Musician REACTS to Avenged Sevenfold's Exist

[@dicodec]

Gaijin Guys Podcast www.KZbin.com/gaijinguys Check out my journey through Avenged Sevenfold so far! Avenged Sevenfold REACTIONS kzbin.info/aero/PL1flmTbuu_RHqsKvn5nLIY04f-F49XqLD Learn How I separate tracks here www.Patreon.com/Dicodec

[@deminybs]

hellz yeah 😎 What's the program you're using the single out vocals, guitars, ect???

[@dicodec]

@@deminybs Moises.ai link in the description

[@deminybs]

​@@dicodec ohhhh my bad, sorry I'm retarted & can't read apparently 😂😂 ....& The link sends me to a "page not found" lol I'll find it

[@tiagodias9103]

Ó😊não não culpa de ⁸l3

[@philcook6757]

They pull you in for 8 minutes and then Shadows is like...."hey". hahahah

[@dicodec]

exactly!

[@TobbeBoll]

Such a masterpiece, like the entire The Stage album. This album devided fans as always and it meant so much to be able to tell Matt in chat how this is a modern metal masterpiece, like a modern Orion and many other fans filled in and backed that statement. The Stage album is so much greater than it got credit for, a GOAT of metal.

[@billahler7728]

I agree. The extended version is so good. That album took me 7 years to fully unwrap.

[@iamdondawson]

The Stage is a 10/10. I defended it as Avenged Sevenfold's best album until LiBaD came out. That's an 11 for me. While I'm at it... STST -5 WTF - 9 CoE - 6 ST - 8 Nightmare - 8 HttK - 4

[@GJBedrin]

@@iamdondawson CoE definitely a 10. Ild also bring HttK up a little, I know everyone likes to hate on it but honestly its more solid than people give it credit

[@iamdondawson]

@@GJBedrin I was a fan of Waking the Fallen when it came out, and City of Evil just wasn’t really my thing at that point in time. I never really came around to liking it that much, but I totally understand why others claim it’s their best. I think it’s a little to over the top for me.

[@iamdondawson]

@@GJBedrin also, let’s agree to disagree about HttK 😂

[@delix787]

We won’t ever hear another song like this in rock or metal. 👀 which makes it more special.

[@LLaKiSupa]

Highly recommend Nightwish - The Greatest Show on Earth. Different tone but for me it is somewhat similar 😅

[@JacobRobergeQC]

You need to listen to some prog my man 😂

[@instaman34]

This is so true. I can't believe I called this album trash 7 years ago.

[@Tyius420]

@@instaman34 thats good means you have grown

[@shafiqzamri1273]

Maybe you didn't discover Dream Theater yet i guess🌝

[@EmoBoi91]

They originally wanted to do Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” but they couldn’t so they asked Neil Degrasse Tyson to record a speech about the universe for Exist. I get goosebumps from this song all the time

[@AlanRojasMusic]

Neil Degrasse Tyson is not a original record for the album, it was taken from Cosmos Series with Neil approve

[@IvyDoomsday]

@@AlanRojasMusic no, it literally wasnt. watch the metalhammer video of matt talking about making exist. him and neil were emailing back and forth piecing together his script.

[@tiggotopia2165]

@@IvyDoomsdayI know I’m a little late, but Matts wife also helped them! I thought that was really cool

[@Marc-xo2rx]

Brooks Wackerman is a drumming god

[@mike_mad2803]

literally born to drum

[@MP-yh7jv]

​@jaimea.5207I agree. I also have to add Danny Carrey....Thomas Haake....

[@Tim_The_Enchanter85]

THE METAL

[@flonkas]

He's good but nowhere near the rev level.

[@hmmallo_2477]

@@flonkashe’s definitely a little above the rev at drumming. Jimmy had huge potential and was at an insanely good level for his age but brooks just got a lot more experience. Rev was a better musician overall most likely.

[@ldmb1966]

Wish you could breakdown the whole A7x catalogue in this format haha. Your enthusiasm and knowledge is the best on youtube!

[@dicodec]

Maybe one day! ❤

[@stevenfilley7631]

I'd be there for all of it.

[@fuhtehangzo1465]

I second this.

[@joni428]

Keep up the A7X reactions😍

[@NiweNowe]

Fun fact. Synister Gates does the backup vocals on this song. They also have a live at the grammy museum version of this song. Deffinetly worth checking out 😁

[@courtneymoore3177]

And sometimes we get Zack too. I miss rev backing vocals

[@tiiongrh_]

for me this song is a masterpiece of storytelling with music , about how this universe was created from the beginning until now. u can imagine that with all of instrument that they write and play

[@mike_mad2803]

yeah man i always think about that, i always think about the first few seconds as a pre-big bang era and the first guitar sweeps as the actual big bang, and so on

[@gravewalker9162]

Neil wrote that part for this song with the band member, they picked and mixed it with other stuff from his speeches. Originally they wanted to use a part from Pale Blue Dot but they weren't able to, so they reached out to Neil.

[@rasputinx88]

To be clear, he didn't write it from scratch for this song. He took pieces from one of his books (Astrophysics For People In a Hurry), it's from the last chapter I believe.

[@gravewalker9162]

@@rasputinx88 some of it is written for this afaik, and the others picked from parts of his prior stuff like that book

[@gravewalker9162]

@@rasputinx88 specifically at least the first part starting with "We have one collective hope: the Earth", I cannot find this quote on anything else he's ever wrote

[@rasputinx88]

@gravewalker9162 Yea, I'm sure he added some new text here and there to bring all these pieces together but I would say 95% is from that book. I know because I've heard this song so many times that I literally know his entire speech by heart, and not so long ago I heard his audiobook of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (it's on KZbin, I highly recommend it) and in one of the last two chapters he mentions pretty much everthing that he put on this song and much more.

[@gravewalker9162]

I just checked and the book came out after the album lol@@rasputinx88

[@rocketfwm4337]

Hey man I just found Channel yesterday and I love how in-depth you go in your reactions. I looked through your videos and realized you haven't done this song and I thought to myself it would be really cool if you did. The timing of this upload is legendary LOL

[@dicodec]

That is awesome!

[@Cell1969]

Exist is the Daddy of Life Is But A Dream. So much stepping over from The Stage it's, a good progression, excuse the pun :D

[@brittnidraws]

Listening to The Stage album now I’m far less surprised about Life Is But a Dream’s direction.

[@that_brian_guy]

I hereby solemnly swear to watch every Avenged Sevenfold video that you produce, see you in the next one

[@toreetotz6661]

This entire album is just perfection. Unadulterated perfection.

[@filippoaraujo]

You should listen to higher, from that album. Best drum line in metal.

[@CamAffiliated]

Hearing Syn and Wackerman together, those two are monsters together. I loved him and Rev, but something about Wackerman adds to their direction towards prog.

[@dimmyjeams7489]

I really hope you do a full deep dive of this album. Everything about it is so good and its personally my favorite album of all time

[@sirstizz7912]

This isn't my favorite song of theirs but it is their best written song. If someone says these guys can't play just show them the first 7 and a half minutes of this song

[@ToEndTheRapture14]

You’re hands down the best reaction channel on KZbin man.

[@dicodec]

Damn that means alot

[@toolarmy95]

Been a fan of avenged since 7th grade I’m 27 now, much of they’re older music from nightmare and back is so nostalgic to me that it’s hard to listen to sometimes brings up too many memories and emotions so I definitely go through phases with they’re older music but it’s been years until recently that I really listened to alot of the older stuff and I never really gave any of they’re newer music since hail a chance because I didn’t really care for that album so I figured that sound they probably had been sticking too and didn’t bother giving the stage a chance until after the nobody single came out and that song quickly became one of my all time favorites from them like cosmic is now which is in insane masterpiece imo. Hearing the stage for the first time was amazing too, these guys have evolved so well they make music the way it should be made and I’m glad I can enjoy they’re newer stuff now and not only be able to listen to the old stuff and have to go into too much nostalgia every time ha, I’ve seen the band live four times most times I’ve seen any band, def gotta see them live one more time at least!

[@Solidus131]

Hi! Same here bro, we’re on ‘96 team here! 😂 I think my first a7x’s song was Dear God. I will never forget that godly beautiful outro that made me go to internet searching that song. After discovered Dear God, i started to browse their old song and that made me fall in love into some metalcore song. Couple years later, the Rev passed away and Nightmare album left a special moment for me cause i can feel their pain losing family on that album, and that made me respect them even more. That started on i always followed and listened to their new album. Excited for Mr. Portnoy fill for the late drummer on Nightmare, respected the legend but each time i watched they played their old song live with Portnoy, it kinda felt he just didnt wanted to learn the song properly and felt off sometimes. The Rev used to play impactful fills on their live plays. Couple years later, Arin was introduced and man, i was so excited because the kid was a beast from confide. Used to jam hours to Not Ready to Die and Carry On. These are my favorite drums from Arin. Hail to the King was released later and i understand the direction of the band wanted and personally loved it. I dont understand why fans hated it and i think its a good direction for Arin to learn the challenge of being opposite of what he always did on his previous band. Heretic, Coming Home, Planets, Acid Rain, Shepherd of Fire, man almost every song on that album is my fave song. I dont care if other fans said that some of the song was just copycats from the legends, i mean hey, they already stated it was a tribute album, and even for a tribute, it just got that classic a7x vibes on them and thats the point! They do what they like just like what they did on LIBAD album. Move on to The Stage and i think they really just stepped up their game on anything with Brooks Wackerman on their side. Brooks was the reason they able to pull of that crazy progressive technical song like Exist, The Stage, Paradigm, etc. So grateful to be alive until this time, to see they able to pull off another masterpice album like LIBAD. Cause right now, i got them on repeat full album on spotify. They’re basically The Stage part 2 with the same direction on Hail to the King, but they followed some unique fuse of modern and classic music like daft punk, alice and chains, frank sinatra into their own formula and genre. Heres to hope that they still making another 5 or 10 albums more!

[@fuhtehangzo1465]

another '96 team here😂 I love this band so much been listening to them for like 14 years now. They'll be my favorite band foREVer. Dear God is also my first a7x song. They make songs the way they like it rather than what the fans want and I think that's why they're unique and special to me. They've come a long way from STST to LIBAD, it's such an incredible journey.

[@Marc-xo2rx]

The song is the story of the universe from the big bang until today. it's a masterpice that show their talent. They are the best musicians on the planet right now and for the last 20 years. I think you would love the entire The Stage album, it's my favorite

[@TheSyncos]

The Stage IS a masterpiece. I cannot confirm if they're the "best musicians on the planet", but they are exceptional.

[@vincentforest4074]

I can assure you this is not an acoustic guitar at 11:50. It,s Syn's electric guitar, watch the breakdown of this song on their channel

[@AfloatFob]

The album cover is actually an image of the Rosette Nebula, with the colors edited and a skull overlayed on it.

[@syntezjaofficial4240]

This song can easily be 4-5 different songs. And those drums at the end 🤘

[@ShounenN]

This song is supposed to be a story chronologically depicting the creation of the universe, it's chaoticnes and eventually the arrival of humanity and our stupidity..

[@ValBoon997]

From the title of the song itself, you just can't stop imagining the solo is about how the entire solar system was formed.

[@richenjoshi7054]

Each and every minute of this song is satisfactory.

[@anoceanbetweenus89]

When you actually take time to decode what Neil DeGrasse Tyson is saying, I think it actually completed the song and puts a nice little bow on top to wrap the album all up. It’s a powerful speech and fits perfectly within the concept of the album and what the song is all about. Phenomenal song all around.

[@GustavoGplay]

The Stage is a fucking masterpiece. I'll never get tired of stating this fact. Best album in the history of metal, I dare say.

[@fuhtehangzo1465]

I agree with you here

[@flonkas]

City of evil is better. Always will be.

[@marqueeungovernable6170]

Thank you for taking a listen to this, man. This is my top A7X song, a position held by Second Heartbeat for the longest time until this journey of a song was released.

[@GJBedrin]

Same.. I always flipped between Second Heartbeat and Strength of the World as their best song until this came out. Now its unquestionably the greatest track they ever produced

[@tompramanaaccount8892]

A7X is the master of harmonics where they combine so many layer high and low notes either on guitar or vocals and makes them panning beautifully across the room, is just so pleasing to ear.

[@cozalenko7-341]

Love love love this band. 💪🤘😀🔥

[@msacco]

I knew it was worth subscribing. Just found out about you recently, you do it SO well, it's so much fun watching you do it.

[@dicodec]

Yay, thank you! I seriously appreciate the encouragement

[@conorwalters2367]

I would highly recommend The Stage or Roman Sky from this album. Loads of things going on in them songs!

[@Gmt400kid]

I love how the rev’s dream theater influences never left the band

[@jamiefoster6186]

higher and paradigm off the stage have some of my absolute fav brooks drums

[@TheMayeloski]

The stage song is my fav Brooks drums

[@pankajvids111]

Finally who understands A7X … and explains us in simple words😅 Please keep up on avenged songs… if you loved exist, try “M.I.A.”

[@claudiaoliveira3484]

Man, you were fantastic reacting to this song. I saw myself on this rsss I am not a musician but I love soooo much trying to listening what is "hide". Thank you.

[@igorpodemski9596]

YES! THANK YOU FOR THIS!

[@dicodec]

You're so welcome!

[@igorpodemski9596]

@@dicodec Fiction next maybe? This one is going to make you cry.

[@toolarmy95]

Also it’s nice to see some real genuine reactions these days to music like your reaction to cosmic was pretty much the same reaction I had ha watching you react I was also hearing it for the first time! Glad people are still really listening and feeling music these days and are able to give it they’re full attention!

[@BrayK71]

ive always felt the vocal split panned between the ears feels like a love note to space oddity by david bowie… intentional or not its just fucking gorgeous

[@keenancargill868]

Getting stoned and listening to this song was an out of body experience

[@Jake21128]

First time I heard this song stoned and with good headphones I was like this is fucking insane. Recently I’ve gotten into mushrooms in the spirit of self discovery, I got an astral projector that shows constellations on my ceiling and I put on exist. Bro… Mushrooms, Astral Projector, Good Headphones. It made me really decipher my place in the universe and human beings’ horrific animalistic tendencies toward each other and made me want to focus on continuing to better myself as a person. Really felt this song on a primal level.

[@indiebrou]

I love how the vocal in this song isn't like vocals in their other songs. It's singable, not too high nor too low.

[@iamdondawson]

"Throwin' me off there a little bit" lmao! Never know what Brooks is gonna throw in at any moment. I'm so glad you listened to this one dude! Any forward-thinking musician owes it to themself to experience it at least once. Please tell me you've listened to it without stopping since you recorded this video!

[@iamdondawson]

HAHAHA I just got to the vocals

[@KytexEdits]

Higher by avenged, please do it. Nay, do the whole 2nd half of this album, it's fucking amazing. I'd say higher, roman sky, fermi paradox, and exist are my favs.

[@fuhtehangzo1465]

same.. I'd add the Stage to this list

[@courtneymoore3177]

M's high vocals in higher

[@Coryconqueso59]

Wackerman is EXACTLY what this band needed

[@TheSnappyWolf]

HE DID IT

[@Twinspinner]

If you haven't heard it yet, I highly suggest you listen to Fiction from Nightmare as well. If Save Me got you feeling emotional, Fiction will definitely do the same

[@dicodec]

Coming out soon

[@Twinspinner]

@@dicodec 🙌🙌🙌

[@SuperDAVIEZ]

Many masterpiece song from avenged sevenfold 🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥☠️☠️☠️☠️

[@Dreded100]

I remember when this song first came out I would attempt to just tap the beat for the whole Neil Degrass Tyson speech (25:50 - 31:30). The tempo is constantly increasing in an unnoticeable way. Pretty good practice for being able to keep time.

[@chardeemacdennis3852]

Brooks is a beast.. closest thing we can get to the rev

[@dianne6399]

I wish my father was alive to hear this beautiful song. As a musician and astronomer he would have loved it. ❤

[@KnellMortem]

You should totally listen to some Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold has taken a lot of inspiration from them and I feel like you’d like them as well.

[@ballaholla2811]

Love this track! You should disect some Jinjer soon!

[@JUNK_ZONE]

Getting a LOT of John Williams during the section around 5:23. That could be set to a chase scene easily.

[@JaxonRussell]

The band did a breakdown of the song on their channel a few years ago and mentioned they were heavily inspired by John Williams while writing it

[@ReignInHell420]

@Dicodec absolutely love your reviews, especially on A7X. Exist is definately on of my all time favorites! Thanks for doing it.

[@jereruuskanen3794]

I fucking love these A7X videos! My true fav band all my Life!!

[@siic]

Best song of the album imo is Fermi Paradox. Check it out!

[@stevenfilley7631]

ROMAN SKY ! Is the only thing that I can say. Great job. Watch every one.

[@FULGORE36]

This is a masterpiece

[@angelb7742]

HE DID IT. WELL DONE SOLDIER

[@davidvanky]

Next, the last one is Roman Sky and you have to react to Dose and 6 cover songs on the bonus tracks of this album

[@robbymadani27]

Avenged Sevenfold - MIA ❤️‍🔥

[@fuhtehangzo1465]

would really be cool and fun to watch if you'd react to their breakdown sessions for some songs..

[@jaygopinath1694]

18:36 i was so enraptured acoustic guitar rift solo when m shadows abruptly started singing i jumped and my heart skipped 😱🤣

[@Chadillac-xq7xk]

Also i do know that their self titled album was their first chance to produce their own album. I think since the. Theyve worked with people, but have always had a huge part in it.

[@dhafdhaf]

This song is a story about progress of how this world was made

[@justaaronshelby3261]

love your reactions brother❤

[@revriunabdi7472]

Next the wicked end / not ready to die, king🔥🔥🔥

[@davidvanky]

This song tells about the beginning of the universe, from the big bang explosion to the present

[@Hunter_91]

I've got to agree with you on Tysons part. It's kind of strange but like you said, I get why it's there. On the other hand, thank you for doing these videos. I've been listening to since the late 2000s and they've been with me through every up and down in my life and I've come to appreciate them so much that words can't really express it. When I watch you breakdown these songs, it makes it all new again and I can appreciate them all over again in a different way

[@kodayybluesss4142]

Masterpiece ✨

[@Heather_1276]

Love these Avenged breakdowns. Your reactions make me smile. So fn good!! I would love to see you react to some Polaris Australia... Any song from Death of Me!Keep rocking 🤘😎❤️

[@tyler951]

Your reactions are easily some of the best and I really enjoy the detail that you provide. My first listen to The Stage was front to back in the airport terminal at Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta on a 2 hr layover in April 2021. That was my re-introduction to Avenged Sevenfold and really to metal and heavier music as a whole after many years. It totally blew me away and made me fall back in love with them and their entire body of work. Then in December 2021, I became a member of The Deathbats Club and all the perks and community that has come from that have been amazing. I like plenty of heavier stuff but Avenged just scratches so many itches for me with their composition, technicality, and skill in all aspects of their music that has changed and developed over the years and culminating for me, in Life is But a Dream...

[@ReignInHell420]

Yes, yes and yes! It's exactly the same story for me! I was in LAX when I first heard this album and it brought me back to A7X.

[@The_Billzebub]

Fun fact. Shadows is doing harmonies with Synyster Gates. Who is actually taking on a lot of the backing vocals since Nightmare

[@revriunabdi7472]

Yeah finally🔥

[@Twinspinner]

Haven't watched all the way to the end yet, but yes that's NDT and he collaborated with A7X and actually recorded this specifically for this song

[@Freddy21h]

A7x foREVer! 🔥🔥🔥

[@SlimJimJoey]

Gates unintentionally trolling at the end while he's talking, just letting his guitar ring out and not go away... 🤣🤣🤣

[@Chadillac-xq7xk]

If you get a chance, react to Avenged Sevenfolds acoustic performance at the Grammys. They do the last section of this song live and its great. As well as an Acoustic version of Hail to the King which to me, is far better than the recorded version.

[@brandonbates4434]

You're kinda the only way to listen to AX7, and I've been listening to them for sooo long.

[@unshakensalsa6220]

Dont know if you noticed Alan, but during the "Sailing Away" part, Matt's different vocals switch panning of the ears a few times. Just noticed it myself

[@dicodec]

Hell yea! Good catch

[@izo24]

i was about to propose this one, but you beat me to it. this one is a masterpiece. lowkey one of my fav song. back then i would listen to this frequently, before i sleep, but if i didnt sleep after this song ends, i know that i already spent 15 minutes lmao

[@dicodec]

I actually listened to this before bed last night

[@izo24]

@@dicodec you know its good when you dont feel like its past 15 minutes

[@kv9765]

MIA, Unbound, Brompton Cocktail, A Little Piece Of Heaven and if you wanna get into where their roots started do Chapter Four, Remenissions and Second Heartbeat

[@TheSyncos]

I love this song, and this breakdown, but it makes me want to see a breakdown to "Greatest Show on Earth" by Nightwish. There's some crossover themes.

[@dicodec]

I am open to checking it out

[@PNWSportsCards]

Something tells me you missed out on 'The Stage' & 'Hail To The King' when they originally released. I still remember picking up those albums and being so stoked to hear it all for the first time... It doesn't get much better than Shepherd Of Fire & The Stage to start an album. I remember just laughing and screaming cause it was so good lol 😂

[@dicodec]

Yea man! Check out my earlier video I talk about how I didn’t listen to them

[@MrJarpl]

This song is truly MASTERPIECIE with capital "M" (as whole album aswell)

[@FujisamaProductions]

Where did you get the band maid shirt? also nice vid. Love your breakdown of music.

[@bbad21]

Esta canción me hace sentir como un espectador ante la creación del Universo desde el comienzo hasta un posible final para éste, es asombroso como una canción puede transmitir tanto 🤯

[@tinplatedave]

Masterpiece \,,/

[@thisishan]

Third comments, and we love you dicodec!

[@MuhammadRifqi17]

The Wicked End or Trashed and Scattered please.

[@boyrafael27]

please Alan, reacting the wicked end too! you're the best reaction channel i've ever know!🔥

[@dicodec]

I will check it out!

[@grumpyrock]

Recommending A Little Piece of Heaven breakdown/reaction purely on the want to hear different parts of the song isolated.

[@tigeryang333]

I have watched enough NGT content to have KZbin led me to this video

[@nickshepley2566]

Dude if you liked the middle of exist with the pumping and ambiance you gotta check out Higher

[@NataXano]

I don’t love this song as much as others, but still gotta respect the work that went into it and the complexity of the concept they decided to cover 🖤 a7x foREVer

[@bxbby]

Please do The Wicked End by Avenged Sevenfold!

[@thed396]

Life is but a dream feels like a DLC to The Stage

[@dicodec]

lol well I can't wait to hear more then