Listening to Be'lakor - Stone's Reach, Part 1
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Melodic death metal, anyone?
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You're listening to a criminally underrated band... these guys are amazing.
One of my favorite harsh vocalist out there. Great musicianship.
Hi, Todd! 🌀🌀🌀👋👋👋
Totally agree 💯.
👋 Todd.
The reactor reacts😁
Hey buddy!
They have some beautiful haunting melodies, great harmonies and the vocals bring enough spice to the mix to make it heavy and even more evocative.. love it!
Awesome. Always happy to see more Be'lakor. Great band that deserves a lot more recognition.
Didn’t know this band, but this sounds amazing!
Wait for Side 4!!!!
All of their music is amazing if you haven’t looked into them more
My favorite band by now. These guys should be known around the world and it's a shame they aren't.
Hope to see them live one day
As a fellow huge be’lakor fan I highly recommend checking out the album “the frozen trail” by hollow decay. I think it’s just 1 guy from Australia who recently released his first album, completely blew me away. As a huge be’lakor fan that album really scratched some of the itch be’lakor does.
Venator. What away to kick of an album.
Its going to be a good day. Listening to your reactions of Countless Skies & Songs from the Wood
Nice, haven't properly listened to these guys in a couple of years. Some of my favourite riffs found on this album and its successor.
Yep you might want to dig up the lyrics for this, Be'lakor tend to tell short stories in their songs that adds some character to them that might otherwise be lacking in the vocals. That was my experience anyway.
Jim, I can't tell you how excited I am to see this on the channel! 😀
I wasn't sure if you'd use it or not since I know some of your viewers aren't fans of harsh vocals.
I'm glad you picked up on those Maiden-esque gallops they use on a lot of melodies. I think it's fair to say they've been an influence on Be'lakor. They also list Alcest, a French metal band amongst their influences.
Not sure if you intend to get through all of this or not (still watching!) but you owe it to yourself to check out Countless Skies for sure. The highlight of the album.
No demonic sacrifices of maidens on this album! 🤣
The overarching theme is mostly about passing time, impermanence and mortality. Best expressed in Outlive the Hand, which is seemingly about a statue that has outlasted the hand that created it, and the people who used to visit in the gardens. Countless Skies also speaks to that theme in stone's ability to exist through untold years (skies) before even it to must succumb to the passage of eons.
If you're interested in checking out more of their work, all their albums are good, imo. They just released a new one called Coherence last fall, so it should be readily available still.
Really enjoyed this buddy! I’ll try to do some more tomorrow, time got away from me!
@@JimNewstead Looking forward to it!
@@MaraxisArcanist I have to say I am not a big fan of those sort of vocals but the music was excellent and will listen to the rest of the album wherever and whenever it appears 🤣
@@richardigglesden8193 Yeah, I get it for sure. Harsh vocals aren't for everyone!
I don't disagree that some contrasting vocals might elevate them, but this is what they're known for. I do like mixed vocals, like Draconian does. The deep throaty growls contrasting with the ethereal female vocals is captivating.
Be’lakor fuckin rules, this album and of breathe and bone are masterpieces, vessels and coherence are really great too. Anyway always great to see be’lakor get some love, nice vids man. Some day you gotta do of breathe and bone the follow up to stone’s reach, it’s phenomenal
Brilliant upload.. Love the vocals..
Thanks for listening!
🌀🌀🌀🔥🔥🔥✊✊✊ thanks Jim! What a surprise!
I visited Florence just to take a photo with that statue of Perseus.
Love Be’lakor! Countless skies will always have a special place in my heart.
Fancy seeing you here Cranboogie. 😁
I Like this Music! Im so sad that my wife hate this kind of song! I can only play this for my self!
My wife is the same, she doesn’t like this sort of music at all!
@@JimNewstead She don't even give it a chance! I like all classic music and even play piano, Organ and gitarr, but this I can never get tired of.
@@pushthebutton4602 Yup, it's the same for me. We play classical music together with my gf (piano, flute, oboe), fortunately she doesn't mind all metal but too much growling and she's out.. and my favourite is Be'lakor :P
@@digitalspecter We are not alone! :)
I always quite like how this music takes you to a place somewhere between the album covers Blackwater park and still life. Misty; creepy and murky. This also brings in the phrygian feel with sand and pyramids. Wrong place to sidestep but I have noticed Mark Kelly's Marathon have live performances on you tube. 2051 is really good. Best Peter gabrielesque vocals out there.
I love this band. Just recently started listening to them with the release of their new album. Your videos are great.
By the way, and I'm sure you have probably mentioned it before, what turntable are you using? I want start getting some vinyl.
Thanks - the turntable is an Audio Technica AT-LP120XUSB
You should check out the album “the frozen trail” by the band hollow decay, new melodeath band that just released their first album but that shit really hit the spot for me as a massive be’lakor fan. Feel like most be’lakor fans will appreciate it a lot so definitely try to recommend it to as many melodeath fans as possible.
@@puppetmaster8551 I'll have to check them out
While you're on the Aussie band train, I'd highly recommend Cog. They are a fantastic rock band with light prog elements. They kicked off a very popular period in Aussie alt rock, with The Butterfly Effect, Karnivool and Dead Letter Circus, to be followed later by Caligula's Horse.
That Zappa comment was hilarious. I love a good in-joke.
Someone noticed! Thanks Clay 🙏
very opethy, very old school opethey indeed \m/
Thanks for pointing out that you did ISIS Panopticon album, which made me binge-watch all 4 parts immediately. Are you even aware what an extremely expensive gift you received there? Getting this album on vinyl is close to impossible and offers start as low as 160 US $...
I am very aware that this was indeed an incredibly special gift and I have thanked Julian very much.
be'lakor is like un bel accord, a nice chord in french
I'm pretty sure the band's name is Be'lakor...
It is….. I had to restart filming the video about 4 times because I kept calling it the wrong name! I’m a numpty. Thanks, title has been changed!
One day aliens will come to Earth and ask - what melodic death metal is? And I'll give them this album.
Thanks Jim. Music isn't bad but growling and screaming are not my jam.
No, it’s fine Bill. Something else along soon enough 👍🏼
Do everything by them
Who amplified the vacuum cleaner? Oh, it's the vocals. My bad 😉
I think i would honestly enjoy this more if the growling was used more sparingly to emphasise its effect. As its growling all the way through, it's a bit tiring.
Great playing, though.
That's what makes it the band it is. I love the vocals and without them it wouldn't be the same experience. Clean vocals don't fit this music.
Growling again and I hate growling (In almost all cases). Why don’t they just sing 😡🤬😡.
So this is not for me.
It’s all good matey, another set of vids will be along soon enough. Thanks for trying!
Opeth opened that door for me, and I couldn't be more thankful they did. A whole universe of music would have stayed locked for me hadn't they achieved that.
Singing doesn't have the same sound or power for this kind of music. That's like asking why Amon Amarth doesn't just sing.
Yeah, not everything is for everybody but.. it's like asking why they need to have distortion on guitars.. why can't they just play clean.. because it sounds different, it paints a different atmosphere, it evokes different feelings, it's a different artistic expression.. and I happen to love it =)
@@digitalspecter yes, but you’re not highly sensitive. Growling to me is like scratching a fork on a plate; it hurts.