UNLEASH THE ARCHERS - Awakening (Full Band Playthrough Video) | Reaction 

So much talent in this band and Brittany Slayes has one hell of a voice!

Thanks for doing this reaction. You should check out their cover of “Northwest Passage”. Even if it’s just a your own. Cheers from Texas! 🇨🇱🤘🏻😎

When I first heard this song I was blown away. And when I found out that it was the opening track to a concept album and that the follow up album had just been released I bought both on vinyl and waited until I could sit down with the lyrics sheets in one hand and some nice sipping rum in the other and followed along with the story. That was one of the best decisions I've ever done =P

More stuff to check out from Unleash The Archers: Tonight We Ride and General of The Dark Army are a couple of slightly older tracks. Tonight We Ride really shows off Britts vocal chops (and they still perform this song live and they still KILL it). Then for more recent stuff The Wind That Shapes The Land is the climax of the Abyss album which was a continuation of the story began with Awakening. There is no music video for this song so will have to just listen to the song. Most recently Ghosts In The Mist from their latest album just released last month. Another concept album about AI but the official video was made from live footage of them performing it at the Mad With Powerfest last year. So much great stuff from these guys.

Love this band!!

As a Canadian perhaps you'd be glad to hear that they recorded a version of the second Canadian anthem, The Northwest Passage ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XRD3vrSLPaw.html

gr8 reaction ash! ... i almost missed this ... they are incredibly talented musicians, all of them ... i am a book nut, soooo... i personally love them, their music is DEEEEEP ... namaste from canada ... r0ck 0n my friend! ... \m/

I really like this band, but their dedication to showing fans the actual finger work involved in making this music is unsurpassed! Keep up the great work! 🤟🤪🤘

the music of this song will make feel super like you can run into a burning building to rescue someone ladies & gentlemen that energy that intensity so powerfully uplifting holy heavy metal fire that sound of galloping horses

Not my favorite sub-genre of metal but holy shit are they really fuckin talented and are fun to listen to.

Apex is a concept album and the next album Abyss continues the same story. They actually released hardcover books of short stories fleshing out each track in the album, which was awesome. Off that second album, Abyss, the track The Wind That Shapes The Land is an 8-and-a-half minute masterpiece of warm, highly technical, uplifting metal. It's my go-to workout music. If you want a song where the lead singer, Brittany "Slayes" (real last name is Hayes) just noodles around with her voice, the title track from their older album Time Stands Still is exactly that.

I found The Warning via a reactor during the pandemic I found Unleash the Archers via a reactor during the pandemic And I redescovered Nightwish via reactors uring the pandemic

when i heard this the first time i thought, meh that's not the music i usually listen to and it's to fast and to stressfull, although i can see the talent and the quality, but eventually it happened that i watched some more reactions to it and it grew on me so i watched some more reactions and watched some other stuff of unleash the archers and some interviews with britney and stuff, and what shall i say, now this is on my playlist and probably will be for a long time you will catch yourself humming the main hook the next days :) while i'm looking forward to the inevitable follow up reaction of 'tonight we ride' cya then

Another band you may like is Edge of Paradise, they just signed to Napalm Records and have a very unique sound. Try The Unknown or Basilisk to get you started!

Want to see Britany youtubing some fun opera duet. Check out Britney doing Brandisi!

Same.

This gives me some Helloween vibes, Eagle Fly Free. Anyone else?

Ash I really appreciate you just being real. You don’t front and luckily you have reasonable peeps in the comments who can disagree without claiming they were attacked or some other cringey nonsense. I do listen to UtA on my own time but I totally understand them not being the right vibe for other people. It’s kinda like how Sleep Token seems to split metal fans.

Tonight we ride should be next.

Glad you got around to them!

I would love to see her reaction to chappell roan, love your videos ❤

Only band in the world with TWO Yngwie Malmsteens...

Loved this reaction so much! Are you reacting to ‘BRAT’ by Charli XCX by any chance? it’s such a great record that came out last friday and is already one of the 20 most acclaimed albums ever. It is truly a brilliant album and charli has such a great mind for music

Someone should have told you to hold on to something when you start this track!!!!!!!

Canadian power metal woo hoo

Thanks! 🇨🇦 🍺 💰👀💯

I can’t remember which one but in one of your videos you were recommending a concept album, do you happen to remember what album it was? I think you said it was written by kids?

Thank you for not talking over the music.

🤘😊👍 favourite band/artist after Aurora.

Funny... a while ago I was showing my vinyl collection to one of my 17 year old boys (have two of them, twins). We found the German band Warlock with Doro Pesch as singer. He thought she sounded like a band he was currently listening to. Then he forced me into his room, tied me to a chair and played me this group. (ok, he didn't force me 😉 ). He was so surprised that I put it on my playlist... haha, there are a lot of things he doesn't know about his old dad. By the way, I kept my promise... check my comment on your last Aurora video...😊 Coffee house...

UTH are good.