I love this band so much. It's eerily strange with their creativity but they execute it in an inquisitive way, can really captivate an audience with mixed atmosphere.
I'm really glad to see you do a second video on Diapsiquir who has grown on me enough to be one of my favorite projects. The way you break down their sound progression is interesting because I can hear black metal elementals in a.n.T.i and 180, but mostly in the guitars in the back and I can definitely hear the French black metal style of riffs in their writing and progression. That being said though they are all over the place with their influence or sound at times like KPN, Marnie Stern, The Blood Brothers Jacques Brel or even like the Locust which the first two albums reminded me of. I never looked at 180 or the member's personal lives enough to see what you said about it probably being the final album which is sort of a bummer as much as I love Diapsiquir but I can totally respect them for what it is and having one of the most unique and well made discography Diapisquir has. Also cheers to the LPs, I have everything by them on CD and 180 on Cassette but now I'm sort of tempted to look into the LPs.
I have never really dove into this band's albums...have heard the name, but havent explored them much yet. This video is great to kind of let me know where to start. Always like finding new stuff, so thanks for this. cheers!
The two members of Diapsquir are originally members of the Hardcore french band Kickback. The most hated band in the French metal scene.. and I love their music (both bands ^^) :D
If you want a kind of "chanson metal" but with a different approach then check out Revue (1988) by Jay Jay Tull, it was their 1 album and it was released by the infamous Metal Enterprises. It's traditional heavy metal/hard rock covers of old German Schlager/chanson songs from the likes of Marlene Dietrich and others, it's a fun listen
Never got into Diapsiquir, to arti farti for me. These guys also used to play in the hardcore band Kickback. Personally I like Kickback better, especially the album "No Surrender" nice fusion of hardcore with Black Metal.
This band is one reason why I stopped tagging music with specific metal genres. I'm now at the point where I just classify any metal as 'metal'. While I classify Diapsiquir as metal for my collection, I only do it keep things consistent. From an audio perspective, I don't think I'd classify them as metal anymore.
You once made a video "5 bands I dislike" and Dream Theater appeared in it. You said you liked some parts of the songs and others you didn't. I didn't understand it at the time, never had that feeling. In one video you got me to listen to Diapsoquir, I started with "A.N.T.I." Now I understand what you meant about Dream Theatre, I feel the same about Diapsiquir. I haven't listened to their other releases yet, maybe they will convince me more. I also listen to it only once and I remember I wasn't in good mood. I will definitly return to it. However, I have to agree that they sound very unorthodox.
My problem with Dream Theater still is that I view them as very talented musicians who song writing is just them flexing their talents that it doesn’t grab me. With Diapsiquir even though theres a lot happening with their music it’s not them flexing their talents but more so them portraying their unnerving behavior of their life with drug addiction and the helplessness feeling of urban decay they live in.
@@wyattxhim I understand your point of view. Maybe I was wrong starting with "A.N.T.I." I don't understand the music presented on this album. I have the impression that they want to combine too many musical styles and means of expression. I find this album so chaotic that I can't concentrate on its meaning and atmosphere
@@ManuSDP Definitely agreed there even as a person who loves Images and Words. Dream Theater in theory is a great band. A bunch of extremely qualified musicians playing in a band that's a tribute to many progressive rock and metal bands from Queensryche to Rush and even Queen (when they played prog) to an extent. But it's so sad to say that most of their catalogue is extremely unappealing.
For me, it means something related to Mental Disorder. It's formed of two Greek words "psiquir" is related to "psyche" (ψυχή), in Greek means Mind or Soul. And "dia" (like in the word διαφωνία) is a prefix that gives the ideia of conflict, disagreement, diference etc. So Diapsiquir = Mental / Soul disorder or something like that. At least that's what I figured out.
Hey Wyatt, is it bad that I think that both Euronymous and Varg Vikernes were very cute??? Like not in a gross fanfic type of way, they both were just adorable
