Speaking of the greatest death metal album of all time… did you know that they guy who played bass on Death's Human (1991) (among other best-in-genre contenders) teamed up with the guy who played bass on Pestilence’s (severely underrated) Spheres (1993), as well as Obscura’s (somewhat overrated) Cosmogenesis (2009) and Omnivium (2011) (and A Valediction (2021)), and the drummer from Pestilence’s less-awesome Doctrine (2011) (which said bassist also played on), as well as Exivious and a band who definitely don’t sound anything like Alice in Chains, to put out a sweet instrumental prog-bass album the other week?
I don’t know enough about music theory stuff to talk about it good, but I know I like the farty sound of fretless tech-death bass, especially when Steve DiGiorgio (and it turns out Jeroen Paul Thesseling) plays it. So, if you’re anything like me, or if you actually know how these things work, then you might want to check out Quadvium’s debut album Tetradōm, which is full of that farty, fretless goodness.