Old Composer REACTS to Parkway Drive "Karma" The Decomposer Lounge | Reaction and Breakdowns 

From Byron Bay Australia. The street sign for Parkway Drive is always getting stolen.

Ur great, i like that you react to many different genres and you have something interesting to say about the more technical aspects

I've been binging your videos ever since I found your channel a few weeks ago and I gotta drop into the comments to show some love real quick before I head over to get you a cup of coffee. Your analysis is incredibly insightful and enjoyable. Keep the awesome stuff coming! I'm sure you're not short on requests and that these may have already ended up in your comments, but if you're ever in need, it's tough to go wrong with "Flying Whales" by Gojira, "Gently" by Slipknot, or "A Little Piece of Heaven" by Avenged Sevenfold. 🤙

Coheed and Cambria - Gravity's Union

My home band! I grew up 4 hours from where they are, travelled down with friends and acquired a Parkway Drive sign back in the day hahaha. They are brilliant. As noted by others, they have a documentary on them travelling, surfing and touring. Highly recommend it. Another two songs I'd like to recommend to you; The Blue and The Grey - criminally underrated Wishing Wells - from their latest album. Very aggressive/rage inspired song.

Awesome pick, I love me some Parkway! If you want to hear some more fast paced metal that will blow your mind, listen to The Hirsch Effekt - Lifney! They don't get much international recognition because their lyrics are german, but since you listen to vocals more as an instrument I thought, you could give them a try, you won't regret it!

this is basically the definition of metalcore, during its peak. the newer stuff you were referring to as metalcore previously wasn't really it, it might have just had elements of it or be an evolution of it.

Big Request : Ulver - I Troldskog Faren Vild

Parkway Drive - Smoke Em If Ya Got Em

Parkway drive is a fun recommendation. I've only heard a few of their songs. Love all the variety. Fun times. Enslaved - Havenless on the list? Like NOTHING you've ever heard

If you don't do viscera by veil of maya to open your mind to thinking man's metal ill lose it, PLEASE DO IIIIITTTT

This is actually "metalcore". Not my fav example, but when you've been saying "metalcore", this is the subgenre you were accidentally referring to.

Mariana's Trench by August Burns Red has one of the best metalcore intros you'll ever here IMO

Props to whoever send him this video, watching his face during the surf bust-out was priceless!!

Their album Killing With a Smile is my most played album ever. It's almost goofy in it's melodic metalcore tropes. The song 'Carrion' though is the most important song to most earlier fans

Also, they have a really nice documentary you can stream. Authentic surfing Aussies that can't resist jumping in the water anywhere in the world haha

Would be cool to see you do parkway drive songs “boneyards”, “writings on the wall”, “wishing wells”, “chronos”, “romance is dead”

This is before Parkway decided to change up there style, too! This is one of my favorite pieces by them! Great decomposition, my friend.

When you have a metal video to record but the waves are in.

Next time you do PWD, check out 'Sleepwalker', or 'Horizons'. Both sick tunes.

Some other songs could be "Wishing Wells", "Bottom Feeder", "Dark Days"

The bass player never played an instrument before joining the band. The first BP left the band so the brought in their friend instead of doing bass auditions.

Great pick! Protest the hero second reaction coming soon?

I think you should try out The Dillinger Escape Plan, i believe you’d find them interesting. Maybe try Paranoia Shields or Hero of the Soviet Union. They’re an aggressive metal (mathcore?) band with weird time signatures.

I feel old seeing people call this an old song 😅 I remember killing with a smile album launch 😂 still my fave album of theirs by miles!

Erra- Shadow Autonomous, or another song off their upcoming album is sure to slay.

I have been waiting for a Parkway Drive song so thank you. I tend to be long winded and have a ton of music for you. Maybe I should send you an email instead of posting on youtube but I digress. (all older to newer) Parkway Drive evolution of songs for you to check out : 2004 Hollow Man (not worth a video but listen to this and then listen to their flushed out version on a later album 2006 Picture Perfect, Pathetic (feels like the most mature song on that album, cool drum intro, a lot of switch ups) 2009 Horizons from the album Horizons (Song feels like a story, intro is soft into buildup, middle grows until peaks and then a nice let down from the high of the album) Idols and Anchors is also a hit and is a collision between their older and newer styles. 2010 (Deep Blue) Might be one of my favorite metalcore albums ever. Samsara (life is suffering) intro was what I used to listen to while doing planks. Alone has a similar pattern of guitar in it as you were talking about in Karma here. Home is for the Heartless and Hollow I hold near and dear to my heart. Set to Destroy is a throwback to their old style of thrashing into breakdowns. 2012 (Atlas) One of their most mature albums. Everything is refined and they branch out into songs like The River, Atlas and Blue and the Grey. The song Atlas has Winston pulling out some insanely heartfelt lines with acoustic guitar along with an orchestra in the background. I'll let someone else talk about Ire/Reverence Albums since I didn't listen to them religiously like the first 4 or 5. I think the coolest park of this youtube channel is seeing you dig out the nuggets of composer information while allowing us viewers to share our deep emotional ties to these bands as we grew up. You are elegant with your thoughts and are able to always find amazing ways to reframe and flush out the essence of what we love. Anyway, it is late and the gummies are kicking in. I'd love to recommend more, but your backlist is probably insane at this point and we don't want to burn you out. Love ya Geebz. (Dave from the LOU St. Louis)

Please do RUSSIAN CIRCLES - HARPER LEWIS

There is nothing better than being in a pit when they play this live

Boneyards, Wreckage, and Sleepwalker. All AMAZING Parkway Drive songs that a Sea Lover like yourself will throughly Enjoy! 🤙

You gotta do another one of their songs, Wild Eyes. Its a beautiful anthem, full of this huge coarse and melodic atmosphere. It has great contrast throughout with a very energetic arrangement.

Adam D from killswitch engage produced them early on , they were amazing.

Hey Geebz and everyone, hope everyone is having a great day/night :) stay hydrated, keep your body and mind healthy and sharp and keep on rockin' in the free world.

Review / Parkway Drive - "Guns For Show, Knives For A Pro" crazy song

PWD is a great band just dont listen to anything from their IRE album on. Ok maybe only Wishing Wells but other than that no.

Outliers(Retrospect) By Aviations or Lifeisgood By Bilmuri Also would love more Twelve foot Ninja , it would be great.

Check out August Burns Red - Defender, you'll love it if you liked this

This band is pretty insane live. The circle pit for this song is always insane.

Fun story about this band, they played to a tiny, tiny crowd at my local music venue. To probably 50 people you could say, this was back in 2007 time. To think they now play massive arenas and festivals, shows how far they have come. All bands have to start somewhere and I was supporting them before they ‘made it’.

Really would love to see some Every Time I Die on here. Wanderlust, Kill the Music, InRihab, It Remembers! All great intro songs.

So the town they're from Byron Bay, is known in Australia as central stoner/surfer headquarters, so most Australian interviews lead with "So, you guys are from Byron but you don't play reggae" "no, ah, we do not" "Right so, like why not?" "Well that never really interested us I guess haha, we play this"

Literally any Parkway song that isn’t from their previous 2 albums.

Look up coheed and cambria, welcome home. Please trust me, you will absolutely enjoy rift changes in this one

thanks for the share. very good song IMO. Never hear of this band before today, now I have to check these guys out.

I'll request it on this video as well, please add Dark Tranquillity - Iridium to your list :) I promise zero regrets - and if you decide to listen to more of the band, every single album shows the band's development and is unique in it's own way, so it's a great journey to go through :)

i love how youre breaking down a song that 5 small town Australian surf dudes wrote at 24-25 years old in a 15x20ft room when jamming and yet its still so easily headbanged to and able to be broken down into simple music terms with snchopatted rythyms and really well choreographed music

Parkway has been my favorite band for almost 15 years now. Seen them live 13 times and met them a few times. One of the best out there in my opinion. Recommend checking out the song Sleepwalker. One of my favorites from Deep Blue. Would be a good song to decompose I think 🤘🏼

The lead singer of this Band is like my favorite screaming of all time!

If you see these guys live there's a high % one of them will be in a wheelchair. Legs breaks surfing or doing dumb shit are common with them. Pretty sure Winston the singer was a champion wakeboarder at one point.

Parkway Drive - "Bottom Feeder" and "Wishing Wells". G'Day from The Land Down Under.

Sleep walker you gotta do it man...deep meaning and great song

Awesome band!! I used to crank Killing with a Smile. That was a whole life ago it seems now

Please do Every Time I Die. The band. That is all.

Great work bringing Parkway Drive up - they’re Aussie legends! I first heard them back in 2005-2006 on late night radio, when the host goes “if this is hardcore, more please, these guys aren’t hardcore, that’s metal!” There’s a yearly compilation on Triple J (national FM radio station) in Australia called the Hottest 100 where listeners vote on their favourite songs for the last year. Whenever these guys do a single, they’re often one of very few heavy metal bands who make the 100 along with The Amity Affliction, they’ve been fantastic for over fifteen years now. Glad you enjoyed it!

Aussie boys🤘🇦🇺

Was going to recommend this song, especially seeing your connection to surfing haha Cool tid bit: the vocalist used to be a pro kneeboarder

Sylosis - Out From Below, please. Will be interesting :)

Grandfather - the number twelve looks like you

Hell yeah, Parkway Drive is one my favorite bands and Karma is my favorite song! Great day for me. They're from Australia and are badass surfbros! Some more amazing songs they have are Horizons, Leviathan I, Blue and The Grey, The River, Wishing Wells, and way too many more to list.

If you do "Wishing Wells" I highly recommend following it up with "The Colour of Leaving." They're the bookends to the album Reverence.

Love watching your videos, Geebz! I’m a lyricist, drummer and co-producer of my own band, so I find these videos of yours quite helpful and instructive. Incidentally, I was just about to ask you to react to Parkway Drive! Absolutely love the band! Was actually meant to see them live last month, but their gig was cancelled due to lockdown. May I recommend to you their songs: Absolute Power, The Void, Chronos and Vice Grip. Awesome songs! Take care, dude👍🏽

always delighted by your ear! great band and deep blue is a great album! next up : august burns red - thirty and seven

How's it and welcome back! New bands and songs to blow the mind, prog metal. Soen: Opal (Swedish prog metal), Borknager: Winter Thrice (Norwegian prog metal), DImmu Borgir: Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse (Norwegian symphonic black metal), Eluveitie: Omnos (swiss folk) Recycle: Katatonia: Heart Set To Divide, Draconian: Sleepwalkers, Opeth: Burden...

Nice reaction as always Geebz! For some of this nostalgic heavy stuff, I recommend and vote for Underoath-Too Bright To See Too Loud To Hear.

Okay....we came all the way from diffrent kinds of progressive music down to...well...this. I'm crying. Time to do this again: The Faceless - Autotheist Movement 1-3 would be nice.

ABSOLUTLY ANY PARKWAY DRIVE IS MINDBLOWING!! These dudes from down unda rock. Been listening to them since they came out. So do you and your channel. Tripped up on your stuff one day and was hooked. Keep up the awesome work. Aloha from Idaho. 45 year old school metal head. You're doing amazing.

Love the channel my man! 🤙🏻 A couple suggestions: Further Seems Forever - The Deep The Human Abstract - Mea Culpa Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth:3 Lamb of God - Walk with me in hell At the Drive In - Arcarsenal Look forward to all your breakdowns ☕️

I’d like to see you react to Atlas by parkway drive.

Okay, I saved this video for Friday because I was so excited-thank you to whoever suggested this! PWD is so near and dear to me. If you would continue down their path, I think you should check out something from Atlas (personally, love that record the most, but I really think you can't miss outside of IRE...personally lol). Would love your take on maybe some less 'commonly' reviewed tracks such as: The Slow Surrender, Blue & The Gray, Sleepwalker, Anasasis (Xenophonitis), Idols and Anchors, Home is for the Heartless, Shadow Boxing, Five Months, Slight of Hand, Guns for Show Knives for a Pro, Cemetery Bloom, Writings on the Wall

You really should check out some Post-Metal and Post-Rock. Russian Circles, ISIS, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed! You Black Emperor. All great bands I'm sure you would enjoy and have an interesting perspective on.

From a musical perspective, I still think "A Deathless Song" by them is criminally underappreciated. Now for the controversial opinion - don't do the duet, do the original cut of just Winston singing. Nothing against the guest singer on the duet version, just that the format of a duet * at all * wasn't right for the song. IMO. Otherwise, I recommend: Wild Eyes Vicious Dedicated Wishing Wells Bottom Feeder

You guys in the comments keep saying this band is Australian, but I don’t see any beer in this video. What’s the deal? 😁 Idea for each category: Circling back to them - Gojira: “Flying Whales” Uncharted territory - The Toadies: “Doll Skin”

"whenUrilisURnuAlabum"? If you have watched Home is for the Heartless you'll know...

Check out Eskimo Callboy - MC Thunder II (Dancing Like a Ninja) please!

If you're considering more Parkway Drive, "Leviathan I" is probably my favourite, it's a tad underrated. If you're after some completely left field Aussie stuff, try Testeagles and Sunk Loto. Keep up the great work!

"pyramid song" by radiohead and "palace posey" by Boards of Canada please! I'm Still Here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey man you should REALLY give Clutch a listen! They're the greatest band you've probably never heard of! "In Walks Barbarella" is a fun one that you'd probably appreciate

Check out Memphis May Fire Vices and Parkway Drive's Carrion and A Deathless Song

I love these so much. It's cool to see people enjoy the music I love. Check out ANYTHING from ERRA's new self-titled album... House of Glass is primo.

Veil of Maya - Fracture is an awesome tune that’s gonna blow your mind. And give you a good laugh probably Keep the good vibes

Second Protest reaction soon? And a new-to-you band to react to would be Architects. Hereafter or Black Lungs or Goliath or Gone With The Wind or Royal Beggars or Naysayer. Anything really. And they're just a bunch of solid, good dudes.

Aloha, good reaction. Anyway, can i request your reaction to superb band from japan? The band is call "Lovebites" They all The Queens metal band right now in the earth. They are really really World class musicians. Phenomenal. And they have a lot fans too. The song is "Glory to the world" Hope you check out, and can enjoy it too. Big thanks🙏

Long time lurker, came here for the Tool. Stayed for the awesome! Can I reccomend Clutch - Soapmakers or Clutch - Dragonfly? I keep hearing they are a musicians band. After watching learning from you, I can see why now.

Geebz, as much as you love good bass, you should check out RKL's Riches to Rags to album. "In Your Mind" or "Betrayed" really highlight how awesome their bass player was.

You should check out Entheos. Great prog metal band. Id suggest inverted earth(1)/sunshift(2) full band play through!

Not that I’m gonna say to ignore all of the other comments (🤣) but you should definitely react to the new Architects Album, probably starting with the song ‘Goliath’. - or the singer from the song above is on the new Architects song ‘Impermanence’ - which as an absolute banger! Lastly as always - Tool: The Grudge! 😁

Try some songs from the Atlas album. Like the "Atlas", or "The River". Both are beautiful and have complex compositions compared to most of their work.

Other Parkway songs: Boneyards Breaking Point Carrion Smoke ‘Em if you got’em Horizons

This really made me think of Pantera's "The Great Southern Trendkill". I'm not a huge fan of this type of vocals, but if they're on top of incredible music and skills, I'm there. The last half of Trendkill is one of my favourite musical experiences: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LVREKUVRoEQ.html

August Burns Red drummer has great cymbal sounds. Different and noticeable. Also, you gotta do: “Break those bones whose sinews gave it motion,” by Messhuga.

Nice! I wasn't expecting you to check PWD out. Great band!

Surfer Metalcore for a surfer dude :) Parkway Drive is a bit basic, but they are efficient and sound good. My usual suggestion: Dir En Grey - Vinushka :)

Another song from this band would be great! Breaking Point, the Sirens song, idols & Anchors, Horizons,... Just to name a few.

Parkway drive HORIZONS, is a song you need to check out. An amazing journey of sound🤘🤘

**Here's another tricky one to play on drums and cover as a band** Circa Survive "The Difference Between Medicine and Poison is in the Dose" __ Me and My buddies played it on point, but had a friends little sister sing the song, she nailed it. If You listen to it, You'll hear why :-)

If you want to listen to one of the best (if not THE best) mixed metalcore album you HAVE to listen to the song Kirisute Gomen by trivium

I think Parkway Drive - Atlas would be more up your alley. It's much more nuanced and musically minded.

Parkway Drive are a metal core band (although have changed their sound throughout their career) from Byron Bay, Australia! They are actually named after a real street not far from where they live, some of they living next door to each other growing up! They are big surfers and openly admitted that "board shorts and barefoot" is there style! Hope this helps in giving you a bit of background AWWIGHT" 🤘🏻🤘🏻

You should definitely check out Wild Eyes and Dark Days from Parkway Drive, very environmentally focused lyrics with the usual metalcore style. This band are so great and all really cool, fun guys. I've seen them live a couple of times and they're always happy to chat and laugh with fans!

I'm not a huge fan of these guy. Vocals are top notch, but song are too melodic to me. Great reaction, as always! Could you react to "Republika -Na barykadach walka trwa"?