Old Composer REACTS to TESSERACT Dystopia | Composers Breakdown and Review 

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The song ends abruptly like that as that padding bleeds into the next song "Hexes", and becomes the intro into that track.

They actually released a 5.1 surround sound version of this album and it sounds incredible.

you gotta check out the live studio 'Of Matter' by Tesseract. Daniel Tompkins (their original, and current singer) rejoined the band after a short hiatus in which they recruited the help of a singer named Ashe O' Hara. Ashe did an amazing job in studio setting, and their album 'Altered State' is their best work (in my opinion). Would be a nice contrast, and the live in Sphere Studio recording of 'Of Matter' is quite amazing. Thanks for checking out TesseracT, one of my favorite bands!

Listening to Dystopia and following it up with Hexes always gives me the goosebumps.

My favorite from TesseracT is the 3 "Of Matter" songs. Check it out if you want :) Also great video again. You have become one of my favorite youtubers for song breakdowns already

Someone probably already said this but Tesseract produce and engineer their own stuff. Its mostly their guitarist Acle that writes and produces it all. Cool reaction and happy you liked it. Tesseract are a fun band to get into, you're gonna love'em.

YESSS my favorite band at the moment. LETS GOOOO I would recommend checking out the live studio video for Of Matter, that one is really killer.

Don’t forget friends, if there’s a particular song you want to hear, copy the RU-vid link and paste into your comment here. Give this guy a break and save him from having to go find these tunes on his own!

Ohhhh yusss! Tesseract is amazing! Especially this album and their newest, Sonder. Also. DAY 3 of suggesting Periphery-Reptile. You won't regret it.

I was one of the ones who annoyed you with Tesseract. Thanks for the content!! What you say about the space, you are totally right! Tesseract doesn't have commonly used structures. It seems they have verses and choruses but they only repeat once. Their songs are a trip. You should watch their live recording of Phoenix live in the studio.

The abrupt end to the track is due to it leading into another track; A trait Tesseract is well known for, sometimes having several parts or movements tied together to form a larger cohesive piece. Dan the vocalist here does have a very clean tone but he is fully capable of some grittier vocals. I'm sure you'll get requests for songs from their record "Altered State" featuring a different vocalist Ashe, who was also fantastic. To hear some older Tesseract with Dan before he parted & later returned to the band I'd recommend "Concealing Fate pt.2". A really groove driven track with some more aggressive vocals. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qki712bg84w.html Additionally I think you'd really appreciate the group Monuments, who are considered one of the big "djent" bands such as Tesseract/Periphery. Fun fact all 3 bands have actually links with a guitarist each of Monuments & Tesseract once being in a band together & the former vocalist of Monuments was also in Periphery for a short while. My pick for Monuments would be "Mirror Image". It's not their most technical track by any stretch but its's a great introduction to their groovy style & Chris Barretto's fine vocal work. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qki712bg84w.html Apologies for the huge load of information haha, really enjoying your analysis of these tracks though :)

Holy shit you're doing Tesseract too now?! Someone's just listing my playlists to you at this point. Tool, Snarky Puppy, Nightwish, Periphery, now this...

“Live from Quarantine” is a really good short set from Tesseract, totally worth checking out.

You must do Opeth next. Harlequin Forest, Blackwater Park, Ghost of Perdition or Bleak

A rumour I heard about TesseracT (from Matt Garstka's stream actually) is that they all play to different clicks on their songs... that kinda blew my mind a little. Love TesseracT and love your vids!

Please do more tesseract! All the other recommendations for their work are spot on. Thank you so much and YOU DO YOU!!

Their drummer (Jay Postones, AKA the ghost note king) is pretty active on twitch/youtube and such - really cool to see how he thinks about rhythm and writing

Yay! You finally did it! Glad you enjoyed it! If you plan to come back definitely go with one if the songs off of the album altered state like nocturne!

Thanks for another great video! Love watching your breakdowns.

Your breakdowns of songs are really great.

Love your confidence and how your obviously thorough experience in the industry shines through, alongside unbiased opinions and taste. +1 Subscriber!

Your channel really has grown fast man congrats on the upcoming 25k, I love watching you react to basically all my favorite music. Keep up the great vids.

Very comfy lighting in this one, Tesseract is great

Thank you for checking them out! Great video

Exactly what the doctor ordered. Fantastic! Keep it up mate! I've just finished a 14hr shift to come home to this: a song I know and love, explained in a way I never saw before. In a way that makes me love it even more. Thank you Geebz! The people are right, the live recordings of "Of Matter" are up there. Truly superb.

You hit the nail on the head on "spacing". What makes Meshuggah so incredibly groovy and what sets them apart from their "djent"-prog juniors is exactly this; the way they lay down the quiet moments within the rhythmic chaos is what grounds their songs and makes them so head-bangable.

Protest the hero - bloodmeat, the canary, all hands, tidal, skies All superb songs! And the metal/rock genres imo most unique and skilled vocalist as well as some of the most insane guitar riffs I’ve heard

Great reaction, dude! I love how on a first listen, you can pick out the detail you do. Incredible. Keep it up!

Do a reaction to Haken. Carousel is pretty amazing.

All your videos are awesome. Keep it up!

only just came across your channel and I'm addicted. Great fun. Subbed

I was hoping for some TesseracT! Awesome channel! Love your videos

Hey Geebz, for your 1 year anniversary i'd recommend Eden from Tesseract's first album One. It's probably in my top 5 most favorite songs of all time. Also congrats on the one year anniversary! Been an absolute pleasure watching you dissect, react and bring a fresh perspective to some of the music that I listen to daily. So here's to another year!

Ive been crafting the theory of why i like all this music i listen to so much besides the fact im a drummer at heart, and im glad youve validated my theory of space and how its used being why i like this music so much. Keep em coming Geebz!

I absolutely LOVE this song, man. Really glad I found this reaction of yours

This guy has awesome bleeh-bleh-bleeeehh.This is exactly the insight I like in reaction vids. Thanks Old Composer! Subscribed!

Cool video! Just wanted to add that this is quite a DIY band. The engineer is actually one of the guitar players and if I'm not mistaken he's also the main songwriter in the band. This is my favourite album of theirs and my favourite song is Tourniquet, really neat tune. Happy new year! :)

Extremophile Elite by Between the Buried and Me. Live studio version is bananas.

Another of my favourite bands! One cool thing about their live show is that they have all the ambient music running on tracks and so they can run from one song to another without ruining the atmosphere with talking. They also get a chance to have a drink, change guitars etc. Pretty cool.

I learned to play this on drums after 7 years of playing fairly straight forward songs in terms of rhythms; mastering this song has made me feel like I actually can play my instrument. I love the vids, Geebz. Keep it up!

Hey! Loving the videos and insight you provide! I usually dont ask for people to watch stuff but from your like of playing with time signatures and other weird progressive stuff I think you might enjoy a band called Demetori. They are a somewhat unknown band from japan, so would be really cool to have someone shine some light on them! For the song you can choose pretty much anything, since their song titles are mostly japanese even I dont remember most of the names even though Im an avid listener of them :) Keep making great content, loving every upload!

TesseracT, YES! I'm hyped! This band is mind-blowing, amazingly good and talented. Please do a couple of other songs by them to get their ''full spectrum of music''. They're an insane band that keeps growing, they have no best albums since all of their albums are killers. Btw, about the ending, this song kinda has no ending. It flows over perfectly in the next song, and imo these two tracks belong together. That's why the open ending might've left you a bit unsatisfied.

Omg. I found TesseracT last year, and fell in love with the atmosphere and complexity and beauty of their music. Any song. Any song you do I am going to be here 🤘🖤

I'd love to see you do an arrangement v composition video as you mentioned. I'm learning a ton by watching your vids. Thanks!

I just wanted to say that, as a musician, the things you discuss when talking about the videos you are watching, it puts you at the top of my REACTION RU-vidrs. Thank you for the awesome content. And keep it up.

Dude. You’re hitting all my faves ... Meshuggah, Periphery, Tesseract ... great stuff brother🤙

Dude. You are awesome. Keep it up. You do you!

TesseracT albums are, in a way, single songs. Definitely keep going with em. 🤘 Also gotta recommend Aviations - Outliers (Retrospect): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_7Aj2wGxsA4.html

I love the time you take to give each aspect of the arrangement a spotlight. Different but amicable from other reactors I've seen. This is actually my personal favorite band. I hope you'll take another look at them. They've got quite a discography to check out. If I could recommend anything personally for you to check out if you'd like (and there's so much I could), I'd say Nocturne (the full version), Resist, or Proxy. Those all could off the same album, an album that I would say is the best one from an engineering perspective. Thanks again. Hope you'll check out more TesseracT. :)

I was waiting for a tesseract reaction. They're good for sure.

Glad you mentioned the juxtaposition of the more melodic “clean” vocals against the more aggressive nature of the music while discussing the spaces within the arrangement. Brought the band Sleep Token to mind. “The Offering” and “Higher” are my recommendations :)

Liked the video before it started! TesseracT is my favorite band! Thank you!

It would be a pleasure if you reacted to Reptile - Periphery! Keep on doing your great reactions. Greetings from Germany! :)

Great video man! You mentioned the specific panning of the drums here - it's common for drums to be panned from the listener's perspective, as if you were watching the band. This would put the hats on the right, and the toms panning high to low from left to right, etc.

It would be great to see you talk about the band Sleep Token. They're a super interesting mix of pop/indie with metal. The songs The Offering and Higher might be my favourite.

Great band, great song choice, great video mate!

Thank you for continuing to exist.

This is a very cool song. Never heard of them before. I'm going to look em up now. Thanks

TesseracT is incredible. Thanks for doing a react!

I'm really really enjoying your reactions, your insight is inspiring, please do more periphery, or a band called loathe

Yo just found your channel and gotta say I like your mix of just enjoying music and being a analytic mind about it :) I would really enjoy seeing what you have to say about architects! Mainly songs like "gone with the wind" or "doomsday"!

you've reacted to two of my favorite bands: tesseract & the mars volta. pls do more! subscribed 😌

This guy randomly poped up on my feed but now im subscribing. I'm a HUGE fan of djent and prog metal and especially Daniel Tomkins the vocalist. He used to be in this one band Skyharbor. The C.D Guiding lights from Skyharbor is one of the most amazing albums I've ever listened to with amazing amazing vocals from Daniel tomkins. Any song is amazing from that cd but my favorite songs from that album is idle minds, miracle and the song guiding lights. It will blow you away!

Just got into TesseracT a few months ago and I really love their sound. Really hope Geebz does some songs off of the One album.

This is definitely a good introduction track to Tesseract. If you like the syncopation, many of their works of theirs that are more complicated and heavy. And you are correct: this song trails into track 2 on the album seamlessly. That track, if you're interested, had a live in-studio take including a duet with guest vocalist Martin Grech: please check this link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eirPeYZ8V-E.html

TesseracT 🖤 Of Matter, Hexes, Nocturne 🖤🖤🖤

Loved your Karnivool video and now TesseracT... awesome. TesseracT used to have more screaming style vocals buy have moved away from that in later albums, which is my preference. They are my top two bands followed by 'the Contortionist', 'Periphery' and 'Gojira' in no particular order. You should check them out as well.

Love the content

I just found your page 2 days ago and I've watched a lot. The Tool reviews.

The vocalist Daniel Tompkins is an amazing vocalist. Also the vocalist of older band SKYHARBOR (worth checking out) as well as his solo work. He does "in the studio" takes of some tracks. His ability to switch between beautiful melody and dirty scream is mind blowing.

The singer that filled in for Dan back around 2013 has his own band called Voices From The Fuselage that put out their most recent album in 2018, if you feel up for it you should check out their song Life on Titan. The band is terribly underrated imo

VILDHJARTA - Den Helige Anden. Hearing your brain dissect that track would def be informative and unique

Tesseract really stood out for me last year from the crowd of new prog metal bands. I'm nearly 50, but still keep looking for new bands, though I do frequently get back to older bands like Marillion, Rush and early Genesis.

You should do a Rishloo song. Maybe Landmines, Winslow, or Feathergun...all their stuff is great.

dude i love your reaction videos, especially the ones reacting to djent/progressive metal. keep it up!

Just discovered the channel and I am really enjoying it. You should check out Veil of Maya - Mikasa, Periphery - The Bad things (really any of their songs) or Trivium - In Waves (or again really any - Trivium are a more traditional band but well composed). They are all great bands. More Polyphia would be great too as their stuff is so interesting!

My first experience with Tesseract was them opening with an early version of Smile followed by this song in their set, first show of the Dystopia tour in Big Flats, NY, July 2017 with Lillake, Meshuggah, and Megadeth, which I went to with my dad. That show got me into Tesseract and Meshuggah, and their performance of everything was amazing.

Also, animals as leaders, Cafo :D

TesseracT's guitar tone is so addictive

Tesseract is one of my favorite bands. The best videos of the band here are the ones they record in studios. They are amazing live.

The long outro is the transition for the next song, Hexes. You should check it out

Love Tesseract, but I think their best work is when they abandoned the screaming vocals from their debut album in favor of more melodic vocals on their second album, "Altered State". I think the "Of Matter" and "Of Mind" suite's of music on that album represent their best yet, at least for me. As for recommendations, I'm sticking with Frost, "The Dividing Line". I own thousands of albums from the 60's through the current day and there's not a single album that contains anything quite like Frost. This song represents one of the finest neo-prog songs in existence. So looking forward to you discovering them!

Check out "Splash" by Chon (or pretty much any song). They're not metal but, they're all over the place with talent.

hey Geebz there's a spelling mistake in the title! just want to make sure people can find ur videos more easily 👍🏻 keep up the good work bro

You should check out the live studio "Of Matter" by them, and also "Hexes". Also, if you decide to discover some more Tool (who wouldn't), i'd love to see your reaction to "Third Eye" from their album Ænima.

I recommend Animals As Leaders! Great band, great musicians and great writing also!

Great stuff! More Tesseract please. Pioneers in progressive music today for sure

I would really like to see your reaction and knowledge to what I think is an incredible live performance. Leprous - Contaminate Me (live at Rockefeller Music Hall) Basically two bands playing together, meaning two singers, two drummers, and so on. It leaves me in awe every time I watch it.

Highly recommend disposition, reflection, triad. The holy trinity of tool. As a composer I bet you would love it.

Hopefully you will discover Haken, Leprous and Caligulas Horse soon!

Dan is an amazing vocalist. The whole band is just so locked in. Also that 2nd skyharbor album may be dans best work.

interesting when you talk about the hi hat being so prominent on the right side, i think whats actually happening is jay (the drummer) is keeping a constant 8th note hi hat pedal chick throughout most of the song and what you're actually hearing is a cymbal stack on the right that has a very quick decaying sound so it sounds similar, but a bit crunchier than an actual hi hat

Anyone here know where we can buy a copy of Tesseract's song Eden 2.0 with the different singer? Cant find it anywhere but I love that version of the song.

Glad you enjoyed! Its basically all produced and mixed by one of the members Acle Kahney

Dude your videos are wonderful!!! You gotta do Isis - Hall of the Dead. They were an awesome band and I'm really curious about your analysis of them.

I've noticed that across TesseracT albums, the hi-hat always sounds like it's on the right side. Most music I listen to situates the drums as if you were actually sitting behind the kit, which as a drummer, I love. For me, I just picture a left-handed drumkit setup and it makes sense. But mostly, I think that simple sound reversal does even more to set TesseracT apart from their contemporaries. Truly one of the greatest bands of all time. Edit: Please accept my humble request and make a video for their song "Hexes" - it's the follow-up track to this one. Talk about space...this music is masterfully crafted.

That outro bleeds into the intro of Hexes which is probably my favorite Tesseract song.

You much pretty analyse all of my favourite bands! It's like the universe has brought us together, or more likely the RU-vid algorithm 😃

I recommend listening to reptile by periphery its right up your alley!