For me, it was Periphery's self titled album and Bulb (Misha Mansoor's) demo tape with 100+ snippets of djent and electronica madness. I still remember being innocent enough thinking it would be cool to show my grandma "Insomnia". I'll never forget her reaction 😂 "Oh my god! Turn that off!" Oh, grandma...
one hundred percent, this album from beginning to end, as a guitarist who sometimes dabbles in other instruments, i have to say the musicianship is so beautifully diverse, a rollercoaster ride of emotions with this song to top it off and bring you down the last incline. Reminds me that their are still boundaries to pushed on guitar, start to lose hope with all of the riff and style regurgitation going on these days.
One of my best friends fav songs from veil, showed me them in high school. They just found his body in the woods a few days ago. RIP Matt, you were a real one
@@tortueninja3008dude, no shit, just had a dream about him last night, woke up, came outside to have a cig and played this song, and there’s a new comment from 22 hours ago saying RIP. Life’s a trip man. Thanks for this 🙏 PS: Happy New Year to YOU and YOURS, FR!
+dkskate Indeed man. I don't know where music is going anymore. Each subgenre of Core is becoming worse and worse. This was the pinnacle of Hardcore and it's Core brothers, along with it's Djenty cousins.
yeah it's all slowly becoming the same. almost all the bands, especially those pictured in the video are heading in the same direction. there is some good djent out there, but their djentifying influences are just horrible. same screams, same clean vocals, same melodies, no flow, no speed, one string, one chord, boring stuff. like BoO and Periphery and VoM. Three albums - New reign, Common man's collapse and Periphery 1 - best albums of those three bands.
***** The Discovery is BoO's best album in all honesty. The Common Man's Collapse is always going to be the best VoM ever puts out, and as for Periphery, I can't speak for them, as i'm not a fan of them, however, Exist by Reflections will always be their best as well. And.. they went to trash also..
+Nordy Zirangua I know I like the new album alot, it's just common man's collapse is amazing and I miss the style of it in a way. shit even eclipse was amazing. one of my favorite albums ever. codex on ID I will always jam because it's just so melodically brutal and beautiful.
tbh the intro is the best part for me. those blazing tech death riffs, blast beat drumming and machine gun fills along with the prog time signature changes. this is a masterpiece. we need more metal like this
Same. Caught them last month on the Dance Gavin Dance tour with Polyphia ,Eidola , and Wolf & Bear. Holy $#!t man. Veil came on and I was like 😮🤤😍😜🤘🤯. Take my $
This band has so much GODAMN potential it's absurd. First 2min I only stayed because the drummer and guitar rifts were amazing. When the vocalist stopped his embarrassing chortling, his screaming was solid AF. He was totally carried by the rest of the band by far though.
idk i mean brandon is a monster. the gurgly false chords he does are so difficult to do, yet the real marvel is his lung capacity. this man sounds just as perfect live which is unheard of with vocalists like this. i mean i have been using, practicing, and performing the same technique he does for three years and i still don’t have a third of his breath control.
VoM's first three albums with Brandon Butler was their magnum opus. Lukas' a good vocalist, but I really miss the sound of this band's first Sumerian releases.
Always felt a unique emotional quality in the sound of Veil Of Maya on TCMC album that was experienced similarly only with My Bitter End via their sophomore release The Renovation.
I definitely agree, I'm a massive [id] fan and Eclipse is pretty good as well, but this will always be my favorite. Michael Keene is a damn good producer (and VoM are great musicians of course)
Somewhere around idk maybe 2014ish is when the metal and bands I liked just became so fucking overproduced. The change in sound from [id] to Eclipse is nuts, and I enjoyed Eclipse back when it came out. Looking back, I only want to hear stuff off those first 2 albums now because of how raw it sounds compared to all the compression to come later.
I agree. A similar tone of guitar I've found is Breakdown of Sanity. Their album Mirrors has a similar deep guitar tone as well as similar vocals. Breakdown of Sanity is quite good in my opinion. I presume that you have heard of Structures, since they are on Sumerian Records like Veil of Maya. Structures has a very similar (and questionably more brutal) guitar tone, but it's contrasted by clean vocals and pop blasts. Both are worth looking into.
There’s just no way around it. This is VoM at their absolute best, full stop. It makes me sad that we don’t get this type of album often. Albums like Nocturnal by TBDM or Planetary Duality by The Faceless. Just 100% solid albums that demand they be listened to front to back that are also filled with deathmetal/core/progdeath/techdeath/melodeath/“whatever other sub-genre you wanna call it” classics. I wish the genre would start melting faces again with gnarly riffs rather than all the chugga chug, downtuned open chords and 1/4 tempo breakdowns. I mean, it’s heavy. It’s just boring sometimes.
I just recently came across planetary duality by the faceless and i can say its one of my favorites but tcmc is easily my favorite metal album of all time
I agree with everything you said. Im more of a Death Metal, Black and Thrash guy when it comes to Extreme Metal but I wish Death Core would go back to its roots. Too much experimentation in the genre has killed it for me. Just go back to the roots!! Death Metal fused with Hardcore. All this Djent, Beatdown, and now Alternative music (talking to you Whitechapel) blending into Deathcore is killing it for me. A lot of these bands just either sold out or ran out of ideas and they all sound the same anymore. Sure there's still some bands pumping out sick shit but they're more or less in the under ground. The only big Deathcore band that stayed true and evolved the right way is Carnifex
@W1LD5N0RL4X You need to listen to a couple times to rally love it. My favorites off the album: Shattering the skies above, forsake not the dream, a skyline's severance, and Watch the world burn.
Breakdown of sanity and veil of many are two differnt metal bands they dont compare they both excell in tje art of amazing music and are my top 2 structures on the other hand is decent ive seen em once pretty brutal but could be cleaner
RIP Kevin love you brother.... these songs you showed will always be here
Heavy nostalgia. To be young and discovering this music for the first time again 😭😊
For me, it was Periphery's self titled album and Bulb (Misha Mansoor's) demo tape with 100+ snippets of djent and electronica madness.
I still remember being innocent enough thinking it would be cool to show my grandma "Insomnia". I'll never forget her reaction 😂
"Oh my god! Turn that off!"
Oh, grandma...
This album resonates more than ever. I hope it's discovered a million times.
Best song of Veil of Maya. Hands down.
Nope. Mark the lines or Mowgli.
this one is the best and forever
We Bow In It's Aura
either this, its not safe to swim today, codex, or all things set aside imho.
It's so true
one hundred percent, this album from beginning to end, as a guitarist who sometimes dabbles in other instruments, i have to say the musicianship is so beautifully diverse, a rollercoaster ride of emotions with this song to top it off and bring you down the last incline. Reminds me that their are still boundaries to pushed on guitar, start to lose hope with all of the riff and style regurgitation going on these days.
This is the greatest song of all time.
Take it easy brochacho.. Deff a banger but GOAT? i think not..
Everyone is talking about the sequence at 2:58 but god damn this whole song and this whole album makes me feel that way. I cant get enough.
I got said sequence tattooed on my arm bc fuck yeah
One of my best friends fav songs from veil, showed me them in high school. They just found his body in the woods a few days ago. RIP Matt, you were a real one
my condolences 💔
Rip Matt my condolences 🕊️❤️
@@tortueninja3008dude, no shit, just had a dream about him last night, woke up, came outside to have a cig and played this song, and there’s a new comment from 22 hours ago saying RIP. Life’s a trip man. Thanks for this 🙏
PS: Happy New Year to YOU and YOURS, FR!
Lots of my friends that knew this album have passed. We are all here now though
I don't believe you
been jamming this album again a lot lately; holy fuck i miss this vom so much
Daniel Mackie -same
Been jammin this since it was fresh. Named my (now) 7 yr old pet after them. Very sad that they arent still this VoM
Me almost everyday
Word. The only thing I don't like about the new VoM is that they aren't playing riffs like the old VoM.
@@jeh2240 Mark has to be itching to break out his technical riffage my man.
God I miss those vocals.. I miss this veil of maya..
What a breakdown. I want Okubo's hands for this christmas.
i just want his brain :D
Pause
one of the greatest songs of its kind
+dkskate Indeed man. I don't know where music is going anymore. Each subgenre of Core is becoming worse and worse. This was the pinnacle of Hardcore and it's Core brothers, along with it's Djenty cousins.
yeah it's all slowly becoming the same. almost all the bands, especially those pictured in the video are heading in the same direction. there is some good djent out there, but their djentifying influences are just horrible. same screams, same clean vocals, same melodies, no flow, no speed, one string, one chord, boring stuff. like BoO and Periphery and VoM. Three albums - New reign, Common man's collapse and Periphery 1 - best albums of those three bands.
***** The Discovery is BoO's best album in all honesty. The Common Man's Collapse is always going to be the best VoM ever puts out, and as for Periphery, I can't speak for them, as i'm not a fan of them, however, Exist by Reflections will always be their best as well. And.. they went to trash also..
Malcefium Mike well. it seems that it is a matter of "to each his own" :D
Veil of Maya has some fucking amazing work, but this one just gives me goose bumps like no other
Stroodle01588 yeah but its amazing to get those goose bumps
10 years later this still blows my mind.
I saw them recently...bummer
same
I barely consider them a band now its hard for me to get through one song
@@SumerianRecords why can’t I find the original rareform album from after the burial ? Asking for a friend .
@@kharon6784 they got a new singer(?) that's all I can think of and it has a better mix
one of my all time favorite songs. I miss this veil so much. I still love them but, man these days were the absolute shit.
Chris Crowe MIKASA is a really cool song m8
+Nordy Zirangua I know I like the new album alot, it's just common man's collapse is amazing and I miss the style of it in a way. shit even eclipse was amazing. one of my favorite albums ever. codex on ID I will always jam because it's just so melodically brutal and beautiful.
I've had the 2:58 riff stuck in my head for years now.
BeaverChaser OMG, for that past 4 months I get that riff stuck in my head daily. It's groovy
+BeaverChaser fuck yes man that riff is one of my favorite ever. Marc Okubo is SUCH an underrated guitarist when it comes to writing guitar riffs.
A little late, but for me it’s 0:58. I hope there’s still people that respect this for what it is.
Since 2012. Literally. That riff. Has brought me back everytime.
@@dirtydan958 no kidding me too. don't suppose you're maltese?
This album still musically stumps all of their rest.
It's not safe to swim today, please go back to this album.
so glad i came back to this album such tasty riffs
this is the perfect racing/driving song. well done veil of maya! ❤️💯👌🏾
Song is sick as a whole, but 2:20 really does it for me man.
CMC was hands down the best album. I really liked Eclipse and Matriarch too but this album is the best.
I think we can all agree 2:22 is "Not Fucking Around Time"
I still have this album on CD 🤗
Saw em live w/born of osiris/the faceless... best gig ever
tbh the intro is the best part for me. those blazing tech death riffs, blast beat drumming and machine gun fills along with the prog time signature changes. this is a masterpiece. we need more metal like this
MArk says that maybe its time for another common mans collapse, sadly brandon is not in vom anymore
And to think that I found these guys fantastic during the Eclipse era when I saw them live. HOLY SHIT! This absolutely blows my mind!
3:30 onwards is just unreal.
you mean 0:00 onward is unreal
I grab the edge of my senses
Their best album. It just plain slaps.
I remember seeing these guys not knowing who they were at all! They blew me away! Such good times!
Same. Caught them last month on the Dance Gavin Dance tour with Polyphia ,Eidola , and Wolf & Bear. Holy $#!t man. Veil came on and I was like 😮🤤😍😜🤘🤯. Take my $
emotion conveyed here is really something.. human struggle and the divine beyond...
This song is simply their best song ever written.
2:20, right there baby, right there.
This is such a classic
0:00 - 5:02 AMAZING RIFF!!!!
Great song to play on guitar. Really fun to play.
OHH MY GOD i never heard this album before, awesome!!
This band has so much GODAMN potential it's absurd. First 2min I only stayed because the drummer and guitar rifts were amazing. When the vocalist stopped his embarrassing chortling, his screaming was solid AF. He was totally carried by the rest of the band by far though.
idk i mean brandon is a monster. the gurgly false chords he does are so difficult to do, yet the real marvel is his lung capacity. this man sounds just as perfect live which is unheard of with vocalists like this. i mean i have been using, practicing, and performing the same technique he does for three years and i still don’t have a third of his breath control.
Shutty
4:13 my favorite 5 seconds of metal ever
jck 1794 so short but so sweet; half the reason I listen to this song 😂
Over 4 years later and this is still my favorite song ever.
This is probably to me one of VoM's best songs. The galloping riff leading up near the end and then 2:57 - 3:31 is the sickest riff ever.
Hands down, best song ever.
One of veils best songs .. Just awesome :D
VoM's first three albums with Brandon Butler was their magnum opus. Lukas' a good vocalist, but I really miss the sound of this band's first Sumerian releases.
This whole album is brilliant! Nice fuckin' job VOM. You guys are particularly great live too. Keep it up!
Always felt a unique emotional quality in the sound of Veil Of Maya on TCMC album that was experienced similarly only with My Bitter End via their sophomore release The Renovation.
I get the same thing from old Between the buried and Me albums (2002-2007)
I’m so happy to read this. The renovation was so ahead of it’s time. Not enough recognition. I agree 100% with your comment
Slowly the path begins to crumble and schflplit. OOHHH
Mark Okubo \m/
Yeah I love how they sound on this album, I really never get sick of it. I do say that I also like id and eclipse, but this album is incredible.
my favourite riff to play, ever.
Whoa.... these guys are addictive
Instruments are perfect and blend in with the feeling and mood of the lyrics.
I definitely agree, I'm a massive [id] fan and Eclipse is pretty good as well, but this will always be my favorite. Michael Keene is a damn good producer (and VoM are great musicians of course)
Why do they slap so hard
...why not.😆🤘
FUCKING INSANE RIFFS
This is my favorite song of all time. The riffs are so fucking catchy and beautiful and melodic and simply amazing!!!!
This will be the song playing at my funeral. The one day I can force all my loved ones to shut up and listen.
2:58 Best riff ever!
Somewhere around idk maybe 2014ish is when the metal and bands I liked just became so fucking overproduced. The change in sound from [id] to Eclipse is nuts, and I enjoyed Eclipse back when it came out. Looking back, I only want to hear stuff off those first 2 albums now because of how raw it sounds compared to all the compression to come later.
I GRAB THE END OF MY SENSES! PULLING THEM , TO REALITY! AND AS I SEE WHO I AM NOW! THIS IS THE PATH TO BEING FREE! fuck yeah... cosmic
This is amazing.
The double bass when put together with the guitar doing some chugs had a very crushing sound to it. I really miss it.
This song sounds so metalcore inna lot of different areas.
The best
I agree.
A similar tone of guitar I've found is Breakdown of Sanity. Their album Mirrors has a similar deep guitar tone as well as similar vocals.
Breakdown of Sanity is quite good in my opinion.
I presume that you have heard of Structures, since they are on Sumerian Records like Veil of Maya.
Structures has a very similar (and questionably more brutal) guitar tone, but it's contrasted by clean vocals and pop blasts.
Both are worth looking into.
That riff at 2:58 tho
Remember when you could easily tell it was VOM 10 seconds into a song?
In a scale of 1 to 10, i give this infinity
my favorite VOM song
lyrics remind me of Dante from The Inferno
spot on
This song is badass. 0:50- 1:50 is so beautiful
Masters of progressive metal.
love that guitar tone :) it's like... soft but heavy
I love those 9/8 parts in the middle.
this is my alarm clock every morning...
years ago my old boss said you'll change what you listen to when you get older. 10 years later. I GUESS I SEE WHO I AM NOW!
Lol @ that bastard chain riff at the end. Still love em.
Err mer Gerd! Veirl erv Meryer!!!
There’s just no way around it. This is VoM at their absolute best, full stop. It makes me sad that we don’t get this type of album often.
Albums like Nocturnal by TBDM or Planetary Duality by The Faceless. Just 100% solid albums that demand they be listened to front to back that are also filled with deathmetal/core/progdeath/techdeath/melodeath/“whatever other sub-genre you wanna call it” classics.
I wish the genre would start melting faces again with gnarly riffs rather than all the chugga chug, downtuned open chords and 1/4 tempo breakdowns. I mean, it’s heavy. It’s just boring sometimes.
I just recently came across planetary duality by the faceless and i can say its one of my favorites but tcmc is easily my favorite metal album of all time
Dude I am inclined to 100% agree with everything you just said, glad I'm not the only who feels this way lol.
Yes i agree that the faceless hit the mark on that,
I agree with everything you said. Im more of a Death Metal, Black and Thrash guy when it comes to Extreme Metal but I wish Death Core would go back to its roots. Too much experimentation in the genre has killed it for me. Just go back to the roots!! Death Metal fused with Hardcore. All this Djent, Beatdown, and now Alternative music (talking to you Whitechapel) blending into Deathcore is killing it for me. A lot of these bands just either sold out or ran out of ideas and they all sound the same anymore. Sure there's still some bands pumping out sick shit but they're more or less in the under ground. The only big Deathcore band that stayed true and evolved the right way is Carnifex
Feel like im readibg my own thoughts. Those are my favorite 2.
Its Torn Away
Damn, that was a ride.
I do that every day and it doesn't hurt a bit
AGREED
Deathcore VoM was the best VoM
2:20 - 3:00 that riff!!
YES, so good my friend
i will miss this style, personally i didn't like at all the cleans on their new song but is still a good song.
Eclipse was way better than [id] which to me went in too deep ( \m/ ) for my tastes, but The Common Mans Collapse always wins in my heart.
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!! ya!!!! im cool
4:05
Nice Reclamation pic
i feel the exact same way about early As I Lay Dying. VoM is so legit.
TRIPLE MONSTRE
9700 views... really? this deserves like 1000000000000000 views...
2:58 to 3:30 is such an awesome riff
one of the songs they made that has like no repeats
3:33 - 3:50 IS THE BEST F***ING PART IN ALL OF VEIL OF MAYA BI***!!!!
YEAAAAAAH!!!!
@W1LD5N0RL4X You need to listen to a couple times to rally love it. My favorites off the album: Shattering the skies above, forsake not the dream, a skyline's severance, and Watch the world burn.
@asilayloathing Yes indeed. I agree with you. That tour was amazing
0:00 i keep playing and its soooo good
2:30 to the end of the song is just like holy fuck
Breakdown of sanity and veil of many are two differnt metal bands they dont compare they both excell in tje art of amazing music and are my top 2 structures on the other hand is decent ive seen em once pretty brutal but could be cleaner