The Human Abstract - Moonlight Sonata

[@StrangeHooves]

I was just about to fall asleep when that sudden metal bit at 3:14 hit and I nearly fell out of bed.

[@fuzbob4205]

Me too dude

[@infinitevoid5884]

My heart nearly stopped 😅😅😂😂😢😢

[@nicholasm8089]

*playing chess* *totally in the zone* *Not really paying attention to the music* *3:14** hits and I nearly shit my pants*

[@ReaperKezia]

I did shit my pants... :(

[@crnmjgnthdrrgnl]

Nicholas M Why did they put that to 3:14? Because pi. Smart ass people. (Or me being paranoid. Side effects of Tool. Sorry.)

[@UTU]

Thanks for the warning, I nearly shat my pants even after reading this.

[@IComeback1d24I]

the human abstract has a classical feel in most of their songs, This is an awesome cover and fits their style!! love Beethoven!!

[@caseymathieson7023]

Now when I listen to the original I know that deep down, Beethoven was a metalhead

[@chadiusmaximus9350]

Metal is just a modern version of Classical music. Well certain sub genres are anyways. And A.J. the lead guitarist for this band is a classically trained musician that has a Master's in music.

[@stephenwagner3717]

Beethoven is a god of music. He’d use his knowledge and ear to reach precisely any emotion or presentation he desired. He even wrote a fucking jazz excerpt in one of his sonatas unintentionally, out of trying to find a specific sort of happiness or specific emotion. He died 80 years before jazz was around. He was well ahead of his time in many aspects.

[@chadiusmaximus9350]

This band was the most underrated band of the metalcore days. Fucking miss them so much.

[@justin290]

I can't believe that a great song like this is receiving so many ignorant comments. Progressive metal is suppose to be an acquired taste. Everyone who stops listening at 3:14 is not giving this masterpiece the chance it deserves. Once you listen to it a few times you will be able to enjoy the entire song just as much, if not even more than the first 3:14.

[@JohnSmith-tw9nb]

at 3:17 i almost jumped out of my chair lmfao almost blasted my fuckin eardrums out

[@haleyw5469]

Thank you for your comment so that I got a warning ahead of time lol. I'm almost deaf enough in my right ear as it is, so it would've really sucked if I hadn't turned the volume down ahead of time.

[@LiViNLiFe3159]

Sending love in 2022, almost about 2023. The Human Abstract is so incredible and I wish they stayed together and created much more for all of us!

[@Weld-slayer]

2023

[@israelalves3886]

2023. A banda gastou toda sua genialidade no primeiro álbum, não sobrou nada para os próximos.

[@MJsMusings]

The band's Rhythm guitarist recorded all the guitars for this. gotta give the guy props.

[@geoffcasias9367]

Dean is a beast as well

[@jelowry22]

Interesting. How do you know?

[@shaunmulvaney3000]

Shit shit fucking shit shit fuck, nice way to scare the living crap outta me, song! ;d

[@MajorStalker8D]

I was falling asleep to the song, it manages to get me every time! My whole body shook when the music escalated.

[@mxsan22]

This is the music everyone should listen to.

[@againstme2]

shout out to Beethoven for being an amazing composer

[@theguy6598]

againstme2 and for clearly being the first metalhead in history

[@MarcoCaifan87]

It's surprising to know that AJ Minette didn't appear in this recording, especially since classical music is one of his fortes. It's all Dean Herrera on guitars.

[@brycebishop7539]

If you guys like The Human Abstract you should check out Between The Buried And Me.

[@Jaboaflame]

I was reading all these comments about the surprise metal, and it still scared me.

[@felixarden6909]

Terror was upon me the moment I finished reading this comment.

[@JSAcousticJuice]

To all these guys saying this sounds bad or the mix is crap, I love it! It sounds like a band in a garage! Makes me feel like these guys just threw it together while they were hanging out one day. Very cool!

[@michaelclark7456]

0:40 seconds in and I'm already in love. I hate that I'm so late to this party but I've known about The Human Abstract for years, just never heard this.

[@elewojo]

Beethoven is metal as FUCK!

[@johnathanteeney5901]

Karlwojo1 You're* Some people.

[@winstonmisha]

e j I lol'led so hard

[@BoyOfLol]

I was just about to hit the like button, and then out of the middle of nowhere the metal started and I jumped so bad I almost hit the "close window" button instead

[@ravenXO]

Its just that serious. was calm and then BAM. metal madness. good stuff.

[@Firestrait]

Gape Čufko at least it didn't pop up as a related song while you're driving down the highway like it did for my buddy and I we died

[@Oh_its_Mike]

Extol Jesus How do you even find this band not expecting metal? what.

[@eblodd]

3.14 ≈ π

[@cheesenugget38]

Andrea Santinelli Astute observation there.

[@ryanzuhlke9852]

Mind = blown

[@art88tum]

I always wanted a metal version of this...I mean, the 3rd movement... Thanks the human abstract... OMFG!!!

[@morganvalle9741]

Holllllllly $h/÷ that 3:14 was just amazing! Ive loved this band for years and this is just now the first time hearing this piece... why is this not more mainstream as well as polaris

[@crazysquid0227]

Good slow beginning, then power overwhelming at Pi...HELL YES!

[@trent5240]

Can definitely hear the influence of this in Complex Terms and some of their other songs.

[@KAiSKAjO]

i hate my life, but music made me love my life again!

[@emanuelemiliogomezvelasco1231]

Amo esta canción y mas la versión te The Humand Abstract

[@inuyashaismydensity]

oml I nearly got spooked out of my mcfucken F L E S H

[@aislinnkerr5618]

Idk why but you cracked me the heck up there.

[@DeathRowMistress]

Oh sweet baby jesus this is amazing

[@pappiwolf]

amen!

[@ItsTheButcherComin]

i was so fucken baked and then i heard this and i was fucken amazed now i love it

[@ryanzuhlke9852]

I find it amazing this song has been on youtube for over 5 years and this is the first I'm hearing it. Also it keeps saying I misspelled youtube

[@spacedust9548]

Da faq is you profile pic dude..

[@skagamers9591]

this song is the best love the rhythm and the cords match up so beautifully.

[@rockntroopen]

amazing music will live forever

[@pjl1979]

These guys don't do bad recordings. Everything is intentional, from guitar tones to their finished product

[@Hbbb8]

4th listen and probably still going to scare the crap outta me, I can't even time my mind to be ready. lmao. Gotta love it.

[@Lentsku]

This is what happens when you mix a song with bass boosted headphones on

[@themindbusterator]

holy fuck movement 3 is so good!!! please! if you dont like the first movement, skip to the 3rd movement before you judge!

[@boranboynuk]

Just listened to "Patterns" and thought to myself "it sounds like metal moonlight sonata" and then found this lol!

[@WertzuHun]

8:42 is perfection! Of course the rest of it is too!

[@pwnagestep]

so..beautiful.

[@strykeninja5706]

Are you people not getting that the hiss your hearing is how old albums used to sound.ITS SUPPOSED TO SOUND LIKE THAT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@benbauer3426]

Just because the old albums sounded like it doesn't mean that's how it's supposed to sound. It wouldn't have that hiss in person.

[@theguy6598]

This is what the Moonlight sonata would have sounded like if Beethoven had composed it in our time

[@vovocado]

3:14 damn that was a jumpscare, a welcome one but still a jumpscare

[@logner]

fair enough, but honestly A.J. Minette's work is pretty classical driven, id be reaaally surprised if he missed out on this.

[@user-qbx5uo72p]

loving this

[@pathos4]

Without the guitars being mixed very high toned, then the low toned bass guitar, piano and rhythm tracks will make the entire master sound muddy. Guitars were mixed high toned to avoid muddy sound. Learn about the mixing and mastering of music if you don't understand what I mean. Basically bass guitar, bass drum, and piano have mainly low freq. Drum cymbals have high freq. Drum toms have mid freq. Since there is too much instruments in the low freq. range; the guitars were mixed in the mid/high.

[@RareCandyTCG]

It's been so long now, but if I remember correctly they mentioned this song never got to get the proper mixing/mastering treatment as the actual album songs from the Digital Veil sessions (which is when this was recorded). I don't remember if they explicitly said why they never finished it, but I'm assuming maybe something financially related?

[@rockerchicjo666]

lol 3-13 did scare the crap out of me even after reading the comments, I was even waiting for it, not sure what I was waiting for though. Needless to say i need this song

[@emmanuelraymond9039]

Wonderful

[@tiiggger]

Need to get back on my piano and learn the second and third part to this song... so long

[@NachtIntellect]

This is good and I enjoyed it so much.

[@animalshaverights127]

Omg!!!! I love this!!!!!

[@UpEnYew]

Beginning of the 2nd movement sounds like Opeth to me. Amazing!

[@caesar09]

no, Opeth sounds like Beethoven. get that shit right

[@112007Roman]

caesar09 You tell him.

[@112007Roman]

Manbearpig, my brain literally got tired half way through that block of word cheese.

[@UpEnYew]

That really doesn't surprise anyone...

[@TheMegadave90]

***** influenced by the heavens? nice!

[@LanoreMusic]

This was great. Makes me want to listen to it on piano though.

[@MrDakotapotts]

One guitarist will often record more than one guitar part. Bullet For My Valentine, for example, often had as many as 4 or 5 parts. Ozzy does it too, and I believe Black Sabbath. That's not to say it's rare -- bands do it all over the place. Those are just ones I know.

[@loganbrown3565]

Ozzy doesn't play guitar

[@jameshollan1160]

7:29 guitar sounds like the Tina S. cover!

[@BPKPhoenix]

Me: _Slowly starts to drift into sleep before __3:13__ hits_ Also me when 3:13 hits: AAAHHHH IM UP, IM UP....AAH-AHM UUUPPPP!!! O.O

[@Peppolar]

I can't say I've ever been jumpscared by music before...

[@misanthropy6690]

Production was really off on this. There's this grainy fucking static sound that muffles the shit out of the sound of the song whenever the distortion is on the guitars. Must be the reverb of what I'm assuming is a crash cymbal not mixing well with the distortion. Really spoiled the whole sound and ruined what could have been a true masterpiece of a cover.

[@stevenwaiello]

I actually like the compressed tone they have on this one-- I've been trying to replicate it. Consider also that some of that may be youtube throttling the quality upon uploading

[@ashleychandler8906]

I agree, makes it sound Gritty...

[@ryanzuhlke9852]

They may have wanted it this way. To each their own

[@twitchymus]

Beethoven was/is the most metal brutal tortured soul. He made The Timeless.

[@RoryPlays]

This is the kind of comment that renews people's belief that people who listen to classical music are stuck up, This is a brilliant arrangement of a brilliant piece of music and people just come and poke holes in it.Very shameful, you're never going to get the depth of sound from guitars than you would from a full orchestra, that should be obvious.

[@robertwood1689]

@Fabian basker prolly cause aj was back with them and he's a classical beast ! But I'm in the same boat you are 3rd movement is hard as hell

[@manos6586]

Εξαιρετικό

[@contra-bassrecords874]

just so you guys know it's a either a bit crusher or the bit quality of the upload was lowered. maybe cheap distortion on the bass. currently listening on my phone so can't really pinpoint it but it's definitely something with the bit depth.

[@mattycooke]

french the lama that was amazing

[@pathos4]

In what aspect does the recording sound bad? I think that the way it was mixed was like that on purpose. It's not the quality that is terrible, but perhaps the mixing was mixed this way in order to leave room for all the instruments. In case you didn't know there is probably more than 20 tracks playing on this song. In order to make room for multiple tracks playing at the same time, the mixer mixed the guitars very mid and treble toned. The reason of this is to leave room in the mix for bass.

[@jamminkeys]

3rd movement FTW!!!!

[@DrDoomAlphaMason]

jamminkeys 7:29 DELETE! DELETE! DELETE! (if you know what I mean)

[@logner]

AJ has to be in this too, there are two guitars playing so yeah

[@RoryPlays]

I didn't say you were stuck up i said comments such as that lead people to think classical buffs are stuck up. I apriciate you're opinion i just disagree. although i see what you mean in a way.

[@hilariousgas]

Holy moley

[@FabianRWhite]

I can't believe they actually did the 3rd movement. That's so unbelievably difficult to play on guitar. I can play all of Paganini's Caprice 24 on electric guitar, but I gave up on the 3rd movement of this piece. Jealousy.

[@NaviTHEnavigator]

I think the recording is purposely like that. If u listen the backing guitar track is at least 24 bit only the leading arpeggiation is is reduced to an 8 bit.

[@matrim1762]

i should have seen 3:19 coming i had volume up all the way on my headphones cant hear now :/ .... :D

[@sunnydneggs69]

good idea: pan crash cymbal entirely right (jk my ear feels like it's gonna fucking burn off)

[@loganmos]

the song was created by beethoven who was mostly deaf by the end of his life. the irony of your comment made me laugh a lot.

[@calvinclayton3464]

3:14 for life!

[@MaddJakd]

Clipping, in the official tracks! PERIOD It's not like NOONE has NEVER mixed music with more than your typlical 3-5 pieces playing at once. It's been done before and better. And since the band didn't actually have a say in this release, the idiots who wents behind their backs to put this up obviously didn't know what they were doing.

[@RareCandyTCG]

I mentioned it in another comment, but at the time this track was released THA mentioned that it never got properly mixed/mastered like the other songs from the Digital Veil sessions (which is when this was also recorded). As I understand this was never meant to be the final mix.

[@ryjak955]

Holy Christ that scared me.

[@FabianRWhite]

Good luck! :)

[@TheGrandBrand]

Hopefully this will be an entry point for someone to classical music. However, without dynamics it sounds so flat. I was looking for those slight sweet crescendos and ritenutos... but no...

[@blissluminosity]

Gods be damned these guys are good...

[@EscalaCer0]

go to clipconverter.cc, download this like a mp3 from 00:00 to 3:10, enjoy

[@twitchymus]

Fucking amazing

[@barbedwirebat111]

now i just need the gp tab for this lol

[@dihhnani]

3:18 quase infartei

[@Acosmictrip]

Explendido IwI

[@The_Petrichor]

I like your profile name

[@cherissespence9257]

3:14 driving home with my wife. When she hits me from the next movement. #unintentional #shegotstartled

[@Aspacs]

I wouldn't compare THA to Rammstein considering THA is way more classical/complex. Not to say Rammstein isn't good, but they are not really that classical orientated in their style of music.

[@apachekid91]

is AJ on this or no

[@vmoney752]

This.

[@10benas]

the longest end ever... :D

[@TheGrayexe]

3:14 and 7:29 are just so AWSOME!!!!!!!

[@XTheManWithoutNameX]

Beethoven would have written this himself, but there were no electric guitars back then!

[@mitchellwalker25]

This is the cat's pajamas

[@I_am_Jordan_K]

unless you're in a black metal band, why would you want the recording to not sound the best? (not tryin to start an argument, just wondering your reasoning)

[@I_am_Jordan_K]

wish it was recorded better

[@Forston23]

this is the cats pajamas

[@Dandramere]

What kinda pie?

[@TylerHackerJokes]

you and I both man, recording quality is terrible.

[@bm8584]

Dice que el gran Beethoven hoy tocaría Rock. LARGA VIDA A BARÓN ROJO

[@NoFishTacos4You]

4 dislikes?! Wtf?!

[@faboh69]

me too lol