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05-17-2006, 02:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sweden, Stockholm | | | Metal Bassists that play fretless?
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Can anyone give some examples of metal bands that have a bassist who play fretless and any song that shows it well? Im considering getting a fretless, but i wanna see how it sounds in context with metal music. |
05-17-2006, 03:08 AM
|  | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | | Steve Di Giorgio! Check out the video's on his website! |
05-17-2006, 03:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tipperary, Ireland | | Sean Malone from Cynic, Aghora and Gordian Knot
If you haven't heard Focus by Cynic yet, you really need to... stat!  |
05-17-2006, 09:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sweden, Stockholm | | | Is it a song or album? |
05-17-2006, 10:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tipperary, Ireland | | It's an album. I guarantee you've heard nothing like it  |
05-17-2006, 10:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sweden, Stockholm | | | Cool, so where can i listen to some clips? |
05-17-2006, 10:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tipperary, Ireland | | It was re-released a couple of years ago and there are clips on cduniverse. The vocals might take a bit of getting used to but it's worth a bit of time, this is really one of the most amazing albums out there. Malone also released a couple of albums under the name of Gordian Knot, it's not really Metal as such but interesting nonetheless. He's an accomplished Stick player too. |
05-17-2006, 03:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sweden, Stockholm | | | Damn the quality sux=/ Any other sites=S? imean if i can hear a quality clip and i like it i might buy the album:P |
05-17-2006, 03:25 PM
| | | Take it or leave it, that's about the quality of the album. It's possible to hear Malone playing.
You can also check out Aghora's myspace page (myspace.com/aghora) to see how Sean's fretless sounds in those songs. Also, I think on youtube.com there's a clip of Steve Digiorgio playing with Death in a music video, The Philosopher, and there's always both their websites ( http://www.seanmalone.net and http://www.stevedigiorgio.com) which have sound clips.
For what it's worth also, I'm a fretless player who does play metal, with a plectrum of all things possible. Though both aformentioned players are fingerstyle players, they're both huge influences on me, and I've even taken to Steve Digiorgio's E-C tuning on his fivers. Fretless sounds great for metal IMHO. |
05-17-2006, 10:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Between here and there | | | Joey Vera (Armored Saint) plays fretless on some of their songs...
I don't know if you can call it metal but Tony Franklyn played a mean fretless on Blue Murder's S/T cd....
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05-17-2006, 10:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tempe, Arizona | | | You can try 80s metal band Blue Murder - great fretless playing from Tony Franklin. It may be a bit dated sounding in some of the songs but solid work. The self-titled album is the one to listen to, imo.
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05-17-2006, 10:54 PM
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05-18-2006, 12:57 AM
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05-18-2006, 03:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Orlando, FL | | | i think the guy from opeth plays fretless on a couple songs |
05-18-2006, 04:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Gothenburg Sweden | | | Tony Franklin |
05-18-2006, 12:43 PM
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05-18-2006, 03:15 PM
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Does Tony Levin count? He's played on some pretty heavy stuff. |
05-18-2006, 07:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Boston, MA | | | Opeth's Bassist
good song to display this - To Bid you Farewell |
05-19-2006, 01:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Towson, MD/Seattle, WA | | Orphaned Land's Uri Zelcha plays fretless on some songs.
Although I dunno which.
Orphaned Land are just worth checking out in general. Yep. www.orphaned-land.com |
05-19-2006, 10:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: new jersey, USA | | | Les Claypool! Primus is pretty damn heavy at times.
He plays fretless on my name is mud, bob, hamburger train, poetry and prose, tommy the cat, jerry was a racecar driver, and quite a few more. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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