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Stoner/Doom Bassists Thread, Part 90: Maxed Out
- Thread starter Korladis
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So me and a friend on drums were looking for a guitarist for a Russian Circles inspired instrumental trio.
We had a rehearsal with a guy who really got the spot. We went from rumbly slow parts to the most stoner-y riff parts just jamming meeting for the first time. I never played my P bass like that evening since I got it 8 years ago.
I think I'll hang out here more
We had a rehearsal with a guy who really got the spot. We went from rumbly slow parts to the most stoner-y riff parts just jamming meeting for the first time. I never played my P bass like that evening since I got it 8 years ago.
I think I'll hang out here more
rubber knife is doing a ten minute gig at the number 2 compound in burbank saturday night, korg beat boy is confirmed for low quality electronic drums ala prince/jesus and marychain, we will be debuting our new ten minute jam prelude to a snuff film, not sure if we will be wearing our costumes or resurrecting dead pets at this event
Anyone tried out the Quilter Bass Block 800 yet? I got a used 101 mini head for a practice amp and I like it so far.
I just heard Russian Circles on Pandora the other day and I immediately bought an album.
Glad to hear your jam went well - would love to hear some recordings when you get to that stage!
Was just reviewing some emails and notice I sent Dopethrone $5 a piece for 5 downloads on Bandcamp, the last 1312 EP kills. Only other band I've paid there was Monobrow. Go Doom on Band Camp. 
The bassist from Russian Circles and Intronaut are probably the best two recent proggy/post metal bassists. If you like Brian Cook (Russian Circles Bassist's) playing he also plays bass in Sumac w/ the main guy from Isis and he moonlights on the Mouth of the Architect Ties that Blind album. He did something else too but it's eluding me right now.
Not sure if you never checked out post-metal/sludgey/prog-doom type stuff like Russian Circles before, this is kind of like my genre that I personally love but you may also like some of the following bands some of which you are probably familiar with but you might find yourself some gems: Tempel, Isis, Dirge (check Hyperion its incredible), The Tides (They had one album called Resurface its very good instrumental metal), Rwake, Neurosis, The Grasshopper Lies Heavy, Cult of Luna, Minsk, Pelican, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster, A Storm of Light, Alaskan, Atoma, Beak, Snow Burial, Bossk, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, Burst, The Moth Gatherer, Camel of Doom, Cetacean, Dark Castle, Hull (Beyond the Lightless Sky is incredible except for the first minute on the first track), Inter Arma, Izah, Kowloon Walled City, Kultika, Northless, Light Bearer, Lucid Planet, Morne, Obscure Sphinx, Palms, Rosetta, Anciients, Sahg, Secrets of the Sky, sunnata, The Atlas Moth, Island, Taken by the Sun, Suns of the Tundra, Sunpocrisy, Yakuza, Year of No Light. I should also add Sartori's Catapult the Dead band is in the same vein and All is Sorrow is an excellent song/album.
Some of these bands fall into other genres kinda but that's part of the post-whatever fun.
Cool list I'll def check some of that on BC. Heard Catapult last week and dug it, very different approach to creating than I take but always looking for new approaches. Ive been a neurosis and isis fan since the 90's.
i'm supposed to do a sloppy demo of the quilter on saturday morning in oc, however the guys usually have hi fi stuff so i'm not gonna get the super dark sledgehammer od tone i'm used to, but i'll try my best
i rented the elks lodge for my birthday show, looks like it's a set from the deer hunter
mesa works fine at the repair shop and the music store, the wiring at my house is snafu i suppose
mesa works fine at the repair shop and the music store, the wiring at my house is snafu i suppose
Oh wow, thanks for listing all these! I've only heard a handful of these bands so there's a lot of music I need to check out.
I know the "popular" ones like Neurosis, Isis, Pelican, Cult of Luna etc. But the drummer I knew who used to turn me on to bands in this genre kind of flaked out and disappeared lol.
Thank you!
Drummers are all insane and if anyone in the band is going to disappear it's going to be the drummer. Welcome, a lot of those bands are really good and should be wider-known. If anyone sees any band that is in that vein that wasn't listed please share I'm always looking for good post-metal/proggy/atmos doom/sludgey ambient type stuff. I'm weird though because I don't really like the blackgaze/post-black stuff that much. A lot of it feels pretty forced to me, kinda like some of the 70s revival going on. I think I forgot to include Obsidian Kingdom and Nero di Marte (Derivae is a shaging amazing album) too, I've lurked in this thread for years and literally read everything but I only occasionally post. I also just bought an album by a band called Palmer - Surrounding the Void that is pretty cool so far and probably belongs on this list, literally giving it a first listen as I write this.
Look forward to hearing the new stuff Sartori I did the review for All is Sorrow on The Sludgelord blog back when it came out still throw it on sometimes, the songwriting is stellar on it I'm sure even if the new stuff is stylistically different it'll still be top-notch.
If anyone has any recording tips for recording heavy guitars for a live takes as a 3 piece please share. We were going to try running a splitter into a hallway/diff rooms for guitar and doing hard pans with 2-4 different distorted amps for layered distortion on the new recordings. We tried doing the guitar right bass left soft pan with reverbs bounced to opposite sides and I didn't feel like the guitars were as heavy and all-encompassing as doubling/tripling/quadding up a thick distorted guitar tone with hard pans each side and reverbs hard panned opposite. Crushing bass we already got that part pretty much figured out with mic & DI amp and split clean before amp run amp sims then play with low-pass/high-pass filters on each channel with compression where needed til they sound like one tone. It's a weird balance recording everything live not as professional musicians and making sure it has no mistakes when you have a limited amount of time to play together. Especially with the amount of jamming we do on my band's the new stuff. Tricky to say when a take is "the one" when everybody is hyper-critical of their performances.
Why not record one guitar track live and have him come back and layer guitar tracks after? Alot of the stereo image from multitracked guitar is due to the small errors in each take.
Yeah, my only concern with that is they don't want to use a click and want to record everybody live in the same room. He's a good enough guitar player to do that though. When most people do that do they use the same amp/pickup settings and layer or do they use diff guitars/setups? From what I've read in interviews people have said they've done both. We are totally self taught recording/mixing so we know a lot about some stuff and next to nothing about things that are probably really obvious to someone w/ experience. Personally I'm 100% pro click and solo track recording after seeing how much easier and faster it is on my solo stuff and my few studio trips.
