Composer/Musician Reacts to DIMMU BORGIR - Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse (LIVE) (REACTION!!!)
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on DIMMU BORGIR - Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse (LIVE - FORCES OF THE NORTHERN NIGHT)
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A lot of people commenting on the bassist, ICS Vortex, missing from the live version. He is one of the great voices of metal. Back when you did Borknagar - Winter Thrice, he was the second person that sang. "The groaning, moaning sound of this frost, A blinding eternal blizzard. Seasons aligned and now under the sign, Of crisp eternal winter" Dimmu Borgir does have orchestral parts written into their songs.
Interesting part of trivia about ICS Vortex & Mustis (the keyboardist): They got kicked out of the band somewhere in the late 2000s, disputing authorship and writing credits. Since Abrahadabra to present, they have kept the main trio (Shagrath/Silenoz/Galder) who are now more style over substance. So most of the stuff in this review/reaction is mostly directed to Mustis.
Funny enough, you need an entire 30+ person choir to replace the awesomeness of one single vocalist.
@@luislandez It wasn't enough. Vortex is on another level.
Dimmu Borgir writes their songs this way, they're not meant to be performed by the band only without the orchestral elements. That's what makes them stand out. Other bands add some symphonic parts to finished songs, while Dimmu composes metal symphonies. Glad you noticed!
Yeah man that s why db is the best metal musicians right there with dream theater and king diamond. Db puts the sounds in the right places in the right time not just adding them to sound symphonic.
I think Septicflesh did this better than Dimmu Borgir.
@@yunusemrekarabacak8539 Emperor as well
@@AbominationalFailure Yes, I agree.
Well, Vortex vocal part was not written for choirs.
Dimmu Borgir is the first band that got me into metal 15 years ago. When I first heard them, I was like wow! What is this? As a teenager, It was so much more amazing than anything else I was listening at that time (pop, rap, rock). The darkness, the orchestra, the growls, the double bass intensity, everything pulled together in such a majestic way! It totally blew open my musical world! They have always remained one of my favorite metal bands of all time. The songs are all originally designed and composed with the orchestral elements. Their albums also have fully orchestral song/skits in their songs, they are beautiful, so satisfying. Check out Gateways, Mourning Palace, or Council of Wolves and Snakes.
"The name is derived from Dimmuborgir, a volcanic formation in Iceland, the name of which means "dark cities" or "dark castles/fortresses" in Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse.
Since you are interested in bands that utilize orchestras, I'd suggest you to check out Septicflesh :) They recently released a show with a live orchestra too.
Septicflesh - The Vhampire from Nazaret!
Yes, big yes!
Yes yes yes.
A thousand times yes.
Now.... Imagine a live tour, dimmu, septic, choirs, orchestra.
This is now my favorite react channel. I like seeing a trained ear listen to what so far has been great suggestions. I would like to see you react to Psyopus's Imogens Puzzle or Duct tape smile.
Indeed. Guy lives up to his chosen moniker for sure.
That performance made me nostalgic for the Vortex... The band used to have a base player who did clean vocals. The par where there was the chorus the base player was singing alone operatic style...
The mastered version is amazing. This was good, but you should try it on your own to see the difference. Great song though.
Yes please! Mourning Palace was the best song on this concert! Totally worth your time. Please give it a try.
Hi! Great reaction! Please react to Greek symphonic death metal band Septicflesh and their song "Portrait Of A Headless Man". Their guitarist has a masters degree in classical music and composition.
They're one of my favorites and definitely my favorite black metal band. Their keyboard player is classicaly trained and he composes all those for them, which like you said makes them different, and that algún was the first one where they had also the whole orchestra recorded for the album, it really was the first album where I truly felt they found themselves. As others have pointed out, the missing clean vocals from the bassist that left were amazing and they're very missed, but I think they've done great regardless. They started out rougher and you can see how the one members influence really grew on them and he kept getting more freedom. There's funny videos of when he joined and they're on the tour bus and he can't stand listening to the other's music and when it's his turn to choose he plays only classical and others can't stand it. But I think it's that stress they have that really works. Great review and hope you dive more into them! Cheers
They're a Symphonic Black Metal band. Most of their songs sounds like this, also on the CD's.
More Dimmu, please !!
I've loved them for a long time but was let down when they gave up on their original sound from For All Tid and Stormblast. While I like their later music nothing they've made compares to those first two albums. I feel like they made the most amazing music they could, realized they could never top it, and then changed because of it. If you haven't listened to these albums you really need to
The Choir Sequence was originally sung by VORTEX (Ex Bass Player) !
This consert was sent live on national norwegian tv 😀
And the orchestrations are "made" by the band. Not something the orchestra here added to the song. And the orchestra is the national norwegian orchestra
And the choir is the choir from the national opera if my mind is not tricking me
That's awesome!
Thank Mustis for the orchestral amazement. It took using all of those people live to make up for him no longer being on the band. And ohhh man… to be able to hear this track for the first time again would be incredible.
I think you'll also love Scepticflesh. Check out the new live video they put out for The Vampire from Nazreth just this year. It's going to be a live DVD too.
A couple of my favorite Dimmu songs
Fear and Wonder
The Serpentine Offering
Broderskapets Ring
Puritania
Sorgens Kammer Del II
Kings of the Carnival Creation
Stormblast
Mourning Palace!
Yess i have been waiting for this one forever. Been in love with these guys since i was about 10 years old.
Also! Since you enjoyed this you should really check out the live version of Gateways from the same show, featuring a famous norwegian female singer. Reaction or not :)
Wow...you went crazy today! Thanks for getting videos out! Don’t burn yourself out!
Really liked the galloping throughout the song. Something a bit different than a straight up tremolo. The orchestra was pretty bomb too. Usually it’s an afterthought but it’s incorporated as part of the song here. Love it!
Thanks for the video!
We, who not deny the animal of our nature
We, who yearn to preserve our liberation
We, who face darkness in our hearts with a solemn fire
We, who aspire to the truth and pursue its strength
I love your critical reviews, I never miss them and I have met some bands like Caligula's Horse.
Similar to Dimmu Borigr, SepticFlesh has just released a highly recommended live concert with orchestra!
Now you have to react to The Funerary Dirge of a Violinist by Carach Angren
Love Carach Angren, but I'd suggest Lingerin in an Imprint Haunting instead, its just complex, hence maybe more enjoyable for Bryan.
The orchestral parts were written by their original keyboard player Stian Aarstad. @Critical Reactions
More dimmu!!
You Might try Dimmu Borgir- Gateways? or Cradle of Filth- Nymphetamine?
Septicflesh has released a dvd with live orchestra.
You'll like 'the vampyre from nazaret'
Includes a white voices choir
I looked but I didn't see if you had done any Septicflesh. They feature an orchestra for all four of their albums. I think they've even used the same orchestra for most of them. All of the songs are good.
You should check out progenies of the great apocalypse played on the piano by Mustis, former member of dimmu borgir. His works with the band are absolutely my favourite dimmu songs, he is very talented both as a composer and as a pianist. if you search for "progenies of the great apocalypse - mustis unplugged" you'll find it. Great video btw!
Dimmu is a great "starter" black metal band. They are very melodic and are a lot easier to listen to than a lot of black metal out there, if you aren't used to extreme vocals, blastbeats, and tremolo picking. I grew up listening to black metal, and one of the bands that helped get me into it was Dimmu. I got to see them live in like 2006 but without an orchestra and it was good.
I learned all about chromatic mediant progressions from dimmu borgir
Ha you found it ^^ I used to listen to this when walking to high school :p long ago already...
The orchestra is not an afterthought, the songs are composed this way.
Woodwind trills augmenting a double bass blast beat. Just amazing. The live version is SO much better than the studio version. The choir really shines too.
This band is known for symphonic black metal. This song like many others work well with the orchestra because most of their music is designed with this in mind.
In 2003 the two biggest, most popular, mainstream "black metal" bands, Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth, each put out a one off album on a larger label with a bigger budget and with a full professional orchestra throughout the whole album. Dimmu Borgir's album was Deathcult Armageddon (which this song is from) and Cradle of Filth's was Damnation and a Day. Both were excellent, even though real black metal fans are not supposed to like either band. Given your response to this song, you owe it to yourself to check out both albums in their entirety.
Venomous Kiss of Profane Grace by Limbonic Art is another song carried by the “orchestra” if you wanna hear something like that
Love Orchestras? Try Haggard... maybe songs like In a Pale's Moon Shadow, Awakening the Centuries, Origin of a Crystal Soul, or The Final Victory.
Eppur si muove is also a good option
@@RandallHidalgoS21allas96 indeed it is
The orchestral parts are on the studio versions too. Done by the keyboardist. Amazing live show on this occasion.
My copy of this album that I bought back in ~2004 has symphony-only versions of a couple of the songs on a bonus disc. Nice twist on trying to imagine the song without the symphony, now you can imagine the song without the band. :D
welcome to jon snow reacts ....love the channel brother keep up the good work
I've heard these guys' studio albums where the orchestral elements are done by the keyboards, so seeing this live with a full orchestra was pretty rad. I like these guys, though they're not among my favorite BM bands (like you said: "standard metal"). They're one of those bands that I wouldn't mind if anyone put on, and I'll pull out Enthrone Darkness Triumphant or Death Cult Armageddon on occasion, but that's about it. BM vocals, like death metal vocals, definitely take time to get used to. That "croak" style was heavily influenced by Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead, who really spawned the entire genre. Venom, the first black metal band that coined the term, was basically a Motorhead rip-off band with occult lyrics.
Just so you know the orchestra was necessarily added to this song for this performance. Dimmu writes all the orchestration band it is all on the original recording. There past 4 or 5 albums have all had full orchestras on the recordings.
Thanks for the shout-out it's pronounced Knight-zel in case I ever get another,keep up the awesome content
Hi, little suggestion : Skálmöld & Sinfóníuhljómsveit Íslands - Kvaðning.
yes!!!
Check out Emperor: The Loss & Curse Of Reverence (Live At Halford, Berlin / October 1997)
you should check out the version with Vortex. He was their bassist and has one of the best voices I've ever heard.
He was good. I don't know (I know these black metal members jump bands like changing socks),but did he ever sing with Borgnakar or go to that band. The clean vocals are remarkably similar
@@NIXovIllusiin Indeed, he sang in borknagar from 1998 to 2001 and again from 2010 until now. He also put out a quite great solo album. And there's his career with Arcturus as well.
While it's great live, they're missing alot since getting rid of their old bassist who did the clean vocals. There are live videos out there with their old lineup, keyboards and aforementioned bassist replacing orchestra and choir for the "original" feel of the track.
I never liked the down vocals, I believe this chorus version is much more fitting
Yeah buddy Vortex left over 10 years ago, get over it. Cant believe that ppl still talk about this like it was 2 weeks ago.
@@gerdokurt Yeah buddy, all I did was express my opinion on how this track in particular suffers without him. Can't believe people can't agree to disagree without making a scene, buddy. Buddy.
he is overrated, and this is my favorite band
How did I miss this one! Def check out the mastered one. Anything from these guys at all really
Maybe blood hunger doctrine?
Great reaction. Should check out Satyricon - Live at the Opera, too, maybe Mother North, being the classics as it is.
The orchestrations was originally composed by their old Keyboardist Mustis even all the litttle Ornaments of the flutes. Check him out playing solo on a grand piano ruclips.net/video/4s88vxHjWrs/видео.html also check them out playing gateways live ruclips.net/video/XGoak4ISCPU/видео.html
Love the reaction please react to dissection where dead angels lie
So this song was made with the symphonic elements
dimmu borgir: In Death's Embrace, Entrance, mourning palace, A Succubus in Rapture
Something similar is the track that I've suggested in the other video of band Emperor. Melechesh - Multiple truths, that is. Pls get to react to that.
Epica is an excellent symphonic metal band. Check out the live recording of Cry for the Moon!
Watch Septic Flesh's latest live video... They play live with a full orchestra.
Septic Flesh - Vampire Of Nazareth (official live video)
definitely do behemoth- o father o satan o sun
Every Horror Fan knows the Main Sequence of this Song : It's the HELLRAISER MAIN THEME !!!!Pinhead loves this Song for sure !
It was actually written to be performed by "Mustis" instead of the orchestra and "ICS Vortex" instead of the choire! I bet you the original version is as good as the orchestral version.
No septicflesh MMXIX reaction yet....
Check that show out.
Satyricon - Mother north live with orchestra.
So you should probably know, if you don't already, that all the music for this song was written by their old keyboardist Øyvind Mustaparta back in 2002.
That choir part pales against the out-worldly singing of ICS Vortex in the original song!
You should react to any song from the album abrahadabra it was written with an orchestra
They need a whole choir to replace the Vortex
Hey man i'd love if you made a reaction to Bloodborne - Suite live with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, great channel man!
Or even the Nier Automata live stuff.
Try to find Therion's concert with live orchestra The Miskolc Experience - some mix of classical pieces and their own songs
You HAVE to check out Satyricon's performance with the Norwegian Opera (if you have to do one song, do "Mother North", it's a classic, perhaps their most celebrated song)
We're all here talking about Orchestra's, BTBAM did an entire live playthrough of their concert in studio with a bunch of orchestra members
They only got the song Extremophile Elite on RUclips I think, but it's called "Future Sequence, Live at the Fidelitorium"
You should check out Therion and Haggard. They are serious symphonic metal bands that really blend the orchestra and metal very well.
You should check out Enslaved soon. They have been consistently bringing out classic albums each time. Listen to Feathers of Eolh from their latest album.
You Should check out Sojouner, Deluge. It's melodic, epic Black metal with folk infused in.
If you liked this, check out the song Gateways from the same show
Haha, post-ICS Vortex DB needs an entire choir for his part...sounds about right. :D
If you're looking for more orchestra styled metal check out Septicflesh- Persepolis
Yeah all of dimmu borgir's music is written with an orchestra taken the role generally if the lead guitar, listen to more of their stuff (studio) and you'll see
He's right about symphony not adding much to most metal bands. And Dimmu Borgir being unusually good in this regard
I actually think Metallica's S&M album orchestrated by Michael Kamen features some of the best symphonic metal(Call of Ktulu in particular) because it focused on embellishing songs that werent really made with an orchestra in mind and somehow mostly succeeds. Which is a real achievement.
yes, studio version
One live performance you should definitely check out is Vesania - Marduke's Mazemerizing
I swear the Black Clouds and solve linings album of Dream Theater was inspired by this stuff or the other way around. Don't know the timeframes.
This album is probably 5 years or so before Black Clouds
Hi! Please react to Pelageya - Ой, то не Вечер (Sochi 2014). And Пелагея - Рано-рано (Pelageya - Early-early) 2008.
It' amazing! What a voice!!
If you liked this you should check out Septicflesh - Vampire Of Nazareth (Live at Sinfonia Diabolica). Full orchestra and full choir on stage with them.
just in case you needed a reason to miss ICS Vortex and Mustis from this band, a boot to the face of what they used to produce
Oh mate, go check Rhapsody of Fire ;)
You should check to the morning palace at wacken
Good to see you reacting to Demon Burger. This is an excellent live performance, and I'm not even that big a fan of the band. Excellent video!
when they started adding all the synths fans started calling them dummy burger.
Those vocals make you cringe? We need to get you to react to a band with a vocalist that utilizes the "Pig Squeals" technique. "Despised Icon" anyone?
I've heard a band that does the squeals once before, I think it was that band with a really long acronym that starts with xavleg or something. I.....wasn't a fan of that either. :)
@@CriticalReactions if you want some pig squeals mixed with many vocal techniques in general, i recommend giving a try to Imperial Circus Dead Decadence. It's a very "homemade" band from japan but they are really... creative to say the least. I recommend Uta, Yomi Yori (...), Shinbatsu (...), etc. (really long titles but people know the first words only)
Analepsy
Very off-topic, but the color of your eyes is mesmerizing.
The album version also relies heavily on orchestral pieces. A lot of their work combines metal with more classical instruments and it brings a lot of depth to their work.
I've been into blackend anything now days
Thrash black
Deathcore blackend
I do like me skeletonwitch!
I was expecting Batman to show up halfway through
Satyricon - Phoenix
i have to push the like putton it´s Dimmu Borgir FFS
Nice, nice, but I really miss Simen and Mustis from this song too! Without them it is not complete so this song! Not even the choir can fill their gap!
How about a dive in on Chimp Spanner? Hard to pick a song/album but lets say "Under One Sky"?
I would say that metal often stands in opposition to the mundane. In the case of Dimmu Borgir evoking supernatural qualities. They are not interested in music about relationships or love.
Love is overall an extremely uncommon theme in metal music.
This John Snow knows something
This is what happens when you have classically trained pianists in black metal bands ^^
The choir section is done by just one guy in the studio version and I don't want to disrespect the choir because they did great, but the studio version sounds better
Seems it's a matter of taste - I like the choir version more. :)
Without having heard the studio version yet, I'd take a full choir over a single person doing multiple tracks simply on the basis on texture variety. Different voices will (typically) always create a richer sound than a single voice harmonizing with itself.
Critical Reactions Not in this case. ICS Vortex has an incredibly unique voice. He also fronts the super weird Arcturus which I would also recommend checking out.
The choir is incredible epic and awesome, but the original voice of Vortex is goosebumps inducing. This is a case of you need to experience it to believe it, because in theory the choir should be the more epic variant.
OMG dude you must react NIGHTWISH - POET AND THE PENDULUM - It's amazing