Archspire - Golden Mouth of Ruin (Pianist continues his exploration of heavy metal)

[@Stevil3113]

Heart Shape Box sounded beautiful.

[@psykys]

Must agree, very very well layed out

[@christopherblowers443]

So nice

[@jerblack]

You are the one who is beautiful!

[@joetimmins2619]

Played like that it sounded like a bond theme

[@realblakrawb]

The one note that I perceived as changed to flat Made that cover.

[@babyeater350]

i was completely unaware of Archspire till watching this 10 days ago. I cannot stop listening to them now.

[@THIS_IS_SPARTA666]

Someone caught the Archspire bug, awesome! It happened to me about a year ago through a recommendation from Apple Music and I must say, it has completely ruined my deathcore library 😂

[@kruksog]

​@@THIS_IS_SPARTA666thats awesome. I love that for you Check out allegaeon and obscura. Cheers on your musical journey. Hope you find shit you like, brother.

[@darrenbooker8144]

Welcome to the party😂

[@AfffS-oz5sd]

Blotted science, Spawn of Possession, First Fragment if you haven't heard of them

[@thaddeusk]

@@AfffS-oz5sd Also check out Neck of the Woods, another band from Cananda.

[@rimmouz]

Dean Lamb (Archspire guitarist) has a nice KZbin channel, maybe you guys could do something together because he seems really open to talk about his music and how it is perceved. Great video as usual, the fellas

[@comradeshmoo]

+1, Dean is great and loves to talk about composition

[@xenonvinc]

+1 lamb is my spirit animal and dean is my fantasy finger boy

[@SteveSmallwoodthemachine]

It's cool that he has his wife on it too and she can play guitar great herself.

[@ericlautenschlager6714]

@deanlamb a collab possible?

[@6ic6ic6ic]

These guys sound 100% on point live.

[@dedompler]

dean, jared, and spencer are just absolute machines on their instruments. tobi is a brilliant wildcard. oli is oli.

[@bubudread]

bro Oli when the guitarrists are soloing and he pulls out a sign that turns on and reads "Applause" 😂😂😂😂 I saw that live and I was 😂😂😂😂😂

[@bumblefluff79]

I need to listen to more Archspire. And that Heart Shaped Box rendition deserved its own video. Could imagine Kurt crooning over it.

[@Greatmeasures]

Judson’t supposed to be throwing together some covers today. I’m hoping he’ll work it in the mix.

[@ElGordoBlanco88]

​@@Greatmeasureshave a crack at some vocals or humming along with it!

[@baaf1984]

archspire is flawless

[@ViktorChudnovskiy]

I always treat vocals as just another instrument in the band and don't really need to know what the lyrics are Another great video btw!

[@metalboy27]

Absolutely. With some of these bands it's just about the music and I don't care what he's singing about. Most of the lyrics with these bands are written around some crazy science fiction shit they made up anyway, so there's not much meaningful to get out of it. But I'm not listening to Archspire to dissect lyrics.

[@bonkman6463]

@@metalboy27 yeah, also who would even enjoy slam and brutal death metal lyrics lol

[@jasonlauritsen5587]

​@@bonkman6463teenagers and man-children lol

[@jasonlauritsen5587]

​@@metalboy27yeah, there's rules about what the lyrics CAN'T be, like no "praise jesus", and no "i love you baby" kinda stuff, but that's as far as lyrics mattering goes in Death Metal. Leave meaningful lyrics to other genres and subgenres, Death Metal is about the music itself.

[@bonkman6463]

@@jasonlauritsen5587 there is definitely a song like that somewhere but I wish there was a happy or cute sounding slam song

[@Cryptic1911]

The trying to know what they are screaming is what gets a lot of people. If you listen to the vocals as just another instrument, it blends in with everything

[@Loendt]

I love Judson's interpretation of "Heart Shaped Box", that was beautiful. ❤ Great song of a very interesting band, I'm not necessarily a big fan of Archspire, but I can appreciate the talent and their unique amalgam of different cool stuff, like oriented-trap guttural vocals with ultra speed Tech Death.

[@PanasonicTooth]

Gotta get some The Faceless (Planetary Duality era) and/or The Zenith Passage happening. Also while I'm at it, need some Dillinger and Car Bomb action on the channel too! And more Animals As Leaders wouldn't hurt nobody.

[@imvengeance666]

You right

[@kenny240]

Planetary Duality was one of the best albums in that time period.

[@TheNiceroad]

Archspire's the shit! They rule the metal scene on this planet and beyond! Catchy, melodic, groovy tech death? Heck yeah! 🤘

[@thelastdaybreathinginetern1385]

Archspire is my favorite band! I'm an absolute fanboy. Im a musician playing for 16 years. I play Metal, Classical Music, Orchestral Music and Experimental Music too. Great intro keys.

[@TheNiceroad]

My favorite band too! Who would have thought tech death could be this catchy, groovy and melodic? Going to see them live on June 1st! 🤘

[@rb8913]

If Beethoven and Mozart were alive, Archspire would be their favorite band

[@isa1988jesu]

Ring of Saturn - Mental Prolapse :)

[@RAYPOFFRAY]

RoS actually can give you mental prolapse

[@Benobot99]

I'm happy you got him to hear Archspire! Next, do their song "Drone Corpse Aviator" please. 🤘 Or, Bleed the Future.

[@olanwarfist]

Drain of Incarnation bruh imo hands down best track on the album

[@SyrupyBeard]

@6:40 Judson stank faced 🤣 that's a guaranteed win

[@cbn6635]

When it comes to pushing the envelope as far as technical death metal is concerned, Archspire are a cut above everyone else at the moment, I believe.. 👌👌

[@TheNiceroad]

They absolutely rule! Catchy, groovy, melodic tech death at its finest! 🤘

[@cbn6635]

@@TheNiceroad I definitely agree.. 🤗 ...and Oli's vocals are very unique.. 👌

[@gyberic]

Awesome Heart Shaped Box cover and Archspire just clicked for me through this video. Friends have tried to get me into them and failed before, but this song did it. Thanks dudes

[@philcattrell7162]

Thank you Scientist- Mr. INVISIBLE

[@kevinkuypers9445]

Great pick

[@Caligari87]

The opera comparison is actually making me think about "Of Horror and the Black Shawls" by Anaal Nathrakh. And that's a song about the stock market, of all things

[@holyshiet787]

Yooooo my fav song 🤤

[@millerbeer01]

My fav band over the last few years. Seeing them again in June. They are just as intense live. 🤘🏼

[@TheNiceroad]

Heck yeah! Going to see them June 1st for the first time. Got the VIP package. Can't wait!

[@nigelconder]

I highly recommend Abandon the Linear as the next Archspire track, no catchy video but absolutely solid composition. Greeting from Canada, love your channel!

[@VZed]

I'm just getting into Archspire these days and hearing this song alongside you guys was really fun. I am still holding out for the day you guys hit up some Fleshgod Apocalpyse. Would love to see you're reactions to The Violation.

[@kenny240]

Seeing Judson nodding his head brought a smile to my face a bit. Glad to see he was grooving with this one.

[@adamhenton6221]

I've been listening to these guys for the past few weeks non-stop. They're truly great. I want to see them in concert if possible. Hope you guys enjoy it

[@TaylorHayes-xo5zw]

Just saw them in Brisbane Australia, was such an amazing show, one of the cleanest live shows in terms of sound production too

[@rexlupis]

They just started selling tickets for a tour starting in this summer

[@metaldrummersonly4402]

I saw them on their 2nd ever show in USA. Great band, amazing people. Triangle Mosh pits

[@rexlupis]

@@metaldrummersonly4402They are amazing in both personality and their sheer talent. I've been a fan for a bit over a decade now; on the first ever Tech Trek Tour, my friend was the promoter for the Toronto show. Archspire were just about to release "Lucid Collective Somnambulation" and were co headling with Beyond Creation, who I was already a fan of, as that promoter friend and I knew Forest from opening for shows for Quo Vadis and Augury when we were in a band together in the early 2000's and Forest was in those two bands. The Archspire guys crashed at my place after the show! They were so appreciative at the time, but they never remember me whenever I talk to them after a show these days! Considering how little I remember about people I meet even a month ago, I can't blame them! They just keep getting better. I guess part of the reason they do what they do is because they enjoy to challenge themselves. I've seen them around half a dozen times live by now and it's amazing how much they've exploded in popularity in recent years. I'm so glad they're getting the recognition they deserve! It's been great watching them go from playing bars to large venues! They certainly put in the work!

[@Goose21]

Even while I was about 3 metres away from them live, I still couldn’t believe what I was seeing . It’s insane they pull it off and also oli is hilarious on stage. Highly recommend

[@opaque236]

Love it please do more archspire

[@mattanthony2405]

Dude viscera is awesome. Would love to see the reaction to them!

[@Nathdood]

Love Archspire, I have an Archspire hat signed by the band when they came to town a few years ago. They took technical death metal and made it catchy.

[@TheNiceroad]

Catchy, groovy and melodic! Combined with their undeniable talent and Oli's unique machine gun singing, they are truly amazing! Can't wait to see them live on June 1st!

[@jonborrmann3124]

I think everyone gets the look of bewilderment when hearing Archspire for the first time.

[@Defenestration44]

Great piano intro, and great reaction. I've seen others say, and I agree, Drone Corpse Aviator would be a fun reaction, especially as the video is so wild. I'd love to see Judson react to Cryptopsy; Phobophile or And Then it Passes are a few of my favourites for different reasons. Keep it up fellas!

[@joepepe6745]

I love these guys, there are so chill, one of best reactions around there !

[@KHETTIUS]

Was waiting for an Archspire reaction, i'd love to see a Carbomb reaction, anything off the album meta would be great, such an under-appreciated band.

[@koryhelm8515]

Hey I've been requesting this one off and on for a while now!

[@jefo2405]

Man, that was draining. Give me straight blasts and low rumble any day. I'm too old for this flight of the bumblebee stuff. ;)

[@chairmanofthebored6860]

Many people are suggesting Drone Corpse Aviator, but I'd like to offer Reverie on the Onyx by Archspire. While there isn't a video, I feel like Judson would appreciate what is basically a tech death version of Lacrimosa by Mozart. A number of riffs in this gem are almost note to note Beethoven runs as well

[@doobsmcgee]

I think I saw an interview where Oli talked about the meaning behind Bleed the Future. If I remember right, he had a dream where alien parasite things invaded and their pools of golden blood were mirrors into the future or something like that and he just ran with that idea creating this whole horror-based story/lore. Though maybe that didn't happen and I'm making it all up but it sounds like something I heard lol

[@borzydar1196]

Inferi - Behold the bearer of light - guitars here are stunning

[@ph0kused]

Ya that intro, westworld all day i remembered the piano only version instantly. Rip cobain

[@dregnar85]

Jaw dropping live show, do not miss these guys if they tour near you.

[@XueYlva]

PLEASE both of you check out First Fragment. If your metalhead friends loves Archspire, then I believe you Judson will love First Fragment. Imagine if Archspire had a lot more Baroque going on. Vitrified Entity even more so. I promise you won't be disappointed. Regardless, love watching the varied reactions of someone that doesn't really listen to metal lol. It's not exactly in the same vein as metalheads trying to jumpscare non-metal listeners with breakdowns.

[@T-Barts]

Viscera f**in slaps too, thanks for reminding me

[@kaield4763]

I'm seeing them in May and I'm so hyped

[@TheNiceroad]

Seeing them in Calgary the next day. Bought a VIP package. Can't wait!

[@tropiq]

this is an absolute banger, i'd personally start someone off with the title track from bleed the future, that's actually what clicked for me, made me somewhat understand some of the things they do and then get into their other stuff, top 2 album of '21 for me p.s somebody suggested people play the bleed the future lyric vid on like 0.25 speed and listen how Oli enunciates everything perfectly, its actually impressive

[@hurpdurp916]

It is indeed a concept album, listening to Oli talk about how the concept came about is pretty hilarious. He basically just had a really weird and fucked up dream and ran with it.

[@colehensley7844]

I love Archspire whole-heartedly and love how they’re slowly getting attention across the musician realm; even if it’s not the particular cup of tea.

[@TheNiceroad]

Any musician worthy of this name should be able to appreciate the talent of every Archspire's musicians. Having all this talent in a single band combined with Oli's unique machine gun singing to compose and record tech death that is not only uber techy but also catchy, groovy and melodic is a huge miracle! Can't wait to see them live on June 1st!

[@allanjensen8324]

Love the way You Can See him studying what they are playing with his skill as musician

[@TheNiceroad]

Are they not the most talented bunch ever? Any musician worthy of this name has to be in absolute awe in front of Archspire. To top it all, they make tech death that is catchy, groovy and melodic. Can't wait to see them live on June 1st!

[@warriorsponnie8467]

Wintersun - Sons of winter and stars next! Would be amazing to see a classically trained musician react to that composition. I think he would enjoy it

[@sgtkabukimann]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you so very much! It was everything i hoped for and so much more! Watching Judsons facial expressions go off the rails is just priceless! Again, thank you very, very much!

[@scint-nc9vd]

i really liked that piece he played

[@crackedbrainOG]

Death metal vocals are kind of an instrument of it's own.

[@CitizenKang]

I always tell people who don't like metal vocals just to think of the vocals as another "sonic layer". It's not the words, but the cadence, the flow, and how the the vocals connect the passages.

[@kurotoruk]

banquet of enigmatic horrors pt 2 pls

[@mykodemgrzybodem]

Beneath The Massacre have similiar vibe to Archspire ;)

[@bolillo5013]

Haven’t watched one of these although they keep getting recommended, but props for the Viscera hoodie

[@VallisMortem]

Thank you!🎉

[@6m1ke66]

Great video as usual. Speaking of Vulvodynia, I thought it would be cool if you showed Judson some Kraanium (they're toured together not long ago). Keep up the good work

[@catnap2267]

Man the musicianship of deathbands never fail to amaze.

[@tommyjcarpenter]

One of the best comments I’ve heard on how to listen to these is “just consider the vocals an instrument”. Once you realize that, it all changes

[@hugemetalfan6664]

This band is freaking amazing and one of my favorite bands ever!!!!!

[@TheNiceroad]

Going to see them live June 1st. Can't wait!

[@tomkruze1304]

They play it perfectly live, which is crazy. Check out Relentless Mutation by Archspire in your free time.

[@lcozens1]

If Judson likes concept albums and lore coheed and cambria would be good to dive into. They have a whole storyline over multiple albums, and I think they are great musically. Also I normally don't comment but I watch all your videos, love the dynamic of both of you

[@keepitrythmic8316]

The whole concept of the album, lyrically at least, is based off of a dream Oli had. Kinda cool.

[@Hopesfallout]

Correction: You would for the most part not know what an opera singer is singing even if you understood the language. I speak both Italian and German fluently and I have no chance of understanding famous German and Italian Operas without a libretto.

[@kruksog]

Thank you for saying it.

[@Malaneth]

I wonder what you guys would think about DEATHSPELL OMEGA

[@JohnZeroSignal]

HUMAN MURMURATION

[@Muddyvaines]

I think this song will forever be in my top 10 for tech death.

[@The_KlaVra]

Two things, that Heart Shaped Box cover, BEAUTIFUL. Second, he didnt seem to dislike it cant wait to see him react to AUM specially that sample at the beginning also cant wait to see how he reacts to Vulvodynia, also sad that Vulvodynia lost their main vocalist due to stuff but cant wait to see what they come up with up next. In the topic of the lyrics, what I found is: "Lyrically, the album tells the story of a world where humans have started giving birth to creatures called the Boanet. Vocalist Oli Peters discussed the album’s concept with their record label Season of Mist: I thought about what if those things they were giving birth to could actually benefit them in the future so they wouldn’t want to reject them. What would happen to the humans that weren’t born? Would they go to a different dimension? I played with that whole idea because I hadn’t seen a horror movie where that was the theme. It worked for all the songs. The only social commentary is that people don’t know what they’re giving birth to - if you put someone on this planet, you don’t know whether they’re going to be good or evil. Bleed the Future also shares some thematic elements with Archspire’s previous album, particularly in the first and last tracks. “Drone Corpse Aviator” directly parallels Relentless Mutation, focusing on the flying mutant corpses described in songs “Human Murmuration,” and “Calamus Will Animate.” Additionally, the album’s final track mentions two of the main subjects of Relentless Mutation: a cult-like group known as A.U.M. and a mysterious black substance called The Drip. The A.U.M. is also referred to in “Golden Mouth of Ruin.”

[@Orion13Moon]

Could have shown him first one of those tracks that contain musical quotes from Mozart's Requiem, like Remote Tumor Seeker, or Reverie on the Onyx :) edit: watched the whole video now. Never seen him so concentrated before, and literally on the edge of his seat :))

[@LemmyGibbler]

If you look at the liner notes you can also see the lyrics to guttural vocals. It’s no harder than relying on a translation of a language with which you’re not familiar…

[@roryphares6192]

Brudah lookin’ like Bill Evans, well played!

[@RyanLD89]

Fun fact for your piano friend: the beginning of the tapping riff at 6:09 is based on Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement :D

[@mitchthemetalhead2589]

I loved Judson’s face when the guttural came in, but loved the Heart Shaped Box cover even more! Slowing it down made it much more melancholy. Would like to hear Judson’s interpretation of “Something I Can Never Have” by NIN. 🤘

[@seb7378]

i love oli because his vocals compliment the drums very well and they are not meant to be understood, at least not at first listen, but i also love will ramos because his vocals are like a whole nother instrument.

[@Monolith-yb6yl]

This song i have lesten to more than 1000 times

[@grandarchon6969]

If you do another Archspire tune, you have to do Drone Corpse Aviator. That's a banger. It also steals a lot of classical motifs in the guitars.

[@wyzlight2028]

I thought the background was just a greenscreen, but no! that's a real theatrical setting! how cool is that?

[@iancraig5415]

Acrid canon would probably be a solid pick for more archspire, especially considering that beautiful intro

[@asxska]

love from slovakia

[@pomkrelli5453]

Amazing band!

[@metalswifty23]

Seeing as Judson mentioned he likes it when bands create their own lore, can i point you in the direction of the band The Gloom in the Corner? Their discography is one big clusterfuck of a story. Musically, the most interesting song is probably Hail to the King, but its also the latest song in the siory currently, so you can start anywhere you choose really lol

[@niclastname]

Archspire is one of those bands I've heard the name of a million times but never really listened to before. I like the music, some parts reminded me little of the bands 'The Devils Of Loudun' or 'Inferi'. I'm really not a fan of the fast rap-pace vocals personally though. I'd love to see you guys react to some Be'lakor! They're one of my favorite bands of all time, up there with TBDM (though different styles). They're melodic death metal, but not usually really fast paced. Songs I'd suggest as starters: -Countless Skies -In Parting -An Ember's Arc -Much More Was Lost Those second 2 are part of concept albums that tell stories. An Ember's Arc is the start of a story for its album and it's about the fusion in the sun creating a photon of light, so there's no needed context other than "it continues from there". Much More Was Lost is the last song of an album, so just for context the people that the kids come across in their adventures in that song are references to victims of tragic lives in the other songs. It's about the kids losing their innocence and blissful ignorance of the sadness of the world so to speak. The album as a whole is a collection of tragic stories of people living around a mountain over time.

[@packymancard]

I feel like these might be some good choices for other videos: Éclosion from Hatalom, Eminence Emergence from Arkaik, Blacker Than or Unburied from Vale of Pnath, Radiatus Generis from Cytotoxin, Hybrid Suns from Exocrine

[@chiralsymmetry6997]

Honestly, Judson is really on point with his comparison to opera singers actually singing in a different language. Guttural vocals are honestly kind of their own language in music. Once you hear enough bands that use the various techniques of producing harsher vocals, you start to pick up on the patterns of each variation, and then hearing a new band that uses a style you've heard one-hundred times, you can much more easily pick out exactly what they're saying. That aside, great pick for introducing Judson to more technical stuff. This song is easily my favorite track on the album, because it has so much overt groove, but mingles it seamlessly with Archspire's aggressive and technical compositional style.

[@Indivus]

That's what I've been saying, gutturals are better used as another instrument of a death metal song, rather than as the main course like it is in rock or pop rock music. There the singer usually is the main focus. I think that in death metal, vocals shine best as part of the instrumentals

[@gearspider]

Heart Shaped Box and Nothing Else Matters

[@peterdodgson8177]

You gotta show Judson first fragment

[@immedi8Minds]

Yaay, Bleed The Future.

[@Morger-cz1nl]

Great one as always! You should check ERRA - Snowblood, it is definitely down the line of technical although in a different manner

[@thaddeusk]

The album is an original story that Oli wrote, and I believe it came to him in a dream. It seems like it's plot is connected to the previous albums as well. Something about a cult and some sort of inter-dimensional creatures that are replacing fetuses in the womb.

[@rasix86]

i always asked myself is that scene was a green-screen. I guess I know now. Makes it even cooler :)

[@psykys]

The album cover fits the name of the song very well. It'd be cool if you do a little snippet of album arts in your videos

[@zephyr30]

Remind me of Ramin Djawadi's version of Heart shaped box, you can hear it in the tv show Westworld, he did a few other cover of rock classics

[@jonathanbostrom2140]

Out of all the music reaction channels I’ve enjoyed, you two are my soul mates, no homo.

[@Eldwafio]

If Judson likes fantasy worlds in songs, get some Bal-Sagoth or Immortal on! Love these videos guys, keep it up!

[@julesroulette9447]

'old guy listens to archspire' shouldve been the caption lol

[@michaelk6957]

First fragment and Obscura next please. First Fragment have classical influence. I think he will like them more. But most importantly listen to the old Rhapsody and Luca Turilli albums. Crazy neoclassical compositions. Luca Turilli is an amazing composer

[@edu_assis]

Judson understood the vocal concept first time hearing, that is impressive! Even I, that like the band a lot, needed a time to understand it. I think "involuntary doppelgänger" will be even more enjoyable for him.

[@JustusVidyo]

being german, i can not make out an american Opera singer, singing german Opera despite a couple words

[@s.e.gutierrez]

- This song is called Golden Mouth of Ruin Judson: 😳😳😳

[@Vardok7]

🤣

[@SKJESUS-qk5qy]

You're not all the way wrong about the comic book thing. It is a concept album, however the story that it is based on was thought up by the vocalist