What Loathe Can Teach You About Writing Better Songs

Loathe are songwriting masters. Here's what they can teach us about writing better songs with a little music theory analysis. Join me as I nerd out about the music theory behind 'Aggressive Evolution.'
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[@maxalaintwo3578]

Songs like Screaming, New Faces, the self titled track and others on the Cold Sun album are other examples of the mixing of brutal hardcore riffs and airy shoegaze stuff. Peak metalcore!

[@andrewboothmusic]

Absolutely, Loathe is S tier

[@syrupickle9034]

omg i have been craving music analysis of heavier music thank you so much!!!

[@andrewboothmusic]

Thank YOU for watching! I honestly had no idea if anyone else would find this stuff interesting. What other songs/artists would you like to learn more about?

[@syrupickle9034]

@@andrewboothmusic Yeah man I really enjoy this style of content, especially on music I really like. I think any song by Hail The Sun would make a good video due to their unconventional writing style and the tastiness of their riffs.

[@andrewboothmusic]

@@syrupickle9034 I'm not too familiar with them but I'll get listening right away and see what I discover

[@coopergiesen2643]

This was great! Please do more Loathe breakdowns

[@andrewboothmusic]

Thank you! I’d love to. Any specific songs you’d like me to go over?

[@Evolji228]

@@andrewboothmusic Could you please break down "East of Eden" or "Loathe" from The Cold Sun? Thank you in advance

[@nerdyoutube7847]

I’d dig a series of these 👀 invent animate or something would be cool

[@andrewboothmusic]

Noted! I'll get to work

[@SJL9999]

Please do a breakdown of New Faces in The Dark! Loved this video and my only complaint is that it wasnt longer hahaha

[@therockaholic4009]

I’d love some swancore analysis. Not as heavy but I do enjoy the quick paced “floaty” riffs.

[@andrewboothmusic]

Could you give a few examples for me? I'm not very familiar with the genre

[@rudy5962]

​@@andrewboothmusicdance Gavin dance

[@tannerteague4595]

Great video dude, I hope you do more videos like this.

[@andrewboothmusic]

Thanks! I promise there will be more very soon

[@robman717]

That shirt look comfy as fuck

[@andrewboothmusic]

hell yeah it is

[@samuelkennedy4377]

great video format! love to hear other people's takes since I'm in the process of writing too 😤

[@ramseyomery]

really enjoyed that. thank you for sharing.

[@andrewboothmusic]

Thank you for watching and taking the time to let me know this provided some sort of value. Lots more to come

[@LimitlessPotential12]

Great video! Please release more

[@andrewboothmusic]

Thank you! Now that I know I'm not the only one who enjoys this kind of music nerd-ery, I will be making more as soon as possible

[@samsonlovesyou]

Seeing those tones coming from a strat looks wrong 😂

[@andrewboothmusic]

Hahaha, yeah, getting an actual baritone is on my to-do list but until then, pitch-shifting my grandpa guitar will have to do

[@jakey5418]

This is awesome.

[@andrewboothmusic]

You're awesome

this is super interesting

[@satanicgecko902]

Nice video man!

[@andrewboothmusic]

Thanks!

[@artessxoxo]

This is absolutely not my territory but you seem to know what your doing so 👍👍 keep at it

[@andrewboothmusic]

Thank you for the encouragement! will do

[@GCEzel]

What dis you use to pitch shift your strat? Sounds great!
Great analysis, too!

[@michaelluciano1980]

Aaaaaand sub’d

[@andrewboothmusic]

Amazing. Thank you for the support! more soon

[@mushymonk]

has anyone figured out what the sample in "is it really you" yet?😭😭

[@andrewboothmusic]

Where in the song?

[@syrupickle9034]

@@andrewboothmusic The band based the song off of an old poem they found online so the dialog being said could be something quoted directly from the poem

[@mushymonk]

@@andrewboothmusic from 3:02 to 3:29 about, the electronic-y voice saying is it really you and the dialogue before it

[@mushymonk]

@@syrupickle9034 do you know what poem that is?

[@wren4077]

Did you find it after analyzing it
or did you analyze it because you heard sm weird going on there?
Like the key the melody was in being different from the guitar, could you just hear it or did you analyze them separately and reazlied they were doing all that

[@wren4077]

I love the video and I subbed too
But I have to say this, at least for the first 10 seconds, you have a way of moving your mouth in a way that makes it look like its out of sync with the sounds its making. I cna't explain it but the first time I saw this video I thought there was a mismatch in audio and video
The second time I saw it I thought it was just intro audio overlayed to video of you talking about other stuff.
But no you're just talking lmao

[@spacedog2980]

audio and video out of sync

[@andrewboothmusic]

Thank you for the feedback. I'll work on improving that for the next video