Greg Burgess (guitars) comments: "What can we say about J.S. Bach that hasn't already been said? Musical genius? Greatest composer to ever walk the earth? It's all been written before, so I'll go to what he means to Allegaeon. I first heard this piece back in 2000, and it has been a dream of mine to arrange this piece for a metal band; it only took 20 years to make it a reality. For anyone who has never worked on Bach before, the learning process is painstaking. Just when you think it's a repeat of a section you've already learned, you're suddenly in a new key, or there is a variation that totally throws a wrench in your muscle memory. In short, recording this piece was the most challenging thing I've ever attempted in this band. And I'm insanely proud of it. Crank it loud and get lost in it." Riley McShane (vocals) adds: "Originally, these songs were part of the first draft track-listing of 'Apoptosis'. In fact, this alternate track-listing - including these two songs - ended up being the running order for the 'Apoptosis' LP. However, over a year after the initial release, we decided to put the songs out in a digital format for everyone to enjoy, just in time for the holiday season. Who needs Trans-Siberian Orchestra when you have Allegaeon covering Bach?"
This is one of the best pieces ever! I'm so tempted to post tagging Val from SF Ballet who did the ballet Lamberene...Bach with traditional African music. Here, Val...can you choreograph this please? :D
@@TheZigzagman Most symphonic metal has terrible orchestration imo, and a 3-5 piece metal band is roughly the same grouping of instruments that were actually used for the baroque and classical chamber music metal bands like to draw on and it sounds tighter, cleaner, heavier, and overall better to just arrange it for a metal band instead of drenching it in syrupy layers and layers of extra unneeded orchestration that's usually bland and hamfisted. What this band is doing here is doing this shit properly for a change and I fucking love it. It's basically 80s shred with blast beats at this point, which is dope.
Truly impressive. This should open up a whole new appreciation for J.S. Bach to people who otherwise may have never gave it much notice. Thanks for keeping this amazing music alive.
For those curious, there are two interpretations of this piece on UA-cam that are absolutely perfect. The first by the Netherlands Bach Society with a small baroque like ensemble, using gut strings and everything. The second on the harpsichord by Jean Rondeau. Search for BWV 1052.
Well, there are actually "three" interpretations of this piece on UA-cam that are absolutely perfect. To find the third one, just search for "Allegaeon - Concerto in Dm" on youtube.
Beautiful absolutely wonderful in the fullest sense of the word. This is sending me off the precipice of all I can and wish to be. Since I was a teenager I wished to transpose the master works of the past into modernity in such a manner as you have. It is not until listening to this that I have had the realization that I am not all I can be nor should be. That being said I need to rejuvenate my love for the guitar and this is the perfect catalyst I need to bring that to reality. Truly awe inspiring keep up the fantastic and wonderful work
Beautiful! Bravo !magnificent! I've said it before and ill say it again and will always metal musicians are the most talented and incredible people in all of music period thank god for metal,and the musicians who play it.🤘✌
ALLEGAEON!!!!! I love the direction! Are we going to get an entire original work as an album? That would be phenomenal!!!!! Love your work fellas, this is a great idea. I was not loving the classic rock covers, though your take on YES was interesting... I find an original work in the vein of a concerto more interesting still! Amazing
Sorry to be nit-picky, but this is Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto No. 1, BWV 1052. It is not Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043 (as listed in the description). I realize that Bach himself arranged many of his harpsichord concertos for different instruments, but the “Double Concerto” (BWV 1043) was arranged as a Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1062.
@@gregburgess4211 Thanks. This is an awesome arrangement. It's great to be able to buy and download this from Bandcamp for those of us who don't have the means for vinyl.
@@DannyR121 Check Symbolik out. Corridors of the Consumed is a great song by them. And Le Serment de Tsion by First Fragment. Obscura, Necrophagist, Inferi, and Spawn Of Possession all have classical influences.
@@DannyR121 Check out the entire artist roster of The Artisan Era. Save for one or two bands on there, quite a lot are heavily neo-classical inspired; you'll hear that in the riffs and solos. Begin with these four bands : Symbolik, Inferi, Flub and Stortregn
Check out this guy's rendition too: ua-cam.com/video/EFNFfaWyH_o/v-deo.html Btw, he also covered Beethoven's Apassionata in a most exquisite manner: ua-cam.com/video/oFRGg2kiu2k/v-deo.html
Holy shit man, this year just got surprised by Inferi EP, Psycroptic EP, and now this Allegaeon. let's hope next is Bloodshot Dawn and Divine Chaos \m/
I would love to join this band on any neoclassical tech death metal kick they evolve on here. Imagining myself doing some awesome flute metal sounds along with it.
And these stupid ads had to interrupt our good vibes for this awesome shit. Fucking aye, this country is already making trillions of dollars and they just want more smh
It's BWV1052! ;) And here's four of my favourite renditions of it: a) for cembalo: ua-cam.com/video/XcsfDxojdV8/v-deo.html b) for piano: ua-cam.com/video/osg_WmeLxQk/v-deo.html c) for e-guitar (first YT rendition I was aware of): ua-cam.com/video/EFNFfaWyH_o/v-deo.html d) for e-guitar (a truly artistic rendition): ua-cam.com/video/SP4-gHutUYw/v-deo.html NJOY!
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Greg Burgess (guitars) comments: "What can we say about J.S. Bach that hasn't already been said? Musical genius? Greatest composer to ever walk the earth? It's all been written before, so I'll go to what he means to Allegaeon. I first heard this piece back in 2000, and it has been a dream of mine to arrange this piece for a metal band; it only took 20 years to make it a reality. For anyone who has never worked on Bach before, the learning process is painstaking. Just when you think it's a repeat of a section you've already learned, you're suddenly in a new key, or there is a variation that totally throws a wrench in your muscle memory. In short, recording this piece was the most challenging thing I've ever attempted in this band. And I'm insanely proud of it. Crank it loud and get lost in it."
Riley McShane (vocals) adds: "Originally, these songs were part of the first draft track-listing of 'Apoptosis'. In fact, this alternate track-listing - including these two songs - ended up being the running order for the 'Apoptosis' LP. However, over a year after the initial release, we decided to put the songs out in a digital format for everyone to enjoy, just in time for the holiday season. Who needs Trans-Siberian Orchestra when you have Allegaeon covering Bach?"
What you did here was amazing!
Thank you kind sir/people! Will send it to my dad who loves classical music, to see if i get vitriol or praise from my boomer father!🤘
TSO is awesome. And I’d argue Beethoven was the greatest composer ever. But you know. Opinions.
Vivaldi, first move.ent of winter!
This is one of the best pieces ever! I'm so tempted to post tagging Val from SF Ballet who did the ballet Lamberene...Bach with traditional African music. Here, Val...can you choreograph this please? :D
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@@TheSurrealist. Nah, it has 69 likes
Just another proof that Bach was the first legitimate metalhead in existence.
Great arrangment guys, you really did justice to the piece!
Vivaldi was the first. Bach followed suit. Bach was great, though.
@@tinbanger66 Bach's music is way less homogenous than Vivaldi's music though. Also you can go even further back to composers like Buxtehude.
@@tinbanger66 Marais was earlier - ua-cam.com/video/Bng6P118R48/v-deo.html hang around for it, it goes hard.
It's really just the baroque style in general, bach, Vivaldi, beethoven, etc. You can really hear it with bach when does his runs though.
This is not trying to be epic like much symphonic metal. This combines baroque and death metal just in a brilliant way.
Absolutely agree. The arrangement shows a maturity beyond the grandstanding most symphonic metal goes for when they play Bach.
@@TheZigzagman Most symphonic metal has terrible orchestration imo, and a 3-5 piece metal band is roughly the same grouping of instruments that were actually used for the baroque and classical chamber music metal bands like to draw on and it sounds tighter, cleaner, heavier, and overall better to just arrange it for a metal band instead of drenching it in syrupy layers and layers of extra unneeded orchestration that's usually bland and hamfisted. What this band is doing here is doing this shit properly for a change and I fucking love it. It's basically 80s shred with blast beats at this point, which is dope.
Truly impressive. This should open up a whole new appreciation for J.S. Bach to people who otherwise may have never gave it much notice. Thanks for keeping this amazing music alive.
Classical is just metal before electricity
See, cold hard proof that metal and classical music were meant for each other.
Toda la razón!!! Simplemente: sublime!!! 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱😍🧐😍🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱!!! Saludos!!!
*sips hot cocoa from a wine glass* ... ah yes... yes, quite... 🧐
I put Dr. Pepper in my wine glass but to each their own
@@SomeDumbKid1 en chile, américa del sur eso se llama "jote" 😂😂😂, wine + Coke or dr. Pepper 😂😂😂 or pepsi 😂😂😂
Mmmm.....indeed 🧐
For those curious, there are two interpretations of this piece on UA-cam that are absolutely perfect.
The first by the Netherlands Bach Society with a small baroque like ensemble, using gut strings and everything.
The second on the harpsichord by
Jean Rondeau.
Search for BWV 1052.
Well, there are actually "three" interpretations of this piece on UA-cam that are absolutely perfect. To find the third one, just search for "Allegaeon - Concerto in Dm" on youtube.
search bwv 1052r for the recobstructed violin concerti too
Final waived-fee Friday on Bandcamp today for 2020 - allegaeon.bandcamp.com/
This is the best christmas gift ever. Well produced neo classical death metal without lyrics. Just my specific kind of tea.
Genius! Work of genius! 🌈❤🙌
Bach would be abssolutely proud!!!!!!!!!! Love You guys!!!!!!
Amazing music like this doesn't need any video to distract one's focus from what's really going on instrumentally.
In Flanders Fields gives me that kind of Opeth vibe that I thought only Opeth could provide, damn
right?!
Masterpiece turned melodic death metal, it's just what I needed to hear this beautiful night
Beautiful absolutely wonderful in the fullest sense of the word. This is sending me off the precipice of all I can and wish to be. Since I was a teenager I wished to transpose the master works of the past into modernity in such a manner as you have. It is not until listening to this that I have had the realization that I am not all I can be nor should be. That being said I need to rejuvenate my love for the guitar and this is the perfect catalyst I need to bring that to reality. Truly awe inspiring keep up the fantastic and wonderful work
I agree with you on that, this may very well invigorate my love for guitar once more, a more permanent love for my instrument this time around.
God I love this band
Awesome! More of this please! I still waiting for Shostakovich technical death metal
Standing O. Bravo! Now.............why isn't this band getting more attention?!?!?!
This has graced my ears since day one of apoptosis, its on the vinyl. MASTERPIECE!!!
Challenging as hell! this is the kind of thing that every band should be doing now. can't wait for the next album.
Absolutely brilliant and beautiful. Thank you!!!!!
Oh my god, this makes me happy. Was not expecting the fully-acoustic sections.
Amazing piece, my friends. Sort of wish it wasn't butchered by 15 ads, but watchagonnado....
Watched 'em all. Want them to keep going, but don't want to give a dollar a month to the thousand subs i have. I watch the commercials!
This is exactly in my head when I play classical concerto and think: "what if classical music played in death metal version." Bravo🔥🔥🔥
Going to use this the next time I need to remind someone that metal is the most baroque-influenced modern genre outside of neoclassical.
That or show Yngwie doing literally anything.
@@levergatRapha lol you elitists are pathetic, respecting the roots of metal is not metal for grandmas.
@@levergatRapha I'm a big fan of Corpo Mente, Igorrr, OxxO XooX, Ricin, Whourkr, etc. But that's not exactly where I would start a newcomer.
@@levergatRapha Corpo Mente is cool, but it isn't metal. Besides, your whining is super stupid. Learn to criticize, you're just bitching.
...and shostakowitch ....?
Beautiful! Bravo !magnificent! I've said it before and ill say it again and will always metal musicians are the most talented and incredible people in all of music period thank god for metal,and the musicians who play it.🤘✌
🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
ALLEGAEON!!!!! I love the direction! Are we going to get an entire original work as an album? That would be phenomenal!!!!! Love your work fellas, this is a great idea. I was not loving the classic rock covers, though your take on YES was interesting... I find an original work in the vein of a concerto more interesting still! Amazing
Ask Michael and you'd get your answer. Hahahaha
Never heard of these guys before. Sounds good.
Boi you are in for a treat
Study their discography. These dudes are awesome man.
They know about music more than 90% of so-called artists
@@Sitruc_btb I agree, but start with the Ezra era, not just from when Riley came in
@@Red-Beard-OTB Absolutely. Theyre all great albums. Fragments, Formshifter. Elements has some of my favorite songs.
Bachllegaeon! 🖤🤘🏻
Sorry to be nit-picky, but this is Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto No. 1, BWV 1052. It is not Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043 (as listed in the description). I realize that Bach himself arranged many of his harpsichord concertos for different instruments, but the “Double Concerto” (BWV 1043) was arranged as a Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C minor, BWV 1062.
Great catch dude. Fixed.
@@gregburgess4211 Thanks. This is an awesome arrangement. It's great to be able to buy and download this from Bandcamp for those of us who don't have the means for vinyl.
Always something spectacular from these guys! Keep up the good work!
Awesome! Thank you!👍
Pure eargasm. Bravo! [Imaging standing ovations here]
Hail Greggoroth !
Again, my favorit band of this century
I see Allegaeon, I click
I see these posts and I dislike.
@@minbari73 based
Blissfully cacophonous and quite amazing
beatiful and epic!
What a great interpretation of this piece. I love when bands like this put out these kinds of work, truly exceptional.
Woow es una de mis piezas favoritas de Bach ¡esto es un fantástico trabajo! Allegaeon son una gran banda!
Greg has taken full control of the band, its all neoclassical tech death from now on
Are there even any neoclassical tech death bands?
@@DannyR121 Check Symbolik out. Corridors of the Consumed is a great song by them. And Le Serment de Tsion by First Fragment.
Obscura, Necrophagist, Inferi, and Spawn Of Possession all have classical influences.
@@DannyR121 Check out the entire artist roster of The Artisan Era. Save for one or two bands on there, quite a lot are heavily neo-classical inspired; you'll hear that in the riffs and solos. Begin with these four bands : Symbolik, Inferi, Flub and Stortregn
@@sartajhanspal5604 Thanks will give em a listen
I love it I love it
Amazing work .
Simply 🤘🏾
I Love it
MY TWO FAVORITE THINGS AS ONE SONG YEEEESSSSSSS
wow what a surprise. this is amazing
My new ringtone
This is so unexpected but so brilliant
BWV 1052 = Badass
Thanks, after checking it out (the Jean Rondeau version is excellent) I find this version much more enjoyable
Check out this guy's rendition too:
ua-cam.com/video/EFNFfaWyH_o/v-deo.html
Btw, he also covered Beethoven's Apassionata in a most exquisite manner:
ua-cam.com/video/oFRGg2kiu2k/v-deo.html
I still cant get over how good this is :) \m/
Speaking as a metal and Classic music lover, i think that you are the best band i've ever listened! \m/
We need moooree
This is so awesome!
This is exactly what I needed. TY!
Perfection 🖤
I love it
Great work!!
Allegaeon S&M
Please.
COME ON WITH THIS!!!!
Holy shit man, this year just got surprised by Inferi EP, Psycroptic EP, and now this Allegaeon. let's hope next is Bloodshot Dawn and Divine Chaos \m/
New Bloodshot Dawn would be great!
The guitarist for BD put out a new album. Worth checking that one out.
HELL YEAH, BROTHERS!
Very happy to get this on digital.
Spettacolare! 🎸🔥🖤
This is great
impresionanteeee
nice!
Nice
Excelente viaje...
I love Allegaeon
I would love to join this band on any neoclassical tech death metal kick they evolve on here. Imagining myself doing some awesome flute metal sounds along with it.
You guys definitely upped the ante with this one, now let's see if Conan and the Exmortus lads can answer the challenge
Нереально круто 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
2 euros en Bandcamp? Menudo regalo. Comprado!
HAAAAARD! 💪🏻
Bring on the symphonic elements!
This slaps more cheeks than a paddle... 🤘🏻
This was fucking brilliant!
Everybody name dropping Bach while this clearly has more of a 4 seaon from vivaldi vibe to it
the drums sadly are overpowering the other instruments, besides that i love it. a metal version of my favourite bach piece BWV1052.
poorly overcompressed that drums
Dream theater style😇💪
Sipping Scotch neat, pinky out
And these stupid ads had to interrupt our good vibes for this awesome shit. Fucking aye, this country is already making trillions of dollars and they just want more smh
Redemption!
Tabs coming out?
🤘🏿😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈😈🤘🏿 Doskonały znakomity świetny mocarny potężny po prostu super
I wonder if the full album will feature tracks with vocals.
Yes, it will be sung in a Bach cantata like stile "The passion on Riley, according to Greg".
Fucking UA-cam shoving commercials into the middle of the song pisses me off
One of the bast concertos hahah
Fucking exquisite!
Harpsichord - which BWV is this?
It's BWV1052! ;)
And here's four of my favourite renditions of it:
a) for cembalo: ua-cam.com/video/XcsfDxojdV8/v-deo.html
b) for piano: ua-cam.com/video/osg_WmeLxQk/v-deo.html
c) for e-guitar (first YT rendition I was aware of): ua-cam.com/video/EFNFfaWyH_o/v-deo.html
d) for e-guitar (a truly artistic rendition): ua-cam.com/video/SP4-gHutUYw/v-deo.html
NJOY!
:')
Funny thing the actual piece minus the drums is much faster
Depends on who plays it.
Jean rondeau
I was unable to fully enjoy this do to UA-cam's constant need to ruin things with constant ads.
Right as I read the last word of this statement, "CHROMECAST GOOGLE TV".
You can buy it on Bandcamp
Ad blocker plugin saved my life
Bought it on Bandcamp. Well worth it for the lossless version
the second song acoustic was unremarkable
UNremarkable?
@@TheW89 medical term meaning nothing wrong, perfect
i def could have used a better adjective lol, just so used to writing SOAP notes
@@travisamazingable
unremarkable
/ʌnrɪˈmɑːkəb(ə)l/
adjective
not particularly interesting or surprising.
@@TheW89 different sources are going to have different definitions
Not what I expected.... was impressed but done before......
boo hoo
What hasn't been done before?
But rarely done this well. Can't wait to hear your Back transposed for a metal band, when might I be hearing that?
@@spamstabber
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