I had to listen to TWO MORE Spiritbox songs

[@carriefish]

Spiritbox Sirius XM Liquid Metal live show PART ONE, YOU HAVE TO. They perform Holy Roller and my personal favorite ✨️Rule of Nines✨️ and it's absolutely brilliant. 🔥 thank you for the shout out! You also cannot go wrong with Courtney's Circle With Me live one take or Belcarra live performance.

[@GeekFurious]

Why just part 1? When part 2 and 3 are the best parts...

[@iamdondawson]

Awesome, someone else also recommended the one take video for Circle With Me so I think that’ll be coming soon! Glad to see you in the comments again, thank for watching!

[@carriefish]

@iamdondawson Gotta do Rotoscope and Hysteria too, that's a nice song pairing for a reaction video. Rotoscope is so different and groovy, I think you'll really enjoy it.

[@iamdondawson]

@@carriefish sweet, thanks so much for these recommendations!

[@razbeee]

You should absolutely watch Their songs The Mara Effect Live !!!!!!!

[@termination09]

I think by listening to the array of spiritbox you have (incl constance) you start to see more of their appeal than just having listened to jaded; when they release material you have no clue what you're gonna get, and that's awesome. Love your reactions!

[@ConnerSpeed6]

Two absolute bangers! Nice video, brother

[@iamdondawson]

Thanks so much for checking it out! 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@kordell8199]

Glad to see you were vibing! Spiritbox has a song called The Summit and it just has a unique sound that sets it apart from other Spiritbox songs that I just love. It definitely falls into the less heavy but super vibey catagory. Keep up the great work, will definitely be checking out you and your friend's music, funnily enough, The Killers were my favorite band a couple years ago and then they got userped by a7x (I agree LiBaD is a great album).

[@iamdondawson]

Thanks for coming by again! Ha, we have some pretty damn good taste in music. I’m curious, what are your top 3 A7X and Killers albums? I’d go with LiBaD, WtF, Self Titled, and Sam’s Town, Pressure Machine, Wonderful Wonderful. Definitely gonna put The Summit on my list!

[@kordell8199]

WtF is an easily one of my top 5 albums overall, Nightmare is my second favorite since I love every song except God Hates Us on it. Third place goes to LiBaD especially since I like most every song on the album and really like what they were doing with it. However Nightmare beats it just a bit because in LiBaD I feel like the production didn't do the songs justice. Before I found A7X then found metal core and djent type stuff, I didn't listen to music a lot. So I can't really say what my favorite Killers album was since I think I've only listened to Sam's town and Imploding the Mirage. But based on songs I listened to I'd say Day & Age, Sam's Town, then Hot fuss. (My top three Killer songs are Spaceman, When you were young, and Human) I had to look at spotify and refresh my memory and seems like I missed a ton of bangers, gonna give them a relisten. @@iamdondawson

[@iamdondawson]

@@kordell8199 Damn, I love God Hates Us! Can't go wrong with any of the songs you listed, though. If you missed some Killers material, check out Boy, The Man, West Hills (or the entire Pressure Machine album, it really does deserve a full listen), and My Own Soul's Warning. Those are some standouts for me in regards to their more recent stuff.

[@kedwards268]

Deeeefinitely need to listen to the vocal one take of circle with me! She’s amazing!

[@iamdondawson]

Recorded a reaction to it 2 days ago :) just gotta find the time to edit and upload it!

[@Drogenjohnny]

Circle with me. The one take Version would be recommended

[@iamdondawson]

Good call, I do need to check one of those out!

[@Bradrb17]

If you want to check out some pre-Holy Roller stuff, I’d give Blessed Be, Perennial & The Beauty of Suffering a go

[@Jams7X]

Don Dawson checking out Spiritbox now? What a vibe

[@iamdondawson]

My dude is back!

[@mikebohrn6070]

I would recommend trust fall or Aphids

[@lavalavium777]

should we tell him about Constance... if he is ready for it

[@christerfurberg6538]

Great reaction, I'm subbing! I guess you should check out the rest of the Fear of Fear EP. According to Spiritbox themselves, it's actually one song, just divided into six different parts. For live performances, there's Courtney's one take versions of Rule of Nines and Circle with Me. And for something completely different, check out Constance. It's super heavy, but in a totally different way.

[@iamdondawson]

Sick, I didn’t know the EP was laid out that way. Can’t wait to listen in full once I get the reactions out of the way haha!

[@kuneefay]

Mike Stringer is a god damn groove wizard on the guitar

[@HeyTomHaas]

that opening riff is so SICK±

[@brendonhuddleston450]

Keep going!

[@brendonhuddleston450]

One of my favorites of theirs is one of there first singles, Trust Fall. It gets left out far too often

[@iamdondawson]

This is the first I’m hearing of that one. Sounds like a good deep cut to check out!

[@malreynolds7309]

If you want more layed back Spiritbox with only clean or most clean vocals, the newest ep that has Cellar Door , Jaded, and Angel Eyes has 3 totally clean vocal songs, Too Close/Too Late, The Void, and Ultraviolet. All 3 are pretty different from what you've heard so far.

[@geneandshay]

I think you’d really like yellow jacket by them! There’s no music video but the song goes soooo hard

[@iamdondawson]

Thanks for the recommendation! I'll add it to my list for sure!

[@NXT_LVL]

Jaded is their "watered down for public use" song. Its still an amazing song, still them but its the "radio safe" angle bands used to go. Back when they released Holy Roller and their songs from that era they werent as well known in the circle of mainstream. Now with all the reaction videos, concert series and everything post COVID theyve had the proper opportunity to be enjoyed and recognized.

[@iamdondawson]

Makes perfect sense. I definitely enjoyed the song, but “watered down for public use” is a great way to describe it.

[@ryanrivers1259]

The whole EP links together musically the intros and outros are dope how they messed the whole EP together. They're different man they can make dark dark and beautiful beautiful and then do it in the same song sometimes.

[@eddyson4404]

Hi Don, new subscriber here. The Mara effect part 1,2 and 3 live is awesome. It’s a must

[@electrocrane]

give a shot to Constance by spiritbox , it's chill , its beautiful and Heavy . amazing song , also i love the new A7X album , like if they had never tried to experiment and try new , we would've never got the Cosmic song and it's just heavnenly .

[@iamdondawson]

Top 3 song in their catalog for me!

[@heyimapl]

Yeah Spiritbox have a really diverse catalog; really nice to see someone new getting into their music. For me a couple more solid recommendations from them would be Yellowjacket (ft. Sam Carter of Architects)(also my personal favorite), Too Close//Too Late, Blessed Be, Rotoscope, and Halcyon. Their live versions with SiriusXM Liquid Metal are really worth checking out as well. Also, your music as well as your friends is soo good. Added to my playlists

[@LuizAntonio-in2we]

Belcarra, Eletric Cross, Beauty of Suffering, Aphidos.

[@ryanfrazier3781]

From oldest to newest, definitely check out "The Beauty of Suffering" off their first album, "Trust Fall", "Rule of Nines", "Blessed Be", "Constance" (and the rest of their album "Eternal Blue), and they also just did a rock remix of Megan Thee Stallion's new single "Cobra" which is the craziest collaboration of 2023 by far.

[@hannahfindley7739]

Checked out yours and your friends music and both of yall were added to my playlist! Your newest song made me cry, its very relatable

[@iamdondawson]

1. Thank you so much for taking the time to check it out! 2. Sorry for making you cry! My mom did too 😂

[@tonyosorio4253]

Ultraviolet

[@iamdondawson]

BTW, the breakdown in Cellar Door reminds me of Gojira 🤘🏼

[@GeekFurious]

And a few pieces of Angel Eyes remind me of Fear Factory.

[@XCBen]

Mike Stringer, the guitarist, is incredible.

[@nightgoon9157]

Hear me out, check out Belcarra and Blessed Be by Spiritbox. I feel like you will enjoy judging from the two videos i've seen of you you'll enjoy those two songs

[@iamdondawson]

Thanks for the recommendations! These two are on my list 🤘🏼

[@heyskipj]

Wow, Jaded was Grammy nominated? Maybe b/c the Grammys slept on Holy Roller, Rule of Nines, Constance..., and they're making up for it? Nothing wrong with Jaded, I just think their previous songs were absolutely new and next level.

[@iamdondawson]

Exactlyyyyy!

[@francesoxberry6816]

TRUST FALL

[@derekcyrusvargas3570]

Where is the reaction to G-O-D from the new A7X album? :c

[@iamdondawson]

Good question! I script my analyses for those videos, so I haven’t made time to work on them since I’ve been so busy with my actual career. Once my slow season comes around after the holidays I’ll have the time to finish up GOD, Game Over, Life is But a Dream, and I’ll probably even do a retrospective review of the album as a whole too!

[@GeekFurious]

Well, you've now burned through the only-screams songs. Now all you have left is songs with lots of clean vocals, or at least partial clean vocals!

[@Samarkkand]

There's also Silk in the strings

[@GeekFurious]

​@@Samarkkand I always forget Silk in the Strings.