The Evolution of The Breakdown (Mini-Documentary) | Metal Injection
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- From 1920's Jazz to the Tech Djent, Metal Injection breaks down the evolution of that thing that gets you moving, The Breakdown. In this mini-documentary we explore where it came from, to where it's heading, and what makes it so appealing in the first place.
Documentary: Julian Liby
Voice Over: Nick Forkel
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Coolest 10-minute mini doc ever. The dude has a great narrative voice as well!
Sepultura's "Dead Embryonic Cells" deserves mention
First song I think of when I hear the word breakdown.
Propaganda is the most obvious modern iteration too for having that groove and high dissonant lead stacked
Inner self
yea
Agree!!!!
I'm 58 and played in punk, hardcore and metal bands most of my life. In the 2000s I was getting worried about the state of the mosh pit but glad to see kids like Knocked loose and Turnstile carrying fourth with some of the best stage diving crowds I've ever seen. They make me proud \m/😂\m/
watching knocked loose live footage on youtube and it looks wild. not sure i would like to be those front row guys constantly catching people jumping on top of their necks 🤣
May not be your cup of tea musically, Sanguisugabogg at Sound of Fury. One of the greatest sets ive ever seen. The crowd is insane, you should get it a watch!
Thanks for your service brother, without soldiers like you on the front lines of hardcore we wouldn't have the catalog and beautiful scene here today.
Suffocation's 1991 Liege of Inveracity at 2:50 deserves a mention. That breakdown was monumental.
Was gonna say the same most replicated riff ever
That one in fact is probably the most important breakdown in metal history.
Have a 4 inch scar on my forearm that I got from jumping on stage then being thrown down some steps and into the street by the bouncers. Suffocation was playing, "Jesus Wept" it was 1991, Hangman's Ball at the New Ritz in Manhattan. Cannibal Corpse were headlining with "Tomb of the Mutilated". Snuck back in bleeding, to see Demolition Hammer do "Epidemic of Violence". No hospital, just went to sleep and woke up with a cool scar. The Metal Gods smiled upon me that night.
Exactly. That breakdown created whole new genre with bands like devourment. Not mentioning suffocation in a story about breakdowns in metal music is CRIMINAL!
@@hellbach6268 Yeppp! No slam death metal or deathcore without Suffocation & they birthed many tech death bands like Deeds of Flesh. Leaving Suffocation out is an epic fail.
Can we get more stuff like this?
“WHY DIDNT YOU MENTION THIS ONE SONG I LIKE? THERES ONLY THOUSANDS OF SONGS YOU COULD PICK AS EXAMPLES AND YOU MISSED MY FAVE WAAAAA”
The first breakdown must've been on Gustav Holst' Mars, The Bringer Of War. The whole work is just utterly vicious but the end just blows my mind every time. I think it was composed around 1902
Ha, I appreciate the obscurity here. I was introduced to this when Geezer said he lifted this for the Black Sabbath main riff.
All prog metal concept albums live in the shadow of The Planets.
Check out Nile's "Ramses, Bringer of War" for a death metal take on that one.
@@bobbishone I'm a big Nile Fan but not touched their oldest stuff yet. Definitely listen to it in the near future, thanks for the motivation.
It's very famous I think but I Am Evil by Diamond Head used the theme as the intro
Wrong, the song Milano Mosh by SOD was released in 1985 before Caught in a Mosh by Anthrax in 1987
Good times
Biohazard and Obituary both deserve mentions!
The breakdown on Urban Discipline goes so fucking hard. I imagine they’ll be mentioned in a future video about rap metal or something lol
domination is top 3 best breakdowns in heavy metal. but i'm biased cause i'm a pantera fan
Respect for mentioning the mighty (and very over looked) GRIMLOCK!
Absolutely spot on!! with regard to sabbath Bloody Sabbath. The vintage sounding instruments (by today's standard) are deceiving; that breakdown is wicked heavy, considering it was 1973! I mean 1973 . . . . THAT riff; are you kidding me?!
I love seeing Goldie in a metal documentary. Long live Drum and Bass
Amen, brother! Spoke like a true junglist 🙌🏼 Drum and bass for world domination 🇧🇩👊🏼
BASS! Ya rudeboi!
That was from the HOR session
Some of that footage of Hatebreed around the 8 minute mark is from one of the times I booked them at the YWCA in Huntington, WV.
Machine Head's Davidian breakdown melts faces!
Top 3 all time
Agreed, my top 3 no order domination, Davidian, Dead Embryonic Cells@@upful_life
THAT RIFF from Sepultura's "Dead Embryonic Cells"...
I’m glad you included Bad Brains but it’s a shame you didn’t play a clip of the mosh part from their song Right Brigade
I've heard that, apparently, Bad Brains' breakdowns came as a combination of the distorted aggression of hardcore punk with the slower, syncopated rhythms of reggae (given that they were heavily influenced by reggae music and went on to release reggae albums).
What song?
@@christopherryanquinn2227 I wish I knew :(
Sepultura made breakdowns eerie and exotic in 1991 on their Arise album.
Absolutely. Adding that additional layer of ambience was a stroke of genius.
I love how elitists love to whine that breakdowns are a hardcore thing when in fact groove metal and thrash is what pioneered it. Their influence is what gave us hardcore as many know it which is extremely different from OG hardcore punk. Hardcore is only as heavy as it is because it incorporates so many metal elements including breakdowns.
Excellent documentary and proper use of sub-genre names too.
These elitists can hardly put any coherent thoughts together. Jesus christ these idiots already have had 15 beers and talk massive amounts of shit.
This is the best content you've ever made.
SUFFOCATION!!!
Honorable mention: Exhorder - Cadence Of The Dirge (1992) so ahead of its time
Can we give Anthrax some serious love please?
Not only were they the inspiration for the term "Thrash" (from the song Metal Thrashing Mad)
But they were the 1st band to use Mosh in a title
Ow, caught in a mosh!~
If only they made good music
Loved Anthrax, Thrash but with some NYHC in the influences via Scott Ian.
@@zachiswayposi1 Yeah i never understood how they achieved big 4 status, over Testament
WARDANCE!
I’m just grateful that i
Got to experience being in a pit for Domination last weekend.
Best Breakdown of all time is the one at min 3:44 "Dead Embryonic Cells" of Sepultura's "Arise".
Absolutely!
2nd to domination….
The breakdown in Sepultura’s “Dead Embryonic Cells” , perhaps the most ubderrated ever 🤘
Sabbath bloody sabbath 1st and still the GOAT
Damn strait DOMINATION!
How do you not mention Meshuggah tho?
they got a 3 second visual snippet, that's it
@@trueskinartstudio8135 and that's enough for fS!
no Lethargica breakdown, really?😢
If I understand correctly and you're mentioning Pantera ca. 1990 due to them slowing tempo down for the breakdown, that had definitely been done by 80s hardcore bands plenty of times before. Only difference being we didn't call it the breakdown, we called it the mosh part. A 1986 shoutout for Megadeth's "Wake Up Dead" and "The Conjuring" as well.
Gojira turns some of theirs into meditation and its beautiful. Remembrance Live is basically an entire metal meditation lol. Blew my mind!
Fucking awesome, but not mentioning Suffocation’s liege of Inveracity as the epitome of pioneering the extreme metal breakdown hurt my heart, man! Deeply 😢
You can not omit Suffocation from a discussion about breakdowns. Unthinkable.
@@etienneblais5915 Sinful dude, one can omit a 1000 other bands and get away with it, but how the fuck can you get a high score without Suffo?
I totally disagree
@@danevertt3210 “The breakdown riff found in the hook of "Liege of Inveracity" has been credited as the first slam riff in death metal, later inspiring an offshoot of death metal known as slam death metal.”
If you never listened to the band, please, stop making a fool out of yourself 🙏🏻
I started to question this video because of that
“Rusty Cage” by Soundgarden has a mean breakdown
This is weird......breakdowns were always considered a hardcore phenomenon in my youth and were absolutely despised by metal heads. They would have killed you for suggesting those parts in "One," Raining Blood," and "Domination" were actually breakdowns. Now a breakdown is as standard as a solo in that world and I think the definiton has become a bit more loose. More of a sign that it's ok to like everything now and I like it better this way.
it's like an evolution. the sound evolved from Jazz to so many genres and subgenres we know now and usually the more people getting used to it the more loose it gets if you know what I mean..it feels like quantity over quality is a universal law.
It kind of makes sense though because thrash metal bands were influenced by hard-core
@@ZoranZoltanousyep
In one of interviews Ian Scott says he tooked breakdown formula from Hardcore Punk bands whom he watched on concerts in NY.
This characteristic chug groovy breakdown came from 90's Hardcore, especially from Metallic style bands.
Get popular in 00's by Metalcore bands. And perfected by Deathcore bands in 00's and 10's
Once again, late 70’s and early to Mid 80’s punk rock and hardcore prove there importance. Of course, by 1985 you had your first real death metal band; death.
Interesting stuff. And great narrating voice!
Imagine talking Breakdowns and not mentioning "Liege of inveracity" from Suffocation. But still a nice "breakdown" (pun intendet) of breakdwons.
We are watching the breakdown of breakdowns. Imagine how heavy it is
Blows my mind that Poison The Well or Unearth were not mentioned in this video.
Unearth has awesome breakdowns especially The oncoming storm, I love it
It seems every song has a breakdown these days, just not special anymore. Back in the day they would stand out as an iconic part of a cool song, one or two memorable break downs on an album at most.
Slayer, Pantera and Sepultura have some amazing ones. But I especially like Crowbar's New Man Born and the best breakdown ever: Machine Head's Davidian
Slash and B Hinds are right…all roads lead back to Iommi….top 2 breakdowns sabbath bloody sabbath and fucking DOMINATIONNNN
I feel like Acacia Strain should of been mentioned but great doc either way
The 1st real mosh break prototype may be Sabbath's Hand of Doom...then perfected on Anthrax AIR and Metallica Creeping Death.
2000s metalcore and deathcore live shows. Youd tell your friends "here comes the breakdown, this place is going to be a massacre!"
You just had to be there. I was there for it and some of the best concerts i ever saw was from that era from when i was in my late teens and 20s
Streetcleaner by Godflesh hands down has the best breakdown in my humble opinion
Napalm Death's: Suffer the Children had an equally iconic slow-down breakdown to Pantera's I think.
❤ Napalm Death
What I have learned from this is that Fear Factory were 15-20 years ahead of their time, and it took me that long to work it out lol
The breakdown, double kick even twiddly diddley guitar all comes from jazz
Hell yea. Hatebreed is playing the showcase theater. Legendary socal venue
Slayer’s Dittohead has an epic breakdown + solo part.
Video seems to have forgotten death metal's contributions. Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel might deserve some credit here...
They left out one key fact about the breakdown-- many people use it as an excuse to "beat ass", as Colin Young would say 😂😂
James Brown was the first breakdown i know of... but wow went back further then that.
What’s wild is that Rusty Cage by Soundgarden has a breakdown at the end of the song.
The bass/tuba solo and banjo solo often provided a shift in time feel, but that was to provide contrast and letting the soloist be heard, rather than a call to dancing. Also some tunes, like Bahama and Fidgety Feet, had/have breaks with the rest of the band only playing hits.
Oh, and I would like to suggest Metallica's "Creeping Death" as an early thrash metal song with a breakdown.
Thank you for making the documentary, it's my kind of nerdy 👍
The breakdown on _Raining Blood_ is the first one that mattered.
Wtf! How you gonna skip a band like unearth. especially the song "endless" where it had the chant before the breakdown.
A lot of bands were skipped.
Crydown
The breakdown and breakbeat originated from the same music.
Metal, hiohop and DnB are my main genres so i owe ALOT to that era
I loved the breakdown on Korn's daddy! I had never heard anything like it before back in 96
Nick from turbid north narrating
I could argue that Black Sabbath's first breakdown was before, like electric funeral and hand of doom
What's heavier than Black Sabbath!? Sure the roots of breakdown are in jazz, just like metal itself.
Awesome video man! So much info in 10 mis 🔥🔥🔥
2:18 The moment, they own it
Love this! Do more content like this!!!
Not one mention of Unearth. They have more breakdowns than Hyundai.
LoL that's funny. The Oncoming Storm and Eyes of Fire are one of my favorite albums
Yp, great shout out to Bury Your Dead. An easily overlooked breakdown king.
Great vid!
This might be the best breakdown history video, but somehow all of these videos end up missing at least one key breakdown. In this case it's Liege of Inveracity by Suffocation.
Metallica's Escape was one of the first thrash breakdowns I can recall ~
DRI, something from Thrash Zone or Dealing With It, right?! It said in the lyric sheet where the mosh, breakdown, etc parts are at lol. Like a drunken Injun, high on weed.........
Hey don’t forget Megadeth’s “Wake up Dead” if ye already mentioned Metallica & slayer. That one’s got a sick ass breakdown at the end with blazing guitar riffs the vocal lines that go “We’re dead…
YOU DIE!!…
WE’RE DEAD!!!”
Opens with the kings of heavy metal. I loved that! LORDS UNMATCHED
Also Crowbar started a whole new genre based on the breakdown.. Sludge metal
none heavier 🤘
First true breakdown in the modern sense for me is super touch shit fit by the bad brains. First recorded in 79 on black dots.
Pretty sure I saw Showcase Theater here. 😍❤️😍
Yeah, I saw a couple clips from the Showcase. RIP :(
Wake up dead. Lots of great breakdown going on.
Everyone already knows Death Metal definitely owes it's existence to Hip Hop!
Why am I thinking DRI and Criptic Slaughter?
This is a Fantastic video 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
What about Sepultura? They were doing breakdowns in the late 80s
Is Domination really the first? How come no one talks about Sacrificial by Death? That’s a legit breakdown if I’ve ever heard one and it came out in 87’
During 10 minutes you talked about jazz, trumpetists, devildriver but somehow failed to mention Machine Head's DAVIDIAN
You mean the hard core kids with their swing dancing are the ones that like those break downs.
Yawn so much more fun than running around in a stupid circle.
Haha love that The Butter got mentioned 🤘
TF is this dude talking about. Bury Your Dead was not a mid 90’s beat down band, nor did they exist in the 90’s. Do you mean Buried Alive in the late 90’s?
This shit was awesome, thanks guys 🔥
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Love the history of metal. I find it so fascinating how the black community had such a huge impact on metal. That’s why I embrace both metal & hip hop. They’re 2 sides of the same coin.
Excellent work….
This was interesting and quite enjoyable to watch. 🤘
finally some real news!
I know that black people invented space travel. And created country music. But I had no idea they invented the breakdown. Thanks Metal Injection!
Awesome,now cats are gonna jump into a breakdance windmill or start dancing the Charleston in the pit.
def came from the hardcore scene. i think megadeth rust in peace era kinda translated to metal…. don’t forget pantera domination… that song may be older
See, I have to ask; which hardcore scene? And what time period?
i just thnik from hardcore in general, the breakdown translated to metal . most older hardcore riffs slowed down match alot of breakdowns in metal genres…… hardcore didn’t start it… but translating to metal kinda had to go that route
@@captainhowdy3104 I think you missed the point of my question
east coast 90s new york philly baltimore
@@captainhowdy3104 see hardcore use to be the early 80’s and late 70’s punk rock scene in La, NYC, Boston and of course- DC.
The word is a lot of different meaning. I think of earth crises, snapcase, buried alive, madball, maybe even GB
The research and script for this doc are well done, but the musical examples all start when the breakdown itself starts, i.e. you can't hear how it *breaks* from the rest of the song, which is the whole point of them. Playing just the breakdown makes it sound like just any piece of any song.
Tower of Snakes breakdown!
sickkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Metal 4 life🤟 fun video man
Pantera's my all favorite band and always will be. But LoG has face melting breakdowns. And i grew up with Hatebreed were from the same town.
Very cool