Composer Reacts to Alkaloid - Rise Of The Cephalopods (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- Опубликовано: 31 авг 2021
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Alkaloid - Rise Of The Cephalopods
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one of the best songs ever written
Came here to say this.
It´sm so fucking awesome
It indeed is.
Damn, this is certainly unexpected. One of my favorite death metal songs ever! It was such a shame, that you never checked out Alkaloid, very underrated band. It's one of those bands I'd really love to request myself.
Now you just need to check out Vektor - "Recharging the void" for another proggy masterpiece and I'll be happy :D
YES VEKTOR RECHARGING THE VOID OR CHARGING THAN RECHARGING IN A ROW.
Agreed he might not enjoy the vocals, but i think the music itself will win him over
the odious, and parius too
Alkaloid is led by Florian Magnus Maier, aka Morean, who spent the early part of his musical career as a classical composer. He's a pretty unbelievable musician.
Morean also handles the vocal duties in Dark Fortress and Noneuclid (+guitar), has done orchestrations in Devin Townsend Project albums Deconstruction and Ziltoid 2, etc etc. I believe he has four classical albums out by his own name.
i'm not sure if he leads the band since Hannes is the main songwriter, but it's arguable since he is the lyric writer(i think) and composes too
@@maaaaaap Yeah, the band is formed by Hannes Grossmann after parting ways with Obscura and thus wanting to collaborate with Morean
Hannes wrote this entire song
Also Flo is still a classical composer :)
Five years after Liquid Anatomy, Alkaloid's third album is finally out. Would be cool to come back and check out "Qliphosis" or something off it.
I probably would have recommended Kernal Panic over Rise of the Cephalopods for a first listen but this album and band are incredible all over. This is probably one of my favorite tech death albums of all time.
This song is sort of like an epic. The music mimics the 'rise'/evolution of the cephalopods from ocean, to land, to sky, to outer space... The sense of urgency or bizarreness in the music is tightly entwined to the narrative in the lyrics.
I appreciate that they make the instrumental melodies harmonize with the vocals as co-story tellers!
It is sort of one of the most epic songs ever.
This is kind of a sequel to a song on their earlier album called Funeral for a Continent and it reprises some of the themes in that song. However i wouldn't say it is required to listen Funeral for a Continent but if you like this song, you'll probably like that too. also that solo section around 16:00 minute mark is perfect
I thought so. I just recently picked up both albums and I was sure the two songs were related. They are musical genius.
And now Alpha Aur!!
Hannes, the bands drummer, is the main songwriter and composer of this song so it makes sense that he plays around with meter and rhythm a lot when he writes :) As far as him using a lot of oddtime it's just because he likes and is comfortable playing in oddtime haha. And is influenced by bands that abuse it. Also PROGGGG
Oh I should also mention the two guitarists came up with their own solos and thus the melodic elements in them (although Hannes has written solos before as well. Just not in this case)
Pretty sure the tapping you heard in the solo in the outro was from one of Chris's solos. He has to play with tapping instead of sweeping since the past decade or so because of his focal dystonia.
Honestly solos that shred like this are so commonplace in progressive death metal that I guess I'm just desensitized to it and it doesn't take me out of the vibe at all haha.
Song structure/arrangement and dynamics is VERY important to Hannes's writing and I think he's a genius when it comes to this
Important thing to note also
Hannes as far as I can tell isn't the type of guy who writes "technical for technicals sake". He didn't even like the term tech death for the longest time. He's sort of embraced the term tech death to describe his music nowadays, but if one has been closelyyyyyy following him since Obscura it can maybe become clear that he maybe only did this just because the term is ubiquitous and inescapably applied by others when one naturally writes music this demanding and complex. What I mean by this is that there's a really interesting interview snippet where he talks about how he feels about the term
It's his response to the first question as well as the bit at 5:43 - 6:15 if you search Obscura interview dailymotion Hannes on Google or Duckduckgo. It's the video uploaded by Metal Chroniques (Id just link it but RUclips is a bitch with links)
Also… yeah theres a distinct harmonic language here and in Hannes's music in general. :)
Honestly he's probably my favorite death metal composer still
But yeah really cool video man
Relaxing to watch as I'm winding down for bed haha
Subbed!
Dude, thank for all of that. Lots of great info here, like Chris' use of tapping due to focal dystonia. Huge props to him for continuing to push his craft and become a better musician in spite of that. I'll have to check out that Hannes interview too.
Dyson sphere from the first album has so much going on. Two tempos, circular modulation, and it continues on each album.
The newest album has a song that brings backs riffs from other albums if you listen very closely.
Awww, so glad you went and checked this one out! Alkaloid's one of my favorite bands and this is one of my favorite songs of theirs.
I really appreciate the analysis you did at the end of your video. Thanks for paying so much attention to this piece!
Thanks for staying and watching the analysis! :)
So glad, you checked out Alkaloid. There is much more to explore, like "As decreed by laws unwritten" wich is - like this one - written für 3 guitars. I think you can always hear this.
I'd like to toot my own horn and say I recommended this a long ass time ago😀
Mad song as is the rest of this great record.
I sing the intro quite frequently. Loved your reaction!
Just finished your Spawn Of Posession vid and saw you talking about how you felt some variance in vocal delivery and tempo would have made the song hit different and IMMEDIATELY thought of Alkaloid, so glad to see you've given them a spin before. Both of their records are absolutely phenomenal pieces of art telling a grand sci-fi story about the self-evolution of humanity and their journey through the cosmos. Putting "Brian Reacts To Alkaloid - The Malkuth Grimoire FULL ALBUM" on my Christmas list this year for sure!
PS - I love that you laugh every time they bust out the death metal OÜGH, makes me smile every time I hear it in any song too. Just a fun n goofy lil genre trope :~)
Epic 🤘
Alkaloid are one of my favorite prog/tech death metal bands right now. It’s nice to see people get introduced to them
love Alkaloid
Yay i adore this whole album, i have a suggestion from the same year, which is Tranzat- Hopeless Skies, they are proggy doom metal, but the vocals remind me alot of Devin Townsend
I think you'd be into Nero di Marte (prog-metal from Italy). A lot of the parts you seemed to dig from this are present in their music (pacing, rhythmic complexity, technicality). I highly suggest checking out the video they did for Roadburn Redux 2021 (on YT titled "L'Arca & Sisyphos")
Please do Defeated Sanity - Engulfed In Excuriciation....its a very special and unique but very brutal kind of music i would like to know your opinion on it.
Радость искренняя. Потому, что в нашей с вами жизни, друзья, тоже есть КОМПОЗИТОРЫ!!!
I'm terrified that RUclips captions are starting to work for metal growls.
lol
The song reminds me of the original war of the worlds
Maybe next you should check out Alkaloid's 4 Part Dyson Sphere song
Brian please, go listen to 'The Valley' by Leprous. It is the most mind boggling groove.
The Valley was reacted to a year ago XD Someone was way way ahead of you XD
I would like a reaction to Acquired Taste live or Foe studio by Leprous now.
Could you react to never seen/future shock by between the buried and me? It’s off their new album and it’s wonderful.
Sure, I could see that song coming up soon.
Was this song composed by the drummer (Hannes)?
yes! and lyrics by morean.
it seems this kind of songs were written to be dissected by Bryan... I didn't knew this band but enjoyed say 2/3 of the song but I have to regret some choices like too brutal contrasts at several times & some rythmic passages that for some make it less complex & appealing as the rest is, because the potential of the rest is huge & I enjoyed it...It is also the kind of things that annoy me a bit also about a band like Enslaved, which I also like but not always...One would argue you can't be satisfied all the time as a specific listener who would like specific directions/choices while other listeners won't complain the same or at all...Thanks for your analysis anyway...and yeah the duet solo in which the guitars went each one their way at some point was gorgeous.
Cranks up the volume. 🤘🤘🤘💖💖🤘🤘🤘 (Lovecraft never died.) Feeling some Wintersun here.
Where and how in particular are you hearing parallels with Wintersun?
Genuinely curious
@@Zyborggian I'd find that difficult to explain as it's just an instinctive reaction. It's like looking at a landscape and thinking, that reminds me of the Scottish highlands. My brain simply makes an association. (Just a few notes in Earthside's "All We Knew and Ever Loved" made me think Uriah Heep's "Salisbury". So much so that I had to check it out.) If pushed, I'd say the drumming reminds me of Kai Hahto, though with less use of the double bass, and the words "rise up", which immediately switched my brain to the growled "rise" in "Sons of Winter and Stars".
There's still 2 min lol
Imagine if he had cut the last 2 mins.
If you don't care about the genres, this is amazing. But people are .....
Leprous - Nighttime Disguise please
First album is better but this is still FUCKING AMAZING
Hey Jérémie! You BASTARD! How about showing some consideration to us poor souls who has ENOUGH great music to check up already! 😉
This was really exciting and awesome and sometimes reminiscent of Between the Buried and Me but overall their own unique stuff. Loved it!
And Bryan, you're right to do another go-through - think it's worthy! Great review and analysis!
Haha, at least we're all in that struggle together. So much great music has been tossed on my backlog these last two years 😀
@@CriticalReactions I know 😍
you look like bryan number 1 fan. tbh his channel is amazing for discoveries
Could someone explain hanns Grossman's solo project vs alkaloid. Seems like the same band to me
@@wyburp7970 We're many 😊 And the channel gives from a combination of great suggestions from a great community and the awesome Captain of this ship creating such interesting and entertaining content from those suggestions. Only wish there were some more comments/discussions here on RUclips...
I guess it's ok to like Lovecraft, or at least to be inspired by the notion of cosmic horror (though I think actual cosmology is a lot more hostile to human beings than anything that anxious old racist dreamt up). Myself, I'm at a bit of loss to really understand how that fascination could be deep enough to drive this amount of effort, but good on them for doing their thing. It's still hard not to giggle, though.
Why do you insist on talking while the record is playing . Why not show some respect for the music and yourself and wait until the track is finished before you start talking . Is it possible to enjoy or appreciate a piece of music while someone is incessantly babbling right the way through.
If you want to enjoy the piece, go to the song directly posted by Season of Mist and YOU pay attention. Stop whining.
Pausing a song ruins momentum, atmosphere, tension, chord progression, and pacing; it's not something I'm going to do on my channel as it irrevocably changes the experience of a song. As for having me talk over the song, I'm assuming that most people are coming to my videos having already heard the song. If not then I provide a link in the description to check it out without my commentary. My videos are not designed to replace the original video in any way and I make no claims that this should be any intended way to listen to the song