Should also check out one of their guitarists solo project Stoort Neer. Calle Thomer is one of my fav artists. I may be wrong on solo project but it's mainly Calle's I believe, if so.
@@RedCap-vz1dw everyone in that band is so important to this genre, also we dont talk about daniel as much as we do as calle because he doesnt use any of the platforms lol
@@arockfloatinginspace4488true, Daniel is the one that started the band, and they had a different other guitarist before Calle joined but he left because he said he couldnt keep up with Daniels skill :) then Calle joined, and then Buster, and this band is still moving further into the beyond
This is genuinely the greatest album I've ever heard. One of the very few times in my life where a single album completely redefined the way I see music. Like...after hearing this nothing is the same anymore. Listen to it over and over again. pay attention to the melodies, because they repeat them all over the place in slightly changed and unexpected ways. Behind every nasty, thicc, chuggy riff theres always a clean thread repeating over and over, solidifying the section, giving continuity to the song that isn't overtly apparent. The whole album feels like something from another dimension, something that's been bent out of time in the most bizarre yet coherent way. I don't know a word of swedish and yet I felt like I understood exactly what the album was going for. No other album has given me this kind of mental imagery. This is a profound tale of loss, sorrow, uncertainty, and friendship. I'm sure of it, and I don't know a single lyric. The repeating melodies and motifs are like recurring characters in a movie, instantly giving you an anchor and a sense of familiarity in the context of unfamiliar, strange, and warped riffs. The original masstaden album is relatively straighforward, headbanger type of album. This album takes a lot of those concepts and twists them into something truly otherworldly. Its the heaviest, darkest, most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
Oh if you don't know the lyrics/concept you have no idea how spot on you are with the melodies and motifs being chosen for lyrical moments/parts of the story! If you go to the post on Drew's community section where he asked for some info on the album, i dropped a couple of reddit links to a translation of the lyrics (which already highlights the story) and a discussion of the concept/plot based on lyrics and artwork. The music and lyrics fit even better with that in mind
@@sirdo946 Honestly, I could have looked up the translation earlier but I really like the feeling of not knowing any of the lyrics and just letting the music and melodies guide my imagination. It's nice to know that I was generally on the right track and at some point in the future I'll be sure to check out the actual lyric translation. The art of the album and tracks also plays into this a lot. I first listened to this album on a 6 hour flight and I listened to it 3 times all the way thru, and I fell asleep for a few hours. The dreams I had while this album was playing in my ears were absolutely magical, I cannot describe it. One of the things I love about the composition of this album is how it plays with your expectations constantly. for example, early in the album you'll hear some progression like Clean Section A -> Heavy Riff A. Later on, they bring back clean section A amidst a storm of chaos, and you latch onto it because its familiar. You feel like you know what's going on, but unlike before it transitions into Heavy Riff B, which is similar to Heavy Riff A but twisted and deformed in some way. It really keeps you on your toes while not completely throwing you off so much that you lose interest. Absolutely genius stuff.
@@thevishyfishy Oh yeah if you've listened through it while looking at the artwork then you've probably got quite a bit of an idea of the story! I love how they literally created an audio-visual journey with it, it's incredible. Thankfully i have amazing friends who gave me as a present for my birthday (I'm lucky it was 2 weeks after the album drop lol) the bundle with the CD, a t-shirt and the 2 huge posters with all the track artwork in sequence. They're so good i had them framed and they're hanging in my room. And they'll always be hehe. So credit to the artist as well, who's the same guy that did the artwork for Masstaden OG (Rickard Westman) Also they should make it into a short movie tbh lol, i wish they had the resources to do it
@@sirdo946 man, I love this damn album so much. I wish my friends liked this kind of music so I'd have someone to talk to about it. I could ramble about this endlessly lol. It's also inspired me to try and write music like this. I only have a 6 string guitar tuned to drop C so I won't be achieving tones quite as heavy, but its definitely inspired me to change the way I write riffs, and it especially changes a musician's relationship to time and meter. I love the absurd, almost comically heavy riffs but tbh I think the tone and tuning has nothing to do with how heavy this album is. The meticulous composition, insane attention to detail, and pervasive feelings of emotion and sorrow are really what does it for me. There's physical heaviness, yes, in the tuning and chugs and all that, but there's metaphorical heaviness too that i've really never seen before in this way. Couple other albums that are super heavy without even considering the actual guitar tone are Winter's Gate by Insomnium and The Way of All Flesh by Gojira. But still, those albums don't compare to Vildhjarta.
@@thevishyfishy oh yeah i only managed to get one friend of mine into Vildhjarta (and prog in general) but it's enough. I think i started him off with Jinjer's re-recorded version of Pisces and then randomly with Den Helige Anden and somehow he liked it lol. But yeah same, i could go on for hours talking about how well written and put together everything is. And the production, damn, I'm a drummer and the drums sound incredible. When i heard the album was pushed back because Buster decided to record drums instead of using programmed ones i was kinda bummed but i was absolutely blown away by the tones (especially the snare, it's the best metal snare sound I've ever heard). And seeing how much effort went into getting the perfect sounds just makes it even better. For example, to get the fat kinda "bouncy" bass drum sound, the bass drum head was tuned particularly loose so he had to adapt his double bass technique because with a less tight head you can't use as much rebound on fast parts. It's the little nuances like that that show how much care and attention every single small, insignificant detail got on this album. And i think the instrumental version highlights that production side as well Oh and edit: i also love The Way Of All Flesh, it's my fav Gojira album ;)
@@diegopizarro4196 the title encapsulates the song’s atmosphere perfectly, dark, menacing, but inviting and psychedelic, and once the rain starts and the haze clears the truest lavender hue emits from the cloudy sky and its like your soul is brought to rest
This might be weird but I go to sleep listening to this album and specifically that song haha So atmospheric and heavy It just puts me to sleep! It's like sleeping to a thunderstorm
Fun fact: Masstadens Nationalsang (under vatten) is full, literally full of similar riffs and references to songs on preceding album, Masstaden, all as callbacks. Vildhjarta are the gods of call backs, my favourites being Kaos2 and Heartsmear, using the same clean section at the end but in vastly different ways.
Yeah for that reason i think it's bad to start with this album. Also the previous albums (Masstaden and the EPs) are way, way more accessible. Once you GET vildjharta you will truly appreciate this album but not before.
@@42k78 glad I could man, I just noticed the similarity because of the way the clean part was played, it's pitch shifted lower and potentially slower on heartsmear, but they added a simpler lower chug over it and added the wolves howling. Just simple stuff like that just hit so different it's insane.
Here’s the OG Heartsmear demo from 5 years ago. That clean is in the same tuning as it is in kaos2. They only slowed it and pitched it for the Masstaden UV release. My favorite clean section of the entire album, with my second being the cleans over the outro riff Dan helige anden or outro riff to phantom assassin. ruclips.net/video/r-FbgQqDQG4/видео.html
How does someone sit down and think of this lmao. Like it amazes me that they wrote this on the same instrument as I play. Just got into Vildhjarta today and this was my first full listen along with you, this is one of my new favorite albums :D
If you want a full translation of any lyrics let us Swedes know. I went and saw Vildhjarta this Friday the 1st of June in Stockholm. They are an AMAZING liveband as well.
Wait til you’ve heard this for the 4th time and you realize that there are riffs carried throughout every song, even if for just bits and pieces, all the way through the album. Not a single note is unintentional it seems. What a perfect album
That riff at 52:08 (heartsmear) was the riff that made me fall in love with this album to the point where I've been spamming it almost daily since its release. That dissonant tremolo over the double bass is just too much.
Sobbed on my first listen tbh. I genuinely feel Vildhjarta’s music more than I’ve ever felt any other music. The callbacks weren’t even the first time I cried. I waited 10 years for this and wasn’t disappointed.
Album is a masterpiece! Buster is a legend! Incredible artist. He plays drums for vildhjarta and is guitarist for humanity’s last breath and (of course) produces the albums for both bands. Legit master!
Very few times in my life have I heard an album and just thought "I'm gonna be listening to this for like ten years." For one, thats probably how long it will take to absorb it, and two that was the time span between the last two albums XD.
No fuckin way you went and did this. Delighted for you and i havent even pressed play yet :D EDIT: Nearly got goosebumps for you when masstadens nationalsang under vaten came on. If you enjoyed it that much then its a sign you need to go back and react to Masstaden (forte) in full. Please and thank you and your welcome. Big up from Cork!
I listened to this album with no expectations whatsoever, I smoked a couple of bowls and just sat back.. to say I was in shock as well as tears would be an understatement.. had to listen to it 4 times to nearly grasp the depth they have reached and the reason why it took 8 years to drop. The ambience as you mentioned is something they portray marvellously, the level of intellect buster and Calle have is beyond human comprehension.. On a side note: I think fractalize is inspired by Vildhjarta and humanity’s last breath of I’m not mistaken. Thank you for another banger of a video, I love watching your videos and seeing you and the channel grow ❤️🤘🏻 all love!
fr bro this album is easily my favourite album of all time and listening to it high it just throws you straight into the world they created its incredible
Listening to this album for the first time was a monumental event for me, and has ingrained itself into a significant core memory. It was such a special and noteworthy thing in my life that every couple months I come back to this video to relive that moment, using your reaction as a vague guideline to remember how dumbfounded and in awe I felt in each moment, and to just in effect share the moment with someone once again. Thank you for sharing. Thall, brother.
Tbh i think this is one of the best metal albums ever made. Ive never heard anything like it before. This and Exoplanet by The Contortionist are probably my favorite albums of all time. The attention to detail, insane riffs, crisp production, perfect vocals and more make this album just an absolute joy to listen to. Im so excited to see what Vildhjarta does nect
The whole of this album is one of the deepest journeys of my life and I can seriously say that the final part of the track HEARTSMEAR was the deepest musical orgasm of my life...There are no words to describe the pleasure of listening to this music
I just love how sonically disruptive their guitar work is. Like. In a normal, that tone and those notes dont work. But somehow Vildhjarta makes them work. Like how can something be so unusual, unique, yet beautiful and soul wrenching.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for doing this album. It is my favorite. This was entertaining the whole way through and not only did you seem to not get sick of it, you even went back and listened to some tracks over again!! That was pretty boss of you. This was the best 2 hours of my life. I will rewatch a lot and make a couple more comments in time.
It shouldnt have taken this long for vildhjarta to win a poll lol. If you sometimes struggle with meshuggah this is like quantum mechanics in comparison
Måsstadens nationalsång has a part that consists of bunch of the original album's riffs (2:13 in the actual song). The main part of the riff is All Those Feelings (3:32), then followed by When No One Walks with You (0:33), and back quickly to All Those Feelings, continuing where the original riff would've followed through. So the riff from All Those Feelings has been sliced and stuffed with the whole off Måsstaden, until the riff has been completed.
I never have the patience or stamina to watch full album reactions, but you put some serious effort into this one and it shows. Had to leave a like and a comment. Such a pivotal album too. I feel like it's gonna be looked at as an important release for the genre with how many new ideas they execute in it.
A masterpiece, indeed. It's almost an overwhelming experience, especially if you haven't listen to their first full-length, Masstaden. It evokes lots of emotion for me, melancholy, despair, anger, apathy, sadness, nostalgia, fear, disgust, and hope at the end. At the end of the Paaradiso, with all the emotions that hit me in the course of the album, the outro feels so cathartic it makes me tear up. Like i lived another life in a paralel universe in the span of an album. Perfection.
First off, LOVED THIS! (both the album and the video) I obviously hope you get around to their older stuff some day, but one of the guitarist's (Calle) actually has a instrumental side project called "Stoort Neer", which is awesome! You can hear that it's got a lot of the same DNA, but the two projects are actually quite different at times. Especially the short EP which came out in 2020 titled "MÖRRINJÖ". Do yourself a favor and check that stuff out as it is criminally overlooked!!!
Omfg finally you're doing this !! That album is a PURE FUCKING MASTERPIECE, Vildhjarta and HLB are the "children" of Meshuggah, those 3 are the ESSENCE of pure heaviness. This is METAL.
just a fyi for anyone who cares, they actually dont use 8 or 9 strings, im pretty sure they never did, Calle and daniel use 7 strings and use a whammy pedal for pitch shifting into lower tunings, they originaly are tuned to some variation of standard F
@@bigtinn7591 yeah i think its G Standard but lower strings are detuned, like in den helige anten it would be G Standard, but then tuned down to Drop F THEN tune the lower string to E, correct me if im wrong
@@louistremblay1218 I payed attention a little bit and now know that at least most of first album is in G standard and some drop F. Not sure about pitch shifting there, probably none or minimal. In new album it's probably all in The weird drop E with tons of shifting, maybe has some Drop F pitch shifted.
One of the greatest albums ever made. So transformative and really puts you into a whole other world. Bought this masterpiece on vinyl and I am still finding something new with every listen. Masstaden is gonna be an amazing listen for you as well, especially with the Forte version. Completely remastered. 🤘
Your reaction like what the fuck is happening during the second half of Toxin was priceless hahaha. In all honesty though it was a great pleasure to get to relive my experience of the first listen to my favorite album of all time through your reaction. Great content as always! Oh and the drummer Buster Odeholm (who also produced the album) has another project of his own called Humanity's Last Breath which I think you would enjoy as well. Cheers!
You're absolutely right in this being an album that you listen to all the way through, it's purely an experience. And so is their first album Masstaden tbh. I discovered these guys at the start of 2019 (was coming off a biiig Tesseract hype lol), first couple listens of a few songs i didn't really care for them. Then a few weeks later i listened to Masstaden OG in full and i was just completely mesmerized. It quickly became one of my top 3 albums of all time together with Altered State and Lateralus and it was basically the soundtrack of my summer. I spent like a month with "THALL" written on my arm, rewriting it almost everyday with a pen lmao. I made my phone cover with the original Tesseract logo and THALL written just under it. I was pretty much obsessed lol, and still was at the end of the year when they released the first single since 2013. Then i had to wait almost 2 years for this but it was 100% worth it. When the first atmospheric part (the first drop with ambience below it) in Lavender Haze hit me i literally just started crying because i couldn't believe i was actually listening to the new Vildhjarta album. This is very likely to go down as album of the decade for me, unless Tesseract pull something out with an incredible concept or some new band comes up, i don't think MUV will be topped before 2030 honestly. EDIT: oh and by the way, Fractalize is definitely thall and as such, they've been heavily influenced by Vildhjarta (starting from 2011), not the other way around ;)
Tesseract 5 is sounding very promising from what I've heard, although I wouldn't be surprised if this album indeed only gets topped in 2031 when Vildhjarta comes with their 3rd album haha
Sick video/reaction as always, love the edits and everything. We should all take a moment to appreciate how good the artwork of this album is though, shit's insane!
First time i listened to this album was actually the instrumental one, masstadens nationalsang rang so hard with me, felt like i was hypnotized the rest of the week. Being a meshuggah fan it just mesmerized me, kept going back and listening to it. The production sound, and buster's influence in general are so good
You should check out the band “Atlas” and their 2021 album “Ukko”. It was produced by Buster Odeholm the drummer of Vildhjarta who also produced this album. Imagine Vildhjarta but much more Metalcore sounding!
Yes, the moment I’ve been waiting for is finally here. This album is on my top 10 metal albums oat, for the simple fact that I’ve never heard / experienced anything like it, the mix of ambience and atmosphere with the heavy and brutal riffs and breakdowns is incredible, truly a masterpiece. Can’t wait for their next step, and I already know I’m gonna have a lot of fun watching this video. Edit: brilliant video, brilliant edits, it was almost like listening to this album for the first time again (and I couldn’t be happier about it), you nailed it with every comment and honestly everything on this video. This is definitely an album that fits into the second and deeper definition of masterpiece you brought up. THALL is extremely niche, and Vildhjarta are heavily influential within it, even though this album still very fresh and we still finding new details in it, I can already tell that it’s gonna stand the test of time 100%, Vildhjarta has proved to achieve that by releasing it 10 years after the original and making it a masterpiece. Everything about this album is brilliant, and this video is brilliant too. Congrats my dude, you’re the best and I have no doubt about it, no one is doing what you’re doing as good as you are. I really respect and appreciate the effort and time you put on every single one of these videos, so thank you for that 🫡
Loved this reaction. This is one of my favorite albums of all times and the more people that experience this masterpiece the better imo. Also this is all 7 strings I’m pretty sure they just use drop pedals if I’m not mistaken
I really appreciated the editing in this video, well in all of these album reactions honestly. It enhanced the experience relistening to this album. Keep it up - been a long time sub and loved watching you grow your channel. It's so crisp man.
I’ve been a massive Meshuggah fan for quite a while and I got really into Vildhjarta over the past couple months so it was awesome to finally see you cover them! Their other albums are insane as well and they recently remastered them (Massaden forte and thousands of evils forte). Massatden under vatten is like a combination of new material plus their old albums too!
This video was everything I could want from it. Masterpiece, the story, the atmosphere, the skill to play it but also the skill to write and dream such a .. space for storytelling and fucking art. Experiencing this album 'with' someone who 'gets it' is just a joy man. Thanks for the upload
Imo meshuggah can’t even compete with this. I’ve listened to meshuggah for years, but this album tops anything they have done. And the more a listen to this album, the better it gets. Even after hundreds of times listening to it, it just gets better. This has to be the best album of all time.
One of a kind album, It’s amazing. I got some suggestions for you that I know you’ll enjoy The Ocean - Pelegial Uneven Structure - La Partition Periphery - PII While She Sleeps - You Are We Bleed From Within - Shrine Architects - Holy Hell Haken - Vector/Virus Meshuggah - Koloss Allt - The Seed Of Self Destruction
Mr. Drew! First - thank You a LOT for making such a sincere review! I know you like Vildhjarta & Fractalize. I know both this bands in person and beign a thall lover for 12+ years I herebly suggest you one more unique band: Please make a full album experience on Returning We Hear The Larks - Far Stepper / Of Wide Sea I swear this would be one of best experiences for prog metal lovers like You and for the audience. Guys please thumb up for Returning We Hear The Larks
Oh this is gonna be a great watch! I've listened to this album so many times, it's probably nearing the hundreds by now. It's my favorite album ever written without a doubt! This and the first måsstaden make up the best musical experience I've ever heard
This bands counterpart Humanity's Last Breath is the only thing that comes close to how unique Vildhjarta approach song writing IMO and probably in large part due to Buster and Cal being in both bands and Buster producing for both. Rampant, Fradga, and Earthless should give you a feel for the band. I would say HLB is heavier than Vildhjarta but that is objectively speaking.
I would love to see him react to Valde, a lot of these songs are insane on that album and I find it a bit more accessible for a first one listen. Love Humanity’s last breathe and Vildhjarta
@@benwierenga I like all of their stuff but I would say they don't really sound a lot like the self titled album anymore. I think Earthless is the best track they have put out but that's just my IMO. Thall.
Thanks for the massive reaction. It’s been cool to see your evolution in the metal genre. To me, this album is working to accentuate different aspects of what makes music music- harmony, meolody, rhythm, space, etc. These guys seems to focus on dissonance, irregular rhythm, no repetition, and ambience. All are things that opposite most music focuses on. I relate this album to falling into a labyrinth. It’s dark, it’s scary yet beautiful and awe-inspiring. Brilliant video!
Yess! You've listened to one of my favourite albums, hell.. I'd dare to say that it's everyone's favourite album since it dropped! Meshuggah started everything and Vildhjarta is ending it. The Nordic Gods overtake once again!
This was my favorite prog album of last year but I haven't heard it in a few months. Relistening through this reaction has only made me appreciate it more. Vildhjarta's sound is so unique and innovative, especially compared with their current djent contemporaries.
Love this reaction. This album is an absolute journey and your different facial expressions definitely convey that journey, haha. Despite the length of this album, I feel like it goes by so fast, too. Also thanks for the name drop of Fractalize. I hadn't ever heard of them but will check them out further. Love the edits in the video, too. Great work!
So glad to see your appreciation and enjoyment for this band. Obviously their first album is something to check out but I would also highly recommend checking out their early demos before they had a record out. Clips like “Alex Bois”, “bunch of old riffage”, “rendezvous”, etc were so influential to the early phase of djent music. Also would love to see your reaction to Peripherys first full length album at some point.
YEEEEEESSSS!!!!! This is the most hype i've been in a while 🔥 And also huge shoutout to you Drew, for the most correct pronunciation i've heard so far on youtube. Really dig your content mate, keep it up!!🔥
I will never turn down an opportunity to sit down and listen to this album! loved watching this. I knew this was going to be my favorite album of all time after hearing it once. Many parts make me actually tear up and laugh because my brain can't handle the emotion of how beautifully crafted the passages are. Like you said in the video, I am still finding nuances in this album a year later (subtle repeating themes). Suggestion for an album that stood the test of time (in my opinion): The Contortionist - Exoplanet That album defines modern progressive deathcore.
Kaos2 and Paraadiso are my favorite individual tracks but the whole album is fire when listened to from start to finish. When this album came out it blew my mind.
I saw vildy at tech fest a few years back, I remember they cut lights and the crowd just started moving like the sea as the weather starts to turn, I remember my friend looking at me and just saying "see ya" as shadow started. Genuinley the greatest random find I ever had. This album is truly a masterpiece. So glad they made me wait this long, its been a decade since 16 year old me stumbled across masstaden, and they pissed on my expectations
This album man. It got physically sick when I first heard it. It blew my mind. So unpredictable, so contrasting, so uncanny. Pure art. I describe this album as crawling through chest high mud, swimming through solid stone. Absolutely disgusting. I did my due diligence and bought the album after the first listen, their next album will be pre-ordered for sure. Amazing react, feels like the first listen again. Production you edited amazing too. If you like nice artistic metal music I would put The Dali Thundering Concept on your radar.
Yes! TDTC is criminally unknown - Eyes Wide Opium should really be a household name among modern metalheads. Especially that last "secret" track. Chills every time.
Great job of displaying your initial reactions and emotions through the editing of the video. I don't think I've ever seen that with any other reaction videos. It was really cool!
Loved that you did this and the effort put into it, my favourite band and album of last year. Would love to see you check out the original masstaden. I'm sure someone has let you know this already mate, but masstadens nationalsang is actually a medley/mashup of a tonne of different songs from the original masstaden album. Just another bit of interest.
If you did decide to go back in time with Vildhjarta, they decided to remaster Maastaden and their ep Thousands of Evils! They are just titled as (forte). Maastaden came out near when i graduated High School and waiting for this album was absolute hell but its a special kind of brilliant and im so happy people are loving it. It is objectively a masterpiece
gonna be one of the best albums of the next 5+ years or so at the least, this album truly is an epic. and not to mention the remaster of Masstaden sprinkled on top as a treat.
Been following the channel for some time now. I never quite expected it to go here but boy am I glad that it did. You are officially down the rabbit hole. Might I suggest another very immersive full album listen to “Odyssey to the West” by Slice the Cake. Literal poetry in the form of technical, progressive, and melodic metal. Either way, it’s been great to see the progress in the production of your videos along the way and I look forward to following you on the rest of your journey🤘🏻
That 'glitchy' sound you love is something you can do on your guitar too! It's called a dead note, lightly mute the string(s) with your left and and play whatever you want on the right - sounds lovely with high overdrive and occasional multiple strings to give extra chonk
@@DrewFortune97 I'm a bit biased, as Vildhjarta has been my favorite band for the last decade (since the release of Måsstaden). The effort you put into this video shows. First off all great editing and it's clear you've gone through other Vildhjarta material as well after the initial reaction (for example Buster's drum playthrough for sunset sunrise). And well, I've never watched a reaction video this long before but this was definitely well worth my time. It was a joy to witness your initial reactions to my favorite parts and sections of some songs (like the endings of när de du älskär... and kaos2). I get goosebumps everytime I hear them and this time was no exception. Your reaction seemed to indicate those parts hit you hard as well! I was lucky to see them live 3 weeks ago in Finland. That was the second time. The first time happened 10 years ago. Subscribed.
I can get where you're coming from with the Fractalize comparisons, but the truth is, if anything, Fractalize ripped off Vildhjarta/Meshuggah on those staccato dead notes, heh. They've been doing that stuff since 2005 and it was heavily featured on the original Måsstaden (that came out in 20011, btw, the fans had been waiting for "under vatten" for 10+ years) whereas Fractalize dropped their first album in 2016. Meshuggah have done that type of riffing (just not to the extent of the two former) as well, though. Daniel is the OG of the thall shit.
Just so ya know, they usually play 6 string baritone guitars and extremely heavily utilize a pitch shifter pedal called a Digitech Whammy. It's can be controlled through midi so along with insane tempo tracks, they have insane semitone automation tracks to do all those crazy lows.
It all true, just did my first listen all the way through again since the album released, and even though ive heard all of the songs many times at this point there are still so many things i notice that keep blowing my mind over and over again
Soundtrack to the end of the world?
INSANE album. 1,000 likes on this video & I’ll go back in time with Vildhjarta 🫡🔥
Lets get them likes going!!!
Do the intrumental one ^^ that spices up the doomy/gloomy feel of the album imo
Should also check out one of their guitarists solo project Stoort Neer. Calle Thomer is one of my fav artists. I may be wrong on solo project but it's mainly Calle's I believe, if so.
Ohhhh yes! Måsstaden (forte) deserves a whole ass reaction next
YOU GOTTA DO MASSTADENS!!
Self produced by their drummer. We must protect Buster Odeholm at all costs.
Hold on now, Calle Thomer is equally important
@@RedCap-vz1dw Absolutely. We can never forget Calle.
@@RedCap-vz1dw I will never speak out of line again sir! Forgive me! The sheer disrespect I have given this man. Calle is an absolute God!
@@RedCap-vz1dw everyone in that band is so important to this genre, also we dont talk about daniel as much as we do as calle because he doesnt use any of the platforms lol
@@arockfloatinginspace4488true, Daniel is the one that started the band, and they had a different other guitarist before Calle joined but he left because he said he couldnt keep up with Daniels skill :) then Calle joined, and then Buster, and this band is still moving further into the beyond
I'd say they're probably the best evolution of Meshuggah and the sound they created. Djents baby is Thall.
Both got a genre named after them. It's what makes them the kings of their craft.
@@MrFRNTIK Facts
This 100%
This is genuinely the greatest album I've ever heard. One of the very few times in my life where a single album completely redefined the way I see music. Like...after hearing this nothing is the same anymore. Listen to it over and over again. pay attention to the melodies, because they repeat them all over the place in slightly changed and unexpected ways. Behind every nasty, thicc, chuggy riff theres always a clean thread repeating over and over, solidifying the section, giving continuity to the song that isn't overtly apparent. The whole album feels like something from another dimension, something that's been bent out of time in the most bizarre yet coherent way. I don't know a word of swedish and yet I felt like I understood exactly what the album was going for. No other album has given me this kind of mental imagery. This is a profound tale of loss, sorrow, uncertainty, and friendship. I'm sure of it, and I don't know a single lyric. The repeating melodies and motifs are like recurring characters in a movie, instantly giving you an anchor and a sense of familiarity in the context of unfamiliar, strange, and warped riffs. The original masstaden album is relatively straighforward, headbanger type of album. This album takes a lot of those concepts and twists them into something truly otherworldly. Its the heaviest, darkest, most beautiful thing I've ever heard.
Oh if you don't know the lyrics/concept you have no idea how spot on you are with the melodies and motifs being chosen for lyrical moments/parts of the story!
If you go to the post on Drew's community section where he asked for some info on the album, i dropped a couple of reddit links to a translation of the lyrics (which already highlights the story) and a discussion of the concept/plot based on lyrics and artwork. The music and lyrics fit even better with that in mind
@@sirdo946 Honestly, I could have looked up the translation earlier but I really like the feeling of not knowing any of the lyrics and just letting the music and melodies guide my imagination. It's nice to know that I was generally on the right track and at some point in the future I'll be sure to check out the actual lyric translation. The art of the album and tracks also plays into this a lot. I first listened to this album on a 6 hour flight and I listened to it 3 times all the way thru, and I fell asleep for a few hours. The dreams I had while this album was playing in my ears were absolutely magical, I cannot describe it.
One of the things I love about the composition of this album is how it plays with your expectations constantly. for example, early in the album you'll hear some progression like Clean Section A -> Heavy Riff A. Later on, they bring back clean section A amidst a storm of chaos, and you latch onto it because its familiar. You feel like you know what's going on, but unlike before it transitions into Heavy Riff B, which is similar to Heavy Riff A but twisted and deformed in some way. It really keeps you on your toes while not completely throwing you off so much that you lose interest. Absolutely genius stuff.
@@thevishyfishy Oh yeah if you've listened through it while looking at the artwork then you've probably got quite a bit of an idea of the story! I love how they literally created an audio-visual journey with it, it's incredible. Thankfully i have amazing friends who gave me as a present for my birthday (I'm lucky it was 2 weeks after the album drop lol) the bundle with the CD, a t-shirt and the 2 huge posters with all the track artwork in sequence.
They're so good i had them framed and they're hanging in my room. And they'll always be hehe.
So credit to the artist as well, who's the same guy that did the artwork for Masstaden OG (Rickard Westman)
Also they should make it into a short movie tbh lol, i wish they had the resources to do it
@@sirdo946 man, I love this damn album so much. I wish my friends liked this kind of music so I'd have someone to talk to about it. I could ramble about this endlessly lol. It's also inspired me to try and write music like this. I only have a 6 string guitar tuned to drop C so I won't be achieving tones quite as heavy, but its definitely inspired me to change the way I write riffs, and it especially changes a musician's relationship to time and meter. I love the absurd, almost comically heavy riffs but tbh I think the tone and tuning has nothing to do with how heavy this album is. The meticulous composition, insane attention to detail, and pervasive feelings of emotion and sorrow are really what does it for me. There's physical heaviness, yes, in the tuning and chugs and all that, but there's metaphorical heaviness too that i've really never seen before in this way. Couple other albums that are super heavy without even considering the actual guitar tone are Winter's Gate by Insomnium and The Way of All Flesh by Gojira. But still, those albums don't compare to Vildhjarta.
@@thevishyfishy oh yeah i only managed to get one friend of mine into Vildhjarta (and prog in general) but it's enough. I think i started him off with Jinjer's re-recorded version of Pisces and then randomly with Den Helige Anden and somehow he liked it lol. But yeah same, i could go on for hours talking about how well written and put together everything is. And the production, damn, I'm a drummer and the drums sound incredible. When i heard the album was pushed back because Buster decided to record drums instead of using programmed ones i was kinda bummed but i was absolutely blown away by the tones (especially the snare, it's the best metal snare sound I've ever heard). And seeing how much effort went into getting the perfect sounds just makes it even better. For example, to get the fat kinda "bouncy" bass drum sound, the bass drum head was tuned particularly loose so he had to adapt his double bass technique because with a less tight head you can't use as much rebound on fast parts. It's the little nuances like that that show how much care and attention every single small, insignificant detail got on this album. And i think the instrumental version highlights that production side as well
Oh and edit: i also love The Way Of All Flesh, it's my fav Gojira album ;)
Phantom assassin might be my favorite riff ever. I just love how the song literally creeps up on you and before you know it you're dead.
Holy shit you described that song perfectly…fits the title too!
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Bro thats what I tell people every time I show it to them lol.
when i first heard lavender haze i cried bc the breakdown is so pretty.
Same as me. No words
@@diegopizarro4196 the title encapsulates the song’s atmosphere perfectly, dark, menacing, but inviting and psychedelic, and once the rain starts and the haze clears the truest lavender hue emits from the cloudy sky and its like your soul is brought to rest
its one of my favourite riffs, its like ascending to something so beautiful
This might be weird but I go to sleep listening to this album and specifically that song haha
So atmospheric and heavy
It just puts me to sleep! It's like sleeping to a thunderstorm
@@southindianboi9050 dude for good reason, its insanely calming and it just takes me back to when i was a little kid
Fuckin Meshuggah and Vildhjarta should tour together. They'll melt the ears of everyone a mile around the venue lol.
Add car bomb, and the crowd will struggle to head bang all night long XD
@@hashira9166 euroblast 2018 was the shit, vildhjarta, car bomb and HLB. all on one weekend
@@hashira9166 saw car bomb with btbam, it was excellent
@@hashira9166 I would add Frontierer in as well
I would travel anywhere for that tour
Fun fact: Masstadens Nationalsang (under vatten) is full, literally full of similar riffs and references to songs on preceding album, Masstaden, all as callbacks. Vildhjarta are the gods of call backs, my favourites being Kaos2 and Heartsmear, using the same clean section at the end but in vastly different ways.
Yeah for that reason i think it's bad to start with this album. Also the previous albums (Masstaden and the EPs) are way, way more accessible. Once you GET vildjharta you will truly appreciate this album but not before.
When i heard that song for the first time it hit me right in the feels so hard.
You blew my mind with the Kao2/Heartsmear thing. I had no idea...
@@42k78 glad I could man, I just noticed the similarity because of the way the clean part was played, it's pitch shifted lower and potentially slower on heartsmear, but they added a simpler lower chug over it and added the wolves howling. Just simple stuff like that just hit so different it's insane.
Here’s the OG Heartsmear demo from 5 years ago. That clean is in the same tuning as it is in kaos2. They only slowed it and pitched it for the Masstaden UV release. My favorite clean section of the entire album, with my second being the cleans over the outro riff Dan helige anden or outro riff to phantom assassin.
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How does someone sit down and think of this lmao. Like it amazes me that they wrote this on the same instrument as I play. Just got into Vildhjarta today and this was my first full listen along with you, this is one of my new favorite albums :D
If you want a full translation of any lyrics let us Swedes know.
I went and saw Vildhjarta this Friday the 1st of June in Stockholm. They are an AMAZING liveband as well.
Var där också… tyckte ljudet var lite dåligt tyvärr men grymt ändå 🤘😀
LUCKY. Bands like this often make me wish I didn't live in the US
Wait til you’ve heard this for the 4th time and you realize that there are riffs carried throughout every song, even if for just bits and pieces, all the way through the album. Not a single note is unintentional it seems. What a perfect album
when I first listened to this album, I literally cried. I never felt so much in music like this before. It was absolutely overwhelming.
That riff at 52:08 (heartsmear) was the riff that made me fall in love with this album to the point where I've been spamming it almost daily since its release. That dissonant tremolo over the double bass is just too much.
I got chills time and time again throughout the entire album when I heard the original melody from the heartsmear teaser used in kaos2 and heartsmear.
If you cried at any point during this album, you get it. its a good thing. there's multiple parts in this album that just tonally cause you to weep.
Totalmente de acuerdo! Escuchando esta obra he estado ao borde de llorar varias veces. Simplemente magnífico, único e inigualable.
Sobbed on my first listen tbh. I genuinely feel Vildhjarta’s music more than I’ve ever felt any other music. The callbacks weren’t even the first time I cried. I waited 10 years for this and wasn’t disappointed.
Den heliga anden did that to me on first listen actually.
Den helige is a tearjerker...so much sorrow in that swirling clean guitar under the chugging..
Album is a masterpiece! Buster is a legend! Incredible artist. He plays drums for vildhjarta and is guitarist for humanity’s last breath and (of course) produces the albums for both bands. Legit master!
Met him on High5festival This weekend he was there with Vildhjarta and Thrown also Allt (producer)
So nice person and an incredible music. Maistro 🤘🔥
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Very few times in my life have I heard an album and just thought "I'm gonna be listening to this for like ten years." For one, thats probably how long it will take to absorb it, and two that was the time span between the last two albums XD.
I felt the exact same way about catch 33 in 2005. I feel like this is of the same caliber, a legendary release.
once again i gotta say i love the edits that correspond with the song, like the stutter thing during the first song, shit is superrrr sick
My man🫶🏼 I was going for end of the world vibes with this one tbh, feels like the soundtrack to the apocalypse 😂
No fuckin way you went and did this. Delighted for you and i havent even pressed play yet :D
EDIT: Nearly got goosebumps for you when masstadens nationalsang under vaten came on. If you enjoyed it that much then its a sign you need to go back and react to Masstaden (forte) in full. Please and thank you and your welcome. Big up from Cork!
Up the rebel county!! 🇮🇪 ❤️
Shoutout to the Patrons, you’re all absolute legends and helping me start pushing to do this full time❤️🫶🏼
zilon who please respond I need to find vocals like those
I listened to this album with no expectations whatsoever, I smoked a couple of bowls and just sat back..
to say I was in shock as well as tears would be an understatement.. had to listen to it 4 times to nearly grasp the depth they have reached and the reason why it took 8 years to drop.
The ambience as you mentioned is something they portray marvellously, the level of intellect buster and Calle have is beyond human comprehension..
On a side note: I think fractalize is inspired by Vildhjarta and humanity’s last breath of I’m not mistaken.
Thank you for another banger of a video, I love watching your videos and seeing you and the channel grow ❤️🤘🏻 all love!
fr bro this album is easily my favourite album of all time and listening to it high it just throws you straight into the world they created its incredible
Listening to this album for the first time was a monumental event for me, and has ingrained itself into a significant core memory. It was such a special and noteworthy thing in my life that every couple months I come back to this video to relive that moment, using your reaction as a vague guideline to remember how dumbfounded and in awe I felt in each moment, and to just in effect share the moment with someone once again. Thank you for sharing. Thall, brother.
The album art is so fucking sick. I want tattoos of all of it.
Tbh i think this is one of the best metal albums ever made. Ive never heard anything like it before. This and Exoplanet by The Contortionist are probably my favorite albums of all time. The attention to detail, insane riffs, crisp production, perfect vocals and more make this album just an absolute joy to listen to. Im so excited to see what Vildhjarta does nect
if you haven't already you should have that Slice the Cake record in there too, especially the 2023 version
The whole of this album is one of the deepest journeys of my life and I can seriously say that the final part of the track HEARTSMEAR was the deepest musical orgasm of my life...There are no words to describe the pleasure of listening to this music
I just love how sonically disruptive their guitar work is. Like. In a normal, that tone and those notes dont work. But somehow Vildhjarta makes them work. Like how can something be so unusual, unique, yet beautiful and soul wrenching.
The opening riff to Den Helige Anden is so beautiful
From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for doing this album. It is my favorite. This was entertaining the whole way through and not only did you seem to not get sick of it, you even went back and listened to some tracks over again!! That was pretty boss of you. This was the best 2 hours of my life. I will rewatch a lot and make a couple more comments in time.
No, thank you for the comment my man! So glad you’re this hyped about the video. Makes it all worthwhile man❤️❤️
It shouldnt have taken this long for vildhjarta to win a poll lol. If you sometimes struggle with meshuggah this is like quantum mechanics in comparison
The 'Headphones down and walk away' is so simple yet it makes me cry with laughter every time 😂😂
Måsstadens nationalsång has a part that consists of bunch of the original album's riffs (2:13 in the actual song). The main part of the riff is All Those Feelings (3:32), then followed by When No One Walks with You (0:33), and back quickly to All Those Feelings, continuing where the original riff would've followed through. So the riff from All Those Feelings has been sliced and stuffed with the whole off Måsstaden, until the riff has been completed.
I never have the patience or stamina to watch full album reactions, but you put some serious effort into this one and it shows. Had to leave a like and a comment. Such a pivotal album too. I feel like it's gonna be looked at as an important release for the genre with how many new ideas they execute in it.
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Same here, but I just laid down in my couch and enjoyed the whole video, although I’ve already gone through the album several times.
A masterpiece, indeed. It's almost an overwhelming experience, especially if you haven't listen to their first full-length, Masstaden. It evokes lots of emotion for me, melancholy, despair, anger, apathy, sadness, nostalgia, fear, disgust, and hope at the end. At the end of the Paaradiso, with all the emotions that hit me in the course of the album, the outro feels so cathartic it makes me tear up. Like i lived another life in a paralel universe in the span of an album. Perfection.
First off, LOVED THIS! (both the album and the video)
I obviously hope you get around to their older stuff some day, but one of the guitarist's (Calle) actually has a instrumental side project called "Stoort Neer", which is awesome! You can hear that it's got a lot of the same DNA, but the two projects are actually quite different at times. Especially the short EP which came out in 2020 titled "MÖRRINJÖ". Do yourself a favor and check that stuff out as it is criminally overlooked!!!
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bro 100% agreed, you gotta check out stoort neer - en glad titel pa en sorglig skiva (a happy title for a sad record)
glad you mentioned this. way too few people are talking about stoort neer
Stoort neer is such fun listening too!
Omfg finally you're doing this !! That album is a PURE FUCKING MASTERPIECE, Vildhjarta and HLB are the "children" of Meshuggah, those 3 are the ESSENCE of pure heaviness. This is METAL.
If metal is harder than rock, then I feel like we're on diamond at this point
45:38 my favorite part
Vildhjarta: *BWEEEEEEOOOOMMM*
Drew: WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT
just a fyi for anyone who cares, they actually dont use 8 or 9 strings, im pretty sure they never did, Calle and daniel use 7 strings and use a whammy pedal for pitch shifting into lower tunings, they originaly are tuned to some variation of standard F
They usually tune to drop F, however it’s all 4ths. On this one they tune the lowest string to E tho 🤘
I thought they tuned to mostly G standard in the original album and on this one it's the same tuning but the low is am E, look at Calle's playthroughs
@@bigtinn7591 yeah i think its G Standard but lower strings are detuned, like in den helige anten it would be G Standard, but then tuned down to Drop F THEN tune the lower string to E, correct me if im wrong
@@louistremblay1218 I got no idea lmao
@@louistremblay1218 I payed attention a little bit and now know that at least most of first album is in G standard and some drop F. Not sure about pitch shifting there, probably none or minimal. In new album it's probably all in The weird drop E with tons of shifting, maybe has some Drop F pitch shifted.
One of the greatest albums ever made. So transformative and really puts you into a whole other world. Bought this masterpiece on vinyl and I am still finding something new with every listen. Masstaden is gonna be an amazing listen for you as well, especially with the Forte version. Completely remastered. 🤘
One of my top three albums, along with archspire's bleed the future and black tongue's nadir. Such a magical listen, this one.
Those were three of my faves also.
Your reaction like what the fuck is happening during the second half of Toxin was priceless hahaha. In all honesty though it was a great pleasure to get to relive my experience of the first listen to my favorite album of all time through your reaction. Great content as always! Oh and the drummer Buster Odeholm (who also produced the album) has another project of his own called Humanity's Last Breath which I think you would enjoy as well. Cheers!
You're absolutely right in this being an album that you listen to all the way through, it's purely an experience. And so is their first album Masstaden tbh.
I discovered these guys at the start of 2019 (was coming off a biiig Tesseract hype lol), first couple listens of a few songs i didn't really care for them. Then a few weeks later i listened to Masstaden OG in full and i was just completely mesmerized. It quickly became one of my top 3 albums of all time together with Altered State and Lateralus and it was basically the soundtrack of my summer. I spent like a month with "THALL" written on my arm, rewriting it almost everyday with a pen lmao. I made my phone cover with the original Tesseract logo and THALL written just under it. I was pretty much obsessed lol, and still was at the end of the year when they released the first single since 2013.
Then i had to wait almost 2 years for this but it was 100% worth it. When the first atmospheric part (the first drop with ambience below it) in Lavender Haze hit me i literally just started crying because i couldn't believe i was actually listening to the new Vildhjarta album.
This is very likely to go down as album of the decade for me, unless Tesseract pull something out with an incredible concept or some new band comes up, i don't think MUV will be topped before 2030 honestly.
EDIT: oh and by the way, Fractalize is definitely thall and as such, they've been heavily influenced by Vildhjarta (starting from 2011), not the other way around ;)
Tesseract 5 is sounding very promising from what I've heard, although I wouldn't be surprised if this album indeed only gets topped in 2031 when Vildhjarta comes with their 3rd album haha
Sick video/reaction as always, love the edits and everything. We should all take a moment to appreciate how good the artwork of this album is though, shit's insane!
First time i listened to this album was actually the instrumental one, masstadens nationalsang rang so hard with me, felt like i was hypnotized the rest of the week. Being a meshuggah fan it just mesmerized me, kept going back and listening to it. The production sound, and buster's influence in general are so good
You should check out the band “Atlas” and their 2021 album “Ukko”. It was produced by Buster Odeholm the drummer of Vildhjarta who also produced this album. Imagine Vildhjarta but much more Metalcore sounding!
Legit had my first listen yesterday. This is why I love reaction channels. You find some absolute gems in the comment section!
@@ryandeboer1928 check out Allt it was produced by Buster aswell
@@VisualKez Yes! I was going to tell him to check out Allt as well. Im 100% down for Allt or Atlas i love both!
buster is such a genius
Yes,highly recommend it too
Yes, the moment I’ve been waiting for is finally here. This album is on my top 10 metal albums oat, for the simple fact that I’ve never heard / experienced anything like it, the mix of ambience and atmosphere with the heavy and brutal riffs and breakdowns is incredible, truly a masterpiece. Can’t wait for their next step, and I already know I’m gonna have a lot of fun watching this video.
Edit: brilliant video, brilliant edits, it was almost like listening to this album for the first time again (and I couldn’t be happier about it), you nailed it with every comment and honestly everything on this video. This is definitely an album that fits into the second and deeper definition of masterpiece you brought up. THALL is extremely niche, and Vildhjarta are heavily influential within it, even though this album still very fresh and we still finding new details in it, I can already tell that it’s gonna stand the test of time 100%, Vildhjarta has proved to achieve that by releasing it 10 years after the original and making it a masterpiece. Everything about this album is brilliant, and this video is brilliant too. Congrats my dude, you’re the best and I have no doubt about it, no one is doing what you’re doing as good as you are. I really respect and appreciate the effort and time you put on every single one of these videos, so thank you for that 🫡
What a comment. Thank you bro, I’m glad you appreciate the effort ❤️❤️
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Loved this reaction. This is one of my favorite albums of all times and the more people that experience this masterpiece the better imo. Also this is all 7 strings I’m pretty sure they just use drop pedals if I’m not mistaken
Man I've been so excited to see your reaction to this wonderful album. Has to be one of my favorites. Great content as always, Drew.
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Man, you're going to LOVE the first album if you loved Masstaden Nationalsang. It's just a Mashup of that album.
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@@gombles ya just 🤪
This is definitely an album reaction that deserves edits. Glad you put them in. Great video as always Drew. 🤘🏼🔥
I really appreciated the editing in this video, well in all of these album reactions honestly. It enhanced the experience relistening to this album. Keep it up - been a long time sub and loved watching you grow your channel. It's so crisp man.
Thank you bro🫡❤️
I’ve been a massive Meshuggah fan for quite a while and I got really into Vildhjarta over the past couple months so it was awesome to finally see you cover them! Their other albums are insane as well and they recently remastered them (Massaden forte and thousands of evils forte). Massatden under vatten is like a combination of new material plus their old albums too!
This video was everything I could want from it. Masterpiece, the story, the atmosphere, the skill to play it but also the skill to write and dream such a .. space for storytelling and fucking art. Experiencing this album 'with' someone who 'gets it' is just a joy man. Thanks for the upload
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Imo meshuggah can’t even compete with this. I’ve listened to meshuggah for years, but this album tops anything they have done. And the more a listen to this album, the better it gets. Even after hundreds of times listening to it, it just gets better. This has to be the best album of all time.
One of a kind album, It’s amazing.
I got some suggestions for you that I know you’ll enjoy
The Ocean - Pelegial
Uneven Structure - La Partition
Periphery - PII
While She Sleeps - You Are We
Bleed From Within - Shrine
Architects - Holy Hell
Haken - Vector/Virus
Meshuggah - Koloss
Allt - The Seed Of Self Destruction
Good stuff here. I would love to see him do some Haken
Pelagial is amazing
Absolutely love Allt. Have had them on repeat for almost a month at this point.
Haken are on another level.
Allt is amazing
This are Some of the best edits to reactions hahah it makes pretty enjoyable to watch
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Yes, Fractalize is another legendary thall project, i highly recommend his (or their) last EP
Fractalize is a two man band, they fucking slap
Mr. Drew! First - thank You a LOT for making such a sincere review!
I know you like Vildhjarta & Fractalize. I know both this bands in person and beign a thall lover for 12+ years I herebly suggest you one more unique band:
Please make a full album experience on Returning We Hear The Larks - Far Stepper / Of Wide Sea
I swear this would be one of best experiences for prog metal lovers like You and for the audience.
Guys please thumb up for Returning We Hear The Larks
Oh this is gonna be a great watch! I've listened to this album so many times, it's probably nearing the hundreds by now. It's my favorite album ever written without a doubt! This and the first måsstaden make up the best musical experience I've ever heard
Amen 🙏 🔥🤘🤗
This bands counterpart Humanity's Last Breath is the only thing that comes close to how unique Vildhjarta approach song writing IMO and probably in large part due to Buster and Cal being in both bands and Buster producing for both. Rampant, Fradga, and Earthless should give you a feel for the band. I would say HLB is heavier than Vildhjarta but that is objectively speaking.
I would love to see him react to Valde, a lot of these songs are insane on that album and I find it a bit more accessible for a first one listen. Love Humanity’s last breathe and Vildhjarta
I like the songs off of HLB’s self titled way more… Tellus Aflame or Bellua go absolutely insane
@@benwierenga I like all of their stuff but I would say they don't really sound a lot like the self titled album anymore. I think Earthless is the best track they have put out but that's just my IMO. Thall.
@@Gatorclash93 Earthless nothing more needs to be said lol
HLB might be heavier since they dive into some deathcore tendencies but it doesn’t come close to Vildhjarta compositionally imo
Thanks for the massive reaction. It’s been cool to see your evolution in the metal genre. To me, this album is working to accentuate different aspects of what makes music music- harmony, meolody, rhythm, space, etc. These guys seems to focus on dissonance, irregular rhythm, no repetition, and ambience. All are things that opposite most music focuses on.
I relate this album to falling into a labyrinth. It’s dark, it’s scary yet beautiful and awe-inspiring.
Brilliant video!
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Yess! You've listened to one of my favourite albums, hell.. I'd dare to say that it's everyone's favourite album since it dropped! Meshuggah started everything and Vildhjarta is ending it. The Nordic Gods overtake once again!
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Now its time for Masstaden Forte and Thousands Of Evils Forte >:)
Oh wow lol yea this album is a masterpiece. I am a huge HLB and Vildhjarta fan and this may be the best work between the two bands.
I bought this album as soon as the preorder links dropped, literally such a banging LP. Plus it came with a poster of all the art.
This was my favorite prog album of last year but I haven't heard it in a few months. Relistening through this reaction has only made me appreciate it more. Vildhjarta's sound is so unique and innovative, especially compared with their current djent contemporaries.
Love this reaction. This album is an absolute journey and your different facial expressions definitely convey that journey, haha. Despite the length of this album, I feel like it goes by so fast, too.
Also thanks for the name drop of Fractalize. I hadn't ever heard of them but will check them out further.
Love the edits in the video, too. Great work!
So glad to see your appreciation and enjoyment for this band.
Obviously their first album is something to check out but I would also highly recommend checking out their early demos before they had a record out.
Clips like “Alex Bois”, “bunch of old riffage”, “rendezvous”, etc were so influential to the early phase of djent music.
Also would love to see your reaction to Peripherys first full length album at some point.
YEEEEEESSSS!!!!! This is the most hype i've been in a while 🔥
And also huge shoutout to you Drew, for the most correct pronunciation i've heard so far on youtube.
Really dig your content mate, keep it up!!🔥
Hahaha proud of that tbh!
Glad you’re hyped bro 🔥🔥
Fucking hype, I've been looking forward to this one since you posted the results of the poll.
I will never turn down an opportunity to sit down and listen to this album! loved watching this. I knew this was going to be my favorite album of all time after hearing it once. Many parts make me actually tear up and laugh because my brain can't handle the emotion of how beautifully crafted the passages are. Like you said in the video, I am still finding nuances in this album a year later (subtle repeating themes).
Suggestion for an album that stood the test of time (in my opinion):
The Contortionist - Exoplanet
That album defines modern progressive deathcore.
Kaos2 and Paraadiso are my favorite individual tracks but the whole album is fire when listened to from start to finish. When this album came out it blew my mind.
I saw vildy at tech fest a few years back, I remember they cut lights and the crowd just started moving like the sea as the weather starts to turn, I remember my friend looking at me and just saying "see ya" as shadow started.
Genuinley the greatest random find I ever had. This album is truly a masterpiece. So glad they made me wait this long, its been a decade since 16 year old me stumbled across masstaden, and they pissed on my expectations
This album man. It got physically sick when I first heard it. It blew my mind. So unpredictable, so contrasting, so uncanny. Pure art. I describe this album as crawling through chest high mud, swimming through solid stone. Absolutely disgusting. I did my due diligence and bought the album after the first listen, their next album will be pre-ordered for sure.
Amazing react, feels like the first listen again. Production you edited amazing too.
If you like nice artistic metal music I would put The Dali Thundering Concept on your radar.
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Yes! TDTC is criminally unknown - Eyes Wide Opium should really be a household name among modern metalheads. Especially that last "secret" track. Chills every time.
Great job of displaying your initial reactions and emotions through the editing of the video. I don't think I've ever seen that with any other reaction videos. It was really cool!
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Loved that you did this and the effort put into it, my favourite band and album of last year. Would love to see you check out the original masstaden.
I'm sure someone has let you know this already mate, but masstadens nationalsang is actually a medley/mashup of a tonne of different songs from the original masstaden album. Just another bit of interest.
I think phantom assassin is my favorite, the AMBIENCE man and the brutal ending it's so amazing, def one of my fav songs all time 🔥
Vildhjarta and Humanity's Last Breath are my favorite two Swedish Heavy bands.
If you did decide to go back in time with Vildhjarta, they decided to remaster Maastaden and their ep Thousands of Evils! They are just titled as (forte). Maastaden came out near when i graduated High School and waiting for this album was absolute hell but its a special kind of brilliant and im so happy people are loving it. It is objectively a masterpiece
I would recommend checking out their first album Masstaden, they have a remastered version (forte) that has similar production to this one.
“Shut up and listen mentality” was the greatest thing I’ve ever heard be said on a reaction channel
gonna be one of the best albums of the next 5+ years or so at the least, this album truly is an epic. and not to mention the remaster of Masstaden sprinkled on top as a treat.
You pretty much had everyone’s first reaction to hearing vildhjarta :)
Been following the channel for some time now. I never quite expected it to go here but boy am I glad that it did. You are officially down the rabbit hole. Might I suggest another very immersive full album listen to “Odyssey to the West” by Slice the Cake. Literal poetry in the form of technical, progressive, and melodic metal. Either way, it’s been great to see the progress in the production of your videos along the way and I look forward to following you on the rest of your journey🤘🏻
vouch for slice the cake
This 100%
The writing on Odyssey would make you feel the same way the production on this album does
Great reactions. Thanks for checking out so niche albums.
Don’t worry about understanding what they’re saying, it’s all in Swedish anywho 😅 been my favorite band since 2009 haha
I really like the way you edit your videos. And show the artwork and music vid snippets. And the funny parts with the bombs lol
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Best thing about these reaction videos is seeing how many times Drew contemplates selling his guitars.
This album always gives me Mesguggah meets TOOL vibes.
That 'glitchy' sound you love is something you can do on your guitar too! It's called a dead note, lightly mute the string(s) with your left and and play whatever you want on the right - sounds lovely with high overdrive and occasional multiple strings to give extra chonk
The amount of laughs I`m having watching your face haha, I`ve never been more amused by a reaction video
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Duude, I just saw Drews expression at 14:06 and couldn't but burst iut into laughter. Damn that album reaction is a gift
My favorite reaction video ever. Thank you!
Wow, thank you!🫶🏼
@@DrewFortune97 I'm a bit biased, as Vildhjarta has been my favorite band for the last decade (since the release of Måsstaden).
The effort you put into this video shows. First off all great editing and it's clear you've gone through other Vildhjarta material as well after the initial reaction (for example Buster's drum playthrough for sunset sunrise).
And well, I've never watched a reaction video this long before but this was definitely well worth my time. It was a joy to witness your initial reactions to my favorite parts and sections of some songs (like the endings of när de du älskär... and kaos2). I get goosebumps everytime I hear them and this time was no exception. Your reaction seemed to indicate those parts hit you hard as well!
I was lucky to see them live 3 weeks ago in Finland. That was the second time. The first time happened 10 years ago.
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I can get where you're coming from with the Fractalize comparisons, but the truth is, if anything, Fractalize ripped off Vildhjarta/Meshuggah on those staccato dead notes, heh.
They've been doing that stuff since 2005 and it was heavily featured on the original Måsstaden (that came out in 20011, btw, the fans had been waiting for "under vatten" for 10+ years) whereas Fractalize dropped their first album in 2016. Meshuggah have done that type of riffing (just not to the extent of the two former) as well, though.
Daniel is the OG of the thall shit.
Such a beautiful album!
I love their music, and i dont know who does their artwork but its so fucking beautiful
Rickard westman did the art for this album, thousands of evils, and måsstaden
Just so ya know, they usually play 6 string baritone guitars and extremely heavily utilize a pitch shifter pedal called a Digitech Whammy. It's can be controlled through midi so along with insane tempo tracks, they have insane semitone automation tracks to do all those crazy lows.
Sad how Rivers of Nihil got so little votes, amazing album. But hey so is måsstaden under vatten, this is what police brutality feels like
Nice man, this album is sick!! Glad you got to hear it
My fave album of last year for sure. Might be awhile before another album tops it!
Man I wish I could go back and listen to this album for the first time again
Passage Noir is just THALL, EPIC, A MASTERPIECE... THE ELITE OF METAL
It all true, just did my first listen all the way through again since the album released, and even though ive heard all of the songs many times at this point there are still so many things i notice that keep blowing my mind over and over again