FINALLY something I can listen to when i'm coming down off meth.

so much respect for this drummer

Webern and Schoenberg compose dissonant pieces on the piano and everyone's fine. Metal band composes atonal music and everyone loses their minds.

Colin, the bassist, wrote the song. They’re all sight reading the sheet music, meaning they’re all seeing this for the first time. Hence why the drummer makes that face at 2:39 because he got to a part where he just wasn’t ready.

...this is like an alien AI trying to recreate music based on a low quality transmission that's been traveling through space for a thousand years. The AI has never heard music before and has no idea what it is, but is fascinated by the mathematical structure, so this is what it came up with. I mean, it's pretty good for an alien supercomputer....

TOO MAINSTREAM

Congratulations to you folks for your terrible comments -- the final version of the track just came out and it's called "Exasperating the Idiotic". No joke.

Wow... This is one of the most technical songs I've ever heard. Too bad it sounds like wireless headphones dying while listening to Obscura.

too poppy for my tastes. this track sounds like it could be on the new nicki minaj album.

not enough dissonance

This is the chamber music of the 21st century. If people stopped looking at it from a rock/metal perspective, and compared it instead to avant-garde classical music, it would probably make a lot more sense to them. This is right in line with the string quartets of Schoenberg or Cowell. It just so happens to be played with instruments familiar to rock and metal.

BEHOLD THE APRICOTS

I fucking love the new stuff you guys are coming up with! This is one band that has never disappointed me.

I don't think I've ever seen a drummer reading sheet music. For anyone doubting them, these dudes are serious.

i'm fucking dying laughing. i can't believe colin made me play this.

all the people posting negative comments about this band just don't understand. i don't think Colin Marston really gives a shit if people don't like Behold the Arctopus. he is an accomplished musician, and the music he writes with this band is mind-blowingly technical. it kind of reminds me of John Zorn and his work with Naked City.

This is the music I have been waiting for all my life.Also nice video and audio.Thanks !

it sounds like they're playing several songs at once

Already own their first 2 full lengths,cant wait to add a third ;)

So much talent in one room.

I'm gonna spam this in these videos. Thanks a lot for the footage! Would be nice to see more videos like this. Mike Lerner please do more Direwolf!!!

Wow this is brutal. I love it

This is your brain on a strict diet Robert Fripp and pure metal

frank zappa would be writing this if he was still alive today

I love comments complaining about "random note riffs" and other nonsensical critiques. When Be-bop first came out, the "random note"comment was a common complaint It's ridiculously easy to cue up live performances and compare them with studio versions and blow that kind of hating up. "Deluge of Sores" is on their last release, and the live and studio versions are easy to find on KZfaq. If "any idiot" can do this, then go ahead and show up to a gig and offer to sit in!

This is really cool

so raw yet fucking brilliant

Yes!

Guitarist: See if you can follow that riff *plays dissonant abomination ov hell* Drummer: .... Guitarist: It's a pretty easy 19/3,141. Like, come on. Drummer: ... Bassist: I have a piece of wood with strings.

I was wondering if they still make music. I think they've improved with song structure

i dont think i've ever in my life seen a metal band reading sheet music

What instrument is that long guitar looking thing?

TAB PLEASE

Good to see they have to count this shit out as they're playing

This band reminds me of Obscura by Gorguts. I know Colin Marston is with them now.

They're literally reading the piece off charts. That's CRAZY. Jesus.

Ok this is pretty sweet ngl

this band rules, and is talented as all hell. but they could just play random notes and release it as a song just to fuck with us, and i don't think most people would be able to tell. still, i think these guys are great; alcoholocaust is fucking phenomenal.

not for everyone, very different and experimental. i enjoy it.

Nice

Epic drummer facial expressions

What they're actually doing mentally, and somewhat technically (instrumentally) is rather incredible. But it does sound like shit.. Even when trying to listen from another perspective like as classical/progressive/technical or another form of musical with intricate compositions.etc I'm finding it difficult to enjoy the sound of pretty much everything I'm hearing. Hm, I suppose I just don't 'get' it...

I like it. Please don't kill me.

the intro to this song made me have to go to the bathroom, 10/10

Listen to this

what does one feel when listening to this music? I don't quite get it

Why is he sight reading from 10 meters away? Did his neck cramp so his head was stuck in that position,then the band mates just dragged the sheet music towards his field of view?

The comments just serve to show how metalheads are just as close minded as the people they like to bash for thinking metal is too extreme and noisy.

Sick vo killz!

This sounded like they are reading my random shit on sibellius when I had no time to make a composition for the atonal class.

you guys on asperger or wat ?

Now.... repeat this exactly note by note....

This is more like music for a video game bossfight.

Do they really need so many strings to sound like a banjo?

Fuckin’ Awesome! 🤘🤖🤘

Did the bassist write this?.

Neato.

This is what you get if you start a band with a bunch of deaf people

Well... That was intersting

LOOK AT ALL THAT COUNTING

Red letter media brough me here

its the metal version of the Resident Evil 2 Directors Cut basement music

Well, if a band do something only about groove, slowness/fastest and controversial themes, it's fucking awesome, but if you work in a purpose of dissonant sound, you got "worst band in the world", ironic.

Wow, that's one of the coolest songs they've ever written! Serously!

Man, the neighbors must be so pissed...

And the Marty McFly "that was very interesting 🎶 music" award goes to...

didn't really like the snare sound but sick playthrough. Cool to see them counting measures lol

Technical the technicalities sake, not really my cup of tea but I’m sure someone loves it

I see a lot of people saying that this is "technicality over composition" or whatever, and people are entitled to their opinions, but I really don't hear that. Most of their music is written on a score before instruments even come into the picture, and Colin has said that a lot of their most demanding parts don't even sound all that difficult because of this, so from their standpoint as composers, all I can hear is a genuine desire to compose music like this. And I really admire Colin's philosophy towards production. He's very particular about doing minimal takes, in order to replicate the raw, imperfect, sound of a live performance, so it doesn't sound like a computer midi playback. All of that combined with the final product seems to me like a genuine group of people with authenticity behind their work, and not chasing technicality for it's own sake.

Many ignorant people in the comments below.. Behold The Arctopus is pretty legendary. You should check out their other stuff before you unwittedly call them trash.

The music is stoned, the musicians are not.

i like the drums and the 12 string bass (which resembles a chapman stick i may add) but the guitar just sounds like shit

wtf this seems like a genius work.. i know a shit about composing music, but this sounds fucking great

Absolutamente genial.

New album is coming?!?!?!?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA kkkkk very fucking nice!!!

Makes dillinger escape plan sound like a bird's song. I've never before experienced something so perfectly composed to go against *everything* that makes for pleasant listening using standard instruments and typical instrument use. Now, there might be two, or more, songs somehow hidden within this composition (like bach), i wouldn't know. Well written? Yes. Well executed? Yes. Pleasant to listen to? No.

why do they even try?

Have you ever seen one of those art pieces that look completely ridiculous.... like just streaks of paint everywhere, or some artist dipped his penis in seven different oil based colors and proceeded to draw smiley faces all over a canvas, but they still sold for 5 or 6 figures? This is the equivalent of that.

Music is like everything. It's even better when you just understand nothing of what's happening but still everything sounds perfect.

lol that drummer is like 123-12-1234-12-12-123

uhh not really sure what this is

If you watch them, they literally seem mainly focused on the beat patterns. Seems like a headache to play. Even though i enjoy this.

I wish these guys would do something like their ep or skullgrid. It sounds like their new album will have the same sound as horrorscension, which I don't like that much.

I stayed malakas

I can hear the mozart inspiration

I love atonality, and serialism, but these guys could have made the music even more expressive if they had varied the dynamics somewhat. It's all FFF. Even the new viennese school worked with dynamic and timbral changes. An opportunity missed is all I'm saying. Otherwise pretty interesting.

Not enough cowbell

I know this is serious and love prog!! But I cant help but laugh!!!!! I Enjoy it though!!! Like from me and on to more!!!

wat?

They rly need to get another guitarist

There's something incredibly lame about rock/metal musicians looking at sheets throughout a whole performance, but boy was that a surprising and super interesting listen.

"𝖨 𝗇𝖾𝖾𝖽 𝗍𝖺𝖻𝗌" 😶

Why everyone so mad? Obvious Gorguts influence. Good shit.

You can get cancer if you hear this too much...

it is experimental in the way cooking and serving a pack of crayons at a restaurant is experimental if you ask me.... there are somethings in life you should not expect to work. Fair enough give it a try... but the stop if it sucks... But what the heck, maybe 2% of all people have a special algorithm in their minds that decodes this music into something beautiful and unique.

i enjoy dissonance quite a lot (gorguts for instance is one of my favorite bands). i really don’t get this guitarwork though, nothing about it is interesting to me. Colin’s fantastic as always though *chef kiss* that guy couldn’t write something bad if his life depended on it.

I hate the guitars but i keep listening. Its oddly addictive 😐😐

maybe if they all tried playing the same song...? :)

This is some next level shit. Pity about the mix making everything sound so thin.

This feels like one of them classic 'shred' memes where they take the audio out and replace it with some bullshit. Props B...TA members' technical Ability though.