Behold the Arctopus don't write their music on instruments | Aggressive Tendencies
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Behold the Arcotpus Warr Guitarist Colin Marston talks to Exclaim! for an Aggressive Tendencies interview segment
Read the review on Behold the Arctopus' most recent album 'Horrorscension' goo.gl/nx1aN
Interview by Denise Falzon
Filmed by Roberto Granados-Ocon
His music might be weird as fuck, but this guy is incredibly insightful. Also he's spot on with being able to make a decent living as a full time band without being part of the MTV popularity contest.
This guy came across as pretty intelligent and reasonable. I especially liked how he admitted that short albums were good for the band...as few people could really manage longer albums of it.
He's also a great studio engineer. He was fantastic to work with. I would do it again.
His work on Ken Rubenstein's "Invert & Trascend" gave that album teeth. Lots of heft.
What band?
i love everything that was just said.
I'm so honored having him on my new album.
Currently my favorite metal artist. Nearly everything he touches is brilliant
+Alexander Haddad, isn't Weasel Walter better in so many ways? :)
lol
Alexander Haddad he's a crazy unbelievable musician who make like a 6 records in his bands a year!!!
I dont hate their music, BUT I can only take it in small doses. He's spot on with his theory that the short album was a good idea, and I mean that in the most respectful way possible.
Well said!
"Make every event the most important thing." This is absoutely awesome. The other day I was talking to a friend of how I like death metal because every single second is excitement. Behold the Arctopus, listening to an album the other day; every single second of the music is an absolute adventure, and it is so awesome how it is just very continuous and non-repetitive, like just play through a section, and the next thing, and keep on going, but it is all still connected and related to each other; the instruments just reflecting and throwing stuff back at each other, and they're still all together. Not the most easy stuff to listen to at first, but as musical understanding grows, not just in tonal music, it's just really enjoyable to listen to and try to comprehend everything that is going on. Writing on paper, having that human element, I'm just kind of repeating everything this dude said... wonderful stuff, awesome musicianship.
hes just really musically wise, man. awesome
I love this guy and his music!
You should ask him out
Did you ask him??
Mr. Behold the Arctopus bass player, will you be my belated valentine?
b3r5i7a9n *mehold the farticus
Did he get back to you?
Favorite contemporary musician right here. Everything this dude touches is gold.
I really enjoyed the interview. But I can only listen to these guys in small doses.
I can't stand Behold the Arctopus but he is a very clever guy and an excellent producer. If I see his name on the credits I know it is a quality recording.
His skills in pronouncing english are equal to his skills performing the notes on a guitar: Fast, yet clear. Haha, yeah, random comment, but as a non-native speaker I really appreciate that.
so, do you like?
@@Loucrazy1yes, he like
not my thing,but i admire his conviction and honesty in this video.good luck to them :-)
Great interview. A musician's musician.
Just starting to listen to Behold..... LOVE Krallice, though, they kick basically everyone's Ass... and Colin is always very insightful in his interviews. He's obviously very smart and well-schooled in his craft, considering all the acts he records, as well. Funny hearing The Roots play in the background, but yea.. he always gives great interviews.
+deftcon1, Try Indricothere (the first two albums, the last one is of a different kind compared to what he normally does).
Indricothere III out now is awesome
I agree with like 1000% of everything he says. I've also met other musicians who got me thinking "Really? That's why you're doing this thing?" It's nice to see other musicians wanting to go their own way whether or not they earn any money from it.
Definitely, a very lucid person!
I respect all musicians despite their music I do not enjoy more then a couple minutes of these guys music but its okay I like the drummer mainly. Musically I think they are just TO complicated to be enjoyed by the common folks. which is fine they should play what they enjoy but regardless this type of music will remain underground
Just fucking grow up and learn to love polymetric, non-tonal, real music you fucking piece of shit. Let me sing a pretty melod- you know what fuck it. It is my verb-ind wish that you blow off your collective flip-offs and step on pop-tops.
Jim Beam Nobody likes behold the farticus let it go brew
Paul Allen I like Behold... the Farticus.
For me it's not that their music is too complicated, is that it sounds like they're practicing.
Wow, this guy rules. I wanna see him live or chill with him someday.
my man writing out music with a quill and pen like in ye olden days
Really interesting interview. Hadn't heard of these guys before, but after seeing this i'll definitely check out their music.
He's a modern day Bach.
I might have to reconsider BTA. Not listening to them, but as artists. I find their music chaotic and dissonance in an unpalatable way. I don't mind chaos or dissonance, most recently I've heard Twelve Foot Ninja apply it well. But it's like BTA took musical cayenne pepper and instead of using it as a spice just congealed it into a ball. It's too much for my taste.
Anyway, that said I was never sure if it was the result of ambition, lack of discretion in composing, or... just lack of skill. And hearing Colin speak I'd say it's definitely ambition. He's totally self aware of what music they make, that it will be very polarizing, and that it would be difficult to consume in large quantities. Overall he seems very insightful and while they don't make music that fits my tastes, at least they know exactly what they're doing and I can respect that.
Holy shit I’d love to play drums with these dudes
I like disturbing, derangend, weird and maybe fast metal music. Still, I can't get too much into BTA somehow, even though I know what they do must be great. But listening to Colins interviews is always interesting and inspirational.
Nico Autia they are really one of those bands that once you get it, its really worth it. Some of the most unique ideas ive heard in music
its likely you can't comprehend the complexity of this music to hear how beautiful it is.
love this band!
I support you guys, I love how you give no shits what people think, the complexities are just lost on the mainstream population haha
I think alex webster from cannibal corpse writes the same way
What a brilliant guy
I am someone who typically appreciates chaotic and dissonant music, but their music really challenges my limit of patience... which makes it interesting to me, but still not a very good listening experience... I wonder if this guy is just that much more musically brilliant than me, or his brain just makes him see the world more analytically than me... either way... he writes it on paper first?! wtf dude?!
What in the 15-string is he clanking on at the end?
It's basically a double neck guitar in a weird tuning
It's a Warr guitar. I believe he plays a 12 string.
cool int... what shirt is he wearing?
Amazing interview!
I got to meet them on the day they play that toronto show when they stopped in to get gas, class A mothers haha
This guy was in gorguts right?
Yep
@@DeadtiredFastasleep neat
Lots of negative comments from people who likely never even touched an instrument.
“Hurrdurr pretentious nerd”.
That dude got a OG white universe prob worth a fortune now.
Same here. He seems like a cool guy. Bit of a nerd, but nice and knowledgeable. Can't stand his band though.
He’s a cool nerd though
remind me to listen to their music on a heroic dose of shrooms
Hahaha
he said he doesnt want the music to sound like a midi file lol the first time i heard arctopus it sounded like a midi file to me
tobuscus can play that
Not at all.
am I really high or is this a living meme?
I use Behold... the Arctopus like ear cleaner. Your usual raunchy music getting boring ? Play Behold... for 10 - 15 minutes, then play any kind of " normal " music and it will sound waaaay better.
show me more. make it compelling? smoke and mirrors? just giving you sh*t. you seem to have come a long way from the last thing i saw... and you know which video that is.
Haw hawwwww like #420 duuuuuuude
if you make money from music you're a sellout !
Mediocre metal at its finest
"theres a weird instrument" the problem is that the warr guitar sounds shit for what they're trying to do
How does he even manage responding to all the questions when there's such terribility in the background?
+Victor Pechorin idk man most musicians don't go around thinking about how "terrible" music is... even if it's not their style, they're likely to appreciate it for what it is.
fuck outta here with your garbage "everything but metal is trash" ass attitude
fuck outta here with your garbage "everything but metal is trash" ass attitude
fuck outta here with your garbage "everything but metal is trash" ass attitude
fuck outta here with your garbage "everything but metal is trash" ass attitude
Pretentious garbage, sorry. Perhaps if they focused on writing songs that sound good rather than what is difficult to play, then maybe they might get somewhere. On the contrary if they enjoy it and other people enjoy it then what hell i guess.
TheHasselBoff How are they pretending? He understands that his music isn't very digestible (as he says in the interview). In general he's a pretty humble guy.
That's kinda the point of Avant-garde: to create complex music that takes a lot of work to understand.
You've totally missed the point of their music. They're intentionally trying to write songs that sound hideous, and that's why it's so interesting. It might not be your thing, and that's fine, but it's dissonant by design.
I enjoy their music, a lot. Some of us like complicated, noisy music. As for getting some where, this probably the project that got him work with Dysrythmia, Krallice, and, oh yeah, Gorguts! And he owns his own studio.
It’s cute you try to call them pretentious and go on with the rest of your comment. No on gives a shit, they don’t care about fame, only the material.
I feel happy watching this video cause I write my music, and think about why I write my music the way I do, just like this man does. Writing on the computer not only makes me free of the common cliches, it's, for me, the only way to find the sound that I like. I'm not much of a player, I do try to write things that are playable, but the real joy is to be able to listen instantly to what I am composing.
Fun to know bands that compose similarly. They are often my favorite bands.
if i ever had idol it was you colin martson, you are a hero