8:57 I've noticed this one in Vital Vessals and Father, but I didnt ever realize until now how used this is until now

43 MINUTES.

The Pimp and the Priest's motif is also very prominent in 'Blood' where it sounds a bit drunk in free time denoting his demise in Hunter's hands.

Only Casey could fit 43 minutes of reprises into 5 albums

This video helped a whole lot when it comes to understanding the story. Particularly the Melpomene reprise in The Flame. When we figure out who the intended target of Mr. Usher and the Pimp/Priest is, you knew Hunter was going to lose it.

So, Act V was the first album I heard from them, and I recently started Act IV, and imagine my absolute excitement when I heard the chorus of The Old Haunt

Casey you damn genius.

I never thought I’d stop watching a video and save it for later because of music spoilers

One of my favourites is the intro to The most cursed of hands at the end of king of swords. When I realized what the motif was and listened to it again, i genuinely laughed. Its on of my favourite bits of foreshadowing in any media ive seen/heard

The Bitter Suite III Reprise in Vital Vessels Vindicate always gets me

i don't really pay attention to this stuff when listening to other people's music but its neat how much thought goes into it i can't believe it's been almost 20 years since the first album o_o

Man Act II is something else

All of these reprisals make my hairs raise I love the acts so much

So much work went into putting this all together!! Thank you

For "Red Hands Foreshadowing" I threw in a reference to this in "The Old Haunt" from Act IV in the F Horns at 3:31 (in the track, not this video) -- you can also hear it more clearly in "Far Too Many Waves to Try" from The Fox and the Hunt at 3:01 (in the track, not this video)

Genius.

This band is the best thing that has happened to me

This is amazing. Thank you

Isn’t there a PATP “faster, save me” melody reprise at 2:49 in In Cauda Venenum?

Red hands actually has the melody reprise with the "ba ba ba baba" too. Just done with a different rhythm

I've found another similar motif: Waves - at "00:50" that melody sounds just like the one from A night on the town at "3:55" at "By giving myself to the earth below me" and "By casting away the ordinary" or, if you will, maybe it starts earlier. but I'm not sure Waves 1:53 A night on the town "And what's the worst I'd see..."

33:10 Well if they ever make a movie, I think we all know what the tagline is gonna be.

While the Acts as a whole are a triumph of motif, and Act V is by far my favorite, Act II stands head and shoulders above the others in this regard. It is the series' beating heart.

if you listen in at 4:22 in TMCOH there is another mustard gas reprise that was missed in this video. :)

My favorite is the Regress Foreshadowing

I would say one thing that could use touched up on is one of the themes from act 3. The one that goes from “Everything you thought you had you lost” to “Everything you’d thought you lost you had” to “Now everything we never had is here for us”

Never caught tpatp in Mr. Usher before. That’s great, thanks!

I was already a huge fan of reprises before finding TDH. Probably why I love them so much.

You know it was probably Caseys idea for the "this is the last night in my body" reprises on the receiving end of sirens album between the heart and the synapse

the piano accents from chill break in the revival is also a callback to the verse of Mr Malum, from the color spectrum :)

The Smiling Swine Reprise #1 is in Wait as well in the intro the notes are just Reversed and Slower

i seriously come back to this video every time i make a new discovery listening to the albums, which is, like, almost daily. no joke

I feel that the "He Said He Had a Story" reprise is supposed to symbolize Hell based on what the Father did, and especially makes sense in The Most Cursed of Hands Also in Similar Riffs, the intro riff to In Cauda Venenum is literally the same notes as the intro riff to City Escape but the notes are backwards Very cool video, I'm happy there are other people as hyper fixated about the motifs in The Dear Hunter as I am

I considered myself a huge fan of TDH. I have listened to all of their music countless times. Some of the themes I always knew were there but so many of these I either never connected directly or didn’t notice all together. I’m absolutely floored by how amazing this group is.

Man theres so much bits and pieces i never even picked up on........casey is a fucking genius.

I can easily say that the Acts are the most accomplished and well constructed works of concept music that I personally have ever heard. There's a lot of greats, but the way that themes, both musical and lyrical, are raised and revisited across over 5 hours of music is just insanely impressive.

Casey Crescenzo is a genius, this is incredible! :D I feel like this montage is the best way to intriduce this band to someone, it gives a pretty complete palette of sounds and feelings that are to be discovered through their discography!

I know I'm years late, but I just wanted to thank you for putting this up, I really enjoyed this video, so again, thank you so much for all of this!

Thank you so much for this.

beginnings of "Ouroboros" and "The March" are similiar. They're not in the list, are they? To my mind, that must be added to the video.

The amount of reprisals they were able to cram inside The March while still having it feel and sound like its own thing it's a testament to Casey's and the whole band's musical genius. Definitely one of the most underrated bands in the world.

Is it just me or is there a bit of “The Old Haunt” in “Blood”? The descending melody at around 2:42 in “Blood” sounds a lot like one in the background at 3:36 in TOH. Could be a coincidence, but it would definitely make sense if it was intentional.

How could I have never noticed the oracles one?? That's like my favorite song, goddamn

It’s incredible that a band had so many callbacks and yet still there are some missing in here

The reprise of The Old Haunt's chorus in The March and the sheer hair-raising energy that comes with the "Dear Apparition" motif is what makes Act V one of my favorite TDH albums.

wow you did a great job on this props!

The opening riff of Dear Ms Leading can be heard at 1:12 in At The End of the Earth on the piano

My heart bursts in the reprisal of Wheres her Heart in Night on the Town

I’m so glad this was made 😂 it’s so hard to keep track of all the reprises and callbacks, trying to remember “which song did i hear that from before?” But everything is right here! Thank you 💗

Oh wow. This is so cool.