Keep recommending me these insane bass players...I want more! Thanks to ALL of you who recommended Archspire - I'm glad I got to catch up on their newest material!
Once again first fragment Dominic Forest Lapointe :) "flamenco" death metal fretless bass player. Really high skilled. Song like "la veuve et le martyr" ou "soif brulante"
Posted about Jared yesterday on your comments sections and you put this reaction today, what a great surprise. I would recommend a reaction at a bass playthrough from Eugene of Jinjer (Vortex for example). And I would say Simen Borven from Leprous (I Lose Hope bass playthrough), and Amos Williams from Tesseract (who has also a lot of bass playthrough on youtube)
Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse but whilst playing for Blotted Science (can't find a video of him playing it but check out the track "Synaptic Plasticity"). Some of the playing is similar to what Jared's putting out IMO. Even the playthrough video of Corpses "Frantic Disembowelment" is mental. Jared is amazing though, love Archspire
Fun fact about Jared, he didn't even play bass until he auditioned for the band. He was a guitar player, and went to school for music. Regardless, he's an incredible musician
You definitely need to react to Beyond Creation, they play technical death metal. Their first bassist was Forest Lapointe and he has quite some bass walkthroughs for the band. However, now the bassist is Hugo Doyon-Karout and he's doing an extremely awesome job so far. Here are a few songs to listen to: Omnipresent Perception (Arguably the most well-known song by them, with Forest) Earthborn Evolution (Forest has a bass walkthrough video but the official video is with Hugo) Theatrical Delirium (It has a very complicated bass section, played by Hugo in the official video) Binomial Structures (Instrumental, and my personal favorite out of their last album. It doesn't have an official video) Keep up the great work Mark!
I love seeing the local boys getting more attention lately, or at least I'm seeing them get more of it at least. This album even won them a Juno award for best heavy metal/hard rock album I believe. For those that don't know, the Juno's are like the Grammy's, but exclusively for Canadian artists and bands. Another major plus about these guys, they are really awesome people to just chill with and talk to. I've had the pleasure of meeting them after some local gigs and they are just really great human beings. In regards to crazy bass playing, recently watched the band playthrough of Cattle Decapitation's Scourge of the Offspring, and their bassist blew me away. Would love to see you watch and react to Olivier Pinard's crazy style. Also Ryan Martinie, the man behind the br br DENG meme xD Mudvayne's music almost feels like it's built around his basslines. He's also in Soften the Glare, an instrumental group that definitely is focused around him. Obviously any Mudvayne song or Soften the Glare is good, but doing Mudvayne Dig for the meme would be wonderful.
This is the first vid of yours I've seen. I saw you have a video from 1 year ago on sweeping on bass, so my recommendation for next bass player video to watch would be from the band Born of Osiris. The song Machine has some sweeping arpeggios.. If you want to get crazy, check out some songs by the band Rings of Saturn, it's just very hard to hear the bass on their songs without watching a cover or playthrough.
@3:30 that’s an entire tonal change. I’ve heard Dean Lamb say they put these slow clean parts on songs to give their hands a break from all the fast guitar playing that proceeded it.
two you should DEFINITELY check out, though finding great videos like this one of Jared will be difficult: 1) Mike Flores of Origin, arguably the "originator" of this kind of superfast and technical death metal. i think it's faster more often, particularly on earlier albums, but arguably less varied and definitely less melodic 2) Jacob Schmidt of Defeated Sanity. basically death metal jazz. or jazz death metal. not as fast (on average) and definitely not melodic [other than "part 2" of their 2-parter album from 2016, which is a tribute to the jazzy tech death from the early 90ies], but the the complexity is mind melting. probably THE most underappreciated bassist (and likewise Lille, the even more insane drummer) in all of metal edit: hah! there's actually a great playthrough video of Propelled Into Sacrilege on Willowtip's channel, and a good Stoned then Defiled on Jacob's own channel
Would love for you to slow down and kind of try to play what you think is the most intense technical part! I'd likely appreciate it to a higher degree, because the tempo and precision is just an onslaught to me at this point 😅
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@@coltonpugh9669 yes and no because it’s generally just a guide of how words are spelled but will always change the spellings or add new ones if they change and become popular; other languages don’t really have that flexibility
Well, I liked the parts where it slowed down and those really nice melodies came out. Otherwise, this is not my cup of tea. I love me some death metal, but Old School is more my thing; the relentless hyper blasting/gravity blasting approach doesn't do anything for me. There's no real groove or feeling to it, IMO. But then again, it's also nice to see a bassist using all 6 strings on his bass in a musical fashion, and that I can appreciate.
@@LowEndUniversity I'm old fashioned, here. Morbid Angel's first three albums are works of evil genius. Pestilence's second album, "Consuming Impulse" is also amazing, Autopsy's album "Mental Funeral" is arguably their best in my book, and Obituary's second album,' Cause of Death", is another stone classic to me.
And sense of humor. When youre this technical, its easy to get all up your own ass. They dont fall into that trap by acknowledging hiw silly what they do is.
I think it's tough to top Archspire in terms of speed, complexity, and beautiful compositions. Sure there's faster but it starts to feel like too much at a certain point. I think Archspire strikes that perfect balance of insane technical speed with catch rhythms and melodies.
Nah, Origin, Henker, Viraemia and that type of stuff is where it's at, brutal as hell, technical as hell and did such weird stuff. Archspire to me is the stuff that those who don't actually like death metal listens to, but to each their own. They're great musicians but not enough brutal involved.
@@jasonlauritsen5587 "Archspire to me is the stuff that those who don't actually like death metal listens to" Found the Elitist :) Imagine listening to and liking both, Archspire and Origin (and Death Metal in general of course)
@@jasonlauritsen5587 "not enough brutal involved", so if they mixed the album poorly, had more generic vocals and played it at 1.25x speed, they might be "brutal" enough to compare to your list there?
All of archspire's songs are short, even at though their albums are 30 minutes there's enough notes for 2 full 1 hour albums, and the vocalist has like 3000 words to remember in a 30 minute record haha.
That is definitely accurate, although if you think about it, it's not really as many words as it seems, with Oli using lots of long, tongue-twisting, multi-syllable words like "involuntary" and "doppelganger". The ridiculously high number of complexly arranged syllables Oli seamlessly spits out like a fully automatic shotgun makes it seem like more words are being used.
I love Archspire. They do that thing that a lot of other tech death bands forget which is actually right interesting songs rather than just 4 minutes of wankery.
About pure insanity: - Dominic 'Forest’ Lapointe - for me the most insane fretless bass player. He played in Beyond Creation (I recommend this band), then he went to the First Fragment which is even more technical - Mike Flores - each time I see his right hand technique it blows me away (origin band) - he is hitting up and down string with his finger(s) - easy 16ths in +200bpm - "InsaneDeathMachine" channel - probably the most technical bassist which I ever found. He makes Rings of Saturns songs even harder - check 'RINGS OF SATURN - "Shards Of Scorched Flesh" on bass' - Scott Plummer - [*] he played in Viraemia band (not my style, too extreme) on 10-string bass. One big shred + tapping guy - Linus Klausenitzer - I'm sure you know him from Obscura There are some technical bands like Brain Drill, Nile, Cryptopsy, Dying Fetus, The faceless, Necrophagist, Cannibal Corpse. I respect the music, but I'm not a fan of these bands Honourable mention - CannibalisticZombie - thanks to his covers I discovered technical death metal scene. He made tons of technical death metal covers. I also like Bryan Beller - I recommend to check the virtual (made for animation) death metal band "dethklok" for fun and enjoyment (pretty good music) and his second project "The Aristocrats" - jazz-fusion (?) with Guthrie Govan and Marco Minnemann each of these musicians is incredibly good
This is one of those bands that the reactions channels love because no matter if you're a vocal coach, bass coach, guitair or drum coach, there is sooooooo much to delve into with Archspire. G.O.A.T. of Tech Death
I love Jared Smith and Archspire. From what I've gathered from their tab book is that most of the fast parts are in triplets or sextuplets so it's easier with the 3 finger technique.
Thanks Roy! This makes sense, and I threw it out there in my commentary because I suspected as much. Fast camera cuts made it harder to tell on some parts, but this would surely lend itself to 3-note groupings. I love when a fast passage is in 3's, ha!
If you haven't heard of Beyond Creation than you gotta check them out, the base work is always fantastic. It's always a 6 string fretless and it's just *chef's kiss*. Just great stuff, and their first bass player Dominic "Forest" Lapointe has some bass playthroughs. Highly recommended.
You should definitely watch Jared's playthrough for Relentless Mutation - he really showcases his ability to write music to the song's parts, rather than writing doing crazy shit just cos he can. I also met him at their show in Nottingham, UK - he's so down to earth and chill (I'm sure the rest of the guys are too)
Drain of Incarnation by Archspire also have a bass video and have great parts. Anything from Dominic Forest in Beyond Creation or lately in First Fragment is great stuff
Would suggest Ne Obliviscaris for peak progressive metal. Their new bassist Martino Garattoni is insane. The whole band is on another level of complexity
Bleed The Future, which this is off of, is amazing. But my favorite album is still Relentless Mutation. Songs like Involuntary Doppelgänger, Remote Tumour Seeker, and Human Murmuration, just so good!
Ha! Thanks guys! He sure is, that's a really cool project. It was like 'Octa' something, I need to look it up again. I remember it sounding very sweet!
If you want some more double thumbing in metal, check out Unraveling by Warbringer ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-96NjdT5Lydw.htmlsi=DbBYt7TSAXHGuWpn
shits cool but i really just cant get into archspire, with the drums especially it just feels like im listening to a bunch of sterile midi instruments.
The only other band that I can think of that is as technical or close to the technicality as Archspire is the band Origin. Except this is the funniest sentence I will ever write Origin is a little more melodic. But then again you don't get those middle non distorted passages so is Origin really more melodic than Archspire?
Your comments are top tier, and recently found your channel and went on binge, but waht mande me sub here directly and hope you see this is that you are able to see Andrew Kim from INFERI,, they usually tour with Archspire as well and I am pretty sure you will love the techique and will get tons of appreciation from his playthorughs, he has very few thoguh, but I tully hope that you can see Andrew, not sure if I can patreon that up, but it will be sick to see you reactiing INFERI, great channel!!
It kills me, that there are sterotypical people that cannot comprehend this genre of music, and say, "oh, thats just a bunch of noise, anyone can just make a bunch of noise!!"... Then I show them videos like this!!!!
Jared is an amazing player. If you like the tech death bassists you should check out Scott Plummer (RIP) ex bassist of the band Viraemia. Dude was on an entirely different level.
I mean.... I get it, I am truly amazed by their incredible technique and musicianship but this is just noise to me. I am guessing that their music is strictly directed to metal snobs that think the blues scale is the most boring thing in the world. My son's white-noise machine is more pleasing than this "music"
He’s up there with Forest!! I love My Dingwall, they play soo nice and just feel so comfortable in the hand and the weight is perfect they come setup amazing! His pinky so so strong!
@@Iamnotaserialkiller_nice! I have the NG3 black and took my pickguard off right away lol, I try to rotate my basses as much as I can lol. I would love a ABZ too but man that’s is a pricy bass
First video of ytours that's been recommended to me. It's real, real nice to see a REACT channel that does more than just go "wow, crazy music! Anyways buy my merch!" Going over the techniques is so much more interesting, thank you!
You can, and I've tried this off and on over the years. The issue is, the middle finger is working twice as much as the other 2, and it'll fatigue pretty quickly. It just never felt balanced for me over a long musical passage. In short bursts, I do use it occasionally!
The thing that is really cool about that dude, is that even with his insane talent, he is really a nice guy to talk to, he will take all his time to talk to you, he's really humble.
