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Do you know what you were doing more than 15 years ago? These young dudes were playing their third gig at Masters of Cassel in the legendary Musiktheater Kassel.

If you look closely, you can’t help but get the impression that we had ABBATH and DEMONAZ in the band. But these guys have always been Jan and Christian.

Also a big hug to our former drummer Stefan.

Who was at this concert?

It’s time to talk about the bass.
Jan has a badass rig to challange the guitars.

1. No-Logo picks, size 2mm
2. Traben, Array 4 Bass
3. Korg Tuner
4. Darkclass Alpha & Omega Bass Preamp
5. Ashdown ABM500 Bass head
6. 4×10″ and 1×15″ Ibanez Promethean cabinets

Seems to be a short list, but that one kicks maximum ass. You can feel the air pumping though every corner of our rehearsal room while rocking out our songs.

Now let’s take a look how Christian will get his grinding tone in theses days.

1) Picks: The thickness of his “Nologo picks” is 2.0.
2) Guitar: Jackson RRT-5,
3) BOSS TU-3, tuner
4) BOSS NS-1X, noise suppressor
5) tc electronic MIMIQ

It also now has two chains, one for the main tone and one to add even more dirt.

6a) Laney GH 100S, also an old 90’s bastard
7a) Marshall 1960 Lead cabinet (the upper one).

The second chain is located behind the MIMIQ pedal and provides additional punch.

6b) Lichtlaerm Gehenna
7b) Palmer MACHT 402 power amplifier
8b) Marshall 1960 Lead cabinet (the lower one)

That whole rig is a bastard that slaps you in the face and melts your skin like cheese in summer. And yes, now it’s clear that we definitely need four guitar microphones live.

If you want to look as good as Jannik, we recommend our merch. We still have some shirts (men’s and women’s) available.
There’s also some cool stuff like a patch and a pin for your battle vest and an oldschool cassette from our first EP.

So head over to Bandcamp and give us your money.

https://hellforcemetal.bandcamp.com/merch

If you don’t, support the underground wherever you can.

The last post was all about “more is more”, but is this all old school? So, let’s talk about Florian’s rig, starting with his picks and ending with the speakers.

1) Picks: The thickness of my “Nologo picks” is 0.88.

2) Guitar: SKG Centurion, it is an Explorer Form guitar

3) BOSS TU-3, tuner

4) BOSS NS-2, noise suppressor

5) tc electronic MIMIQ
Now we have to go through two chains. Let’s start with chain “A”, the main chain.

6a) Ibanez TS9, tube screamer

7a) Peavey 5150 BLOCKLETTER (the good old shit)

8a) Marshall JCM-800 Cabinet (the upper one), equipped with two standard speakers and two vintage V30s

The second or “B” chain makes the whole tone fatter because the MIMIQ not only splits the signal in two, but also adds some kind of phase shift and a bit more digital “magic”.

6b) BOSS GX-700 for the nerds, settings are the classic OD and a Soldano preamp

7b) Palmer MACHT 402 power amplifier

8b) Marshall JCM-800 cabinet (the lower one), equipped with four standard speakers

Not everything here is old school, but it’s definitely a cool rig to play on. But now all the FOHs are going to kill us because we need four guitar mics, but hey… more is more.

The future is now and most guitarists find themselves able to downsize their rigs by playing modelers or profiling amps with cabinet simulations. Don’t get us wrong, it’s handy to have to carry less weight, especially when you’re playing live and need to carry stuff to the venue.

But we’re old school and we live that with Hellforce. So we bought two Marshall fullstacks to spread even more rock’n’roll than ever before. And it looks cool, doesn’t it?

After we managed that our old website lasted from 2008 to 2022 for 14 years (old school) it didn’t go on like this anymore.

„Good bye old Friend“ but it’s time for something new, even we needed some time for that.

So here are the new pages of Hellforce, have fun browsing.