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This is probably the best reaction I've seen to this album, your reaction to Ordinary is *exactly* what mine was. I had no idea what was happening, my brain was like "this is not the kind of music I listen to, I normally don't like this kind of music, but somehow A7X made this one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard"

This album is the only one that truly left me emotionally destroyed at the end. The amount of introspection and reflection I did while listening was intense. Cosmic was the song that broke me bad and from then on it was. Pun intended, Game Over.

@mitchellgoldstein1573

Жыл бұрын

i teared at the piano part, so heavy...

@dennisechevarria8141

Жыл бұрын

Cosmic! ❤

@luisp6697

11 ай бұрын

Cosmic broke me too. It was a trip and a half.

Great Reaction! Metalheads hate it. Musicheads Love it. I think people will love the songs more if they think of the 3 aspects: Music, Concept, Lyrics Love how they are heavily circling around Absurdism and Existentialism. Here are my short overview for each song. These can still be expounded upon as the lyrics have multiple layers to them : 1. Game Over - Meaninglessness of Life 2. Mattel - Reference to the Truman Show. Simulation/Illusion but in reality everything is predefined. Much like a continuation to The Stage album concept 3. Nobody - Realization that we are "one with the universe" and a "nobody" in the grand scheme of things 4. We Love You - Most say it's about capitalism. But I interpret the song as representation of human ego and the illusion of choice. Thinking about it, Capitalists only 'capitalizes' over human ego and greed to 'manufacture a need' (more more more...build build build...we love you...you're on in a million). Without these 2 human qualities they are nothing. Problem is, we cannot separate these 2 qualities to our humanity. Thus, in the end, we consume what they provide regardless. 5. Cosmic - Cycle of Life and Death. The idea that we are all made up of the same cosmic energy - we do not go away. We just take up a new form or has been in a different form in our past lives. Written in beautiful love song 6. Beautiful Morning - A character who faces an inner struggle and attempt to find meaning. This character they are trying to portray in this song is everyone's worst day of their life. 7. Easier - The same character who wants to Surrender. Suggesting to take the 'easy way out'. Uplifting music but sinister meaning between the lines. I interpret the random 'pew pew pew' sounds at the solo that the character has thoughts about taking that gun to the head. Again another cute sci-fi gun sound a contrast to it's meaning. 8. G - Referencing the story of Creation. And an irritated God is contemplating to just wants to delete what he made and restart. 9. Ordinary - Other songs talk about suicide, emptiness, meaninglessness, hopelessness, etc of human life. This song is an attempt to say that "you got a problem with life? I don't even have one and I desperately want it. you must be lucky to live" from an AI (thus the electronic vibe). This song is perfectly placed in the sequence of the album because right after it, the human in the next song commits suicide nonetheless without regard. 10. Death - The same character from 'Beautiful Morning' and 'Easier' in the end commits suicide 11. LIBAD - Closing the curtains Everything is done with intent. It's chaotically beautiful

@JamesOsyris

Жыл бұрын

You've posted this comment everywhere bruh lol

@blue_serpent

Жыл бұрын

@@JamesOsyris I'm the bot from (O)rdinary

@renejensen7799

Жыл бұрын

Well would say Nobody is more about being only existence, and how that would drive you, being only one in the universe.. Cosmic is about 2 lovers going through diffrent lives, they live, they die, then find eachother again in another live..

@merensashi1226

Жыл бұрын

You're everywhere, bro

@isaacrumley

Жыл бұрын

Copy… paste… copy… paste…

"Nobody can play every genre in one album" A7X- "Hold my beer".

Artists should not cater their audience All the more I am happy that A7X go their way. The album is terrific and I can't get rid of the feeling that mental capacity is necessary for this realization.

"Doing drugs did Matt good" I had the same thought after listening to it lol. He's always been great with lyrics and melodies but this was just uniquely good.

Some of the best commentary I've seen on this album, and I appreciated that you were knowledgable about some of the album's background and the band's background too. Good shit

Oki ik this is an unpopular opinion but the last piano aria is sooooo good. Its a chopin esque piece and i want more. I would be all on board if synyster gates did a separate project of just piano pieces.

@ninja_tony

Жыл бұрын

Completely agreed. I love classical music, especially Chopin and Tchaikovsky, and LIBAD (the track) is absolutely gorgeous.

I fucking love LIBAD. I saw them live in LA jube 9th!!! Such a great concert. I also love falling in reverse. Thr energy was crazy, i had such a blast i cried too.

I fell in love with Avenged on their self title and lived all their 00s stuff. However The stage I thought was massive step up, both music wise and lyrical wise. LIBAD feels like a natural progression from that Album and I love it. Then again I've always loved prog rock and just chaotic music more then full on metal

Bro after Easier you sounded so fucking high, it was hilarious lmao. Probably my favorite reaction to this album, smart entertaining and positive

@MorningAfterMusicShow

Жыл бұрын

What can I say, it sent me on a journey 🌌🌌

I have a hard time being a normal adult when it comes to negative opinions of this album because it’s so tempting to say “sorry, it’s not a matter of opinion. This isn’t a to each their own situation. The album is fucking marvelous and anyone who thinks it isn’t is simply incorrect.” But somehow, someway I manage to control myself. Oh well, LIBAD, anyway.

@LorenzoC2314

Жыл бұрын

That’s how art is created. Some will enjoy and some won’t. Yeah In your perspective it’s a masterpiece but for some it won’t be.

@ninja_tony

Жыл бұрын

@@LorenzoC2314that’s totally fair. Unfortunately though, most of the negatives comments have been completely idiotic so far, have been devoid of any value at all, or have been some variation of, “i don’t like it, therefore it sucks.” Its understandable that its not for everyone, the band even literally said most people wouldn’t like it, but the issue is the haters have mostly shit all over not just the music, but anyone that DID like it.

impressive how quickly you got each song's main references and inspirations (especially cuz some of they are definitely a little bit unexpected)... And I very much think it could be a big reason why you actually liked it on the first listen, as most metalheads tend to at the very least need a few listens to truly appreciate it. Even tho I love Nightmare and like The Stage quite a lot, this is clearly the first album to actually go forward in their ever-going journey (before Jimmy passed) torwards the weird and wacky... It's always been a big part of avenged sevenfold, after all. Tbf The Stage tried, tho it didn't go nearly as far as this album; but I can definitely see how it laid the necessary foundatitons for this project (as, for example, Cosmic is basically Roman Sky - which is also my fav from The Stage - 2). I do think, however, that both of these albums sitll fit in their discography quite a lot, but in more of a "refine what's already there" kind of way (for Nightmare, the production, theatrics, and melodic bridges; while for The Stage both the brand new drum work and Synyster being free to throw it all on pretty much every single solo).

Love this album. I'll always love A7X. 🤘😈🔥

This album is a masterpiece. Lyrically and musically

To me, this will always feel like the spiritual successor to the self titled album !

That's chorus part of beautiful morning you're spot on. I was having a hard time recognizing what that was

You found the rock in Nobody but missed the platic daisy reference from Mattel. lol :)

Great reaction dude! i enjoying u'r reaction👏 as an musician, the songs in this album are so incredible! this album is a masterpiece! it's little bit hard to listen and hard to play too because every song was skilfull and are so insane! in my opinion, avenged sevenfold's are intellectual in guise musician! they're genius musician! that's why i love this band so much. they're the GOAT band for me all days!🔥

After waiting for many years I can say I was not disappointed. Favorite avenged album for sure.

Awesome reaction, this is a journey 🥃

Wow, you caught the part at 16:10 that sounds like Slither at the exact same time I was noticing it for the first time. I’ve heard the song many times, caught the Alice In Chains and Beach Boys influences before, but that was the first time i noticed how much he sounded like Scott Weiland in that bit. Awesome reaction, yours is one of the best I’ve seen, and I’ve been watching everyone’s reactions on this album lol Edit: Also, badass Saba tattoo, reminds me of my childhood and running around playing Power Rangers with my best friend.

Loved your reaction to ordinary so funny lmao

Beautiful album ❤

It's a dope album. Thanks for the reaction! Life is but a dream...

For an album review, have you ever heard Dance Gavin Dance's Mothership? Fantastic album (even though the lead singer is a bit problematic) but it's probably one of the only albums besides City of Evil and Bright Eyes' "I'm Wide Awake it's Morning" where I wouldn't skip a single track

@MorningAfterMusicShow

Жыл бұрын

We've reviewed both Happiness and Jackpot Juicer by DGD, which was right after all the T*llian stuff came out, but Mothership is a fantastic album and we'll probably get around to it one day. If everyone could stop making us have a lesson of 'what it takes to separate art from the artist' every other week it'd be great lol

22:45 was priceless

Terra incognito - Gojira

I see too many people mistaking vocoder for autotune. Regardless of your feelings on autotune, they use it like an effects pedal for guitar in this album. It's a decision every single time and they aren't trying to hide it. Like, they don't even tune the main vocals on MOST of the album. It's wild that people see an album titled 'Life Is But A Dream' and think they're going to be in the right place to understand it/appreciate it/just let it happen while maintaining such a surface level feeling about autotune in music. You'd probably be listening to this album by yourself. Baffling to me that some people can't even be comfortable being open minded ALONE.

I subbed just because of the “Bob the Builder” 😂😂

I really like Ordinary. I don’t know why so many people hate it.

@badwulff

Жыл бұрын

I mean, it is a great song, it's just not a metal song per se lol (like much of the second half tbf)

@guitarkid9623

Жыл бұрын

​@@badwulffits better to view them without pinning a certain genre to them. They are just songs.

@badwulff

Жыл бұрын

@@guitarkid9623 Okay?... I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment. I'm just responding to the question posed by the OP, which is why many A7X fans haven't liked this song: the reason is, many A7X fans are metal fans, and this song is not metal. That's not a comment on the quality of the song, or the value of categorizing music into genres in general, it's just an objective description of why this song wasn't necessarily well-received by the A7X community.

@guitarkid9623

Жыл бұрын

@@badwulff yeah I know I worded it weird. It was basically along the lines of what you said. From what I saw from many people, once they realized they weren't going for their traditional route, they stopped looking at the album as a metal album. This allowed them to enjoy the album way more. Its the people who can't cope with the fact that avenged is changing that ruin the album. Its not a metal album in my eyes, yet it doesn't ruin it.

@badwulff

Жыл бұрын

@@guitarkid9623 Oh I see what you mean now. And yeah obviously, I fully agree. In general, I think that it's better when artists don't feel bogged down by the way they're labelled, since music as a whole is always evolving with interactions between various genres and style anyway. And personally, one thing I've loved about A7X from the start is that their music _isn't_ traditional metal, for the most part (from the genre-blending of their self-titled album to the prog-metal evolution of The Stage), so LIBAD was right up my alley.

Love the album

This album is the sort of thing I respect a whole lot more than I actually like. I respect the hell out of them for being ambitious and trying their hand at something few expected them to and being anything but predictable, but just feel its execution didn't stick the landing and sounds very amateurish at points. I'll still gladly take something as interesting albeit sloppy as this over all these 90s and 00s alternative heritage acts putting together uninspired fan service albums ANY day.

We should rage against that machine...nice. haha

gummy gummy

This album was so fucking beautiful.

I'll say I was NOT expecting a wubby cameo

@MorningAfterMusicShow

Жыл бұрын

Wub Cubs rise up wubby7

Album is a 7/10 for me

G sounds like the intro to anime about a jaded God who hosts a championship to replace him because being God sucks.

@MorningAfterMusicShow

Жыл бұрын

Would be a pretty good fit for Tower of God S2

They're using NFTs to connect with their audience, not all of them are scams

This album is the epitome of squirrel brain at its finest.

The way you called their NFT's a scam instantly informed me that you are entirely uninformed on what it is

@MorningAfterMusicShow

Жыл бұрын

wow i am instantly turned around on this thanks! NFTs rulez d00d

@OmynysFence

Жыл бұрын

@@MorningAfterMusicShow bro i forgot i left this comment lol I sincerely apologize for being needlessly aggressive in the youtube comments, my mom wouldn't be proud😥 I just get triggered as shit about this subject becsuse i also think most NFT projects are brain dead retarded rug pull schemes, but this particular NFT collection actually has legitimate benefits, and i trust A7X more than to do some money making scheme from their legitimately most dedicated fans. I'm an owner of one, and in fhe discord a lot so that's my bias, but they are in there all the time and have built up a legitimately cool communuty over there. Plus i get first access to the best cincert tickets and get to skip the lines. also, i enjoyed your take on the album, and found your music knowledge fun and admirable. I hope you have a great day, and am happy that you got your wallet😀

This album for people who can only play the intro to “smoke on the water” and the drums to “we will rock you”: This is garbage. A7X is ruined 🤬 Musicians: Ahh…sweet, sweet art 🥲

Nah, your 1st reaction was right. This album is awful and the only reason people are forcing themselves to stomach it is because the band's long layoff. Just you wait...Time will tell when they start vanishing songs from their live sets from this album the way Metallica did with St Anger.

@ninja_tony

Жыл бұрын

People like you annoy the fuck out of me. It’s ok if you don’t like the album, i can respect that - and most people would as well - but the haters like you are apparently incapable of showing the same respect. Just because you dislike it doesn’t mean the people that DO ENJOY IT are just pretending. It’s a very different album, it makes total sense that its not going to resonate with everyone, but for those of us that it does strike a chord with, we connect with it in different ways than you do, and that’s fine.

The album sucks