Literal proof that jimmy is one of the greats

Nah, it definitely is underrated, but not the most. Until the end is more underrated.

@@patriciapeters7604 almost every songs on diamonds in the rough are underrated, damn i love them all

@@myucelll true, and me too!

It's not that underrated, it's a lot of a7x fans favorite song, including me 😁😁

@@Someone-eb7js same. Definitely one of my favorites.

It's one of the few songs I consider to be perfect

ikr that part was great!

Despite not usually being very music theory heavy, pop music requires skill, just different skills. Almost all the singers are great. Most bad pop singers are mostly just people who became famous some other way and decided to do pop afterwards. Also the production is very nuanced. The producers have to know their audience, how it will sound in different acoustics and how to make it stand out in different environments.

@@MrAllallalla well its not an excuse for the shit they are doing... I'll mention one thing that ruins your skill thing, its called voice tuning. No need to sing any more, just make a noice and computer will fix it for you....

@@MrAllallalla great singer... Yea sure lol

@@gregtheflyingwhale6480 Unfortunately, that isn't as egregious as you make it out to be. Auto tune and similar can be used to make *minute* changes in poor intonation, but any more than *very small* changes, and it becomes unusable for this purpose. What happens when you artificially pitch shift an organic voice to a large degree, it starts to turn very robotic, like T Pain does for effect. It absolutely still requires the person to have vocal skill. It will *not* make a bad singer sound like a good singer. Unless the person sounds like someone talking through a fan, they aren't using pitch correction to a large extent. Virtually *all* modern day vocalists will use pitch correcting somewhere of some sort. Even A7X ( *GASP* ) It's because something as seemingly mundane as room temperature can throw off intonation. Auto tune exists to combat this. It *cannot* (Believably) add even a half step to a persons range. That's how little it can actually be used.

listening to this song for the first time in high school expanded my puny brain, i still love it as much if not more today

He's a genius on the guitar and humble enough to admit when something was hard for him. I love this band.

I completely agree. And I relate at 7:19 where they’re talking about the hi hat pattern that Portnoy had an issue with. I can play this song but that part used to always give me trouble and I thought I was just an idiot. But if Mike Portnoy had an issue with it, I feel so much better lol

I learned this riff the other day because I knew it would be a good noodler for picking skills and had the same issues, getting that 5/2 pulloff to ring out on the 3rd string, stay ringing nicely, and then to borrow that same index finger to fret the 4th string by rolling it over, and then a second later letting the 3rd string mute with the flesh of that same finger. So that kind of crap is how guitar is played, somehow. Took a few days to get it right, and that's all I had to do.

I think Brooks fits the band way more than portnoy does for everything besides this album. No one could've topped portnoy for this album, and especially this track specifically.

Siege Moo exactly man brooks is the perfect match but for this album portnoy did exactly what they needed from a drummer

N0FC I think Portnoy was the only one who could've taken what Jimmy left and turned it into what he would've wanted. Brooks wouldn't have been able to do that. Aaron wouldn't have either. Portnoy just fits here.

Yea. I love and miss Jimmy as much as the next guy but I think Nightmare is my favorite album. It's not as straight ahead as Hail to the King, which I also really love, I don't understand all the hate for it, but this has all boxes checked. It's catchy enough, it's proggy enough, and it's mixed really well. I didn't care for the mixing or the experimental nature of The Stage. Was a major disappointment in my opinion.

@@djjazzyjeff1232 Really? What about the mixing didn't you like? I thought it was mixed very well and with dynamics in mind instead of being constantly loud. It felt more human like despite being an album themed around AI and the Universe.

Seriously, I genuinely miss him and never knew or met him. Can’t imagine how it is for them, they were best friends since Junior High.

Yea, i thought that as well. Like "damn, that sounds really good, just that alone would be awesome to have"

@@MilanovicChiller I had goosebump .

Crystal blue disguise

Azmodayus R.I.P the Rev

Is that so, Thanos?!

"They say that all beauty must die, I say just the half of it" - Thanos

@@homeinvasion. With all six stones, I can simply snap my fingers, they would all cease to exist. I call that mercy.

Thank you thanos

I fucking love Blinded in Chains! Especially the bridge!

They always read comments Thats why they do save me

Those songs you mentioned are my favorites!! Victim and Save Me were my fav outta nightmare album, blinded in chains, str of the world and wicked end are my fav outta CoE. and of course, Tension, demons and Until thr End on DitR are my fav!! They definitely need to do more of these episodes, especially those songs!

san you hit the nail on the head with all the songs man classic tunes even the ones from the diamonds in the rouge album cant wait to see what they have next

Love Trashed and Scattered🖤

123 ACMBM then you can see about 10 seconds later syn says something and you can see in Matt’s eyes he went back to that place and his speaking voice changed.

Looked like Matt was about to break when he puffs his cheeks and it’s like syn subtlety noticed and changes the topic by bringing up the violins instantly and Matt goes yeah me too and just never goes back to that place. It’s seriously heart breaking

Almost none of the lyrics were written by him. These days, they almost never write lyrics until they’re in the studio. That’s why they didn’t use almost any of his vocals on this entire album. They were all incoherent mumbles that were placeholders for the melody until lyrics were written. Go listen to the demos if you wanna hear what they’re like.

@@ExternusArmy Dude, Matt straight up said Jimmy wrote a lot of the lyrics for this song

@Kyle, they make everything extremely confusing. The song itself was written mostly by Brian during Pinkly Smooth many many years ago. He was the one that cane up with the piano parts for this, as well as the Beast and the Harlot intro (which was originally a piano song). In fact, Brian said he originally wrote Fiction for Pinkly Smooth until they eventually used it for A7X. Brian and Jimmy wrote parts of it together when they would get drunk and work on it together years before Nightmare (this is what they said in interviews). From the demo version which a small portion can be found (it has Jimmy’s original vocals), the lyrics are non-existent. That’s because Matt usually helps write most of the lyrics as they need to compliment Matt’s voice. They always credit everyone for everything they do, but it’s not cut and dry.

@@ExternusArmy I read an interview in which Johnny said that Jimmy wrote like 60% of the album. Obviously not all of the lyrics were ready and polished when he passed away, but he definitely did a lot for this album. Brian also said that he has a recording of an acoustic version of So Far Away, when the sound was still in the early stages, where he and Jimmy himself sing. It is almost ironic to know that much of this album is his thing and not a tribute to him.

Paçoqueiro, exactly like you’re saying, the story is difficult to piece together. I’ve listened to countless interviews to determine that Brian is the main writer of Fiction, only to have Jimmy as a co-writer. Obviously everything is collaborative but their process has always allowed Brian or Jimmy to bring complete songs to the band. Johnny says Jimmy wrote most of the album out of respect, but after a million interviews, you learn what they specifically wrote. For instance, Matt wrote the song Nightmare entirely on his own with virtually no contribution for anyone , including The Rev (only Syn wrote the solo as usual). He brought the song to the Rev afterwards but recorded it all on his phone. They just have so much respect for their own bandmates that they will never ever put them down. Truly respectable guys.

yeeesss

Omri Madgar yesssssssssasasss

Hell yeah! I'd love to see that one done.

Man, dat solo #Epic

ciii patron ciiii

Brent Lavage yesssss anything city of evil

why does this comment sound like it was made by a robot?

what song do you want Brent?

@@tyleroneil6225 trashed and scattered, probably

@@topcrakhead Think it was made by a machine? Why do you think it by a machine?

DD TRUUUEEEE

Kids are never satisfied haha

they're going to pick songs they want anyway. doubt commenting will make a difference

Thank you!

No

They'll probably cry a river when breaking down Fiction..so they won't touch it I guess..

@@darksunshine9313 who wouldn't cry? I think there's a probability... Hope they do it!

YES PLEASE

I think that's a little bit harder for them to breakdown fiction.

Rev wrote it himself so they probably will never do it🥺

Yyyeeeesssss

@@RP-bf3st They already did Save Me live on Nightmare tour.

R P They’ve played it live before.

@@Omega-fb9ji Oh lol I was unaware sorry.

@@RP-bf3st It is definetly possible. They're using backing tracks on all songs including strings etc, so it shouldn't be a problem

Apoyo total! Heretic is the best from HTTK, and it has lots of layers to look at one by one.

Yes. I love that song. Heavy Megadeth influence!

HERETIC BLOOD. One of my favorite songs for sure!

I really hope they do this one. By far my fav song

Hadn't thought about that track - definitely a good choice for a breakdown video

They did cover this song in more length in another documentary.

They've done a "making of" video about this track. Don't think it'll be worth making another on. A lot of their self titled has a bunch of studio footage available to watch.

There’s a Buried Alive demo as well as a small portion of the Fiction demo floating around that has The Rev’s original vocals attached.

Though the general idea is kinda not concorded and it's kinda obvious just by paying attention. This song's really really epic but also it's not written with very tight, overly complex harmonies and unisons They had original chords, which they struggled to record with proper harmonies because Rev's chords are infamously difficult to adapt because he comes up with usual drummer stuff that're a bit weird for the rest .

I wanna see Brooks interpretation of this

Your wish came true. They are doing it on this leg of their tour.

In the album booklet all his lyrics are in red. The only thing he actually says in this song is "Skull" at the opening. Matt says in this vid he had to redo all the other vocals cause you couldn't make it out.

@@bad72690 thats actually like a reference to the bible. All of Jesus' words in the bible were in red. Cool that they did that

Fermi paradox

Higher!

Higher, for sure!

I love the solo in Higher and the way it bleeds back into the main of the song again. So awesome.

@@thespartanfox me too. I love the solo and i love the ending

Yess ! That's what I wanted to say ! I love Until the End ! 🤘😍

Dont change the way you think of me continue the lyrics

We’re from the same storyyyy