Metalheads

Nitzleplick · #1 09-08-2010, 11:00 AM

I think its time for a thread for those bassists who love metal in all its genres to share whats going on right now. I dont have anything against Jazz but I think our metal basses need the love too! My inspirations range from Metallica to All That Remains, im also looking for a bass i can play like a bass and a distorted rhythm guitar just for fun.

sirpug · #2 09-08-2010, 11:02 AM

I snapped my B-string at our show on Friday night. Is that metal enough?

Nitzleplick · #3 09-08-2010, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by sirpug

I snapped my B-string at our show on Friday night. Is that metal enough?

Only if it was with your teeth. (DISCLOSURE- The only time your not metal is when you try to say what is/isnt metal)

zachoff · #4 09-08-2010, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Nitzleplick

im also looking for a bass i can play like a bass and a distorted rhythm guitar just for fun.

Baritone guitar? I've played the Schecter Hellcat baritone & it's pretty damn fun. Other than that, maybe an 8 or 12 string bass?

bommer · #5 09-08-2010, 03:03 PM

i Love my metal, but once there is a screamer, that when i can get iffy. very rare i like a screamer....only one i can think off the top of my head is the old 3iob screamer

gotta love the growling and sining in metal though!

some great metal to listen to: Death, Skeletonwitch, Forbidden, Megadeth, Symphony X, Iron Maiden, Metallica, and WAY too much more to list

zachoff · #6 09-08-2010, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by bommer

i Love my metal, but once there is a screamer, that when i can get iffy. very rare i like a screamer....only one i can think off the top of my head is the old 3iob screamer

I'm the same way. Don't like cookie monster vocals either though. My favorite these days is High on Fire. They're technical without being pretentious, heavy most of the time, fast at times, and raw.

spaz21387 · #7 09-08-2010, 03:15 PM

Whitechapel... I love that band seen them everytime they played portland since summer slaughter 08

Nitzleplick · #8 09-09-2010, 06:14 AM

I listen to anything from rock to metal.. but I love the vocals from Foo Fighters/Killswitch Engage, etc. I can tolerate some screaming if it's part of the song for emphasis! when your entire song is pure Cookiecore Monster Metal then I cant listen to it.

Nitzleplick · #9 09-09-2010, 06:25 AM

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Originally Posted by zachoff

Baritone guitar? I've played the Schecter Hellcat baritone & it's pretty damn fun. Other than that, maybe an 8 or 12 string bass?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01JC7y_NvWo

I just found the Bass of my dreams.

Will you be my Best Man?

Edit: I wonder if you can throw bigger strings on it to add more of a bass bottom end to the guitar-y sound. But thats the closest i've seen to a Bass you can also riff like a Guitar on

Rip Topaz · #10 09-09-2010, 06:45 AM

Disciple. Their new album "Horseshoes and Hand Grenades" is pure metal. And has a Christian message. And their singer can actually sing. Good stuff.

Not into the cookie monster vocals either.

**Lazarus.Bird** · #11 09-09-2010, 06:49 AM

I've always wondered what type of vocal style people would think appropriate for genres such as tech death and black metal who don't like death metal style vocals. Thinking of these genres with clean singing makes me laugh. The guitars have distortion, so why not the vocals?

Rip Topaz · #12 09-09-2010, 06:54 AM

That's why I mentioned Disciple. They used screaming as well as harmonized vocals. Makes for a very listenable musical experience.

Nitzleplick · #13 09-09-2010, 06:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Lazarus.Bird

I've always wondered what type of vocal style people would think appropriate for genres such as tech death and black metal who don't like death metal style vocals. Thinking of these genres with clean singing makes me laugh. The guitars have distortion, so why not the vocals?

The problem I have with the Cookie Monster vocals is that it's over done. I love the instrumentals but for me at least the voice kills the song. Just like how people dont run their entire pedal board at once, it's just noise and somewhat incoherent for me atleast. Screaming, Vocal Distortion, in my opinion you should throw it in for emphasis.

Think of some Metal bands like Bullet For My Valentine with two vocalists. One is distorted and the other isn't. Or Slipknot in that usually the vocalist or lead vocalist will cut the distortion/screaming for the chorus. It sounds so much better that way imo.

Evil Undead · #14 09-09-2010, 07:00 AM

Subbed.

What are cookie monster vocals? You mean screamers like the guy in AlexisOnFire? Jeez, I don't like them, no offence to anyone that does.

I love screamers but only if they're decent and growly, not if they're wearing a jockstrap that's too tight

\m/

Essen · #15 09-09-2010, 07:03 AM

I rarely feel that cookie monster vocals fit in anything, same thing about blast beats and pinch harmonics. Opeth is one of the few bands that use/used these things the right way.
Can't stand mainstream metal bands though..

shadow_FIX · #16 09-09-2010, 07:05 AM

I can hear it now...

*in "cookie monster" vocals* "Ceee is for cookieee, it's good enough for meee!" Add in a couple of "bree's" in pigsqueals and you have the secret track for your next album

A few metal bands I like:
Lamb Of God
All That Remains
In Flames
As I Lay Dying
August Burns Red
Metallica
Children Of Bodom

**Lazarus.Bird** · #17 09-09-2010, 07:06 AM

I guess it depends on your definition of cookie monster vocals. I always assume people are referring to death metal vocals in general. Like I said, I don't see how any other vocal style would fit the music of bands such as Behemoth, Dying Fetus, Necrophagist, etc.

JoeVictim · #18 09-09-2010, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by zachoff

I'm the same way. Don't like cookie monster vocals either though. My favorite these days is High on Fire. They're technical without being pretentious, heavy most of the time, fast at times, and raw.

\m/

Love Matt Pike's vocals. They are the sound track to vehicular homicide.
I'm not a "metalhead" but I am finding myself listening to more and more metal type bands. There hasn't been many new punk bands that are worth anything lately. I am just to the point where I would rather listen about monsters, glorious battles, and treachery, than why life sucks. I know life sucks, I don't want to listen to music about it.

Craig630 · #19 09-09-2010, 07:16 AM

Dethklock!

laboitenoire · #20 09-09-2010, 07:29 AM

To quote Austrian Death Machine (Tim Lambesis' studio project that features Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonators on vocals):

"If you're going to sound like Cookie Monster, then you might as well write a song about cookies!"

But nah, I'm a huge metal fan. Metal passed rock as the most common genre in my music library a long time ago. I used to not be a huge fan of death growl and screamed vocals, but I learned to like it as most of the bands I like know how to alternate between screamed and clean vocals.

I'd say my favorites are (in no particular order) Trivium, Between the Buried and Me, Metallica, Yngwie Malmsteen, ARK (An interesting band that basically is Yngwie's old bands with a different guitarist. Only released two albums but damn are they good.), As I Lay Dying, Mastodon, All That Remains, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, and Bullet For My Valentine.

Over the past two years I've been to two separate metal concerts. I was at 2009's Mayhem Tour (~30 feet from the stage for God Forbid, ~20 feet for ATR, less than 15 for Trivium

), and I went to the Atticus Cool Tour this summer. That show was intense... I didn't go on the floor until after The Acacia Strain (Boston goes wild for any metal band that's local), but for most of As I Lay Dying I was only a few feet from the stage.