Composer/Musician Reacts to Blake Richardson | BtBaM - Voice of Trespass (REACTION!!!) 

Fun fact, one of the guitarists Paul mentioned in an interview that Blake usually takes the lead when writing the transitions between different sections in their songs. He’ll usuallly come up with a drum part and the rest of the band will then go off and write the rest of the transition over the drums.

There's a lot to talk about with his drumming, but one thing that I want to point out is that his blastbeat snare hits were accented, which is not a common thing to do. Rather than just focusing on hitting the snare at a constant velocity, he was pulling his forearm back and forth to accent the beat and I think that's a great technique that more extreme metal drummers should utilize. Along the same lines, I was watching Ihsahn (Of Emperor) talk about playing black metal chords and he said that he did the same thing - that even if you are tremolo picking, try to attack and accent the beat to make the song feel like it has more movement.

Blake "Muscular Jesus" Richardson is one of my fave i fallin in love with BtBaM since Alaska album

Your channel could just be BTBAM reactions and i'd still enjoy it all the same. Blake's a god Phenomenal indeed

Blake has been a member since Alaska, and colors came after. So he was on all the tracks you have heard until now, great video my guy!

blake richardson has been in the band since Alaska BTBAM's 3rd album Ants of the Sky is from Colors their 4th album Extremophile Elite is from parallax 2 future sequence which is their 6th full album Voice of Trespass and The Grid are of of automata 2 their 9th full album so Blake Richardson has been the drummer in the band for all the songs you have reacted to

Hands down my favorite drummer. I’m so gay for this guy it’s unreal. Got to meet him in 2007 and he was so humble and nice to me and my friends. He signed my copy of The Silent Circus and I had no idea at the time that he wasn’t in the band yet when they made that album. His streams are super entertaining

I kinda wish you did his play-through of Obfuscation.

Alex Rudinger - Cubensis. Some more mindblowing drumming.

I love watching and listening to you talk about between the buried and me. They seem to greatly impress you for a number of reasons and that makes me happy because they've been my favorite band since their second album the silent circus came out. I love seeing them praised, not enough people know about them or can appreciate the unique things that they do.

They played this when I saw them back in December. Such a fun song. Love these guys.

not surprisingly, btbam have had no lineup changes since 2005. metal bands typically have constant changes but the lack of that in btbam is likely a huge factor in how good they are at their unique style of music.

As a drummer, I'm appreciating this week of vids. =D Blake has some major chops. And this song is just fun - it's classic BTBAM, fusing some other musical styles in with their prog/tech metal, but more so on the non-metal side.

Alex rudinger - good tiger Donovan melero - hail the sun Aric improta- night verses Incredible drummers, incredible bands

Blake is the mannnnnn

Need to check out Ectopic Stroll drum play by Blake, among others of course! Btw yes he was the drummer for everything from Alaska in 2004 to now...everything you’ve listened to so far.

And yet another band that I will have to look into more in the future! Part of the reason why I love your channel is the fact you react to and analyze both the more popular and less popular bands - thanks to that I've discovered many artists I wouldn't have otherwise checked out. Of course, your throughout breakdowns of the songs are the main reason.

He might the most impressive member of the band. Which is really saying something

You should definitely check out Car Bomb's Elliot Hoffman. Dude is beyond human skill.

Watching this band live left me physically and mentally exhausted. It is so complicated and fast that my brain struggled mightily through most the set. Likely because they played a few tunes I hadn’t heard yet.

Been waiting for you to check out this song in general! Love Blake’s ability to draw from out her styles on a dime. He’s really “colorful” with his set which is something I really enjoy!

Even though you've reacted to their song before I highly recommend you watch the drum playthrough of Leprous - The Sky Is Red. The technical prowess and sound there is phenomenal. Baard absolutely smashes it and I know you would love it. :)

ive listened to probably 10000 different metal bands at this point and blake is still the best drummer of the genre/our generation.

Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande playing Means To An End.

Okay, so it's only fair that I watch this video, too, since I comment-bombed it. XD Very cool drumming! Really interesting, unique sound! Kind of like an evolution from the recent rise of electro-swing back toward traditional swing, only updated to include modern drumming techniques like double-kicks and jazz figure hits, along with modern instruments like electric guitars. Not overly my thing; pretty compositionally simplistic for my taste, but it's fun to give a listen to. Great bass drum sounds, also! Very metal setup! Whoa... okay, blast beats in a swing/jazz song... going toward prog metal a little... now back toward electro-swing. Okay... and now to chugging, djenty prog... and now a bit of slow death metal? Yeah, okay, I take back what I said about compositional simplicity. XD I like that they kept the brass section during the death metal sections! Maybe a little influence from brass metal cover band Brass Against? Or vice-versa? Ooh, I like that synth string and gong section, very symphonic metal sounding! He's a pretty good drummer. Good with a lot of styles, not overplaying the song or overshadowing the band. Nothing particularly flashy or technical, but that's okay!

Thank you for this video! My favorite song off their automata ii album. You should check out the drum playthrough through of Obfuscation or Telos. \m/

Since this is your drum week, I think it would be a great idea to watch Drumeo's video with Larnell Lewis from Snarky Puppy listen to a song, and then compose drum parts for it. It's very informative, entertaining, gives insight into his thought process, and shows off not only his technical abilities, but also his constraint in how to serve a song well. Since you enjoyed Gavin Harrison from a previous video, I think you will really enjoy Larnell's playing too.

You should check out his live Famine Wolf drum cam if you want to see some more of his genre mashing! Blake's been my favorite drummer for a long time for that reason

If you're interested, check out his Twitch channel, Blakeyeatsteaky. He drums to viewer requests which includes all manner of things. He's fun to watch. Brann Dailor of Mastodon is another really fun drummer to watch and listen to. I'm excited to see where we go from here. This week has been great so far. Love watching Garstka as well, that dude is dope.

Blake Richardson has been there drummer almost since the start of the band. A band side project you might enjoy is called Nova Collective. It has the guitarist from Haken and the bassist from BTBAM and its prog jazz fusion. Here is a video of them performing a song together called the Dancing Machines. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HwPe5jVYKe4.html

Along the lines of this video you need to watch Baard's drum playthrough of Leprous The Sky is Red. He is a beast and broke a few drumsticks in the video.

OK, this time I could really tell how amazingson that was!

Oh, if it's Drum Cam week and you haven't seen Baard from Leprous play, that's gotta be a must. "The Sky is Red" or "Bonneville" would be w o r t h it

Would be nice to see you check Jay Postones with Dystopia. I dont know if anyone on YT has checked that

Really love this BTBAM song. Btw, if you're doing drum week you really need to checkout Brian Chippendale's solo project Black Pus, especially the video in his "hilarious" attic. It's a hidden gem!

I am torn. I am so happy you have reacted to this track and love that enjoyed it. But I wish you got to listen to the full track. Voice of Trespass is all about the layers! And you are getting maybe half of them here.

Obscura - Mortification of the the Vulgar sun is awesome

You ought to do Gavin Harrison from his work with Porcupine Tree, specifically Porcupine Tree - Futile

car bombs drummer elliot hoffman

This was a really great vid to checkout of Blake :) I'd love for you to give Travis Orbin a look-see one of these weeks! He's what one would consider the "human drum machine" quite literally. If you do happen to check him out, look at "Mega Man 2 Medley" for some unreal drumming to a classic :D Or, if you'd be more interested in his own album composition, checkout "Projects II." He writes some of the most technical stuff I've ever heard before. It's unreal a human can get to that level of drumming and musical understanding!

If you do get that chance, Lunar Wilderness by them is absolutely amazing!

Nice, please do MGLA!

Thank you scientist sounding

Man I was really hoping you would do something the Ne Obliviscaris drummer, Dan Presland, he has tones of studio drum videos

Is this... Diablo Swing Orchestra...? Never seen this before... it's really nice! Russian Circles - Harper Lewis or 309 (Empros Live Session)

The Great Misdirect. Swim To The Moon is my favorite song from them.

Cubensis from Intronaut playing by Alex Rudinger

good choice :)

Hes in my top 5 for metal drummers. number 1 goes to Flo Mounier. check out his drum cam footage sometime.

You should do a video of Nova Collective (BTBAM Bassist) playing Dancing Machines love.

5:12 Dang

Stan Kenton was the last thing I was expecting.

Not his typical kit setup. The homie is tuned to the song, you can hear it in his toms. So boss. Most drums aren't so tone-specific. Leave it up to Thomas Giles to make sure he's on point with the tuning.

Need to see Alex Rudinger on here. Cubensis or Xenochrist playthroughs are insane.

Another Like but in the comments

if you liked that metal/swing feel you should definetely check out trepalium, they are a french band which have a lot of songs like that. maybe listen to moonshine limbo or sick boogie murder

You should react to karnivool , Riverside, ulcerate

Please, check AVATAR OF HATE - Undead revolution (symphonic death) - Aaru (with an oriental touch) - Requiem of the faithless (dedicated to cancer victims and families)

Romain Goulon Craig Reynolds Alex Rudinger John Longstreth Trey Williams Samus Paulicelli Flo Mounier David Diepold Mike Terrana Ken Bedene Ed Warby Lord Marco..... just to name a few drummers you might wanna check out

I feel like this channel should be titled "Kit Harrington reacts to ". If you could do the accent, it would fool a lot of people :D

Check out Chris Turner’s play through of Heir to the Throne by I am abomination

Feel like im watching LA beast play drums

Hope you'll do Portnoy!

You might want to check out Snarky Puppy- Lingus or maybe some Ghostnote

The next one is Kolstad, right? I'm 99% sure it is.

Please do Alex rudinger - xenochrist

Nic Pettersen- Northlane- Rot- Drum Playthrough

Hi can you react to Marmozets - Onemanwolfpack. Is such an unknown amazing track, Thanks!

I'm really expecting Mike Portnoy to feature this week

Neal peart from rush

I love this "almost" instrumental version of BTBAM. Not very fan of harsh vocals. Like we say in spanish "se ha sacado la chorra" xd. Impressive drumming performance.

honestly i wish you would have picked this song on its own instead of the drum cam vid for it... its great drumming yes but really doesnt give off the entire vibe of the song, which is imo one of their best to date..

Also, Bring me the Horizon has another new track, just to let you know

So hey... I just wanted to post here to make sure you see my post on your reaction to Dream Theater - The Count of Tuscany. I kinda wrote a whole essay about it, lol, and I hope it's something you'll enjoy reading, but I know it was a couple of months ago, and with 11k subscribers, it's likely to get lost in the shuffle unless I point it out on a new video! I now return you to your regular programming. XD

I'm on the fence about this one. On the one hand, it's cool to hear such a metal drum sound playing swing jazz, and there are some really cool instances where it sounds like a cool fusion of the two very different worlds, especially when he brings in the double kicks during the swing section; on the other hand, as a guy who actually loves jazz too, I found most of the playing really heavy-handed. Jazz often demands a light touch and strong control over loud/soft dynamics, and this was mostly just loud. I think you can hear how more at home he is once the "metal" section(s) kicks in near the end. FWIW, I don't want to suggest that metal drummers can't play jazz well. In fact, Simon Phillips from Hiromi's trio was originally a rock guy who made that transition really well. I also think most metal drummers definitely have the chops, it's just lacking in the nuances of the genres. TBH, I expect you'd hear something similar if jazz guys started playing metal. All that said, I do think the versatility on display here is impressive. It's probably a general truth that if you work at being versatile you're probably going to end up a "Jack of all styles" to paraphrase the term. Maybe there are better "metal" drummers out there, and there are certainly better jazz drummers; but how many can play both as well?

I honestly think this is the worst song of his to show. Don’t get me wrong, I like the song. Most of it just doesn’t show what he’s capable of. I really hope you do another one.

I hate his kick sound so much

I've never been so bored listening to drums and I'm not even sure why (might be the swing influence, I'm not the biggest Jazz fan). He's versatile, it just didn't do anything for me.