Six String Fretless: Beyond Creation’s “Omnipresent Perception”

by Kevin Johnson | Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

You don’t hear a lot of fretless in death metal (save for Steve DiGiorgio and Jeroen Paul Thesseling).

So it’s cool to hear the instrument add a new element to a genre. A good example is the band Beyond Creation, featuring bassist Dominic “Forest” Lapointe on six-string fretless.

Check out this music video for the song “Omnipresent Perception”, in which Lapointe absolutely rips it up.

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Comments:

Marcin Nowak says:

March 26, 2013 at 1:10 pm

One thing… I love them for not giving a f… about people whining about cookie monster vocals. There is not even one sang part in a whole album. Those who ridicule them should try to do it for even 20 seconds… You will die :D

Darek Bogacz says:

March 26, 2013 at 7:24 pm

Dla mnie sa smieszni :) Ale doceniam warsztat… Ale szkoda ich talentu zwyczajnie :) Pozdro

Jackson Brown says:

January 2, 2013 at 10:55 am

The funny thing is, of people calling the vocals crap – I’d like to hear you pull it off, and pull it off for an hour a night on tour. There is a lot of work and technique that goes into that, don’t like it – fine, but don’t ridicule it.

Jonathan Aspegren Bormann says:

December 16, 2012 at 8:25 pm

he should have gone all out and tremolo picked on the fretless bass… (in any case you where wondering… it sounds like shit if ANYTHING goes wrong :P).

Eli Z Wasson says:

November 28, 2012 at 12:55 am

there’s also a video of just him playing if your more into that (which I’m sure you are) on YouTube, and the song is in the background so you can hear the bass REALLY well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrwWBFp91U0

Steve Jenkins says:

November 27, 2012 at 11:55 am

I dig this. This dude sounds great.

On a side note, not liking the cookie monster vocals in metal is the same as bitching about saxophones (or any other component of a genre’s sound) in jazz (for example: “I’d totally be into jazz if it weren’t for those saxophones!”) Just like Damian said, it’s part of the sound in some cases….

Daniel Bass says:

November 27, 2012 at 12:54 am

Growly voices are a matter of taste, you either like them or not. Personally I dislike them 100%, to the point they spoil everything else, but that’s just me. Nice bass playing nonetheless, makes me want to get a fretless sixer.

Damian Erskine says:

November 26, 2012 at 2:10 pm

Nice! For those who don’t like the vocals… it’s a genre specific thing and genre appropriate (Old metal head hear, though… Slayer, Sepultura & Napalm Death were my JAM back in the day, believe it or not). These guys are killing it! assuming those drums weren’t quantized too much… dayum! Great tech-metal bassist!

Jayme Lewis says:

November 27, 2012 at 2:10 am

That dude is gnarrrrrly!

Joël Bernier says:

November 25, 2012 at 9:10 pm

Curious about the music and satisfie. Well, I d’ont really care about vocals or lyrics.

Trey Lee Montpetit says:

November 24, 2012 at 7:41 pm

So many people are whining about the vocals that it’s almost astonishing. When people barely alter their speaking voice and call it singing that’s fine, but God forbid there be anything abrasive about them.

Rich Spence says:

November 24, 2012 at 1:55 pm

Great musicians but a waste of talent……so sad!

Gordon Patriarca says:

November 24, 2012 at 1:25 pm

sorry the vocals are a dealbreaker despite the impressive bass playing.

Daniel Pawlowski says:

November 24, 2012 at 1:25 pm

Have to agree with you @[730859171:2048:Gordon], couldn’t even listen to half of the song because it was giving me a headache. Love metal just not death metal.

Joe Faught says:

November 25, 2012 at 12:10 pm

Minute 1:28. I want a fretless and a 6 string.

Kevïn M. Sullïvan says:

November 24, 2012 at 12:55 pm

Fantastic! As rare as fretless bass is in metal, it’s rarer still to see someone tapping on one.

Also, if you refuse to enjoy music like this on principle of the vocals, you’re only cutting yourself off from some really excellent stuff.

Kevin Johnson says:

November 25, 2012 at 12:25 pm

Agreed.

Paul Williams says:

November 23, 2012 at 6:10 am

Great band. Terrible, awful, painful, rubbish, will-never-buy-a-cd-because-of-it vocals.

Nicholas Hartley says:

November 23, 2012 at 6:10 am

Technical Death Metal band has Technical Death Metal vocalist shocker. Thought it was mint.

Dave Corns says:

November 23, 2012 at 6:10 am

Fucking shit. They need a bass player for a start. No bottom end with that “bassist” playing as third guitar.

Paul Williams says:

November 23, 2012 at 6:10 am

Hevy Devy has shown plenty of times that you can have a real singer in a very heavy band.

Nicholas Hartley says:

November 23, 2012 at 6:40 am

Yes but DTB’s “heavy” stuff is mostly very simplistic. This kind of stuff suits DM vocals better. If you put clean vox on this it’d sound like Spiral Architect.

Samoht TroFel says:

November 25, 2012 at 1:55 pm

Have you ever heard of Jaco Pastorius by any chance? One of the first guy to popularize high end bass sound ;) just sayin’…

Trey Lee Montpetit says:

November 25, 2012 at 9:25 pm

Devin also uses guttural and screamed vocals rather consistently. If your point is that you don’t “need” death metal vocals to be heavy, it is as accurate as it is irrelevant.