Bryan Beller

Articles by: Bryan Beller

Peter Nordin. Original bassist of Mushuggah

“Some say our music has polyrhythm, but it’s simply 4/4. I guess it confuses anyone who hears it for the first time”: How Peter Nordin navigated a 172bpm maze of nightmarish polymetric riffs on Meshuggah’s Future Breed Machine

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Original Meshuggah bassist Peter Nordin breaks down the tech-metal trailblazers’ 1995 underground classic

Beck during 1999 KROQ's Almost Acoustic X-Mas in Los Angeles, California, United States.

“Beck wanted something distinctive and driving. Like the bass was coming unhinged at every turn”: Listen to Justin Meldal-Johnsen’s bassline on Beck’s Sexx Laws

By Bryan Beller published

How Justin Meldal-Johnsen anchored Beck’s postmodern pop classic by breaking all of the rules

Photo of Herbie FLOWERS

“There was no intention to be clever. We didn’t know what we were doing!” Herbie Flowers’ bassline on David Bowie’s Space Oddity

By Bryan Beller published

Listen to Herbie Flowers give lift to David Bowie’s lyric about “floating in a tin can” 

Too much is never enough: Muse’s Chris Wolstenholme reinvents art-rock bass for the 21st century

By Bryan Beller published

Muse's bass master on The Resistance, riffs and how he gets his tone

Alex Webster: to the extreme

By Bryan Beller published

Extreme metal bass is alive and thriving in the frenetic hands - and restless mind - of Alex Webster