crystal mountain is my go to death metal recommendation song for people who’ve never heard the genre. it’s such an anomaly in the sense that is can be wildly brutal while also being incredibly lyrical and instrumentally grand. it pretty much embodies peak death metal. true 10/10
As a Christian, this song really hits, religious hypocrisy is highly annoying and makes people hate religion a lot. But I can't help but to think I'm part of the problem to be honest, no one is perfect. Jesus also really harshly judged the hypocrites, any Christian that uses the bible to justify treating people wrong should stop calling themselves Christians. Thank you for another awesome deep dive
Bro, thing to consider is religion is politics... No way around. The good christian is the one pushing particular goals... All religions are chrystal mountains... Although, all of them fascinating...
Thank you for keeping the spirit alive. Chuck was a pioneer of metal in so many ways. He may not have been the creator of the death metal sound(as the elitists argue) but he was by far the most influential. He broke the stereotype of the brainless evil/gore music and made truly thought provoking music with so much depth that to this day no one can come close to. As an adult I thank his lyrics for getting me into philosophy and psychology. The lyrics weren’t hugely philosophical themselves but as a teenager they blew my mind. Nowadays the stoic, reflective, and compassionate nature of the lyrics are ingrained in my way of thinking. I almost always go back to them when I need inspiration.
I think Chuck is actually playing notes for those overdubs. They just sound really crunchy because of how he attacks the strings with his pick along with the flanger effect. You can hear the overdubs clearly without the flanger effect in the demo for Crystal Mountain.
Being a fan of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the Hungarian scale on piano hit a chord in me. I had never noticed this detail. Just in case y’all don’t know yet, Bartók is one of the most metal composers. Check this video on youtube: “Quatuor Ebène : Bela Bartok String quartet Nr. 4 C-major Sz 91”.
Interestingly, I'd think around the same time frame, a band named Mayhem, released an album with a suicide photo of their vocalist and constantly criticized bands like Death in the US for making intricate musical compositions that didn't sound like they only knew three chords and recorded it on cassette in a basement.
@@transilvanianxhunger Point is, compared to Death, Mayhem couldn't even carry their gear regarding creativity and musicianship. Their entire appeal is sounding like shit and pretending that they are musicians while they burn churches, seek for a new extreme in shock value and kill each other because they agreed they all loved Venom, but couldn't agree on anything else
@@hockeyeverything4339 whoa there, what you’re saying about their behavior is accurate as far as them being extreme, but you can’t deny they had a huge influence in metal and some of their albums are considered classics by many. I think comparing mayhem to death is odd, it’s a completely different style of music. Death is very simple in comparison to Suffocation but it doesn’t make them less good.
@@transilvanianxhunger You do you. But I think they're a joke. Frost, Sodom, Bathory, Destruction in the early years were all superior to Mayhem. They just ripped off some titles, album titles from those bands and gained notoriety through criminal acts. They're a fuckin joke
@@hockeyeverything4339 sounds like you have your mind made up, but there’s literally millions of people into Norwegian black metal and they were at the forte front of that movement. I think that speaks for itself. And for the record I wasn’t disagreeing on your original point I was just saying the timeline was off.
19:36 sound is probably something done in post production. It is definitely a flanger. That "airplane flyover" effect is a dead giveaway. They probably recorded a version of the riff with a flanger on and put that track on a fader so they could fade it in and out during the mix process.
Always happy to see these song analyses in my feed. Crystal Mountain was the first Death song I ever heard and got me into the band. But for all the times I’ve listened to it, I’ve never lingered long enough to pick out the things that make it awesome. You’re right - it hits at a subconscious level regardless, but it’s so cool to go through and see what makes the song tick. Chuck wrote such best music and lyrics to go with it. Keep the analyses coming
Love the deep dive into this iconic song. Thank you. I convinced a kid to play a whole album from death on rocksmith. He was blown away at how many tasty riffs he heard .. per song. He is now a fan. “Crazy awesome” if you wanna see. He’s played 3 albums so far.
Thank you very much. Very interesting. I'm big Death fan for it's complexity and compositions. It's nice to hear a deep analysis on the music and the lyrics to help us comprehend things. 👍
Dude this is the stuff I'm looking for on youtube. I have already analyzed the song by myself but seeing it from a different perspective really helped. I saw the things that I missed in the song, thank you for your wonderful work
Hey well done bro 😎, I just. came across this and thought I’d take a look. This is album was and is iconic, things were much different on planet back then and so you can begin to see & understand that in order for an individual to be able to create something so powerful as this album you have to be tapped into the ethers and be extremely intuitive. Which a lot great artists are but Chuck on this one went real deep 👌. 1000 eyes is another great example , he really did foresee where we were heading. And I’d also like to say that when we do the work on ourselves and step into our own individual power we too earn the spiritual title so that we can spread the word of truth and help others that are unable to see & help themselves. 😎🙏☀️
One of my favorite tracks from them ! It captured my attention instantly as a standout on that record amongst a bunch of other crushers on there . Misanthrope is another song I don't hear much spoken about enough .
Man, great video! Yes Chuck was showing us the ropes. I also love analyzing and scrutinizing. This is some a-tonal mastery here, I tell you. O, when they slow down to 100, the feel goes into a 16th note triplet feel, which is why we experience a minor tempo change of actually being sped up even tho the tempo just dropped (straight 16ths over 120 is slower than 16th triplets at 100bpm)! Fukn clever writing Bless you, man. Keep it up!
Great analysis! Our band recorded at Morrisound Studio. Tom and Jim had a lot of great stories about Chuck. Confirming his talent. Corpsegrinder told us that Death influenced him to take up the vocal style. Based on Chuck. There's a killer guitarist name Rick Renstrom who lives in this area and used to hang out with Chuck all the time. I guess they lived a few blocks from each other. He has a cool shred channel on UA-cam. They all think Chuck was an amazing human being. I remember when this album was released back when there were release dates. My friend (the drummer of our band) and I went to Best Buy, bought the album, went back to my apartment and listened to the whole thing. He became a much larger fan than I of the later catalog of Death and Control Denied. Chuck's music was so dense. To break it down like you did must have taken a long time. I really appreciate your effort, because I can enjoy it on different levels now. I hope that you live a long time. Keep playing and making videos! I subscribed and I'm looking forward to watching more.
Interestingly, the lyrics “cross turned dagger” can be interpreted in 2 ways. The first is the way you mentioned, a cross (religious symbol) turning into a dagger (weapon) through hypocrisy. The other, using a hyphen in the words cross-turned, is if you imagine what a dagger looks like: it has a handle, crossguard, and the blade. The blade is usually longer than the handle, so if you turn the dagger with the blade pointing down, it resembles the shape of a cross. Never knew if that was Chuck’s genius intention or just coincidence but always found it super cool.
Bro a BRIEF analysis!? My work break can’t fit this whole thing in so ima save to watch later. Regardless of what I think by the end of this video 34 mins explaining this great song is commendable as fuhhh
Great analysis of a great song. It's been forever etched in my brain since I first heard it in the early 2000s. If you play guitar and don't learn at least the "response" riff you're messing up.
I admire your dedication and knowledge, VARVIS. Cannot imagine how much time you spent making this. Classical music at the background was great. Kinda speecheless here.
Symbolic was the album that got me into Death and the only album I had by them for a little while. This song wasn't one of the standout tracks for me at first. I really liked the title track, 1000 eyes, and without judgment best. However, after 20 years and 1000s of spins, Crystal Mountain is definitely the standout track on the album by far. That piano cover of it is excellent too, very moving.
@@VARVIS_ Amazing video btw! The amount of detail and minutiae that you cover in your musical analysis videos is far beyond most of the similar content that’s on UA-cam. Keep it up. Subscribed and can’t wait to see more videos!
Great channel and great song. Can’t wait. Only feedback is maybe they aren’t “a brief analysis” if they’re both deep dives and now clearing the 30 minute mark 😂 Not that I’m complaining! This is the way.
The Craziest thing about this Video to me is that I clicked on it because of the Time Stamp which said 34:17... Chuck Passed away at 34, and Released the Mantas Demo at 17... Long Live the King! And Even though when you click the video the Time Stamp is 34:16, 16 Was the Age he Formed and Started Writing The First Death Metal Ever in Mantas!
you might like a band called _lilitu._ they put out 3 albums between 95-05, the last one released by the end records. at the time of release they were the only band from the us on the label. the material is prime for analysis.
I'm a music lover , freelance hack musician, singer songwriter, and am always digging deep in the search for all kinds of bands that are relative, or belong to the family tree of blues, rock, hard rock, and metal. I can't say I love the band Death; but I will say, Schuldiner was a very special artist and musician. The entire Death Discography are key releases, and gamechangers, in the evolution of the entire metal spectrum.
I always knew the song was more what you talked about, but I always imagined a fantasy story. One of some kind of priest ascending into a crystal mountain and using the dark magic within to take over his church and place himself as the new pontiff/prophet. Then twisting the church to be as he wants it. Now that I know for sure what it’s about I can safely steal that idea for on of my books.
I don't think any other band had as big of a lyrical impact on me. I was 14 when I discovered Death with the release of Individual Thought Patterns, 16 when Symbolic came out. And 20 when I travelled to the Netherlands to see them live at Dynamo. I somehow knew it had to be done, that it might be my only chance. RIP legend!
Primarily commenting for the ALG… but I love this song. Like many other commented before, this was the first song I heard by Death, and it was seminal in my introduction to listening to and, later, playing death songs on guitar.
I'm blown away, wow, powerful stuff here...
Ayyy cheers man! Thank you so much, means a lot! The first super thanks I have ever gotten ❤️
@@VARVIS_ Well deserved!
@@VARVIS_you deserve more. Wish I wasn’t broke.
That opening, playing Crystal Mountain on the piano like that... enough to make a grown man cry. Beautiful.
Im not cyring.....You are lol
Came to the comments to see if anyone else said this. I need a death piano album asap
Search UA-cam, there’s a classical pianist who has covered this. I saw that first and that got me hooked on Death.
@hoodwinker7932 oh hell yeah I will
Chuck was an anomaly. The word genius gets thrown around a lot, but holy hell, he was genuinely one of a kind. An absolutely masterful musician.
100% man
crystal mountain is my go to death metal recommendation song for people who’ve never heard the genre. it’s such an anomaly in the sense that is can be wildly brutal while also being incredibly lyrical and instrumentally grand. it pretty much embodies peak death metal. true 10/10
And super catchy
I agree
Tbh it’s hard for me to consider „Symbolic” a death metal album. Death at that point had really overcame the genre. Not a complaint.
It’s so badass
1000 eyes goes so hard
I hope we'll be getting one of these videos for "Break Stuff" by seminal blackened death-doom outfit Limp Biscuit
It’ll have to be just one of those days, ya know?
How about Hot Dog? Such genius lyrics
Maybe Ill do Nookie lol
@@VARVIS_ Boiler would genuinely be a good dive though
I legit snort laughed... And I like LB.
I always thought it made so much sense how the bridge harmony is done in 5ths, aka the purest and stable interval. Pure and stable like a crystal.
Great point! Wish I put it in the video! Cheers
As a Christian, this song really hits, religious hypocrisy is highly annoying and makes people hate religion a lot. But I can't help but to think I'm part of the problem to be honest, no one is perfect. Jesus also really harshly judged the hypocrites, any Christian that uses the bible to justify treating people wrong should stop calling themselves Christians. Thank you for another awesome deep dive
Basically you said why you're not a christian but are so attached to christian nonsense you can't let it go
Bro, thing to consider is religion is politics... No way around. The good christian is the one pushing particular goals... All religions are chrystal mountains... Although, all of them fascinating...
This is not exclusive to religion, it's a human trait to weaponize anything and everything.
Well said my Christian metalhead brother.
I’m happy to see that not all Christians are so egocentric
Thank you for keeping the spirit alive. Chuck was a pioneer of metal in so many ways. He may not have been the creator of the death metal sound(as the elitists argue) but he was by far the most influential. He broke the stereotype of the brainless evil/gore music and made truly thought provoking music with so much depth that to this day no one can come close to. As an adult I thank his lyrics for getting me into philosophy and psychology. The lyrics weren’t hugely philosophical themselves but as a teenager they blew my mind. Nowadays the stoic, reflective, and compassionate nature of the lyrics are ingrained in my way of thinking. I almost always go back to them when I need inspiration.
Man great comment. Could not think of a better way to describe Symbolic and TSOP. Stoic, compassionate and reflective. 👍👍👍
This is great I'm going to show this to my dad tomorrow. He's free thinking ex-preacher 70 years old and he loves this shit
that flanger effect in the bridge is an overdub using pick scrapes im pretty sure. i recorded this song once and did that and sounded bang on.
Makes total sense! Cheers man
I think Chuck is actually playing notes for those overdubs. They just sound really crunchy because of how he attacks the strings with his pick along with the flanger effect. You can hear the overdubs clearly without the flanger effect in the demo for Crystal Mountain.
Being a fan of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the Hungarian scale on piano hit a chord in me. I had never noticed this detail. Just in case y’all don’t know yet, Bartók is one of the most metal composers. Check this video on youtube: “Quatuor Ebène : Bela Bartok String quartet Nr. 4 C-major Sz 91”.
The bartok quartets are some of the coolest music ever written
Ill check it out bro! Thanks for the rec
Crystal mountain was the first song i learned front to back on guitar
First song I learned front to back if you include the lead
Interestingly, I'd think around the same time frame, a band named Mayhem, released an album with a suicide photo of their vocalist and constantly criticized bands like Death in the US for making intricate musical compositions that didn't sound like they only knew three chords and recorded it on cassette in a basement.
I think that was a lil before the symbolic album, like early 90’s. But they were critical of death metal
@@transilvanianxhunger Point is, compared to Death, Mayhem couldn't even carry their gear regarding creativity and musicianship. Their entire appeal is sounding like shit and pretending that they are musicians while they burn churches, seek for a new extreme in shock value and kill each other because they agreed they all loved Venom, but couldn't agree on anything else
@@hockeyeverything4339 whoa there, what you’re saying about their behavior is accurate as far as them being extreme, but you can’t deny they had a huge influence in metal and some of their albums are considered classics by many. I think comparing mayhem to death is odd, it’s a completely different style of music. Death is very simple in comparison to Suffocation but it doesn’t make them less good.
@@transilvanianxhunger You do you. But I think they're a joke. Frost, Sodom, Bathory, Destruction in the early years were all superior to Mayhem. They just ripped off some titles, album titles from those bands and gained notoriety through criminal acts. They're a fuckin joke
@@hockeyeverything4339 sounds like you have your mind made up, but there’s literally millions of people into Norwegian black metal and they were at the forte front of that movement. I think that speaks for itself. And for the record I wasn’t disagreeing on your original point I was just saying the timeline was off.
Oh man this is my favorite Death song. So happy this video just popped up.
Piano death sounds awesome
I love That piano intro...
19:36 sound is probably something done in post production. It is definitely a flanger. That "airplane flyover" effect is a dead giveaway. They probably recorded a version of the riff with a flanger on and put that track on a fader so they could fade it in and out during the mix process.
What a great video. Death is recently 'new' to me and have been an interesting thing to get to know them better
Always happy to see these song analyses in my feed. Crystal Mountain was the first Death song I ever heard and got me into the band. But for all the times I’ve listened to it, I’ve never lingered long enough to pick out the things that make it awesome. You’re right - it hits at a subconscious level regardless, but it’s so cool to go through and see what makes the song tick.
Chuck wrote such best music and lyrics to go with it.
Keep the analyses coming
I got into extreme metal and later on into guitar playing because of this song
The riff you mention at 15:36 really is wonderful. What a beautiful phrase.
My appreciation of this song (and Chuck) has jumped significantly! Great stuff
Люблю твои обзоры по творчеству Чака, спасибо за крутой контент!
Great analysis of one of my favorite songs!
Love the deep dive into this iconic song. Thank you.
I convinced a kid to play a whole album from death on rocksmith. He was blown away at how many tasty riffs he heard .. per song. He is now a fan. “Crazy awesome” if you wanna see. He’s played 3 albums so far.
Which guy? Does he play a Jackson kelly? Might have seen his channel
@@VARVIS_ he is young black kid.
Thank you very much. Very interesting. I'm big Death fan for it's complexity and compositions. It's nice to hear a deep analysis on the music and the lyrics to help us comprehend things. 👍
This channel is brilliant, will definitely watch more videos
10:45 100% agree GOAT drum patterns and riffs
One of my favorite Death songs !love your video man !🤘🎸💀🤘
Always very interesting videos. I do favor your Death content :)
Keep em coming!!!!!!!
Great video, Crystal Mountain was the song that convinced me to check out Symbolic and by extent the earlier Death albums.
Dude this is the stuff I'm looking for on youtube. I have already analyzed the song by myself but seeing it from a different perspective really helped. I saw the things that I missed in the song, thank you for your wonderful work
You are welcome man!
Holy shit Varvis upload after 13 days hold my boba
Jokes aside, splendid intro and this is a masterpiece of metal.
Im back baybee
I'm so happy I clicked on this video
Hey well done bro 😎, I just. came across this and thought I’d take a look. This is album was and is iconic, things were much different on planet back then and so you can begin to see & understand that in order for an individual to be able to create something so powerful as this album you have to be tapped into the ethers and be extremely intuitive.
Which a lot great artists are but Chuck on this one went real deep 👌.
1000 eyes is another great example , he really did foresee where we were heading.
And I’d also like to say that when we do the work on ourselves and step into our own individual power we too earn the spiritual title so that we can spread the word of truth and help others that are unable to see & help themselves.
😎🙏☀️
Varvis: What is a crystal mountain?
Me: Yes.
YES
“Notable feat” nice choice of words
Hahahah thanks man 😂
Amazing band, rhythms, and vision. RIP Chuck.
One of my favorite tracks from them ! It captured my attention instantly as a standout on that record amongst a bunch of other crushers on there . Misanthrope is another song I don't hear much spoken about enough .
Crystal mountain is one of my favorite death songss!!😸
Man, great video!
Yes Chuck was showing us the ropes. I also love analyzing and scrutinizing. This is some a-tonal mastery here, I tell you.
O, when they slow down to 100, the feel goes into a 16th note triplet feel, which is why we experience a minor tempo change of actually being sped up even tho the tempo just dropped (straight 16ths over 120 is slower than 16th triplets at 100bpm)!
Fukn clever writing
Bless you, man. Keep it up!
That makes total sense! thank you for clarifying! Cheers bro
Overactive imagination is such a badass song I can’t put words into why I like it so much
great analysis, man you are good at this! I loved how you breakdown the parts and described them.
Thanks man!
Love this so much!
VARVIS HYPE
BASED VITO
Amazing video. Thank you for this. Death is awesome and this was the song that got me into them!
Been getting more and more into death, these videos r great
Great analysis! Our band recorded at Morrisound Studio. Tom and Jim had a lot of great stories about Chuck. Confirming his talent. Corpsegrinder told us that Death influenced him to take up the vocal style. Based on Chuck. There's a killer guitarist name Rick Renstrom who lives in this area and used to hang out with Chuck all the time. I guess they lived a few blocks from each other. He has a cool shred channel on UA-cam. They all think Chuck was an amazing human being.
I remember when this album was released back when there were release dates. My friend (the drummer of our band) and I went to Best Buy, bought the album, went back to my apartment and listened to the whole thing. He became a much larger fan than I of the later catalog of Death and Control Denied.
Chuck's music was so dense. To break it down like you did must have taken a long time. I really appreciate your effort, because I can enjoy it on different levels now. I hope that you live a long time. Keep playing and making videos! I subscribed and I'm looking forward to watching more.
That is so cool man! what was your band?
thank you for this; this helps a lot for my own song writing to really get it all much tighter and thoughtful
Absolutely fantastic video. Been loving your content.
So very well done my dude. Never seen your work before but this video earned an instant fan and sub.
ayyy cheers my man!
I'm excited to watch the spirit crusher video! Great channel!
Hope you enjoy it!
Interestingly, the lyrics “cross turned dagger” can be interpreted in 2 ways. The first is the way you mentioned, a cross (religious symbol) turning into a dagger (weapon) through hypocrisy. The other, using a hyphen in the words cross-turned, is if you imagine what a dagger looks like: it has a handle, crossguard, and the blade. The blade is usually longer than the handle, so if you turn the dagger with the blade pointing down, it resembles the shape of a cross. Never knew if that was Chuck’s genius intention or just coincidence but always found it super cool.
wow. what an incredible video breakdown.
I appreciate this level of musical dissection and learned a ton about a song I already love.
Cheers bro! Glad you learned some things!
like an epic house of cards! Great video!
Bro a BRIEF analysis!? My work break can’t fit this whole thing in so ima save to watch later. Regardless of what I think by the end of this video 34 mins explaining this great song is commendable as fuhhh
Great work as always! I love these analysis videos.
Thanks brother!
Great analysis of a great song. It's been forever etched in my brain since I first heard it in the early 2000s. If you play guitar and don't learn at least the "response" riff you're messing up.
My old friend Richard Patrick moved from Missouri to Florida and played drums for Death great guy tank of a drummer.
Damn, any good stories from him?
Very good musical analysis 🤘🏻
19:35 seems to me like a phaser effect, probably added in post-production or maybe directly in the recording with a pedal
19:25 it is a flanger
nice work on the lyrics analysis ! plus the extra details about bible translation where interesting
I admire your dedication and knowledge, VARVIS. Cannot imagine how much time you spent making this. Classical music at the background was great. Kinda speecheless here.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it!
We need a deep dive for Hot Dog by Limp Bizkit. The lyrics are absolitely genius.
LMAO
I think they are pretty fucked up
I think an analysis of “Wet ass pussy” would be much more profound
amazing work once again!!
Symbolic was the album that got me into Death and the only album I had by them for a little while. This song wasn't one of the standout tracks for me at first. I really liked the title track, 1000 eyes, and without judgment best. However, after 20 years and 1000s of spins, Crystal Mountain is definitely the standout track on the album by far. That piano cover of it is excellent too, very moving.
Cheers man 👍
A briefs analysis….34 min later
Hey it went by super fast for me
Congrats! That gave me a larger view of how complex Chuck's work really is! Love it!🤘✌🤘
Cheers man!
Thanks so much!
this video justifies the invention of the internet. I quite enjoyed it.
It’s definitely a flanger but added in post on all of the instruments except the drums maybe? It’s definitely a heavy dose
That tapping solo section almost sounds like something you would hear on a Castlevania game soundtrack when it’s played on piano. Nice!
definitely!
@@VARVIS_ Amazing video btw! The amount of detail and minutiae that you cover in your musical analysis videos is far beyond most of the similar content that’s on UA-cam. Keep it up. Subscribed and can’t wait to see more videos!
I always thought this song was all about the massive amounts of crystal meth that was going around People's Storage in the 90s... 🙄
Rock candy. Those mountains have whisky rivers and you never have to change your socks.
Big Rock Crystal Mountain 🤘
Great analysis, can’t wait for more death deep dives
More coming my good sir
Great channel and great song. Can’t wait. Only feedback is maybe they aren’t “a brief analysis” if they’re both deep dives and now clearing the 30 minute mark 😂 Not that I’m complaining! This is the way.
@@GraphiteBlimp27 hahahaha 😂
Awesome
The Craziest thing about this Video to me is that I clicked on it because of the Time Stamp which said 34:17... Chuck Passed away at 34, and Released the Mantas Demo at 17... Long Live the King! And Even though when you click the video the Time Stamp is 34:16, 16 Was the Age he Formed and Started Writing The First Death Metal Ever in Mantas!
Christian Mountain
It's hella fun to play, too!
you might like a band called _lilitu._ they put out 3 albums between 95-05, the last one released by the end records. at the time of release they were the only band from the us on the label. the material is prime for analysis.
Thank you for being right about Gene being the goat. 11:42
Crystal Mountain sounds absolutely beautiful on piano 🥲
I'm a music lover , freelance hack musician, singer songwriter, and am always digging deep in the search for all kinds of bands that are relative, or belong to the family tree of blues, rock, hard rock, and metal. I can't say I love the band Death; but I will say, Schuldiner was a very special artist and musician. The entire Death Discography are key releases, and gamechangers, in the evolution of the entire metal spectrum.
I always knew the song was more what you talked about, but I always imagined a fantasy story.
One of some kind of priest ascending into a crystal mountain and using the dark magic within to take over his church and place himself as the new pontiff/prophet. Then twisting the church to be as he wants it.
Now that I know for sure what it’s about I can safely steal that idea for on of my books.
I love that, great imagery
Ridiculously good video
Very great work dude, keep it up.
Utterly fantastic. Your analysis makes me wish I had actually chosen to stick with music in my youth......great work.
You can always learn it man. I started just a few years ago with Music Theory for dummies lol
@@VARVIS_ Hrrrm! I do know some theory......perhaps you're right :)
I don't think any other band had as big of a lyrical impact on me. I was 14 when I discovered Death with the release of Individual Thought Patterns, 16 when Symbolic came out. And 20 when I travelled to the Netherlands to see them live at Dynamo. I somehow knew it had to be done, that it might be my only chance. RIP legend!
When those riffs are put into chords and ring out, they sound very Gojira like. Great video.
Cheers man!
In my opinion, Symbolic is the best metal album of all time, not just in the death metal genre. Let the metal flow
Its certainly up there bro! I could certainly make a few arguments for that
Oh shit your albertan, fuck yea brother. Thats sick man. Great breakdown.
@@BarrenWasteland hell yeah brother 🤘🏻
Primarily commenting for the ALG… but I love this song. Like many other commented before, this was the first song I heard by Death, and it was seminal in my introduction to listening to and, later, playing death songs on guitar.
Un véritable génie de la musique ❤
It's where evil takes It's form, and also, where commandments are reborn.
Dude Chuck played inverted power chords down at the first and second frets. And while I was typing that you noted that 😂
😂😂😂😂
Man, I loved this video! Rock on Bro!
This song sounds cool on piano
In our neck of the woods. Crystal mountain is Stone Mountain and Cherokees. Call stone mountain crystal Mountain
Where is this? I am curious