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THIS BLACK METAL GUITAR PEDAL MAKES YOU EVEN MORE GRIM

 Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 1:00pm by

black metal guitar pedalWhen it comes to black metal guitar pedals my first choice bar none is the Valnøtt, made famous by The Austerity Program’s Justin Foley. But MS Maniac Joseph Griesel sent us a link to the new Dragonfly BM-1 Black Metal Guitar Distortion Pedal, so trve and kvlt that production is limited to just 666 units worldwide.

The BM-1 advertises itself as “A tribute to the first wave of Black Metal of the 1980′s. Raw, primitive, old school Metal Tone!” And against all expectations, the thing actually sounds pretty damn good… check out the demo below.

While the BM-1 does admittedly deliver a pretty killer tone, we much prefer the Valnøtt for its versatility as a bass, vocal and drum pedal in addition to just guitars. Check out Justin Foley’s Valnøtt demo video after the jump.

-VN

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  • John

    Automatically takes all tone out of your amp and produces nothing but gain and high end. TIGHT!

    • orbital

      srsly. All solid state, no warmth.

  • Sgt. E

    “…and don’t try this with a Metalzone pedal, because they yust suck!”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-1vcuKcXeI

    • fightingmike

      Well, do you know what all of the original KVLT black metal bands used for their distortion?………THe Boss METAL ZONE pedal. It is aweful, but if you read the old interviews, that is what they used back then!

  • Driven9

    i dont really get the Justin Foley thing. is that a joke (I hope so cause he is kind of a douche)

    • Sammy

      No, it’s real. It really is powered by a walnut.

  • http://www.metalsucks.net/category/scraping-genius-off-the-wheel/ Gary Suarez

    I will never tire of that video clip. THE AUSTERITY PROGRAM FTW!!!!

  • builtforsin

    I think a metalsucks gear section would be most welcomed here.

    …well, I would.

    Also, if you need some asshole to get lots of pre-release gear, make videos, and post/review them on this site, I can be that asshole.

    • http://www.metalsucks.net/category/scraping-genius-off-the-wheel/ Gary Suarez

      “I can’ts dos its! I cant’s takes no mores piano lessons!”

    • DidgeryDo

      I second that. Metalsucks would definitely be improved with a music gear section. If it got off the
      ground you guys could probably make some advertising bucks off it too.

    • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

      They could have gear contests too

  • Skanes

    SHIT TONE IST KREIG

  • Sammy

    Shouldn’t a pedal calling itself “BM” be a BM-2?

  • CARTER

    crap pedal

  • myke

    ha thats classic i wouldnt spend money on that

  • hikizume

    to be a guitarrist and pay for this to make it part of your sound be like being a runner and paying to have a leg cut off and then have the wound soaked in alcohol, all this while watching one of the sextapes your mom made with your old dog fluffy.

    • Nate

      Basically, unless you’re insane and want to sound EXACTLY like your favorite black metal bands… Hell, I’m going to buy it, just because it looks bitchin’!

  • http://www.hibernum.net hibernum

    When Emperor recorded In the Nightside Eclipse, they just plugged their guitars directly into the soundboard. I believe the boss metalzone was used as a preamp on that one. Good times, bad tone!

  • http://www.smnnews.com big_metal_al

    So kvlt, it’s not in Guitar Center, yet…

  • myspace.com/gregkleinlegion

    BM-2 !! ha ha ha! I thought i was the only one….that second video was tits!!! lets have a music gears sucks area! start by comparing epiphones to gibsons…..and find out that gibsons biggest supporters dont actually own any gibsons……

  • Nate

    OMG. I actually put on some Emperor records… Then i realized Ihsahn has an even better solo project, then I put that on. I’m going to buy this in case I ever decide I want to grow out a 3FT long beard and burn churches.

  • DidgeryDo

    My really strong hate for all things Black Metal will definitely make me biased against this pedal.

  • jason

    Let me guess…this pedal makes it sound like you’re playing your guitar while inside a moldy garbage can full of wet newspaper.

  • alliaphagist

    haha I love how the Valnøtt pedal did exactly what I was expecting for the bass

  • Mike2

    that’s great and all… but can we have a comparison? ‘Cause for me, distortion is distortion… anybody could show me a real comparison of two different pedals?

  • Kuranes

    How not Black Metal is a “Black Metal” pedal? Ulver supposedly recorded their third album in a goddamned forest on an 8-track. They probably didn’t buy their outfits at Walmart either.

    • Adrian

      Garm admitted that was just a rumor they spread to make them seem more “kvlt” back in the day. It was recorded in a very professional studio, and they took a long time in the studio to get that sound.

  • http://hehe joss

    hahaha awesome

  • Failure

    why would anyone want to sound that shitty…

  • Daniel

    Why would anyone want to imitate any of the shitty black metal guitar tone?

  • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

    I have a Line 6 amp, my guitar sounds like crap anyway so I don’t need the help this pedal would provide.

    • myspace.com/gregkleinlegion

      id love to help your tone..not that mine’s the best…but ive learned some inexpensive tricks…

      • http://uponwingsofblack.blogspot.com/ \m/Eluveitie\m/

        I’ll take all the help I can get

  • Zee

    Having listened to average sounding music (and gigs) played on great equipment and great sounding music made on average equipment I think all this hardware fetishism is shit. Valnott is ace, though.