It’s gonna be a struggle for him if he gets anything from their latest 2 albums haha A lot of their riffs are fast dp, 2/4nps, gallops, sweeping motions. Now do all of that using weird jazz chord shapes at the same time 😂
I mostly play in standard tuning (six-stringbros rise up) and always use those 4th-based power chords when I want to play a lower note, like a B or something. It sounds almost equivalent to the lower tuning. Much heavier. Edit: Dean just mentioned that at the end of the video, nice.
Yes, I am here to join this party, (6 string, Standard) and the inverted power chord is the best way to "simulate" dropped tunings. Gojira uses it alot too but they tune to d standard.
I fuckin love Sylosis!!! I learned ALOT of Conclusion of an Age lol I was and still am kinda obsessed. Reflections through Fire is fun as fuuuuck to play
@@chairmanofthebored6860 Teras for me too! Conclusion of an Age and The Supreme Oppressor are still my favourite Sylosis albums. Such an underrated band, seen them live twice and met Carl back when Sylosis toured with DevilDriver and Bleed From Within in 2014!
It's Serenity Painted Death for me. Has 2 ridiculously heavy standard tuning riffs - the first heavy one, and then the one with the pinch harmonic and dissonant chords. Would be awesome to see them play that song live!
Speaking of inverted power chords - Gojira uses those FAR MORE than regular ones. Almost any song in D standard from them uses these, especially on the earlier albums. There are CRUSHING exclusively-4th riffs like Blow Me Away, The Link, In the Wilderness, Born for One Thing, Explosia and many more. Would be cool if Dean tried something Gojira, but they are not on sheet happens so whatever.
Intro to The Heaviest Matter of the Universe is the heaviest thing I've ever heard. And the middle part with basically two chords (E and F) is heavy too.
This is legit one their most slow, easy and basic riffs! There are better riffs in the same song at later stages. Kind of a shame. Wish he had gone with something like BORN ANEW from MONOLITH
I came up and said hey after the Lorna Shore show in Van, what I was going to say was my girlfriend (who hates metal) loves watching your 4 levels of death metal videos with you and your wife!
Okay I have three things to say ... 1. I really enjoy this series, this like wheel of riffs, very entertaining and its also really cool to just see the tech metal guitarist learn other peoples riffs. Tremendous television. 2. Ask Matt to include a Periphery Riff. 3. Challenge: learn an open tuning periphery riff in a standard or drop tuning. Im suggesting this because Im a special kind of lazy person and recently I sat down and wanted to figure out the riff from Prayer Position and I didnt wanna find tabs for it so I did it by ear and thus I didnt know he used a funky open tuning on that song and I proceeded to learn this song in like ... Drop A or something, I believe, and it was wild. It was borderline inefficient playing but it was also kinda fun
Hey Dean, just wondering when you might go back into moustache mode, so I can resubscribe and start watching your videos again? I'm just getting really sick of waiting for you to fix the mistake you made by shaving it off all those months ago. I feel like you should have known better. No hard feelings though.
Vektor played in F standard and had some riffs on Terminal Redux that were heavier than pretty much 95% of shit I’ve ever heard. They proved to me that tuning doesn’t matter for heaviness.
There something special about a riff that you find so gnarly that your only reaction is to just giggle and say something exactly like Dean. " Dude, this riff SLAPS" Or the occasional riff that forces the " stank face " on you lol
Sylosis is mad groovy. It's also rather entertaining if you listen through their discography in order, you can hear them start off mad fast and thrashy like and over time the thrash and speed slowly fades and the riffs get chonkier and the breakdowns get breakdownier. Fun stuff.
Hey Dean! Please check out Immortal Bird out of Chicago. Their riffs are pummeling and dissonant all weaved with controlled chaos. They just dropped a new album and I really enjoy their songs Propagandized and Ocean Endless. Whole album is a banger! They are getting solid reviews on their third studio album and I believe you would enjoy their stuff! Just dropping in to spread some love!
Gojira really likes using inverted power chords as well, Joe Duplantier said in an interview a long time ago that they sounded just so much heavier that they started using them. I think they are the first kinda "mainstream" metal band that started using them extensively. There is no way you haven't heard The Heaviest Matter of the Universe, the intro is SO freaking heavy, and the middle part with E inverted power chord is too.
Did not expect to see Caligula's Horse on that wheel. Saw them in a dive bar in Perth years ago. Not really my thing, but I definitely noticed when the guitarist casually started sweeping arpeggios like a mofo 😂
That riff made my balls drop (my antique snow globes fell because I had the bass so loud) teehee very awesome riff and I think it’s neat you’re prob turning a lot of people on to these bands
The call back to this riff in the mid section of the song, gave me the stankiest face ever... When i saw the title i knew it was sylosis and HOPED it was servitude lol
Another band with sick riffs in E standard is Mors Principium Est! Their solos are also insanely good. Check out Finality if you want to hear a banger!
Dean i have a technical question: when learning a new song and having to play in a tuning you might not be familiar with and trying to feel out the tone through the tabs is it best to try and match the FX used for said song as close as possible? I find myself at odds with other tunings when i hear it coming out of my amp and im not sure if its me, the amp, or both at times so i tend to avoid playing songs i would like to learn due to not feeling in tone with what im hearing or close to what i might hear live.
