Stickman393
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A'ite. Another one done.
This is a bit of an homage to one of my favorite more "recent" Metal bands, Zeal and Ardor. Their original conceit was to marry Black Metal with "Black" music. Rootsy gospel, call-and-response bluesy chants, and you know. Black metal.
They occupy a high-concept avant-garde sort of space in the metal genre. Each album is a concept album, connected by a common thread of existing in a fictional version of American history (all except for wake of a nation, their EP). The story they tell is one where the enslaved African population of the 1600's through mid 1800's does not adopt the religion of their oppressor. Instead, they embrace the opposite, and as the first track of their first album tells us: the Devil is fine.
Which is actually an idea that holds some historical precedent. Especially when it comes to certain indigenous Latin American populations. Folks come on over, start chopping off your hands, making you work for nothing, beat and whip ya? What god y'all follow again? Yeah, imma do the opposite. Shit makes sense to me.
Which leads to such bangers of lyrics as:
To the detractors, and the accusers, and the people of the other side
I would say that they would make ideal human sacrifices.
*Edit*. Turns out that's a sample from Anton LaVey. That dude sucked ass, but the quote is well sampled.
Fucking br00tal.
Anywho, lets keep this thread on track here. This is fictional. Theater. Drama. NOT REAL. If you want to clutch your pearls, go do it elsewhere. I like heavy metal and horror movies. If you don't, that's cool, you're entitled to your wrong opinion.
ANYWAYS.
I really can't recommend these guys enough. Fantastic band. Sometimes they fall just short of *greatness*, but goddamn if there isn't anything else quite like them and I love it. Will link one of their songs below.
So, they've adopted the sigil of lucifer as their logo, albeit with a Z at the top. Well, I used the sigil of lucifer as the main design element of this pedal, because it worked perfectly with the cutout that I wanted to do to expose the Nutube.
I made a few modifications to the circuit in order to replicate parts of the Mean Green Metal Machine, and routed one of the clipping LEDs to a cutout on the front ala the "seeing eye mod" that I used to have on Robert Keeley modded DS-1 that I used over 15 years ago.
Sounds pretty fucking cool. Great for juicing the front end of an amp. So is born my LBD: Little Black Devil.
The wiring I phoned in a bit. Sue me.
This is a bit of an homage to one of my favorite more "recent" Metal bands, Zeal and Ardor. Their original conceit was to marry Black Metal with "Black" music. Rootsy gospel, call-and-response bluesy chants, and you know. Black metal.
They occupy a high-concept avant-garde sort of space in the metal genre. Each album is a concept album, connected by a common thread of existing in a fictional version of American history (all except for wake of a nation, their EP). The story they tell is one where the enslaved African population of the 1600's through mid 1800's does not adopt the religion of their oppressor. Instead, they embrace the opposite, and as the first track of their first album tells us: the Devil is fine.
Which is actually an idea that holds some historical precedent. Especially when it comes to certain indigenous Latin American populations. Folks come on over, start chopping off your hands, making you work for nothing, beat and whip ya? What god y'all follow again? Yeah, imma do the opposite. Shit makes sense to me.
Which leads to such bangers of lyrics as:
To the detractors, and the accusers, and the people of the other side
I would say that they would make ideal human sacrifices.
*Edit*. Turns out that's a sample from Anton LaVey. That dude sucked ass, but the quote is well sampled.
Fucking br00tal.
Anywho, lets keep this thread on track here. This is fictional. Theater. Drama. NOT REAL. If you want to clutch your pearls, go do it elsewhere. I like heavy metal and horror movies. If you don't, that's cool, you're entitled to your wrong opinion.
ANYWAYS.
I really can't recommend these guys enough. Fantastic band. Sometimes they fall just short of *greatness*, but goddamn if there isn't anything else quite like them and I love it. Will link one of their songs below.
So, they've adopted the sigil of lucifer as their logo, albeit with a Z at the top. Well, I used the sigil of lucifer as the main design element of this pedal, because it worked perfectly with the cutout that I wanted to do to expose the Nutube.
I made a few modifications to the circuit in order to replicate parts of the Mean Green Metal Machine, and routed one of the clipping LEDs to a cutout on the front ala the "seeing eye mod" that I used to have on Robert Keeley modded DS-1 that I used over 15 years ago.
Sounds pretty fucking cool. Great for juicing the front end of an amp. So is born my LBD: Little Black Devil.
The wiring I phoned in a bit. Sue me.
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