Composer/Musician Reacts to Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor (HQ) (REACTION!!!) 

Disillusion makes me happy.

This is gorgeous af!!! The opening track of this album is one of my favorite tracks ever in the history of ever.

Class song. Nice to see an in depth analysis of it at the end too, compared to other RU-vidrs who literally just listen to it and say "that was great" and it ends haha. Anyway we love the song and wanted to let you know we thought your reaction was great. Keep it up dude :)

I'm so happy to know that someone else's favorite album of all time is also Back to Times of Splendor. I love this album with all my heart.

Going to see them upcoming Friday with a very special concert, celebrating 20 years of BtToS with a full set of the album and a brand new mastered version of it. It's going to be magical.

You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for this day !!! Best shit ever here 🤘🏼🔥

Wow... this takes me back. I wish more people had picked up this album. I always really enjoyed it.

Ahhhhh...! Cool! These guys are from my hometown Leipzig in Germany. Nice to see them here!!! The bandleader/composer/singer/guitarist/bassist is a good friend of mine for a long time. He is a producer as well with his own studio and already produced a lot of other (metal) bands too. And normaly he makes a very good mix job (i guess). i think youtube takes away a lot of the quality... You made a great job! Great analysis like always...!!! Thanx!!!

This is also one of my favorite albums of all time

Thank you so much for reviewing this. This is my favorite album of all time.

Nice! This band has a really fun discography. The album after this (Gloria) got way more proggy and non-traditional, with way more, better, clean singing, then they broke up for 13 years and then released a new album last year. I haven't listened to that one much, so I can't comment on it too much, but from what I've heard, it sounded like a continuation of the progression from Gloria. Great band. The song "The Hole We Are In" from Gloria is pretty great.

Whoa! Ok, so I've heard *of* them. Probably because of what they released last year (checked Spotify and I have a song by them among my liked ones: The Liberation). But how can I have missed something so good? Surely you'd think some algorithm would have suggested this to me by now... or it might just be information overload on my end. So much music out there and it just keeps coming new stuff. Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Thoughts!

Back To Times Of Splendor was my favorite album of 2004.

this album is way too good, their newest one was not disappointing exactly but only had a few songs on this level. Wintertide is one of the best songs of 2019 though. edit: First time i heard this band i definitely thought about SOAD

This is one of my alltime favorites. So great.

You should react to the last track of this EP. "The Sleep Of Restless Hours". It has one of the mightiest outros in metal history IMHO. It's pure emotion. Edit: and also I'd really like to hear you analysing this song

this album is probably the best in progressive death genre

I definitely agree with the SOAD comparison, I've always thought they sound like SOAD meets Opeth

Always interesting reactions, keep it up😀👍

I am happy to be living in the same city as these guys. Great choice

dayum sonn !! good shit here. great breakdown as usual 🤟

My man…you got to listen to their new album!!

Surprised to see this album pop up! It's been one of my faves since I first heard it (and I always compared them a little bit to SOAD as well)

Would love to hear you react to a Track from Disillusions 2nd Album - Don´t go any further - don´t say you did that already, its radicaly different from the whole first album... like realy radical.

Can't believe I missed out on this one when fresch. Sorry Thoughts! Great band that have been going a bit under my radar (but just as for Cynips, I had them liked since before but can't remember why). They were brought to my attention (again) now through the last livestream and checking them out a bit further, I must say that I find some of their other - even more eclectic - stuff better still.

YES!! I really wanted and i think i've suggested in other videos songs from Disillusion for you to react. My suggestion would be more of their latest album. I own both that one and this one "Back to Times of Splendor". This is a band you should react more songs from them. They are highly technical and quite fit for your analysis. Next time, check out a newer song from them. From their latest album "The Liberation" my suggestion would be for the 12m36s long "Wintertide" that you will dig allot more. Alternative would be "The Great Unknown" with 5m49s. Anyway, happy you picked Disillusion, finally!!!

I liked this one. Will pick them up.

This band from Leipzig (Germany) is hell of underrated! Please check them out! Their creativity is really over the top!! 🖤 No dislike, congrats!! 👍👍👍 But I really disagree with the comparism of SOAD!

nice mx50 color! I love Disillusion's 2006 album. This EP is also good, but 2006 album was my introduction to them.

Love disillusion 😁 please react to Artificial Sun Projection by Scar Symmetry please👍😁

Regarding your comment about the mix/master... sadly it is that bad from the CD (not uploader’s/RU-vid’s fault), and not sure if there was ever a vinyl with a better mix. Also the master is too loud. I wish they would go back and remaster this record, it’s so beautiful and that’s why I tolerate the mix. The rest of this album has a similar feeling of death with calm melodic parts, would recommend a full continuos listen (all songs are interconnected; the ending of one is the beginning of the next one). Also I would recommend to check their latest “The Liberation”, it was released in 2018 and the mix/master is better. It goes through many of the same ideas as Back to Times of Splendor. Their second album “Gloria” is also good, but very very different from this one, a whole different sound to it. Gloria is extremely experimental.

Hey man!! Would you be open to reacting to our band “Empty Trail”? 🙏😀 Would be genuinely awesome! Any song you want to pick would be cool by me.

Didn't really know what to make of this one on a first listen. Like you said, the production sounds weird, and there's something about the writing that's putting me off. Probably the constant switch ups from clean to heavy sections wrapped in a 15 minute package.

Not sure how I missed hearing about these guys given this would've come out around the time I was heavily into melodeath. This is definitely something I would've loved back then. I've burned out a bit on melodeath since then, but this is still pretty awesome. There's just enough symphonic and proggy variety to spice up the more typical aspects of the genre. Definitely interested in checking out more from them. I think most of your difficulty was still not being very acclimated to the genre. I will agree that the mix isn't great, and sadly one typical negative of most death metal is pretty poor recording/mixing quality, especially with older and obscure bands that didn't have much (if any) budget.