syncing rock and metal songs with Alexandra Botez's screams
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- Опубліковано 10 бер 2023
- REMASTER COMING SOON... okay, maybe not so soon... but yeah, it's coming, i promise.
yeah i kinda did just give up on the sound mixing. meh, whatever. enjoy this mess anyway.
UPDATE (2023/04/05): @BotezLive REPOSTED THIS VIDEO AS A SHORT! still kinda cringing at the amateurish mixing and the messier parts that they had to cut from their edit, but hopefully i'll like the remaster better when i've released it!
EDIT (2023/03/17): now has a proper thumbnail and subtitles for whatever you can't hear clearly!
clips/videos used, in order:
• BotezLive Loudest Alex...
• So I ran into Hikaru i... (~16:25)
• How To Beat Magnus Car...
• Alex Rage Quits
• "I am a woman of self ...
• Alexandra Botez blunde...
all clip/video credit goes to @BotezLive and all song credit goes to the respective bands listed below.
songs used, in order:
Breaking Benjamin - "I Will Not Bow"
Slayer - "Angel of Death"
Slipknot - "Eyeless"
Skillet - "Circus for a Psycho"
Avenged Sevenfold - "We Come Out at Night"
Breaking Benjamin - "I Will Not Bow" (again)
playlist of songs used: • "Breaking Botez" & Bot...
*REMASTER COMING...* well, it's not coming so soon. college is killing me. hope you understand. just feel free to stay tuned anyway though.
thank you all for the love on this video, your song/band suggestions, and everything else so far!
expect a lot of small and big changes alike in the remaster, including:
- *NO MORE EXCESSIVELY LOUD MUSIC SECTIONS!*
- a better-fitting scream for the "Eyeless" section!
- don't worry; I'm not removing the appearance of Alex beating Magnus with odds... i'm bringing back ONE idea, "(sic)" by Slipknot, that i ended up cutting during production of this video, and this time i'll be using ALL FOUR of her epic "YES!"s with it, all synced to the beat! no more wasted potential there!
- ALL NINE of my original sync ideas will be coming back, plus a couple of new ideas!
- an appearance from Trivium, who were snubbed in this edit but will be getting MUCH MORE than their originally intended appearance in the remaster!
- vocal appearances from Magnus Carlsen and Anna Cramling in my first ever use of a call-and-response sync rather than the usual "this person and this musician say something at the same time" sync!
- actual effort to sync secondary talking, screams and yells, like the "POINT-ONE! ARGH!" section!
- no more burying of Alex's talking in the music!
- more emphasis that she's a "lady who does not tilt" and other words to that effect before her last big "FUUUUUCK!"
- more jokes! (hopefully)
- filling up of certain parts of "dead space" within song sections!
- overall, "tighter" editing and a "busier" feel to the music and video!
*DON'T MISS IT!*
...until then, though, enjoy this other stuff i've put out, with better editing:
- a video like this one but with Andrea's screams: ua-cam.com/video/Br2clHID438/v-deo.html
- some surprise checkmates caught on-stream and their victims' reactions, with funny overdubbing: ua-cam.com/video/uhIxuwaFf24/v-deo.html
Hi! I'd say, don't change much, just add more, MORE moments!
I swear, half of these views are from me :D
@@Askhat08 i'm afraid more moments will need to wait until the release of part 2 (and potentially more sequels? idk; depends on whether i can gather enough good ideas and piece them together well). the goal of this remaster is to make this video less messy and bring it closer to what it could have, and should have, been.
thank you, i rewatch this one every time it pops up in recomended.
can't wait for the sequel 🤘
@@LightningGunne so, when?
"I am a woman of self control."
"FUUUUCK."
Perfection.
3.5k likes and no replies??? Lemme fix that
As a comment which has 6.7k likes you lack a lot of replies brother
@@Rohannn0007 Not for long if you keep replying lol
@@mnemosftb i can't believe this but i didn't realise the first reply was also mine
@@Rohannn0007 🤣 I guess the algorithm has given up finding new videos for you and is just showing you the same old stuff
This is freaking hilarious, thank you and +1 subscriber from me
it's an honor
They saw it! 🎉 Alex, *please* join a rock band! 😩
@@MadMathMike i think she's pretty well aware of her own lack of singing ability (she's said things along the lines of "no, i can't sing" in quite a few of her streams), and rock isn't usually easy to sing anyway (to say nothing of metal which is even more vocally demanding, unless you go the route of bands like Evile and sometimes Slayer who rely more on yelling than actually sustaining specific notes)
@@char.ger-3321 Kinda rude, isnt it? I liked the info he gave.
I think Andrea has caused alex to become tone deaf. She wasn't wearing hearing protection growing up
That "FUCK" into the "Goddammit" is so satisfying to hear idk what it is
It’s flawless
It's on the offbeat I think which draws more attention to it.
Hint when you want to start a solo or emphasize an entrance then do it on the offbeat.
finding the perfect songs to fit these screams is honestly so impressive
irrelevant, but what in tf is that pfp
@@kouhaiii3182😂😂
@@kouhaiii3182 The name too
She needs to start a Metal band as the lead vocalist, and call it _The Botes Gambit_
How about Hanging Queen
It's so weird nobody using the word "Gambit" and then suddenly laypeople just using it all the time when they find out I play chess, until I find out that there's apparently an extremely poplar Netflix show that caused all that 😂
I think Chesstodon
BOTEZALLICA
@@serenamomin5097 i did indeed use that name for another video like this one with Andrea's screams, if you're interested :)
She’s actually got a totally metal voice. Hope she sees this vid, it’s awesome!
She saw it
@@ffamilyff Link?
@@Emil_Stoltz they commented via their clips channel
You totally hear a lot of metal.
No, she doesn't.
Father: My daughter will be a chess player
Mother: No, she'll be a metal singer
The daughter:
MY HEART... I LOVED HER
"loved" past tense? what happened there?
@@LightningGunne Ahh, It's a reference to something else. This remined me of it.
LOL
Greatest acting ever
ahhhhhhhhhhh
I hope @BotezLiveClips ends up seeing this. Even though the mixes are muddled in parts, the sync's are pretty damn good. lol
yeah at the very least the important screams can be heard.
i tried a lot of things with the "Eyeless"/"YES!" part, but i couldn't stop the song from crescendoing after the subsequent, deliberately muted "YES!"s, and all i could really do was to further lower the volume of the second part of the "Eyeless" section so that at least the song volume wouldn't have a sudden jump or increase to a point where it gets actually uncomfortable to hear without turning down the video volume.
for the most part i set the songs' loudness to like 0.6 (none of them have spectacular dynamic range, and i could only get access to the loud remaster of "Angel of Death") and to "automatically reduce volume by 20%" when the Alex clips got louder, and i didn't wanna go too low with the song volume because i also wanted the majority of viewers who likely don't know the songs to hear, and get introduced to, the songs themselves and the lyrics/screams that were supposed to go so well with Alex's screams, and wanted to keep to a certain extent the power of parts like the "drop" of the beginning of "I Will Not Bow", the undeniably powerful long scream from "Angel of Death", and the random "fuck!" and contrast between the pre-breakdown and breakdown riff from "We Come Out at Night".
@@davidjames149 and it doesn't have to be that way. of course a great metal (or rock) song can still be appreciated and enjoyed even if it has a subpar DR, but that, in my opinion, should not encourage bands to compress and brickwall their songs just because "metal is supposed to be loud".
look at the general reaction to the way the original _Death Magnetic_ was mixed and mastered, and compare it with the _Guitar Hero_ rips, the unofficial MarckIII remaster and the official remaster (i hope i'm remembering correctly that there is one), and you'll definitely notice something wrong with the original CD version. in that same vein, compare the widely available remasters of _Kill 'Em All_ and _Ride the Lightning_ against Thrash Rat's uploads of those albums' original vinyl recordings.
look at Avenged Sevenfold's discography up to _Nightmare_ - especially _Waking the Fallen_ and _Nightmare_ - and the original mastering of _Diamonds in the Rough_ (if you can access its tracks anywhere, like on old unofficial lyric videos), and compare them against _Hail to the King_ , _The Stage_ , and the 2020 remaster of _DitR_ . it's quite apparent that A7X have broken free from the loudness war, and idk about you, but I'm all for it.
our ears should be free to perceive the "rises" and "falls" and the building-up and releasing of tension in any song, and they can't really do that so well when the ostensibly quieter parts are too close in volume to the louder parts.
(youtube fix your focking comment formatting smh look at what i have to do to not break it)
@@LightningGunne 100% agree, dynamics help create tension and emotion, I am not particularly into metal myself, used to listen to a bit of hardcore back around 2010. Loudness war i think is slowly coming to a halt because of streaming platforms such as spotify requiring a certain LUFs level to be on their platform.
They saw it!
Love how a video about botez screams synced with metal turned into an audio engineering discussion
This is absolutely hilarious. Well done, dude. Well done.
I concur 😃👍
0:33 "gonna get kicked off of your throne" fits too well with the situation
The *FUCK* on 0:49 is absolutely well synched
What song is that?
@@michaelwalker8100 "We Come Out at Night" by Avenged Sevenfold. i wrote it in the description
@@LightningGunne bro absolutely magnificent W for using something from A7X's freshman album
Also her follow up "GOD DAMNIT, POINT ONE" the only thing missing was her going "AAAAHHHHHHHH"
@@insomnia20422 nah, that wasn't missing; it's just barely audible because the song changed right at that moment and it was drowned out by the music
My man's pulled out sounding the seventh trumpet for this banger. I was NOT expecting to hear that. Mad props! 😂
_StST_ is underrated and nowhere near as bad as the users of TheTopTens make it out to be.
@@LightningGunne Very underrated
I prefer Sounding the Seventh and Waking the Fallen to the newer stuff
@@aaronwild2894 1000% agree
FUCK
I’m excited to hear her debut EP.
"Chess is a noble sport for the calm-minded strategist"
0:48 is just too perfect
i was gonna comment the same thing lol, so smooth
0:23 for me
What is that song?
@@m35926i wrote it in the description but it's "We Come Out at Night" by Avenged Sevenfold
@@LightningGunnethanks man, my bad
The idea might be simple, but the execution is utterly flawless. I did not expect to laugh half as much as I did. Well done, my dear sir, well done indeed.
It's not that simple tho, this is not auto-tuned or anything as far as I can hear, and still, most of the screams/growls are at the perfect note. So he needs to hear botez screams and find screams that are exactly the same note (or find songs that are in a key which contains that note). My guess is, this guy is very talented and very passionate about music, and the second he heard the botez scream he went "This kinda sounds like the scream/growl in this specific song". Which is quite impressive to me.
@Opethian181 iirc i didn't really take the notes of Alex's screams into consideration as much as i did their length and what she was saying in them, although i do agree that the notes are still pretty important. for the most part, though, i wanted to keep Alex's screams mostly untouched aside from the more simple and obvious editing tricks like muting/volume control (and because i had really very little experience with video editing at the time of making this video), so that's why there was no autotune/pitching up or down, or video speed control (this part was forced because OpenShot almost broke when i tried to slow down one Alex scream clip, forcing me to drop two ideas from the 9 sync ideas i originally had).
@@LightningGunne man this is awesome. The first one and the 0:33 one are my favourites. Hats off to you sir o/
@@LightningGunne yea mate, you may do it by trial and error (just put alex in the song and see if it works), you can do it by checking notes, keys and scream length or just get the perfect fit by sheer luck. However all these cases require hard work. The video looks very professional. Your work didn't go unnoticed :)
both breaking benjamin syncs were so good lmao, nice edit
I love how you bring two elite and sophisticated art forms together in this clip (chess and metal).
via the mainstream, unsophisticated medium of memes
cant wait for the album to drop
Andrea is working on the mix
just made a public playlist of the songs i used; hopefully they're not unavailable in certain countries or any of that nonsense
Remember when the noobs would say Andrea had a loud voice, and Alex was the quiet one?
Well done. 👏🏻
Well Andrea is Always loud. No volume knob
Andrea is loud without the need for a metal video. Alex can scream, but you will manage. Only this video amplified the screams a bit.
Thank you, I've been waiting for this
the beginning slaps so hard man. would love it if the song continued there!
It's incredible how you can hear a scream and can reference it to a song. Like a screamo shazam
lmao, my thoughts exactly.
Just want to point out how perfect a choice "Angel of Death" was for Alexandra's reaction to facing Hikaru.
This was amazing ty for this.
Would love to see more of that
This is amazing! Her screams hit so hard put to these songs!
The fact that this only has 700 views is criminal this needs at least 100k
Give it one day more.
say no more fam
He called it
yes sir
21K a week later...
Thank you so much for this
I've been searching these songs. Hehe
didn't know i needed this content but i'm glad it exists, thank you!
This is so well put together. The idea is great! Kudos to all of this.
This is now one of my favourite videos 😂😂😂 thank you
This is awesome!
The Sync on eyeless >>>>>>
this is good
Awesome playlist
This was beautiful
This is art.
I need a part 2 😂
This is so great \m/
fantastic stuff
Oh, this is a gem.
💎👍
The breakdown is my favorite part.
And that raw energy in her screams! Damn. A perfect combination.
this is amazing
i didnt know i needed this video
Please continue to make these. This is my new favorite thing 😂
I've come back to watch this a few times because honestly I wish she were in a rock band now. 🤘🔥
this is just so good
Thank you, we need more of those
Great song choices lmao would love to hear this concept remixed into full songs
that would be too much work unfortunately, and even if i could, it'd probably be more interesting to listen to actual vocal covers of the songs in question
Wow it's cool that she uses chess to practice her screams. Can't wait for the new Botez album. When does it drop again?
LOOOOL THIS IS AMAZING
one of the best things ive seen in a while, good shit bro 💯
Great work bro, creations like that are one of the reasons I love the internet.
She had the Angel of death scream down !!
I didn't know I needed this
thank you for this
You rock dude! Now I want to see Alex's reaction to this 😂
Jokes aside, her voice is AMAZING
for metalcore music, yes
No
i love this
This is a work of art😊
This is fantastic. I'm a metalhead and Alex Botez fan.
The slayer one is just so satisfying.
Excellent!
this is great!
This is impressive for her and for the editor lol
She should make music with that scream 🔥
so good
I've watched this a good 20 times recently, top tier content.
0:33 is so well done because it's synced in two spots in one clip. It's probably my second favorite after the first clip😂
i mean technically the wordless scream after she blundered her rook wasn't synced (at least not deliberately because this was literally my first video and i didn't put that much time into the actual editing), but it will be in the remaster
This is pure gold. More like this we need! I'm sure there will be no shortage of footage XD
Made my day 😂😂😂
this is beautiful
I love her raw anger, and her scream has a sick raspiness to it, really fits the metal
What a master piece! As a guy whole loves rock…this is just a gem. Thank you for making my day.
Who*
That was awesome
This is gold, good job.
Haha I think it’s funny how she seems so innocent, but gets so passionate when it comes to winning/losing at chess. I’m the exact same when it comes to competitive games, though I probably swear a bit more 😂😂
Damn, 0:44 sounds really hard and has the perfect timing dude
Reminded me of the band KillWhitneyDead. Extreme vocal and same instrumental + some screams of random people (best example: "Skip The Break Up Get To The Make Up"; and "Tip of my tongue" starting with a voiceline from the movie "The Girl Next Door").
The “God dammit!” Hits hard too Lmaoo
This is perfection!
A masterpiece !
on a second thought Alexandra can become a vocalist
Let's all give this hero a sub. Much deserved
fkng pure gold. Thanks man!
yes thank you!!! this is brilliant!! it works so well
she beat magnuscarlsen. shes the world international champion now
I've never seen a girl with so much metal singing potential
what a piece of art
This goes hard
Honestly wanna watch this girl's stream and just blast metal hoping for moments as perfect as these cuts
It's a master piece now we need a full metal song by Alexandra
this is so freakin cool 🔥🔥
Best content on yt
I'd love to hear a version that it's just her voice. Amazing work!
i might actually consider slapping together some poor-quality vocals-removed versions of these songs from YT and doing just this after i've put out the remaster of this video
That was frickin' HILARIOUS. Excellent job. The only thing missing is the big climactic scream from The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" (put that on the next one!)
i don't know any The Who songs, but yeah, i'll check that one out and try to find a scream from either sister that'd fit well with it
edit: oh, right, just wiki'd it and realized it's that one "YAHHHHH" song that gets played after someone makes an epic pun
Without a doubt, pure content. Sub’ed.
amazing