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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Saw these guys opening for Death To All last year and was pleasantly surprised. Not usually my style of music but they put on a great show.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Yesterday, I spent maybe 45 minutes scrubbing through an MCR song so I could prepare a lead sheet for my cover band. Today, I am getting constant ads for various music training services like Yousician and Ultimate Guitar. These algorithms are absolutely insane. Net neutrality needs to return

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Skipped Around the Fur because I’ve heard it a hundred times and know I love that one. Currently working through White Pony and also liking this one. Quite a bit more vocally experimental than the previous two, though the riffs aren’t as memorable to me as Around the Fur.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

As a person who passively enjoys Deftones, I’m educating myself and listening through their discography over the next day or two. Glad they were able to survive past Adrenaline lmao. The guitar tone sounds like they plugged the head into a PA speaker and mic’d it up in a shower stall.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I finally got myself (mostly) off Facebook and will be dropping my random funnies and death metalling here

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Fun fact: Wal-Mart has about 2.1 million employees. If you took that $400 billion and split it evenly between all 2.1 million employees as a one-time lump sum… Each employee gets over $190,000.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Every song has a similar riff style but some other radically different element on top (mostly vocals, but one song has brass too). Really interesting seeing how the same band sounds wildly different with different vocal production on each song. #metalsky #deathmetalsky

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

FINALLY beat Promised Consort Radhan the other day. Even after getting nerfed (as he should have been—some of those attacks were straight up impossible to counter), he’s still a top 2 hardest boss I’ve ever dealt with. Malenia still might surpass him in difficulty, but they’re very VERY close.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Bummer to not have Mat in Rhuidean, but this honestly makes sense from a condensation standpoint. You could easily fold a lot of Tanchico and Ebou Dar together, wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what they do.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Me: *visits any general guitar themed group/subreddit/page* Literally every post: "New guitar day!" *it's the most generic strat or strat clone you've ever seen* Everyone in the comments: "GORGEOUS. NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SO STUNNING. THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER GUITAR."

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Can confirm it’s very good. Virtually zero blood or gore but extremely tense, especially in the last half hour or so.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Elon Musk is out here doing all the things conservatives accused George Soros of doing for decades, and he’s heiling Hitler too! Love this. Love that they’re not even trying to be subtle anymore. Love how easy this makes it for me to cut out the people who aren’t horrified by what they’re seeing.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Meshuggah and Animals as Leaders are probably the two most influential bands on the metal of the last ~20 years. Am I forgetting any other huge ones?

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

2025 will probably not be the year local metal dudes stop taking themselves so fucking seriously, but damn I sure with it were

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

BlueSky explicitly stating they won’t suppress links is already a huge win for artists of all kinds. Virtually every other platform suppresses everyone and everything unless you give them money. Looking forward to what could be many years of fun with #MetalSky #DeathMetalSky #ProgMetalSky

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Anybody interested in a sadboi dream theater cover? I released one with my solo project earlier this year. Check it out! #MetalSky #ProgMetalSky #ProgressiveMetalSky #DreamTheater

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

He’s been my #1 inspiration as a bassist ever since I saw the omnipresent perception music video a decade ago. Absolute monster of a player

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Appreciate it! I’m learning by ear too haha, the only tab I’ve found for this song is extremely inaccurate. Extremely difficult for sure, takes a lot of work (and plenty more to come)

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

So glad it’s on Tubi now. I bought it on Amazon earlier in the year thinking it would never end up on streaming, being a somewhat obscure foreign language film.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Practicing a little more of Solus by First Fragment. This song is INSANELY difficult to play, but I’m having a blast learning it. Currently at 90% speed. Still have some cleaning up to do, but it’ll get there soon. 😁 #MetalSky #DeathMetalSky #Bass #FirstFragment #BassPlayer #Bassist #BassSky

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Haven’t shared my band Ice Giant yet here! We are a symphonic melodeath band from Boston, MA. Our debut album came out last September. Check out my bass playthrough of one of my faves youtu.be/J2-g_GyIM68?... #DeathMetalSky #MetalSky

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Ice Giant - In the Maw of Reality (Bass Playthrough)

YouTube video by Dan Saillant

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Gonna be 225 eventually haha I think this video is like 170

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It’s such a great album. By far one of my favorites of that genre. I usually have a hard time getting into super crazy tech death, but they managed to make it so catchy while also being RIDICULOUSLY technical

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Any fans of First Fragment here on #MetalSky #DeathMetalSky ? Currently attempting to transcribe Solus by ear and man it is HARD as hell haha Only at 75% speed currently and even this gave me a huge blister. Haven’t had to do this much tapping since learning Beyond Creation lines a decade ago

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Technical Progressive Slamming Female-Fronted Deathgaze starter pack coming soon

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Nikita @tchyort.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Born to riff Forced to reset passwords.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The starter pack thing is probably my favorite part of BlueSky so far. With two or three button taps I all of a sudden have access to almost 500 people with interest in both death metal and Wheel of Time (aka my two personality traits).

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I gave up Twitter many years ago when it first started becoming a cesspool, so it feels great to be able to actually participate in the conversation over here. So happy a Twitter killer os finally taking off

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Crazy that today is the 3-year anniversary of #TheWheelOfTime on Amazon. These books have been about 40% of my personality (the remaining parts being 40% bass and 20% stress about gigs and projects), and the show is a nonstop focus of mine. Season 3 announcement may be imminent, hype! #WoTskies

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Annihilus Mundi @annihilusmundi.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We have a show coming up on Sunday 12/22 at the brand new Koto location in Lowell, MA. This will be AM’s third show ever and our first with a complete lineup. Roll through and support a new venue!

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Congrats on making it to the end of this extremely long thread. I’m sure y’all will have thoughts lmao, especially on that top 3.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

01. Living Things (3/3) …from the nostalgia of Lost in the Echo to the frantic anger of Victimized to the bittersweetness of Roads Untravelled). This album is banger after banger, and it kills me that people won’t give it a chance. Standout Tracks: Lost in the Echo, Castle of Glass, Powerless

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

01. Living Things (2/3) Honestly, even calling it an electropop album does a disservice to how wonderful a blend of styles it is. Every song is catchy, the lyrics are their best ever. The songs are a lot darker and heavier than people give them credit for, and they greatly in emotional range…

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

01. Living Things (1/3) By far the most controversial placement on this list I’m sure, but I stand by it 100%. Living Things is a perfect album from start to finish just like Hybrid Theory and Meteora, but y’all are haters that won’t give it a chance because it’s one of their electropop albums.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

02. Meteora Meteora is everything great about Hybrid Theory, refined it, then kicked it into overdrive. I listened to this one for the first time in a while yesterday and was blown away all over again by how it is quite literally banger after banger. Not a single song that even borders on weak.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

03. Hybrid Theory (2/2) This is the album that started it all for LP and it’s the album that most people know and love best. It’s incredible, no doubt about it. Standout Tracks: Pushing Me Away, Papercut, High Voltage

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

03. Hybrid Theory (1/2) *gasp* Hybrid Theory not number 1??? Crucify this man! For real though, all of the top 3 are 10/10 albums, I just don’t want to give them a three-way tie. Hybrid Theory is a perfect album, and there’s really not much else I feel like I can add to the conversation.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

04. The Hunting Party This is BY FAR the most underrated album in LP’s discography, and life of me, I can’t understand why it isn’t talked about. Even if you dislike “new LP,” you owe it to yourself to at least check out this one, because it has everything people loved about the first two albums.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

05. Minutes to Midnight This is the album that lost a lot of people. It’s a collection of ballads, plus two high-energy hard rock tracks in Bleed it Out and Given Up. If you’re like me and are a sucker for a catchy ballad, this album will work for you, but it otherwise will probably fall flat.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

06. A Thousand Suns This is a controversial placement, since this album is so misunderstood. It’s LP’s Dark Side of the Moon, a progressive rock album designed to be listened as a single piece. The songs are very strong all around, though there are a lot of filler tracks that only work in context.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

07. From Zero Big asterisk next to this one because it’s brand new and I do think it’s gonna grow on me. I like Emily’s clean singing but don’t like her screaming at all. The singles are definitely the strongest tracks on the album, which is a bummer. The last three are also solid songs.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

08. One More Light Starting off at the bottom is an album I still think is decent. The biggest issue is it doesn’t have much flow or cohesion. You could play any individual song and have a decent time, but listen straight through and it feels like it goes nowhere.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Note: I have chosen not to include Reanimation or Recharged in the ranking, as they’re remix albums.

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Dan Saillant @dansaillant.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Now that their comeback album From Zero is out, this felt like a good time to post my album ranking (as if anybody cares lol, dead internet is real). This will definitely be controversial, but these are my genuine thoughts and I will not be convinced otherwise lol.

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