Music Teacher REACTS TO Architects "Hereafter" | MUSIC SHED EP 166 

This song Hereafter is a follow up to Holy Hell’s (Album) lead single Doomsday, which was a song dedicated to their guitarist Tom who passed away from cancer (Dan’s brother). Their last few albums are actually a story line of grief. All Our God’s Have Abandoned Us (Album) contains lyrics of Nihilism and the inevitably of death in negative connotations, as Tom was writing his last lyrics for the band while enduring his battle with cancer. Gone With The Wind (Song) is the best example of that, and it’s a story of self loathing and wondering why they were even born in the first place if they were just going to die. Holy Hell (Album) was written after Tom’s passing and is dedicated to him and contains songs about accepting the intense emotions and sorrow and grief that comes with loss (Hereafter and Doomsday). Their new album, For Those That Wish To Exist, puts death in a more positive connotation. There is realization that everyone must die and that no life is complete without death. After years and years of grief and turmoil for the band, a realization is finally reached on the conclusion of this album “Dying Is Absolutely Safe” when Sam sings the lyrics “Death is not my enemy”. Death is seen on this track as a reward and a symbol of relief and peacefulness. This track is so powerful because it was their first step towards this realization that nothing lasts forever and to appreciate every moment of our profound existence because we’re all here for a purpose.

Yes! You can't go wrong with Architects! Please do more of them! Sam is really one hell of a vocalist. I'd suggest you to listen to Doomsday (both the original and piano reprise), Memento Mori, and Dying Is Absolutely Safe.

David that little piano fill you did when describing the chorus was absolutely magnificent 🥰

As a heavy music lover, I can't express to you enough how happy it makes me to see truly knowledgeable people such as yourself getting into the heavy music that I love, when I've spent most of my life being made fun of for the music I like and having people tell me it "doesn't take talent to play metal!" Well... Here's a music teacher validating my music! Haha :) Great content, I love your channel!

Spiritbox just released a new song feat. Sam from Architects!! It's a banger, you need to listen to it!

I would to see your reaction to Architects gone with the wind - it’s such an emotional song for the band but equally amazing.

Next Architects reaction has to be Doomsday

Loved the reaction! Doomsday and Gone With The Wind are must haves on your architects journey!!

Oli Sykes and Sam Carter once did a Song together you really have to see. Its called "The Sadness will never end" from suicide season

5:09 Oh my god man, you are amazing, I could listen to a full piano cover of this by you, absolutely class

Spiritbox just dropped a track with him and it’s probably song and album of the year! It’s called Yellowjacket

Dan is such a good drummer man. He actually writes all the lyrics and most of the music as well. Very talented musician. Also Sam Carter is my favorite vocalist man. Such a talent rich band. I've been listening to them since their first EP around 2006-2007 and haven't stopped listening to them. Anyway much love man and keep up the amazing reactions brotha 🖤🤘

Yessss, always more architects. Do Memento Mori for some old school

This album is infinitely more intense when you know it was the last one featuring any work from Tom. Tom was the lead guitarist and lyricist (among other things), and the brother of the drummer, Dan. IIRC a portion of his work on this album was composed while he was in the hospital. He passed in 2016 from skin cancer. I honestly think that's why everything just feels so emotionally intense in this album. Sam's screams are just...painfully brutal. SO emotionally charged and SO full of anger and pain. It's present in the instrumental as well, especially in Dan. The drums throughout this album are immaculate. You can definitely tell this was a mourning album.

It never ceases to amaze me how quickly you translate the full musical composition into a piano instrumental. I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again - so much talent! Architects are a fantastic band also, Sam Carter’s vocal are 👌🏻.

Man it makes me so happy to see someone enjoy architects music in such a profound way. Their music has helped me immensely through the years

Easily my favorite band right now. They don't make a bad song. Their album they dropped last February is easily the album of the year for me. Great reaction definitely more Architect's.

Best reaction channel on YT.

I love architects, been listening to them and seeing them live since they where small and seeing them get to where they are is incredible. Love the video david ❤️

Love your enthusiasm for this outstanding song man 🙌🏼

love the energy of this reaction. feels like your unfiltered emotion! love it

I love your videos! Also architects are amazing!

Love this reaction! Your woooooo's are so nice 😂

I could listen to you play piano all day long. Absolutely beautiful! The way you play the songs instantly after hearing them is crazy.

Just wanted to let you know when it comes to actually explaining the music, beyond just oh it sounds nice or whatever, you are definitely the best reaction channel to watch. I always enjoy your perspective and input when reacting to a song, you go deeper than just the basic " oh it's heavy " or whatever. I am a aspiring musician and getting your little insights on what makes a song stand out and really catch you is a great help to my own song writing and guitar playing. Major props to you sir 🙌

Ahhhhhhhh I love architects 😍

Memento Mori - Architects is beautiful ♥️

I love this band. Really cool video brother.

This was sooooo f****n cathartic YES! 💜

Architects are amazing live, the whole band is so tight and Sam's vocals are always on point! One of the tightest live bands I've seen!

Was not expecting you to react to architects but this is sick

My favorite song from Architects❤️

You remind me of this guy I work with. You live and breath music and you both display j what the music does to you with no filter. You let the music take over and you’re a treat to watch

I'm watching you and I can't believe your Intuition !! Love your breakdown!!!

Architects have been one of my favourite bands since 2008, they are nothing short of mindblowing every single track. Their album Hollow Crown was my absolute obsession as a teenager.

Awesome video man! The drummer plays the same way live, since you asked :) saw them at least 6-7 times, first in 2011! Amazing band, one of my all time favorites

I love the insights on why certain musical elements makes the listener feel a certain way, like the stuff about half-time

Gone With The Wind has to be next from architects!!

If you see them live, the drum fills are always dead perfect to the beat. He writes them in the most incredible ways that they require no improv.. Each and every musician in that band are top of the class.. They're just beasts.

Such an amazing band. Sam just appeared in a new drop from Spiritbox called Yellow Jacket, also an amazing song.

Would love to see what you think of 7th circle from them! Off the same album, short track, but absolutely killer instrumentals and vocals. Much love from Wisconsin!

AMAZING CHANNEL BROTHER AND AMAZING TALENT YOU HAVE!!!

The album this track is from was the first time I had ever heard Architects, Holy Hell will always have a special place in my heart for the rough time I was going through.

Hereafter is the song that got me to love Architects.

Thankyou David for leaning more and more into heavier genres and educating people on the finer nuances of music like this. You’re always great value to watch because you’re both knowledgeable in the subject matter and the feelings people put into music and regularly funny as well. Rest in Paradise Tom

Dan actually isn't the drummer in this song, he passed away a few years earlier from skin cancer and the band's music since then has been in memory of him. You can definitely tell that there's a lot of emotion in the music

My favourite band ever… 🖤🖤

Can confirm that Dan plays super accurate live. He is an absolute machine on the set! Would love to see you look at a live performance of theirs - they're amazing live

I will say with regards to lyrics... the more of these kinds of vocals you listen to, the easier it becomes to parse the lyrics at first listen. Great to see you doing more Architects, the British metalcore scene is fantastic right now. We are so spoiled as fans!

BEST BAND EVER

You definitely gotta check out Fire from the Gods some time! 🙂 Killer riffs, meaningful lyrics/messages & one hell of a dynamic. Excuse Me, Right Now, Evolve & Truth to the Weak are all good starting points.

Such a great blegh during the bridge

Absolutely love architects! Sam Carter may be my favorite singer he’s amazing!

I want a real cover of this with those piano notes you did 😢 sounds beautiful

Sent you an email back in February to react to this song but the live version from Hellfest 2019. It’s incredible. They’re so good live.

As somebody who's seen them live multiple times, I can confidently say they are 100% just as tight live.

Dan plays his fills the same each time but will sometimes throw in improvised ones live in places there normally wouldn't be any fills.

Effing hell, Sam's vocals / screams are one of the few i can clearly understand, also hes so clearly underrated. ;)

Absolutely do more architects. Naysayer is a great one, from one of their older records. Also pretty much any song from All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us. Last album Tom (Dan’s brother) did before passing, and the guy was a phenomenal musician

omfg dude we need a piano cover on this asap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Agreed the bassist (and drummer) are the backbone of any good band.

I love your reactions, especially coming from a musical theory perspective. You should react to Eidola Tetelestai. The time signature changes are crazy and would love to hear your musical perspective on that song. Keep up the excellent work!!

Architects are one of my favourite bands, they're incredible. I think my favourite track of theirs is Momento Mori from All Our Gods

Some more heavy music. I’m for it! Thanks again!!! It’ll be great when you do A7X next.

0:26 Im kind of a sucker for those kind of synths. Supersaws and complicated bass synths are fun to make and play around with, but a nice analog-ish synths are nice.

Dan plays the fills the same live, and they are the best live band I’ve ever seen

You should check out Gone With The Wind. It is an absolute masterpiece. Their late guitar player and song writer Tom wrote it as he was struggning with cancer. Watching one of their live videos of that song from after Toms passing is fucking heartbreaking.

Great question about the fills! I don’t know Dan or what his process is specially, but being a fan of the band and their extended discography- this song specially feels like he planned to use that big fill (you know the one) as a motif of sorts. Typically the fills vary from part to part within their songs. Like his late brother Tom, he is also very involved in the song writing process and vision of the band so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that that kind of attention to detail would extend to the drum fills. Great song, great band, & great review! Love the channel man!

Wheres that reaction to 12 Foot Ninja - Over & Out with Tatiana from Jinjer!?!

I would love to see you reacting to some older Architects - A Match Made in Heaven or These Colours Don't Run. Peace from Brazil!

One of my favorite songs by them. You should check anything prior to this album. These lyrics and whole album are about the guitarist (drummers brother) who died of cancer following the recording of the album before this

The album this track comes off is absolutely one of the best modern metalcore releases of all time

Sam carter came in like a Steam Engine, PURE GENIUS!!!

🖤🖤

8:54 I rarely hear that being called bridge even though it is one. Usually people just call it buildup for what's called the breakdown (9:06) or consider it a part of the breakdown itself

You gotta do DMA’s feels like 37 live at Brixton

The drums (including fills) in this style of music are pre-programmed and planned out to a tee before they're recorded, and are more or less performed identically at each show (in the case of Architects anyway).

Please do Fit for a King !!

Funny when he said “do you guys realized he going (dred dle ded dred dle ded) with this f**ing feet”🤣🤣🤣

I agree with every song everyone below me has mentioned. All great. I’m still waiting for Aviations-Outliers. Come on please!

Doomsday, modern misery, and gone with the wind are must listens for Architects.

You should definitely do Erra-White Noise. It's such an exciting song and alot of cool parts

Try reacting to hollow crown! It’s one of their older songs but will show you more of sams vocal range when he sings 🤘

Would love you to react to An Ordinary Extinction from Architects. I think you’d find a lot to appreciate in that one!

You must check Nothing More - This Is The Time. Its a very beautiful song!

I would love to hear your thoughts on more metal type bands. I recommend looking wage war. They are in the same genre as the other heavier bands you have looked at.

Periphery -reptiles or satellites are two badass songs like this. Journeys!!!

Oh fuck yeah, Architects is the shit. And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope - Ne Obliviscaris

you should check out contraband by make them suffer.

I'd be really interested in hearing what you think about the band Tallah. They are all super talented musicians that are bringing back/redefining the nu metal genre. Also, their singer Justin has a pretty big youtube channel called Hungry Lights and is pretty involved with the reactor community.

You NEED to do Snot!! Lynn strait died in a car wreck after only making one album. They would of basically created a new genre if he was still around I feel!

Some of the recommendations already suggested on here I 100% agree you may appreciate. Doomsday is really a song you should watch. From the off that song holds so much emotion. The first time I heard that song, I had come back to their new stuff, after a few years away from metal music. I heard the song and instantly felt an emotional connection, I was certain there was a sorrowful story behind it. So not to my surprise I learned the sad news about Tom, so belated as well. I was, sufficed to say, devastated I was not there to be part of the journey in supporting and paying respects to Tom. I hope I get to see you break down Doomsday, Memento Mori, or an older song "Hollow Crown" one of my personal faves by them.

I recommend you to check out "Royal Beggars", "Holy Hell" and "Modern Misery" by Architects. It's some of my favorite songs by them, especially "Royal Beggars".

Ali bass line in colony collapse he’s shredding And Dan is the gold standard he plays perfect studio quality live

You could also check out the New Album of spiritbox. The Song yellowjacket from the Album also features sam

Love the Architects reactions for the Holy Hell album - Spritbox also just released a new album you should check out, one song even features Sam Carter (Yellowjacket)! Think you will be very happy with it!

Will now continue to comment that you need to hear King Park by La Dispute until it happens :)

can you watch Architects - Doomsday, its about the death of one of their band members and would love it, he even helped write it before their death and hereafter is them talking about how they coped with it

9:05 Sam: BLEGH David: WOOOOO Us too 🤘😈

Gone with the wind is one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard rom architects! Check it out! Also, another great English metal band is while she sleeps. Check out silence speaks by them featuring oli sykes from being me the horizon!