No wonder I got kicked out of the band, lead guitarist is a demi-god, 8-stringer is a sorceress, bass dude is a prodigy, producer's a necromancer, singer's a death lord, and the drummer is better than me at guitar. Oh well, fun while it lasted. Still waiting to hear about that Metallica gig, will keep y'all posted
It takes a while to make stuff like this. They actually started Recording Months ago. If they did this more often they wouldn't have time for there own stuff.
this is the first time i've seen a "real" steve-t guitar face. Granted the camera guy/editing cut ALOT of the musicians "music faces" out...C'mon thats half the fun of watching muisc.
Oh, oh, oh, how about Becoming the Dragon? That one's got a good bass solo by Paolo right at the end. You can hear the full version of that solo when Trivium plays live, where there's no fade out bullshit in the way of an otherwise great solo.
My favorite thing about this project is Stevie T. As a person who has admitted to crippling social anxiety. He pulled through and wrote a badass solo and was a great team member for this project. Absolute legend.
Love Stevie T. He said it himself he’s fine in front of a camera but in front of thousands he would be done. You can see at first he’s a little quiet but he got comfortable. I would love to see all these guys again because they have built a great friendship since then
I love how different everyone's solos were. Steve: fleet fingered shredding masterpiece. And somehow he keeps it melodic and tasteful.He's so good, we expect nothing less anymore. Tyler: fun, raunchy, rockin string bend fest. Looked like he was having more fun than anyone ever thought possible. DJared: pure wankery at its finest. He plays super fast and throws in so many tricks so fast, you might not be able to absorb them all in one listen. Sarah: Understated Virtuosity. Decides to solo during the clean sections and shows her unique style of 8 string goodness. I personally would've loved to see her throw down on the heavy sections as well but I appreciate her willingness to serve the song. All phenomenal players. And Adam I was hearing that bass holding down the groove. Truthfully this song was kind of a Kindergarten level jaunt for a Bassist with Doctorate level musical knowledge.
Adam probably had a big part in writing with Sarah for her parts. Her bit is a little different than what I normally hear from her (or maybe not, I don’t listen to her all the time) and probably helped a lot in the production process.
honestly i didnt like jared's solo. even the slower melodic parts he added in between the dumb wankery wasnt thought out and didnt even fit the song harmonically. and the solo was more parts and material than an actual connected solo
You know what guys this is so inspiring!! Exciting times for RU-vidrs who are becoming well respected in the music industry. Makes me so excited to see this kind of thing happening! Hats off to you 🤘🤘
Stevie T as usual is just a God, he shreds with ease it's like he doesn't even have to try, and Sarah's parts where freaking amazing, such great harmony and melody
Coming back to this now almost 2 years later to give a big thanks to everyone involved in this project. I just got my letter of acceptance today and have an opportunity to make a career out of sound engineering. Thank you so much to Jared and everyone involved for introducing me to this school.
@@Da_Swifta Yeah...i was expecting some sort of drop with Adam going at it...he did great on the calmer section together with Sarah, though. Smooth as hell!
I’m really not a fan of Stevie as a guitar player. He has insane skills that’s for sure but I just find his playing kind of boring. I love a good shredder but his solo here just doesn’t sound great in my opinion. It was my least favorite solo of the song.
About those solos: StevieT-Yngwie malmsteen vibe Tyler-Marty friedman vibe Sarah-Tosin Abasi vibe Jared-Searches on youtube "best scales for metal soloing" vibe P.S jk,loved it
J D that’s exactly what pushes me away from Sarah. I wish she had found her own sound, but it’s identical to Tosin generally. This djenty proggy clique is so self-feeding. I know my comment is super critical, but I just wish people would try harder to be unique rather than just glomming on to a sound.
Loose Cannon! Exactly, because every guitarist you mentioned has unique character in their playing and space between their notes. They utilize blinding speed in tasteful moments. In my opinion, Tosin and Sarah are both just two hand tapping into oblivion. Just nonstop. If they aren’t, then the other guitarist is picking up. There’s no dynamic. Clean and distortion and back isn’t dynamic.
You folks really got something unique going here. I mean, that song is all over the place in terms of dynamics, genres and moods, yet it all locks in and becomes a coherent and beautiful piece of music. Well done, and greetings from Denmark :)
It really isn't. It sounds pretty generic, it's not bad but it's just a metal song. I mean, yeah they play amazing, technichally speaking, but the only original part for me is sarah's.
That blew me away. It was an eclectic mix of everyone's style and I felt it was a bit mismatched but it worked out great though. I didn't expect Adam to rock out since most of his content focuses more on jazz.
Genre bending mash of contemporary rock / metal styles. Adam tried to sneak a couple of 'jazz notes' in there during Sarah's tapping solo. But I caught him. I caught him.
Kilk77 It isn't that hard to write harmonized guitar licks. It can literally be done in a couple minutes. They probably just didn't feel the song needed it. I guarantee any two guitarists in this collab could write some awesome harmony riffing if they had wanted to.
Yeah, I felt like that was missing, too. With that many guitarists I expected some harmony, but nothing. This was good, but it would've been better with some harmony.
Stevie: astonishing shred and a little bit o' bend Tyler: it's shreddy and it's bendy Sarah: beautiful clean and flowing Jared: *An divebomb into absolute madness with some tapping on top*
Sounds more like general existential dread to me. Finding the purpose of your life. Why we are here. The weight of just living weighing down on your psyche.
This is one of the most incredible videos i have ever seen! You all put so much hard work into the song and I appreciate and love your content :). Keep up the great work!
I know that Jared and the other guys may won´t see this since I´m writting this a long time after the video was released, but I just want to say, thank you. I feel very related to this song and its meaning, and it´s helping me to go through hard moments in my life right now. I feel very good knowing that I´m not alone, and even though this guys don´t know me at all and may never will, its like they´re saying "hey, everything will be fine"... idk, stupid interpretation maybe, but from the bottom of my heart, thank you very much
I've got the same feel so I've fixed that ^^ If you go to my channel there's and alternative mix of this track made by me for OIART Mix Contest of that song.
SeBass_Covers That's really nice to hear! I'm glad that you enjoyed listening to my mix and I gonna keep in my mind your advice for future projects (when I'll have simillar situation I'm gonna focus on levels more carefully) Thanks mate!
It's probably just right. I mean it's Adam Neely. He knows his stuff, bass is just in the rhythm section it's something you feel but don't always realize it's there. Plus they have three guitarists, if he tried to compensate the sound would've been way off so it's probably just right.
Loved it! Especially Sarah's tapping interlude and Trey's vocal harmonies! Also, it was cool to see Adam rocking out in a metal setting. The only minor dissapointment was the lack of "the lick", which i expected to be played around 432-440 times in this song :'(
Chris E. I guess I must have joined yesterday. Thanks for clearing that up. And I’ve only gone through this once with you thanks. You don’t have to be such a jerk about it.
I never commented this to you guys, but my best friend sent me this link shortly after my wife and I lost a child, and I was in an extremely dark place in my life. I listened to this song every day, multiple times a day, for a month. I credit this song for helping me get through that time, and I still come back to it when I'm feeling and thinking those things, again. Thank y'all for this.
The whole thing was great! Jared is so talented with drums and guitar. The solos were great. And the Sarah's bit diverged from the others and was a great touch! What can I say? You guys/gals did AWESOME!!
Actually Adam kinda directed the whole thing with Tyler. Adam might not have a solo section but he had keyrole in this project. Really hope to see him in more projects like this one
Dude, the other day this appeared on my spotify when I was playing Gran Turismo. I had no idea it was you guys but I can tell you this It passed the car test. I know I'm late to the party, but kudos, awesome.
Excellent composition. I watched the making of as well because I like you all so much, and honestly I was probably most impressed at how well the composition turned out with so many different people involved. Everyone is terrifically talented, and it’s so easy for egos to get involved when that’s the case, but I didn’t see it at all here in the product. Everyone knows what they can bring, and it was all apparent. Even the mega jams that various people put out each year are impressive for the same reason. It makes me hopeful to see that rock / metal is alive and well in the next generation. And also that I’m too old for anyone to want to play with anymore. I played in several bands in the 80’s, a couple of which were very good, but no way could anyone pull off stuff like this back then. The egos were way huge, and it was a feat to pull off keeping a four piece together with set material, forget doing an awesome collab. Well done guys, truly excellent!
I mean this is essentially Jazz mixed with Metal, mixed with Prog. I heard a time signature change or two. And there was some advanced theory stuff going on in the intro
You don't need fucking 14 bassist! I love bass (even tho yes I'm a guitarist, fear me) and I love Davie but men... In a group there is mainly : a rythm guitarist, a lead guitarist and just for that group they aded a 8 string guitar for the rythm also (and each guitaist had their solo)
Man when Jared Dines grabbed the guitar and went crazy on the trem. Holy cow. That was amazing. The 8 string clean parts were amazing. Also when Music is Win and Stevie T. Did that two part acoustic thing, that was pretty amazing. Keep up the amazing work guys!!
