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One of the most underrated metal bands ever. Good choice of track though, the arpeggios at the end are just nuts. In fact, that entire album had some absolute corkers on it.
Jeff Loomis, what an absolute madman. It's one thing to run those arpeggios up and down in your bedroom and get them down well enough to feel proud of yourself, but it's a completely different thing to nail them perfectly night after night on stage. I'm not even into neoclassical stuff but Jeff Loomis is definitely one of my biggest guitar heroes.
His lyrics in the song Sentient Number 6 give me chills every time i listen to it. Such perfect imagery, makes you feel complete sympathy for a machine
Oh absolutely - Sentient 6 is an masterpiece in lyric writing. To listen to an AI telling you about its swing from wonderment, through remorse, then to anger at its creators is something to wonder at (and maybe fear?). One of my all time favourite tracks still 15+ years after being released.
And when you find out it ties in with another song "The Learning". The longer you think about it...the scarier it gets. The super fun thing about that song is the more the machine learns, the music becomes more complex.
Refuge Denied is still one of my favorite records to this day. When it came out I only bought it because it was produced by Dave Mustaine and then it blew me away from the first listen.
@@SoulSingerDiscovers There is video or audio evidence of this. I've seen/heard it. Just don't remember exactly where. It was probably posted on the their official forum on Ultimate Metal Forum.
@@Zeta13 Well, no wonder I didn't remember, since It's been about 15 years the last time I watched that from start to finish. I better go dust off the old DVD contraption.
Great suggestion! Nevermore are highly underrated in my opinion. "The Heart Collector" and "Dreaming Neon Black" are great songs too if you ever get around to doing more Nevermore.
Man... I know this song from a long time ago, but I never saw it on video in a live performance until now. I really cried at the end. A masterpiece in a epic performance by the whole band. So intense, so emotive in Warrel's vocals.
Thanks for doing Nevermore....This live set was good , but if you want the true genius of Warrel Dane you must hear his work on the album...He had an interesting way to harmonize with himself...Try ...The Hurting words , The Sorrowed Man , and Sell my heart for stones...If you want to hear what he was like with an extremely High range , Sanctuary...by Sanctuary...R.I.P. Wally...
Absoflippinglutely! "The Sorrowed Man" and "The Hurting Words", two of their absolute finest! And the 2nd Sanctury album is in my top 10 of all time for sure!
I’d say the genius of Warrel Dane lies truly in his lyrics, as much as I love him as a vocalist. His way with words to me is unparalleled by anyone else.
Nevermore were one of the most gifted metal bands... it was tragic that they fell apart just as they were getting recognition and sales. They had the technical shredding of Jeff Loomis (guitar) and the inimitable voice & lyrics of Warrel Dane (vocals) that made Nevermore a cross between a death metal band and a technical thrash metal band. Warrel Dane was the vocalist of Seattle metalliers Sanctuary in the 80's... they released 2 albums (1 produced by Dave Mustaine of Megadeth) before they split in the early 90's... Jeff Loomis was 16 when he auditioned for Megadeth in the 80's, and he joined Sanctuary as a touring member before they split. Despite the 90's being hostile to heavy metal... Dane, Loomis and Sanctuary bassist Jim Sheppard formed Nevermore w/ Van Williams (drums) soon joining and released their debut album in 1995... Pat O' Brien (guitar) joined them briefly before he joined Cannibal Corpse in 1998. A string of stellar albums by Nevermore followed - 'Dreaming Neon black' (1999)... 'Dead heart in a dead world' (2000)... 'Enemies of reality' (2003)... With increasing record sales, Nevermore struck hard in 2005 w/ 'This godless endeavor'... Steve Smyth (guitar) joined briefly... then Chris Broderick (guitar) who is this video, toured w/ them before joining Megadeth in 2009. 'The Obsidian conspiracy' (2010) would be Nevermore's last record. Despite increasing popularity and tours lined up into 2011... Jeff Loomis abruptly quit, citing alcoholism being a factor of the band's breakup... Van Williams also followed him out. Jeff Loomis joined Arch Enemy in 2014, and worked on solo ventures as well... Warrel Dane and Jim Sheppard reformed Sanctuary... releasing a 3rd album 'The year the Sun died' (2014)... Warrel Dane was working on a new Sanctuary album and a solo record, when he unexpectedly died in late 2017... Sanctuary did a tour w/ a fill-in vocalist in 2018.
The album this is from, also called “this godless endeavour”, is easily one of the greatest metal albums of all time imo. With the rest of their work, some of it’s great and some not so much, but there’s just something about this album, every track on it hits the mark for me and I love it. You should check out the official video of one of their earlier songs, “I, Voyager”, just because it has vampires in it haha!
Dude, you had me at vampires. For sure I’ll check it out. I feel like there’s not a single band I have done so far that I won’t end up going back to. Thanks for watching. 😊
❤ Thanks for your reaction to one of my favorite bands, Nevermore. Few appreciate their GREAT achievements, they were very underestimated... These harmonizations, these musical lines - Jeff Loomis.... and RIP Warrel, great great vocalist 😭😭. Try some old/new Sanctuary's song. 👍👍 The next band I'm waiting for is Opeth. Going chronologically, I'll be there soon...
"The inception of songwriting" - what a nice way to describe some advanced metal songwriting. Yeah, I guess most people underestimate the amount of work it takes to evolve the serious instrumental skills shown in some metal styles, and therefore are also surprised, that this goes along with new or unusual ways to write music, IF you incorporate less common scales and harmonies to not get bored when practicing. Metal really pushes things forward, with experimentation in scales, microtonal music, influences of jazz, free jazz, classical music, up to fusions with pop, reggae, polka or whatever you can think of. And for sure with rhythmic patterns and unusual song structures. IMHO the craziest stuff is mostly prevalent in the extreme metal genres, esp. death metal and mixed styles with death metal influence. Nevermore is/was for sure an example of very interesting songwriting with fantastic musical skills, that still manages to gain a lot of popularity without sacrificing anything in terms of complexity. And yes, the guitar part, that brings you to the idea of classical influences, goes on like forever in complex progressions, and that's for sure a hell of a moment for a musician on stage. I mean, imagine the moment right before that... ("Yeah, you can do it, you will not fuck it up....") 🙂Although not my favorite style of metal, Nevermore is for sure impressive and entertaining to see at the same time!
Yeah they are a fascinating band. The songwriting broke so many typical rules I would expect and I think doing that with lyrics AND harmony is really hard. Especially I suppose if like a lot of metal fans, your fans have a bit more of a developed ear for these things. I good watch. Thank you again for your take Martin. Always a pleasure 😊❤️
Aw man! Not only Melisa (for the heart); is Nevermore an awesome rabbit-hole to explore . . . but my fave _Prog Metal_ band; *Fates Warning* who are considered the Fathers of the genre with *Queensrÿche* have a great catalogue of music. But FW have experimented with their sound throughout the years, have 13 albums, and 2 unique era's of 2 vocalists (along with their sister band *Arch/Matheos* with the original vocalist). Not many reactors delve into the deeper history of Fates and they deserve MUCH more attention and accolades.
jeff lumis is also recognized as one of the most talenteted guitarists on earth with people like Yngve Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, John Petrutti, Alexi Leigho, Stevie Rey Vaughn, etc. These are people within the last 40-50 years on a list of playing ability that went above and beyond the playing ability of the rest of human civilization and most of them were from the prog metal movement. other bands to check out would be bands like Lacuna Coil, Killswitch Engage, Kamelot, In Flames, Epica, Blind Guardian, Amorphis, Sonata Arctica, Iced Earth, And you have to check out musicians like Dio, for something a little more humorous, Steel Panther, and Gwar. The main thing is that most of these bands had their early carreer playing with each other all over the planet, including Wacken open air festival in Germany that has had crowds of over 80,000 people that traveled from all over the world. I think that the performance by Blind Guardian playing The Bard Song where you could litteraly hear the entire crowd singing in unison was incredible.
Fates Warning is SEVERELY UNDERRATED. Matter of fact the only other person I have ever known that listens to them is no longer alive. Sadness on both fronts.
@@cegentry I have gotten a few people into them over the years, and have a few close friends that listen to them. They are still my favorite Prog Metal band because they were never afraid to change. I HOPE they have a new album in the works (or *Arch/Matheos* too), because its sad that 2 albums and tours got canceled because of the pandemic. Will be nice to see them again. At-least Ray Alder has the band *A-Z* with Mark Zonder on drums! Maybe we need a new *OSI* album too? - Sorry for your loss as well. I also had a friend I got into all sorts of Progressive Rock & Prog Metal who I lost a few years ago. He was a funny, kind dude, I miss him a great deal. As well-as my ex-girlfriends Brother who was a HUGE fan of those genres (and influenced his sisters taste in music), who was a distant friend for many of us who listened to a Progressive Rock/Metal Internet Station. . . . . Both VERY missed in the world.
Is interesting to have a vocalist analyse mainly Warren Dane and this song because well, for obvious reasons this is a song famous for *guitar players* to nerd about the insane Jeff Loomis solo and even though most people at least comment on the actual song structure there's rarely any focus on Dade: he was super unique as as you've seen metal singers usually only go for either growling or the highest tenor they can manage but never low notes for some reason.
I sort of love that. I think there’s a lot of different guitarists on RU-vid, with plenty of analysis given to solos, and different styles of guitar playing, but I really does enjoy the songwriting here, and even though I know that there’s plenty of songwriting analysis on RU-vid, it was so lovely to listen to him and talk about it 😊
NEVERMORE will always be one of my absolute favorites of all time!! I miss them so much..!!! This recording was here in my hometown,and so I am on this video too!
I was at this Live Recording Show - was so happy to get in - was sold out very fast. All the guys are/where so great cool People Had some Fun with them over the Years (still my most seen Band ever)
Warrel arguably has the widest vocal range of not only metal/hard rock vocalists, but of nearly any vocalist in recent history. Small sample sizes do not show the immense talent this man had, both vocally or lyrically. He is worth devoting time to.
Always always always on my main rotation. It took me a while to get into Nevermore, but once I "got it," they instantly became one of my all-time favorite bands.
And so I leave this world, never to return My candle has been burned, for deliverance I yearn Time cannot erase the mark I leave on time and space Sanctuary burns, raging grace
The lyrics are about losing faith. Feeling disconnected from society, which changed from believe to consumtion (theocide (the black - everything unexplained)), the protagonist seeks for redemption. Maybe the person found god (again) after he died. Cool detail: The third stone is earth, which seems like a godless endeavor for the person. There are many more cool lyrics. The band discovered some philosophical theorys e.G. Kant (Noumenon and Nihilism). Edgar Allen Poe is not only the namegiver of the band, but also mentioned in the second album name policits of escatsy (P.O.E). My favorite album is the concept album "dreaming neon black", where it's all about the stages of grief.
One of the greatest bands of all time. If you want to dig deeper into Warrel's voice, I'd recommend a back to back listen to some of his early Sanctuary stuff, and then some tracks from his solo record. Try *Sanctuary - Battle Angels* for soaring Halfordian highs, followed by his cover of *Lucretia My Reflection* for some veheery tasty lows :)
I was surprised when you said that Warrel's singing is (just) what you would expect from a metal band. He actually has kind of a unique voice. Unlike most metal singers, he was trained in operatic singing for some years. And while he doesn't actually sing opera style in Nevermore, his approach and sound is imo different because of this background. Warrel Dane and Jeff Loomis (lead guitarist) are the two defining members of the band. You can replace any of the other guys (and most of them have been), but if you replace one of those two, it is no longer Nevermore. Sadly, at some point they went on indefinite hiatus and when Warrel Dane passed away at only 54, that was the end of it. He left behind an unfinished solo album. They released what they had so far and it's great stuff but only half of what it was meant to become.
There was truly no one like Warrel, at least definitely not in metal anyway. I never got to see them live because it took me many MANY years to get into them properly, and once I did they had already split 🙁 The whole band are just insanely talented. If you want to hear one in 4/4 with a riff that messes with your head, I strongly recommend checking out "I Voyager", it's such a simple riff to play, but the order at which the notes are played took me a stupid amount of time to learn because there's not really an even pattern to them 🤣
Been a huge fan of this band for a long time, especially being from the Seattle area. Amazing live shows. Highly recommend checking out Warrel's solo stuff for a bit more of an idea of his range. His baritone stuff gives me chills. Warrel Dane - Your Chosen Misery would be a good one to showcase his lower end with mid range methinks.
So stoked to see Nevermore get some love! Great reaction and analysis, this album lives in my car and gets blasted multiple times a week I'd love to see a reaction to Sentient 6 or the Obsidian Conspiracy Also Warrel's solo albums are well worth checking out, The Day The Rats went to War is a particular favourite of mine....
Great analysis! I can’t agree more about harmony/melody and needing variety in general in songwriting. I’m by no means the world’s greatest songwriter or musician but something I don’t think a lot of bands understand is you need variation. Your songs can’t all be in E or D or A and in 4/4 because that’s what’s easy to do on guitar or drums. Even if you’re great, your audience will tire of you quickly, even if they don’t even understand why other than “it all sounds the same.” Changing from song to song the key, tempo, time signature, dynamics, etc and doing some of that within songs is what makes things feel “different” for the audience and keeps them wanting more. I wish more musicians understood this. Sadly I’ve preached this and had it fall on deaf ears in band situations. Super disappointing bringing an idea to the table only to be told “that’s cool! Can we transpose it to E?” Oh, and guess which band/album is a perfect showcase of this and a masterclass in songwriting? Not a second of filler on this album. It’s still perhaps my favorite album ever even 20 years later.
My grandfather had a raven named nevermore, i haven't listened to this band since he died . Grandpa is where my goth comes from , bach, Vivaldi, chopan
I saw him with Sanctuary and Nevermore. His voice was crazy when he was younger with Sanctuary. It seemed like he lost some of his range as he got older. But both bands were awesome. I met him after a Sanctuary show they played with Megadeth. They were all really nice guys.
@Melisa Kelly I've watched a lot of interviews of theirs over the years, and warrell seemed like a really nervous and slightly neurotic guy, but underneath it all he seemed really loving and funny. I still feel sad about his death even now, his lyrics always resonated with me, and most nevermore fans
@@SoulSingerDiscovers I’m the same way. Most of the bands I’ve met over the years seem like they were down to earth nice people. There have been a couple of jerks though.
As for your confusion over the lyrics if you listen carefully then you’d realise it’s actually about nihilism and despair at our very existence hence the title ‘This Godless Endeavour’, this life without meaning
Warrel Dane was one of the greatest singers/lyricists in metal and Jeff Loomis is the greatest guitarist the genre has ever seen. Sadly this one song doesn’t even begin to showcase Warrels vocal range and true talent. The guy was insanely good.
I am also Pretty sure this is the Phoenix rising out of what was once known as Candlemass....I could be mistaken there my memory is starting to go with age ...lol
Good to have you back Melissa. I would challenge you to an intense revelation by reacting to our Swedish prog/black metal masters Opeth. Here with one of my favourites live at Red Rocks in the US. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BAlDEcQMLio.html
Oh sweet, sweet Mikael! Opeth are on my list for this week. I will be recording it on Monday for release a week after that I couldn’t be more excited. Sometimes it’s really hard not to just go and listen to the band beforehand when everyone is so positive about them. Thank you for this 😊❤️ it’s good to be back!
Yes Nevermore was Jeff loomis, Warrel Dane, Jim shephard, Van Williams. Chris Broderick played live Guest Appearance during that time, I believe it was around the year of the Voyager was filmed live he did a few live shows with Nevermore.
I became a Nevermore fan pretty late, like in the early 2000s. I had heard Sanctuary as a kid but didn’t realize they reformed as Nevermore. That was the pre-internet days so it was hard to know stuff like that. I bought one Nevermore album and I was so blown away I went and ordered every album. They quickly became my favorite band and Warrel Dane became my favorite singer. His range and style was amazing. I was devastated when he passed away especially because he was in the middle of recording his second solo album. Thankfully the album was able to be completed. I hate not having new music from him every year.
