Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal

Used on his solo album *About Face* and Pink Floyd's *A Momentary Lapse of Reason*. In a 1984 issue of *Guitar Player Magazine*, Gilmour said the following of his sound: "At the moment, the sound that I'm using a lot of the time is going through a Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal to a Boogie amplifier to a [MXR] DDL and then on into a regular Fender amplifier....I use a DDL on it...because I find it stops the fuzz box from from sounding like a fuzz box. It smoothes off the unpleasant, raw frequencies that you get from the fuzz box. Then you get a nice sort of sound.”

According to the lot notes from Bonhams auction house website, Eric Clapton used the Ibanez HD1000 Harmonics/Delay, a DBX 160 compressor, a model SDE-3000 Roland delay, a Dyno-My-Piano Tri Stereo Chorus, a Boss CE-1 chorus, and a Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal for his Bob Bradshaw rack system in the mid to late 1980s.

Rare shot of Johnny's pedalboard from the '86 Nottingham gig. The pedal case is a Boss BCB-6. From right to left is a PSM-5 followed by a GE-6, OD-2, TW-1, HM-2 and the CE-2 on the end. Below is a mock-up of the pedalboard.

Daron got the "black-orange heavy metal effect" (Boss HM-2) with 14 (1989), the editor mentioned Boss MT-2 wasn't even out at that time (release date was 1991). The "well known" fact, that Daron used a MT-2 at one point in his career is not true. Daron still uses the HM-2 at home for tracking new song ideas.

"a BOSS HM-2 Heavy Metal seems certain (replaced by a BOSS DS-1 later in the year?)"

This trio are some of the most important elements of the live show. Bottom is an Elektron Monomachine; middle is a Behringer keyboard used to trigger sound effects, vocal samples, hits, sweeps and other 'ear candy' the band like to fire off on the fly, and top is the Roland Juno 106, routed through a guitar pedal. "They love that Boss Heavy Metal Distortion. It's kind of the signature sound in 'Chemical Beats'. You bosh that over the 106 and it just sounds filthy — a horrible, dirty, angry thing.”

In this video, Ola Englund demonstrates how to get a Swedish death metal tone with a Boss HM-2.

According to Guitar Geek's rig diagram, Butcher used Boss HM-2 Distortion pedal.

Probably used a HM2 on the Dark Recollections album.The guitar tone sounds alike the classic Swedish tone.

Due to the years of him being alive and to the unmistakable look of this pedal, the photo clearly shows proof of him using an HM-2.

> Backstage 1992 PURE European tour, Gothenburg, Sweden. Taken by henrik persson and supplied by Tomas Lindberg (At The Gates) who both hung out with us that night.

The Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal pedal is seen here in the top right, partially obscured.

In this picture you can see the BOSS HM-2.

He uses that effect in his pedal rig. The only black pedal from Boss that has orange knobs is HM-2 Heavy Metal. Highly recommended :)

According to this article written by a fan,Pajo uses a Boss HM-2 playing with Slint,and he shows his settings

A late photo of Shawn's rig contains this pedal.

Adam Franklin uses a Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal Distortion Effects Pedal, shown in this Guitar Geek's rig diagram.

In this live picture, you can see Dwayne Goettel's synthesizer(s) plugged into a Boss HM-2 Distortion.

An HM-2 can be seen on Justin York's pedalboard, in this Twitter image.

You can hear this pedal on many songs of "Soulside journey", the first album od Darkthrone. It not clear if on the next albums was used but on that one it is obvious. It is very unique kind of sound and in those times it hadn't any alternative.

"Under the banner of HM-2 we stride!"

An HM-2 can be seen in this Instagram photo

Quoted from an 1993 article

"Armed with nothing but cheap amps and cheaper axes, guitarists Leif Cuzner, Alex Hellid, and Uffe Cederlund leaned heavily on the grinding distortion of the HM-2."

At 4:17 you can see him setting up his pedals, One of which is an HM2

"I mainly use a DOD Classic Fuzz, but I also have a Boss Heavy Metal Pedal" - Alternative Press

He uses an old Boss Heavy metal distortion pedal but again with really specific EQ and the distortion seriously rolled of so its never fizzy in tone

taken from his IG account

As seen in Henrik's Instagram photo.

Explained and shown in article with rig.

On the floor that's what appears to be a BOSS HM-2 (the only pedal around with that design at the time). Bolt Thrower seemingly never used one on guitar (surely not in the early days, at least), so it should be what Jo Bench used. It could have been a rehearsal or such, but still, that's proof she used it at least once.

Steve used the BOSS HM-2 Heavy Metal Pedal on Broken Wings and some other songs on 1985's "Welcome to the Real World" album. Postby markmod » Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:58 pm Hey Guys, Steve is a pal of mine and I thought I could give you some information. Yes, he recently moved to Nashville, and he goes back and forth to Nebraska, where he owns a hunting preserve. Steve is an avid hunter and sportsman. His early Mr. Mister rig consisted of Jim Kelley and Dumble combos, split into stereo via a modified BOSS CE-1, with a Korg rack delay into the FX loop of the Dumble. A BOSS HM-2 (Heavy Metal) pedal was used on "Broken Wings," among other Mr. songs. This was all before his first Bradshaw rack. Steve mentioned that his big influence during the Mr. Mister years was guitarist, Jamie Oram-West of the FIXX. All those splashy, effected, and compressed chords came from that influence. Some years ago, I did a couple of tech jobs for Steve when he played out around Los Angeles. He had a small rack with pedals (fulltone stuff, a red snapper, among other things) through a modified Bogner Shiva head and 4X12 cab. His guitars were usually a white reissue Strat and a reissue goldtop Les Paul. Switching was done via Bradshaw 2X4 and RS-10 MK II. His studio rig is another story, he uses a larger rack and multiple heads and cabinets. Steve is pretty secretive of his set-up and doesn't give up much information. However, I have seen it many times and have played through it. Out of respect for Steve's wishes, I will not give up any of that info, just the older rigs I can discuss. Thanks for understanding. Last edited by markmod on Sat Jun 28, 2014 7:21 am, edited 1 time in total.

I'm using a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier, and I add a heavy metal pedal to that and blend the two distortions together. I'm running that through two Marshalls, like an old '60s cab and a more modern one, which is my live setup. We wanted to keep the sound basically like what we sound like live -- no real studio tricks or anything added.

BOSS HM-2 guitar pedal to the max to bring some Sunlight! I’ve been playing now two years in Insomnium and we’ve had one (1) rehearsals and we had three (3) rehearsals with OG before going to studio to record ”Beyond”. It’s mostly that in OG i wrote and demo record the music ready at my home studio and send it to the other guys to polish, arrange and rehearse ready at home. Old men livin’ too far away from each other without too much spare time, that’s the reason for this.

Very power sound, read, beautiful harmonics

"The guitar sound was as simple as Boss Heavy Metal guitar distortion pedal through an old Marshall bass amplifier and cabinet"

Blackie uses a BOSS HM-2 pedal as can be seen in this live photo taken July 23rd, 2010 at the East Brunswick Hotel in Melbourne.

John Carruthers, with two years tenure, is the newest member of the group, and plays guitar. He reaches in his pocket and pulls out a neatly handwritten piece of paper: it reads GUITARS: Green Yamaha SG2000/brown sunburst SG1500/Hofner 'Verithin' semi T65/Ovation 'Glen Cambell' 12 string acoustic/Yamaha FG450 six string acoustic/Ovation Breadwinner solid body. EFFECTS: Drawmer Compressor/Boss Heavy Metal/MXR Flanger/Eventide Harmonizer & Delay/Ashley Twin Parametric/Yamaha 1010 analogue delay/Cry Baby Wah Wah/Boss Tuner; built into Quark Custom Rack with individual noise gates. AMPS: Marshall MV50 x2/Roland JC120 with ATC speakers x2.

A pedal from his pedalboard he uses at his live shows.

"The tone was created by heavily detuned electric guitars (To B) used with a maxed out Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal Pedal and the DS-1 Distortion pedal into a Peavey amp."

Easily seen in the pedal pile.

Apparently that distortion pedal was used on early Gorgoroth's records.

In this article Mieszko said: "This was the first time we really wanted to have 4 rhythm guitar tracks per song. I've never used more than 2 before. And for that we needed a sound that would fit in with the "Mesa + Mesa" sound. This came to be a BOSS HM-2 through the clean channel of the Rectifier (again). Same microphone setup as for the first 2 guitar tracks with a slight balance change between the mics."

Uffe Cederlund used the Boss HM-2 pedal for the recordings with Entombed.

Tyler used this in early era Tomato Soup from 2016-2018 until it stopped working

> I combined a Boss HM-2 (but not set all on full) and a Boss super overdrive pedal into various amps. I also used a Boss digital delay. This and a Floyd rose equiped guitar fucked my skills up seriously. I forgot about the importance of attack, pick angle and vibrato.

Shown on Dan's rig in video and gallery.

Shown on Brady's rig in video and gallery.

We only had these shitty guitars, basses and amplifiers which were made in Brazil. A Boss Heavy Metal pedal, for instance, was the Holy Grail! Bad and poor times…”

"metal mondays #bosshm2"

"I have a boss HM-2 heavy metal pedal"