Composer Reacts to After the Burial - Berzerker (REACTION & ANALYSIS)

[@seeingthruyou]

Saw these guys at the Skyway Theater here in Minnesota and stood right in front of Justin Lowe... He walked out on stage looked straight out at the crowd threw his guitar behind his head and played the whole intro for berserker before dropping the guitar back down and shredding the rest of the song. They were absolutely amazing live!!!

[@eulerianpath6355]

Minneapolis, MN represent 🤘🏼🔥 RIP JUSTIN

[@nickhaas9185]

ATB formed in a HS math class and early on they wrote a song called pi which follows their literal musical interpretation of pi. They were one of the big names when djent started. I feel like you personally would enjoy their Wolves Within and Dig Deep albums. If you do decide to get into them more. Also have you checked out selkies by btbam in your own time?

[@Roanski]

This is my second favorite AtB song right next to Cursing Akenhaten. Great song and great review/reaction!

[@chasespell7293]

RIP Justin Lowe

[@markgoodwin5306]

Their shows are pretty wild.

[@jbasti227]

One of the best performers around

[@stormblessed9546]

Oh you can't kidding. Left many of their shows soar as hell from the pit.

[@nickhaas9185]

BTBAM is my favorite band but ATB, Origin, and as much as it pains me to admit Attila put on the most intense live shows I've ever seen

[@markgoodwin5306]

@@nickhaas9185 Mordecai forever.

[@dontreadonme5331]

I remember my nephew's friend brought the original recording with the old singer over to my house and put this song on. I got about 3 seconds in and had to start over because it needed to be as loud as possible 😄. He and my nephew were friends with these guys and went to school with them. One of my favorites to this very day.

[@ThisIsTheEskimo]

Ometh is probably my favorite song from them, it has such a heavy yet happy feel to it. Probably their best solo they've ever written as well!

[@saughs]

Ahh classic...definitely my favorite album of theirs.

[@gh2471]

Another dope song would be Ometh. It has a BEAUTIFUL solo at the end 🔥🔥

[@stormblessed9546]

Love this band! I think you would like their most recent stuff.

[@LemmyGibbler]

Haven’t heard this track in forever!!

[@jonathanhenderson9422]

This was pretty damn good. I've grown bored of the general metalcore "sound" over the years, but this is so proggy and diverse that it keeps my interest and makes all the more "standard" metalcore elements, like the half-time chugs, have more effect by contrast. Really superb riffs and guitar playing throughout, and I was enamored with all the time (feel) switches.

[@Raitooru]

Your channel is the real gem, almost nobody talks about nuances and intricacies of music pieces as deeply as you! If you're ever gonna make a series of reactions to some experimental pop stuff, I highly recommend you a song called "us" by the Japanese female artist Aimer who has a very distinct raspy/husky voice. The producer of this song (TK, or Tooru Kitajima) is famous for his signature prog/indie/phc sound, but for this song he went for another route and took inspiration in almost jazz, ambient and movie ost-like vibe. This song is in a perfect balance between the more accessible sound for non-musician audience and the sound that interesting enough for more geeky-picky listeners. Another recommendation would be "memento mori" by the Japanese band androp (also featuring Aimer). This song is actually something else, and I don't want to spoil too much but it provides a pretty unique listening experience because of the way it was recorded and mixed (first half of the song is split in two different versions playing in each channel with male vocal on the left and female on the right). Genre-wise it's something in the middle between melancholic pop-rock and post-rock/shoegaze.

[@CriticalReactions]

I'll keep all of that in mind. Pop is a genre that I feel has a lot of potential but, at least in the mainstream pop, generally is written very "surface level-y." Experimental pop might be what I'm looking for as far as fun, catchy hooks but also interesting music.

[@volvulusx5043]

I'm big on these guys! I think a song you'd find interesting is called "Your Troubles Will Cease and Fortune Will Smile Upon You" which is from the album that followed this one. They exchanged a bunch of the speed for grooviness in their work after this album, and they've released a whopping 4 albums after this one. As such, Berserker (and a bunch of others from this album) is a noticably faster song than the rest of their discography so it's a pretty different vibe, but it's some good heavy stuff! Overall their main appeal is just that they are able to make some consistently good heavy/djenty music so if you're not super big on that then they won't have that much of an impact on you. I don't think this is a life changing band, but I like how they have such good consistency since you can be assured live shows will always be great no matter what they choose for their setlist.

[@alexmethvin8876]

I second this song!!

[@drphdmd7064]

Seen them live four times, both before and after Justin's death. They are phenomenally entertaining and mind-blowingly consistent.

[@joshkuchmy8801]

Yesss! May favourite AtB song! Also the album is from 2008!

[@xspartan346x]

The green version is 2009

[@erikcopeland]

2008 version was better 😕

[@muaddib4329]

When this came out I remember playing it for my girlfriend at the time and she hated it but when we got to the breakdown she said "HOLY SHIT THATS SO LOW" and then was mad they went back to the fast weedly weedlies

[@CriticalReactions]

"weedly weedlies" is a great onomatopoeia for fast guitar playing!

[@scottgillespie3838]

This whole album is a definite hidden jam..Always enjoy ur reaction and expertise man!

[@Cynips]

Love this! Can't remember listening to AtB much...

[@ProgPro96]

I would suggest listening to some of the other songs from this album Rareform. Drifts and Cursing Akhenaten are some of my other favorite songs by them.

[@MandatoryZong]

I totally read this and thought it was the band The Berzerker, not Berzerker by ATB. Still hoping one day I'll hop on youtube and see you finally posted a Black Crown Initiate reaction, but I'm sure you have a massive backlog of requests to get to before mine comes up, so no rush lol

[@rareformx]

An oldie but a goodie.

[@rareformx]

“Oldie”

[@Artunen]

This is such a wild ride. It must be so difficult to react to this and give feedback at the same time during the first listen. Everytime you have a cohesive idea about the song, the tempo, the riff or the subdivision changes.

[@CriticalReactions]

No kidding. The song was certainly testing my ability to quickly gather all of the pieces of a section. :)

[@FLmetalhead]

One of the best live bands ever. See them live if you haven’t. RIP Justin.

[@Rberg1105]

Wish you would have done the original version. The first vocalist fit this song better IMO. still a great choice though.

[@thescottallen]

I love the original vocals and the composition of the first version of the album better, but this one definitely sounds sonically better lol

[@Rberg1105]

It’s better production for sure. The original is where it’s at though. That vocalist was made for those songs lol.

[@ggluckmanful]

Apologies, downvote was a misclick.

[@blackmamba7775]

Love to see a trained ear react to a musical masterpiece. A metal masterpiece!

[@BlurredVisi0n]

Such a classic!

[@jeneraljamthejet.]

Playing ATB and you're a composer...subscribed

[@dapperdan434]

Yes yes yes. My favorite ATB song ever

[@nickhaas9185]

CLICKED INSTANTLY!

[@AlexR47x]

Neo Seoul is a banger. Production of that album is questionable but that song is best off the album IMO

[@jakel7213]

Honestly, the mix sounds amazing on Wolves Within given the challenge of fitting the 9 string into the sound.

[@nowave1465]

I feel like the original was 10000x better. I don't know why it had to be redone.

[@MrEncosto]

beautiful piece of music 👌

[@DaRkJoKeR77]

If you were to look into this band more I'd recommend The Fractal Effect.

[@nathanlockhart3876]

It would be awesome to see you give deathspell omega a listen. Super dissonant avante garde black metal goodness. I think abscission would be a good song to do.

[@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage]

Wasn't expecting this Not complaining tho

[@eulerianpath6355]

The cymbal name ur looking for is a China cymbal

[@CriticalReactions]

Thank you.

[@swingonthespiral]

The drums are fake FYI. And RIP Justin Lowe

[@xspartan346x]

drums were fake on 2008 version

[@jaspin555]

Yep, they were fake in the original, till they got a real drummer. Those original vocals tho...