INVENT ANIMATE - WHITHOUT A WHISPER [MUSICIAN REACTS] 

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This is one of the best metalcore songs of all time imo

The super high "you" at the end still gives me chills. Glad you reacted to this one. My other favorites are Purity Weeps and Emberglow. Whole album is great

They definitely have album of the year. Especially if you like melody, ambience and atmosphere

If I could visualize each band in an image, I would describe sleep token as a forest at night, with a full moon, and leaves falling. With invent animate I would describe an empty room with a chair in the center with a single window letting in light at sunset, with dust hanging in the air. To types of melancholic feelings but tell different vibes.

Just saw these guys live for my daughter's first concert with Bad Omens and Erra. My child lost her mind listening to Immolation of Night. That song has line 5 breakdowns in it. Highly recommend dude.

Yep definitely a different vibe from Sleep Token. This one is actually quite soft compared to the rest of Heavener. It's about the guitarist's experience with his grandma's passing and how to deal with it when you don't believe in religion and heaven but still hope the person you lost is somewhere in peace in some kind of heaven (lyrics call back 😅). If you're interested in more songs, there has been 3 more singles before the album release. Stade Astray for how crazy they get technical. Immolation of Night for the heavy. And Elysium for the epic conclusion of the album.

This is a no skip album for sure. Every song is a banger

Saw them live last night and Marcus hit that F#5 at the end effortlessly. It was glorious.

I saw them 2 weeks ago with Bad Omens and Erra. They were so good live! It's nice seeing you react to them.

Sounds just like this live too!🤘

This whole album is fire!!! Buckle up for that Immolation of Night lol

Such a fire song. He wrote this about his Grandmother's passing and confronting death as a non-religious person. The lyrics and performance really hit different when you listen with that context.

Woah I did not expect Invent Animate to be your next reaction, they’re SUCH a dope band! If you wanna check a song off their previous album, definitely check out Monarch - it’s a bit on the heavier side, but if you dig the ambient/dreamscape-y vibe for this then Monarch hits DIFFERENT 🔥

The album this is off (Heavener) and Sleep Token’s masterpiece have my number 1 & 2 spots for album of the year. They have a lot of ambiance that connects everything. They blend the heavy with the euphoric seamlessly. I predict you will be a fan by the end of this album reaction 🤙🏻. You may really like the band Currents too if you dig this. Can’t wait to see your reaction!

I personally think this is the best song off their new album.

This band never disappoints, always a pleasure listening to them ☺️☺️

Seannnn, my favourite reactor reacting to my favourite band. IA have my album of the year easily, thought currents would come close but didn’t quite, sleep token album comfortable number two, but invent animate are incredible. A good one to react to would be the sun sleeps ,as if it never was. It’s two songs but comes with a visual story telling sortve film clip which would is perfect for reactors. Love from Australia, great video

Yeaaaa Heavener is not only my aoty, but probably one of my favorite albums ever written lol. This band’s ability to combine ambience and metalcore in a way that is not only beautiful as fuck, but absolutely seeped in emotion. Definitely worth checking out at least some of the other singles if not the album in your own time. Elysium is my personal favorite of the singles, but as others have said Shade Astray demonstrates their proggy and technical side perfectly and Immolation Of Night is a fun brutal ass track.

I’m so glad you fw this song, these guys are my favorite. I think if you go in open minded and ready to hear some beautiful and heavy riffs you’ll like the new album. With Heavener you really want to close your eyes and get as immersed into the soundscape as you can.

fade astray is another amazing song by them, cant wait for you to hear it along with the rest of the album. One of the best metal bands out there right now, they keep on innovating the genre

This song is like some kind of heaven

So glad you got on this band! Purity weeps might be my song of the year and I love me some sleep token.

I like what the Band have grown to be as well

This and purity weeps are top notch for me. I would say this record has like 7-8/11 good tracks, so it's close second next to our savior sleep token. 😄

Clearly, a masterpiece

That bassist is channeling his Tears for Fears look for sure

It’s so good I love it 🎶🔥💫

Gonna go see em live soon. I’m so excited

Markus Vik is the former lead singer from Aviana. Him and the new singer, Joel, did a song for the Aviana album. Check with out. Aviana - Paradox.

Thanks for doing this one man. Shade Astray next pls :)

finally!!!! shade astray please! bring your seatbelt ;)

Sean! I just can't believe you did it! Great to see your reaction to Invent Animate. ❤‍🔥The first song I listened to was The Sun Sleeps and that was enough to continue checking out their stuff. In my opinion, Invent Animate's guitar riffs are something different and I love it. It would be great to check out other songs from their latest album together with your reactions because I haven't done it yet.

The whole album is a banger. Still AOTY for me.

YES!! Definitely different from sleeptoken except their soothing ambience. Fantastic reaction as usual brother . I m about to comment to listen to do reaction according to album order and u just said it hahaha. Fun facts, guitar for this song is tuned to double drop D#. Which is almost whole octave down from normal tuning. Welcome to modern metalcore my friend xD

Heavener is album of the year still. Just after or equal depends on my mood I think Currents and then on third place is Sleep Token.

Shade Astray and False Meridian next ;)

Heavener> Take me back to Eden had to be said here folks

Dont ever change your intro music!!!!!!!!!

Just saw these guys last Saturday in Memphis. Highly recommend checking them out if you can 🤘🔥🤘

Sleep Token is AOTY!!!!!!

Such an amazing band, my #1 nowadays for sure. While Sleep Token has some very unique music, there are inflections and vocal nuances used in their music I have heard many times before. I have never heard anyone who sounds like Marcus Vik. His voice is one of my favorites nowadays as well. As others have said, FALSE MERIDIAN. Legit one of the best songs I have ever heard in my life.

our shaved heads must have had some brainwave exchange moment going on. been exploring other albums since Sleep Token's TMBTE and now i absolutely love this song. i wish Heavener as a whole had followed that style though.

Dont get me wrong this album is good!!

React: BAD BUNNY - WHERE SHE GOES

AOTY for me, no any other album closer to Heavener this year: nor Currents, nor Sleep Token, nor Veil of Maya.

Just noticed that there is no Periphery reactions yet! Any song from new album would be great but i prefer Atropos.

I think TMBTE all round is a better album as it's a bit more diverse but man Heavener is really fucking good and not far behind it. This is probably one of the softer songs on Heavener but there is generally a good mix of crushingly heavy sections balanced with some nice, softer clean parts. I'd say either Shade Astray or Immolation Of Night would be good tracks to check out next

Yes much heavier songs on this album. It was my favorite (metal) album of the year but ST took that over for all encompassing AOTY. I rock out aggressively to "False Meridian" and "Shade Astray"....pretty tunes like this and "Reverie". Great album but Sleep Token in a league of their own.

False. Meridian.