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SCAR SYMMETRY

Progressive Melodic Death Metal 

AbOUT THE BAND

SCAR SYMMETRY was formed in 2004 when Jonas Kjellgren, Henrik Ohlsson, Per Nilsson, Christian Älvestam and Kenneth Seil decided to put together a brand new constellation that would express a fresh and heavy form of catchy death metal without any boundaries whatsoever.
The band wanted to incorporate huge synthesizers into the music, along with blazing virtuoso guitar soloing, which would all be backed up with complex but catchy rhythms and every style of singing known to metal in general. 
Scar Symmetry released their first album "Symmetric in Design"in 2005via Cold Records. The second album ”Pitch Black Progress” followed soon after this in 2006 when the band was signed to Nuclear Blast. 

Enter 2008, the second album, “Holographic Universe”, for the long running German label took the band not only a few more steps up. Shortly after the release of the album, the band parted ways with their singer Christian Älvestam and he was replaced by phenomenal dynamic duo Roberth Karlsson & Lars Palmqvist for harsh and clean vocals.
The next albums ”Dark Matter Dimensions” (2009), ”The Unseen Empire” (2011) and ”The Singularity: Phase 1 – Neohumanity (2014) have launched the band even higher. ”The Singularity: Phase II – Xenotaph” is waiting to be released sometime in the near future and of course, this is something worth waiting for!
Swedish melodeath at its best! Exactly how we like it. 

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LINEUP:

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Per Nilsson - guitar

Banjamin Ellis - guitar

Lars Palmqvist - Vocals

Roberth Karlsson - vocals

Henrik Olsson - drums

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One HELIX preset to rule them all!
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One HELIX preset to rule them all!

Get the Helix preset that contains our live guitar tones here: http://www.patreon.com/scarguitar "Will you ever share Scar Symmetry's Helix preset that you use on stage?" is a question I've been asked numerous times. Scar Symmetry has used Line6 gear for our live guitar tones since 2008 when we got our hands on a couple of POD X3 Live units. It's so incredibly convenient to have ALL of your guitar sound (beyond your mind, your hands, your instrument, strings, pick etc) in one very portable device! For our 2016 tour in North America, our soundguy Igor Stolarsky (currently the FOH for Animals as Leaders) who also was a firmware developer for Line6 brought a couple of the then kind of new Helix rack units for us to use. It was a Scar Symmetry headline tour, and our three support bands (Arsis, Shattered Sun and Painted in Exile) all brought amp heads and 4x12 cabinets, but after the first couple of shows everyone was so impressed with how great the Helix sounded that they all ended up using them - making the changeovers so much faster and more convenient! A couple of years later, Line6 released the downsized version of the Helix, the HX Stomp. This little fella used the same software as its big brother but had less processing power - which didn't matter to us since we don't need to use complex reverbs and pitchshifters. It is small and incredibly light making it very convenient for touring on a budget. The only thing that bugged me was that you only get three snapshots per preset... and we need four. Luckily Line6 later released the HX Stomp XL which features the coveted FOUR snapshots per preset and the XL version has been what we've used since! So without further ado... Here's THE Helix/HX preset that we've been using on stage for the past couple of years. An early version of this preset was made by our guitar tech (and former touring bass and guitar player occasionally filling in for Kenneth or Jonas back when they were still in the band) Fredrik Groth, so credit to him for setting up the basic structure of the blocks, choosing the amp and so on, though I've done some major reworking of the preset to its current form. The preset consists of four snapshots and here's how we use them: Snapshot 1: mono rhythm tone panned to one side - when both Stephen and I play rhythm, we both use snapshot 1. His HX Stomp XL has the exact same preset - we just switch the cables on the outputs to invert the panning on his device Snapshot 2: stereo rhythm tone - we're using a short delay to offset left from right, a simple but effect way of creating a doubling effect, emulating two players playing the same part. When one of us plays a solo or clean part, the other one switches to snapshot 2 in order to fill out the stereo field and to have the rhythm parts stay approximately the same volume-wise. Snapshot 2 is considerably louder than snapshot 1 and that is because it is meant to sound like two guitar players each using snapshot 1 playing the same thing. Snapshot 3: lead tone - doesn't need much explanation 😊 Snapshot 4: clean tone - we don't use clean tones all that much but for example during Stephen's solo on Morphogenesis, I use snapshot 4 A NOTE ON INPUT VOLUME: We use wireless guitar systems live, and for whatever reason, the output from those are a tad bit weaker than if we were to plug straight into the Stomps via cable. These snapshots might therefore feel a bit "hot", too much gain etc if you're using a cable so you might want to adjust the input gain somewhat.
SCAR SYMMETRY upcoming FINNISH TOUR!
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WORLDWIDE BOOKING &
MANAGEMENT

NANDA HELLBERG

nanda@heavymetalheart.com

+358 41 5242 534

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