Dread Bass Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 (edited) I am getting a new fretless made by Letts and have been listening to some of my favourite metal songs with fretless bass. Here are some of my favourites: Obscura [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VjyeSX6ehg[/media] Death Individual thought patterns [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lJfvY57NLk[/media] I also love Cynic, Augury and Borknagar anyone else into fretless in metal? Any other recommendations? Edited July 14, 2012 by Dread Bass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameronj279 Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 (edited) I saw the title of this and rushed to post an Obscura song. Damn you! As far as I'm aware this song was played on a Pedulla fretless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ac0mMK3SiE Edited July 14, 2012 by Cameronj279 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cameronj279 Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Double post here but this is my favourite Obscura song regarding bass http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snDfSqcPHWk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andydye Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Stickman on here plays fretless in his metal/prog band Linearsphere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yA2xXB86jUM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Bass Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 [quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1342290735' post='1732941'] I saw the title of this and rushed to post an Obscura song. Damn you! [/quote] I love Obscura Pestilence I liked liess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Bass Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 Linearsphere are interesting. I will check them out properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Ooh, new stuff for me to listen to! Cheers guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lettsguitars Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Cool post. I think Linear sphere made my ear go poorly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 [quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1342295120' post='1733023'] Cool post. I think Linear sphere made my ear go poorly. [/quote] just as long as your hands still work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andydye Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Obscura sound amazing too, not a clue what they're growling after but the musicians are awesome! Love the 6 string fretless thumb! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I've got the Linearsphere album, saw them supporting Cynic a couple of years ago and they were great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Bass Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 The guy in Borknagar plays an 8 string fretless which is pretty crazy. I think he is only on the album Universal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_8hdYfcAfw&feature=related Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andydye Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 [quote name='Dread Bass' timestamp='1342341220' post='1733318'] The guy in Borknagar plays an 8 string fretless which is pretty crazy. I think he is only on the album Universal. [/quote] Holy moley! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 The Bitch on Bass from Rock Bitch played fretless - and used to do an awesome fretless slap solo. I'd post a link to Rockbitch but it would probably be NSFW and against the t&c's of Basschat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Anyone got some good links to videos of Steve DiGeorgio playing? I used to have a couple of Death albums on my old MP3 player until it died, so be good to see some more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megallica Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmdwrCD-O0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmdwrCD-O0[/url] [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32m0zj4kaRk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32m0zj4kaRk[/url] Steve played on Iced earth's Horror show and Control Denied's Fragile art of existence albums with Richard Christy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Woodcock Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 [quote name='andydye' timestamp='1342291519' post='1732957'] Stickman on here plays fretless in his metal/prog band Linearsphere [/quote] Ah, you beat me to it! [quote name='Dread Bass' timestamp='1342292939' post='1732981'] Linearsphere are interesting. I will check them out properly. [/quote] Our guitarist has put up some more samples of the new album on his Soundcloud page here: [url="http://soundcloud.com/martin-goulding"]http://soundcloud.com/martin-goulding[/url] Anyway, here's another recommendation: [b]Exivious[/b] [url="http://www.exivious.net/"]http://www.exivious.net[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lettsguitars Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 (edited) [url="http://soundcloud.com/sttelnoj/fretlessmetal"]http://soundcloud.com/sttelnoj/fretlessmetal[/url] This thread inspired me to have a go mesen. I've not played metal for a very very long time and I'm sure you'll all think it's gay, but here it is if you're interested. It's just a bare bones cut and paste job in cubase, so the arr isn't great, but I quite like it. Featuring totally random vocal mumblings. Just ideas. Any hints and tips are welcome. Fretless 4 string eadg and hardtail guitar dadgbe with i.m.p distortion. Thanks Andy, you've reawakened my metal head. Edited July 16, 2012 by lettsguitars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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