How many of you play metal

[sam_]

[quote name='ashevans09' post='208467' date='May 28 2008, 10:37 PM']I likes my metal too

I have to say though I'd been dragged away from the dark side into an indie band because my metal band failed, but things are on the up again!

Hopefully will be posting some clippings of the new metal band veeeerrry soon

And yeah, I'm a whitechapel and despised icon kinda guy

[url="http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-cro_l8HLY"]http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-cro_l8HLY[/url]
[url="http://youtube.com/watch?v=vSdplEm95h0"]http://youtube.com/watch?v=vSdplEm95h0[/url][/quote]

guessing you'll be seeing the Never say Die tour in November then

I love me a bit of metal, Between the Buried and Me, Cancer Bats, Dillinger Escape Plan, Chimaira, and everything else haha!

[Dread Bass]

this gy is pretty immense cant hear what he is playing very well in this vid tho

[url="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B_a6zwI2Tmg"]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=B_a6zwI2Tmg[/url]

[geilerbass]

Another true metal heart right here!

I play in a progressive metal band ([url="http://www.myspace.com/tomeraband"]To-Mera[/url]) an extreme metal band ([url="http://www.myspace.com/thedemagogue"]Demagogue[/url]) and a traditional metal band ([url="http://www.myspace.com/thelostlegion"]Lost Legion[/url]).

There's a few shameless plugs for you all...

[johnnylager]

Me. Larry Boothroyd's & Rob Wright's.

[simondee]

I just did a gig with a thrash band called the quarry to fill in for their bassist who's in the middle of leaving due to wifey commitments.

Tons of fun but everything was tuned down to drop C# and I *really* needed a five string for it.

flap flap flap.

[BTGAndy]

Metalhead here!

Inspiration comes from Dan Briggs of Between the Buried and Me, James Leach of SikTh (R.I.P. SikTh) and Mark Palfreyman of Alarum in terms of people.
In terms of bands, Pain of Salvation, Dream Theater, Opeth and Textures.

Since becoming a seven string player I've started listening to guitarists a lot more.

With regards to the eternal metal problem of clashing with guitarists, I'll just tell my two guitarists what I'm going to play and if they don't like it I'll turn up because I'm louder than they are!

[Galilee]

I play metal. I'm heavy as a heavy thing I am.

[charic]

Yep...
Dream theater (i attempt)
Metallica
Megadeth
Iron Maiden
Dragonforce
And stuff

[cetera]

Yep, I do.... amongst other things.

More 'classic rock' these days.....

....and I've been playing 'Gene Simmons' in Europe's #1 KISS Tribute Band "Dressed To Kill" for 18 years....

[Adrenochrome]

Yes we play mainstream metal and rock/metal in my covers band, as well as the rock, punk, pop-rock stuff.
When I was in original bands I mainly did metal, I was in a band called Final Conclusion who supported bands like Crowbar (before my time unfortunately). The band now continues as Goroka but I think they're vastly underachieving considering the ability they have.

[Sarah5string]

*raises devil horns* \m/

Seriously digging Machine Head's burn my eyes at the moment..... wooooooooo! rawk!

[Dood]

[quote name='geilerbass' post='208600' date='May 29 2008, 08:09 AM']Another true metal heart right here!

I play in a progressive metal band ([url="http://www.myspace.com/tomeraband"]To-Mera[/url]) an extreme metal band ([url="http://www.myspace.com/thedemagogue"]Demagogue[/url]) and a traditional metal band ([url="http://www.myspace.com/thelostlegion"]Lost Legion[/url]).

There's a few shameless plugs for you all... [/quote]


I never put 2 and 2 together !!! I have chatted very briefly with Julie and your guitarist from To-Mera! Awesome band. I know you guys recently changed your keyboard player and a good friend of mine applied for the position. I must admit, I hadn't been keeping up with recent news, other than the MySpace updates.

Excellent band! excellent! I was meant to come down to London last year to see you guys and Linear Shere together.. couldn't make it at the time.. Grrr!!

[Machines]

Songs we covered in my old band:

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Trivium - Entrance of the Conflagration
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
Dream Theater - Ytse Jam

[Sarah5string]

[quote name='Machines' post='208763' date='May 29 2008, 12:27 PM']Songs we covered in my old band:

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Trivium - Entrance of the Conflagration
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
Dream Theater - Ytse Jam[/quote]
We cover Cemetary gates at the moment in our band... LOVE IT!

[geilerbass]

[quote name='dood' post='208762' date='May 29 2008, 12:27 PM']I never put 2 and 2 together !!! I have chatted very briefly with Julie and your guitarist from To-Mera! Awesome band. I know you guys recently changed your keyboard player and a good friend of mine applied for the position. I must admit, I hadn't been keeping up with recent news, other than the MySpace updates.

Excellent band! excellent! I was meant to come down to London last year to see you guys and Linear Shere together.. couldn't make it at the time.. Grrr!![/quote]

Glad to hear you like the music, but I can't really take any credit as I've only been in the band since the start of the year after the previous bass player resigned. Done a few gigs with them so far and all seems to be going fairly well...

I have to say that I'm having a lot of fun playing with these guys - they're all stellar musicians and the music is suitably challenging. We're playing the Underworld on July 24th (another shameless plug) with Anchorhead (featuring Charlie from Linear Sphere) and Tesseract, who are probably going to out-prog everyone. Hopefully you'll be able to make it along to that one.

[budget bassist]

[quote name='Machines' post='208763' date='May 29 2008, 12:27 PM']Songs we covered in my old band:

Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Trivium - Entrance of the Conflagration
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Megadeth - In My Darkest Hour
Killswitch Engage - My Curse
Dream Theater - Ytse Jam[/quote]
Sweet setlist! Cemetery gates is an epic song!
In fact that's it, it's going on haha

Edited May 29, 2008 by budget bassist

[Faithless]

Ah, I'd love to see your playin' Master and Cowboyz, Machines..

Maybe got video or somethin'?


Aaaaand, our set is:

Metallica...

Enter Sandman;
Wherever I May Roam;
So Fakin' What;
Whiskey In The Jar;
The Unforgiven;
Orion [eeeepic sh*t... that's ma thing ];
Harvester of Sorrow;
Master of Pupz;
For Whom the Bell Tolls;
and a lil Master/Harvester/Sanitarium medley...

Pantera - This Love;
Kiss - Cold Gin ;


At the mo, studying Dream Theater's - Constant Motion from their latest album, on my own...

Edited May 29, 2008 by Faithless

[geilerbass]

[quote name='cetera' post='208732' date='May 29 2008, 12:01 PM']Yep, I do.... amongst other things.

More 'classic rock' these days.....

....and I've been playing 'Gene Simmons' in Europe's #1 KISS Tribute Band "Dressed To Kill" for 18 years.... [/quote]

That would explain all the Gene Simmons models in your signature

Seriously, that's such a cool gig - in terms of costumes, do you cover the full range of eras? Gene's Destroyer and Dynasty outfits looked pretty difficult to play in!

Do you do the full fire/blood thing as well?

[ashevans09]

[quote name='sam_' post='208518' date='May 28 2008, 11:29 PM']guessing you'll be seeing the Never say Die tour in November then [/quote]

Ooooooooh yes!

[Ou7shined]

I listen to a fair bit of metal but wouldn't use it to define my tastes coz I'm up for a broad range of toons. However all I'm listening to at the mo is Opeth, Down, Nile and Neurosis. My originals band plays a sort of evil RATM/soundgarden fusion you couldn't call it metal tho. Our Pearl Jam tribute band does what I'd consider mainstream rock (and boy do we rock) but our lead guitarist is from [url="http://www.myspace.com/pryon"]this lot[/url]. Fan-bleedin-tastic!

[quote name='Faithless' post='208812' date='May 29 2008, 01:17 PM']Pantera - This Love;[/quote]
This is more my cuppa tea than the afore mentioned Pantera track.

[Josh]

Love it, played in thrash covers/original band for a while, got the shirts. Though I'd never do it again, maybe a few Metallica covers for kicks. In fact, I played a good amount of 'Tallica songs for the first time in 2 and a half years just the other day, it felt quite humbling actually.

When I am inspried to write metal-esque stuff, I tend to draw influence from Mudvayne and Protest the Hero, seeing as the metal side of my bass-vocabulary is a good mix between the 2. Technical yet groovy and melodic.

[Machines]

[quote name='Faithless' post='208812' date='May 29 2008, 01:17 PM']Ah, I'd love to see your playin' Master and Cowboyz, Machines..

Maybe got video or somethin'?[/quote]

Well now you mention it..

[url="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2037347964"]http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...eoid=2037347964[/url]

Not great quality and I hated the Laney rig I had to borrow .

Some very dodgy demo recordings here too: [url="http://www.myspace.com/shatteredage"]http://www.myspace.com/shatteredage[/url]

[budget bassist]

That sounds pretty good, good to see you using a ray too

[alexclaber]

I used to. When I have a heavy moment nowadays, Geezer is the main inspiration.

Alex

[JoeS]

I do love me some metal but don't play it as much as I'd like. Most of the metal bands from round here do the KsE/Trivium thing, whereas I'm more into Tool, Isis, Neurosis, Botch, Mastodon and SikTh (amongst others). Main inspiration would probably be Jeff Caxide of Isis, although all the bands I listed have got top bass players.