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Used on his solo album *About Face* and Pink Floyd's *A Momentary Lapse of Reason*. In a 1984 issue of *Guitar Player Magazine*, Gil... more
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Reviews
Trusted musician and artist reviews for Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal
Based on 15 Reviews
Found this for about $100 CAD
I guess this is a very popular pedal for swedish metal enthusiasts(?) I was looking it up because Bilinda Butcher of MBV uses one. Can see why they go for so much. I found it in my city from some really nice guitarist. Not a fan of paying a ton for vintage shit, wouldn't have it if not for that. One way or another, amazing amazing pedal. My go to distortion pedal
great
a while back i found that this was the swedish death metal sound, and if it can create the sound of entombed thats enough for me, everything on full thats how to run this apparently and i can see why, its killer
Literal perfection
This pedal is literally perfect. It cuts through any mix and is massive as frick.
Definitely The Better Metal
The Boss Heavy Metal pedal has a really good tone sweep and it works really well for power chords and great lead tones.
The OG
Can't go wrong with the original Swedish death metal distortion pedal.
The Saw is the Law
If you ever wanted to emulate that grinding. buzzsaw like tone of early Entombed or Dismember (or more recently a band like Hail of Bullets) this is absolutely the distortion pedal for you. Unfortunately most of these pedals are pushing 30 years old now so you have to exercise caution when buying them as they still go for 80-90 dollars on ebay.
SWEDISH CHAINSAW
If you know, then you know. Get a crunchy amp, plug this in, and dime the high knob to understand if you don't. Or just throw caution to the wind and put every knob on ten and be shocked when you somehow still punch through a mix.
Swedish Buzzsaw
Dime everything. Get legendary tone.
But seriously, I use this for Doom/Stoner Metal, and believe it or not, don't actually crank everything to 11. You CAN do that, but if you tweak the colours, you get a really wild distortion that, when mixed with an Akai Phaser set to 270 degrees and a fast repeat, is ball-trippingly freaky.
Everyone should have one of these. Or the Berhinger clone, but it don't sound the exact same--you have been warned.