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Against Such Things
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Joined: Thu May 17, 2012 8:16 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:14 pm

I'm looking for bands (really not picky about genres) who utilize two bassists; bonus points for fretless + fretted combination. Anyone know of any?

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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:24 pm

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Barathrum/2368

Barathrum is kinda famous for that.

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androdion
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:28 pm

Necromantia too.

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dystopia4
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Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 11:30 pm

Shrum would be a good example of this, featuring Joseph Fontenot and Audie Pitre, both who had played in Acid Bath. They even have acoustic bass at times. Sadly Audie died and that ended up splitting the band, which also happened with Acid Bath.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvRLbWZJ2wo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiR7ldM---w

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The Animator
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:31 am

http://horselatitudes.bandcamp.com/

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balbulus
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Location: United Kingdom

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:18 am

You say you aren't fussy about genres, does that include non-metal? If so, here's a couple of great bands:

Dianogah -- mostly instrumental post/math-rock band, with 2 bassists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_HXJpKupTI
http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Battle+ ... ns/4663916

Rothko -- instrumental ambient/post-rock trio with 3 bassists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYIhaLRg2M4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpuIxRenuVg

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Or howzabout some primal noise-rock? The mighty Slug, another band with 2 bassists:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgmETEWQ0eU
http://2.dougkubert.com/media/Slug-HamboneCity.mp3

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dontlivefastjustdie
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Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:41 pm

Pretty sure Big Business used dual basses on several of the songs on their "Here Comes the Waterworks" album. Great record... too bad the record after that was total fucking garbage.

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Senton
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Joined: Sun Dec 09, 2012 7:28 am
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:25 am

Sorry for the late 'bump' but an Aussie band called 'Deathless' featured 2 bassists:

http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Deathless/57905

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Hayisforhorses
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Joined: Wed Jul 05, 2006 11:47 am
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Location: United Kingdom

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:28 am

Man is the Bastard (not on archives) had two bassists sort of Sludge/Powerviolence hybrid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOMzLe492k8

Palehorse from the UK, were heavily influenced by MITB and also used two bassists at least on their first album.
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Palehorse/6152

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Doomsday
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:38 am

Bunkur for some drone.

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FleshMonolith
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 11:02 am

I think Water Torture's also used two basses. I know for a FACT it's usually just bass and drums, but they've credited other bass players on releases.

http://grindcorekaraoke.com/album/shellfire

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ManicAeon
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Posted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:31 am

Tarja Turunen on her solo career (yeah, some commercial mediocre symphonic pop-rock/metal) also used two basses on live performances.
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Tarja/110710

She has a permanent bass player and for some reason also has toured with several second-bass players. It doesn't really make her music much better, I must say.

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xThe__Wizard
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Joined: Sun Nov 18, 2012 2:59 pm
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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 3:15 pm

FleshMonolith wrote:

I think Water Torture's also used two basses. I know for a FACT it's usually just bass and drums, but they've credited other bass players on releases.

http://grindcorekaraoke.com/album/shellfire

This is a fact, I've seen them play live they both play the same things. They have a guitar player for their split with SixBrewBantha coming out soon.

The band Canabass from Florida has two bass players and they are p. good MITB clones. Saw them with Water Torture as well (With only one bass player)

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ShaolinLambKiller
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Joined: Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:10 pm
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Location: United States

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 4:16 pm

Slughog... noisy as fuck sludge rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZVf34FsGiM

Suffering Bastard... noisy pv/grind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuFIr82JwRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYb9QRd8NxI

Womb... primal raw death metal
http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Womb/8256

AinMatter... techy something or other. one of the bassists went on to play in Cephalic Carnage when Jawsh left.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Fu_5j_588

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TheMizwaOfMuzzyTah
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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:17 pm

Not metal, but Ned's Atomic Dustbin had two bassists. Decent stuff.

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osborn89419
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Joined: Mon Oct 27, 2008 3:33 pm
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Location: United States of America

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:55 pm

I don't think they ever performed with two, but many Primus songs have layered multiple bass lines. Sailing The Seas Of Cheese comes to mind. I feel like such a wuss not adding a PV or sludge band to the list.

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Inspector_Satan
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Joined: Fri Apr 01, 2011 11:48 pm
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Location: Living in the cosmic nod

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:42 pm

Scaphe is 2 bass players and a drummer. SUPER heavy sludgy hardcore band with some cool leads to boot
http://scaphe.bandcamp.com/

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