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Guitar/Vocals – Sel Balamir
BIOG 2008
SATAN AMPS presents the new…. Here at SatanAmp we take amplifier design very seriously. So seriously in fact, that this time we decided to take a fundamentally different approach to the way that we considered looking at designing and indeed building a new amplifier. For us it was all about one thing: the sound. We wanted to start with that sound and work backwards from there until we had built something that would not only be able to create that sound but would be able to deliver it too: from the unbelievably low bottom right up to the unfathomably high top! Not content with using the materials available to other manufacturers, we ventured far out into the cosmos to source the best that space-flotsam had to offer. The interaction between these new materials and our atmosphere demanded that we come up with a new way for amplifiers to amplify. And boy did we do it. Read on….. So here it is. An amplifier to end all amplifiers. A new design to which all future designs will be compared. People will ask: How does it work? What’s that bit for? And, why is it so big? But before all these questions will come another question: what does it sound like? If you think you are ready to find out, then click here [you must have Photon-Reblend (PR) software installed. For installation, click here] or alternatively go to your nearest SatanAmp stockist [for a list of dealers, click here].
Tech-stuff. By building our chassis out of patented Micro-Crystal Alu-Oxide (MCAO) and coating the lacquer-coated finish with a hi-gloss dual-action melanin block we’ve taken amplifier design into and beyond the twenty first century: all in the name of tone! Our new Three-Channel Multi-Tonal (TCMT) Operating System (OS) offers never-heard-before sonic manipulation that’s never been heard before. Channel 1 is sparkly clean with un-precedented high-end clarity, enough for any discerning player who likes his or her bass to come with built–in treble. By routing all of the tone through Ardox-X filtration filters none of the subtle nuances of your playing are lost. Channel 2 is the real ‘goat’s bladder’ of the amp: this is where it all happens. Macro-Dermolastyl Thermo-Volumising Pearl Protein (MDTVPP) tubes are set in quasi-ceramic tube-sets, sealed with our unique Vitabiotic Tone Seal (VTS) to deliver the smoothest drive ever on any channel 2 of any amp ever. At least any amp that’s ever been made. But then with Channel 3 things really start to hot up. By combining our new Light Reflecting Booster (LRB) circuit with the excess Renovistic Glycol Acid (RGA) squeezed through from channel 1 and the surplus patented Super-Stay (SS) fed-back from channel 2, the Co-Resistium Technology (CRT) we’ve employed here allows up to 85% more rock in almost every application! Lastly our PAF (patent applied for) Multi-Input Cardioid-Emulator (MICE) gets the best out of all pick-up styles: from the old Nanosome Conductors on your favourite P-Bass right up to the most modern Blu-Tooth (BT) wireless models that won’t even be invented until spring 2009. This is not an amplifier to be approached with anything other than awe. And fear. Fear for your hearing and fear for your childrens’ souls when they hear the demon-summoning mega-power of even the fruitiest of jazz flourishes. This amp kills babies without even having the footswitch plugged in! So, don your favourite armour plated earmuffs, dig out your best titanium plectrum and head straight to hell to try out the amplifier that will rip out your heart and steal your soul! [Parents please note: packaging may also be dangerous.]
Recommended Retail Price: $your soul.
2006
BIOG 2005
But in the meantime, here's some tits. I mean, what we looked like....
BIOG 2004 AMPLIFIER arrive in a seismic heartbeat. Armed with choruses more akin to detonations and an album joyous in its darkness AMPLIFIER are British rock reborn, post-classic rock if you will. A band that didn’t so much form as gravitate together at the beginning of the new century in Manchester, coalescing from DNA strands of Celtic spark & Byzantine motive. Ready to roll. Evolving from an arsenal of treasured teenage records; AMPLIFIER take Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Police, Mogwai, Massive Attack, Bowie and Brad – in fact just about anything of any quality, and exhale it through a cloudburst of guitar pickups and distortion pedals. A three year gestation period culminated in 2004's debut album co-produced by Sel Balamir with Steve Lyon (The Cure, Depeche Mode) and mixed by Chris Sheldon (Foo Fighters, My Vitriol, Feeder). Selling 5000 albums in the UK, stoking up a frenzy of Summer Festivals and shows with the likes of Deftones, Datsuns, Melissa Auf der Maur, Therapy?, Explosions In The Sky and Oceansize, all while gathering extreme praise from Radio 1, XFM, NME, Kerrang!, Metal Hammer and Q, AMPLIFIER are now Airborne in Europe. Already No. 7 in the Visions Reader Poll for Best Newcomer after just a handful of European dates, AMPLIFIER are "rolling forward". The May European release of their startling debut album through SPV and the anticipation of more tours are further heating up expectation. To put you in the picture: AMPLIFIER carve out their own unique way; deeply personal lyrics astride a raging wall of noise channelled through intensely articulate and sky-high melodies - a fractured powerhouse celebration of all the good things about rock. As another drum fill thunders through, those who care might well reflect upon the ghosts of Keith Moon and John Bonham, as they’re carried along upon thick waves of colossal rolling guitar riffs and absorbed into the throbbing hum of a deep, deep, deep sea of electrical bass. AMPLIFIER make music that’s both determined and ambitious, but most importantly, whether recorded or live, music that lives and grows on the band’s terms: revved up & brutal from the get-go. When AMPLIFIER sing “it’s time to fly” you’re on their wings. If the initial effect is to make people step back, slightly awed, then their hurricane also possesses that area of tranquil calm and beauty around which swirl the great outpourings of energy. It is music that needs to be performed: Electrifying live shows over the last 18 months have left audiences feeling like they’ve been involved in a 40 minute controlled explosion, and AMPLIFIER's reputation rising fast. “AMPLIFIER descend like a pocket apocalypse…Great free-flowing grooves transforming sunburst waves of uplift” Roger Morton NME "A British rock-scene altering record. Enjoy it in all it's infinite glory" Kerrang! 5/5 "No other record this year will have the audacity to field such lofty ambitions, let alone have the skills to fulfill them" NME 9/10 "Think Sabbath meets Floyd meets The God Machine. Think trippy, heavy as fuck sonic violence. Think the future of rock" Metal Hammer 9/10 "At present British rock doesn't get much better than this" Q 4/5 AMPLIFIER: the biggest three piece in the world.
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