Hair metal , or death metal?

[BottomE]

Deep Purple - what genre do they live in? (completely out of my depth)

[bonzodog]

If we are looking at it from a bass players point of view (as it's a bass player forum ) then it has to be hair metal. I can't even hear the bass in most death metal songs I've heard

[leschirons]

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Sorry
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[seashell]

As long as it's 'eavy, it's just bloody metal AFAIC. All the sub genres are confuse me.

[megallica]

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Great death metal with prominent bass

[Paul S]

Graham and Truckstop - muchas gracias! I see a few hours on headphones coming up over the holidays!

[Guest bassman7755]

[quote name='Truckstop' timestamp='1450982930' post='2937662']
Very briefly and there's plenty of argument but here's some to try out:

Thrash - 80's metal. Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer etc
Death - 80's into 90's. Cannibal Corpse, Carcass
Death Core - 00's into 10's. Bring me the horizon, Misericordiam, Sucicide Silence
Grind - 80's into 90's. Death, Napalm Death
Grind Core - 00's into 10's. Atrocity Exhibit, Bring me the horizon
Black - 80's into 90's. Mainly Scandinavian, lots of make-up.
Melodic - 00's. Killswitch Engage, In Flames
Melodi-core - 00's. Killswitch Engage, Beneath it All
Melodi-death - 90's into 00's. Opeth
Rap - 00's. Limp Bizkit, mainly
Nu - 00's into 10's. Korn, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Slipknot. Attitude more than music style.
Dent - 10's. Fell Silent, Meshuggah, Monuments
Groove - 90's to 10's. Meshuggah, Down, Lamb of God
Power - evolved from speed thrash with a touch of melody. 00's. Dragonforce
Industrial - 90's to 10's. Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson
Madcap - 00's. Linea 77, Sikth
Electro - 90's to 10's. Mad Capsule Markets, Enter Shikari
Post [metal] - 10's. Largely instrumental. Some Mogwai, explosions in the sky etc
Symphonic - 00's. Extension of black metal. Dimmu Borgir etc
Doom - 90's to 10's. Early Anathema, My Dying Bride

There's a lot more out there and many of the bands I've listed span many styles. I've left out punk because I don't think that it's metal.

Listen to some of those bands and see what you think!
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So does this mean we need to work out which bass is best for each particular sub-genre ?.

[Graham]

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Graham and Truckstop - muchas gracias! I see a few hours on headphones coming up over the holidays!
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No worries mate, let us know what you find you like

[colgraff]

Hair metal. I love the OTT-ness of the genre.

[MacDaddy]

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So does this mean we need to work out which bass is best for each particular sub-genre ?.
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Funnily enough, the only difference between Glam metal (as it was at the time) and thrash metal basses, was just the colour. For example both genres used spikey BC Rich types, but whereas bright and day glo colours were part of Glam, black and dark colours tended to be thrashed.
IIRC back in the day there was a BC Rich ad featuring Poison & Slayer.

[BassTractor]

Well, I had an exciting career in death metal. *)
I never had a career in hair metal.

Death metal for me then.


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[bobbytodd]

any old school death/thrash will do me.one of the best gigs ive been to in years was the deathcrusher tour in Manchester

Edited December 28, 2015 by bobbytodd

[blue]

My response is, I'm to old to understand the genre, so I really can't make an intelligent response.

In other words I wasn't there. Off topic, I do know you have to be good to perform metal live.

I would say the few local metal bands I've seen have not invested enough time to learn their instruments well enough to pull it off.The pros and stars on those records can play like a MOFO.



Blue

Edited December 28, 2015 by blue