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I agree, People will say anything to justify not behind this talented. A lot of people (most likely frustrated musicians) get very uncomfortable when someone else sets the bar this much high.

VEXARI Sad but true. I'm a musician and this guy blows my mind though I can't come close to him. This level of talent should be inspiring, not intimidating.

VEXARI Er, I don't know. True, people do feel threatened by such things, but in this case I think people just don't give AAL enough listens. It took me maybe 4 or 5 listens through the album before things started groovin', and before then, it did sound like randomness / unnecessary odd signatures / etc. Particularly in this song, at 00:58, I still don't hear it as fluidly as I'd like to, but hey, maybe it just takes 10 or 20 more listens!

LECKMICH What they really mean when they say this band is technical for the sake of being technical: "They are way more talented than I could ever dream of being and I am extremely jealous."

One day I'm gonna be as good as him.

hes from my town. his parents own a music shop a couple miles down the road

Deathmetalforever No. He's from my town. His parents own a candy store and they always give me gummy bears, but I don't like the red ones, so I give them to him. It's 'cuz I give him gummy bears, that's how come you know it's true.

Joseph Weston can I have a red gummy bear?

well I like all the other colors, and he really likes the red ones, so it's a hard choice.

Yeah, he respects the talent now!

Your brain adjusts after a few listens when you first hear AAL. It happened to me.

I'm sure your teacher also knows, that this isn't progressive metal, it's jazz with high gain.

kylafornia24 It isn't jazz at all really

Keenan Ruffin-El no but it has undeniable jazz influences.

Physics

Oscar, Kevin, and Angela

That's the only reason I bothered watching it.

+Jared Szczesny Like no one knew what to do with Allan Holdsworth's transcendent genius-classification is pointless. Technicality can be stunningly beautiful, like Rachmaninov, or Beethoven's Hammerclavier.

JeffreyMulac8 exactly.

Jared S I hope you are right goddamn it! haha

No they aren't and no they won't

you were a butthole 5 months ago.

+Watta Mugen the power of the 8 string guitar ;) would love to get one of my own, but they're uhhh... kind of expensive :(

Do they use octaver? I overlooked that they have no bass player

The low strings on an 8 go down into the bass range.

Eight string Guitar

This guitar has crisp high's Super fat low's

sick camera work and production btw, could pass as a video clip

Cool Backing Tracks it IS a music video.

Tobee Paik except anyone who has listened to math rock can associate AAL with it. They're good and all but nothing ground breaking like hendrix

Mitchell jefferies your comment might be true for you and maybe even in a pop culture sense but for me and for music in general these guys are pushing boundaries that have never been attempted, musically (and in this specific way)

+Kinnzie Martin I agree with you...NO ONE sounds like aal...they are unique and are not only defying the rules of music they are redefining what music can be

Gabe Lube it's interesting that there exists a group of people who see something that another group of people like and it becoms their emediate goal to find something about that thing that they can try to downplay.. even if there isn't anything 😅

Straight drummer mouth lol any decent drummer all have their mouths open lol

The drummer face lives on!

dirty d in the house

I recently took a lesson with tosin and he basically said that word for word about their writing style...they have just listened to so much technical and abstract music all their life that technical, abstract music is what intrinsically comes out

One could not mistake their sound either. They sound almost completely original. I mean rhythms, harmonies, melodies, and instrument tones. They basically created their on copyright in the originality of their compositions.

Most of the "best bands/musicians" do that kind of thing. They usually pioneer a genre or are very difficult to assign a genre to.

LOL

It sounds that way to me.. I think this band is trash. Obnoxious distorted tones while playing some pseudo prog type progression with a bullshit "djent" riff underneath. Sorry to break it to you, but to most people this just sounds like a pretentious wank fest. Just some dudes trying really hard to impress other guitar nerds. Fuck this band

I totally agree, boobsmakemehappy1

GermanSnipe14 same here, GermanSnipe14

boobsmakemehappy1 Ha! Well said.

Your name killed me xDD

JohiHndz xDDD lolo !!!11! xd

+Robert Breeden that's cause matt is a fucking beast haha

honestly, i never realized how good that guy is! Very impressive

Does Lippincott even know Tosin based a song off of him? lol

Absolutely one of the sexiest Carvin/Kiesel DC800s out there. The other one being my future one. :)

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Could not have said it better myself! That was just what I was thinking throughout their performance!

+Spewk of Nature In the vids I've seen he puts it in his mouth.

You're not just a messenger if you include an opinion.

every band has people who help write songs.. ever wondered what a producer is there for?

John Riddler John is right. Misha has had a really huge helping hand in both the first AAL album as well as weightless. I dont think there is a single band these days that completely coordinates every aspect of the music and its creation. Everything on the album would sound too similar if that was the case x.x

True, Misha did help with the first two albums, and he actually did help write the first, but did nothing at all on Weightless. A fair statement, Isaac. The first half was the message, the second half was my opinion. It would be interesting to read the liner notes and see that they rated their newest album behind their last release. Heh. Worst album? You say that as if they have a bad album. There's maybe two AAL songs I don't listen to and neither are from Weightless. A producer mixes and masters tracks. I've acted as a producer before but I never wrote another band's material with/for them. Even my producer, though he suggested a good many things, only helped to bring what my band wanted to fruition, while also cleaning it up and making it sound professional. A lot of bands that have a unique sound generally produce their own albums. Imagine if Led Zeppelin had a sit-in guy suggesting shit while Jimmy Page silently sat in the corner writing Achilles Last Stand by himself. Obviously, most bands don't do it themselves, but producers are not band members. They suggest small tidbits and wait for the artist's approval/denial, otherwise you're simply dictating their style.

PartyThrasher118 Are you seriously using Led Zeppelin as an example? That band has probably ripped off ideas from other bands and musicians the most in the history of rock and metal.