@@SognafarThis album is fcking unreal man. Just the absolute perfect balance of brutality, beauty, storytelling. Production is amazing, the band is firing on all cylinders
How are people falling out of their love for this band, or dissing the screams? This is what BTBAM has always been, and it is a formula that has worked. If you don't like it, then that is fine. But where do you people get that they have declined? If anything, they have never found their peak. And to the gentleman who used 'Fall Out Boy' as a comparison to BTBAM, please find your nearest cliff and drive off of it.
Brent Elliott Completely agree with this, I think BTBAM just keeps getting better and I think they have yet to reach their peak like you said, can't wait to see where they go next.
Saw them for the first time on tour with Terror back in '02 and I still love them! They've only gotten better. Especially the screams. Miles better than back in the day. Go listen to Aspirations then come back and listen to this.
And Thomas' screams are pretty easy to understand the lyrics. I used to hate screams and never thought I would get into death/prog, so I guess it's just how it develops... I started with maiden and metallica, then I wanted to listen to more complicated stuff. As far as sound and technical skills go, Paul, Dustie, Dan, Thomas and blake are some of the most talented musicians. They never over do anything, it all blends well. Whereas bands like haken or dream theater, they can be really cheesy sometimes. Thomas has one of the best screams in metal and he's just as good at singing...
I dunno, I find early BTBAM stuff hard to listen to because, as Blake (I think) said in an interview, they sort of used to just write a bunch of stuff and put it all in, whereas now they write it all, and see if something fits, otherwise just cutting it out. Colours, Alaska, The Great Misdirect - I like the albums, but damn they are hard to listen to sometimes. Parallax 2 and Coma Ecliptic are their two best albums in my opinion, but that's probably because I like a good amount of melody thrown in.
Dude what I group up on the early stuff. Been listening since 2002. The self titled, silent circus and Alaska albums are amazing. I love all there stuff.
Legend has it they still can't right a full album of good songs after 20 years- this one is good. It's in some trancdental idealism at the school i was in - after showing up to play at starlight room. Now go listen to change of seasons.
I've listened to these guys since their first album came out back when I was in high school.... To witness the evolution of this band has truly been amazing....thank you for your music, you've been a big part of my life
I only discovered these guys with colors 2, this album came out when I was in middle school haha. Now they’re my favorite band and I’ve seen them twice this year
A movie, a big great movie that goes with the songs, no talking, just the music and eventually the lyrics on background (and some written sentences)... Starting with Swim to the Moon, going by Lost Perfection, Prequel to the Sequel, Parallax I, Fossil Genera and ending with Parallax II... I can image all the scenes going by while listening to songs, but watching them in a movie... Thank you BTBAM for your songs and all the feelings I get from them...
Too much slow motion and hardly one part where the audio was spot on with the video. The quality is superb but a live-video should stay a live-video. Musicians will approve that it's totally killing it when you see something totally different im comparison to what you hear! Still one of my favorite bands out there so don't feel trolled by my comment please! Thanks BTBAM for your absolutely inspiring music! cheers from Austria, hope to see you soon!
I would love the see this band again, the last and only time I saw this band was only after the release of their very first album. And they were something to see then. I'd imagine that would be ten fold now.
Chris Porter Well there you go man, the only evidence that its actually my hand is because of the watch I wear and the watch I saw in the video on the same hand I wear mine.
I'm finally starting to like this band...it takes so long to appreciate their stuff because of their song structures but turns out it was worth it! Kinda like how I was struggling to get into opeth at first but now opeth is my favorite band
An absolute masterpiece of a song.... BTBAM deserves all the accolades and a place in the pantheon of the best progressive bands of this generation... The video brings the aura of the song down a little bit (Slo Mo)... A masterpiece nonetheless
Welcome to the club. The first time I ever heard them was live it was right after they put out Alaska they were playing the pound in san francisco with into the moat and black dahlia murder.I thought they were just going to be some lame victory records scremo band I would have to sit through to get to BDM and they changed every thing I knew about alive show and just what metal is needless to say they were the highlight of the evening and have been my favorite band ever since.
will it be foooound? will the right hands deliveeeer? the heartache I lefffft! my favorite part. sounds like a reggae style beat or at least how the beat is supposed to follow a heartbeat. fucking magic to my ears. eargasms for days with this album in general
laber mich nicht zu completely subjective. For me personally, Dream Theater brings far more to the table than BTBAM in terms of melody and composition. BTBAM is a bit to sporadic and "out there" for me at times. I love the new album though. By far their best for me.
laber mich nicht zu Once again, completely subjective. There is absolutely nothing about pre-black clouds Dream Theater that is flat or boring to me. Octavarium is a masterpiece of concept and composition. It hits home on e level that no other music ever has for me. BTBAM just doesn't have that kind of effect on me. I can't listen to BTBAM and get goosebumps from beautiful melodies and incredibly moving concepts like I can from Dream Theater. I love both bands, but BTBAM, if any, is the one that falls flat and boring at times to my ear.
Damn why did I nver here this on "The Rock Show" on the now defunct xFM. I loved that show and it introduced me to some good stuff I would never have listened to otherwise. Good job lads keep it up.
before i will tell you my probably unpopular opinion, i'm gonna start with the most important. i love btbam and i love this song... but this video is crap. i would never watch it again and i will tell you why. the video distracted me from actually hearing the song, it felt completely odd and wrong for me. nearly 70% of this video is held in slow motion and without any reference on what is actually played in the song. you hear a great and fast guitar solo, but you see blake hitting his drums (in slow motion). the song fastens up, you hear blake going wild on his drums but you see a guy crowdsurfing (in slow motion). btbam is known and loved for its complex and fast switching time signatures, but this video isn't worth to be related to them.
The thing about BTBAM for me is that I find myself waiting for certain parts of the song, and evetything else is kind of leading up to thise parts. Kind of nice, but kind of annoying sometimes to, especially when there's 10 minutes of death/folk/jazz in between the peaks. For example "will it be found, will the right hands deliver" - love that part, while some parts are pretty much, "get it done with already". Same goes for Ants of the sky, Always find myself waiting for "THE WALKING DEAAD" and than the awesome guitar harmony part.
I understand what you're talking about. Basically you only enjoy the climax of their songs which are usually some epic clean harmonies. I had the same problem with Ants of the Sky at first but if you listen to a song enough you begin to really appreciate the thing as a whole and find that btbam are geniuses when it comes to building up into those parts.
I don't think everyone freaking out about how much they think this video sucks takes into consideration that Metal Blade may have the ability to put out content representing BTBAM without their "ok". BTBAM or Metal Blade, or both, probably put this video out to start building/maintain hype for the coming media (notice the reddit AMA, studio blu ray, and new album coming). It doesn't suck near as much as other bands videos. Just go search.
man there are a bunch of whiners commenting on this. i love the video, i think it was meant more to capture the essence of the live show which i think was done really well.
fucking love the song, mates. what's with the slow-mo? I feel like part of the purpose of seeing a music video with such proficient instrumentalists is to watch them play. at least i got to watch a bunch of concert goers wave their hands around
The actual footage looks amazing, but this video is just annoying to look at when it's slowed down so much, for such a fast paced song. The actual uncut footage of the performance would have been better than slowing down the footage.
would definitely have liked to see a more theatrical video like Astral Bodies. show sync stuff kinda dumbs down how fucking awesome this song/album is/are.
I can't disagree more. Would pay double for a copy of this album with that part edited out, it just carries on too long. Apparently I'm just a grouch about needless repetition though.
video drives me crazy...none of the music matches up and the slow mo's are annoying. that being said, awesome song by awesome band. just gonna listen to it on my ipod from now on
My absolute favorite band of all time. I've seen them close to 20 times and I love this song, but this video isn't that great. It just irks me that so much of the footage was clearly not them playing this actual song, or at least not them playing the part of the song that the video synced up to. Still, considering how rare a music video from BTBAM is, I'll take it. Can't wait for the DVD.
My favourite band of all time and song. The video, not so much. The constant slow-mo is a bit disturbing imo. But still, the footage of the awesome crowd and guitar fingering is great!
This was a very cool video but I agree that they should cut down in the slow-mo a bit. At certain places it was sweet but a little too much. Also certain parts weren't synced right. But overall I liked it.
Best band ever. Please make more albums like The Parallax II. Shits fucking amazing!
It literally isn't possible to top this album by them. P2 is without a doubt their magnum opus even to this date
@@SognafarThis album is fcking unreal man. Just the absolute perfect balance of brutality, beauty, storytelling. Production is amazing, the band is firing on all cylinders
@@Childofbhaal im seeing it this friday 😭😭😭😭
How are people falling out of their love for this band, or dissing the screams? This is what BTBAM has always been, and it is a formula that has worked. If you don't like it, then that is fine. But where do you people get that they have declined? If anything, they have never found their peak.
And to the gentleman who used 'Fall Out Boy' as a comparison to BTBAM, please find your nearest cliff and drive off of it.
Fuck my life u covered me 150 % . peak ? there is no peak for them ! par2 is theyr best album yet (for me)
Brent Elliott Completely agree with this, I think BTBAM just keeps getting better and I think they have yet to reach their peak like you said, can't wait to see where they go next.
Saw them for the first time on tour with Terror back in '02 and I still love them!
They've only gotten better. Especially the screams. Miles better than back in the day. Go listen to Aspirations then come back and listen to this.
And Thomas' screams are pretty easy to understand the lyrics.
I used to hate screams and never thought I would get into death/prog, so I guess it's just how it develops... I started with maiden and metallica, then I wanted to listen to more complicated stuff.
As far as sound and technical skills go, Paul, Dustie, Dan, Thomas and blake are some of the most talented musicians. They never over do anything, it all blends well. Whereas bands like haken or dream theater, they can be really cheesy sometimes.
Thomas has one of the best screams in metal and he's just as good at singing...
I dunno, I find early BTBAM stuff hard to listen to because, as Blake (I think) said in an interview, they sort of used to just write a bunch of stuff and put it all in, whereas now they write it all, and see if something fits, otherwise just cutting it out. Colours, Alaska, The Great Misdirect - I like the albums, but damn they are hard to listen to sometimes.
Parallax 2 and Coma Ecliptic are their two best albums in my opinion, but that's probably because I like a good amount of melody thrown in.
IMO. Greatest band ever. I never get tired of listening to any album from Colors to the present.
Still true to this day!
Couldn't agree more 🤘
Alaska is good too
Dude what I group up on the early stuff. Been listening since 2002. The self titled, silent circus and Alaska albums are amazing. I love all there stuff.
Saw them for the 5th time tonight. they played this and I nearly passed out from how intense the crowd was. Easily my favorite song
Legend has It that the editor had just learned the slow motion effect, loved It and unillaterally decided that the whole video would be just using it
Legend has it they still can't right a full album of good songs after 20 years- this one is good. It's in some trancdental idealism at the school i was in - after showing up to play at starlight room. Now go listen to change of seasons.
I've listened to these guys since their first album came out back when I was in high school.... To witness the evolution of this band has truly been amazing....thank you for your music, you've been a big part of my life
Same. First saw them at Chain Reaction with Terror, of all bands. lol
7 years later and I arrive to give you a thumbs up cause same - and they're still going and evolving!
I only discovered these guys with colors 2, this album came out when I was in middle school haha. Now they’re my favorite band and I’ve seen them twice this year
This is still my fave album of theirs and one of my favorites of all time. I listen to this day in day out (literally)
Between the Buried and Me "Lay Your Slow-Mos to Rest"
Revisiting Nashville tonight almost ten years later to witness this. My life changed on October 25th 2013, forever grateful
That tour changed my life in Toronto. Thank You Scientist, Rivers of Nihil, and then P2 was absolutely stunning.
It took me a while to get into this band. There is just so much to take in when listening to their music.
A movie, a big great movie that goes with the songs, no talking, just the music and eventually the lyrics on background (and some written sentences)... Starting with Swim to the Moon, going by Lost Perfection, Prequel to the Sequel, Parallax I, Fossil Genera and ending with Parallax II... I can image all the scenes going by while listening to songs, but watching them in a movie... Thank you BTBAM for your songs and all the feelings I get from them...
BTBAM is one of the most talented metal bands ever for sure they put on the best show for sure and live there are insane
Too much slow motion and hardly one part where the audio was spot on with the video. The quality is superb but a live-video should stay a live-video. Musicians will approve that it's totally killing it when you see something totally different im comparison to what you hear!
Still one of my favorite bands out there so don't feel trolled by my comment please!
Thanks BTBAM for your absolutely inspiring music!
cheers from Austria, hope to see you soon!
Well, this made we want to re-listen to the album, again, for the hundredth time.
My favourite track off this album for sure. Was unreal live.
I would love the see this band again, the last and only time I saw this band was only after the release of their very first album. And they were something to see then. I'd imagine that would be ten fold now.
You're still so lucky. I haven't seen them even one time yet and I will never that's makes me sobbing
I was at that nasvhille show it was the best concert I have ever been to hands down.
Geoff Hirt I was also there, cant find me in the video though. I dont remember there being a guy waving a flag around
I think I saw my right hand but I can't confirm lol
lol me too XD. I was wearing a thick ass rubber BTBAM bracelet so mine is a little more "Confirmed" haha
Chris Porter Well there you go man, the only evidence that its actually my hand is because of the watch I wear and the watch I saw in the video on the same hand I wear mine.
That was me, lol
I'm finally starting to like this band...it takes so long to appreciate their stuff because of their song structures but turns out it was worth it! Kinda like how I was struggling to get into opeth at first but now opeth is my favorite band
How did you get into Opeth and then have a hard time getting into BTBAM?
harrison felice the same way, that's the point of the whole comment
+harrison felice I was the same; got into Opeth pretty easily after a few listens but it took me way longer to get into BTBAM
How cool would it be to have Opeth play Blackwater Park and BtBaM play Colors both in full, one concert, holy shit
TundraL5Z Holy shit is all I can say
Simply stunning. This perfectly captures the energy at any BTBAM show. "Slow motion for me, Slow motion for me."
So fricken good! Colors and the parallax part 2 are masterpieces!
Conner Green (Haken) and Dan Briggs, are some of the best bassists we have
Love this song. Especially the break down with normal singing. Moves me like Chopin
man I would do anything to meet them, let alone see them live...
June can’t come fast enough I’m ready for this parallax 2 tour 🤘🏼
Count till all that is left, is new MATERIAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL! \m/ Best band of all time. I never get enough of these guys.
It's cut, not count lol
Clayton Ramer Hahahahaha Fucking RIGHT!
once youve seen them live then youll know how amazing these guys are
there are no words to adequately describe how incredible this song is!
😍😍😍😍😍
My favorite song from Parallax II.
one of my favourite band
An absolute masterpiece of a song.... BTBAM deserves all the accolades and a place in the pantheon of the best progressive bands of this generation... The video brings the aura of the song down a little bit (Slo Mo)... A masterpiece nonetheless
This isn't from the DVD. The dvd wasn't a live shoot, it was filmed in studio.
This is a music video, just for this song.
Seeing the Saftey Fire in this video reminds me how much I miss that band
1:42 - 2:32 podría escuchar esa parte todo el día
8 more days until I finally get to see this fucking masterpiece I have literally been waiting years to see played in its entirety
My favorite BTBAM song so far. Not that I know many.
UH- i think it just happened. i've tried for so long to get into this band and I think I just did. WOO WOO
Welcome to the club. The first time I ever heard them was live it was right after they put out Alaska they were playing the pound in san francisco with into the moat and black dahlia murder.I thought they were just going to be some lame victory records scremo band I would have to sit through to get to BDM and they changed every thing I knew about alive show and just what metal is needless to say they were the highlight of the evening and have been my favorite band ever since.
And now you're profile picture is the flag
This is bullshit.A band like this dont deserve a sync audio disc, especially when it's played by the best musicians of the metal scene.
Just appreciate the video man.
video sucks XD
will it be foooound? will the right hands deliveeeer? the heartache I lefffft! my favorite part. sounds like a reggae style beat or at least how the beat is supposed to follow a heartbeat. fucking magic to my ears. eargasms for days with this album in general
Best BTBEM song.... Ever!
Ship is counting down... the section that made me love this band
2:31 Michale lessnard in the middle and Robby baca also there. A wild Michael Keenan is also spotted
Perfect song.
OMG I love this song!!!!
I love the 7/4 part @8:30
bien
bueno
caliente
I guess you would count it as 8/8 + 6/8, still my favourite part too though!
Oh, and this song is officially in second place behind Octavarium on my "Greatest Songs of All Time" list
Octavarium is quite a good song, so is this one.
Alkalilee Octavarium is truly a masterpiece of concept and composition.
laber mich nicht zu Said no one but you, ever
laber mich nicht zu completely subjective. For me personally, Dream Theater brings far more to the table than BTBAM in terms of melody and composition. BTBAM is a bit to sporadic and "out there" for me at times. I love the new album though. By far their best for me.
laber mich nicht zu Once again, completely subjective. There is absolutely nothing about pre-black clouds Dream Theater that is flat or boring to me. Octavarium is a masterpiece of concept and composition. It hits home on e level that no other music ever has for me. BTBAM just doesn't have that kind of effect on me. I can't listen to BTBAM and get goosebumps from beautiful melodies and incredibly moving concepts like I can from Dream Theater. I love both bands, but BTBAM, if any, is the one that falls flat and boring at times to my ear.
lovely
seriously my fav btbam album and song. love this shit
Love it.
Damn why did I nver here this on "The Rock Show" on the now defunct xFM. I loved that show and it introduced me to some good stuff I would never have listened to otherwise. Good job lads keep it up.
Trip on Mushrooms to BTBAM and close your eyes! The most surreal experience ever
Perfect as always
A bit late, but this is my new BTBAM favorite song!!!! Love them to death!
Pefect song!!
I just cried to this
8:08 the fucking allmighty power of BTBAM
Pure genius!
4:42 *blegh!!!* 🤘🤘🤘
woo yes!!
i like part: 1:45-3:35 minutes
I don't know about you but I loved the whole song.
Bit of a cop out video for such a great song.
Yea, the video doesn't capture the high octane nature of the song, its like 2 opposites colliding
Kinda biased toward it since I’m in it haha
@@chrisbrinkley8989 How things have changed, now I'm like, ohhhh, live bands, you don't see that these days!
@@Ed_Kaye I hope that
these guys do a tour with Beyond Creation, Allegaeon, and Obscura sometime in 2021 or something lmao.
before i will tell you my probably unpopular opinion, i'm gonna start with the most important.
i love btbam and i love this song... but this video is crap.
i would never watch it again and i will tell you why. the video distracted me from actually hearing the song, it felt completely odd and wrong for me. nearly 70% of this video is held in slow motion and without any reference on what is actually played in the song. you hear a great and fast guitar solo, but you see blake hitting his drums (in slow motion). the song fastens up, you hear blake going wild on his drums but you see a guy crowdsurfing (in slow motion).
btbam is known and loved for its complex and fast switching time signatures, but this video isn't worth to be related to them.
The thing about BTBAM for me is that I find myself waiting for certain parts of the song, and evetything else is kind of leading up to thise parts. Kind of nice, but kind of annoying sometimes to, especially when there's 10 minutes of death/folk/jazz in between the peaks.
For example "will it be found, will the right hands deliver" - love that part, while some parts are pretty much, "get it done with already". Same goes for Ants of the sky, Always find myself waiting for "THE WALKING DEAAD" and than the awesome guitar harmony part.
I understand what you're talking about. Basically you only enjoy the climax of their songs which are usually some epic clean harmonies. I had the same problem with Ants of the Sky at first but if you listen to a song enough you begin to really appreciate the thing as a whole and find that btbam are geniuses when it comes to building up into those parts.
The inbetween parts build up to, and make you appreciate the peaks more.
8:12 on is just magical. The whole song is but that bass line though :,)
I don't think everyone freaking out about how much they think this video sucks takes into consideration that Metal Blade may have the ability to put out content representing BTBAM without their "ok". BTBAM or Metal Blade, or both, probably put this video out to start building/maintain hype for the coming media (notice the reddit AMA, studio blu ray, and new album coming). It doesn't suck near as much as other bands videos. Just go search.
man there are a bunch of whiners commenting on this. i love the video, i think it was meant more to capture the essence of the live show which i think was done really well.
Unreal band, unreal album, unreal song, unreal video. Well done dudes! \m/>.
Dis band its facking amzing
Just found Thomas Giles solo work and wondered why it was related to vastly heavier and intense bands. I see why now.
1:45 is my favourite part
fucking love the song, mates. what's with the slow-mo? I feel like part of the purpose of seeing a music video with such proficient instrumentalists is to watch them play. at least i got to watch a bunch of concert goers wave their hands around
The actual footage looks amazing, but this video is just annoying to look at when it's slowed down so much, for such a fast paced song. The actual uncut footage of the performance would have been better than slowing down the footage.
The actual performance was better than the unedited video.
THE END STARTS NOW!!!!!
Way excited for the DVD. I hate how this whole thing is in slow motion, doesn't say BTBAM at all. The space sequences are pretty cool though
Michael Keene!!! \m
best song on the album and theres a music video! FUCK YES!
would definitely have liked to see a more theatrical video like Astral Bodies. show sync stuff kinda dumbs down how fucking awesome this song/album is/are.
06:13 - 06:45 The best moment in the entire track!
I can't disagree more. Would pay double for a copy of this album with that part edited out, it just carries on too long. Apparently I'm just a grouch about needless repetition though.
Bunch of babies in the comment section as usual I see. No appreciation for what is given. In my opinion, the video was awesome. Good work BtBaM.
The DVD isn't going to be like this is it?
No, it's not footage from the tour.
2:33 .. suddenly, a wild keene appears..
Why isn't there a song called Don't Cut The Dust? Queue the hits
I would rather listen to them actually play it.
Knew I saw some of the faceless band members. Read the description and there it was.
good gawd.
Hope you're proud, Raymond.
Is the audio live or from the album?
video drives me crazy...none of the music matches up and the slow mo's are annoying.
that being said, awesome song by awesome band. just gonna listen to it on my ipod from now on
My absolute favorite band of all time. I've seen them close to 20 times and I love this song, but this video isn't that great. It just irks me that so much of the footage was clearly not them playing this actual song, or at least not them playing the part of the song that the video synced up to. Still, considering how rare a music video from BTBAM is, I'll take it. Can't wait for the DVD.
Can you make the slow motion slower? Thanks
Go to 4:44
FUCK YEAH MAN WOOOOO
6:44
My favourite band of all time and song. The video, not so much. The constant slow-mo is a bit disturbing imo. But still, the footage of the awesome crowd and guitar fingering is great!
This was a very cool video but I agree that they should cut down in the slow-mo a bit. At certain places it was sweet but a little too much. Also certain parts weren't synced right. But overall I liked it.
0:13
2:35 Michael Keene
this video is trippy lmao but awesome has fuck
Is it just me, or do the opening lyrics sound like "Why diarrhea, wont go away?"
I couldn't dig the slo-mo either. Just doesn't work.