Humanity’s Last Breath - Välde | Entire Album First REACTION! 

1,000 Likes on this video & I’ll react to their self-titled album 🔥

Vildhjarta is the sad one and Humanity’s Last Breath is the scary one

Earthless was my first HLB song and my first Thall song. I had never heard of them nor Vildhjarta but that single song sold me on them and the genre as a whole.

From what I've heard, Buster, the guitarist in the video and also drummer of Vildhjarta, is left handed but learned on a right handed guitar upside down. Some left hand guitar players do this but swap the strings around so that even if the guitar is upside down the strings would be the right side up and I guess Buster was just like fuck it and played it without changing the strings and now he is just used to playing with the strings upside down and I think the guitarist for Darko does the same. I don't think there is any major benefit of playing the strings upside down other than he is more used to it. Also the guitar he uses has only 6 strings but most likely is a Baritone guitar where the scale length is longer than the standard 6 string. From the tuning he uses, it seems to be in the range of an 8 string guitar so I guess you could imagine it like taking the thicker 6 strings from an 8 string vs taking the thinner 6 strings. Fun fact: this also affects him for drums as well and the way he plays is like left handed for the arms but right handed for the feet which is kinda insane And if you wanna learn HLB and Vildhjarta songs well good luck becuz they use this thing called a whammy/droptune pedal which basically digitially changes the pitch of the guitar so it's in another tuning and they use this throughout their songs and even mid riff so it's going to be really hard to learn without a proper setup. you can see in the Tide playthrough theres a red pedal in the bottom left, the lights on the pedal changing means the guitar has changed tuning. Usually you would have to manually turn the knobs but he has preprogrammed the pedal to do it automatichally.

Filip Danielson is the best vocalist in the genre. Supernatural.

HLB is not a band , it's a religion , the breakdown on earthless is and will still be the best breakdown ever for me

Glad you gave this a chance! Their 2013 Self Titled is a lot more similar to early Vildjharta, because fun fact: Buster was a big fan of Vildjharta before joining them, so he wanted to write music heavily inspired by them with his band HLB. I think you would enjoy that one maybe a little more than Välde. Less blast beats, a lot more groove based, but still atmospheric and more in your face. I feel like they started implementing more blast beats and darker ambience when they released their 2016 Detestor EP. If you start from 2013 moving forward you would notice the evolution, slowly separating themselves from Vildjharta until they became what they are nowadays with Välde, hence why Buster didn’t want to write for new Vildjharta, so he mostly only recorded and produced. Still both bands are basically like twins who grew up differently.

Spectre and Dehumanize back to back are absolutely bone chilling. Literally if this album was just those 2 tracks it would still be their best work lol. I listen to their discography almost everyday. Glad to see you check them out!

Not only have you introduced me and made me fall in love with Vildhjarta, you’ve introduced me and made me fall in love with Humanity’s Last Breath Thank you

Me personally theres something that makes me like HLB a bit more than Vildhjarta. More direction in terms of the songwriting of tracks? I dunno. Also I think it's the Thall sound merged together with modern Deathcore, which I also like about it. You like the blast beats on this because they are there to add tension but it's not there for the duration of the song, like a Lorna Shore song for example.

Buster is the guitarist for humanitys last breath and the drummer for vildhjarta

Glad you took a look at this one Drew! Although I'm kind of sad you didn't react to the "original" Tide, instead opting for the cover which is played over an instrumental version and doesn't have all the production value put into it. It's one of the best tracks on the album so definitely check out the album version if you get a chance. Also I had a shit-eating grin the whole time as your face got melted with *that* riff in Dehumanize. Absolutely bonkers piece of music and it's easily one of my favourite riffs of all time in any subgenre of metal.

Bit late to this one but man this is one of my favourite Deathcore-ish album. Hit me so hard when I first listened to it, the atmosphere is incredible

35:44 - That part is absolutely f i l t h y... it's literally the riff/song that got me into HLB and, ultimately, Vildhjarta

The choppy sound in Earthless is tremolo, I believe. It's basically a rapid volume effect that "chops" up the sound when set at max settings. There's some other modulation in stereo magic in there - the production is incredible on all their stuff, you can keep finding new details in every re-listen. Recommendation for you - Devin Townsend's Empath. It was written as an attempt to put all of his creative elements into one place, and try to summarize his prolific career (this being his 18th full release album). Mental metal, ambient pop, and symphonic sections meet with Devin's signature vocals pushing to new heights. Some standout tracks include Why?, a musical number a la Disney; and Singularity, the 23 minute closer - the ending breakdown never fails to make my eyes well. Love all the new full album listens!!

Six string baritone, 28". Upside down. He learned that way as a kid and when his dad tried to fix it by stringing a guitar properly he couldn't get along with it. He did a really cool interview with Dean Lamb about all of it. His tuning is drop e, but the two top strings are tuned differently to make weird noises. And like someone said, he uses a lot of midi cues to a digitech whammy pedal to make a lot of the noises and changes. You can see the dt whammy in the playthrough vid of tides, with the light indicating when the tuning changes.

Welcome to HLB, glad you made it safe here 😉 You gotta listen to their first self titled album, Humanity's Last Breath. It's still a banger and it kinda has all the signature sounds of HLB and Buster in one thing. Great video! 🤘And to Buster, he is a left handed and when he started and learned playing guitar he just played on a right-handed guitar upside-down. That's the whole story, but it looks totally cool and adds to the unique thing of Vildhjarta and HLB.

You are legendary for reviewing these incredible full-length albums. Thank you for doing so and I love watching you having a similar reaction to how I reacted when first hearing them. Have you listened to the Meta album or Mordial album by Car Bomb yet? I highly recommend either of those, Danza 3 or Danza 4 by The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Lateralus (Holy Gift version) by TOOL, or Fredrik Thordendal’s Special Defects. Happy trails you crazy bastard!

again, glad you did this! this album is a work of art

oh damn you missed the epic clean vocals at the end of tide :( that’s the best bit of the record - but buster is still the goat

You have the most underrated channel on youtube. This album isn't my number one from them, but just the fact that you're listening to ANY HLB is awesome. Not quite as amazing as Vildhjarta but still super solid! Can't wait to see how you react, about to watch now.

I’m a minute in and i can already see the fun journey you’re going to go on. Haha, I love this record so much.

I feel like you should try Brand of Sacrifice's album Lifeblood. I assume it's been suggested before but after this it seems like you'd LOVE that album. It's way too good.

If you like this kinda stuff you could try some Atlas. Its a similar sounding band, but I feel like they lean more to the atmospheric and ethereal feel with their album Ukko. It slaps very hard at the same time. Oh and the album is produced by Buster so its very high quality.

Earthless is one of my true 10/10 songs a complete masterpiece of music

4:30 that smile when the t h a l l hits

Great review and also great editing. Came here for the Tide reaction for the clean vocals part and apparently you missed it ;-;. Yet Im glad you did the reaction on Buster's video instead, cause dude is killing it.

Fantastic reaction to a fantastic album like usual! 🔥🔥

Yes so glad you've reacted to this! I have to say, the music video for Earthless matches the song so perfectly and vice versa! Very disturbing and very well done.

One of my favorite albums last year! Buster's been killing it in every way lately!

You gotta check out the rest of the discography. The album Abyssal has my favorite HLB track, "Abyssal Mouth" and I think it's even a better overall album than Valde

Shiver off Omni-slash was my first Vildhjarta experience and started a trend from there over the last 14 years

How did I not get a notification about this?! I literally have the album art on my wall 😍 spectre and dehumanize are phenomenal.

great video as usual!! if you ever decide to check these guys about i personally would highly recommend their Detestor EP, which probably wont be a common pick but i think it really shows off their more "riffy" side very well. lots of nasty grooves on that record!

In Dehumanize’s breakdown I firmly believe Filip doing the last *AAAH* made the breakdown at the very least 10x heavier!

Loved the reaction Drew 🤟🏼🤟🏼❤️

Humanity’s Last Breath is the band you never knew that the Metal community absolutely needed. 😊 #THALL

Drew, buddy, Uneven Structures La Partition. You’ll love it

Might as well check out all of Buster's bands/music, he also plays drums in a hardcore band called Thrown

Fastest i've clicked on a video in ages, exactly the reaction I was expecting in places for sure! I have to agree with static_motion below about the album version of Tide. It was one of the singles off the album and absolutely Crushes, i think it would be up there with Dehumanize for you as one of the best tracks on the album

Would love to see you react to Reign of Silence by Indistinct, the album came out right around when Vildhjarta’s latest album was released and is a masterpiece on its own, more melodic thallish style, cant really describe it but its worth a check

Allt - The seed of self-destruction EP reaction 🔥🤘

I think that sound effect in Väldet is supposed to represent some sort of siren or an EAS (Emergency Alert System) alarm. Hence the next track "Sirens" :)

Earthless: The aggressively reverberated and delayed and then tremoloed guitars are crazy. I'm pretty sure that's a tremolo on a heavily delayed and reverbed distorted guitar.

I'd love to see you hear Abyssal. Love Valde but Abyssal is what really sold me to HLB years ago. You'll definitely love that album.

Drew, you know what it is, lets get Uneven Structure on the channel pls

Not that one is better than the other. Both bands have MASSIVE sounds. I find them interesting, like you mentioned…and other bands like Tesseract (which is why you may enjoy these bands)…is the idea and the way that they utilize space in their riffs to create a sense of unknown and draw you in. Vildharta, to me, is a bit more stream-of-conscious or like walking lost around a labyrinth. It doesn’t repeat and pulls you on this journey into the depths. HLB explores “thall” in context of “standard” song structure. I love this because “thall” is almost the opposite of modern music in that it focuses heavily on dissonance, strange riffs, lack of melody, etc. Using it in standard writing I think makes it a bit more accessible while also providing a contrast different than the usual “clean/distorted vocals” or “heavy riffs vs ambient” sections.

This record is so fucking good!!! Hands down one of the best of 2021. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥☺️😉😊

Buster, drummer of Vildhjarta, is the main writer for HLB, pretty much all instrumentals and lyrics are his, Calle may do some riffs but 99% is Buster. Vildhjarta is pretty much Calle and Daniel in terms of guitarwork Also, the earlier albums of HLB (Detestor and Humanity's Last Breath) are more Thall in nature, but this one and the one before are more Deathcore

Great reaction man!🔥🔥🔥

Hey Drew, if you do album reactions, I strongly recommend you experience Nitheful - The Creation Ov God. I know you like Infant Annihilator, and I reckon you'd like Nitheful too. The instrumentals aren't as fast, it's more relentless in its breakdowns and chugginess, and the vocalist Derek Connelly is up there with Dickie Allen in terms of technique and tone. It's definitely one of the heaviest albums released this year, probably ever, so if you're still into that heavy as all balls music, I highly recommend it and would love to see you react to the whole album. Cheers

Amazing amazing listening sesh to a dope album! If you enjoy their riffage and nastiness, but want something a little less conceptual and more straightforward, absolutely think you'd like their previous album Abyssal more. Thanks for this!

I saw someone say that the guitars in Vittring sound like tectonic plates shifting and that's all I can hear now when I listen to it.

Abyssal is my favorite album from them, but it's all fantastic. Abysmal feels more like a cohesive whole as an album rather than a collection of singles, which is basically the only thing that disappointed me with this album

Such a shame you didn't react to the album version of Tide because that last part of the song is probably my favourite part of the album, but without the vocals it doesn't work as well, and that's saying something!

Abyssal next u should 🤘🔥🤘 Worlds best band together with Vildhjarta 🫣

Omg Omg Omg IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING!!!!

HLB is just so good. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out Black Tongue’s Nadir. It’s been out several years now, but if you like HLB Black Tongue will hit in much the same way. 🤘🏻

That zoom at 15:15 really got me 😂

Genuinely thought you started drinking Olive Oil at the end of Dehumanize

Beautiful 👌🏽

My first experience was Detestor from them and that whole album…one of my favorites of all time

I think you gotta do the original (self titled) album humanitys last breath!

So Buster is the guitarist and main songwriter in HLB and the drummer in Vildhjarta. Buster produces and mixes both bands. Buster may also record the drums for HLB? I’ve heard different things about either he’s recorded them or they are actually programmed. But yeah, a lot of crossover for sure!

Not sure if anyone answered your question on why Buster plays upside down or not, but its just how he learned guitar. Hes a lefty and when he first started he only had access to a right handed guitar so pretty much did what you did, flipped it around and learnt like that. He now has custom guitars for it so its not just a flipped guitar (and yes you can get left handed guitars) and what lets him tune so low is the 28" scale he has on his guitars, allowing it to be tuned lower and not sound like shit He still plays upside down because its just how hes always played

PLEASE CHECK OUT VEKTOR- TERMINAL REDUX THE WHOLE ALBUM. I DONT WANT TO SPOIL IT FOR YOU.

please react to relfections album willow, they HLB had influence in making it

The self titled Remixed and Remastered album is an alltime fave for me. hope you get to check it out

hell yes thall also other than buster, one person i know who does it is josh miller of darko us, except he does it on a 9 string great reaction, this band isnt exactly like vildhjarta as some may say but its like vildhjartas bodybuilding brother, if that makes sense

it's called a baritone 6 string, and he plays it upside down because he's left handed but grew up playing on right handed guitars with his left hand

Humanity's last breath is scary vildhjarta

You better have listened to the OG version of Tide. Those cleans at the end SEND me

Even if the album has some repetitive features and people may have not been keen on the whole thing, Earthless is just something else, I like Tide/Hadean/Spectre/Dehumanize as well but Earthless is a different level than the rest.

Dehumanization rips your head off. One of my favourite riffs

This album slapssss 🙌🙌

Yeeeees 🔥

Yes, Drew, a left handed guitar it is!

Dehumanize slaps

yeeeeeessssssssssss

The foundation of Earthless you are speaking about I would describe as "glitchy".

Why I dont like this album but I love their self tittled remaster? What is missing? I think this sounds less thall and more like blackened death metal 🤔

I know this may be too early in your metal life, but have you heard of the band “ROMHACK”?

It's not logical. The story is actually cool. Hes left handed. And back when he started, he wanted a guitar, but had no left handed guitar so he picked up a regular guitar, turned it upside down and played that way. Eventually a guitar company created a left handed guitar for him, and kept the guitar strings upside down haha. I love his interviews. Hes awesome.

he plays left handed on right handed guitars. That's why his strings are upside down. Left handed guitars have the stringers in the proper order of low on top

the greatest benefit is that he's a lefty and can play with righty guitars, I'm left handed too and can never play with another persons guitar because the strings are flipped for me ahahah also, you missed the song Tide with vocals!!!! I shat my pants the first time I heard it, the videoclip is very good aswell

we need timestamp

The word your looking for in the back is probably rotary it's like tremolo but for volume

Today I listen Stoort Neer 🤘🏻. HLB not bad but Vildhjarta more interesting ☺️

buster is fucking insane. never misses.

I say react to archspire relentless mutation next, some amazing technical death metal

You missed the cleans in the end of TIDE😬

T H A L L

Benefit of playing a right handed guitar upside, being able to play it left handed, when ur left handed lol

+1

Ohh i already can imagine how you'll like their album from 2019 called "abyssal" Their best work in my opinion

THALL

Buster only had a right handed guitar when he was little so he was forced to learn to play upside down

This genre is ”Evil”

can u react to before i turn

Skipped almost the entire Tide song though :( Which is in my opinion the best one, especially the ending of it!