DEAD AHEAD | Dredge Song!
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In Black Salt Games' 'Dredge', a fisherman sets sail to Greater Marrow to GOBY the town’s SOLE angler. It at first seems like a peaceful PLAICE, but the townsfolk warn him that things are SARDINE to get weird. He thinks this is a load of CODswallop, but as DACE draw to nights, he FLOUNDERS when confronted with Eldritch horrors beyond his comprehension. They seem to be WHITING for his demise…
OK… that last fish pun was a bit CARP.
So, this project began as Dan Bull was so found of the Choo Choo Charles set, he wanted to try and reuse as much of it as possible and turn it into a boat for a Dredge song! And I wasn’t going to NOT use a beautiful boat set as well!
Our set builder Nick did a brilliant job with this one, I think most people won’t be able to tell it used to be a train! So huge thanks to him, and the entire team that worked really hard on this video. We filmed it way back in July, but as you can tell, there was a lot of post-production work with the CG elements! Shout out to all the artists that made that happen, check them out in the credits below!
As this video is all thanks to Dan’s idea, make sure to check out his Dredge video here: • I'm Heading Out (of my...
Oh, and obviously a MASSIVE thank you for one million subscribers!!! I can’t really believe it! As I said in the outro, we have some special stuff planned for the big milestone, but you’ll have to wait until the New Year for that! Sit tight!
#dredge
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Lyrics and vocals by The Stupendium
Video by The Stupendium & Paul Marke
Director of Photography: Paul Marke - www.paulmarke.com/
Production assistant: @LawlessMarshall
Shoot Coordinator: Lizzy CJ
Beat produced by @tunnabeatz
Track mixed and mastered by @OxygenBeats
3D animation by Xoriak & @FoxbearFilms / xoriakofficial
Boat model by kitnixi: / kitnxi
Set fabrication by Nick J Henderson
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LYRICS:
VERSE 1:
Cast off from the docks onto boundless seas
There’s shops to be stocked, there are mouths to feed
Every town needs Neptune’s bounties
But bringing them aground? Well, it’s down to me
For the flounders, bream, crabs, cod and mackerel
Can’t out compete man, rod and tackle
And the salmon and the wrasse, barracuda and the bass
Are all grouped up with the groupers - and a profit haggled
What’s it worth to get your earnings from a sturgeon on a pole?
There’s a lot of soul searching when you’re searching for a sole
No man is an island but I’m fine to play the role
Living life on the horizon, it can really take atoll
What you want to risk to get a fishy
there upon a little dishy when the boat comes in?
It’s a mystery but I’m pretty sure a biggun’ up and hit me
Took a nibble and he broke something
I’ll take tea with a spot of hake, peas
Some chips, baked beans and a blob of H.P.
Love, craft and skill let you dominate seas
Tough graft won’t kill - but a gob of great teeth
Might take you by surprise as you’re scraping up the muck
No saying what you’ll find so it pays to have a look
Hauling trinkets all a-glimmer or just fishing up some dinner
Sure I ain’t much of a singer but I’m great with catchy hooks
CHORUS:
Neath tides of bleak and briny
In that bed where fortunes sleep
Secrets lie beneath for finding
Weaving dread and silt for sheets
In the lambent lamp of phantoms
Flotsam all are we in time
Can you fathom what the fathom’s
Blackened chasms have to hide deep in the brine
VERSE 2:
It takes the correct person to live off the brine
But I’m great at networking and my job’s online
Sure you’ll maybe get herding up the lobsters fine
But your fate is less certain with an ominous shrine
No that can’t be what I’m seeing, chance it’s just something I’ve eaten
A mirage or, perhaps my bleeding looking glass just needs a cleaning
Heck, the hardiest of seamen can lose faculties of an evening
It’s a fact of life at sea! But I’m still grappling with the feeling
That there’s something coming after me, there’s whispers in the tides
That crystalise in ocean foam of shifting, infinite eyes
Their ebbs and flows obsidian in twisted pitch of night
Or are the depths below, abyssal, mirrored in the skies?
Blow it, I’m a man of reason! Won’t get caught in superstition
Bloke who can’t keep track of real isn’t a lot of use for fishing
But these catches that I’ve reeled in are so rotten, putrid, writhen
Sallow shadows from the shallows risen withered and unbidden
From depths, immortal chest, enshrined abreast horizon’s sprawl
Who’s Every crest, a breath I ride in endless rise and fall
A beating heart, relentless, scribed as tendrils strike the hull
And each a part, crescendant, chimes the yen of siren’s call
Each swell imparts unspoken names as waves and senses break
As rudder carves an open vein left gaping in our wake
Though tokens raised from soaken graves may yet a fortune make
I fear for what the ocean claims in place of what we take
BRIDGE:
What’s to find
Harrowed craft
‘Cross the lines
Shadows cast?
Hoist your nets
Raise your pots
All is death
Plague and rot
Hard to port
Hard astern
Matters nought
Where you turn
Compass spins
Stars have fled
We are all
Dead ahead
CHORUS:
Neath tides of bleak and briny
In that bed where fortunes sleep
Secrets lie beneath for finding
Weaving dread and silt for sheets
In the lambent lamp of phantoms
Flotsam all are we in time
Can you fathom what the fathom’s
Blackened chasms have to hide deep in your mind
First
You're amazing! Love your work 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Dang how long did that take
Love you I'm autistic and you helped me through so many years
Nvm, I am not first
"A blob of Hp, love, craft, and skill."
I sea what you did there. I love that line. Fantastic song as always.
This song has a lot of slick lyrics
@@aguyontheinternet8436this whole channel has slick lyrics
Was just about to comment that
“Love, craft” as in Lovecraftian horror!
Being unfamiliar with the game, but familiar with Lovecraft and stupendium, that line gave me a heads up that this silly fishing game is far less silly than I first thought from the first few lines.
*"But I'm great at networking and my job's online"*
This is why I love Stupes' songs, the wordplays are just... *_Perfection_*
And I like puns as well, so stupes is always welcome
"Bloke who can’t keep track of real isn’t a lot of use for fishing" makes me mad because its good
I about died at 'Love, craft, and skill'.
It's great wordplay, sure, but in this particular instance it annoys me, because the song could have been sung by an early 19th century, or even medieval, fisherman, except for that one line. That's the only overt reference to anything modern in the whole song.
@@janpocarovsky3486 the thing is... that song was made about dredge : a game in the modern times
I know it's unlikely anyone'll see this, but I've gotta point out how much I love that the final monster is the night angler. They're exclusive to the marrows, the earliest and safest part of the game, which means the fisherman was close, so close to safety, to getting out of this alive, heck, he probably mistook the light for the lighthouse.
Every time one of these songs comes out there's always so much detail like that slipped in. I feel like no one person could find quite all of it.
IMO, the fact that he saw something off on the horizon and was being led with decreasingly worse treasure makes me think that he was always headed towards the angler and wasn’t even at the tip of the iceberg
Granted, I’ve never played the game so I might’ve gotten it wrong here
or alternatively, it shows that he never left the marrows, he only ever saw the very tip of the iceberg of what lies in these waters
@@yellowpig1026 i said the exact same thing
@@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad ah. my B. i didn't look at the replies lmao
I absolutely love how the narrator’s language becomes more florid the farther he sinks into eldritch horror, right up until the second verse where he tries to snap himself out of it and briefly reverts back to simple fisher’s slang for a few bars before fully losing himself. Masterfully written lyrics.
Absolutely love how this goes from a fisherman making jokes about his job to horrors beyond our comprehension real fast.
It captures that aspect of the game very well!
That’s the game 😅
Don't you mean "reel fast"? :3
Dredge might've not won the indie game award, but this song sure deserves one.
Atleast it got this and dan balls creepiest sea shanty
@@marcwu5686 I love dan balls
Damn autocorrect, sorry. I of course mean Dan Bull
for sure. it's such a great game, the only negative thing was the fact the first DLC didn't feel like a DLC, more like what should have been a free update, it was such a small amount of content.
The song needs to win a GAME award? 😏
I love how the trinkets dredged up get more worthless as the song progresses, it’s as if as the bar of gold was bait and the fisherman is being pulled along to keep searching until the treasure dries up and it becomes clear that he was was on a line all along.
Something else really fun... the Song has 2 Hooks.
One for the Fisherman... the other for the Angler.
Ironically when i played i hated getting a stupid necklace, i was looking for PLANKS.
@@frohawkmasterRight?! At a certain point cash doesn’t mean much. But you need those planks and scrap metal!
@@frohawkmasterLiterally in the water, you can see different shapes in the water between planks, scrap metal, and even the cloth bolts. Including the treasures you find.
Except for the very last one, which I take as a joking callback. The last trinket being the same Eiffel Tower prop used in Fiend Like Me, which in that song is the actual Eiffel Tower that got miniaturized.
The gradual transition from the corniest fish puns I've ever heard to the equivalent of "The Muppets Descend into Lovecraftian Madness" was astounding. Might be one of Stup's best ones yet!
the muppets descend into lovecraftian madness is a sentence i'd never thought i'd hear today
I would watch “The Muppets at the Mountains of Madness” or “The Call of Kermit” in a heartbeat!
The entire song feels like a calm before the storm, and that's exactly what it is. A fisherman facing Lovecraftian horrors.
Technically a fisherman killed chtulu lkl
You did it with evil genius 2, you did it with two point,
You did it with frost punk,
You did it with beholder 3,
And now woth dredge.
You make these songs for games I never heard of and make them so well, i have to go out and play them because you make them seem so good. Truly, you have talent and skill in your craft.
i second this. how do they make me want to play or watch gameplay of anything??
@@TuxedoDogssmost of the games I play is because of their songs I swear
This song for frost punk is the EXACT reason I went and bought it.
Omg same
*with, fourth line
The 'The Stupendium dresses up as working class men' cinematic universe is coming along finely
Same with the "Stupendium dresses as morally questionable business administrative personnel" cinematic universe
"Sure, I ain't much of a singer," they sing as they drop the hardest shanty of our generation
not technically a shanty but I agree it's good
So true bro!
Would the part that starts with "'Neath tides of bleak and briny" really not count as a shanty? It just sounds so... so... shantastic.@@clintonbehrends4659
@@Semudara shanties are designed to assist work by by maintaining a consistent rythm for things that needed it (like cargo loading)and were not typicaally for entertainment
the section of the "neath tides of bleak and briny" would probably qualify more then the rest of the song but probably still doesn't count as it's tempo and rythm shifts (as it's ment to sound good not be used labour)
@@clintonbehrends4659That's a good point! It totally is close to one, though, in my opinion. Just might need some of the bars to be tweaked so they're more even in length.
Thanks for the response! I appreciate the info.
Stupes fans are eating well this month! Another superbly written journey into another game I know nothing about.
An Alan Wake 2 song, a GAME THEORY SONG, and now a dredge song
I think eating the fish here won’t do us well… remember what happened to the Fishmonger? And the Dockworker?
@@Menchii_bug never heard of them
@@Menchii_bugi mean, they lived tho so like it works
@@toystoryteletubbyism9722 Lived, but not very well, I think
"Some chips, baked beans and a blob of H.P.
Love, craft and skill let you dominate seas"
I _sea_ what you did there
_Salmon_ had to do it, dude.
bur where's the fish.
But did you SEE what he did there? The newspaper from Neath! is used to serve the fish and chips.
@@Merlin1908 oh, so a prop reuse & a pun opportunity win, that's 2 ding's.
From “My lines are missing catchy hooks” to “But I’m great with catchy hooks”. What a journey this has been.
what song is that first line from?
@@brackwolf6521amateur wordsmith
@@toystoryteletubbyism97227 years is a good amount of time
callin' it now, the next song is gonna be the Amateur Wordsmith sequel we've all been waiting for
@@notyetimnot406 More than an amateur wordsmith.
I like how it starts off feeling so cheery and goofy and it turns into eldritch horror, going from a guy goofing about on a boat with a few odd things going on to a sudden rapid descent into madness
The oceanic vibes at such an hour of madness.
Then just a pirate singing into my ear, what an odd day to be a Stupendium Fan.
Did you know that cats can be gay lesbian or bisexual :3
@@Freckle_McMurray did you know that no one cares
@@Freckle_McMurray Stop spreading misinformation. Animals are slaves to their sexual urges without question on whatever they get a hold of, even trees and rocks. Some animals will even purposely kill and gang rape.
@@feritye767 ok
@@feritye767I care
The 'Love, craft and skill' line is so subtly incredible and I love it.
also "a blob of HP" right before it
I didnt quite get that one, is it supposed to refer to lovecraftean? In that case what does skill mean here
This one was my favorite line of the whole song, it was such a clever reference!
@@rivo8774i dont know the blob and skill but it's H.P lovecraft aka cthulu guy
@@rivo8774I believe the skill was used to make the lovecraft reference more subtle
This song does an amazing job of portraying a slow descent into madness, and I think a lot of that has to do with the lyrics. In the first part, they're very welcoming, innocent and colloquial, with contractions like "big'un" and "ain't", and informal, stereotypically lower-class words ("Gob", "nibble", "dishy"), as well as a tidal wave of fish puns. But when we get to the eldritch portions of the song, the fish puns dry up and the lyrics get more prose-like and verbose, like the kind of thing you'd read in an actual Lovecraft story - "their ebbs and flows obsidian", "sallow shadows from the shallows", "each swell imparts unspoken names", etc. And in the middle of the second half, when the fisherman briefly tries to snap themselves back to reality, there's a return to the more colloquial lyrics of the first half, with "blow it" and "bloke", as well as the last fish pun (real/reel) of the song. It gives the impression that in learning Things That Man Was Not Meant To Know, the fisherman's vocabulary was irreversibly altered along with his mind. Wonderful stuff!
I really like this analogy, it puts a whole new spin on this song that I didn't see before
“Compass spins,
Stars have fled,
We are all dead ahead”
Is one of the coolest lines I have heard in a while.
I'm so enamored with your wordplay and melodies. I'm speechless. also your chorus of..."fish"...was kind of terrifying but oddly charming? phenomenal work, 2570/10, would get eaten by lovecraftian horrors of the deep again
257.18261182618281926284816/10
Mangaka718 - same, it's all SO good
The funny part is that the ending monster is exclusive to the shallows, he was so close to safety.
Hey, the end of the comment rhymes!
"Some chips, baked beans and a blob of H.P.
Love, craft and skill let you dominate seas"
Such a great line! Well done!
This is the perfect song for Dredge. During the day you fish casually in calm waters picking up strange cargo from time to time. The horrors lurk at night, and insanity glooms around every corner.
The fisher is a lovable character. There's also the signature jab at the real world with 'I fear for what the ocean claims in place for what we take'.
Bravo 10/10, Stupes!
I know your singing is the main selling point but I have to give props to your acting, especially at the end! The way the captain reacts to the giant angler fish gives me chills every time.
+ the little pause of thought before decapitating the fish with multiple eyes! 🤌
His blank-ish looks into the distance while fishing are perfect fisher vibes.
I love how the sense of dread and danger rises throughout the song. At first the fisherman's just singing about the job that he loves and how there can always be unexpected surprises for better or worse, but then he sees something... unnatural off in the distance but he just plays it off as nothing worth attention and keeps going ahead. But as soon as night falls there's he KNOWS theres something out there no matter how hard he tries to ignore it. After the Mutant Fish Choir (Never knew that would be something my brain would ever register either btw) say their peace he doesn't care what's waiting for him below anymore, he just wants to get out of this alive and at long last he finds light which means civilization, which mean people, which means land, which means this is all at an end.
I love the aberration fish choir, Stupe actually get the actual aberration fish from the game correctly.
From left to right
gnashing perch
Scouring bass
Three headed cod
Enthralled stonefish
Blood snapper
And many eyed mackerel on chopping block.
That light at the end could also be him falling for the giant anglerfish's trick, pretending to be another friendly fishing boat just to lure you in.
@@tatarchan5212Oh, I just thought they were supposed to be extreme exaggerations of real life fish.
@@L-and-P well, in the game it's basically sealife that has been corrupted by lovecraftian force.
All of them have the "normal, non corrupted" real life counterpart.
@@tatarchan5212 That makes sense, it’s just a lot of these look disturbingly close to real life fish
These practical effects are astonishing. The song's a banger. The game itself is art. Every time I think you can't top what you've accomplished last, you somehow manage to outshine yourself in new, outstanding ways!! Hats off to you!
First of all, I love that the song is split into two distinct styles: the sea shanty and the ravenous sermon of a madman. Very fitting for the game. And second - I'm so happy the endless puns are back! In most of recent songs you could only have an occasional one or two, and most of the songs are built upon an atmosphere and some plotline. But here we have a perfect blend of both catching the feeling of the game (as I've said at the beggining) and a stream of sea-scented puns and jokes!
Love how the song has two choruses, one representing the fisherman, the other the unholy abominations, and in the end, the abominations are downing out the Fisherman figuratively, before the Angler does it literally.
Another song and so soon? I don’t know how you keep pumping out these high quality songs but I’m not complaining!
Never heard of Dredge but you certainly make a seaman's life so interestingly fun, adventurous, and exciting. Great performance, Stupendium.👍😃
It's a wonderful indie game. I really enjoyed it. Sits somewhere between relaxing and nervewracking.
Dredge is a really fun indie horror (?) game, and I can’t recommend it enough
It's about a fisherman being crash landed, and needing to catch fish for the butcher to repay his debts. In doing so, he finds a mysterious man who sends him on missions. Aberrant fish are discovered and time passes until the fisherman doesn't know why he's following the magic mission man. Eventually, while going on these, he finds 4 quarters of a tablet and a madman, following orders until the end, where cthulu rises. Quite a good game, I recommend jacksepticeyes' playthrough of it
Dredge is a indie fishing horror game though not particularly scary it is more of a psychological horror i guess it has a few interesting mechanics in a pretty good story would definitely recommend
You have to play it.
My personal GOTY, and personal recommendation
I really appreciate the attention to detail. All the Aberrant Fish are from the game. In order of appearance are the Leviathan, the Blood Snapper and Many-Eyed Mackerel, then the chorus with the Gnashing Perch, Scouring Bass, Three-Headed Cod, Enthralled Stonefish, and Blood Snapper (left to right), and finally the Night Angler. Very well done.
OH I DIDNT EVEN REGISTER THE FIRST THING AS OL LEVI BUT YOURE PROBABLY RIGHT
I think you said Many-Eyed Mackerel a second time on accident, I think you meant Three-Headed Cod
@@dylansickinger545 You... are not wrong. Thanks for the assist, edit made.
I love the double meaning of "We are all dead ahead".
1. The fisherman and any others who venture too far into these cursed, dangerous waters have nothing but death awaiting them.
2. The monsters and mutants have the fisherman surrounded by now, so no matter which direction he sails, he'll just be heading toward more of them.
Depending on how you interpret the pronoun, the message is "We will all die soon" or "You cannot escape us". The protagonist's doom is inevitable either way. Perfectly bleak and ominous for a tale of eldritch horror!
I’m sorry but “But I’m great at NETworking and my jobs onLINE” had me DEAD. Absolutely brilliant, Stupes!
I've listened to this over and over and the "stars have fled" part is still so damn striking. Like, it conveys that there's something so horrible that all the stars in the sky not only disappeared, they've *_fled,_* as in ran away from some sort of danger. Something so dangerous and terrifying that even stars have to run away from it. Just excellent cosmic horror vibe.
I can't believe Stupes actually became a fisher and sailed in the middle of the sea to capture this footage. The dedication. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
1 MILLION! YOU DID IT! Can't believe it's finally happened, but also can't believe it's taken this long. You're finally getting the recognition you deserve for all your talent, hard work and dedication. Congrats Stupes, and here's to a million more!🥳🎉
I genuinely think The Stupendium will always be underrated, the accents, the bars, the hooks, the sets, the animations, the effort is like no other. Please never quit no matter how old ye may turn!
I'm 99% sure the set is the same as Dan Bull's song too. Check it out
@@chaseadams6865MAN SHUT UP!!! 'FORE YOU MAKE ME DO SUM' I'M GON' REGRET!!!
I love the possible stop-motion animation towards the end. Also CONGRATS ON ONE MILLION!!!!!
Thank you! It's all CG :P
Wow. Hearted by Stupes, with a comment from them, and only 3 likes? Have another one, buddy.
With this song, you've made me watch a random video, and a whole series of this game.
Are you happy? Are you pround of yourself and your work? I hope so. You are great, and so are your music videos.
This video really makes me wonder the budget is for the sets in music videos, this is so well done
The budget is yes.
@@TheStupendium Yes
@@TheStupendiumI hope when I have my career the budget for my music videos will also be "yes"
@TheStupendium Yes.
I know next to nothing about Dredge, but this song is fire! Once again, you knocked it out of the park, and congrats on 1 million subs! Well-deserved!
Like with all Stupendium productions, the song tells you everything you need to know.
@@brainflash1
Exactly.
same
@@JameyMcQueen I didn't know anything about it either but when I noticed jacksepticeye played it back in 2021 I binged it and it's a pretty good game with a great story and plot twist
The slow, plodding shanty beat gives me the impression of a person making their way slowly toward an inevitable end. Starting out pretty lighthearted sounding, but slowly devolving into madness. The other superimposed voices becoming more and more crazed, frightened, and desperate. The song is clever and even paced. This was a treat to listen to, especially the mix of shanty and chant at the end.
The set and effects are especially well done, and the feel makes me nostalgic for the fishing trips I went on as a kid. I've said it before, but Stupes continues to set higher and higher bars for themself and their crew and make the mark every time. Amazing work and stellar vocals and atmosphere. Love it!
The plane from What A Fowl Day and the Eiffel Tower from Fiend Like Me are caught in this video. While this could easily be reusing props, I much prefer the idea that the goose threw the plane into a river that carried it to the ocean and the villain threw the shrunk Eiffel Tower into the ocean after their demands weren't meet.
Dan Bull's dredge song went all in on the madness and creep factor right from the start. This song starts of benign and eases into the insanity. Both are excellent in their own ways.
Amazing song, and you really captured the Lovecraftian vibes so well. My personal favorite line is "In the lambent lamps of phantoms, flotsom all are we in time."
Right!? I enjoy the gags about catchy hooks, the references like "don't play close attention to our one sided War of the Worlds, ripping up the Rosebuds as we're plundering these Ores an Wells"
But ALSO there are the lines that have such good pace, sound, feel to them and are so evocative like that.
There's such skill gone into making them and they're a joy to hear (which is good because they're so catchy they're usually stuck in my head for ages 😂)
I swear, every time I think it's going to be impossible to top a previous song you just crack your knuckles and drop something like this. The way this goes from simple little shanty to full lovecraft while struggling to stay sane, the fish leaping up to sing. Simply amazing.
Also, congrats on hitting 1million
Jesus this entire song is fantastic, the echoing voices, the hints to Lovecraftian lore, the cinematography, it’s all so good, and its wonderful to see how far you’ve come! Keep it up Stupes!
My headcanon for this is that stupes isn't playing the player but instead a different fisherman which the angler killed, then decided to mimic to lure in other ships, perhaps figuring out that they sometimes stop next to each other, or this is actually the fishmonger who decided to settle down after seeing what he had, which is also why we see him cutting things up on his boat, just like the fishmonger.
Him being the fishmonger Is a good Idea.
@@TheFoolish_Bear Mhm, also explains why he cuts up so many mutated fish
2:04 best line here. I got a big kick from that. Puns for days, and I'm always here for it!
is it just me or is the stupendium hauling ass now, theyve made like 3 incredible songs in the past 3 weeks. Great job
100% - part of me thought they were taking a short hiatus after they've shaved their face for the 'The Neath' song..
I love how the last line of the chorus changes from “…have to hide deep in the brine?” To “…have to hide deep in your mind?” At the end! :^D You’re so smart Stupes aaa!1!1!1!
I just noticed that the newspaper wrapping up the fisherman’s lunch is the same one Harry Teller was selling in Neath! A Fallen London Musical! I adore that reference. I would love nothing more than for Stupes to make more Fallen London songs.
I literally jumped out of my bed and turned on my speaker just to listen to this. Keep up the good work, Stupes! ❤
Something I love about nerdcore music is that you don't even need to know what the game/show is to enjoy the song. I have never heard of Dredge and I like this.
100% honest this one at first bounced off of me. Wasn't a fan. But I kept listening to it and now it's one of my favorites. I'm glad I stuck with it. Thank you and everyone for their hard work on this
i love the voices echoing after the fisherman its like all the other fisherman who have fell victim to the creatures before haunt the boat
Oh, this was fantastic! I love the progression of the lyrics as things get more eldritch, and the chorus is fantastic - I'm especially a huge fan of the way the second chorus is preceded by the chorus of the fish with no music, just rain in the background, and leads right into the descent into the ending! Absolutely phenomenal work!
And don't think i didn't notice all those fantastic fish puns, fantastic work as always!
If anything, it's criminal that Stupendium didn't hit one million subscribers last year, and I don't think anybody deserves hitting that milestone more!
"can you fathom what the fathoms, blackened chasms" best line of the chorus.
"But I'm great at networking and my job's online"
I just got that wordplay and joke after the 10th repeat.
"Their ebbs and flows obsidian in twisted pitch of night, Or are the depths below, abyssal, mirrored, in the skies"
Best line in the god damn song, amd instant top 10 best lines in all of stups stuff, but that list is as consistent as the tide so we can only assume what the 1 mill song has in store
I spent months after finishing Dredge and finding out about your work (roughly around the same time, curiously) hoping you'd do one, as you've demonstrated a fondness for indie games and horror, and it seemed ripe for a shanty. And of course, you delivered!
There's a lot to like here.
The puns are top-shelf, as usual; "can't keep track of real," "HP / Love, craft and skill," and "great with catchy hooks" are favorites of mine.
The chorus of aberrant fish is a nice touch.
The Night Angler at the end was well-done.
I like that the freaking *subtitles* start warping more and more as the Fisherman loses his mind. Even the fourth wall isn't safe!
And then there's the fact that as the song gets more downbeat and doomed, the backup vocals get louder and overlap more...which puts me in mind of a chanting cult.
Didn't know about Dredge before I listened to this song but the moment I heard, HP, Love and Craft at the same sentence, I knew things are about to get wild.
While 'HP. Love, craft...' is amazing, I want to point out the subtle reference right before:
The 'Missing baby found in spider's web' newspaper from Neath! is used to serve the fish and chips.
My girlfriend just got hooked on dredge yesterday after I showed it to her, and now I get to show her this. Thanks stupes! Amazing job, amazing lyricism and effort into the video as usual. Personally love when you throw a heavy accent into a whole performance too 😁
What did she think?
@@mr.cobalt1668 loved both the game and the song. She's always super jealous of how talented stupes is as well, because they can do so many things she admires ♥️
2:49 too I think its a ref to the scene in danbull's dredge song where he almost eats the same fish.or maybe this fish is in the game 😅
It's an aberrant fish you can catch: the Many-Eyed Mackerel
Making it out the burmutia triangle with this one🗣️🔥🔥🔥
This song has really grown on me like the tentacle I got from delving into forbidden texts.
I really want those five creepy fishies to form a band
(Also side note, the rhymes are obviously amazing, but I REALLY love the two choruses that come together in the end it is SUCH a good effect!!!)
I love how it goes from "Fish puns go brrr" to "Interdimensional horrors beyond human comprehension" with the wordplays *still not dropping quality*
There's just salmon about your songs that make me wanna listen to them over and over again
Honestly, I love how the song transitions into the more eldritch part of the game after mentioning an "ominous shrine," which seems to be a reference to the "obelisks" in the game which you can only successfully interact with in-game with high panic
A detail I love is that all the items you catch in the net are props from previous videos. I saw the shrunken Eiffel Tower from Fiend Like Me, the spinning top from The Toybox, the stolen toy airplane from What a Fowl Day, and others I can't quite identify.
OH GOD I DIDN’T EVEN RECOGNIZE THAT. THAT’S *GENIUS* IF IT’S RIGHT.
this is the most amount of fish/sea puns I have ever heard in one song and I love it. super excited for the 1 million special!!
0:09 "New content visibility - good" This is nice to hear.
The props are just incredible, that rotten fish model was insanely realistic. Good work lad!
It's not only rotten fish.
It's direct aberration fish from the game.
Gnashing perch
Scouring bass
Three headed cod
Enthralled stonefish
Blood snapper
And many eyed mackerel.
0:23 - Morning
0:50 - Afternoon
1:37 - Dusk
2:01 - Early Night
2:26 - Midnight
3:36 - Late Night
4:12 - Morning : )
"No man, is an Island, but I'm glad to play the role"
What you did there, I see it. God I love your lyrics. And the acting, to boot. I saw the wink ya did at the "catchy hooks"
Really love the aesthetic of the slurred delivery. Makes the song feel very fever dream.
3:00 Tunnel of Terror Willy Wonka vibes go hard here!
The line that gets me every single time i watch is "i fear for what the ocean claims in place of what we take"
Such a well crafted line, proper showing of a man going mad, but also his fear of being swallowed by the ocean- or what lies under the surface of it. 10/10 song as always.
"Tough graft won't kill but a gob of great teeth might!"
as it ends with the great, toothy maw of a night angler opening up to devour poor Stupes
so many *Details* in this man's music videos, it's astonishing.
The lyrics on this song are great representations of the passive dread the game instills in the player. Another great tune!
I didn't expect another song so soon! We're all elated, but please don't overwork yourself, Stupes ^^ Take care!
“I’m great at net-working because my job’s on-line” are the 2 best fishing puns I’ve ever heard
This is extremely off topic and you might not see this, but I just want to say that you’re a massive inspiration to me. As a younger nonbinary person, it’s wonderful and really reassuring to see someone under the umbrella being extremely successful and even working with MATPAT of all people!
It helps to remind me that even though I don’t see older nonbinary people in my daily life, it is possible to get there, and hopefully be as awesome and funny and talented as you one day :)
(Also I love this song so much and all the little details in the video, another banger as usual❤)
Thank you so much, friend! I'm super honoured I've gotten to be a part of your journey of self understanding. You're already awesome just for being you.
I literally JUST listened to Dan's dredge song today and saw your teaser in the end. Oh the irony and beautiful work as always Stupes! Even if you look SO different with a full beard 😂 Love it all 🧡🧡🧡
Every time Stupendium uploads something, I *NEVER* know what to expect, this is a one of a kind song here. Feels like you discover something new with every replay.
i love how the background voices go from singing alongside stupes with a slightly *off* inflection to fully taking over the song by the end. the descent into madness leaves the fisherman himself voiceless, and all we can hear is his death knell in the form of his mind's mad ravings
I can’t describe how much I love the way the lyrics play with the tempo in this, not to mention giving the whole song a weighty, sea-shanty feel.
Only a few seconds in and can tell this will be an absolute banger as always
i was ready for a nice fishin song until i heard "love, craft". can't say i'm upset over the good old eldrich touch tho.
also les go, 1Mio Subs. much excitment. much celebration
Love how you can always hear the fish, even before they show up. Either meaning he was always a bit crazy or that the Eldritch is always there, even if you dont notice
I just caught the lines "some chips baked beans and a blob of HP" and "love, craft and skill let you dominate seas" are connected, even after catching the name pun on Lovecraft it took until now to catch that the letters "HP" ended the last line, I thought it was flipping the word 'and' to sound like the end of Lovecraftian before catching that, these type of lines are why I'm subscribed
This is one of the best songs I have ever heard on CZcams, I can't stop listening to it.
The mugging for the camera at lines like "im great at catchy hooks" and "im great at networking and me jobs on line" is priceless and perfect ^^
im here to thank Nick, the set builder, this is all amazing, the quality is impecable! to thank Stupendium for his impeccable performance, absolutely stupendous! DanBull for not only reusing the train set, making this absolutely enlightened lovecraftian lyrical masterpiece of such caliber a thing, but also for making his own sea shanty aswell! to the animators, i yearn for such abilities, but with my already low morale, i might aswell join the seabed... the audio designers, absolutely incredible! especially with how it sounds like it was actually come up in the spot alongside they lovely lyrics from the lyricist! i hope that nature gives you all the bounties deserved, and may your day be blessed with farture of figs and barley
Man, this fisherman really just went and read all of Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe adding everything within to his vocabulary without taking in any of the contents.
The only thing I’ve heard of Dredge before this was the Dave the Diver collab and clearly I’m missing out. Great song as always, the amazing quality of every nook and cranny never fails to amaze. Good job!
The angler meets the anglerfish.
Great stuff as always
I know that lines about "soul searching" in the first verse are mostly for fish puns (and wery good ones, that's it), but after completing "Dredge" myself the lines about fisherman searching for "soulmate" hits completely differently