Just listened to the full album and I have to say Matt.. as a long time Trivium fan from the Ember/Ascendancy days I genuinely think this is the most amazing thing you have made in your life time. The artistic choices that blended together for this album in all its haunting, gothic, melancholic, powerful and beautiful destructive nature is such a welcome breath of fresh air to metal. Thank you so much for this masterpiece Matt and anyone that helped bring this to life!
I don't care what anyone says about this. It's literally the best thing I've ever heard from Heafy and beyond what I'd expected. I'm so much happier he made this his own thing rather than trying to pander to black metal purists. It won't get as big as Trivium, but I don't think it should either. This is art in the medium of music and I wish more and more musicians would branch out like this and am so happy Matt decided to. Also! I love that he chose a Japanese theme rather than going with something Scandinavian. It's just really unique shit and I can't stop watching this lol
@@anthonywest5992 I don't understand why black metal even needed to enter the conversation. Nothing about Trivium or this new thing is black metal. What am I missing here?
@@JasonEllingsworth because black metal is what the project started off intentions of being, but that changed over the ten years period. That’s what he was saying about it and that’s how I took it, but who knows, maybe I’m wrong about something
Really like this style of (clean) singing from Matt. Was totally unexpected when I first heard it on Nergals "Me and that man" project ("You will be mine", for anyone interested) and if I hadn't read it I would have never guessed it. Probably my favourite song so far from this record (have not listened to the full record, only the singles so far).
Yo... hasn't Matt Heavy been doing this for a long time with Trivium and whatnot? Will that man's brain slow down the creative juices? This is just wow!!! Way to fight and claw your way to the top of Mt. Metal sir!!!! Blessed to listen to your work for years and many more to come!!!!!
I just listened to this just because it was in my feed and it seemed like a cool name for a band. I listened to the song and it blew me away. I didn't even know it was Matthew from Trivium until after I finished looking at the video. I've never been a fan of Trivium, but I'm a fan of Ibaraki. Nice going Matthew! I have a new found respect for you as a song writer.
i think these cleans are good still if only he would have kept to singing only and had someone else cover the screaming if it was even a necessary addition
Once again, Sir Matt Heafy outdid himself. The entire record is a work of love, but this video specifically is on point. Great aesthetics, visuals... Reminded me a lot of those Samurai stories and movies. Thank you Matt for reminding us not to be ashamed of our culture (whatever it is) and teaching us how to properly embrace it. Such a solid start to IBARAKI and a strong AOTY candidacy. All I have to say regarding the album is... Arigato gozaimasu. Thank you for once again redefining the boundaries of Metal. You nailed it!!
People say this sounds like Trivium and I don't see that at all lol. This is something different entirely. It just so happens to feature the front man of Trivium.
Music truly touches my soul when it makes me cry. I don't feel sad, just can't handle the flow of emotions that music gives me. I have tears in my eyes everytime I listen to this. This is incredible, thank you.
Solid album! Musically creative, and heavy! This project is a fantastic response to how toxic the black metal community is and metal elitism as a whole. Matt wanted to do this album for more than a decade but didn’t due to the potential backlash from the elitists. You can tell just by listening to this album that he was intent on writing this record. Brilliant post black metal and a fascinating evolution for metal. Much love, Matt!
Heafy is a genius and this album kicks all the asses. Absolute masterpiece, the kind of music that makes me want to create something when I listen to it.
Third track I've binged in a row (after the Nergal and Gerard way ones) I think this is a cd for the car .... Damn fine Mr Heafy . Damn fine sir . Shades of Opeth with the cleans .
Sounds like a perfect mix of Matt Heafy’s influences, you can hear so much Emperor, In Flames, and even a slight bit of Heaven Shall Burn in this ibaraki project
I feel like if Opeth, In Flames, and Dillinger Escape Plan we're in a 3 way civil union and adopted, this is the child they would have chosen. Really well done Matt. I don't know what to call this new genre you have created, so I'll just call it Samuraicore lol. Awesome! I'm really digging this, I've listened to it 4 times in a row now. When is the tour? Bro, please tell me you're gonna take this Monster on tour! Please!
I bloody love Matt Heafy and everything he does. Was looking forward to seeing the guys in singapore with slipknot but then covid happened. Great homage to your ancestry with the album , overall nice bloke Anata wa subarashīdesu
I live in Ibaraki Prefecture. It is a very scary countryside demon lawless prefecture. Eat natto, a prefectural food. The natto devil attacks you every night.
The album is good, but definitely not what I had imagined when I first heard he was doing a black metal album with Ihsahn. Sounds very much like a Trivium album Matt got to experiment on a bit more than normal
Based on this song anyway I wouldn't really call it black metal, yeah. Instrumentally its like experimental black metal. But the vocals are basically metalcore. Its fine though, because the music is pretty damn good.
As someone who's been into metal since I was a teenager I have always wanted to be more into the extreme parts of metal ive listened to a bunch but never really was as into it as I wanted to be but ever since trivium became my favorite metal band I've grown to love Matt's screams so much that it makes me enjoy heavier stuff a bit more and this album is definitely a great Segway into the more extreme side Ive been trying to get into for so long definitely gonna listen to this whole album a shit ton and hope he makes more of this in the future
That transition and calm verse has such strong "Opeth - Damnation" vibes. Amazing, well done!
Exactly what I was thinking
I think I'm even hearing a bit of a Morningrise vibe when Paolo comes in too!
felt the same here
@@Limulouse Enjoy! Anything Opeth is great :D
Completely ripped off opeth on the opening, even down to how the vocals are done, pathetic. Go return to trash trivium
Is easy to recognize the Ihsahn' spirit in all structures. He is a genius of production. Matt make the best decision.
This album is fantastic. Hope we get a video for Ibaraki-Dōji
Just listened to the full album and I have to say Matt.. as a long time Trivium fan from the Ember/Ascendancy days I genuinely think this is the most amazing thing you have made in your life time.
The artistic choices that blended together for this album in all its haunting, gothic, melancholic, powerful and beautiful destructive nature is such a welcome breath of fresh air to metal.
Thank you so much for this masterpiece Matt and anyone that helped bring this to life!
I don't care what anyone says about this. It's literally the best thing I've ever heard from Heafy and beyond what I'd expected. I'm so much happier he made this his own thing rather than trying to pander to black metal purists. It won't get as big as Trivium, but I don't think it should either. This is art in the medium of music and I wish more and more musicians would branch out like this and am so happy Matt decided to.
Also! I love that he chose a Japanese theme rather than going with something Scandinavian. It's just really unique shit and I can't stop watching this lol
Not Black Metal
@@undisputedattitude2902 “I’m so much happier he made this his own thing rather than trying to pander to black metal purists”
You should try also a great band named Iden Gakusha they have kinda the same vibe
@@anthonywest5992 I don't understand why black metal even needed to enter the conversation. Nothing about Trivium or this new thing is black metal. What am I missing here?
@@JasonEllingsworth because black metal is what the project started off intentions of being, but that changed over the ten years period. That’s what he was saying about it and that’s how I took it, but who knows, maybe I’m wrong about something
Really like this style of (clean) singing from Matt. Was totally unexpected when I first heard it on Nergals "Me and that man" project ("You will be mine", for anyone interested) and if I hadn't read it I would have never guessed it. Probably my favourite song so far from this record (have not listened to the full record, only the singles so far).
Absolute banger. The metal world needs more bands like Ibaraki. Well done!!
Matt, once again you're proving how creative and skillful you are.
This is one of your best records to date, no doubt.
Yo... hasn't Matt Heavy been doing this for a long time with Trivium and whatnot? Will that man's brain slow down the creative juices? This is just wow!!! Way to fight and claw your way to the top of Mt. Metal sir!!!! Blessed to listen to your work for years and many more to come!!!!!
this is hands down the best album and chorus matt has ever done
ISOLATION
This album makes me want to become a samurai. Foresee myself listening to this album on repeat for God knows how long. Great album!
Listen Ikigai from Abiotic 👌
Or Winds.of Plague .
Decimate the Weak
Got the cover Samurai as tattoo on sleeve
I just listened to this just because it was in my feed and it seemed like a cool name for a band. I listened to the song and it blew me away. I didn't even know it was Matthew from Trivium until after I finished looking at the video. I've never been a fan of Trivium, but I'm a fan of Ibaraki. Nice going Matthew! I have a new found respect for you as a song writer.
Pure Art!! WTF it is getting harder and harder to listen to bands or artists trying to create something different in music, this is EPIC!!
Any Band with an Album entitled RASHOMON deserves utter respect.
I didn’t know that the Feudal era had bangers! 10/10 dudes
Loved so much this album. Just amazing
Thank you Yoda
@@LouisWinthorpe622😂😂😂
finally the most anticipated sequel to 2008's Shogun is here 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Literally nothing like Shogun 😂
You been smoking crack dude?
@@nemesis8626 bro ikr, thank god it doesn’t suck 😂
A shogun is not a ninja.
Matt has Japanese heritage so it be a samurai.
I'm impressed how well shamisen and koto fits the mix, well done!
wow. just wow
This song sounds just like Opeth in their prime
Matt just can't stop outdoing himself
This album is a true masterpiece
wtf man matt sounds like a screaming 12 year old kid here
@@wesleygeofferson5171 it's his live technique imagine if he finished the whole album back in 2011 when he started writing
@@tfwnoyandere it's a studio recording, why do the live technique here? why cant he just admit that he cant sing or scream
i think these cleans are good still if only he would have kept to singing only and had someone else cover the screaming if it was even a necessary addition
@@tfwnoyandere you should see his twitcvh streams, it's even worse haha he says he does "nasal" screams like wtf just stop singing
Oh wow, Heafy has been watching a lot of Kurosawa films. I love it! xD
The album is a masterpiece, this and Trivium's latest album, the music Matt is creating right now is career defining 🔥🔥🔥
I am blown away by this. You can hear the work in this. It has paid off, because it is excellent! The cleans are so satisfying.
Once again, Sir Matt Heafy outdid himself. The entire record is a work of love, but this video specifically is on point. Great aesthetics, visuals... Reminded me a lot of those Samurai stories and movies.
Thank you Matt for reminding us not to be ashamed of our culture (whatever it is) and teaching us how to properly embrace it. Such a solid start to IBARAKI and a strong AOTY candidacy. All I have to say regarding the album is... Arigato gozaimasu. Thank you for once again redefining the boundaries of Metal. You nailed it!!
Outstanding album!
Sehr schön ist das wenn jemand immer zurück zum seinem Wurzeln und nicht vergessen von wo kommt er,
This touches me in so many ways! Loving the song, loving the album! What a great piece of art!
Well done, love the evolution of black metal you have done here
People say this sounds like Trivium and I don't see that at all lol. This is something different entirely. It just so happens to feature the front man of Trivium.
I seriously can't put into words how much I love this album! It's a masterpiece! If you go on tour, please come to Mexico!
I just love Matthews clean singing. Way more than the typical metal yelling/ growling vocals. The clean vocals are just so much more nuanced.
I'm totally agree! I love him clean vocal! it's so perfect!
Isnt that Ihsahn tho :D
@@jaccob73 no, Ihsahn does the guitar sections along with Matt (I think)
this is the best Matt's clean era
those guys just went full Blackwater Park and i automatically love this song, this band, everything
You are hands down my favourite musician
Welcome to a new age for metal!!! Awesome!!!
Music truly touches my soul when it makes me cry. I don't feel sad, just can't handle the flow of emotions that music gives me. I have tears in my eyes everytime I listen to this.
This is incredible, thank you.
KAGUTSUCHI is FIRE GOD🇯🇵
ISOLATION FROM THE MANIPULATION
This part is catchy AF
The whole album is a masterpiece
This album gives me ghost of tsushima vibes, its so epic
That game is a masterpiece, and this is the perfect soundtrack for it.
In another universe Jin Sakai is The Ghost Of Trivium!
@@bensunnyisaac For me Ghost Of Tsushima is still the best game on Playstation so far and For the second place is Spiderman Insomniac.
@@ZERO-X79 you need to play Bloodborne.
@@bensunnyisaac You should try Sekiro
I love those features of Japan!
Si a todo lo que haga Matt Heafy tremendo señor
Great🔥Love the aesthetics🔥🔥
This is the best song I've ever heard in years. It's a fucking masterpiece
Solid album! Musically creative, and heavy! This project is a fantastic response to how toxic the black metal community is and metal elitism as a whole. Matt wanted to do this album for more than a decade but didn’t due to the potential backlash from the elitists. You can tell just by listening to this album that he was intent on writing this record. Brilliant post black metal and a fascinating evolution for metal. Much love, Matt!
Powerful sound!
Wow!!! Huge love from Australia cheers
great song, lyrics and video
Took this album for me to finally wake up 👁️
I didn’t think I would like this song but this song sounds good as hell!!!! I have never heard of this band before either?!?!?!????
New solo project by Matthew Heafy of Trivium.
Kind of solo, It’s Matt Heafy + Ishahn of emperor on production and writing
I will always be a fan of matt heafy.
Heafy is a genius and this album kicks all the asses. Absolute masterpiece, the kind of music that makes me want to create something when I listen to it.
I love it. Great mix of cool stuff. Ihsahn makes everything he touches into gold and Matt Heafy is clearly in his prime 🤘
Third track I've binged in a row (after the Nergal and Gerard way ones) I think this is a cd for the car .... Damn fine Mr Heafy . Damn fine sir . Shades of Opeth with the cleans .
4:21 reminds me of sylosis from the edge of the earth alot, really beautiful!
Who performs the drums for this? They sound very Alex Bent-ish (which is perhaps the greatest compliment possible for a drum track)
is Alex himself, beast of a drummer
@@Lv.gtr.exe99 nice!. Seems I would recognize his work anywhere xD
@@ravciozo2137 Alex is a brutal drummer, but also fan of a lot of chill genres like jazz and groove, you can hear in a lot of trivium and ibaraki
@@thebullet437 I didn't know it, but nice to hear it. Just as Syn Gates brings some gypsy jazz inspiration to A7X :D
The clean section brought me back to the Gothenberg melodeath metal. Very In Flames feel. I really like this track!
Sounds like a perfect mix of Matt Heafy’s influences, you can hear so much Emperor, In Flames, and even a slight bit of Heaven Shall Burn in this ibaraki project
Best song of the album by far
Certified Gold!!!!!
Very cool stuff! I get a Swano Moontower vibe near the end sections.
Shogun: "This isn't even my final form"
Please let this not be just a project! It's awseome and special.
Some Heaven In Her Arms vibes are with this. I like!
Oooo underrated band!
there are no words for this album. i am just wondering... 👍👍
That's cool!
Эталонный блэк🤙еще бы брейкдаунов для тяжести ухх!💪
Perfection!🤟
In another universe Jin Sakai is The Ghost Of Trivium!
so good
I feel like if Opeth, In Flames, and Dillinger Escape Plan we're in a 3 way civil union and adopted, this is the child they would have chosen. Really well done Matt. I don't know what to call this new genre you have created, so I'll just call it Samuraicore lol. Awesome! I'm really digging this, I've listened to it 4 times in a row now. When is the tour? Bro, please tell me you're gonna take this Monster on tour! Please!
Samurai Black Metal with a damask Blade. 666 X 🤟. Thanx for this Album
Not black metal at all
@@hugostiglitz5798 Nuclear Blast itself classifies the Band as #BlackMetal,man.Wake up
@@leonardomattarmonteiro2824 LOL because they think it is, then it is? Please...anyone who knows black metal knows this is not black metal
I fucking love this song
I bloody love Matt Heafy and everything he does. Was looking forward to seeing the guys in singapore with slipknot but then covid happened. Great homage to your ancestry with the album , overall nice bloke Anata wa subarashīdesu
wow
гарно💙✨
Sick song, love it
I live in Ibaraki Prefecture.
It is a very scary countryside demon lawless prefecture.
Eat natto, a prefectural food.
The natto devil attacks you every night.
Beautifil
This song is stuck in my head, which is quite an achievement, considering its complexity and diversity.
The album is good, but definitely not what I had imagined when I first heard he was doing a black metal album with Ihsahn. Sounds very much like a Trivium album Matt got to experiment on a bit more than normal
Based on this song anyway I wouldn't really call it black metal, yeah. Instrumentally its like experimental black metal. But the vocals are basically metalcore. Its fine though, because the music is pretty damn good.
No way like Trivium....more technical...much better
@@nickreid5939 it does sound like trivium, it literally is trivium, just with different name
As someone who's been into metal since I was a teenager I have always wanted to be more into the extreme parts of metal ive listened to a bunch but never really was as into it as I wanted to be but ever since trivium became my favorite metal band I've grown to love Matt's screams so much that it makes me enjoy heavier stuff a bit more and this album is definitely a great Segway into the more extreme side Ive been trying to get into for so long definitely gonna listen to this whole album a shit ton and hope he makes more of this in the future
Great song. Need to listen to the full album. 😁
Immensely proud and happy for Matt. This album fucking rips.
This album is a masterpiece.
Great song.
Amazing , perfec song .
brilliant stuff
Very nice im loving this
Parece um Trivium diferente ...
Faço de suas palavras, as minhas.
Awesome Project Matt
woow
WAKE UP SAMURAI. WE HAVE A CITY TO BURN!
Oh man...that little diddly riff with the hammer-ons and pull-offs...you know the one. Reminds me of old-school Opeth. Fucking bravo, Heaf and Co.!
Trivium + Dream Theater + Opeth + Japan
Really great!
Will we ever get an Ibaraki live show on the west coast!!??
Dope
IBARAKI!
かっけぇぇぇ！！
Simplemente Amazing
CAN I LIKE IT ... MORE !!!!!
hes so cool
Wooooah!