Composer Reacts to Darkest Hour - Deliver Us (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- čas přidán 16. 04. 2021
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Darkest Hour is criminally under rated. One of the best metal bands out there, I just wish they'd get the recognition they deserve. Dudes have been thrashin for over 20 years now
Kris Norris was the lead guitar on this record and he was really influenced by Dark Tranquility, At the Gates, etc. He really changed the bands sound and added all these great solos that are pretty classical metal influenced
Exactly, not to mention devin Townsend produced this album...not my favorite album but as far as structure and clarity, build up and just that wall of sound is devin Townsend pushing them to another level
This song definitely hits diferently in the context of the whole album. Its the closure of 40 minute thrasher of an album, great solos, poignant yet hopeful lyrics and pummeling drums. One of my favorite albums for sure.
Kris Norris on lead guitar, with Devin Townsend as producer in the album, created a masterpiece here
Darkest Hour is such a gem. I might get some flack for this as most are more keen on their older stuff (it's damn good as you heard), but I REALLY love the stuff from their self-titled album that came out in 2014. It was the first album with Travis Orbin (the Orbinator) on the drums, and he brought a serious breath of fresh air and insane dynamic to the group. If you happen to wanna check anything out definitely give Lunar Divide, Infinite Eyes, Hypatia Rising or Surrealist a listen. Absolute banger tracks off an insane album that's most certainly worth a listen the full way through!
HYPATIA RISING is my absolute favorite DH song ever. Amazing.
@@paulstoliker3303 So fucking good I don't even have the words! I really really love what Travis Orbin did on that album (though I am biased towards anything he drums on lol.) Such a masterpiece of an album that I never saw get any praise unfortunately! D:
@@MattJFilms yeah, what he did was to add perfect little touches in just the right spots before dropping back into the groove with the bass. I agree, his work was really nice.
On that note, I would suggest to anyone to listen to DH's Hypatia Rising. FILTHY, period, full stop.
Ugh I love early DH so very much. This is also a band that I have had the pleasure to open up for many moons ago. Such an amazing group of dudes. They're music has always seemed like "melodic thrash" to me. It's not chunky enough to be hardcore and there's never breakdowns so it can't really be considered metal core either. I think they've always considered themselves a thrash band at their heart. This rings true with very early DH albums.
Fantastic band. Going to listen to this album right now. I'm past due.
More people need to hear Darkest Hour. They're so good. So underrated. They always have been. And probably always will be.
This is early DH, & the song to me is like the cover art...brutal with sneaky beauty. Bryan, Tunguska from the same album is really pleasing to the ear.
& you're right...the way they use the change of pace & melodicism may seem gimmicky, but for me it's more of a release. As for going back to the chorus after the buildup & layering, I like it...easy to miss on 1st listen but he's hitting NOTES, not just atonal growl.
Not to say they couldn't have done it differently. I don't think Darkest Hour would feel like DH with clean vox...BUT if I had to I'd do it with transition to acoustic guitar after the layered bridge & very small, quiet vox like in the song "We All Go Down" by Far (check it out privately if you like...really mellow & depressing, sad song, but effective).
As far as what you were looking for in the pitch-bearing growled vox...look no further than Gojira, The Art of Dying, during the chorus. **Of course they also add a cleanish voc. in the background.
Is this early? It's their 5th album.
Darkest Hour. Will forever be in my top 10. They are AMAZING! ❤
thank you for covering this, it's my favorite band
I saw them with Atreyu and Underoath back in 2003. They are outstanding live👍🏻
Love this
Killer 🤘one of the best live bands I had the pleasure to see 4 times.... They definitely are even better live👌
The album art was done by John Dyer Baizley, of Baroness fame.
Darkest Hour is a once in a generation band.....and they still crush it!
i mean, they just can WRITE a damn SONG, period. this song is a very nice closer, although i'd have chosen TUNGUSKA for that...in fact, for anyone who hasn't, RUNGOLISTEN to that song, TUNGUSKA. epic-style, never boring, always hook-filled.
The most underrated band in the world!
Not my kind of music but as always your breakdowns tend to teach me something, or at least over time I start to notice I see things I didn't before, so thanks for that and I'll keep it simple my dude.
My Heart for Deliverance - Neurosis
I prefer the older stuff, but this one is good too.
Do tranquil please
Cover art is very reminiscent of Baroness's album covers. DH is one of those bands I heard of when I was into melodeath/metalcore but never got around to checking them out. This track seems pretty typical of the genre, and really there just isn't enough here that distinguishes them from the multitude of other bands in the genre. I did dig the part where the lead guitar solo kicks in, but beyond that everything else sounds pretty generic to me.
The cover art is by is the same artist that did the Baroness cover art. He's actually one of the band members of Baroness.
They were doing melodic metalcore pretty early tbf, they're considered one of the founding fathers of the scene.
Seven Day Lie or Payphone And Pills next. They are the truth. Oooooh or Veritas, Equitas.
The solo is fake. Sped up by a computer
You're joking right? I've seen them live 3 times around 2008-2011
@@KrisMIW91 2008-2011 kris was not in the band anymore. He was fired for not being able to play the leads live. No im not joking. They used an algorithm in protools called elastic audio. They recorded the solos and some of the riffs at half speed and sped them up. This is 100% true because I used to be in the band.
No it's not dummy. Hahaha
@@Goldilush Holy shit, it's Lonestar. Sup man. I'll have to check out your new stuff.
Crazy to hear this. Slightly disappointing, but DH still fucking slays.
Yeah it broke my heart when I they told me that they did that. @@doctranate
why reacting to shitty metalcore when there is a countless actually good bands out there
This is definitely good metalcore compared to most in the genre
This isn't really metalcore. There isn't that much of a hardcore influence (though there is a bit but it's not the biggest influence) and there are no breakdowns. The guitars especially are very inspired by melodic death bands like Dark Tranquility and At the Gates. They're honestly closer to melodic death and thrash than to metalcore, at least this era of Darkest Hour. Also the albums with Kris Norris on guitar, of which this is one of, are great.
@@RikiazGaming yeah you're right about it being more thrash based
Why not just let people enjoy things?
@@RikiazGaming Metalcore was hugely influenced by melodeath, especially ATG's Slaughter of the Soul, and the dividing line between them is pretty thin. To me, the key distinguishing features is that metalcore tends to have more "scream" (and clean) vocals, chugging breakdowns, and lighter/less complex guitar work. To me, this song fits the first and latter category, but not the second. Melodeath tends to have vocals leaning more towards growls, typically with more complex song structures and lead guitar work. There's tons of ways to blur these elements though, and plenty of bands fit into both genres depending on the song.