DID NOT EXPECT THIS! Ex Metal Elitist Reacts to Draconian "Sorrow of Sophia"

[@UnrealXistenz]

Let's go back in time: 2005 is the destination. Draconian released the album "Arcane Rain Fell" and changed my life forever! I suggest "Heaven Laid in Tears" as a starter.. or if you want to sprint right to the finish line, give a go to the final track of the album, their grand opus: Death, Come Near Me (15+ minutes of sweet sweet darkness!)

[@trollinbastard8968]

2003* and they had some tracks of the album on others before that, demo versions of course. But yeah, Arcane Rain Fell is definitely a great album. I really don't understand why this band is overlooked. Their music is on par and even better, in my opinion, with others who have acquired a legendary status.

[@horstpoporst6188]

"beauty laced with dread" perfectly true 👍

[@ThomasUtt2172]

Heike Langhans voice is so beautiful and hunting, and that's why I call her the Siren. Unfortunately, she has left Draconian to do some of her own stuff.

[@nogodsnomasters666]

It's up there with my favorite songs of all time

[@darrinstokke3839]

There are more and more bands using the the same male/female vocals dynamic and mostly it works pretty well

[@down_the_vinyl_path]

Another great recommendation by the community 👏 I was going to suggest the track "The Sacrificial Flame". For a more chilled vibe with the same female vocalist give ISON a try, you'll definitely float away with them. Especially tracks like "Helios" or "ISAE".

[@hisshadow9525]

p.s. there is a live show with both female vocalists "DRACONIAN - Sleepwalkers - live at Hellfest 2022 (Lisa and Heike duet) Official Video"

[@Pksparty2112]

Heike is on another level of female vocals

[@crucifier9366]

This is one of my favorite songs by Draconian. This song just sweeps you up and takes you along for the journey. It is one of the most beautiful songs I know. For more Heike as the singer check out Stellar Tombs.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

I could feel that friend.

[@Shapeology]

If you want even more of Heike, you can listen to ISON, Lord Of Shadows , Light Field Reverie, Remina and LOR3L3I:

[@trollinbastard8968]

My man, I know Draconian since 2002, you've got to react to their track Death Come Near Me. It's a Masterpiece. I've never said that word about a doom metal song. It's worth your time, I swear.

[@arwenitaofdoom9041]

Such an amazing band. I met one of their guitarists (now basist) on a Candlemass pre-party back in the 2010. He showed me one video of a live performance of "Bloodflower". I have been a huge fan ever since. I even have 3 Draconian related tattoos x) So yeah.. Everything this band released is just brilliant beyond words..

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

YOOOO I'd love to see the tattoos! I have loved diving into their music! It's been amazing. I just did a reaction to "The Sethian"

[@LeonardoFerreira_]

I'm a simple man, I see a video about draconian and I run to watch it. Draconian mixes several religious elements in their last two albums "Sovran" and "Under A Godless Veil" mainly about Gnosticism (little known branch of Christianity). When I heard them in 2021 it was love at first sight. Last week they were here in Brazil, but unfortunately I couldn't go see them. Great reaction, btw. I really like your videos, man.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

yoooo I love this so much. Thank you so much for the kind words friend

[@inesr5017]

I just found your channel because Draconian is one of my favourites. And Heike Langhans knows exactly how to rip your heart out of your chest with her incredible voice. I recommend you react to the song Ave End from the band Aeonian Sorrow!!! They rock 🖤

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Ohhh that sounds amazing!!! I will look it up.

[@ThomasUtt2172]

Same

[@devvetomoon777]

Ultimate Masterpeice

[@glaucometaleiro]

I've been a Draconian fan since 2013, and last month I went to their concert for the first time (the first time they've come to Brazil). It was absolutely amazing. If you want more harsh vocals from them, react to "The Sethian" (beautiful and brutal song) or "The Sacrificial Flame" (heavy with insane guitar riffs)

[@rochandil81]

Another track from this album that's great (and has a video) is "Sleepwalkers"

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Ohhhhh I got you

[@reuben8190]

Nightwish is my favourite band but doom/death metal is definitely my favourite genre. It’s super sad and very emotional music but it makes me feel happy. Draconian is one of the best doom/death bands. They are very good live and very nice people. Other doom/death bands to check out: Swallow The Sun, Officium Triste, Trees of Eternity, Hallatar, Evadne, Novembers Doom, etc…

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

I have to do some more Swallow the Sun. Need to check out those other bands

[@Admiral_Golbez]

I'd love to see you check out Stellar Tombs from the previous album!

[@jo_g.germany]

The first track of their very first album is still one of my all-time favourites: "The Cry of Silence". I highly recommend it 🤘🏻🖤

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Yo that sounds amazing!

[@RandallHidalgoS21allas96]

​@@TheWolffAndTheMelodyit's amazing, also "Death, come near me".

[@daydreamcorp]

They are incredible.. If you want, you can listen "Sleepwalkers" and "The Sethian" from them.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

I will for sure, this was great

[@davew459]

I wouldn't know which song to recommend I love that many of them.

[@daydreamcorp]

@@davew459 yep... They have a lot of good songs

[@ThomasUtt2172]

Draconian: Sleepwalkers - the professional live version with both Heike and Lisa. kzbin.info/www/bejne/r2OsiY2endaNj7sfeature=shared

[@ZerilathImmortal]

Sophia is the goddess of wisdom in gnostic mythology. her sorrow is over how humanity has abused exploited and neglected her!

[@freekeemonkee]

I get goosebumps every time I listen to this band. Even the harsh vocals are beautiful. This pairs well with Be'lakor.

[@hisshadow9525]

Draconian ❤

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Really enjoyed this!

[@sisterhoney61]

Draconian is one of my favorite bands. My favorite album by them that I listen to over and over is Arcane Rain Fell. It's based on the fall of Lucifer.

[@JayLaliberte-xs3ky]

You would like a little more brutal. try The Sethian from the same album, best song on the album in my opinion!

[@davew459]

I love many forms of rock and metal and I've loved Draconian from the first time I ever listened to them, all their albums are incredible can't get enough of them.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

ya, I gotta snag their albums

[@marcoac3117]

Draconian Is not metal ! Draconian is Gothic Doom Rock..!

[@Mossy-Rock]

Wow! What a deeply emotional song, flowing, dreamlike, sedate... to me, when you have clean vocals balanced (or offset?) with harsh vocals/growling it makes for the perfect mix of emotional change, and a variable texture that gives a song a compelling sound. Harsh vocals are very, very difficult to do well. IMHO, there is a certain resonance and depth that gives them their true power and impact. The band Amorphis has some of the best, and their song "The Bee" is a prime example. If you haven't heard it before, I highly recommend it.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

I actually did a reaction to The Bee. I loved it!

[@Kathrynn131]

Loved the vocals and the images

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

yea, this was great.

[@pin-upmariposa412]

I don't listen to this song too often because it's really sad for me. It's beautiful, peaceful, and emotionally packed piece of music. If you don't love yourself, you will not love others. This kind of love is the most difficult thing to achieve. Cosmic, you are doing great work.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Thank you so much for just all the constant love and support!

[@andrexhg]

Podrías escuchar también a "Swallow the Sun" y "Hallatar"

[@vulcanrs89]

ha nice! I am so glad you did this after my recommendation and that you liked it! welcome to the world of melodic and emotional doom metal. Another one (really unknown though) is Sulphur Aeon from my homecountry Germany. Death metal with lovecraft influence and more brutal than this for sure :D. Pretty nice stuff! Lungs into gills is a good starting point. cheers brother! Edit: Draconian has a pretty nice catalogue. the mix of harsh and clean vocals is very present in all of their stuff. a perfect example for this is the song rivers between us. Heike Langhans (female voice here) is out of this world. her voice is just hauntingly beautiful. almost aetheric for me.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

dude you said lovecraft and I was sold! lol

[@nuclear.musicaddict]

Thank you so much for reminding me of Draconian, I hadn't listened to them in ages! If you like harsh vocalist Johan, you might like his solo project Doom:VS, I haven't listened to the last album (must remedy this), but Dead words speak was on my heavy rotation for quite a while back in the day.

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Yea this was sooo good.

[@HypocrisyHuntress]

Haha! My house is also in a constant state of Halloween. That's awesome! Plus October is my birthday month. ♎ Big 40 coming up. 😁

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

yooo hell ya! My dad's birthday was on halloween! Its the best!

[@VXGaming]

Wonder if you've heard any music from Metal Hellsinger, Two flowers composed the music with many metal singers you might have heard of from Jinjer, Arch Enemy, Dark tranquility and even System of a down.

[@jkopacetick]

That's a yes for me though I'd have to hear a bit more to make up my mind on the band as a whole. This was beautiful, haunting, and I felt sorrow yet hope as well. You're right, the harsh I felt fit in perfectly with the song, and i could understand most of what he was saying without the lyrics. It really helped to see them to understand the song tho, as usually I'm listening to the music on 1st listen and only catch bits of the words. Very interesting I'd like to hear more TY for bringing it Cosmic ❤ and ✌️ everyone

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Oh we are going down the rabbit hole.

[@sagebooker]

A real discovery, and I love it !

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Right!?! Really good.

[@wolverine669]

Draconian is 🔥

[@NordiCDreaMs]

Love your reactions/content, no bull$h clickbait, just a nice guy experience new music :) Anywho, I have a few song request/suggestions you might like(I know I do): 'In Mourning - Blood in the Furrows' , (AND/OR) 'Magenta Ritual' by the same band. 'GAEREA - To Ain' , (and/or) 'Null' 'Ghost Brigade - Clawmaster' 'Evergrey - Stories'

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Thank you for the kind words friend. I add some to the list.

[@palantir135]

I hate growling but the songs without it are beautiful.

[@MZibari]

Makes me want to drift into nothingness

[@jamesnelson1968]

Here's something from Lacuna Coil that you might find similar kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaLKmXuDfbuIqqc They are another rabbit hole band.

[@wildhoney126]

first the Gathering, now Draconian.. Man, these are good bands, but you have to hear who inspired them all and more. You should hear the best band in the genre and the fathers of gothic doom metal - Paradise Lost. I have a hunch that you will immediately like them, because the vocals of Nick Holmes will immediately remind you of the raucous vocals of James Hetfield, they have often been compared before, they are really similar. The band started in 1988 (they are my age))) in the death/doom metal genre, very quickly they changed their sound to gothic doom metal and brought this genre to the masses. Their 1995 album "Draconian times" has been one of my top 3 favorite albums in metal music for many years. I strongly advise you to listen to the whole album and don't be afraid of 1995, the recording quality is very good. I'm sure you will appreciate it. The most interesting thing is that I first heard Paradise Lost on MTV in the 2000s, because in the 2000s they changed their sound to completely mainstream, but I also like this period of the band, they released a lot of cool hit songs. In 2012, the band left the mainstream and began to return to their roots, and at the moment they have returned to the doom metal genre, and to the depressing part of this genre. But I strongly advise you to start your acquaintance with early creativity. From the album "Draconian times", and for the reaction I will advise this song: Paradise Lost - Forever Failure ( official video HD remastering) - it is a masterpiece of doom/gothic metal kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6GvoXqpjpqqgNUsi=EnibOgeldbx1JTcp

[@TheWolffAndTheMelody]

Honey, you have already messed my life up....what will this do to me? lol

[@wildhoney126]

@@TheWolffAndTheMelody together with Septicflesh we already started having serious problems, it's too late to ask 😈 😆

[@duizeltjeeekhoorn6890]

In Gnosticism, Shopia is the mother of creation. Jehova is het partner and assistent. She represents wisdom. Her name in greek means wisdom. The song made me sad.

[@wearenotamused6455]

Thank you, I was going to touch on the Gnostic belief and include some background but you beat me to it. As soon as I saw the title I knew.

[@inesr5017]

❤

[@beldin2987]

If you wanna check out some lesser known bands, tha however already exists since forever, try maybe this : Edenbridge - Arcana kzbin.info/www/bejne/iWmppoKMo8d_nqc Before Epica was even founded my 3 favorite bands were Nightwish, Within Temptation and Edenbridge. Problem for KZbin is however, they are not that well known, so you don't find good live videos, so nobody reacts to them, so they will never be well known .. 😥😥

[@jkopacetick]

I love edenbridge too, I've been recommending Arcana live in Germany for a while now. Sabine has a great voice and the guitars in this are fantastic.

[@beldin2987]

@@jkopacetick Susanne and Lanval are also now over 25 years together in the same band. I think the only band who can top that, if we look at the main vocalists, is Within Temptation.

[@gabrielkain1]

I was not a fan of the first half of the song. It's seemed a bit pop to me, but I enjoyed the second half. Also, the video was cool.

[@yantheriault4995]

treat yourself, go listen to Exul from Ne Obliviscaris... misericorde II: anatomy of quiescence is the best progressive song IMHO. Equus is such emotion filled song...

[@dragonage2112]

To answer you're question yes they intertwine harsh vocals with clean on pretty much everything they do. This female singer replaced the original singer, but she has left the band to go solo and they now have their original singer back who has the same kind voice as well. Been a fan since their first album, "She Dies" is one that I suggest you listen to it is with the original female singer. They don't really have a bad song on any of their albums a really fantastic band, I would also suggest looking into another band called Swallow the Sun from Finland they are a progressive melodic doom band and is considered probably the best band from finland. Draconian is classified as a melodic doom/gothic metal band from Sweden.✌🎼🎸