The Contortionist - Language Part 1 & 2(Intuition & Conspire) | First REACTION! 

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Almost any track the album Clairvoyant is also great. Specially the title track and Return to Earth

The Contortionist - Flourish for their primarily DEATHCORE side!

Bro you are on point with the last few reactions. You gotta do Flourish by them next. Different vocalist but it's the song that really formed what the band would eventually become

The Contortionist - Flourish

Tesseract - Of Matter!

The contortionist got loads of bangers! Return to Earth from their newest album is amazing

This was a pleasant surprise!! 😂 Thanks for the shoutout Drew, much appreciated. I will add that this is generally the first song by The Contortionist I’ll show people but its kind of a primer to see what they are all about. For example, their latest album, Clairvoyant, has basically no screaming on it but their older albums are heavier and more untraditionally structured. I would recommend you check out the song “Flourish” next. I think that’ll be the song you will truly appreciate what this band can do. P.S. - saw someone mention you reacting to Tesseract and that should definitely happen asap. “Nocturne”, “Hexes” or “Survival” are great starting songs for Tesseract Cheers!!

Man you're onto the real shit now! This band is incredible. The Contortionist - Integration The Contortionist - Feedback Loop The Contortionist - Flourish Intronaut - Milk Leg Haken - The Architect Black Crown Initiate - The Malignant Leprous - Rewind

Great reaction man. I'm glad that you came to The Contortionist. Now I suggest to react to "Reimagined" from their album "Clairvoyant", one of their coolest songs.

Hard to recommend a single track, their music is more meant to listen to as a whole

I saw the Contortionist and Tesseract at Baltimore Soundstage. Sat with the lead guitarist at the bar for the entire Tesseract set. Super chill guy. He pointed out my Kiesel guitar hoodie which kicked off the convo.

The Contortionist album Clairvoyant is a masterpiece and must be listened from front to back. Language is the same way, and is a masterpiece in it's own right, but man, Clairvoyant is just such a journey.

Nice, thanks for reacting to this. Their first two albums are heavier and feature a different vocalist. I recommend checking out Flourish from their first album. It may take a few listens to fully understand, but has some insane riffs as well as a beautiful middle section.

The Contortionist music is kind of quiet and introspective despite the fact it's heavy and progressive. Pretty unique band, love it!

Was not expecting The Contortionist on here anytime soon! The Contortionist are phenomenal, I'd recommend checking out Flourish or Oscillator from their debut album if you really want to understand the origins of the band. They may take a few listens to appreciate tho. Also, a song from their last album you should react to is Return to Earth.

Can't go wrong with these guys. Check out Holomovement or Dreaming Schematics.

Drew you should check out Erra! They’re super melodic and extremely fun to listen to. I would start with Skyline, or Orchid. Both are great entry songs to Erra

My favorite band of all time

this band is one of the best to ever do it. So much attention to detail in the new stuff its unreal.

Rivers of nihil- subtle changes progressive death metal

Dude. I’m new to your channel, found it last night and love your analysis of songs. Honestly dude, a band 100% worth checking out is Tesseract. That band alone is what got me into this genre back in 2012. Check them out dude it’s pure brilliance. I’d say listen to Acceptance, or anything of their second album. Cheers mate.

Now just check out Integration, Thrive, Primordial Sound, Arise, Ebb & Flow, and The Parable.

Thanks for showing me more great music ! gotta keep recomending Haken tho and Messiah Complex might be the best song of the year so you gotta check it out man

Drew. Check out Monuments: I, The Creator. Just recently got into them. In the same veil as Tessract, Periphery and others. Very good stuff! Love ur vids. 👍

Nice!! These guys and Haken were opening for Devin Townsend by me... Just before covid hit 😕 Inspired me to deep dive these guys songs. Reimagined is short and sweet, Clairvoyant is a banger.

If you want something diferent on prog you should react to Birdproblems-pigeon superstition, that was like the best song of 2020 and that band deserves more atention

If you enjoy The Contortionist, check out the vocalist's other/former band Last Chance to Reason. Videogame-inspired progressive metal, "Upload Complete" from Level 2 is a good starter I'd say. His vocal range is insane and the music is pretty wild.

YEEEEESSASSAASSSAAASAASAAS THANK YOU IVE ASKED FOR THIS FOR LIKE 2 YEARSAHAMDHDH

New to the channel. The Contortionist is a legendary band. I recommend you check out Sleep Token.

Slugdge- salt thrower Progressive- melodic death metal

The contortionist- flourish

Dude! Loved this reaction! You need to check out Early Grave by these guys next. Truly deep song and its saved me from myself many times. I feel like you will enjoy it more as i think it gives you a more unique sound and completely different look from their usual heavy prog rock sound. I am much more captivated by their recent work in Clairvoyant LP, and their Our Bones EP! Much love! 🤙🏻

You should check out either Reimagined or Early Grave by them!

You're gettin all the good songs in all at once! Its like there was a kink in the hose and it got fixed haha

This era of Contortionist was basically Djent Cynic. Which is a band that you should check out: Cynic.

Great band. They have two albums released with this singer and two with the previous singer

Amon Amarth - War of the Gods Amon Amarth - Free Will Sacrifice Amon Amarth - Valhall Awaits Me

You should really check out Car Bomb! Very experimental and insanely brutal and proggy af Black Blood is the perfect opener! Lower the Blade is amazing too

Power Trip - Divine Apprehension Power Trip - Hornet’s Nest Power Trip - Crucifixation

Contortionist before Tesseract? Odd.. but I'm so game :p saw contortionist open for Tess live 🤓

I love you Drew.

Oh god i been waiting for this reaction for years!!!

Havn’t seen the video yet but if you end up liking it you’ll like tesseract too Also - if you havn’t heard Garden in Bones by periphery you’d love that

Fuck. I miss live shows so much. These two songs played live is an experience, to say the least

I couldnt stop listening to this band for months when I first heard language 1 and 2

Now check out VESSEL by the contortionist :D seriously, the more you listen to these guys, the better they are, ESPECIALLY after you see them live.

You REALLY should watch live videos of these guys. I’ve seen them about 7x now, they get better every time I see them. Best live band I’ve ever seen

I've never clicked watch and like so fast in any video. This song puts you on a journey and they put on an awesome live performance.

Time, the Valuator - Starseeker!

Completely new to this band, and never heard of the lads till now. Not bad all all, man. Some passages in there that have the same vibes and sounds as downtuned proggy metal out there. Which, seeing that its all linked to the same scene is totally understandable. Pretty Good stuff. The intro reminded me a lil bit of some Animals as Leaders. Their clean tone passages have that same style, before things go nuts. Cool , new band to perhaps come back to again. Thanks for the upload.

Picked up this album as well as their album Clairvoyant last year. Glad they don't have the strange vocal combination all the time.

you should give their newer album "Clairvoyant' a listen, also check out The Safety Fire- Yellowism; The band broke up but they were on the same caliber as tesseract, periphery ect

The entire Language album is definitely worth listening to. All of their albums are, really. Amazing band 🔥

check out Absolve

i remember seing them live in Denmark a few years ago :) went to see Periphery and this band simply blew my mind :)

Glad you like it! My favorite from this guys is Monochrome (Pensive), that's a journey

conspire is so dope

Hey Drew, I think you should check out Plini. He's a guitarist from Australia. He just came out with a new album recently and it kicks ass. Don't let it being instrumental throw you off - his music is legend.

Monochrome (Pensive) is amazing bu5 they have a lot of amazing ones.

Flourish and Oscillator! Exoplanet is one of the greatest metal albums in recent memory for me. React to the whole album to be honest.

hope you get back into this band sometime

How about some progressive thrash metal????? Vektor- recharging the void

Return to earth

nice pick! this album is really best consumed as a whole. it gets better with each listen. always finding something new. I like the follow-up (Clairvoyant) even better, but there is no growly screamy stuff. ALSO, someone earlier suggested Monuments, which is a just a great idea. I, The Creator is a great starting point.

this album is incredible. tesseract is one of my favs too.

I didn't know this band before. And it's surprisingly good. It appeals to me very much.

Love the Contortionists, very talented band! And sorry for the spam, still gonna try to request "Fractalize - Sun Eater" :D Btw, is it possible to pay for a reaction video on your Patreon or something? Asking for a friend.

Have you done Tesseract yet? Maybe I missed it. You should do Tesseract.

The Contortionist was primarily a deathcore band before this album, and since this album, has primarily been a spacey/shoegazey prog rock band. This album fairly literally marks their transition, as it really marked their move towards that predominantly prog rock sound, but still has those deathcore bits as well. Their next album after this one ditches that metal sound almost completely, and goes straight prog rock. You were wondering what set this band apart from other prog juggernauts when you were listening to the first part of the first song. For me, I love the atmospheric/spacey aesthetic of their music. I think their take on the soft/smooth post-rock sound is unique and interesting. When I first listened to this album, I was instantly hooked on this sound, and just couldn't find anything else that scratched the same itch for me.

Try out the Rediscovered version, it's basically an acoustic version of part I but with the ending of part II and has a very different vibe to it.

Another band that forced my drumming to another level. Joey Baca is so tasteful at displacement and gets so damn groovy

dude react to Plini - Papermoon if you want to listen somenthing epic and very unique, also great reactiong as always

Return to earth return to earth RETURN TO EARTH!!!!!!

I’m sure many people will say listen to Flourish by The Contortionist. And I will also jump on that bandwagon. They bring the heavy.

I would recommend you listen to Wilderun - Far from where dreams unfurl. It’s a band that is not yet widely recognised (at least not where I’m from) but surely deserves to be. Consider them the new “old Opeth” mixed with Devin Townsend and a lot of folky elements. Help shed some light on notable artists outside the regular big name recommendations and cheers m8!

Should just listen to a full album hahah they are great, picking one song is just hard

Check out Thrive! Same album, awesome stuff. Or the title-track from Clairovoyant!

You should check cafo by animals as leaders! (amazing guitar skills)

Hey drew, Mike from colombia, react ebb & flow from that same album... Awesome song.

Wake & Bake Drew 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽 Afternoon brother . Love The Contortionist

Listen to Abiotic and Last Chance to Reason.

Please do more Contortionist/Periphery and try Tesseract

Drew, to differentiate, try Organic Hard Drive by Lucid Planet! Please.

React : white noise by Beyond deviation !

Dude. Oceansize. They were from Manchester.

You should check out some Humanity’s Last Breath.

Try Sunn o))) - Between Sleipnir’s Breaths

They're twins

My friend! It’s time to react to Metropolis pt.1 by Dream Theater! I keep on nagging you with comments about this song, but for a good reason! Please do it! All your Dream Theater fans will be very very pleased💯🤘

Cam seems a bit framey there m8, might have gotten bumped down below 30fps somehow.

Definitely not a one trick pony. Exoplanet is a great album, especially when in the gym lol

It is not prog rock, it is prog metal.

Geocentric Confusion

Pick scrapes

Cortical, Axiom and Oscillator are best from these guys imho. I don't like Flourish as much as these three