@@VARVIS_ Amazing video btw! The amount of detail and minutiae that you cover in your musical analysis videos is far beyond most of the similar content that’s on RUclips. Keep it up. Subscribed and can’t wait to see more videos!
Didn't he also claim to not know the terms of theory, but only knew enough to write what he'd wanted? To create songs like Chuck did nearly freehandedly is, well, absurd to say the least. Oh man, if he was here now...
crystal mountain is my go to death metal recommendation song for people who’ve never heard the genre. it’s such an anomaly in the sense that is can be wildly brutal while also being incredibly lyrical and instrumentally grand. it pretty much embodies peak death metal. true 10/10
As a Christian, this song really hits, religious hypocrisy is highly annoying and makes people hate religion a lot. But I can't help but to think I'm part of the problem to be honest, no one is perfect. Jesus also really harshly judged the hypocrites, any Christian that uses the bible to justify treating people wrong should stop calling themselves Christians. Thank you for another awesome deep dive
Bro, thing to consider is religion is politics... No way around. The good christian is the one pushing particular goals... All religions are chrystal mountains... Although, all of them fascinating...
Being a fan of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the Hungarian scale on piano hit a chord in me. I had never noticed this detail. Just in case y’all don’t know yet, Bartók is one of the most metal composers. Check this video on youtube: “Quatuor Ebène : Bela Bartok String quartet Nr. 4 C-major Sz 91”.
I think Chuck is actually playing notes for those overdubs. They just sound really crunchy because of how he attacks the strings with his pick along with the flanger effect. You can hear the overdubs clearly without the flanger effect in the demo for Crystal Mountain.
@@VARVIS_ I think its chorus but on the whole song. My first guitar teacher told me the secret to a killer heavy tone was to put a small amount of chorus over your distortion. I don't think I agree with him, but to me that tone sounds exactly like Death's tone, Symbolic and TSOP in particular, just that TSOP has a way harsher sounding solid state distortion. The chorus gives the distortion a lot of high end sparkle for chords and lead sections, but the pulse of the chorus pedal mixed with the distortion makes a very flanger-esque sound if you let it ring out. The only other song I can think of that might also be mixing chorus with distortion is Plush by STP. I like the tone on that song and I've heard people describe it as a sparkly chainsaw. To me it sounds like those are either pick scrapes or chugs on fully muted strings done with the chorus/dist tone. Its most likely a chorus pedal they use for the clean section tone so I think they just leave it on when they turn the distortion on too.
Thank you for keeping the spirit alive. Chuck was a pioneer of metal in so many ways. He may not have been the creator of the death metal sound(as the elitists argue) but he was by far the most influential. He broke the stereotype of the brainless evil/gore music and made truly thought provoking music with so much depth that to this day no one can come close to. As an adult I thank his lyrics for getting me into philosophy and psychology. The lyrics weren’t hugely philosophical themselves but as a teenager they blew my mind. Nowadays the stoic, reflective, and compassionate nature of the lyrics are ingrained in my way of thinking. I almost always go back to them when I need inspiration.
Interestingly, I'd think around the same time frame, a band named Mayhem, released an album with a suicide photo of their vocalist and constantly criticized bands like Death in the US for making intricate musical compositions that didn't sound like they only knew three chords and recorded it on cassette in a basement.
@@transilvanianxhunger Point is, compared to Death, Mayhem couldn't even carry their gear regarding creativity and musicianship. Their entire appeal is sounding like shit and pretending that they are musicians while they burn churches, seek for a new extreme in shock value and kill each other because they agreed they all loved Venom, but couldn't agree on anything else
@@hockeyeverything4339 whoa there, what you’re saying about their behavior is accurate as far as them being extreme, but you can’t deny they had a huge influence in metal and some of their albums are considered classics by many. I think comparing mayhem to death is odd, it’s a completely different style of music. Death is very simple in comparison to Suffocation but it doesn’t make them less good.
@@transilvanianxhunger You do you. But I think they're a joke. Frost, Sodom, Bathory, Destruction in the early years were all superior to Mayhem. They just ripped off some titles, album titles from those bands and gained notoriety through criminal acts. They're a fuckin joke
@@hockeyeverything4339 sounds like you have your mind made up, but there’s literally millions of people into Norwegian black metal and they were at the forte front of that movement. I think that speaks for itself. And for the record I wasn’t disagreeing on your original point I was just saying the timeline was off.
Great video, but please for the love of god tune your guitar and bring the mids back to at least one or two. It was hard to focus on some parts with the tone and tuning.
A poor guitarist? I can play this song somewhat, but you're describing what is actually being played. All I know is the shapes. I'd say that's way better than most.
There is a lady on RUclips that made a piano cover on "Crystal Mountain". Played beautifully by her and shows in a different way the musical genius of the song.
Always happy to see these song analyses in my feed. Crystal Mountain was the first Death song I ever heard and got me into the band. But for all the times I’ve listened to it, I’ve never lingered long enough to pick out the things that make it awesome. You’re right - it hits at a subconscious level regardless, but it’s so cool to go through and see what makes the song tick. Chuck wrote such best music and lyrics to go with it. Keep the analyses coming
Dude this is the stuff I'm looking for on youtube. I have already analyzed the song by myself but seeing it from a different perspective really helped. I saw the things that I missed in the song, thank you for your wonderful work
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Thank you for this killer analysis! Even better than Rick Beato, TBH! I never really examined this song and actually thought it was about “crystal meth” or some shit. I think Chuck’s lyrics have aged like fine wine here. There’s a WHOLE LOT MORE of those loony, arrogant, judgemental, fundie nutjob neighbors out there, and not just “Florida man” as we all love to make fun. This is a problem for the whole country in 2024! We have MAGA for whom reality ITSELF is made of this “Crystal Mountain”, so much so that you can’t even hardly debate them about it or it starts to shatter easily. They have made Trump into a religion that they can then USE to “Cross to dagger” style on all the rest of us…to the point where he legit inspired RW domestic CHRISTIAN terrorism. 😖 This is one of the things I love most about Metal, especially DEATH. They take these very complicated and controversial political topics and impart great wisdom without being “preachy”. How many times have you heard overly sensitive types say, “We could do without the political message!” Haha! Well, too late….That’s life (and Death). New sub. 🤘 ✌ And YES, Gene Hoglan is THE GOAT!!
19:36 sound is probably something done in post production. It is definitely a flanger. That "airplane flyover" effect is a dead giveaway. They probably recorded a version of the riff with a flanger on and put that track on a fader so they could fade it in and out during the mix process.
My favorite death song and metal songs ever, thanks for coving it. I belong to a religious group that is considered ok to be bigoted towards by basically everyone. In the past we were even r@apes and killed by Christians of probably the same kind as the song mentions. I even have a relived that was used as target practice while still a helpless child. This wasn’t even that long ago historically speaking either. It’s crazy what fanatical views can do and how even “non religious” ones are in our day and age
Although a hell of a track off of a phenomenal record, I have seen a lot of lists of the opinions of what is the BEST full length record of all of DEATH's discography. And just about every one I've seen has SYMBOLIC as number 1 but ranks THE SOUND OF PERSEVERANCE as one of the WORST, if you can use the word to describe any of their records, which every single DEATH release is a death metal gem in their own way. But whenever I see anyone talk about SYMBOLIC they always bring up the track CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, which is by all means a killer very memorable track. The rhythm and lead guitar riffs are genius and when the tapping intro to the main solo was something that you probably didn't see or hear very much if at all in Death Metal in 1995. At least in the way Chuck used harmonics to create the melodic tapping to set up the solo. But in my personal opinion when it comes to DEATH and their awesome music , not once of their records is BETTER or WORSE than another. Production wise definitely but as far as the music goes, each and every DEATH record is an absolute must listen if you're a metal fan. Especially the more extreme side of metal music. Most especially DEATH METAL. But my personal favorite record by DEATH if I had to choose just one would absolutely have to be the last full length, THE SOUND OF PERSEVERANCE. And I say that for quite a few reasons. 1. That's around when the overall production in all genres of music, not just metal was getting more advanced, the technology recording equipment was better, not to mention better quality instruments. 2. TSOP was my first DEATH record I ever heard, when my friends were listening to junk hip hop like INSANE CLOWN POSSE, TWIZTID , etc. As well as some now legendary metal bands like SLIPKNOT, KORN, ETC. I was listening to DEATH, MESHUGGAH (I'm talking about when MESHUGGAH released DESTROY ERASE IMPROVE and CHAOSPHERE, well over a decade before they were DJENT or w/e tf DJENT is lol. Besides the point I was listening to the heaviest bands as a 5th grader well before a lot of them got noticed even though they were making music for over a decade if not 2. 3. TSOP and Chuck Shuldiner in general played a huge part in me wanting to learn to play to guitar. That was at the age of 13, being 37 now my friends hear of lot of Chuck's influence in my playing. 4. My final reason is that TSOP was sadly the last record and I believe the last music in general that was written by Chuck before he sadly passed away. Listening to TSOP makes me think of what metal masterpieces could have come after even to this day if the world didn't lose such an awesome person, it's absolutely tragic that Chuck is no longer with us but his music will never die. It surely won't in my heart and soul Stay metal 🤘🏼
Gene didn't actually play on Symbolic...From what I understand, he wrote the drum parts for the album, but due to scheduling constraints, could not perform on the recordings.
I always knew the song was more what you talked about, but I always imagined a fantasy story. One of some kind of priest ascending into a crystal mountain and using the dark magic within to take over his church and place himself as the new pontiff/prophet. Then twisting the church to be as he wants it. Now that I know for sure what it’s about I can safely steal that idea for on of my books.
Man, great video! Yes Chuck was showing us the ropes. I also love analyzing and scrutinizing. This is some a-tonal mastery here, I tell you. O, when they slow down to 100, the feel goes into a 16th note triplet feel, which is why we experience a minor tempo change of actually being sped up even tho the tempo just dropped (straight 16ths over 120 is slower than 16th triplets at 100bpm)! Fukn clever writing Bless you, man. Keep it up!
Bro a BRIEF analysis!? My work break can’t fit this whole thing in so ima save to watch later. Regardless of what I think by the end of this video 34 mins explaining this great song is commendable as fuhhh
One of my favorite tracks from them ! It captured my attention instantly as a standout on that record amongst a bunch of other crushers on there . Misanthrope is another song I don't hear much spoken about enough .
Great stuff man. Glad I stumbled on your channel. Sometimes, metal is more than yelling and riffs (I mean, most of it is, but sometimes that's just what you need). Awesome analysis. Can't wait to check out some more.
In my experience from learning this song, a flanger really does the trick for the tempo change section, not 100% sure if thats what Chuck used, but it sounds fuckin awesome
Bro I was grabbing my appy juice to drink with my gah damn pizza not lookin at the screen and thought your ass said "Ice of Jesus" I was like WHAT lmaoooooo
No final, as "visões preconceituosas" que ele criticou, estavam certas em seu valor profético. O vocalista da banda Death blasfemou tanto contra o sagrado que ele acreditava não existir (inclusive fez uma música cujo título se chama "Pull the plug", entre outras canções relacionadas à morte) que ironicamente ele próprio foi acometido com o que ele mais temia - Câncer, no cérebro (um dos piores câncer que existe) e ficar em estado vegetativo; "coincidência" menos improvável do que ganhar em loteria.
Thank you very much. Very interesting. I'm big Death fan for it's complexity and compositions. It's nice to hear a deep analysis on the music and the lyrics to help us comprehend things. 👍
The Craziest thing about this Video to me is that I clicked on it because of the Time Stamp which said 34:17... Chuck Passed away at 34, and Released the Mantas Demo at 17... Long Live the King! And Even though when you click the video the Time Stamp is 34:16, 16 Was the Age he Formed and Started Writing The First Death Metal Ever in Mantas!
Those harmonizing fifths are more typical of renaissance and earlier era monastic chanting than the classical canon. Rob Halford uses a similar device in Painkiller to heighten the sense of the sepulchral, ancient, almost holy in contrast to the brutality of the rest of the song. Cleansing fire, deadly wheels and all that
Symbolic was the album that got me into Death and the only album I had by them for a little while. This song wasn't one of the standout tracks for me at first. I really liked the title track, 1000 eyes, and without judgment best. However, after 20 years and 1000s of spins, Crystal Mountain is definitely the standout track on the album by far. That piano cover of it is excellent too, very moving.
Great analysis of a great song. It's been forever etched in my brain since I first heard it in the early 2000s. If you play guitar and don't learn at least the "response" riff you're messing up.
Ugh, I've seen a lot of "Crystal Mountains" in my life. There are a lot of people that commit acts of evil under the banner of god because they believe "god" favours them and think they can hide behind it like a shield.
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That opening, playing Crystal Mountain on the piano like that... enough to make a grown man cry. Beautiful.
Im not cyring.....You are lol
Came to the comments to see if anyone else said this. I need a death piano album asap
Search RUclips, there’s a classical pianist who has covered this. I saw that first and that got me hooked on Death.
@hoodwinker7932 oh hell yeah I will
This channel is brilliant, will definitely watch more videos
That tapping solo section almost sounds like something you would hear on a Castlevania game soundtrack when it’s played on piano. Nice!
definitely!
@@VARVIS_ Amazing video btw! The amount of detail and minutiae that you cover in your musical analysis videos is far beyond most of the similar content that’s on RUclips. Keep it up. Subscribed and can’t wait to see more videos!
For sure edited to be at that particular part of the scoop so done in studio
Chuck was an anomaly. The word genius gets thrown around a lot, but holy hell, he was genuinely one of a kind. An absolutely masterful musician.
100% man
Didn't he also claim to not know the terms of theory, but only knew enough to write what he'd wanted? To create songs like Chuck did nearly freehandedly is, well, absurd to say the least. Oh man, if he was here now...
crystal mountain is my go to death metal recommendation song for people who’ve never heard the genre. it’s such an anomaly in the sense that is can be wildly brutal while also being incredibly lyrical and instrumentally grand. it pretty much embodies peak death metal. true 10/10
And super catchy
I agree
Tbh it’s hard for me to consider „Symbolic” a death metal album. Death at that point had really overcame the genre. Not a complaint.
It’s so badass
1000 eyes goes so hard
As a Christian, this song really hits, religious hypocrisy is highly annoying and makes people hate religion a lot. But I can't help but to think I'm part of the problem to be honest, no one is perfect. Jesus also really harshly judged the hypocrites, any Christian that uses the bible to justify treating people wrong should stop calling themselves Christians. Thank you for another awesome deep dive
Basically you said why you're not a christian but are so attached to christian nonsense you can't let it go
Bro, thing to consider is religion is politics... No way around. The good christian is the one pushing particular goals... All religions are chrystal mountains... Although, all of them fascinating...
This is not exclusive to religion, it's a human trait to weaponize anything and everything.
Well said my Christian metalhead brother.
I’m happy to see that not all Christians are so egocentric
I hope we'll be getting one of these videos for "Break Stuff" by seminal blackened death-doom outfit Limp Biscuit
It’ll have to be just one of those days, ya know?
How about Hot Dog? Such genius lyrics
Maybe Ill do Nookie lol
@@VARVIS_ Boiler would genuinely be a good dive though
I legit snort laughed... And I like LB.
I always thought it made so much sense how the bridge harmony is done in 5ths, aka the purest and stable interval. Pure and stable like a crystal.
Great point! Wish I put it in the video! Cheers
Being a fan of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the Hungarian scale on piano hit a chord in me. I had never noticed this detail. Just in case y’all don’t know yet, Bartók is one of the most metal composers. Check this video on youtube: “Quatuor Ebène : Bela Bartok String quartet Nr. 4 C-major Sz 91”.
The bartok quartets are some of the coolest music ever written
Ill check it out bro! Thanks for the rec
that flanger effect in the bridge is an overdub using pick scrapes im pretty sure. i recorded this song once and did that and sounded bang on.
Makes total sense! Cheers man
I think Chuck is actually playing notes for those overdubs. They just sound really crunchy because of how he attacks the strings with his pick along with the flanger effect. You can hear the overdubs clearly without the flanger effect in the demo for Crystal Mountain.
@@VARVIS_ I think its chorus but on the whole song. My first guitar teacher told me the secret to a killer heavy tone was to put a small amount of chorus over your distortion. I don't think I agree with him, but to me that tone sounds exactly like Death's tone, Symbolic and TSOP in particular, just that TSOP has a way harsher sounding solid state distortion. The chorus gives the distortion a lot of high end sparkle for chords and lead sections, but the pulse of the chorus pedal mixed with the distortion makes a very flanger-esque sound if you let it ring out. The only other song I can think of that might also be mixing chorus with distortion is Plush by STP. I like the tone on that song and I've heard people describe it as a sparkly chainsaw. To me it sounds like those are either pick scrapes or chugs on fully muted strings done with the chorus/dist tone. Its most likely a chorus pedal they use for the clean section tone so I think they just leave it on when they turn the distortion on too.
Thank you for keeping the spirit alive. Chuck was a pioneer of metal in so many ways. He may not have been the creator of the death metal sound(as the elitists argue) but he was by far the most influential. He broke the stereotype of the brainless evil/gore music and made truly thought provoking music with so much depth that to this day no one can come close to. As an adult I thank his lyrics for getting me into philosophy and psychology. The lyrics weren’t hugely philosophical themselves but as a teenager they blew my mind. Nowadays the stoic, reflective, and compassionate nature of the lyrics are ingrained in my way of thinking. I almost always go back to them when I need inspiration.
Man great comment. Could not think of a better way to describe Symbolic and TSOP. Stoic, compassionate and reflective. 👍👍👍
This is great I'm going to show this to my dad tomorrow. He's free thinking ex-preacher 70 years old and he loves this shit
What did your dad think?
Crystal mountain was the first song i learned front to back on guitar
First song I learned front to back if you include the lead
for the love of god, TUNE YOUR GUITAR
Ive learned I promise 🙏🏻wont happen again
😂😂😂 I thought I was trippin'
@@VARVIS_ how could you not hear it? It's glaringly obvious
A briefs analysis….34 min later
Hey it went by super fast for me
I love That piano intro...
Interestingly, I'd think around the same time frame, a band named Mayhem, released an album with a suicide photo of their vocalist and constantly criticized bands like Death in the US for making intricate musical compositions that didn't sound like they only knew three chords and recorded it on cassette in a basement.
I think that was a lil before the symbolic album, like early 90’s. But they were critical of death metal
@@transilvanianxhunger Point is, compared to Death, Mayhem couldn't even carry their gear regarding creativity and musicianship. Their entire appeal is sounding like shit and pretending that they are musicians while they burn churches, seek for a new extreme in shock value and kill each other because they agreed they all loved Venom, but couldn't agree on anything else
@@hockeyeverything4339 whoa there, what you’re saying about their behavior is accurate as far as them being extreme, but you can’t deny they had a huge influence in metal and some of their albums are considered classics by many. I think comparing mayhem to death is odd, it’s a completely different style of music. Death is very simple in comparison to Suffocation but it doesn’t make them less good.
@@transilvanianxhunger You do you. But I think they're a joke. Frost, Sodom, Bathory, Destruction in the early years were all superior to Mayhem. They just ripped off some titles, album titles from those bands and gained notoriety through criminal acts. They're a fuckin joke
@@hockeyeverything4339 sounds like you have your mind made up, but there’s literally millions of people into Norwegian black metal and they were at the forte front of that movement. I think that speaks for itself. And for the record I wasn’t disagreeing on your original point I was just saying the timeline was off.
I always thought this song was all about the massive amounts of crystal meth that was going around People's Storage in the 90s... 🙄
Oh man this is my favorite Death song. So happy this video just popped up.
Piano death sounds awesome
Great video, but please for the love of god tune your guitar and bring the mids back to at least one or two. It was hard to focus on some parts with the tone and tuning.
Yessir 🫡🫡🫡
Honey I scooped the mids
Holy shit Varvis upload after 13 days hold my boba
Jokes aside, splendid intro and this is a masterpiece of metal.
Im back baybee
The outro acoustic guitar always reminded me of Gypsy Kings
We need a deep dive for Hot Dog by Limp Bizkit. The lyrics are absolitely genius.
LMAO
I think they are pretty fucked up
I think an analysis of “Wet ass pussy” would be much more profound
A poor guitarist? I can play this song somewhat, but you're describing what is actually being played. All I know is the shapes. I'd say that's way better than most.
There is a lady on RUclips that made a piano cover on "Crystal Mountain". Played beautifully by her and shows in a different way the musical genius of the song.
Always happy to see these song analyses in my feed. Crystal Mountain was the first Death song I ever heard and got me into the band. But for all the times I’ve listened to it, I’ve never lingered long enough to pick out the things that make it awesome. You’re right - it hits at a subconscious level regardless, but it’s so cool to go through and see what makes the song tick.
Chuck wrote such best music and lyrics to go with it.
Keep the analyses coming
Dude this is the stuff I'm looking for on youtube. I have already analyzed the song by myself but seeing it from a different perspective really helped. I saw the things that I missed in the song, thank you for your wonderful work
You are welcome man!
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Great analysis of one of my favorite songs!
Tune your guitar dude. Seriously. I'm not talking about dissonant notes either. just saying
I got into extreme metal and later on into guitar playing because of this song
Люблю твои обзоры по творчеству Чака, спасибо за крутой контент!
Thank you for this killer analysis! Even better than Rick Beato, TBH! I never really examined this song and actually thought it was about “crystal meth” or some shit.
I think Chuck’s lyrics have aged like fine wine here. There’s a WHOLE LOT MORE of those loony, arrogant, judgemental, fundie nutjob neighbors out there, and not just “Florida man” as we all love to make fun.
This is a problem for the whole country in 2024! We have MAGA for whom reality ITSELF is made of this “Crystal Mountain”, so much so that you can’t even hardly debate them about it or it starts to shatter easily. They have made Trump into a religion that they can then USE to “Cross to dagger” style on all the rest of us…to the point where he legit inspired RW domestic CHRISTIAN terrorism.
😖
This is one of the things I love most about Metal, especially DEATH. They take these very complicated and controversial political topics and impart great wisdom without being “preachy”. How many times have you heard overly sensitive types say, “We could do without the political message!”
Haha! Well, too late….That’s life (and Death).
New sub. 🤘 ✌
And YES, Gene Hoglan is THE GOAT!!
Thanks for the insightful comment man 👍
Indeed there are Crystal Mountains everywhere
Ouch! Please tune your guitar before recording.. great analysis tho!
Always very interesting videos. I do favor your Death content :)
Keep em coming!!!!!!!
Rock candy. Those mountains have whisky rivers and you never have to change your socks.
Big Rock Crystal Mountain 🤘
19:36 sound is probably something done in post production. It is definitely a flanger. That "airplane flyover" effect is a dead giveaway. They probably recorded a version of the riff with a flanger on and put that track on a fader so they could fade it in and out during the mix process.
Great video, Crystal Mountain was the song that convinced me to check out Symbolic and by extent the earlier Death albums.
I'm so happy I clicked on this video
My favorite death song and metal songs ever, thanks for coving it. I belong to a religious group that is considered ok to be bigoted towards by basically everyone. In the past we were even r@apes and killed by Christians of probably the same kind as the song mentions. I even have a relived that was used as target practice while still a helpless child. This wasn’t even that long ago historically speaking either. It’s crazy what fanatical views can do and how even “non religious” ones are in our day and age
Varvis: What is a crystal mountain?
Me: Yes.
YES
19:35 seems to me like a phaser effect, probably added in post-production or maybe directly in the recording with a pedal
Amazing band, rhythms, and vision. RIP Chuck.
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Although a hell of a track off of a phenomenal record, I have seen a lot of lists of the opinions of what is the BEST full length record of all of DEATH's discography. And just about every one I've seen has SYMBOLIC as number 1 but ranks THE SOUND OF PERSEVERANCE as one of the WORST, if you can use the word to describe any of their records, which every single DEATH release is a death metal gem in their own way. But whenever I see anyone talk about SYMBOLIC they always bring up the track CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN, which is by all means a killer very memorable track. The rhythm and lead guitar riffs are genius and when the tapping intro to the main solo was something that you probably didn't see or hear very much if at all in Death Metal in 1995. At least in the way Chuck used harmonics to create the melodic tapping to set up the solo.
But in my personal opinion when it comes to DEATH and their awesome music , not once of their records is BETTER or WORSE than another. Production wise definitely but as far as the music goes, each and every DEATH record is an absolute must listen if you're a metal fan. Especially the more extreme side of metal music. Most especially DEATH METAL.
But my personal favorite record by DEATH if I had to choose just one would absolutely have to be the last full length, THE SOUND OF PERSEVERANCE. And I say that for quite a few reasons.
1. That's around when the overall production in all genres of music, not just metal was getting more advanced, the technology recording equipment was better, not to mention better quality instruments.
2. TSOP was my first DEATH record I ever heard, when my friends were listening to junk hip hop like INSANE CLOWN POSSE, TWIZTID , etc. As well as some now legendary metal bands like SLIPKNOT, KORN, ETC. I was listening to DEATH, MESHUGGAH (I'm talking about when MESHUGGAH released DESTROY ERASE IMPROVE and CHAOSPHERE, well over a decade before they were DJENT or w/e tf DJENT is lol. Besides the point I was listening to the heaviest bands as a 5th grader well before a lot of them got noticed even though they were making music for over a decade if not 2.
3. TSOP and Chuck Shuldiner in general played a huge part in me wanting to learn to play to guitar. That was at the age of 13, being 37 now my friends hear of lot of Chuck's influence in my playing.
4. My final reason is that TSOP was sadly the last record and I believe the last music in general that was written by Chuck before he sadly passed away. Listening to TSOP makes me think of what metal masterpieces could have come after even to this day if the world didn't lose such an awesome person, it's absolutely tragic that Chuck is no longer with us but his music will never die. It surely won't in my heart and soul
Stay metal
🤘🏼
I agree man. TSOP is my favourite as well. Although Symbolic is a close second
Did you mean "Chucky" power chords?
Great video man, great song.
Please tune your guitar
@@indybingyi 😂😂😂 I only noticed after filming
Next time the guitar will be perfectly in tune I promise 🙏🏻
@@VARVIS_ Keep up the good work bro
Drove me nuts the whole vid.
Gene didn't actually play on Symbolic...From what I understand, he wrote the drum parts for the album, but due to scheduling constraints, could not perform on the recordings.
its def him lol
The riff you mention at 15:36 really is wonderful. What a beautiful phrase.
One of my favorite Death songs !love your video man !🤘🎸💀🤘
I always knew the song was more what you talked about, but I always imagined a fantasy story.
One of some kind of priest ascending into a crystal mountain and using the dark magic within to take over his church and place himself as the new pontiff/prophet. Then twisting the church to be as he wants it.
Now that I know for sure what it’s about I can safely steal that idea for on of my books.
I love that, great imagery
Man, great video!
Yes Chuck was showing us the ropes. I also love analyzing and scrutinizing. This is some a-tonal mastery here, I tell you.
O, when they slow down to 100, the feel goes into a 16th note triplet feel, which is why we experience a minor tempo change of actually being sped up even tho the tempo just dropped (straight 16ths over 120 is slower than 16th triplets at 100bpm)!
Fukn clever writing
Bless you, man. Keep it up!
That makes total sense! thank you for clarifying! Cheers bro
Tune your guitar
The piano is way more dark than the guitar😀
meth
In our neck of the woods. Crystal mountain is Stone Mountain and Cherokees. Call stone mountain crystal Mountain
Where is this? I am curious
Crystal mountain is one of my favorite death songss!!😸
Christian Mountain
"Iv put this amazing solo section into piano so you can hear it better" then bro proceeds to talk over the top of it.
😂😂
Chucks genius never stops blowing my mind.
What a great video. Death is recently 'new' to me and have been an interesting thing to get to know them better
It’s definitely a flanger but added in post on all of the instruments except the drums maybe? It’s definitely a heavy dose
Bro a BRIEF analysis!? My work break can’t fit this whole thing in so ima save to watch later. Regardless of what I think by the end of this video 34 mins explaining this great song is commendable as fuhhh
One of my favorite tracks from them ! It captured my attention instantly as a standout on that record amongst a bunch of other crushers on there . Misanthrope is another song I don't hear much spoken about enough .
“Notable feat” nice choice of words
Hahahah thanks man 😂
Where crystal meth comes from
great analysis, man you are good at this! I loved how you breakdown the parts and described them.
Thanks man!
19:25 it is a flanger
Great stuff man. Glad I stumbled on your channel. Sometimes, metal is more than yelling and riffs (I mean, most of it is, but sometimes that's just what you need). Awesome analysis. Can't wait to check out some more.
Thanks so much!
Thank for the work
In my experience from learning this song, a flanger really does the trick for the tempo change section, not 100% sure if thats what Chuck used, but it sounds fuckin awesome
Crystal Mountain was perhaps a reference to Crystal Cathedral where televangelist Robert Schuller preached
Bro I was grabbing my appy juice to drink with my gah damn pizza not lookin at the screen and thought your ass said "Ice of Jesus" I was like WHAT lmaoooooo
Great work! Would love If you did one on gojira-the Art of dying .
Gojira is in the pipeline
@@VARVIS_ nice ,thanks 😁
No final, as "visões preconceituosas" que ele criticou, estavam certas em seu valor profético. O vocalista da banda Death blasfemou tanto contra o sagrado que ele acreditava não existir (inclusive fez uma música cujo título se chama "Pull the plug", entre outras canções relacionadas à morte) que ironicamente ele próprio foi acometido com o que ele mais temia - Câncer, no cérebro (um dos piores câncer que existe) e ficar em estado vegetativo; "coincidência" menos improvável do que ganhar em loteria.
Thank you very much. Very interesting. I'm big Death fan for it's complexity and compositions. It's nice to hear a deep analysis on the music and the lyrics to help us comprehend things. 👍
it's a mountain made out of meth
The Craziest thing about this Video to me is that I clicked on it because of the Time Stamp which said 34:17... Chuck Passed away at 34, and Released the Mantas Demo at 17... Long Live the King! And Even though when you click the video the Time Stamp is 34:16, 16 Was the Age he Formed and Started Writing The First Death Metal Ever in Mantas!
My old friend Richard Patrick moved from Missouri to Florida and played drums for Death great guy tank of a drummer.
Damn, any good stories from him?
Death metal is for hyper intellectuals
Big brain metal
My favorite song from death. The cymbal fill is heaven. To me chuck is my era js bach.
Those harmonizing fifths are more typical of renaissance and earlier era monastic chanting than the classical canon. Rob Halford uses a similar device in Painkiller to heighten the sense of the sepulchral, ancient, almost holy in contrast to the brutality of the rest of the song. Cleansing fire, deadly wheels and all that
Oh shit your albertan, fuck yea brother. Thats sick man. Great breakdown.
@@BarrenWasteland hell yeah brother 🤘🏻
My appreciation of this song (and Chuck) has jumped significantly! Great stuff
Symbolic was the album that got me into Death and the only album I had by them for a little while. This song wasn't one of the standout tracks for me at first. I really liked the title track, 1000 eyes, and without judgment best. However, after 20 years and 1000s of spins, Crystal Mountain is definitely the standout track on the album by far. That piano cover of it is excellent too, very moving.
Cheers man 👍
Dude Chuck played inverted power chords down at the first and second frets. And while I was typing that you noted that 😂
😂😂😂😂
The analysis was not brief
I could have gone on longer 💀💀
14:31 that even looks visually like a mountain
btw I hear all the time you saying ISO Jesus :)
Great analysis of a great song. It's been forever etched in my brain since I first heard it in the early 2000s. If you play guitar and don't learn at least the "response" riff you're messing up.
Awesome
heard a HIRAJOSHI 😂?
wow. what an incredible video breakdown.
I appreciate this level of musical dissection and learned a ton about a song I already love.
Cheers bro! Glad you learned some things!
Ugh, I've seen a lot of "Crystal Mountains" in my life. There are a lot of people that commit acts of evil under the banner of god because they believe "god" favours them and think they can hide behind it like a shield.
The Matterhorn / Monte Cervino.
Best looking mountain in the world.
It's where evil takes It's form, and also, where commandments are reborn.
It’s very refreshing to see all the Christian metal heads that don’t focus on religion but the relationship with god that’s all that matters
It’s very refreshing to see all the Christian metal heads that don’t focus on religion but the relationship with god that’s all that matters