The Contortionist | Exoplanet 2016 | Official Stream 

fuck me

you legend

so smart.

*some comment about how not all heroes wear capes*

going in a couple days, just checking their music out for the first time. really good stuff! "language" is mostly atmospheric, this one is nice and heavy

@@shoggoth8808 hell yea youll love the show. language the crowd is chill.. but once exoplanet start get ready haha

Jamie king is what?

Yeah it’s way more fluid and sounds crispy as fuck just wish they remastered all the songs and not just some of them

Well, Jamie’s been doing BTBAM’s stuff forever, I’d wanna go to him in a few years if he weren’t so far.

Similar to the New Reign remaster, i miss the old sound a bit. I actually prefer old Empires Erased to the new one. I prefer the old Flourish to the new one as well just cause the bass under the first breakdown sounds kinda dumb with the synth copying it imo

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1. No 2. Maybe 3. Yes

1. Debatable 2. Within the last 11 years, yes 3. I'd peg Oscillator above it, but will agree that it is one of the greatest songs of all time.

Vessel is their best track imo the peak of the album

@@WeWantYouToStay Since the statements are all opinions (most of which I agree with): 1. Yes 2. Yes 3. Yes

1. I love the fuck out of contortionist and I loved their musical evolution all the way up to current albums. They're kind of revisiting their old sound with a blend of their new style but with a lot of bands out there now like the faceless and their album ghosts. I'd say it's debatable. 2. If not #1 definitely should be in everyone's top 10 for sure. 3. For me at least, that's hard to choose.

same

I agree Intrinsic was awesome. Exoplanet was awesome. Language was fvcking amazing. Clairvoyant was okay. Haven't heard anything else from them yet.

@@davecrupel2817 Language is trash. If you aren't listening to Shapeshifter EP on repeat (Exoplanet is based off those instrumentals), then you aren't listening to The Contortionist correctly

@@little_metal Language is the finest piece of music The Contortionist has ever produced. I'll die on that hill.

@@davecrupel2817 agreed.

Yeah for their prog metal albums, which are actually good unlike the first two.

@@ToveriJuri and Exoplanet, undeniably

​@@tcarafi Nah it's definitely deniable. If you like Deathcore sure, if you don't then it's just about as boring as any other deathcore for the most part.

@@ToveriJuri still it will be remembered for years to come, I mean it’s already been 12 years and people are going crazy about the ongoing tour

This comment gave me goosebumps.

they did really fucking good with expire

Only bad part is on expire the double kick segment is over taken by synths :(

Flourish flourished.

yess totally agree this is next level

​@Dustin Rogers I love Common Man's Collapse and I'm glad other people appreciate it as well, however Exoplanet is more monumental in what it accomplishes by blending so many traits and doing it perfectly into one album. Exoplanet has no bad tracks, Common Man's Collapse has a few tracks that are not up to par with the rest of the album; in fact they just copied a few tracks from All Things Set Aside and put it onto Common Man's Collapse.

@Dustin Rogers I mean all of the albums you listed were good, if not elite, no doubt; however when it comes to the peak and the best instrumentation and lyrics(I mean seriously if you haven't yet looked at Jonathan's lyrics for this album you need to, it is a concept album and this is another reason why people say this album is the best ever) this album stands on an island. This band was the first to really make deathcore progressive, if you look at The Contortionist now they are one of the best progressive acts in the game and thus have attracted a whole new audience of fans, which speaks to how sublime their instrumentation is. However this is another reason why people more into deathcore/metalcore don't really like this album because it switches up time signatures a lot(this is why it is progressive deathcore).

I wouldnt call this death metal, but yeah :P

@@davecrupel2817 Yeah I've thought about that as well but Deathcore is the best genre to categorize them into; they definitely don't fit the metalcore brand, but they do enough death metalish things with their vocalist and guitarists that place them into the Deathcore realm lol.

Been playing this record for years now, and I also found some background sounds I never heard before! Absolutely amazing

Don't forget they remastered this, there's different lyrics and different notes that have been added and subtracted. Both are still outstanding!

@@tommyfalconey different lyrics where?

+MusicPancho Seriously. Out of all the albums put out, I believe that album is in most need of a remaster.

+Shawn Kade I couldn't agree more. The production on Intrinsic has always bothered me. I definitely feel that the mix keeps it from its potential.

+Chad Koza COULD NOT agree more. I have to use an app on my phone to make it bearable to listen to in the car

+Comment RU-vid what app?

Afessa EQ

+Brendon stacey Yep I was just thinkin that

yea it's one of those few non-cringe djent albums. For me personally the list includes Reflections, Fellsilent, Monuments debut, and ofc Vildhjarta

Curtis Castro idk. The last album and this single they did worried me even though there’s a bunch of other stuff. But it all counts to me. It’s not about what I want but I still want things. I understand they want a larger fan base, but the real OGs seem mostly upset and me, only knowing them for 5 years, I do miss this kinda stuff from them. No music is necessarily better than others regardless of my memes, but I know what I’m looking for, feel me?

Cole Allen the drop feels so good man.

Sean T That’s a weird way to say “the whole song” but you got the right spirit🎇

Same, the ending is so fucking good

+Danny “Sarbs” Sarbiewski God damn you... I'm never gonna unhear that.

duuuuhhhhhhh he is the greatest!!!

ahahahhahahahahaa holy fuk thankyiuuu

+Michael Alvarez It's not Mike Lessard singing ;)

+ChuranuQC haha no wayy ugh you ruined it for me man! Who sings??

+Michael Alvarez Johnatan Carpenter for Exoplanet and Intrinsic ;)

nah you went to space

+TheMeatballMen However, Flourish sounds pretty nice here. That being said, I think I like that song so much, it wouldn't matter to me how it sounds

so is 38:09 in my opinion

+KidnapstedGC Eric Guenther redid the synths/keyboards.

Yes 100 percent agreed. Especially in these days

What a stupid thing to complain about.

It's obviously not stupid if i cared enough about it. There's a gap missing and I think that's important to note. Fuck outta here

I can understand your concern although I personally got really excited when the two songs flowed seamlessly. It's the little things. There's some other sections of this mix that rubbed me the wrong way too.

sacredgeometry has a point. It’s not worth them re-redoing the album, but it bothered me, too. But I guess only if they could switch the guitar tones and hands fast enough to play it so that it sounds like that, it wouldn’t be as much a big deal to me. You can do some fast hand repositioning, but towards a certain point there will be string scrape hiss if they have to move horizontally to play it. I don’t feel like figuring out how to play that part so I guess I won’t know for sure. Still sounds a little odd how it changes that fast.

It's RU-vid. Even 1080p isn't lossless.

I meant the dynamic compression. Either way I much prefer the remaster!

agreed for the most part. Its an interesting change. but some areas like the computer voice(this system is now free from error) being blocked out were meh.

Personally I hate it like 8 maybe 9 out of 10 times, those synths being louder. They should left it the way it was in my opinion, and I really don't want to sound like an Etilist or something but it really bothers me when listening.. Cool for the folks who like this better though.

Yeah if you thought intrinsic mix wasn't so bad you have shit in ya ears

+TheGhostOfKarelia1 agree, sounds more "FULLER"

i love intrinsics mix. drums sound sick

there is no perfect mix or master, is a matter of subjectivity

+Zach DiMundo I agree 100%

+Joshua Fullerton You kidding? This remaster is brilliant.

+Ben Lindblom nobody said it wasn't great, but in my mind, there's always SOMETHING that you can work on...

+Ben Lindblom I didn't say it was bad. I just think the album was perfect as it was. Like Zach said, it's all subjective.

Yo try their Apparation EP fucking baller dude

also you can't remake perfection so I don't know why this album got remastered

Intrinsic's bass drum tone makes me angry

James Glendinning why

Evan Is Evan Because it sounds like hitting a piece of construction paper with a plantain.

James Glendinning lmfaooooo that's pretty good.

Dude it sounds FLAWLESS on cd for sure

I saw someone else comment about the compression and i was like pffffff wtf are u listening to