GORGEOUS MIXING OF GENRES // Haggard - And Thou Shalt Trust... The Seer // Composer Reaction
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Haggard's album "And Thou Shalt Trust... The Seer"
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00:00 Intro
01:59 Reaction: The Day as Heaven Wept
07:46 Reaction: Origin of a Crystal Soul
13:53 Analysis: Folk Classical Metal?
17:37 Analysis: Sonic Cohesion, Structural Chaos
26:28 Analysis: Inverted Symphonic Metal
28:42 Analysis: Quiet Guitars and Rough Production
32:55 Analysis: Time Is A Suggestion
37:18 Analysis: Fantastic Writing
42:51 Analysis: Some Background Info
47:30 Lyrical Dive: Heaven Wept
51:27 Lyrical Dive: Crystal Soul
55:09 Reaction: Requiem in D-minor
58:01 Reaction: In a Pale Moon's Shadow
1:07:37 Analysis: UnIntuitive Flow
1:11:09 Analysis: Ruined By Metal
1:15:39 Analysis: Multi Layered Melody
1:24:36 Lyrical Dive: Moon's Shadow
1:32:10 Reaction: Cantus firmus in A-minor
1:35:01 Reaction: De la morte noire
1:43:05 Analysis: Interlude Purpose
1:47:35 Analysis: Variation on Ideas
1:51:20 Analysis: Phrasing and Cohesion
1:56:10 Lyrical Dive: Morte Noire
2:06:09 Reaction: Lost
2:10:55 Reaction: A Midnight Gathering
2:13:58 Analysis: A Rock Ballad
2:18:14 Analysis: A Ritual Ending
2:20:41 Analysis: A Twist on the Composition
2:23:26 Lyrical Dive: Lost
2:30:53 Lyrical Dive: Midnight Gathering
2:32:25 Analysis: A Meta-contextual Ending?
2:38:17 Outro
#reaction #haggard #symphonicmetal
Excellent reaction, i think you will appreciate their other three albums (Awaking The Centuries, Eppur Si Muove, Tales of Ithiria)
Also you have a reaction to Haggard ( Upon Fallen Autumn Leaves)
I hope you will do Awaking The Centuries at some point in the future. For me it's their magnum opus. Eppur Si Muove is also very good but feels more accessible and less adventurous.
You did do a reaction to haggard the song was upon fallen autumn leaves, love that you did this full album, very underrated album in my opinion
Haggard, together with Therion, are in fact regarded as pioneers in Symphonic Metal. Productionwise their albums get better as time progresses, I recommend "Eppur Si Muove" for a listen, way clearer in the mix!
I would also recommend listening to Elend first 3 albums.
@@benjaminhouse4500 Elend are a wild byproduct of the 90s and it would be pretty interesting for Bryan to get to grips with them.
@@benjaminhouse4500Was thinking the same thing when he said it would be interesting with an entire folky/classical album!
Theatre of Tragedy as well, although not as symphonic they still were an inspiration to so many.
@@Kraakesolv They certainly were among the first to do the "Beauty and the Beast" vocal style in a consistent way and not just as a gimmick.
From the same time like the others too, mid to late 90's...
Одна из моих любимых групп.🤘🤘🤘 Было время слушал только их.
A perfect example of why I keep saying 90s metal was just an incredible and in many ways irrepeatable explosion of creativity.
Since this came on way back in 1997 we've had bands expanding on symphonic and neoclassical aspects and many of them are incredibly slick and polished. And very few of them can conjure an expression of sheer delight as this does on occasion. Even if it's occasionally very clunky, it benefits from it in many ways. There's such a feel of playing it by ear while completely disregarding norms and conventions, of something done in an era where none of the people doing it were quite sure they would have an actual audience for it, but they still nagged that friend they knew who played in the conservatory or something like that and somehow convinced them to go along into playing on an obscure metal album.
ANd a lot of this is indeed manic energy. People playing around with high concept, but not quite knowing how to pull it off. Bands like Epica or Nightwish would eventually find a formula that is very much fit for mass consumption and sounds slick and professional and pretty impressive, provided you don't expect it to go very deep.
And to situate you, 97 was a fantastically creative year. It brought us Emperor's second album which saw Ishan become established as a fenomenal composer and has dynamics that transcdend most of what you would consider black metal (while being very much black metal), you had Arcturus doing a Satanic Andrew Lloyd Webber album complete with chamber music and trip hop touches, In The Woods... going from Pagan black metal to proggy doom metal, Solefald doing a black metal album about philosophy that sounds lime they are openly mocking the genre from within, 3rd and The Mortal mixing jazz and metal Dead Can Dance. The precedents were already there, and folk, baroque and classical elements were already a fixture of many bands ut everyone was still very much doing theit own thing, guided by a mix of experimentation, youthful enthusiasm, and some isiot savantism, all elements that this album captures in spades. It sounds very dated by todays standards, but it also quite paradoxically sounds very out on a limb.
ToT, Velvet Darkness they Fear! Or was that 96?
Best in the genre(s) also later albums are much better at mixing and stitching things together