Sci-Fi Prog - VOLA "Head Mounted Sideways" - REACTION / REVIEW 

The breakdown at the end is totally nuts

Core kid here but this channel has gotten me seriously into prog. It's one of my favorite genres now.

VOLA is one of my all time favorite bands. You should definitely give them more listens!

If there new album has more tracks like this i can see VOLA becoming a big name in prog metal. I think its a fucking shame and a half that their last album was received so poorly. The prog community has ironically become so rigid in what they want from from the genre. Bands like Voyager, Leprous , and VOLA bring the best elements of pop song writing to prog metal, and at risk of being torn down by the group of snobs that gate keep the genre. I think this kind of stuff is actually pushing the genre forward more than just music with complicated song structures.

"Your Mind is a Helpless Dreamer" by VOLA is one of their better songs off their first album. This song is great as well, and has first album vibes. Excited for their new album!

Glad to see you gave them another chance after stray the skies, I’ve been listening to these guys for a few years now and this is easily one of their best tracks yet. Excited to see where they’ll go from here

So I've been listening to VOLA for a while, and they're a band that kind of need to be approached on their own terms. I certainly do consider them prog, but not in the same sense as more "virtuoso" groups like Haken or BtBaM. VOLA has always been something like Meshuggah meets Depeche Mode. Their musical innovation doesn't necessarily lie in playing their instruments better than everyone else, or having super complex song structures. Rather, their innovation lies in their ability to come up with wild rhythm sections, while integrating them with beautiful keys and catchy melodic hooks. The music becomes a lot more enjoyable when you take it for what it is, and not what you'd expect it to be given the "prog" label. As always, great review! Hope the hand is healing up well bud ☺

I'm a core kid. This channel has definitely opened me up to prog metal. Its one of my favourite genres now. I listened to The Ocean's latest album all the way through twice. I wouldn't have done that a year ago!

„Weird rhythm man“ You don’t know the half of it. *laughs in Owlsrian

Are we getting more Vola reactions now that the album has dropped? absolutely amazing album, 10/10 for me. Personal favourites out of the new ones are Future Bird and Napalm, but the others are still great.

honestly the chorus i wasn't too in to, but the intro and first verse are fucking ridiculously sick

Thanks for featuring this song! I have not heard of this band before. I really digged this track.

I’m a huuuuge fan of this song and also Whaler. Another banger by them.

Glad you enjoyed this! Really looking forward to their new album

Woah, I’m generally pretty on top of new release but this caught me by surprise. Thanks for the video! It was great listening together!

"This reminds me of Haken..." ... haha, they played at the end of 2019 together with Haken (and have obviously been influenced here and there) and the awesome Bent Knee. Saw them live back then in Berlin and it was so incredibly good. All three bands....

this felt like finding The Contortionist in 2014 lol, this was pretty tight man.

Thank you for reacting to this! Great review anyways. I hope you check them more in the future.

Ahaha, you're mentioning my boys from The Contortionist :D Always a pleasure to see them receiving love. On VOLA, they always had a special color for me in my musical repertoire, pretty unique feeling when listening to their music. It's just VOLA, doing north European inspired wizardery that sound absolutely awesome. Keep it up man !

"Stray the Skies" is an absolute banger, I hope it's grown on you!

The digital face thing totally reminds me of the music video for Stratosphere Love by Ocean Grove

This vocalist reminds me of Opeth cleans... very cool track

I’ve had an aversion to prog for a while, but some of the prog tracks you’ve reacted to on this channel have really opened me up to the genre! Idk if I’ll ever have a love for it like you, but I’m not closed up to it like I used too! Also the chorus on this song is amazing! So gorgeous!

I saw them in concert in Sacramento at a small venue and thought to myself how lucky I was to see them so close up, whereas they deserve such a bigger audience and venue. They were super-tight and didn't disappoint in the slightest.

Wow that was amazing!

Love your reviews mate.........VOLA are very exciting for sure. Bit of Tesseract on that bass mixed with Haken and Porcupine Tree!!!

Thank you metal bird for showing me this band last year still waiting to share it with my friends but I know they are gonna love this, I wouldn’t know about Vola if it wasn’t for your top 10s

VOLA are awesome! So unique combining many elements into one cohesive package.

Anything from the applaud from a distant crowd album is awesome.

You should check out Until We Die. A melodic/symphonic deathcore solo project by a guy called Niko Apostolakis. He writes some of the sickest riffs in deathcore and has some pretty gnarly vocals. Would love to see a reaction to "Countdown to Extinction or "Distorting of Perception" by him. Also the lyrics are about the Souls games

Yay, I doubt it was because I suggested this but I was one of those people so I'm glad you checked it out!😁

Subbed awhile ago and now you're showing ME bands lol

Pretty much what I expected from VOLA, but in a good way. I'm all about those chunky baritone riffs and the singer/guitar player slays it in that category. It's a nice balance with the synth added.

Vola themselves shared this video on their FB! :)

So glad they are getting the recognition they deserve. 🔥❤❤

You should check out the Live From The Pool version of "Stray The Skies" 👀

Thanks for all of the discovery lately man, you're killing it! Was wondering if you know Artificial Language? They got me into prog and they're soo good, i would recommend Unself portrait or there's no bottom to this :)

I couldn’t have said better myself, Vola is one of my favourite band, and the final fantasy reference is on point! So glad you enjoyed this song because this band is so unique and talented. Also considering some of the other songs you reviewed and enjoyed I knew that if you dug a little deeper into their discography or their newest materiel, that you would enjoy them. 👍👍👍 Awesome review as always.

When you mentioned that Ex Machina vibe, that was actually the exact same kinda vibe what I was getting when I seen the music video 😂

My next pick for you METALBIRB is Kadinja :D Til the Ground Disappears, The Right Escape, Veronique (Live Playthrough)

Vola Represent!

I know this Came out a while ago, but I’m still going to note that the reason his video was still able to be this extravagant is because this van is from Sweden the country that never went on lockdown.

Man please get a pop killer and turn down the microphone gain a bit, it's distorting. Always love finding new music through you. Didn't know Vola released something new so thanks for that, keep the videos coming man

I did the WOO's in the same exact parts of the song. Fuck this is sooooo goddamn awesome!

Dude i Love do much this song But also i Love your jacket camo !!! What Is the name of this company ?

Definitely check out Whaler by them freaking heavy track

Thank you fear factory

Starburn and Owls u definitely need to check out

Fuck ya! Love this band.

Intervals - Lock & Key

What a great track! Could you please react on Neaera-Torchbearer?

awesome band!!!!!

Vola came to 2021 to chew bubble gum and kick ass and they're all outta bubble gum. Seriously, this is the album release of the year, and I don't even care any other releases for the rest of the year. This is IT!

Best band

yo Hacktivist - Armoured Core thx

YO PLEASE MY DUDE!! if you liked this please check out SYBREED - AEON. most underrated band in the wordl :D amazing soundscape

R Aye can you do a React to “dead faces” by Nick Nittoli

Woa what kind of music is dis

Great song but so far, Vola's very best song is Alien Shiver

Can we get a DEMATERALIZE track on the channel?

Schweet.. wasn't sure you'd do this one. Liked the song a lot at first and now it's full love. You should check this performance of an older song in your own time ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VCnBR30ubZs.html

Love that 2nd part with the bendy notes but I wasn't feeling that electronic vocals at the start at all. It definitely had good elements but I'll need to listen again. I'd say I'm a open minded core kid, prog is super welcome to me 🙏

Redhead guy...where?

All you guys are enraging me so much am I literally the only one that thinks if you compare this to any song on in mazes it’s trash ? I’m sorry but damn it just sounds like they’re manager said to make a song and they threw it together “verse Chorus verse chorus” just another great band becoming main stream sounding and washed out and uninspired sounding. I promise you if you listen to any one song on in mazes you get the feeling they had a unique idea and took time to make great music and lyrics. But this new song omfg god guys this song is so boring the chorus just like comes in and it’s so meh I’m so confused about everyone enjoying this have you guys heard INMAZES ? Dear god please someone agree with me like I seriously can’t tell if you are all just being nice