Philosophical Analysis of Deathconsciousness
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Analyzing the philosophy behind the influential album Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life.
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0:00 - Introduction
4:06 - The Booklet
19:25 - The Music and Lyrics
34:20 - Interpretation 
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imagine your english teacher casually dropping this masterpiece
i'm more saddened that one of 'em is a real estate cuck
now youve gotta write a report on it by friday
Ironacly, I had a similar experience. Sarcófago frontman and vocalist/guitarrist was my math teacher. He is now a math professor in a prestigious university in Brazil.
@@randomguyontheinternet7940most interesting assignment subject of all time
*Ironically... And your experience wasn't ironic, it was coincidental.
It makes me happy that someone cares about this album and talks about it nearly 40 minutes
A lot of people do actually.
@@James-xr9gl yeah, nearly 800k listeners on spotify. there wasnt even 70k when i started listening to it lol. tiktok does some crazy things
What song of theirs was on tiktok?
@@karigrandii a quick one before the eternal worm devours conneticticut and bloodhail
Please stop with the tiktok, and the temu. You support an ongoing genocide and a thousand other terrible things, perpetrated by the Chinese Communist Party. I'm serious, stop it.❤
“Deathconciousness is the Dark Souls of internetcore albums”
Im going to nosedive off a freeway overpass and they will find your video open on my phone
fr prefix-core is so fucking annoying tiktok’s ruined so many genres
@@farewellmyheartliterally. like it doesn’t mean anything anymore. when people hear “deathcore” they think some aesthetic and not Yknow. a subgenre.
"Life has rejected me, and I reject life. It is just as it is written. Antiochus would have been so proud"
It is not life we reject. But humanity. People.
@@MusashiW-ec2ynNo, with the context of thr quote, it rejects life itself, not humanity or whatever you offered with that poor explanation
@@kolopeeincorrect. In the context of the quote, the writer had felt disenfranchised and rejected by human society, not the mere act of living and breathing itself. Based on the context, you are wrong and the above poster has a more credible interpretation
@@MusashiW-ec2yn whats the diference?
@@kolopeeNo. You deny life and include us in your own folly
Who up playing with their eternal worm to this
hey
i'm so glad you covered this album in a philosophical way, it's one of my favourite albums
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?@@jerrys1
Hi! I didnt see this in any comment, so, in my interpretation the "Eternal Worm" thats referenced in the first track of the album is a direct reference to "The Conqueror Worm", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, in wich this conqueror worm serves as a metaphor for Death. The whole poem can be relacionated with de album, for its a piece that narrates and frames the existence of man like a teather play, and its hero, the conqueror worm, meaning, Death as the only "hero" of the tragedy we know as men. (Sorry if i made some mistakes, my main lenguage its not inglish, and i strongly recomend to read the poem)
"Червяк ползёт за всеми
Он несёт однозвучность." (с) А.Введенский
I count deathconsciousness as one of the few albums that could reach me at my lowest. There were points where I didn't think I could feel nothing but bad, where no light could reach me.
It was only this album, and a few albums from Xasthur and Swans that spoke me in that spot, like a voice being heard in the center of an abyssal void.
I'm doing much better now but I can sing every word of "hunter" or "holy fucking shit 40,000" even today. I am forever indebted to this music.
"Everything you do is planned out in advance, the stars push their dark wills down on you."
god this is such a gorgeous approach to the philosophies presented in this album. You can really truly find the beauty and such within this sort of thought line even if it doesn’t feel or look like it.
I have a different approach - I believe that life and existence has many different colors, and only painting with one will color your worldview and perspective and sometimes not for the better. It’s important to remember all the other colors at your disposal and all the other colors in our existence.
@@caydeofspaydes When you are deep in depression, your eyes break and all you see are shades of white and black. Goodluck painting a colorful painting when the only color left is suffering. Not impossible, just extremely hard. Some of my favorite art is colorless, case in point. Beauty and color can coexist seperately.
@@theordinary1059Exactly. I live every day disconnected from humanity and it's a hell I've just gotten used to.
@@caydeofspaydes Amen. I'm not at the point of having no friends, I do have friends that I spend most of my free time with when I don't want to be alone. But even when we play online together via discord, I still feel lonely. So there is nobody that I can honestly say that I love around. I never feel like I'm with anybody and it is very isolating. I often just feel like I'm rotting in a box. Slowly feeling entropy wear and grind my body and its cells down to disorganized heaps of waste and heat.
Cursed. But not hopeless. And I mean that.
I believe deathconciousness as a philosophy and the themes presented in the album is important. But also nihilism can and will rot your brain especially if you’re predisposed to deep yawning pits so to speak like I am, whose been struggling with severe mental health issues for most of my life and on-and-off suicidal since I was around 10 years old.
It’s important to remember that if you surround yourself with one certain thing it will color your world view and your life. If you paint with only blacks and whites and greys your life will only be monochromatic. It’s important to remember all the other colors too, it’s important to find that balance.
There is deathconciousness but there is also the indomitable human spirit. There is doomerism and there is hopepunk as a movement too.
There is beauty and comfort in nihilism too. I’ve read so many of the comments here and how this sort of stuff has helped them. It’s so empowering to see.
13:39
I came to that realization one day while listening to how to disappear completely.
It was a really comforting thought at the time
12 year old me when I realize the sun will burn out in like the next bazillion gazillion years:
Actually one of the best video essays on the whole website, it doesn't even deserve to be on youtube. Everyone who is interested in philosophy, or this album in general, should watch this. It's carefully put together and researched, man, i'm so glad this video exists. Thank you.
I love the moment of sonder you feel, when you realize someone else has followed the same idiosyncratic path through the early internet with you. I remember seeing the album cover on mu long ago too with the exact same response.
"In the dirt of life, it is up to us to plant the seeds, watch the flowers grow, and enjoy their beauty, even in spite of the fact that we know they will die."
I have never listened to this album. I didn't know this video would be about an album, just the title 'deathconsciousness' seemed so interesting. I shall listen to it and review it here.
Eternal worm - a few seconds in this is reminding me of cocteau twins. 3 minutes in, this is beautiful. Hypnotic noise, nothing and yet everything.
Bloodhail - lovely shock. I see the joy division comparison. Ambivalent about the vocals. ' I don't accept this. at all.' - very real.
Big gloom - I am in a dream-like state by now, eyes blurred and watering. please release me. The drum turn was another lovely shock. second half reminds me a lot of atmosphere by JD. too late. The sound is hard to process in a way - I hope someone understands.
Hunter - made me jump. marching quality. Evokes a church hymn. weighty album. i feel this physically as though standing is even made more difficult by the sound. 'lay in awe on the bedroom floor' album. It takes another ethereal turn. It transcends. Feel that drum in my chest.
Telephony - minimal. nicest sounding vocals yet. my head is reminding me of a 'kh' sound (which I adore, like in ankh). Is anybody there?
Son in the sun - a bit different. lighter? more sunny, haha. strumming on a banjo or ukulele, in a melancholy way. Angels in the sky, come down to make me feel alright. Getting angrier as it goes. Harrowing scratch.
no food - beepy. heart monitor? the sound thickens. I continue the now-suffocating task of putting my washing away. The ending nearly stops my heart- frightening.
black metal records - the title made me laugh, i must say. my stomach turns when the drums start. with the guitar, i am now rocking. familiarity, at last. finally dancey and not crushing. i am vaguely aware of the word massacre. bliss in the final minute.
holy 4000 - pop song? hey? send me back in time, tell me who's mother i have to kill? i'm enjoying the lyricism and the weight has largely lifted, if the sadness still hasn't. banging breakdown! IS it my headphones or is the audio quality god awful? curse lossy files. quiet piece to finish.
future - i can feel the weight coming back on. anxiety inducing beeps. a thousand weights, and i've still got dresses to hang up.
deep - jump scared me, rockkkkkkk. evokes 'no love lost'. love this track. lack of love. reconcile. stand alone, probably my favourite track so far. my brain is boiled and fried from processing sounds. deep, deep, i'm screaming for air at this point. but this album is relentless.
don't love - initial vocals and lyrics cut deep. you may have gathered I'm a very jumpy person, I am startled again. buried under tons of soil. oh, oh, oh, oh.
Earthmover - almost stone roses. the beat drops and you are firmly reminded which album you have been listening to. Almost glad it's finished, but the brain begs for more more more, like something has been started and not resolved, and never will be. The body aches.
An experience, to say the least.
Finally a review that also considers the booklett. I am so envy of you, that you wrote such a good video essay. Probably the best essay on the album. Thank you very much.
you saved me with that end bro, was charging to the sun but you brought me back just in time
Had the worst month of my life last month, and I believe I found a song on Spotify weekly. I then checked it out, and it has really helped just feel the sadness. I normally struggle to feel emotions. This album really did help me finally cry my eyes out.
Lol go listen to slayer and you'll feel a lot better
Good job. It's glad you could tap into that range of your emotions dawg. Sorry for the pain you felt but it's important that you did. Hope you get to feel the other aspects of your emotions. Cheers
I listened to Deathconciousness for the first time a while back-loved it, but I haven’t returned to it yet due to how depressing and demanding of a listen it is. Now after hearing this analysis I’m excited to revisit and get even more out of it, because I hadn’t payed much attention to the lyrical content last time. Great work as always, Dun 💯
One of the best analyses I’ve seen on youtube. Great stuff
This is one of the most beautiful videos that i've seen on youtube ever
Thank you
HOLY F*CK.
Wow.
That is my impression after watching this video.
I'm into the topics of nihilism and death at the moment, and having yt recommend this to me, i thought this would be a half-hour long video about philosophy, meaning of life, etc.
But no, from the 1st second i was surpirsed that this was an album review.
You then started telling the story of what was in the booklet.
Intrigued, i decided to stick around, and i'm glad i did, damn.
The way you narrated throughout this whole video immersed me in the content, and now i'm eager to listen to this album in its entirety having never heard of it.
I'm into black metal, post punk and such genres, so hearing your descriptions, and even the title "waiting for black metal records to come in the mail" really peaked my interest.
I'm starting to find great strength in the phrase "memento mori" and what it means, motivating me to do things i'd be too afraid to do otherwise, cause ultimately, it won't matter in the end anyway.
Okay, listened to the album 3 times already, gotta say, did not expect what i heard, but i do like it.
I'd listened to mgła's exercises in futility and vermin womb's retaliation before watching this video, so hearing him describe "a wall of sound" i for some reason thought i'd hear what i'd heard in those albums, even though he listed out all the influences at the start of the video.
But still, i enjoyed the album, with each listen it grows on me more and more.
I think the low quality only adds to the atmosphere of the entire record.
wow what an amazing deep-dive into my favourite album, it's refreshing to see someone talk about the booklet as well, a part of deathconsciousness that i feel is often sadly overlooked by its listeners.
i rly liked that u didn't just talk about the music but the philosophy behind the lyrics and it's creation, some of the references and your own thoughts behind what the lyrics are meant to convey and how u urself feel about them too, all around a fantastic video that made me very happy!
I love this album so much. I really wonder what it sounded like before they lost the files to that crash
If you're game for it, I feel that you have great skill and insight to create more videos analyzing art with philosophical themes, such as: Berserk, Vinland Saga, Disco Elysium, Mount Eerie, Lain etc...
Also gotta throw Leviathan and the One man band Black Metal canon on there too
A Mount Eerie / The Microphones analysis video is a very compelling idea
@@duncanclarke I would also highly recommend giving Hawaii: Part II a listen. It’s an incredibly experimental album with an overarching narrative story, that is incredibly unclear; and leaves interpretation entirely up to the listener
@@duncanclarke i would love that, duncan
@@duncanclarke please
Thank you for explaining, this is one of the best videos i've seen in trying to explain something unexplainable. You did well, good job
this video was my introduction to this album and i cannot thank you enough for that
This was an amazing watch, thank you for sharing your work!!!!!
I absolutely love and adore your use of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World in this marvelous analysis of yours!
as a fan of Deathconsciousness, this is a pretty good video. The quality and pace of it is perfect.
Another Duncan banger. Keep em coming
Every Winter I listen to "Hunter" several times a week and it is very soothing and lovely. The whole album is great, but that song is the best
Coincidental seeing you made a video about this. I’ve been a fan of it for a while and I just discovered your psychological experiment iceberg video. Nice
I found this Album a year after it came out because I dig for music, and I have never felt it was THIS depressing. Tragic sure, but the beauty in tragedy which leads to transcendence. Can you not appreciate the Beaty in a hopelessness from which one is saved. How you perceive the light at the end of the struggle, and if in fact you are like Sisyphus and find the beauty of your tumultuous existence will determine your perspective.
Love when I start entering keywords into searches and comments intentionally to get the algorthim to serve me up a new channel like this. Thanks for your work. Fantastic video and well done for exploring a worldview and then ending it with a succinct refutation which encourages the viewer to reflect on the dichotomy at hand and the infinite branches which one could choose from to explore these ideas afterwards
What was your query to end up here?
@@derekfletcher8934 Wish I could tell ya but it was 7 months ago. When I'm back home at a computer I could go into my Google Account and I think see it that way.
absolutely amazing video dude, deserves way more views, I never knew ant of this stuff about the album before
I recently found this album and searched for videos showcasing its themes. You outlined them point by point. Thank you for the awesome video. Instant sub.
this album is my depression, nihilism, existential angst of my daily thoughts in music so i depend on it so i know it's all in my head and it's in everyone's head, and it's okay because I'm not the only person suffering in my own thoughts and we're all aware of the truth of our existence but some of us just choose to ignore it or believe in some superfical being and some of us look for pieces of art as an esoteric experience.
who hurt bro
Not me lol. As someone whos been dead from overdoses multpule times ive come to the conclusion that death isnt such a big deal. Its just a lack of consiousness. If i dont remember what it was like before i was born i probably wont remember what its like after i die. I also don't love life so much that I'm obsessed with keeping it going forever. This kind of over fixation on death is so pointless. Just live life to the fullest while we are here. Life is what you make it.
Aight bro wrap it up
@@20somethingcimenayour fucking cringe bruh its like your saying oh look at me im happy with life so why aren't you no one cares about you nor your stupid shit you have to say and you never died from multiple overdose you absolute utter fucking clown
The abominable human spirit
this video was very well put together, good shit
Your videos are great. Please, dont stop
I’ve been listening to this album and rewatching this video over and over again for a whole month now.
I really need to stop.
I've randomly saved one song from this album on Spotify but never listened to the whole thing. I'm glad I checked this out
Excellent review and essay.
A few video suggestions:
1. Free Will vs Determinism.
2. Life after death and living forever, Bernard Williams wrote an essay on the topic right before his own death which I'm unfortunately blanking on the name of.
3. Thoughts on antinatalism which I believe you said in a previous video you aren't a fan of and I would love to know your thoughts.
All great ideas. Thank you
I've thought of a weird rebuttal against antinatalism
so basically antinatalism presupposes pleasure=good, and pain=bad. Sure, but it doesn't really explore more on what those things are.
What is pleasure? That could be eating, relaxing, relief after working hard, sex...etc
What is pain? That could be a hot stove, stubbing your toe, being stabbed, betrayal...etc
So...why do pleasure and pain exist?
Pleasure seems to chase things that keep us alive. Eating to prevent starvation, sex to reproduce, etc...
Pain seems to avoid things that kill us. Putting your hand away from a hot stove, recoiling at stubbing your toe, avoiding the dark-alleyway...etc
So, instead of seeing pleasure and pain as two different units that are added together theyre more two parts of one thing. I'll call this unit of measurement "Life".
Pleasure and pain isn't whether you have more than or less than a thing. Pleasure and pain is the *change* in the quantity of "Life" you have (it could also be called the "derivative" or "slope" of life if you wanna get mathematical).
If the amount of life you have has increased, you feel pleasure. If the amount of life you have has decreased, you feel pain. If the amount of life you have is constant, you feel stable and relaxed.
[This also can explain why people with different amounts of "Life" (People living in safer environments vs war-torn cities, richer people vs poorer people, healthier people vs sicker people) can feel stasis and get used to their environments, and aren't in constant amounts of pleasure or constant amounts of pain.]
So...back to antinatalism.
In antinatalism, being born is bad because you will be subject to pain. But, in this new lense, being born is actually the best thing that could happen. When you're not born you have 0 amounts of life, and it can't decrease from there it can only increase. Therefore, being born is inherently pleasurable because you have an increase in the amount of life that you have.
@@b.a.r.c.l.a.y not a bad way of looking at the world
Free will isn't real
@@duncanclarkein favor of antinatalism, I'd recommend a chapter from the brothers karamazov: rebellion. Which does not directly argue in favor of it, but I would posit something similar, and say "why the whole world of knowledge is not worth that little girl crying in the outhouse" 100 great lives are not worth a child being tortured and killed, when it could have been prevented if they and if they're ancestors were never born, it's not worth the risk, sure your child may not be subject to such extremes of suffering, but one of your descendants will, is that worth it?. Also people fail to consider existential suffering, such as a meaningless life, a shity job, being born into poverty etc. Also take mental illness into account and trauma etc, it is nearly incomprehensible to me how anyone who has seriously thought it through, could possibly justify having a child, I do not condem my parents, they had no malevolence, they were well intended and raised me well, and I have a very privileged life, even still, they made a mistake.
I love when an analysis is as long as the content
Thank you for this vid the first time I heard deathconsciousness I really felt a weird sense of awe
This is brilliant. Thank you
Your ability to analyze the lyrics and tie them to these other references is amazing. I appreciate the straightforwardness as well. Though I find much of the brutal expression throughout the album to be contradicting and over the top when put together, I find individual sections of the album interesting and more coherent. Much thanks for the well put together interpretations !
Edit: now that I think more about it, some of the contradictions are probably on purpose to add to the overall concept and intention of the album/lyrics
great video well done
this is a must see video if you like Deathconsciousness really amazing job man
Great audiovisual content
The Icon and the Axe is such an absolute banger.
Deathconsciousness is my favourite album of all time. I watch Jacob's Ladder after your video and I think this movie plays into the themes of the album very well. The whole experience of 'being on the ladder' is a constant nightmare and Jacob keeps saying he wants out or 'to go home'. however, when he finally wakes up from the nightmare, he is gone for good. As 'I don't love' goes: I don't want to live like this, Lord // I don't want to live at all // I don't want to make this face anymore //But if I don't, that's all.
overall, I loved your video!
That's a pretty good video! Your opinion at the end is just what I think about this subject.
great video! deathcon inspired me to make music. i love to see the philosophical aspect of it as well.
great video. Thank you for it
this album brought me to em and literaly saved my life i think! idk i just live it sooo much!!
Excelente vídeo sobre um dos melhores álbuns do século, congratulações!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Excellent explanation thanks.
Nice video. I feel seen and I don't know how I feel about it! ❤
What a great work sir
I love this album so much
I love that album, and this video too.
I had never heard of this album before watching this video a few weeks back. Now I can’t get enough. Thank you
And also this album slaps af and I feel you haven't said it enough
had no idea this video was about music but i mightve ended up finding a new favorite artist
Thank you, dude. So interesting
been listening to this album once in a while for... A while
Ayeee day after I drop mine on this album let’s go!
i LOVE have a nice life. great band, so underrated
omg i am so glad you mentioned deafhaven
yo I had not thought about scarufi in years. amazing that guy is still going
This a great video. Thank you. Btw Dan Barret also did some interesting solo releases under the name Giles Corey. In particular I love the song Blackest Bile. Would totally recommend
So glad this reached over a 100k views
I found this album through Apple Music auto playing tracks from it after finishing an Alex G album (I think Rocket but it might have been Trick). I’ve never even tried to hear the lyrics but I’ve listened to it so many times I find myself singing a long subconsciously knowing the words. The unspoken thing though is I don’t think they mean that people really should k*ll themselves or live by these philosophies so much as this is art about what it really feels like to feel this way. Happiness does feel fake when you never feel it. Thanks man for making this I hope more people find the album from it
Incredible album, awesome video. This album is New England mid-winter dread.
I love that phrase
this break down is so good😭
Am I the only one who thought this was solely about death conciousness as a philosophical subject and didnt expect it to be about music?
Excited for Duncan to hear “A Crow Looked At Me”
this is possibly the greatest video on youtube. sick.
i think a similar video discussing the themes surrounding the ooz by king krule could be awesome aswell.
YEESSSSS
good video. two thumbs up.
I really love this album
Duncan you are awesome
never heard this album before but great vid as usual
beautiful video
i’ve been listening to this gem since 2017 😎
thisis my favorite video essay ever. so fucking awesomennn!!!!!!
One of the best albums of all time
great video!
favorite album
My computer bluescreened right while you were talking about the loss of the .wav files. Fitting...
Holy fucking shit: 40 000 is the first song I heard from them and I instantly fell in love. Would love to hear them live
21:30 reminded me of Berserk and Griffifth
Keep the videos going
this is fire bob
the whole point is the journey itself
my first taste of this was during a manic episode when i heard A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Appalachia and i wanted to hear the original song + album and my manic episode went to a depressive one
tldr: love these dudes
Man this "One day we`re gonna die, i will too" at the start just force me to subscribe and enjoy this video till the end
hey, lovely video! this is a great analysis! i only found the album recently thanks to a fantastic Miku cover of Bloodhail that Astrophysics put out and I'm very much in love with how the entire original album sounds. your analysis has deepened my appreciation of it!
Amazing video! I want to share some information I was taught about the cover art, Death of Marat. I'm surprised it wasn't intentional with how well it fits in with the themes of the album.
Jaques-Louis David was commissioned to paint a piece to memorialize Marat after his murder, as David was very close with him. They expected David to depict him in a heroic scene or in-action, but David instead depicted him in his final moments - alone, in his bath, doing his work, bleeding out. He wanted people to remember that yes, he did do good work for the public, but he was just a person. A person who was killed when he couldn't fight back, not a martyr or hero, but his friend.