Composer Reacts to Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Funeralopolis
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Seeing someone hear Electric Wizard for the first time makes me wish I could do the same again
As a fun fact, when recording the album, from which this song comes, these guys were at low points in their lives, and to amplify their anger, they recorded everything while being high on any drugs they could find. That may also be the reason why they're not always in sync on this song, hahaha.
That brings a new meaning to Stoner Metal. 😅
@@CriticalReactions Not really new : D
Goddamn what a great band fr
search youtube "naff studio footage"
Electric wizard is definitely a must hear for guitarists they make you feel what you are playing and you start loosing the tendency to speed run through the song.
Nice breakdown of this classic masterpiece. Also, I believe the “grinding” sound you’re hearing is just from the Boss FZ2 Hyperfuzz pedal. It’s the most eerily textured and multi-layered sounding fuzz pedal ever. It has a unique darkness to it, and an unreal amount of gain.
Its so distorted it sounds like static buzzing overlayed onto notes
While EW didn't invent stoner rock, doom metal, or sludge, I think I can say they were the first band to popularize this kind of uber-heavy combination of those genres. Before them the closest bands to this sound were Kyuss and Sleep, but neither were quite this crushingly heavy. After them a whole slew of bands tried to copy this exact sound, with varying results. Fundamentally all of this music descends from Black Sabbath, and their odes to cannabis on songs like Sweet Leaf probably helped to inspire the "stoner" genre title... that and the fact that sound is so thick it feels like you're wading through thick smoke! Though EW have some excellent songs after this--and I do appreciate that they tried to broaden their sound with more classic rock and psychedelia influences rather than just riding this sound that made them popular--I do feel this album (Dopethrone) is their masterpiece and one of the top ~5 albums in the genre. Cranking this album through loud/dynamic speakers is quite the experience!
While not as thick-as-tar sounding as "Dopethrone", "Busse Woods" by Acid King from 1999 is almost there just with more warm fuzz sound than "Dopethrones" gnarly.
Really liked you getting into the lyrics. It often bothers me when people write them off as just another instrument. Of course you can convey meaning in music alone, but the more complex themes are mostly in the lyrics and are just supported by the rest of the performance. One of the major themes of the song is people being "dead" even though they are alive. To me that signals, that the song is not only about physical decay of the earth, but also about a societal decay where people just live day after day without actually experiencing "life". And what is a better way to fight that than music?
Thanks. This is my first week of diving into the lyrics and I'm going to continue the process. I think it enriches the analysis and makes for better connections being drawn overall. Also I love your interpretation of the lyrics!
I remember my big brother playing this tune, Sleep - Dragonaut and Kyuss - Green Machine late 90/early 00s, coming from a background with a father that play mostly Sabbath, Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy, Sir Lord Baltimore, Dust and other it was the perfect stepping stone. Since then a big fan of 70s heavy rock and stoner! :)
(sorry for my bad english, not my native tongue)
One of the catchiest songs ever.
for the wall of sound it should have been Return Trip.. I'm glad that the Wizard has hit the channel finally tho, after they were mind bogglingly left out during stoner week.. Funeralopolis is a classic track from them that you can't go wrong with tho 👌👌
For sure or I, The Witchfinder
Return Trip is so loud you can hear the glass window in the studio room shake from the bass
To me this is the 'gold standard' of stoner metal. Shit is so slowed down, any slower and we'd be in drone metal territory. It kinda ruined my listening for a while because every other stoner metal act felt derivative of Electric Wizard. As amazing as this song is, the whole 'Dopethrone' album is worth listening to in its entirety, it really swallows you into a vortex of fuzz and sludge. I think the reissued version with 'Mind Transferal' at the end is totally worth it.
It was this and Sleep's Holy Mountain for me. But to be fair about every other band in the genre sounding like a worse version of EW, I feel like the best stoner and doom is really just tribute to black sabbath anyway.
Really enjoyed this one, Loving the wall of sound week.
"I don't care
This world means nothing
life has no meaning
My feelings are numb..."
The perfect embodiment of the apathetic and nihilistic message of this song. Then the song moves more in an accelerationist direction as the tempo picks up crescendoing with "Nuclear warhead ready to strike
The world is so fucked let's end it tonight"
Then the very end is the ultimate realization with how messed up everything is including the mindset of the song itself it ends with one word "fuck"
Can also recommend Warhorse - black acid prophecy.
They are an amazing band, nice to see you digging deeper and reacting to less well known bands! I wanna give a couple band recommendations that you might want to check out, some are similar to Electric Wizard and others aren't. Here goes nothing, Goatsnake, Yakuza and Old Man Gloom to name a few. I love them all equally.
Some cool recommendations, I love Yakuza especially!
@@brazzledazzle_ They are rad!
I'm not sure if it is still there. But there is/was a video on YT playing this song with scenes of the movie "Valhalla Rising" (with Mads Mikkelsen in the main role as "One Eye")
Fits like a glove.
Thanks for reacting to one of my favorite bands!
Try some "Spirit Caravan, song Lost Sun Dance" By the legends Scott Weinrich, Dave Sherman (R.I.P.), Gary Isom
Hey Brian, I'm also Brian. Love Electric Wizard and also Funerapolis. It was a pleasure to stumble upon your channel.
I'm so happy to see you finally checking out Electric Wizard. I'm pretty sure they play their guitars through bass amps. A couple suggestions for other songs are Satanic Rites of Drugula, Barbarian, Dunwich and Dopethrone.
From what I have read the tone on this album is basically down to guitars with humbuckers being played through a Boss Hyper Fuzz and a cranked Crate solid state amp.
@@_bats_ yep, jus the guitarist is tuned to around A# standard for the recording and i think was using a early 90s epiphone sg g400
You were off to see the wizard, the Electric Wizard boss... 😊
I'd call them sludgy stoner/doom and they're great at what they do. I might, however, have enjoyed this highly enthusiastic analysis even more than the song itself...
Sludgy stoner/doom, huh? Interesting. Maybe we'll give stoner week another shot because this was interesting.
@@CriticalReactions the genere is called stoner doom - sleep being the most known band from it
Seeing this live in 2020 was insane with this grainy footage of nukes going off in the background and a blinding light show. Felt like the stage was about to take off.
Pain in the voice, hopelessness, despair. "Slave for a pittance". Extreme depression and apathy. That 1st distorted chord is the single best tone ever recorded. Drop C tuning btw.
I know this is 2 years old, but you should have listened to some Kyuss during your wall of sound journey. Gardenia and Thumb are good examples if you haven't already listened to them before. Cheers!
I'd love to hear what you think of some of their even earlier ones, like Supercoven or Chrono.naut. Jams like a mf bluesy and heavy as hell.
Devil's Bride is such a bop
I thought at the beginning he was gonna say, damn that guy hit the hell outta that bong.
My favorite topic is " the chosen few"
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You want wall of sound, these guys are a phenomenal sludge act from my hometown. Gnosis were once described by one of the judges at Wacken Metal Battle as a "wall of fuck". Check out track 2 of this particular EP (The Feast).
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Nice choice! My favorite band.
pure molastic riffage!!! thick and heavy fudge! i love the older electric wizard.
hey again, thought I'd ask again, see if you're interested in checking out "Where I end and the hemlock begins" by Thantifaxath
2:05 hit the bong harmony
2:16 breathe out counterpoint.
this is one of the shortlist heaviest albums of all time. nasty af. good vid!
Love Electric Wizard. I believe the guitar was tuned to C or Bb. Jus uses Gibson SG's.
They also have JCM 800's and Boss Hyper-Fuzz pedal's
on dopethrone jus is tuned around A# but plays is live in B standard, i believe it was also recorded with a epiphone g400 from the early 90's run through a boss fz2 for the fuzz.
Epiphone sg
There is an importance of the tempo and rythm on the whole album. Thier critically aclaimed albums Come my Fanatics and this album have a deeper story hidden inside thier lyrics. Thier second studio album Come my fanatics is lirically and thematically about a drug infused escape into the cosmos from the impeding doom of the world caused by man made climate change (basically) and this third studio album is about the return and building of a weed infused kingdom on the wrecked planet. This song in particular being an basically an entry to the album recalls the destruction of earth. The slow moving tempo and beat instills the feeling of earth slowly being destroyed by us as the listener prepares to leave, then just before the tempo change the pich goes higher to emphisise the impending and unstopable doom, and the tipping point where there is no hope for humanity left and the world is engulfed in a nuclear war caused by the humanitys brink of extinction. At this point thematically the listener is traveling out as the world is being bombarded and turned to dust. I think lyrics and theme play i big role in this song and kind of music and they need to be understood at a deeper level to appreciate the feel and rythm of the music. It may be that EW may just not know when to stop a segment and they drag them lethargicly on, but they do sure know how to tie it into the deeper meaning of the song.
for wall of sound should’ve done Dead Cowboy by Lightning Bolt
One of my all time favorite bands I was watching other reacts to them and it was just boring because they basically just said if they liked it or not. Thankful that I stumbled on to this. If you are interested I'd love for you to do a react to Dysopia-the hands that mold. Dystopia has some very unique chord progressions and is one of a kind I'd be interested in what you think. Thanks!
And I absolutely love what you said about the song in the middle and how the vocals linger and don't dissipate and just want to continue to exist, that is really cool because this song is about the distuction of the planet and human complacency and that is reminiscent of the lyrics. Haha wrote this before you said you read the lyrics.
Heil the fucking wizard man
i like the recommendations, type o and porcupine tree 9:40 . I like electric wizard - return trip and also the rest of the album dopethrone
I like this almost as much as toast 👌This is a pretty classic album...
Really surprised by your reaction to this one! I would have thought your aversion to repetition would've done a number on your enjoyment of this track, but you're right about the little bits of sonic changes that keep getting introduced adding a lot to the bleak journey the song takes you on. I really think a lot of the sonic interactions you're talking about come from two main sources: the band being somewhat sloppy when it comes to being in time with one another (and for the guitar overdubs), and the huge amount of tonal interference/destruction/interaction that comes from the Boss Hyper Fuzz guitar pedal played at extreme volume through a crappy solid state guitar amp, and the way it interacts with the distortion put on the vocals. Those strange sounds at the end sound to me like they just put the entire band mix through a guitar phaser pedal.
You're spot on with the source of the tiny modifications. Dimiko mentioned that the band were high when recording this and that that might have played into and exacerbated the sloppy playing. And if nothing else, that sloppiness keeps things fresh 😅
I think Jus used the original 5150 with the FZ-2.
A touch of Captain Beefheart there (Trout Mask Replica era). Not a bad thing. Funny to hear something that's modern by comparison.
I fuckin envy this moment
His mind was blown 😂😆😂
"electric wizard"
at least the name sounds amazing
Just good how you break down the song.
Listen MADAME FRANKENSTEIN - DOOM album
First time a nerd hears doom.
FATTEST Riff ever written. Change my mind
Sun has turned to black.
EW casual listener here. Nice analysis.
Man pleeease react to the chosen few by electronic wizard!!!!! 🙏🏻
Thanks for your work, your video help me to see some aspects of the song from the different angles. Favorite song of my favorite band.
Like, subscribe, waiting for some more classic WOS-examples from extreme metal.
The fact this doesn’t go straight into weird tales is painful, MORE EW!!!!!