Deathspell Omega - Malconfort guitar cover

[@socketofdavis]

the riff @2:37 is just ridiculous. great cover dude

[@AbigorRealm69]

This tone would be great for a cover of the last Axis of Perdition album...

[@呼吸-e9b]

Maaaaaaann!!!! So good... deathspell omega really is something special

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

Here I am about 2-3 years later re-doing my ancient DsO cover and staring at your fingers again to try and remember what I'm supposed to be doing. Thank god that you exist.

[@ADevilLogician]

I miss your covers. Any plans for a new one?

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

i just want you to know that aside from Hasjarl himself, you're easily the biggest inspiration i've ever had in getting better at guitar god bless you

[@noobsauce]

wow, that's crazy to hear! i'm flattered and glad to be spreading the joy/frustration that is guitar.

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

Oleg Zalman It truly is joy/frustration, but honestly I don't think I've ever discovered a bigger passion than it. Even if it'll take me years and years to be anything other than how terrible I am right now, lol.

[@BrendanSloan]

You're a maniac. Never change.

[@WouterDmusic]

Subbed because of this vid. You're prolly one of the best "cover" performers I've seen on youtube. Keep up the awesome work!

[@SolvingOurKreation]

I respect you so much. Keep up the precision.

[@bhvrvlt]

Awesome job, you truly nailed it! I'm the author of that other Malconfort tab on Ultimate Guitar and over time I was noticing that it sounded off in multiple parts and your version was way better. I'm still observing some parts in my DSO tabs that sound different to me now after all this time... Anyway, great job again, looking forward to more of these covers of yours (more DSO would be awesome too)!

[@noobsauce]

thanks for the kind words!

[@SonovMi]

wow - gimme ten years mate - stunning.

[@noobsauce]

cheers, thanks!

[@podhditalia]

mind blown after the 2 minutes mark

[@Mark-vj9vh]

I just stumbled on these videos again. Used to post with you on SMN. Do more, man.

[@elijahmcconnell9547]

Yes, excellent madness.

[@CesarVesvre]

Amazing work I am currently learning the whole album on drums (will film it soon) and I miss the fast parts from malconfort and phosphene. This helped to get it better Regards

[@noobsauce]

César Vesvre Thanks! Looking forward to seeing that

[@CesarVesvre]

Cool ! I did in case chaining the katechon already All the best

[@noobsauce]

César Vesvre Yesssss that video rules! Great fucking work

[@CesarVesvre]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIC9aHyCibiXgq8 Here you go, and by the way I just realised you're playing with artificial brain. max respect

[@Zyborggian]

Yoooo I'm boutta check the hell out of that

[@YouTube_gets_dumber_each_year]

Great job, awesome cover

[@tranquil87]

3:18 holy. shit.

[@呼吸-e9b]

Imagine trying to find it out by ear...

[@AgoraphobicNews]

more deathspell omega covers, please!

[@renatolaia3676]

Jesus Fucking Christ, man! You're insane! That fast/chaotic part is impressive to see.

[@Metal555Fan]

You're a monster, keep up the amazing work! Hope you can cover some of the new songs in the future.

Fantastic cover.

[@stevesullivan8405]

This is killer, mate. Great tune. So ready for that new Leviathan release....haha

[@noobsauce]

Oh yeah, I keep forgetting about that comment! And yeah this is a wild one, thanks for the love!

[@stevesullivan8405]

@@noobsauce very same to you

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

holy shit you're back on the same day i find the tabs for this exact song too i missed you

[@noobsauce]

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

Oleg Zalman Hell yeah dude. I noticed after this video that the tabs sounded off anyways, I always trust your videos over tabs anyway but I have the most garbage ability to decipher what is happening without suffering the slo-mo function of KZbin. Helpful, but turns everything into harsh-noise.

[@G0rleben]

Awesome, enjoying it! Hope to be as good as you some day. :)

[@dodheimsgard45]

Amazing work

[@mattzgillz]

God damn you are amazing

[@moistnutzz]

great as usual my dude!

[@thedeathmachine666]

u did a great job . I keep waiting for someone to tackle chaining the katechon . I got a tab for it but it seemed off and its way beyond my mind to try and figure it out by ear.

[@noobsauce]

thanks man! i've got a few riffs figured out from Chaining, up until the chaos section. i couldn't decipher shit at that point so i gave up, as i did with Malconfort a bunch of times lol. so who knows, maybe i'll figure the rest of it out sometime.

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

With DsO it seems to mostly be a mental endurance test. That and the massive layering and production being almost indecipherable in certain sections lol.

[@thedeathmachine666]

DSO's guitar tone by itself sounds completely horrible but for some reason in the mix as a whole its hauntingly bad ass.

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

thedeathmachine666 I've described it as a really sterile, flat, genuinely EVIL sound. Like it's a sound that doesn't actually make sense because it should sound horrible but at the same time it's perfect.

[@thedeathmachine666]

its a really long song lol we don't have to tab it all!

[@isaaczaladar1174]

oleg check out karmacipher .....dissonant chaos

[@thedeathmachine666]

I second this . If u like ulcerate , ad naus. and gorguts check them out they are really good.

[@tsnowsill]

Fuckin hell mate how did I never see this? Epic as shit. You're a lord

[@noobsauce]

Haha thanks Tim! I remember this being a pain in the ass

[@snoopsnopowsky1806]

Thanks for your work sir :)

[@SatanicWarbringer]

Up until 2:37 I thought it's pretty doable with a lot of practice... then I said fuck it... Applauds to you Sir!

[@stephenknapp91]

I was able to fight my way through learning the first half, but man that fast section at 2:38 is rough to get accurate

[@noobsauce]

Yeah blistering speed and lots of shifting chords, it's no picnic

[@slehlasezem]

check out mine

[@Nekrist218]

AMAZING!

[@govind666sharma9]

Avant garde 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@ceddzz]

absolute madman

[@4lter3g00]

Godleg Zelman, i love you.

[@Alexey-qs6nr]

Re-watching this video at third time now. Amazing cover and amazing guitar sound, this made me look differently at this song in particular. Do you plan another DsO covers?

[@noobsauce]

Thank you kindly. I have no immediate plans for it, but I'd like to do Chaining the Katechon one day.

[@impavidvs_]

@@noobsauce Already waiting for this :)

[@JIbbWhistle]

@@noobsauce That would be awesome man! Looking forward to the new AB!

[@r3not5]

Good shit. Please do more

[@psycrop7793]

Damn. You are amazing man. Keep up the covers (Kenose?).

[@voidcult7903]

i like the tunning

[@romhxc]

Good job lefty genius ;)

[@Axel21651]

Thanks man, best tab around for this song in my opinion. Congratz

[@Slime-Man-Extreme]

cover some BLUT AUS NORD please'!!

[@crapcannon86]

yesssssss!

[@brianhunt4335]

complicated

[@jameshamzey7638]

Oleg, saw your Famished for Breath ending tab. Many thanks. Any plans to tab out §6:12-6:52 of Onward where Most with Ravin I may meet?

[@noobsauce]

I could give it a go, but I can only get to it sometime next week. I'll get back to you soon.

[@jameshamzey7638]

word...i'd paypal you some usd or euros for it

[@jefwhitehead7243]

Why not start a project and write your own stuff?

[@noobsauce]

If this is actually Jef, I'm a huge fan of your music, thank you for your timeless craft! As far as writing goes, it's been hard to get those wheels turning after years of just learning/playing other music. I'm ultra critical of my songwriting and often find myself void of any inspiration. I wrote a few songs for Artificial Brain so far... hopefully more to come. Anything new in the works for Leviathan?

[@jefwhitehead7243]

@@noobsauce why thank you and I appreciate the support! a new full length is being formed and hope to be able to release it in 2021.

[@noobsauce]

@@jefwhitehead7243 That's fantastic news, I can't wait to hear new stuff!

[@rorke6092]

wowie Leviathan! love your works. You should have dumped on the vice "journalists" more

[@terraincognita9614]

Seeing THE Jef Whitehead in Oleg’s comment section just made my day.(as long as it’s actually you lol) Huge fan, your music was there with me through extremely dark and hard times and I’m immensely grateful

[@paulofr.9677]

🔥

[@randucci]

Fuck yes \m/ good job man

[@dis.infectant]

Noticing how often DsO reuse alot of riffs. I imagine the theory would be they're just revisiting themes, overall.

[@noobsauce]

·d i s·i n f e c t a n t· You mean within this song? Or borrowing from other songs?

[@lcswyssbrod]

Such an inspiring guitarist , what pickups u use here? Or recommend for this kind of stuff?

[@noobsauce]

Thanks! I'm using the Suhr Aldrich pickups here. They're extremely hot, and best suited for death metal. I think this kind of material sounds best played through guitars with single coils, but it's really up to personal preference.

[@lcswyssbrod]

Oleg Zalman interesting information! I got a luthier made 7 string 28,625 in G (C with seventh in G) and not sure which pickup to get for a gorgutsy/ baring teeth tone 🤣

[@noobsauce]

@@lcswyssbrod Andrew from Baring Teeth uses some kind of a strat with single coils. Luc from Gorguts has some kind of custom with humbuckers, and they used high gain amps on Colored Sands. I say just work with what you currently have, and keep exploring the endless options/combinations of tone within.

[@lcswyssbrod]

Oleg Zalman thanks man!

[@Saif_Al_Dajjal]

Flawless cover. Are you playing a carvin 7 string? The grain pattern is gorgeous

[@noobsauce]

thanks! that's a Carvin DC727 with a Koa top

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

I finally managed to learn all of this and cover it as part of my Guitar lessons, that insanity section at 2:37 onwards is fucking stressful to play lmao

[@Serfer325]

stupid question but how do you even hear the notes in this song? when I try to listen to it (I mean the orginal song on their album) I can only hear relentless drumming and few high notes on the 1st guitar let alone the bass line, am I just deaf or am I doing something wrong?

[@noobsauce]

It's pretty hard to decipher a lot of Deathspell's material. The drumkit is panned over the entire spectrum and everything has a pretty claustrophobic feel. I use decent budget monitors for listening and I use a program called Transcribe to manipulate the track and try to isolate audio as much possible. It still requires a lot of ear work and being able to identify intervals within chords. On top of that it has to make sense on guitar, so that's also a deciding factor in transcribing

[@Serfer325]

seems like a pretty tough job, I will leave it for ones better than me :P

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

I noticed after I learned the song from this video that it was FAR easier to understand the sounds that are going on even in totally different Deathspell Songs. They tend to use many of the same chords and notes across their whole discography, think of it like their musical footprint, once you've figured some of it out it's easier to decipher in the long time. The only one that really fucks with me now is Internecine Iatrogenesis, which has some crazy and unfamiliar things in it to me.

[@noobsauce]

Limb Legion That's great to hear! And I agree, learning this song was a huge eye opener

[@EmptyTenementSpirit]

Yeah, same. Since I have absolutely no formal musical education, it really gave me a good feel of what sorts of sounds I like to use when I write my own riffs for both black metal and death metal styles, well, I say "write" but it's more like come up with it and never write it down so it just floats in my head. Plus, it generally aided dexterity a lot, especially that crazy section in the middle. I still watch this video way more than is probably healthy to keep inspiration and get some ideas of better ways to move my fingers. Haha.

[@Pennys1]

have you heard of the band Voidcraeft? He's a one-man band from Germany, he has great songs on youtube that is reminiscent of Deathspell omega

[@johnny711]

astonishing. i always wanted to find a shrine of mad laughter tab. but noone tabs it and noone covers it. i wonder why :p if you can hear the riffs in there please give it a try buddy.

[@geraltblaviken6127]

Rogue because is insane

[@AuraofConfusion]

Any chance of other DSO covers in the future? I'm always interested in seeing covers of their music because it's so dense and difficult to parse through.

[@noobsauce]

It's definitely possible. I can't say when, though. This song took me a long time to figure out.

[@AuraofConfusion]

Oleg Zalman I can't even imagine. As a drummer their music is difficult to figure out, but as a guitarist I imagine its a whole other level.

[@randomguitarnote8887]

Can you do a video explaining these crazy chords? I always though they used some exotic tuning but I read somewhere it is d standard, true?

[@the_trash_mane5875]

Not the OP but yes they use D standard. A lot of Deathspell Omega's chords are dissonant/ diminished chords which give the chaotic sounds. Read about dissonant chords and that can explain most of the crazy shit

[@noobsauce]

Correct, this is played in D standard. I don't think I'll ever go into theoretical analysis on this channel, mainly because doing it properly takes a lot of time that I simply don't have. Also, my knowledge of theory is pretty limited, so I don't think I'm the right man for the job. All I know is what I learned in a few high school classes. Regarding the chords in this song, they're not all that crazy. Often times, they're just power chords with added color tones that are right next to either the root or fifth. A lot of the "magic" also comes from using open string notes in conjuction with fretted notes, and this is where the guitar as an instrument truly shines. It's an easy way to add color to your music without having to break your fretting hand. Let me know if you have any specific questions, and I'll do my best to answer

[@the_trash_mane5875]

@@noobsauce How long did it take you to learn the song? I'm working on this currently and I don't have much experience under my belt yet so this is kicking my ass.

[@noobsauce]

@@the_trash_mane5875 I'm not sure how long it took, my memory is garbage. I think I spent a couple of days on transcribing alone and probably up to a week getting it up to speed. It's a challenging song for sure, don't feel discouraged if it feels unplayable. I really struggled with keeping some of these chords sustained, and looking back on it now, I really slopped my way through the chaos section.

[@the_trash_mane5875]

@@noobsauce It still sounds really well done, I've looked at the tabs for it and the whole chaos section is going to be hard to learn. Still, keep up the work man!

[@tangodelta7809]

Seems better to listen to than to play lol their dedication to chaos must get old for a guitarist

[@noobsauce]

shred til death

[@johnny711]

wtf my fingers are small for the 2nd riff. i cannot play it. fuuuuck

[@noobsauce]

A lot of these chords are a huge pain

[@johnny711]

@@noobsauce you know man i was constantly pausing and back again along with you tab and i was about to break my guitar lol. then again i did a break. wtf is happening. i'll keep tryin again and again but i seriously think that my fingers' length are not meant to these chords and i'm seriously dissapointed. on top of that i'm playing bass for brutal death bands and i'm more confused that i faced that much of a challenge lol.

[@noobsauce]

Don't be discouraged! Playing weird chords properly is a huge hurdle in guitar playing, and I still struggle to this day with a lot. Some of Dan's chords in Artificial Brain songs make me want to chop my fingers off, and he plays them with ease. Just keep at it, and be more patient than you've ever wanted to be. You'll get it with time.

[@johnny711]

@@noobsauce thanx for the replies. anyways you did a very great and inspiring job there both in your covers and in the artificial brain songs. infrared album has melted in my stereo both mine and my friends' too. cheers!!

[@tranquil87]

Which strings are you using here and would you recommend them for heavy stuff like this (D standard)?

[@noobsauce]

I use Ernie Ball Slinky Cobalt 11's (Not Even Slinky variety), and I'm usually tuned to E standard (or B if we're talking 7 strings). I recorded this cover in E, and pitch shifted down a whole step. I love the feel of thicker strings and greater tension, it forces you to put a little extra into your playing. It turns me off when I see guitarists playing with 9's and just barely grazing the strings with a pick. But there are pros and cons to everything, so honestly, it all comes down to personal preference. My reasons for thicker gauge: - forces you to play like you mean it (good for metal) - easier for you to keep proper intonation when using giant, finger-bending chords Some people have huge arguments about thicker gauge strings affecting your tone (making it sound boomier), but there are so many other factors involved like pickups/amp/playing style, that it's a pointless discussion. Also, the Cobalt variety of Ernie Ball strings are something I tried one day and never looked back. They feel more solid, stay in tune better, and they have a little more edge to their sound (sharper attack, more high end).

[@edisonfq]

what gid did you use in this cover? the tone sounds awesome!!!

[@adejal]

Perhaps you should transcribe a couple more DsO songs because most tabs for the band are atrocious lol

[@DeathMetalManiac1988]

Well done Oleg, sounds killer as always. Are you originally from Russia?

[@noobsauce]

thanks man! i am from Russia, but I moved to the US at a young age.

[@DeathMetalManiac1988]

Allright, same with me, but we moved to Germany. Udachi tebe.

[@timurnerodriguez9295]

What is gear?

[@noobsauce]

Guitar direct in to Reaper with free Lepou plugins

[@unclechesterthepester787]

D standard?

[@noobsauce]

@@unclechesterthepester787 yep

[@unclechesterthepester787]

@@noobsauce how long have you been playing for, all of your covers are clean. I wonder if you could do some Suffocation and Cephalic Carnage covers.

[@noobsauce]

@@unclechesterthepester787 been playing about 20 years now, thank you for the kind words. Might do some old Suffo one day, but writing and gigging are my main musical focus so will likely be a while til then

[@stellarcubicbeam7760]

Left handed lead, want to make some music?

[@noobsauce]

No can do, got my hands full between current musical projects, work & life

[@EvilZlo]

@@noobsauce Do you also have a job outside of music if you don't mind me asking?

[@noobsauce]

@@EvilZlo yep, I work full time Mon-Fri

[@NoName-co4om]

I’ll never understand how anybody would willingly listen to this “music”

[@noobsauce]

That's ok. You don't have to listen to it or understand it. Find what gives you joy and pursue that instead

[@xx-zo9ew]

maybe you should check out taylor swift. you would probably enjoy that.

[@NoName-co4om]

@@xx-zo9ew good one 👍

[@autumnsphere7581]

The music is beautiful and very interesting

[@matternicuss]

Dissonance is a tough nut to crack and isn't for everyone. Once it clicks it's like learning a new language, and it can be tough going back to more conventional songwriting because you'll realize how samey and bland much of it is