NECROPHAGIST - Dawn and Demise (Instrumental Studio Cover by Peripheral Cortex)

This is a tribute to Necrophagist for all the fans who have been waiting for far too long for the new Necrophagist album (like us!) We painstakingly reverse engineered this track from the various amateur live videos available on KZbin and believe we got it right at least to roughly 80% accuracy :)
Music written by Muhammed Suiçmez/Necrophagist
Recorded, performed and produced by Peripheral Cortex
Mixed and mastered by Tom "Fountainhead" Geldschläger
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[@joshuawerner3074]

I wished Necrophagist would have released the third album this stuff would of be legendary!

[@beet6le380]

It was actually going to. This song is the title song of their new album. At least it was going to. Muhammed claims that the album is just finished. But he doesnt releases it. Non of us knows why but it is done. Staying on a hard drive. I guess thats what hurts most. Most thinks that they will not do a new album, but knowing that there is an album finished but never be releaised, and we will never be able to hear it.

[@joshuawerner3074]

I know right it sucks I heard awhile back that’s exactly what Mohammed did and he also got a better job so he hung the guitar up! Maybe if we lucky we might get it!

[@Yago.Passos]

0:45 insane riff. A confused epic song, necrophagist at his prime. But the bass line is kind funny hehe.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Amen...

[@stevenhenderson9630]

@@beet6le380 That's part of being an artist. It's about how the creator feels about their own work, not the fans. Releasing something just to appease people is never a good idea. It's great that Muhammad has the integrity to hold on to it. Necrophagist is something he can look back at fondly, putting out 2 legendary albums that revolutionized extreme music. No reason to potentially tarnish that legacy with an output that he isn't proud of.

[@LieutenantLeatherNuts]

This makes me so fucking sad this album could have been nutzzzzzzz

[@peripheralcortex2687]

This is a tribute to Necrophagist for all the fans (like us!) who have been waiting for far too long for the new Necrophagist album. We are not trying to fill the void - this is just a cover version ;) We hope you guys enjoy! !!! And don't forget to check out our album "God Kaiser Hell" at this location !!! peripheralcortex.bandcamp.com/album/god-kaiser-hell

[@Zyborggian]

And it's cool to hear this in studio quality after soooo long haha.

[@mylesaway2566]

2:29 - 2:38 gave me chills

[@zapiexa4947]

This year it will be 20 years since Epitaph release and Onset rerelease, and there's still no sign that the third album is going to finally appear.... Sadge

[@gitargitaroglu]

You have to be awarded with heaven for this!!! 🖤🖤🖤🖤

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Hehe thx, Gitar ;-)

[@OzanYerli]

Muhammed de yıllardır hayranlarına yaptıkları için cehennem azabını hakediyor

[@jonatansoshkin4651]

It took me a few listens to get into, but now I’m sure that is one of Necrophagist best songs. This song is more chaotic and depressive then they’re other songs, and fells much heavier and mature. Its not as catchy as other Necrophagist stuff but it’s still very melodic, (especially that riff at 1:02), and i think that this is what makes it so interesting. So sad we will never hear the third album, I’m sure it’s a masterpiece, but i believe muhammed got his own reasons, and i respect that.

[@KytexEdits]

I just wish Muhammed would come out and let us know why he isn't releasing if it's already "finished". I get that he has a new life with a stable job and doesn't want to tour, but just hearing the album would be MORE than enough.

[@spicymeatballs2thespicening]

A perfect theme for the tragic disappearance of Necrophagist

[@RyanMcNatt]

This is the aural version of glitching through to the next level in a video game without unlocking it first.

[@autunnoparziale2503]

Been waiting for 10 years to hear a good quality version of this song.absolutly fantastic bro

[@funnyberries4017]

I only heard this song once during the last summer slaughter tour. Thank you for bringing it back from the dead. It was almost 15 years ago and I always wanted to hear it again

[@guitarplayer6565]

The crazy thing is this takes another step forward for them and it never got released so sad man

[@TheMathPipe]

Wow! just getting around to hearing this.. great freaking work guys..

[@jaaz.handss]

i love the touch of fretless bass! wish Steffens stepped out of his comfort zone with a fretless 6 string!!

[@peripheralcortex2687]

I think he actually did on this song. These lines are actually in this song. The bass solo as well. I'm actually confident on the next Necrophagist album the bass would have a lot more of a prominent spot. You can, in some of those crappy live videos, quite clearly hear those bass leads.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Check out this video, where you can quite clearly hear the bass solos and bass lines. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaPRlHR5n72eZrc

[@franklarkin6076]

Thank you for this. From the bottom of my heart. That solo is top

[@victormojica4646]

Absolutely love the riff at 1:24 great job on this guys!

[@Zyborggian]

Tom killing it and YALL killing it. So stoked for yalls new material genuinely. :)

[@boothbyaw]

Great to finally hear a clear version of this track. thanks guys!

[@obi-wannabekennotbi2418]

What a suprise! Thank you for the hard work!

[@UndeadBed]

This is like Epitaph bonus remix!!

[@7dollarproductions]

I literally just said: Okay… SOMEONE needs to learn this song and cover it, record it high quality, then release it to the world. Any wizards out there strong enough to take the challenge on? Then they sent me this link and it was magical AF bruh omg.

[@voronOsphere]

Wow! Thanks for taking the time to produce this Labor of Love!

[@8terminusmaximus8]

Bloody Brilliant! Sounds great and is an excellent cover of a song that never got an official release

[@MrNiceguyofficial]

This is just totally sick i love the clipshow as well

[@ChefOrelleYoung]

🤦🏾‍♂️ How have I missed this for a whole year?

[@GENXJOPLIN]

Lower the velocity on the snare during euroblasts. This is like drum programming 101

[@mrSmoky111]

HOLY SHIT. This is unbelievable....I remember hearing the shit recordings and wishing they were better, I needed this. It sounds like you got it right too. Amazing work, thank you so much.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Cool, thanks! Great that you are enjoying this!! Did you maybe already check out our album?? Check it out at this location: peripheralcortex.bandcamp.com/album/god-kaiser-hell

[@LXBM581]

This just got recommended to me. Been almost 11 years since I heard this.

[@specialbrownies123]

Dude, you guys have done a huge service for the metal community here, it means a lot. So accurate almost can’t believe it still after watching 20 times. I’ll pay whatever you want for that tab. PLEASE consider, we all want it

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Hey Steve! Ok, we'll consider it! Lots of people have been asking for it, yes. Where should we release it you think?? Whats the best platform?

[@peripheralcortex2687]

And please also check out our original stuff at peripheralcortex.bandcamp.com

[@specialbrownies123]

@@peripheralcortex2687 I did, it’s unique and heavy af. If you ever come to Cleveland I’ll come out and support for sure. And pretty sure you can post a pay to download link of .gpx file on bandcamp. Keep kickin ass guys

[@Yago.Passos]

Well done!! Ty so much.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Thanks for the comment! Did you maybe already check out our album? Cacophonic tech death featuring saxophone and crazy vocals. You can find it under this link; peripheralcortex.bandcamp.com/album/god-kaiser-hell

[@mangled2768]

You guys need to release your tabs for this thing

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Who knows maybe we will. If more people want it. It still means a fair bit of work for us of course.

[@mrSmoky111]

@@peripheralcortex2687 I would absolutely love them and would be willing to pay a couple dollars if needed for sure.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

@@mrSmoky111 cool, we will keep that in mind! If there is enough interest we will make it. Did you already check out our album btw? peripheralcortex.bandcamp.com/album/god-kaiser-hell

[@jamieperry3731]

@@peripheralcortex2687 yes! Good stuff for sure, you're all talented as fuck (memeking on my main acct), reply here if you do tabs or message if possible on KZbin!

[@oscarcutface1353]

I posted a link or tabs and it got deleted, there IS TABS ONLINE!

[@IKriters]

MERCI ❤️

[@DantaR97]

The guitar solo caught me! God damn!

[@caidasuave4183]

Muchas gracias por todo el arte involucrado en este video

[@peripheralcortex2687]

gracias por el comentario genial!

[@Yago.Passos]

Tu usaste a palavra correta, o tom do instrumento ta muito orgânico, humanizado. Necrophagist is kind robotic tone.

[@georgenash1402]

good work

[@Loucrazy1]

GOD JOB, MAN!

[@hypnagogia42]

Thanks for putting this together. It’s interesting to hear this compared to Onset and Epitaph I feel like the solo is more groovy/less technical, I’m curious to how their sound would have evolved on the third album. Huge tragedy we will probably never get to hear it but blessing in disguise because I would lose my hearing from playing it too loud

[@mattvdh]

amazing

[@johnmatthews5321]

I just subcribed liked power loyalty respect Fresno CA

[@alexparadise91]

This will have to do until we get a new necrophagist album

[@adferxis]

Brutal.

[@David.C24]

Nice 😯

[@lenol0315]

wow this is great

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Thanks Leonard!

[@kantvishi]

Great job.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Thanks Vishi!

[@kawabungatortueninja]

The best audio/vidéo of this fucking song

[@gene-dg9uf]

This is just missing vocals, but it's still nuts you did all of this 👏

[@austinmayan8987]

🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@petermcdonald6516]

man they really need to release somehting for the sake of epic true honest metal music..

[@ISAAKKUSH]

I hit the 666th like. So proud!!

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Hehe awesome!

[@LeChrizzle]

Great work figuring out the notes. Must have been countless hours of work.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Yes it was tedious work!

[@Inhumanform]

Amazing

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Thanks!

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Check out our original stuff as well! peripheralcortex.bandcamp.com/album/god-kaiser-hell

[@Zyborggian]

OH WAIT ITS OUT?! BRB FINNA BUY.

[@albertashford9464]

Pleeease tabs pleaaaase.

[@nicktafazoli4375]

How the hell did y'all even decipher the guitars for this? In every live version I've watched, I can barely hear what they're doing over the drums

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Tone for tone, note for note, Nick. It was a hell of a job ;-)

[@johncoronado]

A good pair of headphones, common sense (which comes from knowing your way around the fretboard), lots of time and patience, and of course awesome playing skills.

[@williambiron2726]

Tabsss pleasssse

[@jesuzleonardo]

Tabs please... I´ll pay!!! nice work BTW, keep it up.

[@drillaquinn7174]

Holy fuck

[@brianbumstead2682]

Where the new album

[@riff_junkie]

1:10

[@HipsterOctagon]

Very cool! Still slightly disappointing it'll never come out, but this is very well done.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Yes, let's hope Mohamed someday will change his mind. Who knows...

[@Alannaki4970]

I think its 85% there. I've heard this song live. To me the verse was a little more aggressive sounding and the chorus was a little more on the heavier side. This is just my opinion though. Still very cool cover.

[@suprjnt420]

so weird to see him playing an RG style guitar

[@DuderofDudeness]

I wonder if this was the first album where the accompanying guitarist wrote a lot of it since it sounds more like obscura which would make sense since Muhammed allegedly only liked what he wrote for the most part.

[@TravisPastramee]

Christian Muenzner was out of the band by the time they wrote this so it wasn't him. He left around 2006. It most definitely could've been co written by Sami Raatikainen who was the guitarist at this time, but he had nothing to do with Obscura.

[@DuderofDudeness]

@@TravisPastramee Ok 👍

[@spicymeatballs2thespicening]

0:44

[@Alkamer]

The bass and guitar strings seems to be not tuned well , but good job, man 👍👍👍

[@alk3603]

Are these drums programmed? Also asking because i dont think theres double bass during the continuous blast beat

[@peripheralcortex2687]

No its not. Its recorded using an electric drum kit. Like necro used to do it. There is double bass of course

[@alk3603]

@@peripheralcortex2687 oh, I see. That explains the sound of them

[@josueguillen5053]

Are they really working on another album????

[@dirkdiggler2218]

That footage is from like 2010. Necrophagist unfortunately hasn’t worked on anything since then, to anybody’s knowledge.

[@commisargamerson1666]

Is this in A standard? I assume because they would want to play their regular songs without changing guitars

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Hey commisargamerson, yes it is

[@commisargamerson1666]

@@peripheralcortex2687 Thank you very much fellas

[@alk3603]

Could someone do vocals over this? It will be the closest thing to studio edit if so

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Hey Imax! We made a version with vox, but its our own freestyle vocals. You can find it on our bandcamp page

[@alk3603]

@@peripheralcortex2687 oh, nice! Thank you

[@Nplasma17]

I'm normally all in for Fretless Bass, but that was either out of key or your bassist needs to practice more... No issue with that, it happens to us all! Other than that, it sounds awesome! Thanks for doing this!

[@KytexEdits]

Is your name a reference to FF's song "evhron", or is it just a common french word?

[@Nplasma17]

@@KytexEdits it is a reference to that haha. The lyrics of that song really touched me, and the whole story behind Evhron as a character inspired me for many of my OCs, from which Evhron is my fav

[@KytexEdits]

@@Nplasma17 If only I understood the original lyrics in french.

[@Nplasma17]

@@KytexEdits well, translate IS a thing, but I'm pretty sure I commented the lyrics in English in one of the Evhron vids here in YT

[@Nplasma17]

@@KytexEdits wait, I just realized I actually translated them for you back in that video lmfao! You should have no problem reading them then

[@XenoTravis]

Good job on the research on how to play this and matching the video with the live footage haha. The only thing I will say is that if this had the necrophagist tone, it probably would of sounded a lot better.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

Hey Travis! Thanks for your positive words. And yes, it was a tedious job getting all the notes from those noisy videos ;-) We spend quite a view days on that actually ;-) Yes of course it sounds different from Necrophagist. It is a cover of course. We are not Necrophagist and we do not intend to be them. Did you already check our album which we just released? Find it here if you haven't already: peripheralcortex.bandcamp.com/album/god-kaiser-hell Expect tech death with cacophonic riffing, a saxophone vs vocals improv duel, guitar solos amongst which one by Tom "Fountainhead" Geldschlaeger. Tom mixed the album as well (as is the Necrophagist cover). Cheers!

[@Zyborggian]

@@peripheralcortex2687 For the record I think yalls tone is pretty gnar. EEEEEE checking the album too.

[@Zyborggian]

@@peripheralcortex2687 Oh my PISS Im only on song 1 and this is super insane aaaa

[@666jacksonx]

Hmmm

[@BeastLordofMetal]

Bass is too pronounced and at times feels out of sync.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

I think it is very audible for necrophagist standards, however im also pretty sure this what it would have sounded like. In contrary to all other necrophagist material this song features lots of bass leads and even a pretty long solo.

[@BeastLordofMetal]

@@peripheralcortex2687 It's mainly that riff at 0:26. The bass seems out of sync with the rest of the band. It sounds strange and that is basically doing it's own thing. It doesn't feel in shape with the riff that's being played, it distracts from the riff being played. You see it in bands where the bassist wants to do too much. The bassist is obviously very talented, but I simply think he got that part wrong and it makes that part of the song sound strange, and not in a good way. But I appreciate this isn't the actual song, you're just covering it. You guys are obviously very talented and you're just covering what you've seen in live videos. I think the bassist did a good job mostly, it's just a couple of segments of the song sound off.

[@peripheralcortex2687]

@@BeastLordofMetal well, listen to this video. You can hear the bass pretty good. You can hear the solo at this exact part. I think our interpretation is pretty accurate, however please judge for yourself. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaPRlHR5n72eZrc We aimed at making this as precise as possible. There are no improvisations of our own in there. The bass in this song is actually not so typical for necrophagist, just from how it was done by necrophagist. Im guessing the new album would have been a slight stylistic change, at least what the bass concerned. And thanks a lot for the compliments ;-) Please also check out our original stuff if you like. If you want to hear our own bass solos please check out our song Wanderlust is wanderers death for example

[@peripheralcortex2687]

peripheralcortex.bandcamp.com/track/wanderlust-is-wanderers-death Check out the solo at 2:45 min. Followed by a fretless guitar solo by tom fountainhead geldschlager of Obscura fame!

[@peripheralcortex2687]

@@BeastLordofMetal or maybe you'll like this; tech death featuring saxophones 🎷🎷 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJq3doCCqZesaNU