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goroth wrote:

Iommic Pope wrote:They've already done an album without a bassist (cannot recall which one)

I've just quickly listened to all their albums and they all have bass on them. Unless you got the special cane toad version with no bass...


They did play a few gigs without a bassist due to shit.

Tomas: The way this album was written is very different from the way we normally write stuff, and a lot of the guitar stuff were done on a spur of the moment type of thing. We had the guitar plugged through a Line6 straight through to a PC digitally, and as soon as someone would come up with an idea for a riff, he would record that riff immediately, all four guitars and the bass, because a lot of the things are really, really random, like the notations and the actual finger placements on the neck, there's a lot of real quirky stuff going on. Maybe we could have done it, but it would have taken so much time to record drums to go along with these riffs, which had been changed like ten times each, at least, that I would have had to re-record and re-learn the drum parts over and over again. It would have taken too much time. That's one aspect. The other one is that once we were like 15-20 minutes into the album we noticed that the programmed drums sounded really good, the samples sounded so good even before we mixed them, and it just supported the overall feel and vibe of the album, the super steady, no fills, almost emotionless type of drumming, even though it sounds like a real drummer. We just felt it went well with the style of music we were writing, so we said "fuck it" and went with it. We have always been about breaking taboos, and as a metal band, and maybe especially as a metal band like us, we have a lot of musician followers, so maybe for us it's a little more taboo to use programmed drums, but to some extent maybe that's another reason why we did it.

D.o.S. wrote:Pope I think the story is that they didn't have a bassist for Nothing so Frederick played bass on that album.

But you need that rampaging ball bearing with a switchblade sound for Meshuggah to sound like Meshuggah, IMO.

D.o.S. wrote: Also, ah, 2005 -- when Haake needed extra cash from kids buying Drumkit From Hell.

goroth wrote:[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmtU2WJfPgU[/youtube]

I'm just putting this out there for reference. In case anyone was still under the mistaken impression Periphery is good.
I mean, being a metal fan I can't really demand good lyrics, but I can at least hope for lyrics that aren't abominably bad. And those vocals...
So much this.


Sorry for pooing on Periphery for you duders who dig em.

jwar wrote:They suck!! See I'm right!! Fuck those assholes!

D.o.S. wrote: I just meant that the 'reverse' of Meshuggah is to not be Meshuggah.