LEPROUS - Slave (Live At Rockefeller Music Hall) 

Perhaps rock is dead, but metal.. nothing can kill metal ;)

hell yeah!

Any music that dies deserves to die. Rock wont die, so long as bands/people keep innovating.

well said!

i totally agree!

@@Digity. you can clearly hear both

so, basically, the term "quantum teleportation" was first applied to those drummers

You should check out the band the other drummer (Tobias Ørnes Andersen) plays in now, Aiming for Enrike, just him and a crazy good guitarist

They are listening to a click track.

Yeah, it’s called a metronome, guy.

1000% agree. I tried listening to the studio versions and just find them lifeless and flat, before seing them live I just couldnt get into them. When I saw them at Techfest they were one of the best bands of the weekend. When I got home I listened to the live versions and just realised how much better they were than the studio recordings.

This entire show is

there solid live..like watching pure magick in your eyes!

Any decent band will give a better live performance of a song than the studio version, it's all about the energy they put in on stage.

I saw them in Clifton park ny on a whim and they are now my all time favorite band! I’ve been going to shows since 94. Rock is not dead

MMMMMMMM de la manera en que se cruzan los tiempos no creo que ninguno acierte

make them play the sky is red....

I want to see the torture that “The Sky Is Red” would induce.

No we're not!

Live performances are not mixed down, just balanced at the board.

@@stevemartin7937 Steve Martin is wrong, this was mixed by David Castillo.

That´s impossible... A Masterpiece by everybody involved!!!!

@@stevemartin7937 live mixing? Anyway, many times post mixing is done for these recordings if all instruments are recorded individually, I guess? I don't know much but I think this makes sense xD

Only If they could bring Ihsahn for the growl part. Still awesome Performance

"It's like a religious experience"...That is exactly what my brother-in-law said about this when he saw them play Boston a few weeks ago. A beast on the drums!

You can find a Reddit AMA they did some years ago where Einar said his screams aren't really that high in volume. For studio stuff they probably have to mix them higher

He doesn't do much screams in albums (if any).

I was just thinking that. This transcends a normal musical experience...there's something deeper

Reminds me a bit of Devin Townsend

@@pipegris Better than his!!!

@@flavy1000 matter of taste I would say

@@flavy1000 that's a pretty big statement...

@@flavy1000 Devin's is more operatic/bombastic. This guy's got much more raw feel to it. They both are great at what they do :)

which one? :P

Baard Kolstad?

juan cardona Baard is one of the best drummers I've ever seen.

Check out the other bands he is a part of: Borknagar Gaahl's Wyrd Rendezvous Point

I could literally just listen to the drum recordings of the Congregation and nothing else and still love the album

You should listen to Opeth, or Tool live.

​@@Dwendele Porcupine Tree with those, even though it's prog rock. Oh well so is Opeth after Watershed.

@@Dwendele I listened to The track "The Wilde Flowers" from Opeth back in 2018 i think, its a good track and the vocalist has a great vocal range, but Slave has been my go to track for 5 years now. I have experienced it Live at Royal Albert Hall as a warm up for Devin Townsend, and on Sentrum Scene in Oslo. Leprous Live is a great experience. Maybe i should go to an Opeth concet aswell.

@@DwendeleYou should listen to Between the buried and me Live ;-). I just heard Leprous play this live last Thursday in Groningen the Netherlands. They still rock and this number still sounds awesome. Opeth an Tool are also so amazing, but let's also give the newer prog metal artist the credits they deserve.

The ocean was really good too

this song is freaking epic

Check out Gojira live stage recordings. Especially Hellfest 2019, sublime mixing.

Have you become a fan of theirs now ?

@@futurebreedmachine9302 Well.. Yes, I think it's fair to call myself that now.

They make some questionable music imo, but they have some insanely talented musicians in their band... Baard Kolstad is one of the most technical/best drummers I can think of... I am not a huge fan of some of their music (although the other half is brilliant) but I would pay good money to see them live if the opportunity ever arose.

American here. Seeing them tonight in Dallas. Was going for Haken, then started listening to these folks and discovered something awesome.

To quote my brother-in-law, "fucking animal on the drums"!

American 🤙

Kyle Robins I listen to this almost everyday

Nathan Stone as someone in Dallas just finding this band and Haken (the last 2 months-ish) i am full of regret not seeing these two together

You can't stop me

Agree'd, very rare live mixes sound great, especially when you have a BIG sound like this- Hats off to their sound engineer and the man at the venue behind the tables.

Notice how bad de-esser gave him a weird lisp though

What's crazy is this blows the album version out of the water. I'm not a fan of the album mix at all. But this sounded sublime.

Yeah it's astounding. Perfect in all ways

WELL FRIGGEN SAID M8!

I can assure you it is, I had the time of my life seeing them live.

Ce sera la 3eme que je les verrai à Bordeaux après le Hellfest 2013 et Le Ferrailleur l'année derniere. Ya pas mieux qu'eux live :)

+Anthony Verdier 100% d'accord! En janvier 4eme fois, je suis impatient

Devin Townsend + Leprous + BTBAM = Orgasme auditif

They're about to go into the studio to start working on their next album. FUCK YEAH!!!

Who is "this guy" ? Einar ? Tor ? Baard ? The band ?

Being that the sentence included "high voice" it's pretty clear that he is referring to Einar don't you think?

@Toxic Potato You'll get no disagreement from me.

​@Toxic Potato Einar and Tor are the founding members and main songwriters. While yes, it's ridiculous to chock up a whole band's talent to one person, there is absolutely reason to compliment and attribute the band's songwriting to Einar. He's not just there to "look pretty and sing well", that's equally disrespectful and assumes he's akin to the majority of other metal/prog vocalists. Again, it's not like he's the sole songwriter, but a large amount of the riffs, motifs, and storytelling that makes Leprous Leprous is Einar's doing.

@Toxic Potato But really Einar is a musical genius... so, What's the problem? Not only as a vocalist (he is one of the best rock singers nowadays and that's a great merit) he is keyboard and songwriter too.

Really?! 😍 Or r u joking?

Yea ikr. Feels like everything is connected.

"And now his watch is ended"

Funny because that exact song is how I discovered Leprous. Someone in the comments mentioned him

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D thanks for pointing that out :D:D:D:D

lmao i hate you

4:29 SANS OVERTAKING ME

Bruh 😂😂😂😂

who's the second drummer ?

@@poiles1 Tobias Andersen, the band's drummer from their first three albums.

I hope you will find the right words...Because after years of trying I still can't. Can I give you advise: don't waste your time trying, this song (and performance) is from other dimension, where words not exist...

Same here probably 25x in the first week

You should watch the vocal coach reacts videos 😜

im on roughly 10 times in two days,and wholeheartedly agree with your statement.

Kinda, maybe, THE best.

Are you me?

We're on the same boat still hooked on this video/song since the first time I heard it years back

bostion they’re both great but I think this guy puts a lot more effort into writing his songs

Very different style to compare

@@polymorphing9195 Mario is almost an athlete before he's a drummer. Like the other guy said though, so diffirent in style why compare.

i totaly agree. Baard Kolstad, Mario Duplantier, Blake Richardson(BtbaM) and Raymond Hearne(Haken) are my top drummers

Don't forget the second drummer guys!!!! He does an awesome job!! I agree Baard is a fenomenal drummer , also Mario is!! Keep up the good work everyone!!

Ihsahne.

@@deciocupramin7106 Einar

Michael same here! Check out the song Rewind, what an ending! This song just floored me!

@@MaXaNoMaLoUs Mary Z brought me here. No regrets.

@vasudevananda lol, mediocre

I'm 30, but we are all in this together, buddy

The outro of Rewind from the same album is black metal inspired too. Also check out Pleistocene by The Ocean

i feel the same first time i see this on youtube.

Opa encontrou mais um ! banda boa demais !!!

Dois! =D

Mais uma aqui :)

ué

fode sim leproso!

Lucmir Guaregua they are good. I really like Disperse. Jakub Zytecki is amazeballs. I'm watching these guys now too though. :D

I was at this show and i was a bit curious about how it would turn out. They had one camera on the gallery and as far as i noticed a few handheld cameras including an SLR camera. But the quality is good judging from this video, but as you say, Einar is not much in the spotlight. For the setlist, i am disappointed they never do stuff from Tall Poppy live anymore. Saw them twice in 2010 so i have seen them do most of the album live.

Arannorway Damn, must have been a great experience. Yeah man, they've said they can't relate as much to their older albums like TPS anymore, so that might explain them not playing songs from then. Which really sucks, since that's their second best album after Bilateral. They barely play songs from Bilateral anymore

Arannorway I agree, they should have chosen a few songs from each album for this DVD. I was lucky to see them perform Passing live a couple of years ago. Brilliant song and performance

+Omair Sheikh Sorry, was about to edit my answer and i deleted it instead. You read it, it's Phantom Pain in the video. :)

As a newer Leprous fan, I can say that I fail to really like TPS. I love bits and pieces - like the solos and the chorus in White - but there are many valleys alongside those peaks. So I understand the guys in the band. Leprous's fanbase is steadily growing thanks to their newer music. And as their older material is so drastically different, it may be a bit risky to focus on it live. Oh, and yeah, I think the Congregation tracks allow their awesomeness as a live band to shine in its full glory. The studio album is very restrained in sound, so there is much space to let it loose live. The verses in Third Law are a prime example.

Hey I like metal and I love it, I can't see the point.

lol you're radical by yourself with this statement. but i totally agree! I hate being at concerts where they "crowdkill" i just wanna appreciate the music and transcend

Yes, rarely I haven't seen someone destroying his own credibility so quickly. :D Muskuss, no go and shame on your. :D

Its funny that whenever some non-metal fan is able to grasp how beautiful metal music is, they either deny it by saying this or “thats not just metal, its a mix of genres” *sigh*

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yesss, I discovered them just recently as well, so happy I did

You should listen to the songs: Phantom pain - White - Passing (Leprous)

Is...is this a thing? I was a huge HIM fan (still is tbh) and I love this music.

@@LortOfTheStones yes I have been a HIM fan for a long time though myself.

You won't regret it... Best

I don't get why the they brought the other guy

Aris Gouvas Old drummer of the band, came back with the guest vocalist Ihsan for this show I believe

This is funny to me. When I first heard of Leprous I saw them live with BtBaM and hated them. Everyone seems to like them though. I don't hate them anymore but I still don't understand why everyone loves them so much...

You are captured, stupid breath!