I saw an interview where these guys credited psychedelics to their "other-worldly" lyrics. The few lyrics in this song are definitely from that state of mind! And the jazz, jesus christ... These guys are brilliant
+GodlySkunk jazz = metal. or at least tech shit. listen to a kenny G song and imagine that shit as electric guitars. hell, imagine a mozart song with electric gutiars and a fucking incredible percussionist
When I bought this record I said three things to myself after the first listen through: 1) This band is going to be the next big thing in prog/tech death. 2) This label is gonna be fucking huge. 3) I hope The Faceless's next record expands on the sound of this song . Someone give me an A&R job plz lol
VOM, and Osiris are Tech Deathcore bands. ATB is VERY hard to describe. They mix so much with their sound. From Melodic Death Metal, to Melodic metalcore, to Tech Deathcore, to Prog Metal. ALL the bands use the djent tone/tune. Djent is not a genre, its just a style of prog metal that directly feeds from it.
Got here by youtube putting me here. Now that's a nice discovery. Great song, executed by great musicians. Pretty good taste and ellegance on that jazzy bass solo. Wow, really great job!
this song has a bit of a dream theatre vibe i find :D every song by this band is so killer and the new album is beyond fantastic! aliens are diggin it too!
Okay, I know I'm not fun at parties, but here I am 12 years later, dissing my favorite band of all time : 3:47 : come on, what kind of transition is that, we can hear the cut and now you HAVE to re-record it !
Yes I do. I've always said Meshuggah and Gojira are they're in their own genre. Djent is just a tone of prog metal. Many tech death bands are starting to use it. Meshuggah is considered very avant-garde mixing thrash/groove and death metal in a low tuned prog style as well as usually math riffs. Gojira is the same way, except they're more groove and don't use djent toned riffs HOWEVER they 're still very technical and mix a style of groove, death, and prog as well as math metal.
@mattbarnes10 Actually, it's the other way around. The Faceless's "Akeldama" was released on 2006, whereas Haste The Day's "Pressure The Hinges," the album containing the song of the same name, was released on 2007. It should not matter at all, anyways.
A lot of people don't understand djent, trust me. I know what you're thinking of when you mean tech/prog notes being played. What djent does is it low tunes and distorts that sound but djent is NOT a genre because it feeds directly from prog metal. The best Djent bands I've heard are Born of Orsis, After the Bural, Veil of Maya, Meshuggah, Periphery, Sikth, and Animals as Leaders but i'm always exploring the genre because I love the sound.
they are all good just different vibes autotheism to me sounds more darker then the alkadema or planetary duality each album has its own sounds which lots of bands lack when writing new music.
Zknight , I actually agree with you whole heartedly about the vid game sound tracks. There are several riffs in this that are remnicient or mirror those moments. Thanks man.
Gojira and Meshuggah are tech death but are also their own genre. Both bands are so different and so complex and avant-garde blending so many things. I always put Meshuggah and Gojira in the "other/unknown".
awesome to see SumerianRecords upload some old The Faceless tunes, epic band indeed, well almost all of SumerianRecords' bands are awesome especially Born Of Osiris and their fucking masterpiece album "The Discovery" \M/
Hit the nail on the head with all three points there. Sumerian Records is doing an outstanding job with their labels. The Faceless, Born Of Osiris, Veil Of Maya, After The Burial, Betraying The Martyrs etc will all be fucking huge within time.
They opened with this song when they opened for Meshuggah/Cynic tour. It was a show they offered us to Open before them... sadly didn’t have a full band together to make it. I ended up attending the show as a fan. I wore my Holdsworth shirt feeling like a worthy nerd in the moshpit haha. Anomalous never got its day. Friggin love this song tho
Yes they are the same. Its a common misconception to think they're different. Its all in the riffs. The genre is Technical Death Metal NOT Prog Death Metal. Technical Death Metal/Prog Death Metal is literally Prog Metal + Death Metal
Tech and prog ain't the same. Opeth's prog death but they aren't technical. There can be also technical death with no prog compositions, however most tech death compositions are progressive indeed.
The only huge difference I see between Akeldama and the other The Faceless albums is a slight change in tuning, less blast beats, and more money sunk into post-production. The overall instrumental proficiency and amazing writing ability of Michael Keene hasn't changed at all. Also, now that Demon Carcass is back, I expect the same amazing vocals in their next masterpiece.
I just don't know if any of them are Tech Death other than The Faceless & Born Of Osiris. Maybe im wrong but ive always loved Technical Death but those guys id figure were more Progressive. Not that it matters..
@8JobForAMexican8 The Faceless, Veil Of Maya, and Born Of Osiris are touring in Europe in a few days. They need to bring it here to America!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No no no no no. its not an open chug. its a Tune/Tone that literally DIRECTLY FEEDS from Prog Metal. Meshuggah coined it, and everyone knows it, its just of their sound. Its not that it "works well for 'core' music" its just the style of prog just mixes well. it goes well with Math Metal/Mathcore, Groove Metal, Tech Death, Deathcore, sometimes Post-hardcore, Melodic Metalcore, etc. Djent is not a matter of the tune/tone, but HOW you use it. /watch?v=nfFSi_pTp7Y
@munruthel1 Yeah, Substructure. There are too many already "old-fashioned" deathcore bands touring today. I wanna see Substructures live instead.:3 I love these new metal bands. (not nu metal lol)
What are you talking about, the djent technique was crafted by meshuggah, and its not even anything that special, its just an open note chugging, that's not progressive at all, it was just a technique implemented in his sound. That's why it works with 'core' music , metalcore has a lot of open chugging, its just a bunch of open note chugging, Meshuggah didn't over used the sounded, just invented it, he didn't even coin the term, no due, its prog death.
Rings of Saturn isn't really that good. They're like "LOOK HOW FAST WE CAN PLAY!" But aren't really that technical. Also I'd add Meshuggah to that list.
"Volumes isn't tech at all," They're, actually. Remember, Tech Death is the same as prog death metal(along with other genres of course). 'volumes tech deathcore" Deathcore, at its core is Death Metal. Death Metal + Prog Metal = Technical Death Metal. Tech Deathcore is a term people say for Tech Death + Deathcore "progressive metalcore" Volumes also is a Prog Metal, and Metalcore band. "djent is a style of metalcore with jaz and progressive based melodies" No its not(see commment 2)
Djent is NOT a genre because it DIRECTLY FEEDS from PROG METAL. Literally you can't play the tuned/tone STYLE of DJENT without DIRECTLY FEEDING from PROG METAL. Its not seperated what so ever. Just a style of tuning/toning prog metal. Its a style, not a genre. Volumes is a Tech Deathcore, some would say metalcore, groove metal, and prog metal band and slightly mathy.
Although I do agree that Djent was just a tone at first, it has actually become a genre because there is actually a style of playing it that separates it from the rest of the core/metal stuff. And it's not just tech bands. Listen to Volumes; they're considered djent but aren't very technical.
They are only 20 years old when wrote this album. Such a prodigy
I absolutely love that they made the instrumental track the longest song on the album.
I saw an interview where these guys credited psychedelics to their "other-worldly" lyrics. The few lyrics in this song are definitely from that state of mind! And the jazz, jesus christ... These guys are brilliant
+GodlySkunk This totally reminds me of shrooms.
internetwarrior666 dmt
You can absolutely hear jazz influence in all of their songs. Whether it's the drums or guitars. That's what I love about the tech death genre
+GodlySkunk jazz = metal. or at least tech shit. listen to a kenny G song and imagine that shit as electric guitars. hell, imagine a mozart song with electric gutiars and a fucking incredible percussionist
+biggestfatkid
AJ Minette is a great metal guitarist, big classical sound/background.
Michael comes from a family of jazz musicians dude thats why
When I bought this record I said three things to myself after the first listen through:
1) This band is going to be the next big thing in prog/tech death.
2) This label is gonna be fucking huge.
3) I hope The Faceless's next record expands on the sound of this song .
Someone give me an A&R job plz lol
yeah but did you buy yourself a big sack of bitcoin right after you made this comment?
@@gizka6816 This guy was a prophet
now is pop rock
@@javierdariogervasoni794 How is the Faceless pop rock lol
@@javierdariogervasoni794 clean vocals in no way make them pop rock
VOM, and Osiris are Tech Deathcore bands. ATB is VERY hard to describe. They mix so much with their sound. From Melodic Death Metal, to Melodic metalcore, to Tech Deathcore, to Prog Metal. ALL the bands use the djent tone/tune. Djent is not a genre, its just a style of prog metal that directly feeds from it.
hands down One of the best recent bands
+ThePainkiller9995 This album is 10 years old. Definitely not recent. I agree with you on one of the best though, these guys are crazy good.
10 years is recent in the history of music tho
Absolutely agree!! \m/
*recently*
Recent OMEGALUL
Putting the "daaamn" into "Akeldama" since 2006...
krisko2k uewwwwwwwwee
Das some beautiful Cynic worship right thur
Got here by youtube putting me here. Now that's a nice discovery. Great song, executed by great musicians. Pretty good taste and ellegance on that jazzy bass solo. Wow, really great job!
this song has a bit of a dream theatre vibe i find :D every song by this band is so killer and the new album is beyond fantastic! aliens are diggin it too!
2006...this band changed my fucking life...now im actually good enough to play this shit legit..need to learn it...time to start playing in c
no kidding. this blows my mind and ive been listening to metal for 35 yrs
Okay, I know I'm not fun at parties, but here I am 12 years later, dissing my favorite band of all time :
3:47 : come on, what kind of transition is that, we can hear the cut and now you HAVE to re-record it !
LMAO
Yes I do. I've always said Meshuggah and Gojira are they're in their own genre. Djent is just a tone of prog metal. Many tech death bands are starting to use it. Meshuggah is considered very avant-garde mixing thrash/groove and death metal in a low tuned prog style as well as usually math riffs. Gojira is the same way, except they're more groove and don't use djent toned riffs HOWEVER they 're still very technical and mix a style of groove, death, and prog as well as math metal.
This song always reminded me of the Phantasy Star soundtracks.
Yo one of my favorite games
I’ve never related so much to a comment. This song is incredibly nostalgic to me for that exact reason.
Yup,
Definitely has a JRPG vibe to it.
This song projects my past onto a canvas that is just beyond my grasp.
0:53 Reminds me of Startcraft for some reason
+Paul Anstey Pretty sure the "terran 3" track from the first starcraft has a very similar part :D
Evan Pipta Yeah that's it! Oh the memories. So good. Thanks!
yup
Actually it reminds more of something from Dream Theater
Akeldama is the best Faceless album so far. Even though it's the most deathcorish at times too. Lol.
The Faceless, Veil Of Maya, Born of Osiris, and After The Burial are gonna be the next big 4 of tech death I feel it.
that's Michael Keene, the guitarist. all the clean vocals in other songs is him.
And they did! They are one of the best technical death metal bands I've ever heard.
Forgot how good this is.
@mattbarnes10
Actually, it's the other way around. The Faceless's "Akeldama" was released on 2006, whereas Haste The Day's "Pressure The Hinges," the album containing the song of the same name, was released on 2007. It should not matter at all, anyways.
A lot of people don't understand djent, trust me. I know what you're thinking of when you mean tech/prog notes being played. What djent does is it low tunes and distorts that sound but djent is NOT a genre because it feeds directly from prog metal. The best Djent bands I've heard are
Born of Orsis, After the Bural, Veil of Maya, Meshuggah, Periphery, Sikth, and Animals as Leaders but i'm always exploring the genre because I love the sound.
This isn't Djent, it's Technical Death Metal/Deathcore
@UnderAGlassMetropolis i remember the comment but i forgot what it was in reference to, RUclips broke the comment but you are correct
they are all good just different vibes autotheism to me sounds more darker then the alkadema or planetary duality each album has its own sounds which lots of bands lack when writing new music.
Zknight , I actually agree with you whole heartedly about the vid game sound tracks. There are several riffs in this that are remnicient or mirror those moments. Thanks man.
2 people apparently don't like it when existence and nonexistence coagulate.
i will always love this song
the beginning seems very similar to mind's mirrors by meshuggah
Gojira and Meshuggah are tech death but are also their own genre. Both bands are so different and so complex and avant-garde blending so many things. I always put Meshuggah and Gojira in the "other/unknown".
3:59 is just...Sighhhh...So damn pleasing to the ear
Soon... soon there will be metal-sub-sub-sub-sub-sub genres aswell.. just let people argue about it and they will discover more subgenres.
awesome to see SumerianRecords upload some old The Faceless tunes, epic band indeed, well almost all of SumerianRecords' bands are awesome especially Born Of Osiris and their fucking masterpiece album "The Discovery" \M/
Hit the nail on the head with all three points there. Sumerian Records is doing an outstanding job with their labels. The Faceless, Born Of Osiris, Veil Of Maya, After The Burial, Betraying The Martyrs etc will all be fucking huge within time.
Djent is a tuning/tone style of Prog Metal that DIRECTLY FEEDS from Prog Metal. Many say Meshuggah conied it and Meshuggah, is not a metalcore band.
they could easily make music for a game, and sometimes their music makes me think of batman beyond
King Crimson vibes on this song! ❤️
Progres+ Technical
Born of Osiris is Tech deathcore ,ATB is Tech Metalcore and VOM are Djent sometimes.
They opened with this song when they opened for Meshuggah/Cynic tour. It was a show they offered us to Open before them... sadly didn’t have a full band together to make it. I ended up attending the show as a fan. I wore my Holdsworth shirt feeling like a worthy nerd in the moshpit haha. Anomalous never got its day. Friggin love this song tho
2:12 "vocoder.exe error*
4:00 best part
Magical solo
muy interesante, estoy seguro que las nuevas bandas de djent están influenciadas entre otros por este sonido
Yes they are the same. Its a common misconception to think they're different. Its all in the riffs. The genre is Technical Death Metal NOT Prog Death Metal. Technical Death Metal/Prog Death Metal is literally Prog Metal + Death Metal
I heard this album after Planetary Duality and I like it more. Haven't heard Autotheism yet, but people say it's not as good as the previous two.
I love these Sumerian Records youtube vids! :3 so fair
Genius lyrics.
Im pretty sure these pictures of these guy's albums is a hint hint for a TOUR???
This sounds like it's straight off of Focus. God damn.
"Robotic voice" meaning *vocoder lol
naahh Nick Pierce played it. "Nick Pierce (track: 7)", he did 'Horizons of Chaos I: Oracle of the Onslaught'. :) Check the page again.
thanks for teaching me all of this!!11!
No. Its not, if you tell yourself it is, then fine.
Tuesday, August 3, 2021 1:10pm PST, Listening to Akeldama, Planetary Duality, Autotheism, In Becoming A Ghost EVERYDAY!! ANYONE ELSE?!
Holy fuck. I love this song so much.
Amazing !
This reminds me of Dream Theater sooo hard like it's not even funy
The un-merry-go-round/Allan Holdsworth
No, I'm Patrick.
Yes they are lmao. The Faceless just doesn't use djent toned riffs.
2019 Baby 🙌
Does anyone know where the song "triumph" is from?
As blood runs black
what
As blood runs black has a song called triumph
Oh lol I have a song by the faceless called triumph and I can't figure out where it's from
*****
it's not from any of their 3 albums
i have them all and none of them have the song triumph on
Tech and prog ain't the same. Opeth's prog death but they aren't technical. There can be also technical death with no prog compositions, however most tech death compositions are progressive indeed.
this is an interesting take. the "tech" in tech death definitely denotes a particular time period and sound
why can't they make metal like this anymore? Akeldama style, not Planetary Duality.
Chris Leos, no Evan Brewer, listen to Entheos its excellent.
Crackofthewhip Entheos is great. But I dig me some harmonic metal. Entheos has some of that but doesnt really completely do it for me.
Chris Leos by all means, grace us with your genius
Chris Leos i don't know. You do it.
The only huge difference I see between Akeldama and the other The Faceless albums is a slight change in tuning, less blast beats, and more money sunk into post-production. The overall instrumental proficiency and amazing writing ability of Michael Keene hasn't changed at all. Also, now that Demon Carcass is back, I expect the same amazing vocals in their next masterpiece.
The drums sound different on this song
So what is this? Prog Metal? Liked it quite a bit.
I just don't know if any of them are Tech Death other than The Faceless & Born Of Osiris. Maybe im wrong but ive always loved Technical Death but those guys id figure were more Progressive. Not that it matters..
@8JobForAMexican8 These bands are doing a european tour
@8JobForAMexican8 The Faceless, Veil Of Maya, and Born Of Osiris are touring in Europe in a few days. They need to bring it here to America!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I believe that song title is already taken by Haste the Day...
sweeeeeeeet
No no no no no. its not an open chug. its a Tune/Tone that literally DIRECTLY FEEDS from Prog Metal. Meshuggah coined it, and everyone knows it, its just of their sound. Its not that it "works well for 'core' music" its just the style of prog just mixes well. it goes well with Math Metal/Mathcore, Groove Metal, Tech Death, Deathcore, sometimes Post-hardcore, Melodic Metalcore, etc.
Djent is not a matter of the tune/tone, but HOW you use it.
/watch?v=nfFSi_pTp7Y
Keep taking your blue pill
@munruthel1 Yeah, Substructure. There are too many already "old-fashioned" deathcore bands touring today. I wanna see Substructures live instead.:3 I love these new metal bands. (not nu metal lol)
@MrFireants Or Veil Of Maya by Cynic
Godly
Aaaahh yes, jazz on drugs 😍😍
Jazz has typically always been on drugs. Your statement is redundant.
@MrFireants MIND'S MIRRORS
What are you talking about, the djent technique was crafted by meshuggah, and its not even anything that special, its just an open note chugging, that's not progressive at all, it was just a technique implemented in his sound. That's why it works with 'core' music , metalcore has a lot of open chugging, its just a bunch of open note chugging, Meshuggah didn't over used the sounded, just invented it, he didn't even coin the term, no due, its prog death.
Starfox on SNES anyone? feel like I'm flying through Macbeth!
Rings of Saturn isn't really that good. They're like "LOOK HOW FAST WE CAN PLAY!" But aren't really that technical. Also I'd add Meshuggah to that list.
The faceless + G.G. Allin
Who else heard the Steve Miller influence?
@CHICKENNNNNNNNN all those bands are fucking amazing.......
"Volumes isn't tech at all," They're, actually. Remember, Tech Death is the same as prog death metal(along with other genres of course).
'volumes tech deathcore" Deathcore, at its core is Death Metal. Death Metal + Prog Metal = Technical Death Metal. Tech Deathcore is a term people say for Tech Death + Deathcore
"progressive metalcore" Volumes also is a Prog Metal, and Metalcore band. "djent is a style of metalcore with jaz and progressive based melodies" No its not(see commment 2)
And so it did ;)
Alejandro Silva
this isnt akeldama is it?
*Facepalm*
I don't even know where to start with this comment...
Djent is NOT a genre because it DIRECTLY FEEDS from PROG METAL. Literally you can't play the tuned/tone STYLE of DJENT without DIRECTLY FEEDING from PROG METAL. Its not seperated what so ever. Just a style of tuning/toning prog metal. Its a style, not a genre. Volumes is a Tech Deathcore, some would say metalcore, groove metal, and prog metal band and slightly mathy.
Although I do agree that Djent was just a tone at first, it has actually become a genre because there is actually a style of playing it that separates it from the rest of the core/metal stuff.
And it's not just tech bands. Listen to Volumes; they're considered djent but aren't very technical.
Cant tell if trolling or metal noob.
...except none of them are tech death but The Faceless...and not even really them these days.
saw both at slaughter 2010 with decapitated in Vancouver..
Beautiful music one of the best albums in my huge collection🎬👁❤️🩹💙🖤❤️🫀🫀🫀💚❤️🔥❤️🩹🖤💚🫀🫀🫀❤️🔥🖤🥷🏿🖤🖤👹👿☠️👽✊🏽👊🏽🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏾🤘🏼🦷🫁🧠🧠🫀🫀🧑🏻🦱🐊🐋🦓🐃🦍
Reminds me of Frank Zappa & the Mothers
You don't really understand what tech death is man.... djent/meshuggah stuff isn't tech death..
both are great though
the begining reminds me of prototype
@mattbarnes10
Not opinion, fact.