I am heart broken that I will never hear anything unique like this in terms of writing songs that are amazing. It's not the djent thing, or low tuning, it's the actual songs I care about here. I am willing to pay the original composers cash to get this project to go again. I tried to recreate this on my own terms but simply could not replicate something that stands apart. My favorite album of all time.
THE PINNACLE OF PROGRESSIVE METAL IN THIS DECADE!! - Mind-blowing non-diatonic scales - Unpredictable chord progression and voice leading - Outrageous counterpoint and rhythm modulation - Awesome polyrhythm - Glorious singing - Badass growl - Superb lyrics
I LOVE the harmonic feel to this album, I strive to write music as interesting as this. The choir on its own at the end of this track is chill-inducing. Also, 0:44. Impressive. The vocalist is amazing! Release of the year.
Im actually speechless. Literally, I haven't heard music this good since I discovered BTBAM and Extol. Well fucking done, easily a contender for album of the year! :D
Glad I happened to check your facebook page. Glad you guys finally got a record out...I've been anticipating it for a while and will be buying as soon as I get off work...
"The more I Iearn, the less I know. I always wondered how it can be so." "Perhaps the true delight is not knowing but finding? Searching through a demon haunted world, not knowing what I hope to find." "Treading into the unknown; places where I'll be left alone. I'll use my mind as a wick and my soul as the oil to light the way just for a short while longer, like a candle in the dark..."
I don't think so. And, if it were true, just because the vocals aren't typical vocals that (like in pop and rock) are an accompanied melody, that doesn't mean they're inferior. What you've been taught is wrong. The vocals in this song are often contrapuntal, which is brilliant. In the case of Nox Aurumque, it's an arrangement of an Eric Whitacre piece. The vocals are going to be a lot different than what metal listeners are used to. I don't think either of you are correct. The drums aren't loud.
I am starting to think this singer gives lessons to teach his fans how to sing along with their music because umm dude... you are making it really freaking tough! :-p
Daniel Horn same here man. I can't believe I haven't heard of these guys until now. THIS is exactly what I've been looking for in a djent/progressive/metal outfit. Absolutely perfect blend here, everything is exactly on point: great variation & technicality in guitars/bass, drumming is balanced perfectly not too much or too little going on, & last but certainly not least is Robert Luciani on vox: damn he blows me away & lyrics are even perfect & intelligent. I loved the nod towards Carl Sagan in this song too. If any of the band members read this: Once you guys get your life stuff sorted out & balanced, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE consider getting back together! The world NEEDS more of your music!
Daniel Horn I could recommend some bands, but nothings gonna be on par w/ these guys. I was looking at Luciani's website & it looks like he's working on (I think) a solo project
Daniel Horn Here's a short list of recommendations (not all of them are djenty, but all are def worth checking out): -Vildhjarta (Luciani was one of the founding members) -Amiensus (melodic black metal...but just barely black, more melodic) -The Contortionist (I prefer their older stuff a little more) -The Faceless (Autotheism album in particular) -Fallujah (everything) -Kardashev (everything) -Mechina (their newest release "Progenitor" is amazing) --Ne Obliviscaris (very unique & progressive in a good, fresh way) --Periphery (they're a more well known staple now) -Xanthocroid (everything)
Skyharbor (the songs with Daniel Tompkins have clean vox only), most of Novallo if I recall correct, Cyclamen maybe? I honestly can't remember if they have growls or not haha. But yeah, check at least those. If they have growls, they use them very little. But Skyharbor's most songs are with clean vox anyway.
Circles! but theyre already pretty well known. or Art By Numbers i guess too. Shattered Skies, Teramze. or you could just wait for Tesseracts new album! haha
They have to do this, because these are not normal "actual vocals", they have to fit perfectly with the instrumentation, so the can complete the harmony, otherwise, they wouldn't sound good. (this is mostly observable in nox aurumque)
Man it sounds great and I fuckmg love it I can't order one off then site myself but can get hmv to order a few copies and them et one from hmv fuck I just like your music more and more as I hear it
Drums have nothing to do with creating a harmony. They aren't meant to over power everything else. They are meant to be underlying rhythm to drive the rest of the instrumentals.
Tesseract is good. Textures has a few songs with clean vocals that I love.(Reaching Home and Awake are the only 2 I can think of off the top of my head.) There are many other bands as well just gotta find em =). hope this helps.
Textures and these guys are undoubtedly two of the best polymetric bands that ever existed. Tesseract is also fucking great but I def prefer Means End and Textures haha
can you give me the lyrics, my english is not that good, but i undertsan some parts, but sometimes i dont, and i like the song :c, and i would like to sing it :D
Periphery, TesseracT, Protest The Hero, Corelia, The Contortionist (Intrinsic), Last Chance To Reason (Level 3), Cynic (Traced In Air), The Omega Experiment, Art By Numbers and Today I Caught The Plague.
but from an artistic point of view maybe they're trying to make the drums overpower everything else a smidge. The beat is stronger this way, more intense. It sounds as important as the vocals, which most people think of as the most important sound in a song. couldn't that be their point here?
I'll second victim's recommendation for Tesseract, though I personally don't really like their new singer. If you're going to listen to them, get their original album. Also, if you havn't heard of them, The Ocean are pretty nice, these guys remind me of them a bit. But the only thing is they do have -some- screaming. They also do clean, so it's not just roaring :P And as for why they'd scream, it's a sound that some people like, some don't. I think it's a great contrast to clean vocals.
Good song, but the mix is off. Turn the drums down a smidge and bring out the singers upper registers more. The screaming is on point, but the actual vocals are muddled behind all the instrumentation.
I am heart broken that I will never hear anything unique like this in terms of writing songs that are amazing. It's not the djent thing, or low tuning, it's the actual songs I care about here. I am willing to pay the original composers cash to get this project to go again. I tried to recreate this on my own terms but simply could not replicate something that stands apart. My favorite album of all time.
This is hands down a top 5 intro to a metal song I have ever heard. It's brilliant all the way through, but that intro just hits me hard.
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THE PINNACLE OF PROGRESSIVE METAL IN THIS DECADE!!
- Mind-blowing non-diatonic scales
- Unpredictable chord progression and voice leading
- Outrageous counterpoint and rhythm modulation
- Awesome polyrhythm
- Glorious singing
- Badass growl
- Superb lyrics
Yocktan Thobias agreed man
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Ouai mais les lignes de chant et la voix sont merdiques
Listen to 31 EDO music, that’s all I’m gonna say for those that yearn for this.
people give means end shit for the vocalists scream but this is the greatest scream ive ever heard 1:18
Goodbye awesome and truly original band!
it's honestly devastating. out of all of the new bands i listen to i am always blown away by means end. pure progressive gold.
:c
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This has just as much in common with jazz and classical as it does metal, which is amazing
I LOVE the harmonic feel to this album, I strive to write music as interesting as this.
The choir on its own at the end of this track is chill-inducing.
Also, 0:44. Impressive. The vocalist is amazing!
Release of the year.
i do amazing things at the gym thanks to this song.
yeah...i'm buying this immediately
i heard about these guys on vsauce2, never thought i would find my favorite band through them :)
What an awsome sound
This is AMAZING. Aboslute genius work. You bring a whole new breed of sounds to my ears. Keep it up guys, hugs and best wishes from Colombia.
This reminds me to bands like Ever Forthright, Neurotech, Leprous or Ihsahn, amazing artwork too, new favorite band of 2013.
1:20 is where I start levitating
You need to play in berlin! your music is mindblowingly awesome! looking forward to everything you are doing.
Fav song on the album.
Second only to "To Love" for me
Im actually speechless. Literally, I haven't heard music this good since I discovered BTBAM and Extol. Well fucking done, easily a contender for album of the year! :D
so addicting, I'm in love
an addictive song
great man...i luv it...
Glad I happened to check your facebook page. Glad you guys finally got a record out...I've been anticipating it for a while and will be buying as soon as I get off work...
Did you ever buy it? How was work yesterday ?
@@microtonalmilio5233 Dude...10yrs? Yesterday I didn't have work. I believe I did buy it.
The new TesseracT album that comes out later this month has cleans only
I found this looking at Halo 4s Didact's scenes, I think I'll stay a while.....
ikr? not bad.
"The more I Iearn, the less I know.
I always wondered how it can be so."
"Perhaps the true delight is not knowing
but finding?
Searching through a demon haunted world,
not knowing what I hope to find."
"Treading into the unknown;
places where I'll be left alone.
I'll use my mind as a wick
and my soul as the oil to light the way
just for a short while longer,
like a candle in the dark..."
yeah. I listen to them. I saw them with Animals As Leaders not too long ago. Meshuggah is incredible live!
I don't think so. And, if it were true, just because the vocals aren't typical vocals that (like in pop and rock) are an accompanied melody, that doesn't mean they're inferior. What you've been taught is wrong. The vocals in this song are often contrapuntal, which is brilliant. In the case of Nox Aurumque, it's an arrangement of an Eric Whitacre piece. The vocals are going to be a lot different than what metal listeners are used to. I don't think either of you are correct. The drums aren't loud.
awesome bands you name dropped there
if I could save any bands from breaking up it'd be these guys and five pointe o
Totally agree, Means End and Five Pointe O were such awesome bands, and grossly underrated as well.
This and Xerath for me
Please add Fair To Midland!
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@@chromaform oh dude yeah!!!!
I'll use my mind as a wick
and my soul as the oil to light the way
just for a short while longer,
like a candle in the dark...
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Definitely try out Disperse. Their older material is very proggy but their latest album is quite djenty with clean vocals only!
I am starting to think this singer gives lessons to teach his fans how to sing along with their music because umm dude... you are making it really freaking tough! :-p
Those Chords O_0
finally found this band again and found that they broke up. :(
Daniel Horn same here man. I can't believe I haven't heard of these guys until now. THIS is exactly what I've been looking for in a djent/progressive/metal outfit. Absolutely perfect blend here, everything is exactly on point: great variation & technicality in guitars/bass, drumming is balanced perfectly not too much or too little going on, & last but certainly not least is Robert Luciani on vox: damn he blows me away & lyrics are even perfect & intelligent. I loved the nod towards Carl Sagan in this song too.
If any of the band members read this: Once you guys get your life stuff sorted out & balanced, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE consider getting back together! The world NEEDS more of your music!
also the synths fit very well. I prefer synths in this style too because it just adds great atmosphere
I don't know if I'll ever be able to find a band like this again. the vision they had.
Daniel Horn I could recommend some bands, but nothings gonna be on par w/ these guys. I was looking at Luciani's website & it looks like he's working on (I think) a solo project
Daniel Horn Here's a short list of recommendations (not all of them are djenty, but all are def worth checking out):
-Vildhjarta (Luciani was one of the founding members)
-Amiensus (melodic black metal...but just barely black, more melodic)
-The Contortionist (I prefer their older stuff a little more)
-The Faceless (Autotheism album in particular)
-Fallujah (everything)
-Kardashev (everything)
-Mechina (their newest release "Progenitor" is amazing)
--Ne Obliviscaris (very unique & progressive in a good, fresh way)
--Periphery (they're a more well known staple now)
-Xanthocroid (everything)
I love the music guys, I would really like to see what it would sound like if the vocals were more prominent. It's sounds too blended in.
You can also check out Skyharbor. It's the old singer from TesseracT.
Skyharbor (the songs with Daniel Tompkins have clean vox only), most of Novallo if I recall correct, Cyclamen maybe? I honestly can't remember if they have growls or not haha. But yeah, check at least those. If they have growls, they use them very little. But Skyharbor's most songs are with clean vox anyway.
Essa é a melhor música que já ouvi na minha vida.
Sim
Exactamente, es de lo mejor.
Circles! but theyre already pretty well known. or Art By Numbers i guess too. Shattered Skies, Teramze. or you could just wait for Tesseracts new album! haha
Tesseract's new singer only does cleans and has a beautiful voice. Check out the Altered State CD
They have to do this, because these are not normal "actual vocals", they have to fit perfectly with the instrumentation, so the can complete the harmony, otherwise, they wouldn't sound good. (this is mostly observable in nox aurumque)
Man it sounds great and I fuckmg love it I can't order one off then site myself but can get hmv to order a few copies and them et one from hmv fuck I just like your music more and more as I hear it
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Drums have nothing to do with creating a harmony. They aren't meant to over power everything else. They are meant to be underlying rhythm to drive the rest of the instrumentals.
Tesseract is good. Textures has a few songs with clean vocals that I love.(Reaching Home and Awake are the only 2 I can think of off the top of my head.) There are many other bands as well just gotta find em =). hope this helps.
Textures and these guys are undoubtedly two of the best polymetric bands that ever existed. Tesseract is also fucking great but I def prefer Means End and Textures haha
so much better than periphery, tesseract and others, IMO...original and fucking amazing band!
ganna miss ya!
Nah the vocals are absolute trash.
B I really hope your being sarcastic. These are the best vox I've EVER HEARD. Robert Luciani is some kind of a vocal & lyrical god to beheld
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syqem and boil are very good as well
absolutne objawienie
Just got the Carl Sagan reference while listening to this and reading his book
Which one?
wat tuning is this in?
The whole album is played in E-A-D-G-C-F-A-D with the exception of Nox Aurumque which drops the darkest string to D.
can you give me the lyrics, my english is not that good, but i undertsan some parts, but sometimes i dont, and i like the song :c, and i would like to sing it :D
Periphery, TesseracT, Protest The Hero, Corelia, The Contortionist (Intrinsic), Last Chance To Reason (Level 3), Cynic (Traced In Air), The Omega Experiment, Art By Numbers and Today I Caught The Plague.
Daddy Masvidal
and Ever forthright
but from an artistic point of view maybe they're trying to make the drums overpower everything else a smidge. The beat is stronger this way, more intense. It sounds as important as the vocals, which most people think of as the most important sound in a song. couldn't that be their point here?
I'll second victim's recommendation for Tesseract, though I personally don't really like their new singer. If you're going to listen to them, get their original album.
Also, if you havn't heard of them, The Ocean are pretty nice, these guys remind me of them a bit. But the only thing is they do have -some- screaming. They also do clean, so it's not just roaring :P
And as for why they'd scream, it's a sound that some people like, some don't. I think it's a great contrast to clean vocals.
all great bands, but I think you missed meshuggah. maybe the holy trinity of melodic/ambidjent?
i hope i hear this while i start to die
I can only imagine riding my bike and just getting lost on the road
hands down tesseract altered state is one of the best albums ever created if not the best
What the eff is Xbox Music?
Nope, the 4th dimension is time. We can already hear it. It sounds like nothing.
No, that's TesseracT :)
The new Tesseract doesn't have any screams.
Good song, but the mix is off. Turn the drums down a smidge and bring out the singers upper registers more. The screaming is on point, but the actual vocals are muddled behind all the instrumentation.
Thank you vsauce!
Didact? Is this what Prometheans listen to?
god this is boring