Composer/Musician Reacts to The Contortionist - Language I: Intuition (REACTION!!!)

[@fraktal9]

Man you just missed Language II.. so sad

[@gzrt3785]

Likes until he watches this :(

[@Jaredmote]

Literally should just be both song put together if you listen to part 1. Cannont be played sepretly or you miss out on the magic.

[@johnmurray5241]

He needs to go back and watch I into II. 100%. Fuck

[@PhoenixDecim]

You totally missed the other half of this beautiful song.

[@PhoenixDecim]

@Corpsefoot Gaming 👏👏

[@zealobiron]

This entire song is a wonderful build up to the song that immediately follows. No pause just straight into the next song, quite masterfully

[@Danpool13]

100,000% you need to listen to Language 2 after this. So listen to this again, and then record your reaction to part 2.

[@ercanilegroeg]

The full album Language, and the following album Clairvoyant, are two of my favourites from all of rock/metal. Absolutely golden.

[@ckokomo808]

ercanilegroeg Same here. I get there’s a split in the fan base between older and newer sound. I appreciate all of it, but absolutely love Language.

[@Posirep]

@@ckokomo808 language is great. Clairvoyant is boring.

[@u.v.s.5583]

@@Posirep Agreed to 100%, Language was genius. Their previous albums were also much stronger than was Clairvoyant, which to me is simply nonexistent.

[@ethanrrs]

@@u.v.s.5583 Clairvoyant is heavily underrated in my opinion. Definitely not as musically forward but the motifs carry it along with the emotion behind the story of the concept album. Definitely a different experience

[@Richardhats1]

​@@Posirep False. They're both fantastic.

[@johnmurray5241]

Please listen to the 2nd part, Language II. But you need to listen 1 into 2. It's worth it. It's a journey.

[@jonKowalski3210]

I think you should really check out their song Thrive from the same album! It's so gorgeous and dreamy despite it's phrenetic metal grooves!

[@1987lildrummer]

Thrive is definitely my favorite, Omg when they hit those big chords towards the end live it was like a religious experience for me.

[@tofolcano9639]

They recently did a cover to 1979 that I thought was pretty cool

[@matthewperaza2534]

I love that cover so much. They did such a good job with that.

[@brady_bigbear]

You absolutely need to check out Flourish by The Contortionist! Such a heavy yet beautiful song. Was my first introduction to them and still one of my favorite songs

[@JusTVIDSE]

My first song was Exoplanet I. My favorite song, it's so beautiful

[@ckokomo808]

Glad you checked them out! This is my favorite band and album. The ideas of the lyrics and the way they are portrayed musically are beautiful. It was interesting listening to you talk about it (sitting on the backbeat vs pushing the momentum) and how it might pertain the expression of the lyrics. Definitely recommend listening to Language 1 & 2 in sequence! Peace.

[@ChampBear622]

Seeing first time Contortionist listeners makes me smile, man. So cool. Love TC. Def need to check out more and see your reaction to them. 👍

[@pietandersen6120]

The controtionist always slaps! Though I do enjoy their older harsher style. Interesting that you would note how it sticks in a single pocket in the start, I never really noticed that.

[@jesterious3188]

Now you have to check out Language II! Thats a total must. Also Integration and basically the whole album!

[@kurukq]

The Contortionist are great, cool to see you liked the song. I'd highly recommend you check out more from them. And I gotta say the obligatory "This is a concept album, so you should listen to the whole thing". But yeah it is, and it really is amazing. They are also so tight live as well and their singer is just godlike. Their old stuff was more technical death/metalcore I guess, which still sounded unique even back then. These days they've shifted into a more chill progressive metal/rock style and I'm diggin it aswell. I think another band you'd appreciate are Uneven Structure as I mentioned in a previous comment. Their video for Frost/Hail is one of my favorite music videos of all time. It was directed by their guitarist and fits the song perfectly. So I hope you can get to it sometime.

[@GrippySocksEsq]

That intro guitar part is 2 guitars using dotted 8th delay effects!

[@BlurredVisi0n]

Oh my god you are missing out on the second half so bad, it gets so gnarly man, you have to do it

[@progperljungman8218]

I'm happy you liked it that much 🙂 (Both parts would have been something(!) for the next theme =Two-parters starting 5/8 '24)

[@EuclideanVision]

Glad you like them :) check their first few releases to hear where their metal stylings have come from! Despite their changes I still enjoy the spectrum of their work :D Keep up the good work sir!

[@brunocosta6849]

These guys are absolute genius at conveying emotions in their songs. I would suggest you react to Wilderun - The Unimaginable Zero Summer. This song is the intro song for Veil of Imagination, THE metal album of the decade for me, personally.

[@BigDenk]

Sapphire by Fallujah would be pretty cool to see

[@izzykoopa6046]

It's so weird to hear this without hearing the next song directly afterwards, I always listen to the album from beginning to end

[@rendrag13]

Guitar in the beginning is using a delay pedal. Really reminds me of u2 with the way they use it specifically

[@1987lildrummer]

That particular delay is called Ping Pong delay. It adds a dotted 8th into the delay before the downbeat.

[@rendrag13]

@@1987lildrummer Thanks man! The more you know

[@Panda_SMM]

definitely some more of The Contortionist. they have so much variety while still maintaining their own sound. Maybe Flourish or Follow

[@mathias6423]

It is more like a tempo delay effect on the guitar in the beginning. Really smooth :D

[@LeeGion_981]

The contortionist - flourish. Off debut sounds so different. One of my favourite songs ever. Also check out: Last chance to reason - Upload complete, they have to same vocalist, crazy band.

[@zealobiron]

The Contortionist are masters of tactfully written songs. The build up always leads somewhere. Just might have to wait till later in the album for it to be realized

[@Pierorocks]

Thanks for doing this one! Really appreciate your comments on them. One of my favorite metal bands out there.

[@blaketdrums]

pleeeaase check out the rest of this album. my number 1 all time. super intricate but it WORKS so well. i highly recommend this record especially and the following one clairvoyant.

[@thecolemanayers4713]

I agree with everyone you gotta listen to both part one and two

[@rtnbern2006]

Like your analytic reviews :-) do some more The Contortionist please, can't get enough of them. Thanks :-)

[@agingerich95]

You gotta check out Between the Buried and Me anything off of The Parallax 2

[@sickness420]

Extremophile Elite (live)

[@zealobiron]

Parallax 2 is definitely one of my favorite albums from btbam

[@BURGRKNG]

their older stuff is better, Alaska and Colors are the two best albums of their genre and time

[@andreaslion5877]

@@BURGRKNG that's your opinion tho. Imo those 2 albums don't even come close to being as good as parallax 2, and I fucking love colors

[@BURGRKNG]

@@andreaslion5877 ofc its my opinion 🤷‍♂️ idk why you felt the need to mention that 🤣

[@gSWG3R]

The drummer didn't speed the song up but he was playing a 3/4 polyrhythm between his bass drum and the snare.

[@tylerpd52]

I hope the female fronted band you're pondering is Spiritbox. Check out Rule of Nines or The Mara effect part I

[@CriticalReactions]

Rule of Nines has been done already. Enjoy! kzbin.info/www/bejne/foqbp62Iar-EfpY

[@1adoremusic]

Please review The Contortionist - Ebb and Flow.

[@dingdongs5208]

The Contortionist is the greatest band of the 2010s by a long margin, their discography so far is flawless

[@MrSilentj16]

Please do Contortionist - Language II. They go right into eachother, meant to be played back to back. SO GOOD

[@imabry1]

One of my favorite songs of all time

[@oblivion4lcf]

Dude, great work! You should check out between the buried and me, maybe their extremophile elite song, live in studio.

[@timberfinn]

I think it would be cool to see you react to Kars 1 by Tigran Hamasyan :)

[@FunkadelicPancho]

Or The Grid

[@bryanortiz-mp2up]

Hay man I'm a new subscriber here, I was hoping you would react to The between the buried and me. The song from them is extremophile elite. The live studio version. I also love the contortionist too. If you want to check another song from the check out THRIVE it's off the same album that language is on. Thanks man

[@AnimosityIncarnate]

Gotta check out Flourish by them, off the first record. It's fucking beautiful.

[@cgafken]

Please check out either Part 2 of this song or “Flourish” or if you want to tackle a bigger piece of music check out Expoplanet 1-3

[@Omegagrandmaster]

Gotta do the parable off this album

[@tylerpd52]

There's a part II!!!

[@shaleel]

Check out the haarp machine. Some quality metal, tech deathish with some eastern elements.

[@AnimeshSinghdjentmofos]

Do Tesseract - Of matter live studio video.. you'll love them

[@CriticalReactions]

Dude, I got you. It was blocked but I uploaded it elsewhere, hope you enjoy it: drive.google.com/open?id=1dpfKCRJFIevdQUoRTJfVDsDRTBsWX6nq

[@kevinmeli]

Language II please!

[@LeeGion_981]

So should have done part 2 of this song.

[@TheChocolateNick]

OH MAN- If you ever do album reviews the Contortionist's album Exoplanet is known to be one of the best albums in the progressive metal community

[@jacket5456]

3:58 - 4:20 Hit me a weird way

[@christiangramg_hifi]

It's absolutely necessary to listen both parts I&II without a pause

[@MichaelAbramo]

3 years later and you still haven't listened to the second half of this song! Language II is an important sequel to Language I and frankly, each are incomplete without the other.

[@CharlesEMurphy]

High-quality stuff, but I have to admit my personal taste runs to something with more punch. The tapping guitar bit did catch my attention though. I have a recommendation that I think will fit the bill. It's metal but also melodic and progressive - BORKNAGAR - Winter Thrice.

[@Posirep]

That WAS the Contortionist at one point until they got up their own ass.

[@funnyperson4027]

Favourite album

[@DaronMGL]

Well Nightwish - Noise is probably trending? The song is pretty good and the video is entertaining, but Nightwish has a ton of more interesting songs though. Yours Is An Empty Hope would be my top pick. For something completely different...if you're not familiar with Diablo Swing Orchestra, try Honey Trap Aftermath, though practically anything from Pandora's Pinata album would be great.

[@jettgroves6424]

You should check out Dream The Dead by Caligula’s Horse. Very similar to this song.

[@paravarium]

I consider this song one of the greatest written in the last 4 years.

[@wstone2010]

Primordial Sound, Language II, and Thrive are more 'technical' songs.

[@FunkadelicPancho]

Intro is a dotted 8th delay

[@conorfarrington3640]

Flourish is another great song by this band, or anything off that album really

[@lparksession]

Please react to their song Thrive!

[@paravarium]

It would mean the world if you did Jaws by Sleep Token :)

[@SenseiJosh]

check out Alcest - sur l'océan couleur de fer!

[@crowing3886]

Unfortunately you didn't get language 2. It's a set song 1 an 2. Though if you're into instrumental stuff you should definitely react to Arch Echo - Color Wheel.

[@zealobiron]

Last chance to reason. Uuhhhmmm how about starting with a song called the artist, or the escapist or maybe the dictator. Depends how wild you're feeling. It's the band the vocalist was in before joining the contortionist

[@robertmunroe9635]

Hey there super weird request that isnt rock or pop or metal. Can you react to Samuel barber's agnus dei any group singing it is fine but I prefer a group with castratos. Also on the metal side of things check out opeth real neat group that does a metal blues and jazz kind of thing. Id check out Hessian peel

[@JewFO_real]

you should react to the parable by the contortionist

[@landoncore92]

You fucked up by not listening to both parts in one sitting! It comes fill circle haha

[@Sauerkrautbooger]

Wait, you haven't done Tool?

[@manueltavares5967]

You missed the technical meltdown that succeeds with Language II, where the progressive Rock disapears...

[@JMGMusic]

Why would anyone recommend Language I without II???

[@xedgeforeverx]

Cynic released an album the same year this came out and this album is literally what the new Cynic album should have been.

[@buckfuttler2877]

Kindly Bent to Free Us is fantastic.

[@justinbowles2614]

You should react to the sin and the sentence by trivium

[@Grisleebear]

Check out Mystery by Shrezzers!!!

[@LuisGonzalez-ip8jp]

He could probably play both. But that’s reverve mate

[@SOADVSSOAD]

Only madmen listen to intuition without conspire. Lol, jk. But for real though, you need to get on conspire ASAP! Cheers.

[@moatfloater]

Please do Periphery - Satellites Epic stuff

[@moatfloater]

In fact if you are game... Do Periphery - Reptile. 17mins long but worth it.

[@CriticalReactions]

Hey, I got you. This was one of my first reactions, I hope you enjoy it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6usZKJtp7ephJo

[@thetalesofyuulicnaga5907]

My dude could you please check out Mono No Aware by The Odious? I promise this band will change you

[@uzark14]

Please react to Ulcerate - Dead oceans!!

[@memitozv]

Why is Matt Gartska doing KZbin reacts now?

[@TheVashnessItself99]

that's reachiiinggggg

[@CDMS_pt]

Good one. 👍🤓👍

[@csciabar]

A little bit of tools.. ya a computer Lol

[@Grisleebear]

The Bassist is Jordan Eberhardt. This is nothing, go listen to The Olive Tree/Narrow Salient by Scale the Summit (another great band, the one that opened my eyes to instrumental metal, where skill takes the forefront.) He made his name in the metal world with them, as well as some other legendary musicians.

[@denniskipp4350]

You totally missed the good part.. the second part.

[@Posirep]

And here we see Mike Lessard ruining another band... Well, before he ruined it in this case. First album he appeared on with Last Chance to Reason was amazing... Next album, incredibly boring... Mostly due to Lessard's boring vocals. Language... Incredible album. Clairvoyant... Boring as shit thanks to Lessard. He's an incredible talent but he's so fucking predictable.

[@CriticalReactions]

Last Chance to Reason sounds so familiar but I couldn't place it. I had to look it up and I think I know them because they released this weird interactive promotional thing for their second album. Now I gotta track this thing down and see if it's what I'm thinking of.

[@Posirep]

@@CriticalReactions yeah Level 2 is a sick album. It had a video game tie in made for the song "Upload Complete" That's probably what you're thinking of

[@zealobiron]

Cant agree with lessard being boring. But I can see it. Loved what he did with last chance to reason. Level 2 and 3 are much better albums that 1 in my opinion. The use of Schoenberg's 12 note theory is phenomenal