Composer Reacts to Anaal Nathrakh - Forging Towards The Sunset (Live) (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Anaal Nathrakh - Forging Towards The Sunset (Live at Roskilde 2013)
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0:00 Intro
0:51 Reaction
4:39 Analysis - Not Great Audio
5:49 Analysis - Standard Black Metal Ideas
9:51 Analysis - Those Vocals!!!
12:18 Analysis - The Chorus Vocal Layering
19:47 Analysis - Incomplete Lyrics?
25:36 Outro
Loved the reaction and analysis. As a fairly long time Anaal Nathrakh fan, just wanted to highlight a few things. In the studio, the band is just Dave Hunt (vocals) and Mick Kenney (Guitar anbd everything else). Live they have a roster of kind of rotating performers, depending on who is available. The second vocalist here is actually playing bass, and is known as "Drunk". His first name is Duncan but I've forgotten his surname. - As another commenter mentioned he's the lead vocalist of Fukpig. Drunk has been a fairly standard live player, but drums and lead guitar tend to float around.
In the past, Dave, Mick and Drunk were in a kinda grindcore/death metal band called Mistress, but that's another story.
Anyway, they do use some recorded playback to augment their live sound - that's not a criticism, as frankly the depth of their sound would be hard to recreate purely live. That does help with the layering of the choruses. In the studio everything is Hunt, but live it's a combination of Hunt, Drunk and playback.
In terms of lyrics, until their last album Anaal Nathrakh have not produced any official lyrics, so it's basically pieced together by fans. Hunt is a *very* intelligent guy though, and recently completed a PHD in philosophy I believe, but he pulls influences from all over.
I'm a slight Anaal Nathrakh fanboy at times.
Being a fanboy is fine, especially when you can provide such information and context to someone's experience. So thank you for all of this as it helps me understand the group better. And you're right that it's not a bad thing to use backing tracks during live performances. Not every band is thinking about *how* they'll perform something live when they're making music -- they just want to make the best music they can. It's wild that the vocalist has a PhD in philosophy though. I mean, it shouldn't be wild but it's such a rarity to hear about musicians putting so many years towards anything except their music.
Dave also was in Benediction, and Mitch has doen some shows with Napalm Death. There's an amazing through-line of Birmingham crust, grind and death metal bands
The energy is insane
Oh christ, an Anaal Nathrakh reaction? This'll be fun :D
Thanks for the review and reaction to your favorite band, sometimes it's interesting to see how other people rate similar music.
I have been a fan of AN since 2009. On studio recordings, they don't compare to any of the metal bands. Their approach to writing, the crossing of genres, the huge variability of extreme and clean vocals combined, in an extraordinary way, make my heart beat stronger. On studio recordings, they mix a lot and overlay vocals in layers, it happens that 3-4 vocal tracks can go on one track at the same time and all this is done by the main vocalist Dave Hunt. Unfortunately, it will not be physically possible to pull all this live. Therefore, since about 2010, they have been using at concerts as support for the second vocalist, part-time bassist Duncan. I haven't heard such perverted vocals with abrupt changes from any other band, in addition to everything, there is a lot of expression at the output. I don't like modern core vocalists who master the basics of extreme vocals under a carbon copy and use the same technique with a minimum of self-expression.
It is difficult to characterize An in general by any genre because they get out of the rut very much. I would say that the albums from 2007 to 2018 were very much in step with the times with modern metal using all its chips, but the main basis using their signature sound has always remained and remains to this day, they have a very bright signature.
P.S. Dave performs most of the songs entirely by himself, for example at the same Rockslide 2013 concert ua-cam.com/video/OjMjcexnpKk/v-deo.html
Got excited seeing the title, got less excited seeing it's the live version. I'm lucky to be familiar with the studio version so I know how it's "supposed" to sound like, but this was still a rough listen haha.
Quite honestly they sound amazing live, although this recording from 2k13 doesn't give them justice.
I think for the theme this week peste noire "dueil angoisseus" would be an essential listen. Features the vocalist of Alcest, though I'm certain you'd find his approach in that track interesting.
The live version is intense, but much less impactful, I remember this song having an absurdly long scream at the end.
Yes Kardavox has reacted to AN! Speaking of combining harsh and beautiful vocals - please check out Kardashev again!
I checked out one of those reactions and loved how enthusiastic he was, even going so far as to sing along with the reaction when he heard an awesome sound and tried to replicate it. The dude's energy is infectious!
i am not sure if it's about kardavox, but dave hunt of anaal nathrakh mentioned youtube video dissecting his vocals in one interview, which was pretty funny ua-cam.com/video/GAZdefiOPeA/v-deo.html
If you ever cover this band again, I would love for you to check out "Depravity Favors the Bold"
I swear to my every second of existence, you will enjoy reacting to Summoning - where hope and daylight dies
The Apocalypse is about you. (Another great song by A.N.)
Amazing band and the live performance the sheer energy of it is amazing. raw.
Definitely need to check out some of their album tracks, incredibly heavy, equally dark and soooooop brutal 🤘
Wall of sound? Wait till you hear their song Pandemonic Hyperblast
or Castigation And Betrayal
Silencer - Sterile Nails and Thunderbowels
Xasthur - In the Hate of Battle
Silencer will be... Interesting.
imagine the shock you will have when you listen to "Of Horror & Black Shawls" from them..
Anaal Nathrakh are the kind of band that are very difficult to place genrewise, and really are there own thing, they are certainly blackened in some ways, but also undeniably contain death, grind and industrial influences, depending on release some of those might even be above the “blackness”, the second to last album “Forward!” feels almost djenty at times and definitely leans toward the industrial end of the spectrum and the latest one takes alot of melodic death metal influence, almost to a fault imo
EDIT: also, while I think it’s a practice they recently stopped for the last two or just the last release, Anaal Nathrakh purposefully don’t release their lyrics, and they sing multilingually, with passages in english, latin, german and even french (I think).
EDIT 2: the second to last release is called “A New Kind of Horror”, my apologies
Just a minor nitpick: The second to last album isn't called "Forward!", that's a song on that album. The album is called "A New kind of Horror". Just was a little scared for a moment I missed a release. :D
@@Donnerwamp Oh fuck, that’s on me for misremembering
Please check out Silencer’s album death pierce me! Anything from the album really but Sterile Nails and Thunder Bowels is a favorite of mine. It’s a big claim, but vocally there’s nothing like it in extreme metal (whether or not you like it or think it’s good lol).
yes, great pick. I second it.
Bryan is probably swamped with recommendations so it's very unlinely he's going to look into Silencer. Your best bet is submitting a Special Selection request.
Cradle Of Filth - Funeral In Carpathia...This band has one of the most unique vocal styles ever and back then Danny Filth (The Vocal) was the ONLY vocalist who was able to sing in high pitched (his own style) while singing in scream style vocals.!! You should definitely react that song.!!
band actually consists of two people, other musicians are guests, so all vocals in studio version is done by main vocalist, guitarist who made harsh vocals in this recording seems to be vocalist from band "fukpig"
Oh god, do I feel Silencer coming on?? I think a more sensible suggestion for a similar vocal style would be anything off Bethlehem's Dictius Te Necare.
A song from that album has already been reacted to b4
You should react to the whole album!
As you loved clean vocals, well I can tell you that there's a track where it goes far
For me It was unexpected when I've listen it the first time
Yeah, audio quality was pretty bad on this one which made it difficult to really hear most of the music. Vocal-wise it was definitely on-point though, and it was surprising to hear that clean chorus emerging out of such chaos.
Love that clean chorus precisely because it's in start contrast to the chaos. It works soooo good for me.
Fun reaction Bryan despite the iffy recording. Yeah, regarding the beginning, Dave has a very wry/dark British sense of humour. That comes across occasionally in the music. There is a reference to Monty Python in one of their songs, even.
As mentioned by others the main vocalist does all the album vocals. At some points there are like 5 or 6 vocal tracks at any given time. He has a great range including an impressive falsetto that shows up once in a while. Post-processing is used on some of those layers too to provide effects. Since you asked about the lyrical content it's indeed generally dark/apocalyptic. On the most recent album (Endarkenment) they did actually publish some lyrics finally - which in the case of the title track are a critique of the increasing modern rejection of enlightenment principles (well worth watching the video).
In terms of clean vocals probably only about 1/3 of their songs have them, but there is usually a sense of melody among the chaos provided by some aspect in either the chorus or verse even with no clean vocals present ('Of Fire and Fucking Pigs' and 'Make Glorious the Embrace of Saturn' from this same album, Vanitas, are good examples of that). I think Vanitas would be the best choice of AN album for a full reaction in terms of showcasing a lot of aspects of their core sound, but you could make a strong case for a number of their albums.
Seen them live several times and their live show is all about ferocity and brutality
The studio work is a lot more channeled and subtle ( in comparison).
You do need to listen to the studio version, there are some fantastic riffs and melody in the track
Bands with unique screaming vocals
Textures- stream of consciousness
Psykup- your vision
Sikth- pussyfoot
Vildhjarta- brannmarkt
Five star prison cell- M
Job for a cowboy- entombment of a machine
Probably already done it but lorna shore- to the hellfire
Lorne Shore is definitely gonna be part of this week! Checked out To The Hellfire last year so this time it'll be Sun//Eater
@@CriticalReactions I will check out your reaction to it then, a lot of the other bands are less known but defo worth checking out especially for their unique vocal skills.
You should listen studio recording-there is one vocalist in the band :)
Yeah, they don't post lyrics, and there's an entire Facebook group dedicated to their songs' lyrics research
That's dedication! I'm also flabbergasted that anyone can make out words from the sounds they produce, but that just goes to show how awesome people can be :)
They have started publishing some lyrics on their most recent couple albums. Kind of dug the mystery when all you had was some thematically related liner notes and what you could piece together from the more comprehensible portions.
Interesting band. :P
Sorry to say the sound quality (and some out of key cleans) mostly ruined it for me with this take. Good choice of band for the theme.
Looked up the unspeakable line..... yep not UA-cam friendly lol
Came back to edit comment after submiting PayPal request but don't see the original so here's the low-down. One of my favorite singers is Darya Ravdina who's trademark is probably her fry scream although she has a lovely soft melodic voice as well. Here she is in studio. Amatory ft. RAVDINA-In Flame ua-cam.com/video/8sxrk7KAllo/v-deo.html enjoy
I'll have to check them out. I've never heard of RAVDINA but I'm quite interested given your description.
@@CriticalReactions Thanks. A little info. Darya Ravdina is from St. Petersaberg, RU. Like almost half a million so far, she has fled Russia and is in process of immigrating to Turkey. Has new music ready to drop when she can get paperwork and payment methods worked out. Her songs are mostly in English and very catchy. In fact the first time I heard her sing I assumed she was from the mid-west. Her many collaborations are a rabbit hole to be investigated by those who get hooked. I got hooked.
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since you reacted to bad quality recording, you have to make another reaction to anaal nathrakh, i don't make the rules 😏
this is too intense for me i would have loved some opeth like silence/ acoustic section to contrast how heavy their screams are. it would have hit a thousand times harder
These guys are best in the studio. His screams are off the charts when recording but I don't think that he can recreate them live with regularity without damaging his vocal cords. Def better off hearing the studio.
Full circle, Hold Your Children Close was the first video I watched on your channel. I appreciate the goal of having a live version but this video really was terrible lol. I think you'll find that they use almost a pop level of processing though, no lo-fi here. Just a wall of sound extreme metal style
I love Anaal Nathrakh, but it´s really hard to find good live recordings that are at least equal to the album recordings. Usually they are just inferior in all ways.
With regards to why Anaal Nathrakh don't post lyrics (the details may not be accurate as it's been a few years). I was in the 'Nathrakh Lyric Research' facebook fan group. Around when their 'Endarkenment' album came out, they stated they didn't post lyrics previously because they didn't want to get sued from the lyrical content, and although they do support fans theorising what the lyrics are, they do have a problem with people posting lyrics and being mislabeled as official lyrics when it is inaccurate. So now in the facebook group, you have to sign an NDA to not post these theorised lyrics anywhere else if you want access to the lyric documents.
Although I do like their music, what I believe to be a stupid reason for not posting lyrics and the lengths fans has to go through now to theorise the lyrics leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Anaal Nathrakh did some industrial black metal early but this song does not have the atmosphere of black metal.
Who could possibly recommend to you that horrible live show!!! jajajaja Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Anaal Nathrakh fan, but sadly they sound better in the studio. Maybe they need a better sound engineer in live shows jejeje, I don't know.
Thrashy / grindcore black metal, I'd say.
Standard black metal... definitively not
If Cryptopsy isn't on this week, he's failed as a "youtuber"......which might be a good thing?......lol
I'll be the first to admit I'm a terrible 'youtuber' 😅
I was unsubbed because of your trash reaction of Burzum but i can't help myself to not click on Anaal Nathrakh. They are blackened grindcore. Hopefully you don't disappoint this time.
What a shitty comment
Didn't find that reaction interesting too, but it's not like he has to make them pleasing to anyone.
so basically you condemn a channel because they didn't like a song as much as you did?
Lol this has "I'm leaving Facebook" vibes.
@@antongerasin3871 He deleted it.