Oh boy, one of the best musical discoveries during the past decade, let me give you a quick overview of the discography : Album 1 : Sic Lvceat Lvx ( 2010 ) - i consider this a proof of concept album, proof that they can compose, produce, record, mix, master and package songs into an album, nothing outstanding just solid Album 2 : Contradiction ( 2014 ) - my first contact with the band, early in 2015 i was checking out some best of 2014 lists for new interesting things and this caught my eye in one of the lists and man was it, after they've proven the capacity to produce an album they went ham on the music side, in one way more of everything, more atmosphere, more complexity, but at the same time sometimes less is more, not afraid to slow things down and add spoken passages on top, fantastic exploration of what they have to offer Album 3 : Triangle ( 2016 ) - often found on best of the year lists for that year, a triple cd concept, each cd 33 mins long and each representing a side of their craft, a kind of deconstruction of the sound, the first is focused mostly on continuation of the heavier side, the more straightforward black metal but in their own style, the second is not as heavy, more progressive, even has clean singing, the third is mostly instrumental atmospherics, very ambitious and bold for such a young band only third album in Album 4 : The Maldoror Chants-Hermaphrodite ( EP - 2017 ) - even if its 'only' an EP, still half an hour of solid new music and more directly follows 'Contradiction' without the splitting of styles Album 5 : Hearts of No Light ( 2019 ) - their latest offering and a sort of reintegration of what 'Triangle' deconstructed, my personal best album of that year even edging out the excellent offerings from Wilderun and Tool and after two years of delays ( due to lockdowns and whatnot ) their tour with Harakiri for the Sky is finally happening and im gonna see them live in a few weeks, super stoked
Hey, glad you've listened to one of my most favourite bands! Been in love with their music since their second album. Šamaš was the Mesopotamian sun god, btw 🙂
Schammasch were one of the first black metal bands that I’ve ever listened to. I remember when I first heard about their album Triangle when it came out and, at first I didn’t really understand what I was listening to, but as time went on everything started to click with me, and now they’re one of my favorite black metal bands ever. I was very excited for this album when it was first announced and they didn’t disappoint
Schamash is the Mesopotamian sun god! This band is really cool. They released a triple album called Triangle in 2016 where each album is a different style and has a run time of 33:30. I’d say an album reaction would be great but the third album is VERY atmospheric and “artsy” compared to the rest of the album (I normally stop after album 2)
The good thing about BM imo is that it can seamlessly switch from "slow music" to "fast music" and back. Growl is not completely uncommon for BM, early or late, but generally you expect grim (what you called nasal) vocals from it.
That was a really awesome point Bryan. Black Metal is really slow music moving fast. I think that’s why I enjoy it so much. It’s actually very similar to doom/post-metal which I really love. And probably why I don’t love death metal as much. There’s some I like but I don’t find myself moving towards it as easily.
I'd say DM is active, or requires more of the listener's attention. Different schools, countries/climes inform approach to an extent, but a fair amount of what falls under the umbrella of "Black metal" feels passive, impressionistic and therefore ambient, by contrast. Invoking an image moreso than imposing one.
@@dis.infectant Thanks for this. This makes sense. For me, I enjoy the music invoking an image so I can move into it. It seems I try to approach life in this manner as well. Whereas imposing an image can run me the wrong way. I guess that’s the point though if you look at the history of DM and then BM. Makes sense to me.
I'd seen the name but never bothered investigating due to it being generically interchangeable. Was surprisingly feeling this though, and the Swiss rarely disappoint.
I personally just like black metal, both sides of it, the old stuff and the more new experimental stuff, but still some bands still use that more old style of it, but that means that I dont like every band in the genre. That goes to most things, I like Abba, but mostly I dont find Pop any enjoyment, I like Doom Metal, but mostly epic Doom Metal or Doom Metal that have more melody in it, but then I did pickup Ahab newest album today and that is Funeral Doom Metal and that is something I usually dont listen to, but sometimes it comes a band or just a album that I really like, even if I dont like the overall genre.
You keep imagining black metal played by strings doing less attacks? Man, I know I sound like a broken record on this, but you need some old Emperor in your life. Because, again, after that experiment where you put on some orchestral atmospheric patches over tremolo riffing, the "transpose our songs to classical using strings and less attacks" is exactly what Emperor did with one of their early songs, Inno a Satana, which they transpose into classical music in Opus a Satana. Again, it works because guitar parts are written not so much as traditional riffs but as instruments in an ensemble.
shamash is akkadian sun god (guess they changed spelling to made palindrome out of it) they also have songs with clean vocals (although often kinda weird in a form of meditative monotone chants, but still! 😅), so, since you don't enjoy black metal screams, even more reasons to further check them out! their album "triangle" has pretty much the whole spectrum from black metal to weird athmospheric percussive ambient
Hey Bryan, Persona means "a character", like in a play, not a person... It seems much more about finding the essence of yourself or perhaps embracing meaninglessness, who knows though, it's a bit too thesaurusy to fully dive into at this time 😅
You can have phonetic palindromes based on speech/sound rather than spelling though. Which makes sense since in this case they uses a 3-letter combination (Sch) for one sound, plenty of languages would use a single glyph for it (like Š)
Oh boy, one of the best musical discoveries during the past decade, let me give you a quick overview of the discography :
Album 1 : Sic Lvceat Lvx ( 2010 ) - i consider this a proof of concept album, proof that they can compose, produce, record, mix, master and package songs into an album, nothing outstanding just solid
Album 2 : Contradiction ( 2014 ) - my first contact with the band, early in 2015 i was checking out some best of 2014 lists for new interesting things and this caught my eye in one of the lists and man was it, after they've proven the capacity to produce an album they went ham on the music side, in one way more of everything, more atmosphere, more complexity, but at the same time sometimes less is more, not afraid to slow things down and add spoken passages on top, fantastic exploration of what they have to offer
Album 3 : Triangle ( 2016 ) - often found on best of the year lists for that year, a triple cd concept, each cd 33 mins long and each representing a side of their craft, a kind of deconstruction of the sound, the first is focused mostly on continuation of the heavier side, the more straightforward black metal but in their own style, the second is not as heavy, more progressive, even has clean singing, the third is mostly instrumental atmospherics, very ambitious and bold for such a young band only third album in
Album 4 : The Maldoror Chants-Hermaphrodite ( EP - 2017 ) - even if its 'only' an EP, still half an hour of solid new music and more directly follows 'Contradiction' without the splitting of styles
Album 5 : Hearts of No Light ( 2019 ) - their latest offering and a sort of reintegration of what 'Triangle' deconstructed, my personal best album of that year even edging out the excellent offerings from Wilderun and Tool
and after two years of delays ( due to lockdowns and whatnot ) their tour with Harakiri for the Sky is finally happening and im gonna see them live in a few weeks, super stoked
On spot! Been listening to them since Contradiction, too!
Wow! Schammasch is one of my favorite bands. Cool to see someone reacting to them. I enjoyed your analysis of the song!
Hey, glad you've listened to one of my most favourite bands! Been in love with their music since their second album. Šamaš was the Mesopotamian sun god, btw 🙂
Schammasch were one of the first black metal bands that I’ve ever listened to. I remember when I first heard about their album Triangle when it came out and, at first I didn’t really understand what I was listening to, but as time went on everything started to click with me, and now they’re one of my favorite black metal bands ever. I was very excited for this album when it was first announced and they didn’t disappoint
Such a dope song
Schamash is the Mesopotamian sun god! This band is really cool. They released a triple album called Triangle in 2016 where each album is a different style and has a run time of 33:30. I’d say an album reaction would be great but the third album is VERY atmospheric and “artsy” compared to the rest of the album (I normally stop after album 2)
The good thing about BM imo is that it can seamlessly switch from "slow music" to "fast music" and back.
Growl is not completely uncommon for BM, early or late, but generally you expect grim (what you called nasal) vocals from it.
That was a really awesome point Bryan. Black Metal is really slow music moving fast. I think that’s why I enjoy it so much. It’s actually very similar to doom/post-metal which I really love. And probably why I don’t love death metal as much. There’s some I like but I don’t find myself moving towards it as easily.
I'd say DM is active, or requires more of the listener's attention.
Different schools, countries/climes inform approach to an extent, but a fair amount of what falls under the umbrella of "Black metal" feels passive, impressionistic and therefore ambient, by contrast. Invoking an image moreso than imposing one.
@@dis.infectant Thanks for this. This makes sense. For me, I enjoy the music invoking an image so I can move into it. It seems I try to approach life in this manner as well. Whereas imposing an image can run me the wrong way. I guess that’s the point though if you look at the history of DM and then BM. Makes sense to me.
I'd seen the name but never bothered investigating due to it being generically interchangeable.
Was surprisingly feeling this though, and the Swiss rarely disappoint.
Their last 3 albums are very good
I personally just like black metal, both sides of it, the old stuff and the more new experimental stuff, but still some bands still use that more old style of it, but that means that I dont like every band in the genre. That goes to most things, I like Abba, but mostly I dont find Pop any enjoyment, I like Doom Metal, but mostly epic Doom Metal or Doom Metal that have more melody in it, but then I did pickup Ahab newest album today and that is Funeral Doom Metal and that is something I usually dont listen to, but sometimes it comes a band or just a album that I really like, even if I dont like the overall genre.
You keep imagining black metal played by strings doing less attacks? Man, I know I sound like a broken record on this, but you need some old Emperor in your life. Because, again, after that experiment where you put on some orchestral atmospheric patches over tremolo riffing, the "transpose our songs to classical using strings and less attacks" is exactly what Emperor did with one of their early songs, Inno a Satana, which they transpose into classical music in Opus a Satana. Again, it works because guitar parts are written not so much as traditional riffs but as instruments in an ensemble.
2:17 oh no! somebody stop him, he's becoming too powerful!!1
shamash is akkadian sun god (guess they changed spelling to made palindrome out of it)
they also have songs with clean vocals (although often kinda weird in a form of meditative monotone chants, but still! 😅), so, since you don't enjoy black metal screams, even more reasons to further check them out!
their album "triangle" has pretty much the whole spectrum from black metal to weird athmospheric percussive ambient
Shamash is still a palindrome, this is just German spelling I think ;)
@@MichaelKing-qe6uq oh, yeah, right, lol 🤣 thanks!
Can you react to a local chicago band I’ve seen a couple times called scumbagskippy they’ve got two songs out
Yeah I'll see what I can do
@@CriticalReactions thank you😁
🎸🤘🏻🕯. Switzerland 🇨🇭 Band 🖤🖤
Hey Bryan,
Persona means "a character", like in a play, not a person... It seems much more about finding the essence of yourself or perhaps embracing meaninglessness, who knows though, it's a bit too thesaurusy to fully dive into at this time 😅
Burzum - Jeg Faller .. judge the art not the artist. id love to hear your take on this one. the lyrics are interesting too, to say the least
Al fin un poco de Black Metal hermano✨
Guess i now like Black Metal. Thank you.
I'm pretty much there too. This is some of the best black metal I've heard yet.
@@CriticalReactions I didn't think I was going to like it. I surprise myself. : )
reminds me of mgla ...Shemesh means "Sun" in Hebrew
I thought the schamasch was the candle that lit the others on a chanukeah and meant "servant"
It’s not a palindrome.
Woooow. Welp I guess that lives on the internet forever 😅
Eh, its close enough. When pronounced it is a palindrome, even though written it is not.
You can have phonetic palindromes based on speech/sound rather than spelling though. Which makes sense since in this case they uses a 3-letter combination (Sch) for one sound, plenty of languages would use a single glyph for it (like Š)