Looking for Death/Black/Extreme Metal with BASS!

[Nyarlathotep]

Ok, so ive recently become re-inpired to the possibilitys of the Death/Black genre, and im looking for some albums and groups where you can really HEAR the bass.

I do have some Death, tho ive only takin a passive listen to it, and some Cannibal Corpse.

Other than that it's pretty much Dimmu....

[MaskedJackal]

Atheist's Unquestionable Presence album is a tech-death manifesto. Amazing stuff. Get whatever you can by Pavor, their bassist is literally the most ridiculous and technical metal player I've heard. Meh, there's a lot more. Not so much BM where bass is audible.

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

Dillinger Escape Plan. Not death but pretty crazy and technical and he as a great sound.

Hi! Here are some albums on which you can hear the bass; Vintersorg- "Visions from the spiral generator", Vintersorg-"The focusing blur", Borknagar-"empiricism", Borknagar-"Origin"(acoustic album) ,Sadus albums, Cynic-"Focus", Moonspell-"Irreligious", Macabre-"Dahmer", Gorefest-"Erase", T.O.O.H -"Order and punishment "(bass sounds so good), and the awesome Arcturus-"Sideshow symphonies". Have Fun!!

[joeydavidson]

For audible bass you can also try;

Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
Demilich - Nespithe (sometimes obscured by guitars but comes through a lot)
Deicide - Legion (headphones will make the bass clear)

[hey]

Death - Scream Bloody Gore, Individual Thought Patterns
Opeth - Morningrise
Necrophagist - Epitaph

[grace & groove]

Between the Buried and Me- Colors (3-minute bass solo on this album too)
Atheist- Elements (Crazy slap bassist)
Control Denied- The Fragile Art of Existence (and this stuff is fingerstyle fretless)


By the way, four of these bands mentioned in this thread (Vintersorg, Sadus, Death, Control Denied) all have the same bassist.

Steve Digiorgio rocks.

[HalfDayClosing]

Opeth (Black/Death/Folk prog)- my favorite albums are Ghost Reveries, Blackwater Park, Damnation and Still Life...but all of them are good (the first two are more black metal than the newer ones which are more death/prog)

Necrophagist (technical death)- Only two albums but both rule and the bass player is phenominal.

Beneath the Massacre (technical death/ some sort of "core" maybe?)- Only two albums but still awesome. Bass player plays tap/sweep tap solos along side the guitar players alot of the time.

Meshuggah (maybe not death/black but still HEAVY/ insane time signature grooving)- my favorite album is Nothing but all are good. Each album has a different flavor. The newer the album, the more groove based and technical, the older the album the more fast and thrashy.

Between the Buried and Me (Grindcore but some would call it death metal i guess)- Alaska and Colors are my favs. Very proggy but heavy.


These are some of my favorites but i may post some more if i think of them.

[pompompom]

Gorguts - Obscura (phenomenal bass playing on this one)
Gorguts - From wisdom to hate
Suffocation - pierced from within
Death - Sound of Perseverance

Black metal:
Xasthur - subliminal genocide: has some nice bass on it, but do not expect anything on it to sound like Dimmu Burger etc.

[heroincredible]

Cynic - Focus (great album! Wish they made more)

Absu - Tara (haven't listened to it in a while so I don't know how present the bass is, but this is one of my favourite black metal albums ever)

Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery, The Mind's I, Haven, Damage Done, Character, Fiction (from Haven on the bassist switched to guitar and they got a new bassist so the style changed, but there is still some pretty sweet stuff to be heard)

Gojira - I've only heard From Mars to Sirius, its quite good

Hypocrisy - Into the Abyss

Katatonia - Brave Murder Day (features Mikael Akerfeldt of Opeth on vocals, great album, has a swedish death feel to it), The Great Cold Distance (the bass is pretty prominent on this, but it sounds more doom metal than death)

and I second Meshuggah. Destroy Erase Improve is a pretty good place to start with them, then either Chaosphere or Nothing

[Big Hungry]

Doesn't get much blacker than Dimmu in my opinion.

+1 for Hypocrisy

[pompompom]

Originally Posted by Big Hungry

Doesn't get much blacker than Dimmu in my opinion.

Are you sure?

Yes! I definitely forgot about Opeth's Morningrise, one of the best!!

[Celestial]

Every bass-player, metal or not, should have to listen to these:

Cynic - "Focus" (extremely well-written music)
Gorguts - "Obscura" (based on disonnance, a very percussive bassist)
The Allseeing I - "Jagannâtha" (A demo. Can be downloaded officially from www.theallseeingi.net . Erlend Caspersen was the one who made me pick up the bass)
Blood Red Throne - "Come Death" (Caspersen here too)
Atheist - "Piece of Time"
Atheist - "Unquestionable Presence"
Atheist - "Elements" (all three Atheist-albums are classics)
Ephel Duath - "The Painter's Palette" (jazz-hardcore-avant-garde-metal)
Ephel Duath - "Pain Necessary to Know" (A bit less jazz than TPP, but great, still)
Gordian Knot - "Emergent" (Sean Malone of Cynic plays the bass. 'nough said)
Suffocation - "Pierced From Within" (Crazy bass-playing, and great band in general)
Suffocation - "Effigy of the Forgotten"

[Nyarlathotep]

Thanks for the responces so far. Defininatly some stuff to check out

Originally Posted by grace & groove

By the way, four of these bands mentioned in this thread (Vintersorg, Sadus, Death, Control Denied) all have the same bassist.

Steve Digiorgio rocks.

Interesting

Originally Posted by Big Hungry

Doesn't get much blacker than Dimmu in my opinion.

Maybe on the 1st 2 albums (in terms of production ), But:

Originally Posted by pompompom

Are you sure?

[anomalybass]

saethith....i think thats how you spell it. cant remember the album name. decapitated heads of the holy or something like that. dont really care for the album, but there are alot of good, audible, bass runs. -joep

[projectMalamute]

Originally Posted by Celestial

Gorguts - "Obscura"

very cool record.

[Matt Till]

Originally Posted by Big Hungry

Doesn't get much blacker than Dimmu in my opinion.

I try not to be that nerdy about Black Metal... but I gotta say, I loled when I read this.

[joeydavidson]

Oh yeah, 'Under a funeral Moon' & 'Transilvanian Hunger' by Darkthrone have audible bass, especially '.Under a Funeral Moon.'

[CHILDISHGAMBINO]

Brutal Truth - Sounds of The Animal Kingdom has some cool bass parts. It's not all root pounding at any rate and it's very audible on most of the songs especially "Jemenez Cricket". I'm listening to it right now and there's tons of cool bass parts in that song and his sound is HUGE.