Listen to that fucking polyrhythm at 15:15 - 6 bars of 4/4 with the hi-hat keeping a steady group of 4, the ride playing in groups of 3, the bass playing in groups of 5 (corresponding with the fifths on the rhythm guitar), and the snare playing in groups of 7 (corresponding with the minor seconds). it would take 35 bars for the 5 + 7 polyrhythm to cycle uninterrupted so it gets cut short after 6 bars (hence the jagged sound). A polyrhythm of 3, 4, 5 and 7 is super brave though, I get off on this shit. PR0GreZZivE!
I fucking can't stop listening to this BAND!!!!!!!!!!! Damn you guys are fucking good. PLEASE come to Saint Louis some day. I will bring the masses. You will thank me... ;)
+Ignacio C I heard this and i was like Plini is really going all out. Where is this rage coming from? Clicked tab and saw Meridian in the title and i was like oh! Meridian! lol
Leonidas Diamandopoulos oh fuck you lol how old are you like 12? sharting? really? why dont you try opening yourself up to enjoy more than one horrendously specefic style of vocals?
goddamn im glad this shit exists, i like prog-metal instrumentals like this but i can't handle singers who belt out terrible lyrics, which is really rife in this genre.
exactly. The pentacle of this genre lacks vocals. I think periphery is good, but I dont listen to them BECAUSE of their vocals....this level of music doesnt need vocals.....
Holy shit.I just wanted a break from death metal and i found this masterpiece.Really bands such as Plini,scale the summit, persefone, animals as leaders and the helix nebula are out of this world!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No idea how on earth you guys compose this. After a hundred playthroughs, it still keeps getting better on every single listen. To this day I'm looking for pieces of my shattered and blown mind.
these a`rent humans there highly advanced beings from a higher mystical world billions of light years far from ours explains why there music titles are things called crystal plans sea of suns a sailing stone they are demtional gods from places where the 3 suns shine high and the marble glowing moon watches over.
Jon Ramen ohh yeah definitly ,when tosin plays dude ull never keep up, with the speed keys to the beats that arent always in rythm. youll never know what tosins gonna do next ut he great
Man, that solo that rips through at the beginning of Sea of Suns (0:47) sounds fucking amazing! Sounds like it could cut through anything, yet it's also really smooth. Mixed to perfection.
people saying this sounds like a million other bands... a million other bands fucking wish they could sound like this. in terms of aesthetic, ofc a bunch of bands sound like this. but in terms of excecution these guys are on top.
Yeah, they really delivered. A lot of times these bands are just guitar wankery stitched together, but these guys have great (and memorable) melody and riff writing, the compositions are nice with a great amount of repetition to give each song a theme and helps to keep familiarity. The production is great, the mix sits well. The only complaint I have is that the album as a whole can feel a bit derivitive at times.
Bruh, I made my comment the day this video came out. It took them about 2-3 weeks until they finally updated the description to feature the track listing/times.
I'm only 11 minutes in and I don't even have to listen to the rest of this to make this comment, this is some next level shredding. I think when this EP ends, I'm going to have to listen to it again. And then probably another time. Fuck this is so fucking funky.
who on eart plays music like this .. not only technique but the emotions and the drummer blown my mind totally....sooo damn good i am running out of words
My face melts and I forget all of my troubles ***every*** time I listen to this. DREAM BILLING / TOUR: Meridian, Tesseract, Plini, The Contortionist, Haken, and Twelve Foot Ninja. PLEASE, GOD. Make it come true...
It's still crazy these dudes dropped this amazing piece of art then just casually dropped off the face of the earth and never released anythit⁵ntŕtg else. While I'm sure they had/have their reasons it's still such a shame we never got more from them.
this Album was so refreshing to me my god. I found them just in time because I was getting really tired of the brutal metal screaming, clean parts, techno interludes formula with a hint of progressive that alot of djent bands are doing right now, like ERRA, Periphery, and Born of Osiris. and I'm definitely over anything core like breakdowns, constant chugging, and in your face double-bass like Breakdown of Sanity. This was like a breath of fresh air, no screaming no brutalness, just insanely beautiful progressive creative music that feels intense without trying so damn hard and screaming into my ear the whole time. everytime I listen to a new band that screams super hard, then cue the clean vocals, then a techno interlude starts, i just sigh and roll my eyes like ugh I've heard this a hundred thousand times. but I love this fucking band its so mature and technically proficient yet beautiful and mesmerizing. 10/10
Khurram Liaqat ha thanks for the tip my friend. I've known about them for a while, because every other comment on a progressive djenty instrumental metal band mentions sithu aye at some point so its hard to miss. but ill admit I haven't given them much of a chance, im just getting into this style, I'll check them out for real even though I've heard them and known about them, thanks brother.
damulac1 i've heard all those bands you just mentioned. they are all pretty much a staple of the genre of instrumental prog metal. not complaining though but most of them did not interest me all that much.
sarin royce I would suggest you David Maxim Micic and his last album, Bilo 3.0 and the one before, Bilo 2.0. Some tracks are vocal, others aren't. His works are mostly prog and clearly has jazz influences in them (he studied musical composition at Berkeley University). Very refreshing for the thirsty ear!
among this wave progressive bands that sound almost identical i found something somewhat more interesting in you guys. here's a wholehearted upvote and i'll be on the lookout
Listened to this for the first time today. Now someone please tell me ... how am I supposed to listen to Animals as Leaders, Chon, Sithu Aye, Plini or anything after this? Eargasm. That's what this is. Eargasm.
I found this album around the time my mother passed. You guys have no idea what this album means to me. To me each note memorializes a moment in time. Each song is an emotion of mine. Your art has the meaning that you made it with. And it has the meaning that my heart feels when it's played. Thank you for this incredible masterpiece and I hope that you read my comment and know how much your music means to me.
That's interesting. This is definitely great, but this band's style is a little more capitulate to the newer metal norms and traditional like harmonies. AAL is super out-of-the-box. I guess I get a little more uppity charge from this music, but I think AAL is way heavier.
I hear what you're saying for sure, but I think the two bands can coexist peacefully. They both fit different moods really well. Both are also phenomenal as well.
Whaaa. This is like a dumbed down, generic off-brand cousin of AAL. Sounds like a million other bands. AAL is easily distinguishable from other bands. Interesting,.
This is highly progressively djently, incredibly and awesomely insane! Kudos on the members for such passion with the song. Show those dudes in polyphia how you put feeling in a song!
Lumarious B He's accusing Polyphia of not knowing how to "put feeling in a song" afaik. If you consider that "bashing" them then your question probably didn't warrant asking. Hashtag just saying.
Just discovered. Realized that this is fucking wonderful after only 30 seconds. More precisely this is EXACTLY the kind of stuff I was looking for these days ^^' I'm so happy with the direction that djent is taking, with so many awesome progressive bands coming out here and there. Feels like we're back to the sixites but with the nowadays sounds.
Astraeus, The Helix Nebula, there's a new Anup Sastry to come... Nice way to end the year. And the starting was not bad with AAL and Intervals. Nice prog' year :D
Thankyou THN so much for making such amazing creative music, I keep listening to this over and over again, its truly inspiring. all of you have a very bright future ahead of you!!!
2056 and it s still one of the best instrumental albums i ve ever heard. Not only technical skills are on another level, but rythm, note choice, composition... Everything is perfect here
that vibe at 20:40 isfucking SICKENIING. learned alot of this album note for fucking note baby cant wait to show the homies over at the side project helix. fucking love this album
I heard your EP for the first time a week or so ago, do you guys have any other albums besides this one? Your music is incredible, especially that bass playing it's phenomenal.
I want to thank youtube for putting those suggestions over there on the right. Sure, sometimes they're a little weird but often they lead to amazing discoveries. I started the day looking to see what Tony Levin had done outside of King Crimson and that led me to Liquid Tension Experiment. Then the right hand column led me to Animals as Leaders and then on to The Helix Nebula. So I didn't get any chores done on this Saturday but I discovered three great bands. I have a feeling the chores aren't going to get done tomorrow either.
WHO'RE THESE PEOPLE..??!!! I want to know more and listen more from them.. band individual members in other bands or studio projects.. I DON"T CARE.. Fantastic composition none-the-less.. One masterpiece in the continuum for sure.. Kudos!
Jake Howsam Lowe (Me) - live rhythm guitar for Plini, also in Scoredatura with solo material on the way Stephen Taranto - Solo material on the way Simon Grove - Live and Session bass for Plini Nic Tresise - nothing else right now
For a debut album, technique-wise this is bloody impressive. There are established professionals who should perhaps feel humbled by it. I really look forward to where this band is headed. I just wish the sound had a bit more soul to it. it doesn't seem to carry a message of any kind, it's just fancy for fancy sake, so it comes off as a bunch of completely face-melting, but ultimately disjunct segments. Crystal Plains doesn't seem to exhibit this nearly as much though. It seems to have a pretty clear idea who it is and where it's going. So that's good. That's showing promise. Again, really looking forward to seeing where you're headed.
Yeah, Simon, look. Please live the rest of your life knowing you made one of the greatest albums of all time. Everyone involved in this project should be extremely proud even after all these years.
I know right, how the hell did they do it? Out of all the Intervals-style/Plini-style/etc albums that came out, you know, of this specific kind instrumental prog rock/metal that peaked around the mid 2010s, nothing beats this.
Wow. I'm left speechless. I didn't really get in to the instrumental world until very recently, but this is absolutely incredible. Thank you RU-vid for suggesting this to me off of the TesseracT stream of Polaris.
