The control he has over his voice at 2:28 - 2:33 is absolutely insane. Think it’s what we call a full send. He just goes for it no matter how ridiculous it is.
This song has been getting unanimous praise, and deservedly. My take: Harmonically, in terms of guitar work (Mark’s songwriting) is super poppy. In line with Mark’s signature style. Basic chord progressions, but intricately played… Allowing Spencer to shine brighter than ever before with his vocal arrangements. Thanks for sharing the vocal track. This is peak progressive metal.
I heard isolated vocal tracks from Spencer, and every new material is just better and better. Spencer is one of the greatest singer of the world (and not just this....... Genre)
Spencer has been very open about using tuning on mostly everything, on P2 there was apparently no tuning at all and he just hated having to track it that way as it takes so much more time so he never did it again
To clear up some confusion, the harmonies in every album are tuned. The main vocals on every album except P2 and P5 are also tuned. For P2, Spencer said he didn't want tuning on the main vocals to prove he could do it. For P5, there was a recent video with Chris Liepe where he explained that he didn't use tuning for the mains again since he had the time to do so and wanted to capture the minor details in stuff like pitch imperfections/note transitions. Anyways I agree that tuning does not mean less impressive, but I'm 90% sure there isn't any obvious tuning here; you can hear the pitch waver a bit on that F#5, and throughout the album I think it's easy to hear that the vocals aren't perfectly in tune all the time (not to say that they're bad, just more organic sounding)
@@georgechapman4188 no, it's dead easy to hit in falsetto, but obviously really hard for most guys in full voice. Funny that this is the same high note as Ragnarok, I guess Spencer feels more comfortable with producing that live than anything more.
