i already knew that hellfire is a masterpiece, but your masterwork of an video essay gives me so much more insight about the intricacy of the albums themes and plotlines. i think more bands should try to build up their own 'cinematic universe' with their music. it just makes their art so much more interesting. e.g. i already spend way to much time on deciphering the complicated themes of ants from up there (my favourite album of all time) and in the process grew to adore this album even more. i'm personally excited for the new hmltd rn. it seems like this album is going to deliver their take on human greed in a similar fashion.
i like people who care about music but i LOVE people who care about the same music i care about and make 55 minute video essays about it-thank you for your analysis and all of the contextual info! Also, gotta hand it to AI... these visuals are sick. I enjoyed trying to guess what prompts you fed it for the different lyrics/characters. great video!
Thanks for making this analysis! The idea of making a video essay about the album's concepts and themes has always intrigued me. Really glad that you took the time and effort to create this video.
I had it saved for a week now and holy SHIT Hellfire is by far my favourite album of the year and this video has given me so much insight into it goddamn. Impressively edited, impressively scripted, impressively all put together. Fuck man I hope UA-cam brings this up
i'm glad you appreciate the transition between sugar/tzu and eat men eat as much as i do! i was smiling ear to ear when i first heard it. absolute perfection. excellent video btw! this is so insanely slept on that it's criminal
Outstanding video! I loved your insight into themes of toxic masculinity and exploitation. So many men around the world need to hear and internalize the fact that toxic masculinity furthers the suffering of not only women, but men too. Also the epilogue made me laugh my ass off. 🔥
Exactly! I feel like the suffering of men under toxic masculinity is sometimes forgotten, when it can be so damn poisonous to them too. Thanks for watching the video and for your kind comment!
wow this is incredible!! i adore this album and always hoped someone would make a video essay about it, thankfully my recommended showed me this today :)
Man this video was amazing. I wish all my favorite albums got an in-depth analysis to this level. I do much prefer these kinds of videos over the more evaluative review based content. I guess I feel reflection is just way more productive and entertaining, than purely judging the music. Also, I would absolutely love if you could cover one of the more conceptual King Gizzard albums in the future, as I’ve seen you’re a fan of them too.
As much as I could gather a lot of the meaning from endless listening of the album since July, I would never have known quite how deep it goes. Some of the meaning with Eat men Eat for example is just fucking genius, I always chalked it up to a similar meaning to the music video, not anywhere close to what I imagined. I pray Lp4 has a continuation of this format with spralling storylines and odd-ball characters just because of this video. Awesome work man, please make more, am waiting patiently. Also love the silent hill music at the start and the inscryption cards, really good use of flipping the assets :)
I haven't listened to them yet, but i planned on doing that this week, go through their discography real quick. Everything I have heard so far I've loved.
@@Heinos_music just, sit in a chair, and blair to be kind on some speakers front to back. wont be disappointed. soundtracks for the blind is great too, especially the track helpless child, i also rate the seer/my father will guide me a rope back to the sky
This video was incredible, you've got yourself a new subscriber. I've been listening to Black Midi constantly for almost a month now (Their performance of "Marlene Dietrich" at Soup Studios was in my recommendations). They're quickly becoming one of my all time favorite bands. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video, it was a fascinating and incredible watch. I love video essays and analyses so much, particularly about music! I look forward to watching your other videos, and any videos you post in the future! Also, the way you described the transition from "Sugar/Tzu" to "Eat Men Eat" was spot on! I am constantly replaying it lol
Honestly, I'm not very advanced at editing, I just spend a lot of time doing it. For everything in my videos I ask the question of what the audience needs to feel at that moment in the narrative, and since I am a visual thinker, the concept of how that will look like is easy for me to create. Having a tight grasp on your imagination and creativity is much more important than "skill" or "talent", anyone can do it. So try it!
just gonna comment so this video goes to more people - amazing super detailed and amazing video i couldn't believe you have less than a thousand subscribers. If this video doesn't blow up, keep it going because you have something incredible here
i'm so late to this, but this video is a masterpiece! the ai graphic design of it all is so impressive and mesmerizing, almost nauseating at times but in a beautiful manner. i truly can't wait for the next video
This was a fantastic watch. The AI-visuals alongside the analysis of each track was absolutely riveting. Hellfire has slowly but surely become one of my favourite albums of all time and i'm glad a video like this and Professor Skye's analysis of the album for example exist because that not only more gives me more Hellfire-related content to watch but also gives me new insight into ideas and themes that i didn't think about while listening to the album. I hope this video does well and that you continue to make more great content in the future!
@@Heinos_music one constructive criticism could be that i couldn’t read the words because the AI backround would consume it. of course this isn’t your fault amazing video
@@owenf2835 yeah, it was a hard balance. I didn't want the lyrics to obstruct the visuals too much. Everyone's screen is different, it looked good to me haha. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
Amazing video! Your AI visuals were vividly insane enough to perfectly encapsulate the emotions of Hellfire which is an amazing accomplishment in itself. I also loved the Inscryption art style in Act I, I never would've thought to associate that game with this album but the aesthetic similarities make a lot of sense! Keep up the great work this channel is gonna do numbers I have a hunch 💪
Absolutely loved this! I usually just leave video essays on as background noise but this one I had to watch all the way through. The way you use AI to visualize the lyrics is captivating. I always thought of 27Q as more of piss-take on Freddie, damning him and making fun of him for even attempting to find meaning in life after all the ugliness of the rest of the album. That said, your interpretation makes me think there’s a parallel to be drawn between Freddie and Markus from Ascending Forth. They’re kind of opposites, in a way.
That you for the kind words! And I think that its a deliberate choice that both of the closing tracks are about the creation process. I think that ascending forth and 27 questions are probably the closest we'll get to getting fully personal stories about the band. Just a hunch though.
I want to make a video, alike this, with so many records! This is such a great watch! You know you've done a great job with this, when it has me entertained enough to relisten to the album, with the concepts in mind!
@@Heinos_music concept albums that'd fit very well in this format (also just to list recommendations/personal favorites, that you can enjoy): No NOW (2015) & Leave Earth (2016 - 2018 Compilation) - Clarence Clarity No World (As Good As Mine) (2019) & Quiet As Kept, F.O.G. (2022) - Kai Whiston Ceres & Calypso In the Deep Time (2013) - Candy Claws YOU'RE DEAD (2014) - Flying Lotus Tyranny (2014) - The Voidz Alban B. Clay (2012) - The Slaughterhouse 5 Swing Lo Magellan (2011) - Dirty Projectors - pretty much every record from - The Mars Volta Everything Everything Clipping. Etc.
I used a range of AI programs and systems to create the visuals. Dall-E, stable diffusion, vqgan, midjourney and others. I upscaled most footage with Topaz Video AI and Flowframes. My opinions on AI visuals have changed quite a bit after the video came out, if I were to do the video again I would've created custom databases with copyright free visual works, and based the AI systems on those. To not infringe on the work of actual artists.
I followed a lot of guides, it has a bit of a learning curve but nothing too crazy. I did spend well over 100+ hours to render all these shots, it's very time consuming.
Interesting. I mean I think that 27 Questions is ultimately about redemption, and it's clear there is no moral ambiguity going on eith Freddy's character, he's clearly deeply flawed. So a murder would fit with his character, do you happen to have a source for me?
@Heinos_music sorry it was years ago, don't even remember the website it was so far back, it was a written interview anyway, I think they band were asked if they related to any characters from the album and Geordie said something about probably Freddie frost but that he hadn't murdered anyone so it was hard to relate. If it's any help finding the interview I'm pretty sure he mentioned couples slow dancing to the defense when they played it live
I'd love to, and there is a lot of narrative qualities that have a lot of overlap with this video. It's an excellent album that I love very much. For now I'm too stuck with other projects that mean more to me, but I might talk about it in depth later on, hopefully.
@@Heinos_music If you ever did ones on those records I'd love to see the AI imagery and animation come back, it's neat how you can tell the animation flows with the words of your script. I also like their first two records way more (Cavalcade being my favorite), but I also know you said this took a lot of work and it certainly looks so.
If Freddie was destined for heaven, why did he blow up red like hell and explode in agony while the music becomes more demented? Did I miss something? I get the 27ish questions were touching and hopeful but the ending was so bleaked it seemed to suggest something damning of him in the end to have such a sad death.
Since his death was hinted at with the "last will live on stage" line, that implies that Freddie knew his death was coming, like an illness getting the best of him or something. and the existential questions that he poses evokes an image of a dying man grasping at his last chance for making art, at least that's how I interpreted it.
I would love a video on ants from up there, Im pretty sure bc,nr said the album is a loose concept P.s. I’m sorry if my recommendation came off as rude. I love this video sm and you gained a subscriber
It didn't come off as rude at all, It is on my to do list, but not soon. Hopefully somewhere next year, I love the record to bits. I feel like the concept on that record is much easier to grasp for me than Hellfire is at points. I will cover it in my top albums of 2022 video, so you'll hear me talk about it in some depth then. Thanks for watching and welcome!
@@dirtyrat6493 definitely. I do love the album a lot, and I really want to do a video on it one day. But yeah, I'd want to tackle it in a long form video, and for right now I want to pump out some 15-20 min vids. For the sake of my sanity haha
Look on any vinyl retailer site selling Hellfire, they have this in the description: "Artwork was created by David Rudnick (who's done the artwork for all previous black midi albums as well), using AI technology into which he fed lyrics from the album to generate imagery which was then printed, cut up and reconfigured into a detailed and complex collage. " Unfortunately lost the research file for this project, I can't remember where this quote originates from.
Thorough and insightful, my one criticism being I’m not sure if the band’s intentions were as politically progressive as you credit them for, Cam’s orientation considered.
Maybe they weren't. I'm very progressive myself, so the album is viewed through my very left wing perspective. In essence this video essay is not inherently factual or accurate to the ideas of the artist, this is just my interpretation of their art. I think everyone who "criticizes" or "analyses" art is inherently susceptible to bias. It's hard for me to grasp where my bias shines through. I purposely don't involve other people in my writing process, to make my work more uniquely "mine", but that has the side effect of my bias getting in the way of things. I'm human after all haha. Very fair criticism. Definitely something for me to pay more attention to next time around, thanks!
@@Heinos_music not that my criticism of your analysis is bias free. I’m an American Liberal Dem with social and cultural convictions closer to Russel Brand and Eric Weinstein, so critical of the contemporary pc bullet points. At any rate, thx for the thoughtful reply.
while i totally understand why they used ai generated imagery, that whole collage style got old really quick to me - i get the point, they’re chaotic blah blah blah, schlagenheim did it better and made a much more striking cover. i feel like there’s so much going on in the hellfire and maybe calcade covers that they’re just kind of boring. idk, wish they did something new and more memorable
Nothing touches the Schlagenheim cover. Honestly while I love the cover, and I prefer it over the Cavalcade cover, I think my feelings on the use of AI has soured my opinions on it as well. This video was made during a sort of calm before the storm period in terms of the moral discourse of AI, and I to be honest was relatively misinformed when it comes to that moral ambiguity. If I were to have made this video again, I'd have done it differently, shining more light on those issues.
@Heinos_music Yeah, that's fair. Just said what i was thinking, and even though you did use AI generated images, the editing was top notch enough to not make "for the sake of matching the album aesthetics" feel like some sort of excuse. Still a good video, and sorry if that came across as some sort of attack.
@@tioraidh-tux It definitely didn't, don't worry. I see it as valid criticism for sure. On top of that I'm not suprised by this at all, I've been thinking about it ever since the video came out. I think for me I would've changed it in hindsight, but for the rest I still view it as me expressing my adoration and love for that record in a way that I found myself resonating with. I won't be able to change anything about it, I won't take down the video obviously, all I can do is not make the same kind of mistakes later on in other projects and think more critically with what I say and do on this platform. My next big video project, is the exact opposite style of the Hellfire video partly for this exact reason. I don't need to rely on this crutch of randomly generated stuff to make meaningful and great things, I'm fully capable of doing that all on my own.
I can definitely understand that, believe me. I was expecting more people to say this to be honest. I did write it in a way that it could be listened to in the background, without all the visuals. So if you still want to experience the video you can do that if you want to! I always try to make my videos accessible, but for me the style of a video is always more important than accessibility. It's a hard balance to keep for me, the next video I'm working on already has more of a focus on that balance.
There's never been a more black midi-fied video than this. The graphics are mind-blowingly perfect.
Thank you!!
wow this is so impressive i hope the algorithm can pick this up
You and me both haha, thanks for watching!
Jesus.. what a banger of a video!! Hellfire is my favorite album ever, so this is my favorite video ever now. Thank you for the hard work!!
Ah, thank you so much! Hellfire is high up my list as well!
i already knew that hellfire is a masterpiece, but your masterwork of an video essay gives me so much more insight about the intricacy of the albums themes and plotlines.
i think more bands should try to build up their own 'cinematic universe' with their music. it just makes their art so much more interesting. e.g. i already spend way to much time on deciphering the complicated themes of ants from up there (my favourite album of all time) and in the process grew to adore this album even more.
i'm personally excited for the new hmltd rn. it seems like this album is going to deliver their take on human greed in a similar fashion.
The new HMLTD single is fucking incredible
i like people who care about music but i LOVE people who care about the same music i care about and make 55 minute video essays about it-thank you for your analysis and all of the contextual info! Also, gotta hand it to AI... these visuals are sick. I enjoyed trying to guess what prompts you fed it for the different lyrics/characters. great video!
Thank you so much for the kind words! Means a lot!
Thanks for making this analysis! The idea of making a video essay about the album's concepts and themes has always intrigued me. Really glad that you took the time and effort to create this video.
Thank you for watching. The album is worth all of the work i put into the video, love love love the music.
By the way, love the bm covers on your channel, thought i recognized the profile picture
Havent even watched a full 10min yet but im commenting to help boost this ❤️
Thank you!
Same here (hope replies help lol)
I had it saved for a week now and holy SHIT Hellfire is by far my favourite album of the year and this video has given me so much insight into it goddamn. Impressively edited, impressively scripted, impressively all put together. Fuck man I hope UA-cam brings this up
Thank you so much! It means a lot!
i'm glad you appreciate the transition between sugar/tzu and eat men eat as much as i do! i was smiling ear to ear when i first heard it. absolute perfection.
excellent video btw! this is so insanely slept on that it's criminal
I still feel that rush every listen. Captivating as hell(fire).
Thanks for watching!
Outstanding video! I loved your insight into themes of toxic masculinity and exploitation. So many men around the world need to hear and internalize the fact that toxic masculinity furthers the suffering of not only women, but men too. Also the epilogue made me laugh my ass off. 🔥
Exactly! I feel like the suffering of men under toxic masculinity is sometimes forgotten, when it can be so damn poisonous to them too.
Thanks for watching the video and for your kind comment!
This is the most underrated video ive ever seen. Hope the algrothim bless this
Thanks for watching and thank you for the kind words!
Thanks for that analysis! This deserves more views.
Thank you for watching!
This might be the best video I ever watched on UA-cam. I'm baffled by the amount of work that you put into this.
Wow! Thank you so much, it means a lot!
Have to second this, this video is incredibly profound
@@XxAirocker08xX thank you so much!
Came here from reddit! Great video!
Thank youuu
The quality of this video is super impressive- hope it blows up
Thanks so much, it means a lot!
Replying also hoping this blows up and gets interaction points
very rarely do i watch an hour long video essay and then immediately hit replay
Wow! That's great to hear, thank you for watching!
3:07 if those cards are an inscryption reference thats a huge w, i havent looked back on the game for a while but the font/border reminded me of it
I'm glad you noticed, yes they are! Wanted the vibe of that section to be similar to Inscryption.
Literally a dream video, thank you for making this man. I’ve wanted an analysis and this puts together the last few pieces I couldn’t do
Glad you enjoyed it!
wow this is incredible!! i adore this album and always hoped someone would make a video essay about it, thankfully my recommended showed me this today :)
Thank you so much for watching!
Fantastic video homie. Well done
Thank you!!
Man this video was amazing. I wish all my favorite albums got an in-depth analysis to this level. I do much prefer these kinds of videos over the more evaluative review based content. I guess I feel reflection is just way more productive and entertaining, than purely judging the music.
Also, I would absolutely love if you could cover one of the more conceptual King Gizzard albums in the future, as I’ve seen you’re a fan of them too.
Thank you! My next video will be about King Gizz, and I want to make a Polygondwanaland video sometime in the future as well
ua-cam.com/video/vIRZ26CsnmI/v-deo.html
Gizz video is out now!
@@Heinos_music I saw it, great work!
this is a beautiful video. thank you for sharing :)) now to persuade my friends to get into black midi so they can understand all this lmao
Thanks for watching!
Believe me I've been there, my friends are sick of me talking about them.
As much as I could gather a lot of the meaning from endless listening of the album since July, I would never have known quite how deep it goes. Some of the meaning with Eat men Eat for example is just fucking genius, I always chalked it up to a similar meaning to the music video, not anywhere close to what I imagined. I pray Lp4 has a continuation of this format with spralling storylines and odd-ball characters just because of this video. Awesome work man, please make more, am waiting patiently.
Also love the silent hill music at the start and the inscryption cards, really good use of flipping the assets :)
Thank you so much, it means a lot! I also love this style of songwriting and would love to see more of it on lp4.
@@Heinos_music if you haven't done, you should give swans a listen
I haven't listened to them yet, but i planned on doing that this week, go through their discography real quick.
Everything I have heard so far I've loved.
@@Heinos_music just, sit in a chair, and blair to be kind on some speakers front to back. wont be disappointed.
soundtracks for the blind is great too, especially the track helpless child, i also rate the seer/my father will guide me a rope back to the sky
@@cigarettespliff was planning on doing exactly that haha, I'll let you know what I think
This must be your album of the year to have done such a deep and extensive analysis. Excellent work
Bingo
@@Heinos_music what's your favourite song from each black midi album? For me is Of Schlagenheim, Ascending Forth and Sugar/Tzu
@@oranjoe69 great question! For me it has to be Ducter, Diamond Stuff and Still
Just got recommended this video, not sure why it wasn't before. Absolutely amazing analysis, and editing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is the perfect video for explaining my reasoning behind thinking this is a 10/10 album
Yeah, an easy 10/10.
Damn great analysis and incredible visuals. Awesome stuff!
Thank you so much!
Super high-effort video, you deserve so much more views... Continue your work and an audience is sure to follow!
Thank you! Will do!
This video was incredible, you've got yourself a new subscriber. I've been listening to Black Midi constantly for almost a month now (Their performance of "Marlene Dietrich" at Soup Studios was in my recommendations). They're quickly becoming one of my all time favorite bands. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video, it was a fascinating and incredible watch. I love video essays and analyses so much, particularly about music! I look forward to watching your other videos, and any videos you post in the future!
Also, the way you described the transition from "Sugar/Tzu" to "Eat Men Eat" was spot on! I am constantly replaying it lol
Thank you so much!!!
your job is inspiring in much ways... I want to have at least half the talent you have editing
Honestly, I'm not very advanced at editing, I just spend a lot of time doing it. For everything in my videos I ask the question of what the audience needs to feel at that moment in the narrative, and since I am a visual thinker, the concept of how that will look like is easy for me to create.
Having a tight grasp on your imagination and creativity is much more important than "skill" or "talent", anyone can do it. So try it!
this video essay is AMAZING!! thank you so much for making this, i've sent this to everyone i know who's listened to Hellfire lmao.
Wow, thank you!
Holy sh. This is one of the best things I have ever seen.
Thank you so much! It means a lot!
Hellfire is such a brilliant album. Thank you for your stellar analysis!
Glad you enjoyed it!
this is my favourite video of all time now
Thanks for watching! This means a lot!
so glad this got recommended to me!! i already loved the album so much and now i love it so much more!!!!
Thanks for watching!
This is one of my new favorite video essays holy shit
Thank you so much!
SICK video, loved it to bits
Thanks for watching!
just gonna comment so this video goes to more people - amazing super detailed and amazing video i couldn't believe you have less than a thousand subscribers. If this video doesn't blow up, keep it going because you have something incredible here
Thank you so much!
i'm so late to this, but this video is a masterpiece! the ai graphic design of it all is so impressive and mesmerizing, almost nauseating at times but in a beautiful manner. i truly can't wait for the next video
Thank you so much!
Great vid! Love this album so much
Thank you!
This video is insane, by far the best album analysis I've ever seen. (Cavalcade review?)
Wow, thank you so much!
I covered Cavalcade in my Top Albums of 2021 video. No plans to do a cav video as of now
@@Heinos_music Got it, I'll definitely watch that
This was a fantastic watch. The AI-visuals alongside the analysis of each track was absolutely riveting. Hellfire has slowly but surely become one of my favourite albums of all time and i'm glad a video like this and Professor Skye's analysis of the album for example exist because that not only more gives me more Hellfire-related content to watch but also gives me new insight into ideas and themes that i didn't think about while listening to the album. I hope this video does well and that you continue to make more great content in the future!
Thank youuu! I love skye's content as well!
@@Heinos_music one constructive criticism could be that i couldn’t read the words because the AI backround would consume it. of course this isn’t your fault amazing video
@@owenf2835 yeah, it was a hard balance. I didn't want the lyrics to obstruct the visuals too much. Everyone's screen is different, it looked good to me haha. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
theres an interview of geordie telling someone that schlagenhein means roughly : just in time
Wutt? Never heard about that! Do you happen to have a link?
Yet another absolute banger
Thanks for watching!
I love the inclusion of the hollow knight soundtrack, it pairs really nicely with everything being discussed
Yeah, always fantastic music to put in videos
this is insanely underrated! really helped flesh out the different themes of hellfire, and the visuals suit the content of the album :)
Thanks!
I really enjoyed watching your video! It was well-produced and had some great content. Keep up the good work, I can't wait to see more from you!
Thank you so much!
What a great analysis. Thank you for this
Thank you for watching!
This video is amazing
Thanks for watching !
omg this video was awesome, really liked the visuals and the analysis! one of my favourite albums, glad this video did it justice
Thanks!
Amazing video! Your AI visuals were vividly insane enough to perfectly encapsulate the emotions of Hellfire which is an amazing accomplishment in itself. I also loved the Inscryption art style in Act I, I never would've thought to associate that game with this album but the aesthetic similarities make a lot of sense! Keep up the great work this channel is gonna do numbers I have a hunch 💪
Thanks a ton!!
not to be that guy but this vid should have way more views
Yeah! UA-cam step up your game
this is incredible
Thanks for watching!
ah yes, the greatest album of all time
Have you even heard Sorry For Party Rocking by LMFAO? Much better than than Hellfire.
This is gonna be good
I hope so
@@Heinos_music finished, amazing analysis
Absolutely loved this! I usually just leave video essays on as background noise but this one I had to watch all the way through. The way you use AI to visualize the lyrics is captivating.
I always thought of 27Q as more of piss-take on Freddie, damning him and making fun of him for even attempting to find meaning in life after all the ugliness of the rest of the album. That said, your interpretation makes me think there’s a parallel to be drawn between Freddie and Markus from Ascending Forth. They’re kind of opposites, in a way.
That you for the kind words!
And I think that its a deliberate choice that both of the closing tracks are about the creation process. I think that ascending forth and 27 questions are probably the closest we'll get to getting fully personal stories about the band. Just a hunch though.
Thank you for this
Thank you for watching!
This is incredible man! Congrats on this amazing piece of work!
Thanks for watching!
this video is so underrated. kudos
Thank you!
I want to make a video, alike this, with so many records! This is such a great watch!
You know you've done a great job with this, when it has me entertained enough to relisten to the album, with the concepts in mind!
Do it! Make those videos! And send me them when you're done I'll watch all of them.
@@Heinos_music concept albums that'd fit very well in this format
(also just to list recommendations/personal favorites, that you can enjoy):
No NOW (2015)
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Leave Earth (2016 - 2018 Compilation)
- Clarence Clarity
No World (As Good As Mine) (2019)
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Quiet As Kept, F.O.G. (2022) - Kai Whiston
Ceres & Calypso In the Deep Time (2013) - Candy Claws
YOU'RE DEAD (2014) - Flying Lotus
Tyranny (2014) - The Voidz
Alban B. Clay (2012) - The Slaughterhouse 5
Swing Lo Magellan (2011) - Dirty Projectors
- pretty much every record from -
The Mars Volta
Everything Everything
Clipping.
Etc.
Oh, and Joltjacket (2021) - Ehiorobo
If cannot already tell, I don't know where to start with this series, lmao
@@swafty5813 love a lot of these records. I'm very interested in making a clipping video, perhaps for Halloween someday!
Great list!
amazing video!! may i ask which site/tool you used for the AI vizualizers? they're so trippy i love them
I used a range of AI programs and systems to create the visuals. Dall-E, stable diffusion, vqgan, midjourney and others. I upscaled most footage with Topaz Video AI and Flowframes.
My opinions on AI visuals have changed quite a bit after the video came out, if I were to do the video again I would've created custom databases with copyright free visual works, and based the AI systems on those. To not infringe on the work of actual artists.
incredible video
Thank you so much!
Brilliant thank you for dis!
My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed!
really enjoy watching this analysis video😍thx for ur great effort
Thanks for watching!
The imagery in this video is so good, how did you create the visuals at 6:45? I love the effect but have no idea how to create something like that
The visuals for this vid were made with Dall-E, stable diffusion, vqgan, artbreeder and midjourney.
@@Heinos_music amazing, did you follow any sort of guide on how to create these? Is it as complicated as it looks?
I followed a lot of guides, it has a bit of a learning curve but nothing too crazy. I did spend well over 100+ hours to render all these shots, it's very time consuming.
fantastic video, this was beyond amazing
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love this video so much man. Thank u for such amazing content… pls do one for Cavalcade
Thank you so much for watching! I might do one for Cavalcade some day! Lots of projects in the pipeline
silent hill soundtrack such a perfect choice of background music
Akira Yamaoka is a genius
great video
Thanks!
this vid is epic
Thank yee
omg if you can do more video essays for the other bm albums I will love you forever
Haha maybe in the future. I did a section on Cavalcade in my Top Albums of 2021 video that you might get a kick out of.
I’ve been recently forming a theory surrounding the overall story of hellfire and I’m forming it in a Google doc
Ohhh interesting! Be sure to share it when you're done.
I think I read in an interview before the album Geordie said Freddy frost murdered a man
Interesting. I mean I think that 27 Questions is ultimately about redemption, and it's clear there is no moral ambiguity going on eith Freddy's character, he's clearly deeply flawed. So a murder would fit with his character, do you happen to have a source for me?
@Heinos_music sorry it was years ago, don't even remember the website it was so far back, it was a written interview anyway, I think they band were asked if they related to any characters from the album and Geordie said something about probably Freddie frost but that he hadn't murdered anyone so it was hard to relate. If it's any help finding the interview I'm pretty sure he mentioned couples slow dancing to the defense when they played it live
An amazing video, never been more enthralled! You should do a video on Cavalcade and Schlagenheim
Maybe in the future! I did cover Cavalcade in my Top Albums of 2021 video.
that video is simpy amazing
Thank you!!
how does this only have 4k views wtf
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I cant even look at the graphics make me think im trippin fr
You are. Wake up
Great video, thank you. What is the background music track in Act 1?
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Claw Finger by Akira Yamaoka, Silent Hill 1 Soundtrack. The whole soundtrack is phenomenal.
dear god how were those visuals made? its incredible
AI generated stuff. Took about 150 hours of rendering. I'm glad you enjoyed
are you gonna make an analysis video on The New Sound? 😝
I'd love to, and there is a lot of narrative qualities that have a lot of overlap with this video. It's an excellent album that I love very much. For now I'm too stuck with other projects that mean more to me, but I might talk about it in depth later on, hopefully.
I really enjoyed it
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I’d love to see you do videos on Schlagenheim and Cavalcade
Maybe someday! I did cover cavalcade in my top 10 albums of 2021 video.
@@Heinos_music If you ever did ones on those records I'd love to see the AI imagery and animation come back, it's neat how you can tell the animation flows with the words of your script. I also like their first two records way more (Cavalcade being my favorite), but I also know you said this took a lot of work and it certainly looks so.
If Freddie was destined for heaven, why did he blow up red like hell and explode in agony while the music becomes more demented? Did I miss something? I get the 27ish questions were touching and hopeful but the ending was so bleaked it seemed to suggest something damning of him in the end to have such a sad death.
Since his death was hinted at with the "last will live on stage" line, that implies that Freddie knew his death was coming, like an illness getting the best of him or something. and the existential questions that he poses evokes an image of a dying man grasping at his last chance for making art, at least that's how I interpreted it.
I would love a video on ants from up there, Im pretty sure bc,nr said the album is a loose concept
P.s. I’m sorry if my recommendation came off as rude. I love this video sm and you gained a subscriber
It didn't come off as rude at all, It is on my to do list, but not soon. Hopefully somewhere next year, I love the record to bits. I feel like the concept on that record is much easier to grasp for me than Hellfire is at points.
I will cover it in my top albums of 2022 video, so you'll hear me talk about it in some depth then.
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@@Heinos_music yeah, hellfire is like a ginormous epic while ants from up there is a relatable tragedy known as love many people go through.
@@dirtyrat6493 definitely. I do love the album a lot, and I really want to do a video on it one day. But yeah, I'd want to tackle it in a long form video, and for right now I want to pump out some 15-20 min vids. For the sake of my sanity haha
Love the creativity and thoughtfulness of this! Could you do a breakdown of Tyler The Creator’s recent output (e.g., Sorry Not Sorry)?
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I have a lot of stuff in the backlog rn in terms of video ideas. Maybe one day.
wait where did you find Cameron and geordie talking about the plot
If you're referring to the plot of Eat Men Eat, in this stereogum interview:
www.stereogum.com/2190077/black-midi-eat-men-eat/music/
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but what did half time really mean
Brb, makin another 55 min video, analysing half time's true meaning
50:24 I always thought Sugar/Tzu was Pride because he killed Sun Sugar to become famous but Envy works too.
Exactly, the traits are so easily applicable to any song on this album that I'm just not convinced that they were based on them at all.
@@Heinos_music yeah that’s a pretty good interpretation of the album actually
hey man would it be cool if you could provide me w a source for David Rudnick using ai, trying to find one but cant.
Look on any vinyl retailer site selling Hellfire, they have this in the description:
"Artwork was created by David Rudnick (who's done the artwork for all previous black midi albums as well), using AI technology into which he fed lyrics from the album to generate imagery which was then printed, cut up and reconfigured into a detailed and complex collage. "
Unfortunately lost the research file for this project, I can't remember where this quote originates from.
@@Heinos_music thanks man I appreciate it 👍👍👍
No problem!
Can you make an analysis on cavalcade
Id love to some day! I did cover it in my "Top Albums of 2021" video!
Thorough and insightful, my one criticism being I’m not sure if the band’s intentions were as politically progressive as you credit them for, Cam’s orientation considered.
Maybe they weren't. I'm very progressive myself, so the album is viewed through my very left wing perspective.
In essence this video essay is not inherently factual or accurate to the ideas of the artist, this is just my interpretation of their art. I think everyone who "criticizes" or "analyses" art is inherently susceptible to bias. It's hard for me to grasp where my bias shines through. I purposely don't involve other people in my writing process, to make my work more uniquely "mine", but that has the side effect of my bias getting in the way of things. I'm human after all haha.
Very fair criticism. Definitely something for me to pay more attention to next time around, thanks!
@@Heinos_music not that my criticism of your analysis is bias free. I’m an American Liberal Dem with social and cultural convictions closer to Russel Brand and Eric Weinstein, so critical of the contemporary pc bullet points. At any rate, thx for the thoughtful reply.
@@MrPencilcelebs thank you for the valid criticism, these kinds of comments make me evaluate my writing more thoroughly so I sincerely appreciate it.
It was released July 15th I believe..Without wanting to be knit-picky
I said that tho
@@Heinos_music you did.. wtfff was I hearing last night?
I guess you’re a fan of high boi, right?
@@iTzAtaXi lmao we've all been there
I've watched a couple vids of the dude yeah
Hi, great video but please do the content warnings without using an AI, these are unreadable on a TV or for color blind people.
Very fair! Thanks for pointing that out!
while i totally understand why they used ai generated imagery, that whole collage style got old really quick to me - i get the point, they’re chaotic blah blah blah, schlagenheim did it better and made a much more striking cover. i feel like there’s so much going on in the hellfire and maybe calcade covers that they’re just kind of boring. idk, wish they did something new and more memorable
Nothing touches the Schlagenheim cover.
Honestly while I love the cover, and I prefer it over the Cavalcade cover, I think my feelings on the use of AI has soured my opinions on it as well.
This video was made during a sort of calm before the storm period in terms of the moral discourse of AI, and I to be honest was relatively misinformed when it comes to that moral ambiguity. If I were to have made this video again, I'd have done it differently, shining more light on those issues.
@Heinos_music Yeah, that's fair. Just said what i was thinking, and even though you did use AI generated images, the editing was top notch enough to not make "for the sake of matching the album aesthetics" feel like some sort of excuse. Still a good video, and sorry if that came across as some sort of attack.
@@tioraidh-tux It definitely didn't, don't worry. I see it as valid criticism for sure. On top of that I'm not suprised by this at all, I've been thinking about it ever since the video came out. I think for me I would've changed it in hindsight, but for the rest I still view it as me expressing my adoration and love for that record in a way that I found myself resonating with.
I won't be able to change anything about it, I won't take down the video obviously, all I can do is not make the same kind of mistakes later on in other projects and think more critically with what I say and do on this platform.
My next big video project, is the exact opposite style of the Hellfire video partly for this exact reason. I don't need to rely on this crutch of randomly generated stuff to make meaningful and great things, I'm fully capable of doing that all on my own.
@ this video absolutely should not be taken down. keep making videos, man. you’re great 👍
Thank you for the kind words!
man, I really want to watch this video but this moving ia generate images gave me a headache, I feel dizzy. I can only stand 9 minutes. It's good tho.
I can definitely understand that, believe me. I was expecting more people to say this to be honest.
I did write it in a way that it could be listened to in the background, without all the visuals. So if you still want to experience the video you can do that if you want to!
I always try to make my videos accessible, but for me the style of a video is always more important than accessibility. It's a hard balance to keep for me, the next video I'm working on already has more of a focus on that balance.
really good video
Glad you enjoyed it