Possessed - The Heretic (Bass Cover)

It's been a couple years since I tackled some Possessed, but as they're in my favorite tuning (E standard), and a huge influence to my songwriting, I should definitely do it more 😂
I think this is damn near my favorite song of theirs! Beyond the Gates is definitely my favorite album too. Something about it is just extra intense, fast, dark, and twisted! It's everything I love about Possessed. Ridiculously gritty stuff especially considering it's from 1986 (although, everything metal was perfect around that time, wasn't it?).
I added a couple of my own little things here, such as the chords in the second and third verses (about 30 seconds in and a minute 45 seconds in), as well as a root-fifth-octave arpeggio thing in the second half of the short breakdown riff at about 55 seconds in. I think it fits the song just enough!
I hope this one is enjoyable, I really tried to make this tight and articulate, because it's really easy to notice if you're messing up these well-defined riffs!
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[@neil_song]

E standard is best tuning, fully agree :) I watched 0:55 thinking "hey, this is a neat simple little variation", and then I read the description -- well done!

[@parkpunk]

great work Evie :3

[@talbit]

Get it!!!

[@n0_ra327]

🤘🤘🤘

[@jfk1999]

An other banger, good job !

[@QRogsie]

Discovered this channel yesterday, You're literally so good! Keep it up!

[@evilevie87]

Thank you so much!

[@paulomalaguttivilani6592]

Fucking great

[@rodolformartins]

great job! what you using to record?

[@evilevie87]

@@rodolformartins Just my phone and the mic on that! Unfortunately I don't have any direct input stuff to record my bass. I overlay the music in a video editing software

[@parkpunk]

@@evilevie87 your playing sounds that good with a phone mic? holy shit

[@PhantomLink16]

Speaking of E standard, you ever gonna try your hand at playing some Cynic?

[@evilevie87]

@@PhantomLink16 One day! I've been listening to them a lot lately. Been really eyeing some stuff off Traced. Just been working on so much original stuff and shows lately.

[@PhantomLink16]

@@evilevie87 I ordered a 6 string fretless as well as some flatwound nylons (almost 80 bucks, ouch!) So I'll try my hand at learning some Beyond Creation and Obscura

[@PhantomLink16]

@@evilevie87 Do you happen to use I-gram btw?