Riff Analysis 016 - Gorguts "Forgotten Arrows" 

Honestly this is the best channel I think I've ever found on RU-vid.

I’m so happy someone is breaking down some of these weird Gorguts riffs

Would love to see some Ulcerate and Demilich analysis!

this is fucking insane. i’ve always wanted a breakdown of these dissonant metal bands I listen to and you’re the answer to my prayers. would love some wormed and artificial brain on the channel!

BTW 🤔 "Very Gorguts" is the highest form of compliment one can ever get... ✍️

How did I not notice the minor second tritone intervals stacked. Shits instant death metal real estate

Someone analyzing actually interesting metal? Don’t see that often. My mans got Krallice and Gorguts? Could we possibly 🥺 get a Yowie riff analysis? Not really metal per se but extremely technical old man noise rock is good too. Wild guitar playing. Also, FFO Gorguts, check out: Plebeian Grandstand, Jute Gyte, Imperial Triumphant, Karmacipher, Esoctrilihum, Growth, Chaos Motion, Cosmovore, Pyrrhon, Ulcerated, Ulthar, GLYPTOGLOSSIO, Deathspell Omega, Of Feather and Bone, Aberration, Omegavortex, Gigan, Akhlys, Lautreamont, Dodecahedron, Bathe, Blut Aus Nord, Serpent Column, Xythlia, Aseitas, Atavisma, Wake, Oranssi Pazuzu, Defeated Sanity... shit, so much music came out last year. But there’s a good list for anyone looking to get into more dissonant metal stuff. 🌈

Colin Marston input is undeniable here, just like Dan Mongrain's on From Wisdom to Hate

I can barely consider myself a metal head, and can't even begin to act like I understand the theory behind anything you talk about- but boy am I glad I found your channel.

Forgotten Arrows was in fact composed by Colin Marston.

Ooooh, hyped for this one, Forgotten Arrows is a favorite of mine. First thing I'll watch in the morning!

Seriously 👌🤘 This guy is SINGLE Handedly 🤔 Bringing a Savant's Level of appreciation for Musical Composition to "The World of Extreme Music" 🤘

It's almost two in the morning here and I really should be off to bed, but how can I when I get a notification you've uploaded a Gorguts video? Great stuff as always!

Luc Lemay is a FRIGGIN GENIUS!! Thanks for analyzing this

So i somehow just discovered this album (and your channel!) today! Holy moly, i am FLOORED by this album. Incredible. Digging your channel, too! Cheers!

so happy i found this channel, very interesting and informative vids about some of my favorite bands. Keep up the great work man!

Someone was asking me how I'd describe Gorguts' music and I likened it to a skyscraper warping, folding and crushing in on itself, with steel beams, concrete and glass being squashed into the size of a chewed up baseball. Basically the heaviest and most beautifully malformed creations on earth. Loved this breakdown of Gorguts' twisted riffs. 🤘 Cheers!

I'm glad RU-vid randomly suggested one of your videos. I like how you simplify theory and break things down so well

You are great man, your channel is super interesting and It'll grow exponentially in no time

Can’t wait for the DEP video!

Your channel is just the dopest shit I've found in a long while. I really enjoy theoretical break-downs of technical music, and I rarely find the time to deep-dive myself. Getting spoon-fed with such succinct detail and understanding is great in itself, then add to that getting introduced to new bands. Enough to make a man thankful and happy. Keep up the fantastic work!

Wow another excellent video, I love watching your analysis of these riffs!

This is all really interesting, and I thank you for having the courage to put yourself on RU-vid. I learn a little bit that I might be able to apply to learning to play guitar again, or I hear these bands and their music slightly differently so I can better appreciate them. Sometimes extreme metal becomes a mass of white noise or certain guitar tones sound like 1980's video games or a beehive in a can, but this reminds me that it very often is not. +1 to you, good sir!

I'm currently learning this song at the moment since I got tabs from Kevin like, 7 years ago? But wasn't able to play it until recently, which I mostly attribute to lack of confidence. Watching this video... my theory knowledge is extremely limited, I've only started actually learning it in the last few months, but I find what I'm hearing here is actually helping me play it a bit and understand it better. Really cool stuff, I absolutely love your channel.

I did not realize this channel existed! Just saw gorguts this past weekend on tour with CC. Gonna follow you closely now!

Extremely well-argued and fascinating analysis my dude. 10/10

Thank you again, amazing band and love what you're doing!

Awesome content as ever. Great series that you've put together.

please feel free to do more Gorguts analyses anytime! :-P among my favorite metal bands, they're the ones I have the hardest time explaining *exactly why* they're so awesome. I just feel it clearly. but these sorts of breakdowns vindicate those feelings for me. thanks as always for your incredible insight!

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL RIGHT NOW!

What an amazing track, probably my favorite of this record. Keep it up!

Left you a sub. I love channels like yours! As someone with little understanding of music theory it's great to see these visualizations along with your explanations, it really makes what you're talking about more tangible. I would love to see you tackle some Deathspell Omega, Ad Nauseam, VI, early At the Gates or early The Hirsch Effekt riffs... and so many others! Keep it up!

I have waited years for this

Thank your genius. Great work

Thanks for putting me onto gorguts. This entire album is in my playlist HAH :D I love that they play in C standard, too. C is like my favorite note with g being directly behind it so it resonates with me more.

Extremely happy to see someone doing the work of applying set theory to death metal - so many of these techniques you're describing are so absolutely Stravinskyan, too, it warms my heart

i just found your channel today and im watching every single one of your videos. i love how straightforward you are in what you explain. if i could subscribe 3 times i would. love your shit dude!

Found your channel from Gorguts' post. Instant subs!

This is SICK! Thanks for the video. I’ll be sharing to my other metalhead friends.

Extremely impressive discussion man! Subscribed

Thanks for your videos. We needed a Metal music theory Channel. You nailed it.

The best channel ever, good luck and good job!

Just saw this video and the one on Ingurgitating Oblivion, this channel is going to become my favourite in the music theory !

Please keep on doing what you are doing... like a lot! Seriously great stuff

atleast mention the dizzyingly groovy riff after! in addition to this intro riff it made this song a daily listen for almost months. i just discovered your videos, great stuff:D

Your channel is a hidden gem at the moment. Hopefully it will skyrocket in the near future! Do you have plan's on doing any Deathspell Omega, Ulcerate or Ved Buens Ende analysis?

this channel rules, keep it going!

Could you do Fleshwrought or Artificial Brain?

hell yes my favorite riff on the album

Damn. This channel is in unbelievably great. Please keep up the great content. If you analyze DEP consider the song We are the Storm. That one still baffles me after all these years.

great video. quality content here! Gorguts are the kings

That's it. I've watched this guy enough that I now have to subscribe.

*cut edit* "the harmony is very gorguts" *cut edit* btw i love these videos, this is one of my fave channels ever

Very nice! I remember seeing Gorguts and Dying Fetus at Fireside Bowl in Chicago!

Thanks for doing these!

love your videos, mate! hope to see your dissection of ulcerate one day!

Awesome stuff, would love to see more Gorguts dissected

This is the first video of yours I've ever watched. What a great music theory nerd-out! You had me at set theory. Subscribed. Can't say I loved the riff though. Interesting, yes, but hellishly cacophonous. I've never heard Gorguts before though, so maybe it will grow in me.

A very inspirational view on the oldest language known to humanity, music. This comes across as you being in a "flow state". The best thing you can do to preserve that state is keep doing exactly what you are doing :)

Amazing explanations on this channel. If you haven't heard it already I would highly recommend 'Dystrophy - Wretched Host' as it is very much in the Gorguts vein of extreme metal.

I have been playing guitar for 4 years and have never taken any course on music theory, but gorguts is my favorite band and your video was fascinating, I think I'll try learning on theory for once

This channel is awesome.

I've been watching your channel consistently for a little while now, and I think you have some of the best music theory insights out of anyone I've seen on youtube. So many other channels spend way too much time rehashing basic or already-covered information. But with you, it's all wheat, no chaff. I wonder whether you might ever cover the music theory of microtonal metal - it seems like a topic that you could really get in depth with.

This channel is platinum

holy shit your channel is my best find of the last couple of years! would be cool to see you do a dive into Ulcerate and Artificial Brain for more disso-death weirdness :)

Omg glad I found this channel. \m/

Dude this is so damn inspirational 🦾🧠🔥🔥🔥

Your channel is dope dude. Us metalheads are a rare breed and me personally I’m a music theory nerd. Keep it up man 👍

Beautiful riff!

Dude, I'm so insanely glad someone on RU-vid is taking a more theoretical approach to this kind of music and laying it out for everyone else to see. It's a beautiful thing you're doing. I would love to see what you had to say about stuff like Deathspell Omega, Ulcerate, Portal, Converge, earlier Today is the Day or Discordance Axis. I usually just find myself freaking out about the musicality of this stuff by myself, but not anymore!

Awesome Video! im glad I stumbled across this channel. Would love to see some videos on Artificial Brain and Blood Incantation music. I also think a video analyzing the musicianship between certain guitarists/bassists or drummer/bassists would be pretty cool. Metal is lucky to have musicians who have developed to really complement each other. Thanks for the great content

Dude, this is an amazing channel!, first time that I find such a different approach to the complexity of some metal compositions. It'd be a great idea if you break down some of the songs from Blotted Science, Ron is a monster of complex guitar riffs!

Analyzing the 016 intervals in review 016. Clever girl. I absolutely love your creative, original expressions, and you just plow through them without so much as a smirk, like they're long standing idioms. MORE Please analyze riffs from ion dissonance breathing is irrelevant!

When people like Gorguts and Deathspell Omega, I always recommend them The Dillinger Escape Plan (and some of the older Norwegian Black Metal/Avant Garde bands). Glad you mentioned Dillinger, as open a lot of people are in Metal, they almost have a fear of listening to Dillinger.

Keep up these vids man!

Also I’ve also realized that fir death metal the best intervals to really get that give us exactly how you describe it using the a stacked harmony of minor second and a Tritone!

Wow I watched this video a while ago, forgot about it, discovered and was blown away by Obscura and then From Wisdom To Hate. And now I'm here like FUCK YEAH GORGUTS.

Great video! Easy subscribe. Now I gotta go listen to some Gorguts.

Very cool. I could hear the riff from wisdom to hate riff in the hexa collections

That was sick!

Thanks for these videos! I would love to see you break down Ulcerate's tracks, especially from the album Stare Into Death And Be Still.

Cool! Thanks Calder!

Best channel on YT 😍

Amazing video

I just wanna point out the fact that your tone is great!

Also, suggestion for the list: Convulsing (amazing, underrated tech death from Australia), AEvangelist, Bölzer, Grave Miasma, Virus / Ved Buens Ende, the Icelandic black metal scene (Svartidauði, Misþyrming), Solefald, The Ruins of Beverast, (old school) Sentenced, Oranssi Pazuzu, stuff from the new wave of atmos BM (Mare Cognitum has some banger riffs, for example), Voivod (and Vektor to follow!), (counterpoint in) Emperor's music, Bolt Thrower (masters of riffing in death metal), the swede scene (Opeth / Katatonia for prog death, In Flames / Soilwork / At The Gates for melodeath, Entombed / Dismember for HM-2 sound, etc.)...

Love your videos, looking forward to what comes next. Would love to see artificial brain and how the guitar parts intertwine

Very gooood!

Nice! I'd be interesting to see you doing some analysis on Deathspell Omega. Those guys have lots of really interesting stuff.

I'd love to hear more about Gorguts, particularly their Obscura album, or similar bands like Human Remains, Demilich, or Atheist

oh hi it's me, the target demographic for your videos, this rules thank you

protect this man

Ulthar. 👌🏻 very nice

Ulcerate could be interesting for analysis

That's fucking amazing man!

Would you consider making your transcriptions available via one of the tab hosting sites, or even as a perk on Patreon? You're covering almost everything I want to learn to play myself and I'd be very happy to support the channel, especially if I was getting some difficult-to-transcribe materials out of it!

Thanks🤘

You should definitely cover a Haken riff, the one I have in mind is Messiah Complex III: Marigold. The riff during the chorus section is incredible

This is my first time seeing this channel and it’s very refreshing and informative. Could you do a video on Portal and what shirt is that?

Looking forward to TDEP, really hyped about it! I'm starting to compose and using your videos insight has been fun, so thanks for that. In other topic, have you heard about C.B. Murdoc? I wonder if what they do is worth for analysis...