After watching this fully i only have to say that i'm shocked how bass guitar could make so much melodies and so much unfamiliar to bass guitar sounds, so amazing to watch this and to understood how complex and measured all Pleades' music. It's masterpiece, for real. Colin, thanks again to you and all of Gorguts! Actually, you could remember me, we talk at email earlier, guy from Russia. Cheers and please, don't stop making Gorguts!
I think part of what makes Colin's approach to bass pretty interesting is that he uses a "functional" approach a lot of the time, in other words he is not a "textbook" bass player imo (e.g. he writes/plays a lot of tremolo dyads, uses a guitar amp in addition to a bass amp, plays the lower strings and higher frets a lot that his bass sounds like a guitar at times (such as the song festival of popular delusions by dysrhythmia)). To my knowledge he didn't technically play bass until he joined dysrhythmia, and I think the fact that he wasn't necessarily a trained bass player then (his main instruments were the electric and warr guitar) actually allowed him to develop a pretty outside-the-box approach to bass technique and tone.
Bass players are held back by the idioms of the 60s and 70s the same way guitar players have the ghost of 80s shred following them around. It's a bass guitar! Capable of so much more than root fifth etc.
@@bassheadjazz2708 That's a really accurate way to put it. These instruments, both the electric guitar and bass guitar are capable of so much more than what we've heard in the trends of the past. It's also why I really love this Gorguts album, it's just so unconventional and surreal in its songwriting and playing. None of that typical death metal stuff. Most other tech/prog death bands are also going through the motions when they write their music and you can almost predict all songs they make simply because they don't go out of the box. Ironic for being technical and progressive right? But not Gorguts, they're incredible and this album quickly became one of my favorites.
absolutely amazing work! Pleiades Dust has an incredibly dense and complex sound, so at times it can be challenging to fully absorb the sheer sonic scope of this album. You almost need to peel away the layers in order to actually comprehend the music. After listening to this isolated bass recording, it is now clear to me that Colin's bass playing provides a fundamental role in establishing the overall structure of this album. The bass and drums alone provide a very full sound!
Incredible. Now if you could convince Pat to put up at least some bits of the drums that would complete my liiiiifeee. You are awesome Colin, so glad you (and Kevin) are a fitting, twisted part of Luc's macabre jigsaw
As someone who's not super keen on death metal vocals (and I say this with total respect for the complete work), this is amazing to hear. Remarkable stuff.
As someone who is a pretty okay drummer(This song for example is definitely within grasp of my ability; Found Roddy/Hate Eternal at age 12 and have not looked back since/P.S. Pyrrhon is amazing- if those reading this have yet to check them out....I recommend it as much as checking out a Gorguts release). I had an unfortunate turn of life events and had to part ways with my kit for a period of time, and while it kills me to even think about this fact, it has shown me how bored I was becoming with myself, even disappointed in my playing, not my ability but just struggling to make myself practice as much as required to retain the muscle memory this music requires. I've since gone back to my 4 string bass and have been getting my technique up to par/ears up to notch for learning this type of music by ear(Pyrrhon has been my go-to for songs to learn bass on, and while no easy feat by any stretch of the imagination, is helping me tremendously in opening new doors within my bass playing. I sincerely hope to one day take on a view of this instrument as you have, as the idea of being stuck in a box of 'I have to play that or play that section like such, as I am a bassist' is not something I ever wish to find myself doing. Your blend of knowledge between your previous instruments inspires me to maybe one day own a 6 string bass and play what my heart desires(leads etc.), while still upholding the job of the bass player. Then writing original material will be a possibility; something I know Id prefer to be back in top shape on drums while doing so. Love this video and all your work, and of course: Gorguts. Thank you for being a huge inspiration!
Dude I'm a bassist and I found this video about a two years ago. When I first watched it I thought to myself, what the fuck is this, the second time I watched I was like wait a minute that's Gorguts. The third time I watched I was sitting their with bass in hand, wondering how the fuck he made those sounds. I come back to this video every once in a while to see if I'm there yet. While I can play some pretty technical stuff, for some reason this band always gets me.
Hopefully one day I can once more experience this live. Of all the performances I’ve seen, Gorguts has always been *the band* that blew me away the most. Something about the music you guys put out just does IT for me personally. Thank you.
I gotta thank you and the rest of your bandmates for this incredible album. It's one of the coolest albums I've heard in the genre and led me down the path to all the other Gorguts albums too
I've been listening to Colored Sands and this track for years wondering how they tracked, recorded and played this stuff live. This music has almost no functional harmony or familiar western song structure (which is why I love it) and its just beyong incredible to think of memorizing something this intricate and long with no real pop landmarks or scales/key centers to aid in that. Fucking awesome!
Did you skip over Obscura from 1998? Luc talks about seeing a Steven Wilson performance two times in a year which is what inspired the one track album. Go see live shows. Never know what will inspire you.
18:01 how do you produce sounds like that on bass? Which effects/bass modifications are necessary to achieve this? Amazing music, completely mind-blowing.
Hey Colin, great playing. How do you get that effect at the section around 18 minutes? In addition to the Distortion, I feel there's some Chorus, Delay, Volume Pedal, and maybe some very slightTremolo too? Or maybe that just comes from the beating of different notes bleeding into each other? Anyway, I'm amazed at the fact that you can make it sound like legato Cello, removing the attack from your notes. It's an effect I've been trying to figure out. Would love to know how it's done Keep up the good work of pushing metal forth into its future form!
the chain is: overdrive pedal, then fuzz pedal, then volume pedal, then delay pedal. the chorus-like quality comes from the overlapping delay tails when bending the strings. the overdrive stays on for the whole song. i think i just used the fuzz and volume pedals for that ambient section but delay is used in a few other obvious spots.
Good question. Could be plug-in fx setting, as I see no leg movement or no real volume knob swells. You'll notice the laptop screen reflection prior. Automation isn't necessarily out of the question, but this recording appears to be all rote and intuitive, hence only certain audible guitar cues.
yes! the bridge pickup is disconnected and i had the neck replaced with a passive pickup (it came with 2 active pickups). all the volume, tone and pickup blend controls were removed, so the signal goes straight from the neck pickup to the output jack.
After watching this fully i only have to say that i'm shocked how bass guitar could make so much melodies and so much unfamiliar to bass guitar sounds, so amazing to watch this and to understood how complex and measured all Pleades' music. It's masterpiece, for real. Colin, thanks again to you and all of Gorguts! Actually, you could remember me, we talk at email earlier, guy from Russia. Cheers and please, don't stop making Gorguts!
The dissonance is beautiful.
Wow, I honestly thought many of those sounds and melodies were coming from guitars on the record. It's mindblowing that it's actually the bass.
The record's texture is beautifully dense. I feel the same surprise at some of these sounds coming from the bass.
I think part of what makes Colin's approach to bass pretty interesting is that he uses a "functional" approach a lot of the time, in other words he is not a "textbook" bass player imo (e.g. he writes/plays a lot of tremolo dyads, uses a guitar amp in addition to a bass amp, plays the lower strings and higher frets a lot that his bass sounds like a guitar at times (such as the song festival of popular delusions by dysrhythmia)). To my knowledge he didn't technically play bass until he joined dysrhythmia, and I think the fact that he wasn't necessarily a trained bass player then (his main instruments were the electric and warr guitar) actually allowed him to develop a pretty outside-the-box approach to bass technique and tone.
Bass players are held back by the idioms of the 60s and 70s the same way guitar players have the ghost of 80s shred following them around. It's a bass guitar! Capable of so much more than root fifth etc.
@@bassheadjazz2708 That's a really accurate way to put it. These instruments, both the electric guitar and bass guitar are capable of so much more than what we've heard in the trends of the past. It's also why I really love this Gorguts album, it's just so unconventional and surreal in its songwriting and playing. None of that typical death metal stuff. Most other tech/prog death bands are also going through the motions when they write their music and you can almost predict all songs they make simply because they don't go out of the box. Ironic for being technical and progressive right? But not Gorguts, they're incredible and this album quickly became one of my favorites.
9:33 Amazing he stops to sip some yerba while waiting
10:00 incredible
And nice representation of another legendary Quebec band on your shirt!
This piece needs to be transcribed for a string quartet. Absolutely powerful dissonances and wonderful songwriting.
This is unironically art.
Mannnn how do you remember all this. Just amazing!
absolutely amazing work! Pleiades Dust has an incredibly dense and complex sound, so at times it can be challenging to fully absorb the sheer sonic scope of this album. You almost need to peel away the layers in order to actually comprehend the music. After listening to this isolated bass recording, it is now clear to me that Colin's bass playing provides a fundamental role in establishing the overall structure of this album. The bass and drums alone provide a very full sound!
impossible to overstate how incredible this is
Incredible. Now if you could convince Pat to put up at least some bits of the drums that would complete my liiiiifeee. You are awesome Colin, so glad you (and Kevin) are a fitting, twisted part of Luc's macabre jigsaw
As someone who's not super keen on death metal vocals (and I say this with total respect for the complete work), this is amazing to hear. Remarkable stuff.
Off the fucking charts amazing! One of the most underrated players out there!
Flows in the most original brutal story telling way s, Sick Bass writing !!!!!
I bought the CD because of this video, but the video sounds better to me. I guess I just love bass forward in the mix!
Absconders please!! My favorite song from you guys
Check out Obscura.
@@joshuapocalypseTwo songs can be good at the same time
As someone who is a pretty okay drummer(This song for example is definitely within grasp of my ability; Found Roddy/Hate Eternal at age 12 and have not looked back since/P.S. Pyrrhon is amazing- if those reading this have yet to check them out....I recommend it as much as checking out a Gorguts release). I had an unfortunate turn of life events and had to part ways with my kit for a period of time, and while it kills me to even think about this fact, it has shown me how bored I was becoming with myself, even disappointed in my playing, not my ability but just struggling to make myself practice as much as required to retain the muscle memory this music requires.
I've since gone back to my 4 string bass and have been getting my technique up to par/ears up to notch for learning this type of music by ear(Pyrrhon has been my go-to for songs to learn bass on, and while no easy feat by any stretch of the imagination, is helping me tremendously in opening new doors within my bass playing.
I sincerely hope to one day take on a view of this instrument as you have, as the idea of being stuck in a box of 'I have to play that or play that section like such, as I am a bassist' is not something I ever wish to find myself doing. Your blend of knowledge between your previous instruments inspires me to maybe one day own a 6 string bass and play what my heart desires(leads etc.), while still upholding the job of the bass player. Then writing original material will be a possibility; something I know Id prefer to be back in top shape on drums while doing so.
Love this video and all your work, and of course: Gorguts.
Thank you for being a huge inspiration!
Dude I'm a bassist and I found this video about a two years ago. When I first watched it I thought to myself, what the fuck is this, the second time I watched I was like wait a minute that's Gorguts. The third time I watched I was sitting their with bass in hand, wondering how the fuck he made those sounds. I come back to this video every once in a while to see if I'm there yet. While I can play some pretty technical stuff, for some reason this band always gets me.
holy mother of tone
Hopefully one day I can once more experience this live. Of all the performances I’ve seen, Gorguts has always been *the band* that blew me away the most. Something about the music you guys put out just does IT for me personally. Thank you.
Absolutely insane.
7:16 absolutely massive sound
This reminds me of how the Yowie guitarist posted every one of his parts as a walkthrough on TH-cam. Cool shit
Duuuuuuuuude all of these videos are so fucking sick! Totally shines a new light on the music in such an amazing way.
i love your voivod shirt
this is just brilliant
Amazing playthrough. You guys kicked ass in Boston.
I gotta thank you and the rest of your bandmates for this incredible album. It's one of the coolest albums I've heard in the genre and led me down the path to all the other Gorguts albums too
thanks a lot for sharing! super cool album, great lines and playing. love the BTB!
So sick!
Goddamn, bro! Absolutely punshing and abrasive and filthy sounding. Can't wait for the next album. Thanks for posting this vid!
it's just so good. it makes me hate everything else and I am okay with that
Great Music!!! And awesome shirt, too.
This is mind blowing!
This is blissful.
Thank you for taking the time to put this out there, it was a pleasure to watch
Absolute Mastery! Great work Colin...as always!
I've been listening to Colored Sands and this track for years wondering how they tracked, recorded and played this stuff live. This music has almost no functional harmony or familiar western song structure (which is why I love it) and its just beyong incredible to think of memorizing something this intricate and long with no real pop landmarks or scales/key centers to aid in that. Fucking awesome!
Did you skip over Obscura from 1998? Luc talks about seeing a Steven Wilson performance two times in a year which is what inspired the one track album. Go see live shows. Never know what will inspire you.
Love that Luc had Colin involved@
If you upload a |||||||| (track 2) playthrough on guitar it'd make my year.
ReplacedAxis yes please!
What the hell is that?
nicEEnEEtEEclipsEEhypEEapoEEclypsEEplox its the second track from the album years past matter by krallice, a band that Colin plays guitar in
legend from a gorguts!!!
master piece¡
Awesomeness level: Colin Marston
Such a gifted musician.
Beautiful brother !!!
10:00 is so nice
dope!
dope
🔥
Colin! It's amazing to see it! Please, post tabs!
Theres video and audio, why do you need tabs?
Well, you right, but I will grow old and die while I take this by ear.
Have some confidence dude. Trust your ear, take your time, slow the video down if you can, and look at his hands. You got this.
18:01 how do you produce sounds like that on bass? Which effects/bass modifications are necessary to achieve this? Amazing music, completely mind-blowing.
Volume swells with a lot of distortion, reverb and delay
Think you might ever get around to doing some dysrhythmia playthroughs? I understand that you’re a very busy person, I just enjoy watching you play!
This is the funeral doom of tech death and I love it
Why funeral Doom?
@@noamacevedo5828 the thick and murky atmosphere as well as the frequently plodding pace (at least by tech death standards)
Oh, I didn't think that point. Thanks bro
Hey Colin, great playing. How do you get that effect at the section around 18 minutes? In addition to the Distortion, I feel there's some Chorus, Delay, Volume Pedal, and maybe some very slightTremolo too? Or maybe that just comes from the beating of different notes bleeding into each other? Anyway, I'm amazed at the fact that you can make it sound like legato Cello, removing the attack from your notes. It's an effect I've been trying to figure out. Would love to know how it's done
Keep up the good work of pushing metal forth into its future form!
the chain is: overdrive pedal, then fuzz pedal, then volume pedal, then delay pedal. the chorus-like quality comes from the overlapping delay tails when bending the strings. the overdrive stays on for the whole song. i think i just used the fuzz and volume pedals for that ambient section but delay is used in a few other obvious spots.
how would you go about making that ambient tone during the 18 to 20 min mark?
Good question.
Could be plug-in fx setting, as I see no leg movement or no real volume knob swells. You'll notice the laptop screen reflection prior.
Automation isn't necessarily out of the question, but this recording appears to be all rote and intuitive, hence only certain audible guitar cues.
This is ridiculous, how do you even remember the entire song, when like every single bar is different and there must be like a thousand of them
amazing as always. if you don't mind me asking, what is the model of the passive bartolini pickup you use?
what a fuckin baller
How... do you memorize this!?
Is it just me or is Colin's middle finger on his left hand freakishly long?
09:29 You drink mate?
Colin! Look out! There's a spider on your fretboard! Oh, wait... That's your left hand. Never mind. Continue shredding!
Hey Colin, is your bass totally passive/pickups straight into the jack?
yes! the bridge pickup is disconnected and i had the neck replaced with a passive pickup (it came with 2 active pickups). all the volume, tone and pickup blend controls were removed, so the signal goes straight from the neck pickup to the output jack.
@@ColinMarstonOmnisound sounds INSANE
@@ColinMarstonOmnisound it's like a big P bass on steroids
Bass is best
Never leave Gorguts! I love Steve Cloutier, but you are better!
are you drinking mate?
after 9 minutes, that mate should be really cold!
Looks like a south brazilian (or south american) drink: Chimarrão or Mate ("tea").
thats what i said... im argentinian
I can't imagine this dude drinks or smokes weed to be able to remember all of this