2x12” speakers…
5.40 in video, Ola playing raw chugging thrash riffs with the Boss HM-2, pure GOLD, this is exactly the type of riffing I like playing best with this cult pedal, as well as many other old school metal guitarists in the 80's when this pedal existed for some years before the Swedish death metal scene 🤘
I paused this video, went to educate myself on entombed, now 1 hour later, I'm back as an entombed fan. They're really unique, each song has something a little quirky about it aether it be a load of reverb on the vocals or an unusual drum beat etc. Very nice!
Sacrilege to purists, But If you turn the "Dist" all the way down and use the gain from the amp, you can bring some of the amps character in while retaining that "buzzsaw" sound. I'd love to see what tonal sculpting could be achieved using the HM-2 that way with the Randal Satan.
I ve used boss hm 2 over years in many amps and it works not good in the gain channels.To much Feedback ,i know that dismember do this very well in the gain channel of Marshall jcm.But in my Randall G3 plus it works very bad.Record one track with boss hm 2 in clean channel and one tracks with the gain channel of your amp.This works and give you a unique and awesome Sound.
If I remember correctly Mika from Rotten Sound dials the dist back on his HM-2. All those modern bands that use the HM-2 make small alterations to that all-10 setting. I also found you can also get a neat octave down effect if you set the high knob to some low value.
Hej!!! blinded by fear one of the best songs ever !!!! At the gates, the band that introduced me to Swedish metal!!!! Eventhough I lived near Skellefteå, I'm not able to write a proper swedish sentence.... Tack sa mycket for the tip!!!! Hey da!!!
Hey Ola, why don't you do a tone video for Slaughter of the Soul? It' such an iconic album and has a gorgeously thick tone. I'd love to hear you try to get as close to it as possible.
Hello Mr Ola!! The Boss Heavy Metal is the same pedal that Daft Punk uses for the song " Rollin' N' Scratchin' " with all the knobs way up . Greetings from México !!
Wool-verene.. no "v"sound.. thats a Swedish thing, Great tone on that pedal. I use it myself. Also have the ever present, Boss MT-2. people either love 'em, or hate 'em.. Not my best choice for metal paedals, but they do have their place. My fav for metal tones is the Diezel VH4....Great vid my friend!!!
as someone who grew up listening to 'left hand path', 'clandestine', 'pieces', 'like an ever flowing stream' and 'indecent and obscene' this just took me back almost 30 years, haha.
I've always wondered what the vikings would have thought if they heard modern day heavy metal. Would they love it? would they hate it? would they listen to it before battle? What do you guys think?
10:00 This is the sound dudes like Leo Fender and Les Paul had in mind when they started constructing first electric guitars back in fifties
fucking lol
I want to like your comment more than once.
Leo Fender listened to this from Guitar Heaven and I quote his words:
"... Fuck yeah. That's the tone."
LMAO
I heard they couldn't stop laughing diabolically for hours after having just the thought of it.
I was wondering why the views on my HM-2 video just increased tenfold.
Great tones, Ola.
Man, at first I thought this video was a parody like yours but he had a good tone ._.
You can say that you have ALL THE GAIN!!
Eh, it could’ve used more gain.
As Peter would say: No gain, no Pain
You forgot to mention the Swedish tuned dropped C# lol
Since I'm making a bit of fun of Gothenburg, and will probably lose a bit of subscribers, please help me work up the quota. Subscribe now!
Link for the replicas pleeeeassse???? :)
Wolverine, like wool off a sheep.
I don't care, i'm italian xD
Thank you ola ;)
Hey!! you should plug it into the satan and crank up all the gain!!! hello from Pennsylvania United States!
I used to work in a music shop and one of the guys in Dismember used to get his guitars setup and fixed by me before/after tours.
One time he came in with a HHM-2 that had a busted pot. (For like the fifth time since they didn't use gates back then, just stomping it on and off between breaks)
Anyways... Since i knew what the settings was i asked him if it wasn't simpler to just remove all of the pots and solder "straight through"
"Shure why not.. I'm not turning those suckers anyways"
We ended up with a HM-2 with no knobs what so ever... and since all the nobs "steal" a little even att full throttle that one ended up being the "Turbo-HM-2"
Later he told me he used it on "Where Iron Crosses Grow" since it had a little more of everything.
Thank you for that bit of golden information!
That sounds amazing
jonas åhlen killer 🤘🏻🤘🏻 the Swedish Chainsaw Massacre 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Wow
Dammit, this is a cool fucking story.
"Have you ever heard of Swedish Death Metal?"
Hmm...it rings a bell, yeah...
It causes ringing on your ears that's for sure.
Sounds like white noise from more than 30 feet away...
You must build your uwn guitar with an IKEA shelf for MAXIMUM Swedish Tone.
😁😁😁
Rob Scallon took note!
Lol
they are hollow
LOL
Back in 1996 I had this pedal in a black metal band with Martin Lopez and Martin Mendez (opeth) and we recorded a demo before they move to Sweden, lots of good memories :)
Te refieres a Eternal?
Si exacto :D
Que grandes! Ya no se consigue ese demo no? Soy de Rocha
Claro que si pero solo por descarga :) mega.co.nz/#!4Qxj2YAI!HxDJKMUJL_RmIWIyhUdCEkZuWRuQ4IlrR28qS5vLmgM
Y aca hay unas fotos del dia de grabacion www.metal.com.uy/foro/viewtopic.php?t=234
Un abrazo! \m/
Muchas gracias por la info! Buscaba en formato físico, digital lo tengo.. Vamo' arriba la escena charrúa!
_"HM-2 is the musical equivalent of sandpaper. ...uh, in a good way."_
- Goniloc
Ah, I see you're a man of googoo gaga as well
@@flippy7035 mooogwaa
They should do a special edition HM-2 with the Swedish flag 🇸🇪 paint theme
And the twin city crests of Gothenburg and Stockholm on either side.
@@Darwinist What Pedal do they use in Trollhattan?
That is a great idea! That would be so cool! I am surprised none of the manufacturers who make clones of this pedal have done that.
...better copyright that
Abominable electronics have an HM-2 clone pedal with the Swedish flag painted on the case, it’s an incredible pedal
One time I plugged my Metal Zone into my HM-2. There's still remnants of the blood stain on my floor.
Wasn't slaugther of the soul recorded like that?
@@ossisuomalainen early At the Gates was at least
you had your period?
Gotta try running my Metal Zone into my Grunge pedal
I just love the old Swedish death metal tone like Entombed, Dismember, Unleashed, Grave, Bloodbath and Entrails.
I just started listening to grave and they are sooooo brutal the heaviest band I’ve ever heard hoping they release a new album eventually
I don't think you have enough gain
Wesley ur a funny guy!! Ha! Ha! V⚡
I say let's use multiple Boss HS-2's!
Doesn't CHOOMPHF CHOOMPHF CHOOMPHF sound like enough gain for you?
There is never enought gain
😂😂😂
They should have used the HM-2 for Kylo Ren's light saber sound effect.
My favorite TH-cam guitarist for sure. Its comedic, gets to the point, and he even left his fuck ups in the video. Thanks for the videos Ola!
I love the guitar tone so much I have re watched this quite a few times......
Since you have this amp, it would be great if you made a video about Chuck Schuldiner's guitar tone (he used the same amp on most of his albums). Cheers!
nice idea
jowiszgaming PL IIRC, Chuck's rig is pretty minimalistic. A guitar with only a bridge pickup straight into a Marshall head
Yes!!
And early Meshuggah!
Big part of his sound was B.B.Sonic Maximizer, although he didn't use it live.
*Volvorine*
@Helge Smutt Scaniaton
@Helge Smutt Opelth
Bmwbath
I prefer King Crysler.
“W”olverine like “Water”.
By the way, the hm-2 is suppose to go into a DIRTY channel. For that over saturated death sound. Preferably with an EMG 81 pickup in the bridge.
Oh, the HM2.
It's a must have if you want to sound like the cabinet is broken :D
ChristianIce ciao zi
Saves me time on manually breaking my cabinets.
Sounds like shit in reality. I own this pedal. I’d never use it again. It’s just for collecting.
Ti amo
Nonsense, heaps of bands get a killer sound out of it!
Please do more videos in Swedish, it sounds so cool.
I consider myself a youtube veteran. I have seen a lot of youtube videos over the years. This is one of the best videos i have seen. It is informative, it is fun, it is iconic, and it is sophisticated on several levels, while also being moronic in a good way. For one second I thought Göteborg was in Denmark, but then i remembered that we (I am danish) suck at making good metal :-(
Fuldstændig enig!
You don't need too many bands, with Mercenary you got respect enough! 🔥🎶
You got king diamond man!
Darkane?
@@VitrificationOfBlood 💀💀👍🤘
Wolverine blues is one of the most underrated metal albums out there imo. That record is simply fantastic.
Not underrated for everyone who was listening to death metal in the 90ies.
One of my fave death metal albums for sure. So groovey and heavy.
That album is perfection
Shame what happened to the band though.
Wolverine Blues AND To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth are extremely underrated... But I mean, Metallica steals from those albums all the time so that says a lot.
Your BEST video in YEARS!!!
Here's how you find the lost volume knob: go out and buy a new one.
When you get back from your local music store, that missing volume knob will be at the door to greet you upon your return. 😉
Damn, I have been wondering how to create that sound for years. Amazing. This video makes me want to go back and listen to Clandestine or Left Hand Path.
Interesting video. The HM-2 is an awesome pedal, it was the first pedal I bought back in 1984, for £25 second hand and I'm still using it now. Best distortion tone ever, I've bought numerous pedals since but none match the tone of the HM-2.
After years asking for Ola with the HM2 i can finally touch myself watching you man
The HM-2 is the reason Sweden does not need a standing army. The ultimate deterrent. But at what cost?
CIRCLE OF TONE. Love your videos! Keep it up!
Thanks man
I can’t tell if it’s meant to be having a go at the hm or sarcasm
at the cost of a bombing every other hour and a mosque on every corner
CIRCLE OF TONE. Since its manufactured in Japan, you should consider it an international arms deal...
sounds like ola finally got sick of guys telling him he makes everything sound the same haha
i think everybody sets every amp to sound as they personaly like...not the way the amp is ment to be set up...for example i like bass 7.8, mids 6.5, treble 4.5 OR bass 7, mids 4, treble 4....in every amp try...then if is not sounding how i like it...i start analyzing the amp: is it focused in lows, mids or highs? and then start dialing again
We broke Ola
Put the bass at 7.8 and treble at 4.5 on a boogie Mark series...I dare you.
Oh god, that would be a farty mess. For my Mesas I tend to have bass around 10 o clock, mids 12-1, treble 11-1.
Just put everything on 666 lol
Ola, you have me in stitches. And my neighbors hate me for listening to your videos on full gain as well.
One if my ex-girlfriends is from Gothenburg. In fact, she moved back there, eventually.
I remember hanging out with her & her mom when I was younger. I was on acid & they spoke in Swedish. It freaked me out, because I thought they were speaking backwards.
😂
Crazy trip.
I wonder what Ola thinks of Hexenhaus. They weren’t death metal, but Mike Wead’s rhythm guitar work with that band was a MAJOR influence on my rhythm playing. I listened to “Tribute to Insanity” & “Edge of Eternity” a lot when I started playing thrash metal (before that I played punk).
Hexenhaus is mega underrated, as well as the rest of the Swedish thrash scene. Funny story though!
@@ThrashRebel i swear the ones who talk about their exes online are the most incelic ones
7:25 I see you've brought us some Stockholm Black Metal
1:52 reminds me of skwisgaar skwigelf
Lmao same
NO
Stop that shit
EVERYFING ON MAX
Holy smokes tht sounds so badass, soo much bite and rawness!
"Everything on max!" had me dying. This is why i keep coming back.
First ola video I ever watched!!. Awesome to re-visit !!
Some non-swedish bands that use the Boss-HM2 swedish style :
Atavisma - Doom/Death from France
Horrendous - Melodic Death from the US
Dragged into Sunlight - Blackened Sludge from the UK
SpaceWitch - Stoner from the UK
Nails - Powerviolence from the US
Ssanahtes - Progressive Sludge/Hardcore from France
Implore - Grindcore from Germany
Ekpyrosis - Death Metal from Italy
The Secret - Hardcore from Italy
Graveyard - Death Metal from Spain
All Pigs Must Die - Hardcore Punk from US.
Have fun with that !
Giorgio Tskhadadze 9:59 was a "ah. I know what kinda pedal Dragged into Sunlight and Nails are using" moment lol
Harm's Way, Cursed Earth, Like Rats, Wolfbrigade (I believe) use it or variants as well!
Hemlok used the HM 2 into a Fender Twin for the Guitar sounds.
It sounds very Magrudergrind too.
add Trap Them to that list.
7:25 " YES "
The HM-2 (edit!! and MT-2) and MZ-2 get so much hate but they were great for that late 80's/early 90's full on metal tone. I think they stand up today, too! You got your sub, amigo! I enjoyed your playing and humour :)
Every time I rewatch the part where your engage the pedal, it blows my brain and I stinkiest o face, that tone is so good, gets me every time
At the gates didn't use the HM2 to distort the sound, but rather to shape it. The main pedal that was providing the distortion was the metal zone. also, some say they used another overdrive or boost pedal
The active tone controls are what make the HM2 so crazy. I often ran mine as a 'EQ', with the gain bottomed out.
7:27 would sound way better with all the mids scooped out though. The best guitar tone is one you can shave with.
Not if it sounds like "ssssssssssssssssssss ssssssss ssssssssssssss ssssss ssssssssssss" when playing.
Hmm...let's take a midrange instrument & cut out the mids. Genius. Congrats on not only destroying ur tone but also standing on ur bass player's dick. Kudos on multitasking...
I usually put the tone nob on full, 10% treble, 30% bass and 100% mids, sounds way better
All 321 dislikes are from Gothenburg.
I liked and I'm from Gothenburg.
@@Jikdor Det är bra xD
Fy fan va gött 🤘🏻
Nah it came from Florida death metal
I talked to Alex Hellid from Entombed before a show in CA when Clandestine came out and I asked him about his setup, when he told me all he used was the Heavy Metal pedal from Boss I didn't believe him but yup, pretty much that's all he used. They sounded great live, identical to the album.
Älskar när Ola talar svenska, så sjukt skönt.
Not only is ola just great at actually demoing. But he's also funny af. You're the best man🤘
Muito bom
Também sempre ensinando licks monstro que eu adoro
Parabéns, viva Suécia 🇸🇪 e 🇧🇷
The old Marshall Valvestates were unreal. I remember it being my first 'serious' amp and it had a really nice sounding distortion. Hard to find these days in good condition like that one.
0/10 didn't play Eaten by Bloodbath. jk ily
Nightmares Made Flesh was indeed recorded using the HM-2, but the sound was so heavily edited/mixed by Dan Swanö that it sounds nothing like that classic Swedeath sound you hear in this vid. Both are great tho, not trying to bash either one. Personally prefer the NMF sound.
My one desire my only wish is to be.....
I WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO BE......
Ethan... i mean, Eaten.
My one daisari, my only vichy's to be E-10
the ear splitting feedback before him playing at the gates really added to it imo
Sometimes when i need to regain my hope and faith i come here to listen to the first 3 riffs OLA plays on that clean channel.
Det här var så j*vla kul på svenska, mer sådant Ola
now we're snacking bois
JÄÄÄÄÄH!!!!!
NU SNACKER VI!
Yes now we snacking my män
Dissection! one of my favs. Storm of the Lights Bane great album
best band and best album fckn ever!
Det här är inte vad jag letade efter men jag är glad att jag valde den här videon (this isn't what I was looking after but I'm happy that I chose this video) SUB
I recently purchased this pedal and I can't get enough of it.
After watching this video, i became a fucking viking warrior, complete with axe, beard and a fucking drakkar! It's so swedish, uh...
Postie Don't forget your mead!
Psycho Chicken Öh, ýeah, it is mÿ drakkär, btw!
The tone at 3:45 sounds like a weaponized power saw.
Zakk Wylde
0:40 - I thought you were showing us Skyrim for a second
Ola, thanks so much for this...so many memories from teenage years. Those records were such a big part....
"It makes me very happy" *smiles*
adds even more gain
it made my day lol
Ahhh valvestate..... what memories. My first amp, will always miss you ....... uuuhuuuu.
Same here, 8240 combo :D
Me too, i had a valvestate vs65r
I still have my old vs30r...it gets used as a 'coffee table' to put shit on when I'm on the sofa...
Yup, I had an 8020 and 8100 in the early 90s. I loved those amps!
Yup I had a vs65r
Hur man blir utskickad från 4sound på 2 röda
HAHHAHAHA!! Sant, tyvärr.
Hahah köpte en Boss DS-1 och blev nästan utslängs för att ha maxat ut alla inställningarna👍
faan sant asså
Patrik Nessbo ha snacka om att inte ha någon respekt.
Lidl musik...
Sounds like someone is using the blender to mix coins while you play guitar.
Nice set up, looks and sounds rad my far away friend.
I got one of these from my neighbor. He bought a old Squire strat thatcane with the pedal or $20. Love this pedal it sounds killer through a cheap practice amp.
7:27 BLOODBATH TONE!
Loki: 'I have an army...'
Ola: 'I have an HM-2 pedal...'
Loki: :0
Marvel ruined Norse religion to the point of parody. Marvel’s Odin and Thor are as heterosexual as Greek Hellenist belief which survives today even in marvel but in the afghan national army with the soldiers whom seem more attracted to little ‘tea boys’ and grooming them with hard drugs....ugh.
Sorry but this is the moment that the real Scandinavians and their North East British descendants/cousins can effortlessly tell each other apart via readiness to use HM-2s
since it's a swedish band,it must be "volvo-rine"
But pronounce the V's like its a W.
So it's wolwerine
That cracked me up.
Thanks! Now I can finally imitate that swedish death metal sound that I always loved!
Valvestate and HM2 in the same video? Too much classic shit and stuff, I can't take it. Awesome.
I was laughing because I have that exact same setup as my backup :)
the 13 year old in me is screaming
BlapDuck
Don't let kids be inside you... that's disgusting and illegal
*They’re on to me...*
From booklet of Slaugher of the Soul reissue:
I know that Anders has been hassled for seven long years about the “Slaughter of the Soul” guitar sound… This is how you do… Are you ready…; One Boss Heavy Metal Distortion pedal, One Boss Metal Zone distortion pedal, One Peavey Supreme 160 amp… and here’s the tricky part; Anders´ home build cabinet with 2x10” and 2x12” speakers…
5.40 in video, Ola playing raw chugging thrash riffs with the Boss HM-2, pure GOLD, this is exactly the type of riffing I like playing best with this cult pedal, as well as many other old school metal guitarists in the 80's when this pedal existed for some years before the Swedish death metal scene
🤘
I paused this video, went to educate myself on entombed, now 1 hour later, I'm back as an entombed fan. They're really unique, each song has something a little quirky about it aether it be a load of reverb on the vocals or an unusual drum beat etc. Very nice!
Sweden and Bay Area metal was my formative years.
Good 'ole memories :D
Cheers!
I.
At 7:26 I pissed myself laughing.
Ola went full savage there... Like, viking savage...
You little cute swede, you!
Hahahaha
hans meier okay... 😏
😁😁🐱🐱🐱🐱🐈🐈🐈🐈🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Kind of gay ngl
Vräääääääääl!!!!
(I greet you from sweden)
wool-ver-een-blues ;) great album, great band! the band Blackbreath also uses an HM-2 sound.
Best effects pedal eva!!!! I first used one of those in the mid-90s and it blew my ears and my mind!
3:44 "Now we're snacking" Lmao!
I have to say this is one of my favourite metal guitar tones ever! Would have been great if you had used an old Peavey Bandit combo.
Rotten*Sludge yup the bandit loves pedals
and I think Entombed or Dismember used a Bandid combo with a HM2 for their first album
I died when he looked at the camera and said "YES" and proceeded to chug
Great video, as always. Extra points for the Nuka-Cola shirt too
I always loved a good death metal bands, old and new but never get tired of listening to swedish death.always loved the rawness of hm2 sound.
Wow. I had heard about this pedal being used that way before, but had no clue how well it works. I never expected for it fo sound that good…
Sacrilege to purists, But If you turn the "Dist" all the way down and use the gain from the amp, you can bring some of the amps character in while retaining that "buzzsaw" sound. I'd love to see what tonal sculpting could be achieved using the HM-2 that way with the Randal Satan.
I use minimal dist, level all the way up, and EQ knobs both around 1 o'clock. Sounds MASSIVE.
I prefer as well to use this way, it brings a more massive and tight sound :D
I ve used boss hm 2 over years in many amps and it works not good in the gain channels.To much Feedback ,i know that dismember do this very well in the gain channel of Marshall jcm.But in my Randall G3 plus it works very bad.Record one track with boss hm 2 in clean channel and one tracks with the gain channel of your amp.This works and give you a unique and awesome Sound.
this guy does a similar thing: th-cam.com/video/8oQTygtsEMs/w-d-xo.html
If I remember correctly Mika from Rotten Sound dials the dist back on his HM-2. All those modern bands that use the HM-2 make small alterations to that all-10 setting. I also found you can also get a neat octave down effect if you set the high knob to some low value.
His reaction at 7:25 on the "hiss" tone kills me. "Yes!!" Lmao...
Bought it yesterday!!! Killer pedal
Hej!!! blinded by fear one of the best songs ever !!!! At the gates, the band that introduced me to Swedish metal!!!! Eventhough I lived near Skellefteå, I'm not able to write a proper swedish sentence.... Tack sa mycket for the tip!!!! Hey da!!!
Hey Ola, why don't you do a tone video for Slaughter of the Soul? It' such an iconic album and has a gorgeously thick tone. I'd love to hear you try to get as close to it as possible.
Hell awesome tones from those Swedish bands, Dismember is one of the most powerful death bands of all time.... SKIN FATHER🤘🤘
You need to check out the band Nails
Hello Mr Ola!! The Boss Heavy Metal is the same pedal that Daft Punk uses for the song " Rollin' N' Scratchin' " with all the knobs way up . Greetings from México !!
I love watching the free metal show man great riffing Ola
Yngwie Malmsteen is Swedish too and you're both great guitarists. Thanks for the Swedish music guys. ❤️
Wool-verene.. no "v"sound.. thats a Swedish thing, Great tone on that pedal. I use it myself. Also have the ever present, Boss MT-2. people either love 'em, or hate 'em.. Not my best choice for metal paedals, but they do have their place. My fav for metal tones is the Diezel VH4....Great vid my friend!!!
I would love to hear dimebags cowboys from hell setup with the hm2 maxed out it would sound awesome
as someone who grew up listening to 'left hand path', 'clandestine', 'pieces', 'like an ever flowing stream' and 'indecent and obscene' this just took me back almost 30 years, haha.
First pedal I ever bought back when it first came out 🤘🏼 best distortion pedal ever. It makes a great thrash scooped sound if turn down the highs too
I've always wondered what the vikings would have thought if they heard modern day heavy metal. Would they love it? would they hate it? would they listen to it before battle? What do you guys think?
Viking music is pretty damn heavy for its time that’s for sure
They did throat singing which is basically death growls before there were death growls