From the band's Facebook:


Bit of a bummer. If you ask me, he was a massive drawcard for the band. His playing was pretty phenomenal on the records and live he kicked arse, too. Whoever they get in has got big shoes to fill.

Good riddance! Twang bew bew bew bweeeew bweeeen bwaauauauu.

Obvious technical wankery is obvious!

Eh, I dunno - I've never really been one for a lot of the wankier bass players, but Dominic seemed to know how to be technical and flashy without losing the groove, I thought it really suited the music.

If by "solid" they mean "solid turds falling out of death metal's asshole", then yes, those albums were indeed solid.

Bummer, he was my favorite member of the band. I really hope they find a suitable replacement.

he definitely was the flare of the band, but I'm not sure how this will affect their writing. i don't have the CD in front of me, but does anyone know how much of the creative process he contributed to the band?

regardless, he raised a high bar for whoever comes into his place. bet of luck to him

Wow, this was unexpected! I mean, with a new album released last year and a deal with a label that usually gives their bands a lot of promotion and tour offers... The band had everything to give that extra jump and become a "big thing", but now without Forest I don't think they will manage to do it. Sure the rest of the band is technically great as well, but I can't be the only one who thinks that Forest was a big part for the band sounding so appealing!

I'm curious to see if this means we're finally getting that long promised third Augury album though. That at least would make things a bit better.

Forest joined a band with Hannes Grossmann on drums just recently. He said on Fb he's pretty busy so that's might be the reason.

He was easily the best thing of the band. They will have quite the challenge replacing him.

There goes my only reason for giving a shit about the band.

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Pretty much. The groovy bass wankery was the only reason for me to occasionally listen to Beyond Creation. Actually sort of glad Forest left the band. At least now there's the possibility of him playing in a good band again.

First thing when I clicked on here was damn I hope that isn't the bassist. lol

And here it was. oh well. I got the first album and I enjoyed it. haven't picked up the 2nd one. But yea out of everything his playing was the biggest draw for me to even pick up that first one.

Subrick... ehh there is slews to be said about taste with you.

Dude was a good bassist and he fit the band well. I wonder if Beyond Creation will still be able to stay distinct and unique amongst the already-very-diverse Quebecois death metal scene given this new lineup change. Will they try and get an equally wanky bassist, or will they try and be more guitar-heavy going forward?

Lapointe is a technically astounding bassist, but damn if Beyond Creation isn't a boring band. They're the Dream Theater of death metal, which is to say that they write meandering, go-nowhere wank showcases. Good thing that Augury is still around, as they're far more interesting than Beyond Creation could ever dream of being.

I've never listened to Augury before, so I must ask: Is the bass tone in that band as fucking annoying and warbly as his tone in Beyond Creation was?

It's different, but I don't think that'll make any difference considering your opinion on Beyond Creation. Augury is less flashy in terms of playing and more into the prog side of the equation, but they're not worlds apart in terms of sound. Beyond Creation is basically Augury, Obscura and Necrophagist in a blender, so if you dislike them so much I don't think you'll like the individual parts all that much.

People saying he was the biggest appeal to the band are only half right. He was the ONLY draw the band had. Without him, they're just Random Tech Death Band no. Kajillion, but WITH him they were the band with the irritating whale noises. Basically this just means Beyond Creation can finally die quietly in obscurity where they belong.

Love it or hate, but the point is that Forest's bass playing was a make-or-break aspect in the band's sonority. Without him... yeah, I don't know what will become of them.

Beyond Creation is sorta like Augury if Augury omitted most of what makes them interesting in favor of just playing a bunch of tired Necrophagist riffs while Lapointe noodles all over the place with his annoying fretless tone. His playing in Augury is far less noodly and feels more like he's truly got the song in mind rather than just self-gratification, and the fact that he uses a fretted means that the music isn't filled up with fart noises like Beyond Creation's is.

Yeah not sure where all this exageration comes from. Their 2 releases are pretty solid. Lapointe wanks a little bit but not to the detriment of the music.

It is indeed detrimental to the music when the fucking bass is louder than the guitars.

How so? I think it's very audible, but not louder than the guitars.

Yeah, I'm really not seeing any complaint about the bass being louder than the guitars, at least on the debut album. That being said, although I enjoyed his performance on The Aura and didn't think it was too garish (certainly not to the degree some find it to be), I didn't really enjoy Earthborn Evolution and am not fond of the direction they seem to be going in with that album, so this isn't too disappointing to me.

Well, perhaps now we'll get a new Augury album.

At any rate, I mildly enjoyed the first BC album for what it was. Sad to see Forest leave, as his bass playing was more or less what I was interested in with BC.

The guy is an insane bassist and super loud fretless noodling over techdeath is fucking awesome. They should get Jeroen Thesseling on board.

Shitty tech death, instrument wanking, weak and aimless songwriting, lack of feeling, sterile production, crappy death metal vocals.

Every time one of those bands die, it's a clear win for metal.

Thesseling would be greatly preferable because he's not an obnoxious noodler.

Got into Beyond Creation after hearing Obscura, mainly because I found the fretless bass pretty unique back then. I really enjoyed The Aura and just bought Earthborn Evolution. Unfortunate that he's leaving, just hope that the band can keep going strong without him, and that Dominic can put those skills to work elsewhere.

Never really did get into Augury, though.

It's the frequency and bass tone, not an unbalanced mix.

The guy also recorded with Atheretic which was fucking awesome. Thesseling is too busy playing flamenco right now with the Salahz trio. Hopefully Nufutic will see the light of day.

Forest should just push the Augury guys to release another album.

Or he could talk to Rob Milley about joining Neuraxis and helping resurrect them.

Hugo Doyon-Karout has joined BC on bass now. This is a quote from their Facebook page:
"It is a great pleasure to announce that Hugo Doyon-Karout is now part of Beyond Creation as our new bass player!
Being a very talented, forward thinking musician and a 6 string fretless bass player as well, he proved himself to be right what we needed to complete our formation. As most of you may not know, Kevin and Hugo have been playing together with our brothers in Brought By Pain for the past 3 years, allowing us to develop a close friendship and musical synergy along the way. It is the start of an exciting and inspiring experience for us and we'd like to thank every fan for their supportive attitude towards our evolving musical journey."

Oh so they just got somebody with the exact same style. Smart I guess since that bass was the only reason anybody cared about them, but disappointing because now they might not disappear like I was hoping.

well it would make sense they would find a similar styled bassist since they are full aware of how much people appreciate and listen to them for that exact reason.