I'm tired of asking nicely for people to get ahold of us to tryout, so far we've tried out one person who didn't work out, next to tryout is Josh Staples (abhorred, ex-ascendancy). Anyone else.........? Christ, the only thing holding us back from getting us signed right now are these gay lineup changes!

We're down to the last few shows with Dan our current bass player who we will miss dearly. We are looking for a 2nd guitarist as well, but finding a replacement bassist is more important at this time.

Just a few requirements we ask:
-experience (no 16 year olds please)
-must own equipment, good enough for live shows.
-a positive/serious attitude (we're all a bunch of goofballs, but we're serious when we have to be)
-flexible schedule (lots of shows, weeknights, weekends)
-we'd prefer someone who doesn't play with a pick, but it's not a must if are really proficient with one.

We're in limbo with our jamspace, as of now we're practicing at my house in Berwick, ME any chance we get.

please contact us if you are interested:
porphyria603@hotmail.com
or call tom @ 603.781.0993

thanks.

did you get my goddam email?

oh yeah, god damnit, hooker will be temp bass player july 9th @ obriens if Dan can't play with us. Come whitness this hillarious ho-down.

Sweet.

come on, we will pay you invisible money.

can you give me a cd of the set you plan on doing? i'm serious. i'll fill in.

He will. He'll do anything for a decent HJ.

i tell you what, if i could juggle more time between work and rk, i would totally be doing this.

hey, we're stealing your guitar player, I mean bass player.

No 16 year olds huh.. wtf happened to the kid who was 17 and playing circles around you... If your gonna blame it on his personality that is pretty lame.

metalguy said:

You can read? No 16 year olds. All of us are above 20.

Why would we have someone in the band we wouldn't get along with? I have nothing against him at all so it's not really that. None of us got that 'This is the one!' feeling.

He also didn't have transportation, and only had a crate 2x12 practice amp that sounded absolutely horrible. His soloing speed was pretty fast but I didn't hear him play any metal riffing at all. So quit being an anonymous fag and being offended because your friend isn't in our band.

blue said:

damn, the blue & cooch special. only in our dreams I guess.

I meant he personality wasn't something you couldn't get along with.. He was also on his way to having a rig.. not too soon BTW.. and he had transportation VIA someone in the band.. problem.. i see none...

O yeah.. He also put some crazy riffs over some of your songs that I heard.. Would have been excellent... WOULD have been.

metalguy said:

"I meant he personality wasn't something you couldn't get along with."

wtf does that mean?

"He was also on his way to having a rig.. not too soon BTW.."

on his way isn't good enough. not too soon doesn't help either.

"he had transportation VIA someone in the band.. "

what if that person couldn't make it to practice?

oh well, I'm done defending our reasons against mr. anonymous here as to why we haven't filed our guitarist position yet. Move on with your life, there are plenty of other bands to join.

metalguy said:

if by that you mean, DIDN'T play the riffs correctly, then yes he did. no biggie. NEXT!!!!!!!

I must say...this sucks trying to find the right peeps....I hope we are not all doomed!

Robdeadskin said:

you got it Rob, the RIGHT peeps is what we need. We weren't going to just settle for the first dude that walks through the door unless we knew it was RIGHT.

got someone named Nick from boston who is interested in the bass position, from what I've talked to him about over the phone he sounds promising.

You can make retarded excuses all you want... it doesn't make up for the fact you made a mistake.. On top of that you told him to quit his job... WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE.."HE'S THE ONE FEELING" Not really offended... Just letting you know.

yea.... talked to a drummer that sounds perfect...but can he really play a million miles an hour...we will see!

RustedAngel said:

That's a really weird reason for not getting signed.
You already recorded your demo. What label is going to give a fuck who your bass player is?

That's just what the world needs anyways. Another boring death metal band.

Its okay Metalguy, the feeling of this is the one has been halted by communication problems, I didnt know what Tom was playing because he couldnt serve it to me in a manner i was acustomed too, for instance - when I asked him what key it was in, he could not comply (my fault I know, I should have been able to figure out the key signature by myself) - Another problem was the timing, I had NO idea what time signature or the changes any of the songs were in when I went into the jam room, I had to play by ear, which was fine I guess. And when I asked Tom what modes he was in, he couldnt tell me becuase he didnt know - its no big deal, some people can just play their instrument, some people know their instrument inside and out, and know what they are doing, some people dont. its not a problem.

I didnt get into a Death Metal band, its no big.
No hard feelings, guys.

ur a fucking idiot, "metalguy" get the fuck off the board

metalguy said:

No one told him he had to quit his job, as a matter of fact none of us said he was that close to being in the band. It was a tryout, nothing more. No mistakes were made, we stand by our decision that he wasn't going to work out. Get over it.

Josh_Martin said:

if a Label knows you lost a guitarist, and are about to lost your bassist, why wouldn't that be enough to be hesitant to sign the band? Especially if the label is use to their bands touring like motherfucks.

Robdeadskin said:

we've been there, hahahaha. we've tried out drummers out they didn't even have a double kick pedal but said they could play our stuff.

mOe_rk said:

thank you MOE!

RustedAngel said:

So, what labels said they'd sign you if you only had a bass player?

Tons of signed bands change bass players every other month. As long as the principle members are there it doesn't matter who's standing next to them on stage.

time signatures???Key signatues?? i dont even know that shit myself....but if it didnt work...it didnt work...good luck tom....u guys rule and I hope we all get what we need...other than that, we will have fun tonite...you know it!!!!\m/

nyckz0r said:

Some people play by the rules and books, some people play by ear and what sounds good to them. Definetly no big deal and no right or wrong way in my opinion. I could tell by how you were playing that you didn't really seem use to playing death metal which is fine. You're a solo playing which is good for you, I can't do it. Good luck.

Robdeadskin said:


Yeah some people just play thought.
I take music very seriously so I chose what to know.

so what r u saying...I dont know...I would shred your face off. i take it seriously to guy!

nyckz0r said:

Sounds like you need less theory and more actual playing.
99% of death metal bands play by ear and don't give a fuck about what "mode" they are in.
I would've stopped the tryout right there as soon as you asked "what mode are you in?" That's completely gay.

Josh_Martin said:

I'm not going to name any names.

The fact is, we lost a guitarist TOO who was a principle member of the band. So finding someone to fill his shoes is not turning out to be easy. I understand what you mean about the bass player thing and how a label would really dismiss that as long as you found someone else.

Josh_Martin said:

hahahah wow, I actually agree with Josh here. holy shit!

That's what I was getting at, Nick is use to playing shit by the books and the 'RIGHT' way. I didn't hear him play anything other than solo's. We're defiently not necrophagist.

I'd wish you luck but you suck and I hate that style of death metal.

thanks anyways, hahahaha.

Robdeadskin said:

woah, down Rob, I don't think that's what he meant. You're definetly a good fucking player and I probably couldn't even hold a torch to your skills. Whatever though, we're all brothers of metal. haha.

im drunk dude....I dont know whats goin on...get me away from this computer...hahahaha...I just hate everthing!!

i shit on all of the drummer's i've met here @ school and i dont know an ounce of Theory or any of that shit. The music i play is insticntual and emotional for me. Trying to make it a task of memory and education isnt a very fetching idea to me, so i dont do it. I dont care is anyone else uses that stuff, whatever floats your boat is fine. Butm dont shit on other people who dont know that garbage and do just fine. When the people who created the earliest forms of music that mutated and bred what is modern forms of music today started out, how many fucking modes and theory did they know?

ive got a bunch of theory knowledge under my belt, but your certainly dont need it to play good music. i dont use any theory in what i play on guitar. theory knowledge is cool and everything, but it doesnt teach you groove and feeling.

I'm a shit player sometimes. ugh.

Theory is.. THE THING. If you know more about music, you will be able to do alot more with it. If you are playing it by ear it will take you ten times as long to be creative. With theory, shit like Necrophagist is possible. I think that if you only play music by ear you are seriously limited to what you can play. Somone who doesn't know theory will not be able to pick up other genre's as quickly as somebody who does. And if you do not know theory you won't be able to communicate to other musicians.. Which is sad because that is half of what music is about. Communication. Communicating with bandmates and the audience.
I am not really concerned with how this board feels about me or my bands. So if you don't want me to post anymore. Fuckyou. It isn't like I am looking for anyones queer ass approval.

O yeah I forgot to say the new shit rocks :-)

Give me a break, Metalguy. I have absolutely no official theory training and can play all Necrophagist rhythms (and some of the solos). I play it by ear and it does not take me ten times as long to be creative. I have never had a problem communicating with other musicians. Try not to cite bands like 'Necrophagist' as an example, you may think its talented but it's the same shit we've heard a million times before, with formulaic arpeggios etc, no unique qualities, no groundbreaking material. I'm not saying Necrophagist isn't good, before anyone jumps down my throat!

Most 'theory' experts I know end up playing in cover bands and sitting around muddling in their illusionary musical superiority, while other much less trained musicians sell millions of records because they have talent and feeling.

You think Nirvana had a lot of 'theory' training? Slayer? Compare their loyal fanbase to that of Necrophagist.

Yea gay bands like Nirvana... Slayer give me a break. I am all about theory because when I am playing a song. And I know the key.. I can pretty much do what I want and know it is gonna sound good with few exceptions. I am not in a cover band.. I will save that till I am 30.

Everything in music is a pattern... If you say it isn't you do not know what your talking about. And guess what music theory is.. You got it... patterns. And don't give me this bullshit of death metal doesn't follow a pattern. Because it does. For the most part it is. Chromatic, whole tone, diminished, phrygian, and locrian.
And who said that those musicians making millions are less trained.. You have no idea of thier musical background..

and you have no idea of their background as well. so shut yer hole.

this is coming from someone with theory training. so shut it once again.

So.. why should I shut my mouth because you have training.. Or because I have no idea of there background.. That made no sense.

"I am not in a cover band.. I will save that till I am 30. "

Thats awesome. I love it. Keep trem picking.

Oh by the way, MY band is releasing an EP, ill post it in a few weeks once its done. It will DESTROY you, no its not dream theater, no its none of that progass rock shit, its straight up THEORY and METAL. Then you can talk to me about theory heads being a fag, I dont care what you think close minded tools like you have no say in anything with the movement of sound unless its you checking me out at the gas station which most people like you do.

metalguy said:

dude, youre whining over the fact that you for some reason feel obligated to tell people youre not worth shit if you dont know theory. im sorry, but you know very well that some of your favorite bands have no theory knowledge whatsoever. nothing wrong with not knowing some theory.

powerkok said:

lol. if that thing had a good floyd on it and some duncans, id love it thoroughly.

i can communicate just fine with other musicians and can play various other forms of music. anything from Jazz to blues or Gospel. I can play almost anything under the sun, and i do so with NO theoy knowledge. I've been playing drums for 12 years and havent gotten a bad comment from anyone yet. Well, i probably will now that EVERYONE knows i dont know theory...DAMMIT!

metalguy said:

too bad you're not all about punctuation, contractions, run on sentences, sentence fragments, or reading comprehension. The quality of our thoughts can only be as good as the quality of our language. That's kind of important.
I guess you probably just communicate through your music.

The fact that he shows negativity against slayer...man o man....slayer is the greatest band in the world. Thats what being a musician really is.....playing music that will stand the test of time like they're music does. They are the best of the best.

they brought atmosphere into the picture...You know when fucking slayer is blasting through the speakers. Thats what you get when you have a fucking heart for it....not a stupid open book in front of your face. Theory fine whatever!!! yea patterns!! I know how structure works without all the rules and shit!...but that can never take the place of pure heart and fucking soul.

fuck theory....Ive had a more promising shot at music then most theory musicians Ive met along the way.

Let me rephrase that:



to bad your not all about.. punctuation contractions! run on sentences, sentence fragments, or reading~ comprehension. The. quality of our thoughts... can only be as good. as the quality of our language. That is kind of important. .
I. guess.. you. probably just communicate, through you're music.

Just break up.

BestialOnslaught said:

how about I slap my man sausage across your face instead.

nyckz0r said:

Or, they could keep writing and playing the music that they love. Being bound by the laws of theory is just as bad as not knowing any of it...You speak about being close-minded, however, you seem to be just that.

Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN...OOOH SNAP!

bound by the laws of theory? bahahahahahahaha!!!! Are writters bound by the laws of spelling and puncuation? Are doctors bound by the laws of biology? Are bands like meshuggah and Cynic bound by theory? I assume you see what i am getting at. Theory like biology or english is a way of building a strong foundation so that you can be a functional tool for self expression. Do you think dream theater, meshuggah, dillinger and cynic would be half of the bands they are without their years in such a "binding" study. There is no point in picking on kids for spending time shaping their art, in any case, because there are just as many diven talented musicians who know nothing about theory as there are musicians who do. So get back to getting this band a bassist.

First off, I'm not picking on anybody for being into theory - I wish I did, because my friends run circles around me in that department. However, you can still be a great songwriter or musician without it. The bands you mentioned are great because they use their knowledge to push boundaries - not live within them.

In any case, bump for a bassist.

I only listen to bands that are effective in applying serialism to death metal, maybe that's why I have no friends.

what kinda "im looking for a bassist" thread is this... who thought this could bread such controversy.

you heard me BREAD!

metalguy said:

Gay bands like Nirvana and Slayer....who have had an enormous impact musically on peoples lives, and influence on their respective musical forms, and not because they were ever trendy. Whereas you have ZERO impact, period, on anyone's life. Slayer is a REALLY gay band, who probably influenced just about everything you listen to (Necrophagist included).

When did you start listening to metal anyway, 2 years ago? I'll bet.

And what fucking band are you in, kid? Seriously, we want to hear your amazing theory at work. Musicians making millions are often very much less trained than faggot fretboard masturbators who died out with Steve Vai.

I think every dumb stump in the universe realizes music is a pattern, so thanks for pointing that out to us...that was mighty informative.

And I think all those musicians out there who are 30 or older and make a lot more important music than you will take REALLY well to your statement, which made no sense, since kids play covers too, and quite often (fuckwad).

My apologies to Porphyria on the derailment of this thread, and good luck finding a bass player.

nyckz0r said:


Are you really that bent out of shape that they wouldn't let you in the band? Just let it go, guy. Maybe the reason they didn't want you in the band is because of all the highschool drama you'd bring in like you're doing right now.

I was talkin to a guy the other day that ,would be interested in tryin out,he is a sick bassist,From Southern maine actually,But I did not have a cd or any contact info to give him at the time,I should be getting in touch with him again this weekend

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bump

all we need is a bassist, not a theory debate. hahaha.