Tech Metal Bassists?

[alexbrownebass]

I've been going through a bit of a tech metal phase of late, so that brings me to this thread: who are TB's favorite tech metal players?

My vote would have to be for BTBAM's Dan Briggs or Liam Wilson from the Dillinger Escape Plan.

 

[Metal Matt]

+1 on both that you mentioned. I don't know his name, but the dude from Ion Dissonance is awesome. And I don't know if they could be considered tech metal but the guy from The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza is really good too.

 

[UPTHE1RON5]

steve digiorgios prolly my favourite technical fret wanker

 

[nbw]

I'm a little confuse, what exactly is, or makes it 'tech metal'?
I kind of dig the Dillinger Escape Plan band, not really my thing but I like where they go with it. I don't see the similarities between it and BTBAM enough to understand what techmetal is though.

 

[sleepy]

Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne, if that's tech metal.

 

[whoatherechunk]

i've actually never head of the term tech metal. maybe i have (?). there are too many damn labels! when it comes to specifics i've always thought of the dillinger escape plan as "math core". i know it sounds ridiculous but yea.......

 

[Qvist]

Is tech metal an extreme form of progressive metal/rock?

 

[Baryonyx]

steve digiorgios prolly my favourite technical fret wanker

Despite the fact that he's famed for playing a fretless?

 

[UPTHE1RON5]

Despite the fact that he's famed for playing a fretless?

hahaha. my bad. u know what i mean

 

[Yngwie 4String]

if you just mean guys that are technically accomplished bassist in heavy metal bands. I got 2 words for you:

ALEX WEBSTER (Cannibal Corpse)

 

[JMX]

I liked Doug Keyser back in the day. Sean Malone.

 

[alexbrownebass]

Is tech metal an extreme form of progressive metal/rock?

Yes. Or, more appropriately, another name for progressive metal.

 

[Kgoodrich]

dan briggs wins everyday.

 

[Metal Matt]

It's another one of those labels that has popped up in underground music that probably won't ever really stick as it's WAY too broad and could apply to way too many bands that sound different from one another.

And as far as The Dillinger Escape Plan being labeled as "mathcore", that whole thing started because when they came out no other band in the hardcore scene was doing anything like them. Somehow some rumors started going around that they use math equations to write their riffs or something stupid like that. Dillinger dismissed this at least 4 or 5 years ago.

I guess "tech metal" can be explained like this. Some kids hear something other than their average hardcore or metal and label it as "tech" due to the technicality of the playing.

That being said, when someone says "tech metal" certain bands immediately come to mind so maybe the term has stuck a bit. I don't know.

 

[afinalfantasy]

Yes. Or, more appropriately, another name for progressive metal.

Nope, it's different. Hard to explain, but it's easy to hear. Stuff like Meshuggah is technical metal.

DEP is mathcore and nowhere near being metal.


and lol @ Mudvayne being considered metal.

 

[trb6pJM2]

.... I prefer melody.

lol.

 

[Visirale]

Nope, it's different. Hard to explain, but it's easy to hear. Stuff like Meshuggah is technical metal.

DEP is mathcore and nowhere near being metal.


and lol @ Mudvayne being considered metal.

lol @ you thinking you are the end all be all definer of music genre terms.

I love Liam Wilson and DEP... Ion dissonance is great stuff, but I haven't heard them in a few years.

 

[afinalfantasy]

I never said that, so you shouldn't instigate anything.

 

[Metal Matt]

lol @ you thinking you are the end all be all definer of music genre terms.

I love Liam Wilson and DEP... Ion dissonance is great stuff, but I haven't heard them in a few years.

The new Ion Dissonance is so damn heavy and the production on it is perfect in my opinion. It's different from their other stuff. Still has all the technicality going on, just lower instead of all the high up "meedly meedly" going on. ha It sounds like Meshuggah a bit, without sounding like they ripped them off.

I can't wait till ID starts getting some new stuff out, after Minus The Herd came out they got 8 string guitars. I'm looking forward to hearing more low end chaos from them.

 

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