Hail The Sun "Chunker" (Official Music Video) 

Most people are sheep and only listen to mainstream tik tok songs lmao if only they could experience this world one day

Could be that this world doesn't deserve such ascended musicianship. 🤔

Their whole identity is that they're a copy of dance gavin dance. Being a copy of a band that gets a few million views per music video and having no influences beyond 1 band isn't going to get you that far

@@incongruous4 gr8 b8 m8. 🔥

I concur

Well said. Always put out bangers everytime

What's your favorite song by them?

@@nicholasduncan5842 thats a tough question when it comes to them. Black Serotonin & Hanging Revelation. Wake might be their best album overall. But "Doing the same thing & expecting different results" has such an amazing ending. Parasitic cleanse is really good. Mental Knife is probably my least favorite album but I mean that's only because the others are just so amazing. I know there are other ones up there I'm not thinking of like Human target practice or Missed Injections

Good call. That is a Hail The Sun idiosyncrasy that I zeroed in on as well- especially in their earlier work (Wake, Elephantitis). Donovan goes underappreciated with how smooth he uses that highly unconventional drumming to ride along with the guitars. Not just laying down a beat in time with the melody, but blatantly staccato-sticking out the drums to mirror the picking patterns. For a lot of those moments- it initially hit my ears in a jarring way. Like my subconsciousness going, "Wait, that was wrong..." but then upon going back, it is actually not. Similarly, Donovan has exceptional talent for firing off blast beats where you would never expect them, but making them seem like a given.

the melody is fucking great--raw and visceral sounding. i love that. One of the most entertaining things abt this band are their switchups mid-song. the switchup at 3:13 is so emotional to me and the drum bridge into that melancholy outro. its all so complete-feeling.

that outro gives me life dude. Like he's made his peace with the actions he takes now and in the future. Reminds me of Ow! Splidao, Will They Blame Me if You Go Disappearing, and Devastate and Recalibrate= Acoustic Outros in this band are a rare treat

Biggest Coheed and Cambria fan? Well if you could let it be, I would've figured you out 😂

3:46 i came back to say i love this outro even more than i already did. i'll spend the entire song listening just to get to that outro. only to hit replay when it ends. the guitar melody,drums, and especially the bass always takes me to a dark comfortable place i never want to leave--with a small glimmer of light i reject piercing the tunnel.

I love both those bands you mentioned, it's no wonder I'm obsessed with HTS

@@Leximelt-02 I love you.

And all my life I've been so stubborn in this way I'd rather see them crash and burn or have to pay Enemies fueling my thoughts Taking up space Why do I have to be so fucking spiteful? And if I suffer they should suffer - that's what I want It gets me nowhere and I'm aware it just makes it worse It just makes it worse And if you break that bond you're breaking something more I don't care about the egos you adore I mean, come on?!?! It's sooo good!

nope not just you. Donovan Melero is the best lyricist ive ever heard. He clearly works hard for that portrayal and fashion of expressing himself. What comes to mind for me is Eight-Ball Coroner's Pocket where he says "I'm losing my patience" but bc drugs are discussed in the song it could be interpreted clearly as losing his "patients". Shit like that transcends music for me and keeps me coming back.

Agree absolutely. They're the whole package, pure soul from top to bottom.

Insane how he verbalizes the feelings I’d rather hide, and the self hatred and wanting to be better. I relate to his words more than any artist.

​@@danano777 couldn't agree more. I'm the same way with his lyrics.

The feeling

I cried the first time hearing this lol

I've heard it hundreds of times. It legit doesn't get old. This is Hail The Sun

@@hoosway8557 OMG SAME! I made a stank face then started crying.

It's actually battle within oneself. If you watch the video you see the transition between black and white outfits. White tees (true selves) are displayed under black jackets (social media portrayal). Whenever white attire Donavan comes in he's smiling & happy. The random people putting on make up are applying filters to themselves. The end the track signifies that true happiness is found in ones self, not others perception based on the false pretense of social media.

@@tableautraining8708 Very cool interpretation! How do you know this is in fact exactly what the song is about?

Talk about vain in virtuality am I right

I can definitely see it playing into the corrupting influence of social media and how it reduces so many interactions to petty quarrels. But the chorus really makes me think of how politics have become so spiteful in the US. It seems like so much of the political sphere is about how to screw over whichever group(s) you dislike, rather than trying to make things better for everyone. Spite-based politics reactionary to other spite-based politics, flying back and forth, targeting different groups each time a different party briefly takes power, until everything's been burned to the ground. In the same vein, you can also link in our justice system's focus on retribution rather than rehabilitation, where causing more hurt takes precedence over healing, victims are encouraged to become victimizers, etc. What I found really interesting about the outro was how it looks like there are blood stains on the rocks to Donovan's right (our left), revealed by the slow widening of the shot. It makes his contented thousand-yard stare with the music fading out come across as really eerie. I'm not sure how to interpret this currently in the context of the song and video, but for some reason the main thing I think of is the biblical passage about dashing the enemy's babies on the rocks - an act of violence justified by tribalistic othering of a group of people, which again is something happening all too often right now in social media and politics, not to mention the growing religious extremism. Calls back to the themes in Hanging Revelation (interesting to note another song that will be on the album is called I Saw You Hanging, maybe it will approach the subject from the other side?)

Even though my birthday is on the 12th of august, best present ever

Between this and the new Holding Absence us August bdays stay winning

@@GhostLungssholding absence gonna be lit I just saw them last month with thornhill

don't let that stop you

Thru two 4+ year relationships and from central US to the East Coast. HtS always comes through.

i still remember learning how to skateboard outside my house and Ow! Splidao randomly pops into my youtube recommended and i spent the rest of the afternoon with it on replay.

Imagine seeing them live for the first time. That's how I discover them and theyve been a favorite band for years. Love these guys!

I love the inflections that he puts at the end throughout the song, so good

He was cheesing the entire set when they played in Houston. Smiles the whole time it was so freaking cute I swear he has the sweetest smile

@@nbambina856 And I met him at the concert the other day, his smile is so precious 🥺💖