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My new favorite way to kill time is watching other people react to Cosmic. I wish I could go back and listen to it for the first time so now I live vicariously through people like you.

This album is a masterpiece

This song fucks so good I cant even describe it

Ive seen a LOT of comments saying "they forgot how to write transitions, the record is a mess, it sounds chaotic." This song tells me that all of those "chaotic" design choices were just that, choices. They did not "forget how to write transitions." They wanted to try something new and let the music truly tell a larger story. I love this song to bits.

Brooks is a monster on the drums on this album, i never realized he was THIS good.

This song actually affected me for days, I felt super emotional and on the verge of tears, super melancholic but happy at the same time. The whole album is an artful masterpiece, but this song is on another level.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="725">12:05</a> when I first heard M. Shadows sing like this I wanted to cry, it was so goddamn beautiful. I’ve never heard him sing so peaceful like this. 😭💙🖤💙

This album will be remembered in a few years as a real masterpiece. I love how fresh and new this sounds with that touch that Avenged always offers.

Great breakdown! Glad this song is getting the recognition is deserves. It's a masterpiece

Going from the new Metallica album to this one, it was a huge difference. Generic solos, and generic sounds in Metallica to this brilliant album. I've been a fan of A7X since City of Evil, and this album makes me so glad I stuck with the band. You can tell everyone in A7X had poured all their passion into these songs, and didn't want to be generic

I get how it’s really hard for people to accept that a7x is in their mid 40’s now, and Matt isn’t able to scream that much anymore, etc. but they did what they were comfortable with doing in LIBAD. They did what they wanted to do and they were still so creative with this new album. There are some negatives but I think there are a lot more positives that come from it along with the fact that they’re not one of those bands that does the same shit every single album. It shows how insanely talented and creative these guys are to be able to explore all sorts of sounds and still make them sound good. To the people who only listen to A7X for their interest of metal, they probably hated it. Just because it doesn’t fuel YOUR interest, doesn’t mean this is a shitty album. At least respect their passion

I've never cried to a song that wasn't "in your face, you're going to cry because this is a sad song with a sad music video" before this song. Somehow this song is sad because the listener MAKES it sad. It has this amazing ability to pull memories and thoughts out of you that just put this whole picture together, and makes you think of the past, present, future, and beyond, and all your loved ones. Incredible song writing.

Not only is this album a masterpiece, this track is the greatest thing to happen to the world of music since Bob Dylan first picked up a pen

brooks is such a good drummer man. the ending of this song feels so free

I can’t stop listening to this song. It’s been on repeat since Fri!!

What a phenomenal breakdown of this track dude! Love your passion for music!

I would give ANYTHING to be able to listen to this song for the first time again

For me them last track that piano is just awesome and that’s coming from a guy that love’s heavy heavy shit

People have forgotten how to listen to music. It's a good thing I'm not an crazy a7x fan, so I wasn't expecting anything from the album. But I was pleasantly surprised, because this is what music should be. It's art, not just a bunch of singles. Those who don't like this album are the tiktok generation. Everyone expects heavy guitars, simple rhythm and predictable phrases. They are not interested in the message of the album, the lyrics and experiments. Believe me, people who really listen to Music and not singles, they will like the album because it is a journey. I'm glad the album turned out that way. It will stay on my playlist for a long time and I will listen to it in its entirety, not individual tracks.

Love this album, and this song is easily in my top 3 from A7X the moment i heard it, such a good song

My son has a system in his car, and this WHOLE ALBUM KICKS ASS, with a system pushing the notes! I just sit in his car rocking TF OUT!! I'm certain the neighbors love me...😅 "Nobody", is one of my faves using the system. This band has SUCH an interesting blend of sounds, vocals, different mixture of instruments...it's almost boring listening to "regular" music now. 😅❤😎🤙 Edit: The complete JOY on your face while listening, is EVERYTHING!! 🥰😍

It’s so nice to see more people appreciating this album 😄

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="230">3:50</a> Just because M. Shadows can't scream anymore, doesn't mean the guitarist can't. Holy shit I get goosebumps everytime from that.

I wanna say - on first listen, I already loved that humongous snare reverb that you mentioned at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="175">2:55</a>. But then I had the chance to watch A7X perform this song live in Jakarta (just 3 weeks ago) and I swear, in the live rendition, that reverb feels SO MUCH MORE MAJESTIC like it echoes throughout the whole god damn universe. It's fucking awesome.

This album, even if you don’t like it, is one of the most incredible pieces of music ever. The way everything is composed, the organic orchestra (and many other instruments played by Syn), the progressions, the quality. It’s simply great.

This song brought tears to my eyes first time I listened to it, masterpiece.

Terrific analysis, you got a brilliant feel for the song. This album is genuinely magical 🤘

you deserved thousands likes. i love how you break it down👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 made me even more realized how beautiful this song is. keep goinggg

I really enjoyed you reaction and all the techical details you gave us! Thank you man!

You have the best reaction vidoes I've seen. earned a sub my brother

The part at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="383">6:23</a> evokes a feeling of birth, like a big bang or the moment you were born and it just instantly grabs you and then emotion just pours out when Matt starts singing over the piano and slow drum. Its just so beautiful man.

Subscribed after your video on We Love You - man have you not disappointed! Still loving that you break it down by track, but also your passion is so contagious!

After watching this and really listening, this is definitely in my top 5 favourites off the album.

wow amazing breakdown, subscribed, love this album!!

Amazing breakdown , I can’t wait to do this drum cover fully . I love this channel

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="675">11:15</a> the way your face lights up by Matt's angelic "LET IT GOOOOO" has me in tears, really solid video! agree with the title, it's their magnum opus

definitely a good breakdown of this songs ethos. i felt very similar upon first listen to you. as an aspiring sound engineer, love to see you geek out too!

hey man your reactions are some of the best. The way you separate the tracks and give us a better understanding on how the music is produce is just awesome. i also have stop watching many reactions channels because now i find them boring, but your reactions i am always exited to check them out. I am not a big fan of Avenged Sevenfold but this is actually cool

I think you’ve got a new signature. The smirk, silence and drinking from the mug was a “I don’t even need to say it” cue on the solo 😂

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="590">9:50</a> - <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="605">10:05</a> would be great if REV sings it. He has that high note they need

This is my favorite review of the track. I love how you isolate sections and point out details.

Great video! One small thing, I don't think that's an organ/keys sound at the start, to me it sounds like an octave pedal playing 2 octaves up. You can hear from the very slight lossy quality of it. Keep the videos up dude!

There's a huge Pink Floyd vibe in this marvelous album ! I Love it sooo much !

Amazing song and a brilliant review and reaction. I love how you don’t talk over the song like other you tubers. You take it all in

Best reaction ive seen. Your perspective as an engineer provides awesome little tid bits of identification and explanation. Subbed. Thanks. I love when the parts are shown with an isolated instrument(s). Album is unreal good. Edit: happy to see you did Nobody and We Love You also. Lets go!!

Man this song emotional wise makes me cry everytime pike i have a chance for the chemical that i am with reunite with my fathers someday rest in peace dad

Can't wait for what is coming next 😉 great vid!

What a great song. I haven't always been the biggest fan of A7X, but I recognize excellence when I hear it. Bravo

It's almost like they sat down and asked; "How can we make M.I.A. more bad ass?".

This song had me in a trance for WEEKS after the album came out. And then I saw them live in pittsburgh last month and they performed it live and it was amazing and put me right back in that trance, I fuckin cried while they performed it its so perfect

Brian's work on this album is amazing. This song and Nobody solo are the best examples.

really great reaction and breakdown! The dissonant chord you described - I was waiting to see your interpretation of it :) Personally I find it to be the highlight of the song due to the dissonance resolution in your video at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="720">12:00</a>, I can tell you noticed it. Definitely a nod to their song, Exist - and the concept of the Big Bang and perfect conditions to facilitate life - or perhaps its something else

every single time ive heard this song i get full body chills, a whole ass masterpiece

Great music. Great breakdown.

Honestly, personally, I don’t get how people don’t like this album. From all the reactions and critics it’s been really negative.

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="51">0:51</a> you say piano, but I believe it's a POG effect on the guitar. They did a breakdown of Exist and there's a similar tone in the song which they said was done using a POG pedal. Pretty cool sound though. Also at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="188">3:08</a> I believe it's just a single hit and not a flam judging by the sound of it and only hearing one sticking. They just added a good bit of effects on it.

Good reaction and analysis, this song is turning into one in a generation song I feel, it's epic. Just a couple of things though, as a drummer and live sound engineer of nearly 40 years. The snare crack on the quarter time at the start isn't a flam, it's a single stroke. The tom sound on the last moment are probably shallow steel toms with no bottom head, similar to the Phil Collins famous tom sound. It's great way to cut the fill in as you said, through the Phil Spectre style wall of sound. It's epic for sure.

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

Fav album and Cosmic is now my fav song, in front of Exist and The Wicked End. It’s phenomenal

This is why I love A7X. Their story telling is superb. And instead of competition, Shadows voice and the Instrumentals compliment each other!

“God damn YES!”-pretty much all of us haha.

Cosmic just a pure masterpiece... so grateful it came out in the world I live in A7X foREVer 🤘🦇

Great vid! How did you get hold of the mixed track? Guessing some sort of patreon sub?

Love it! Would love to get just the isolated stems of all the parts to listen to the individual parts

Love this song, love Maximum the Hormone, you've got a new subscriber! Fantastic breakdown!

This is my new favorite album. Cosmic is great, and I'm always here for their Ballads. My favorite song on the record? G. The "Best one" in my opinion? Mattel. Mattel has the best components from their discography jammed into one track

When I listen to the newer songs, I always imagine that the parts that are now with the extreme effects on the vocals would maybe in a different time line have been sung by James. (Which when you imagine it in your head would have sounded incredible)

Man, Brooks just went OFF for the second half of the song.

Loved this song, thanks. The guitar solo kind of made me think of joey satriani, not like a direct comparison just the feeling it had...maybe im crazy. Also the entire song kind of gave me a feeling of gnr's november rain. Thanks for the video

I was finally able to see A7X live after loving them since discovering them in 08’. It was everything I expected and more ❤️

Sounds weird but I feel like you really need to be prepared to listen to an album like this, just to understand it.. Absolutely love this song, obviously the solo is nuts but the outro is something else 🤟🏻

you gotta do the entire album!

I had low hopes for this album based off we love you, but i have to say i am happy to be wrong and have had this allbum on repeat since it dropped

that's not a piano at the beginning of the song, that's a shimmer effect from a reverb guitar pedal

You're awesome man!

everything and i mean everything, is guitars with effects added even the "organ"

A7x almost never uses autotune, they also do everything. They dont really like to rely on effects but obviously now theyre experimenting and branching out some more. Like in a little piece of heaven they had an orchestra and choir record with them and a female vocalist. The whole band can do backing vocals essentially too so they hardly ever need to use anything.

Do the whole album !!

Brooks in this album totally captured me. He can turn a simple Bum ba bum bum ba into something really enjoyable 😂👏

One of their best albums ❤️

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="500">8:20</a> lmfao. Syn is definitely one to make you feel the feel w his bends. Exhibit A: the end of ‘So Far Away’

Amazing song in an amazing album

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="647">10:47</a> im glad you said something like 3 voices. You said 2 tracks and I thought i was crazy for hearing something else on the lower one lol

I love it. I’m convinced that the line “Pain, it found its way back in, until we meet again, into that good night” is him talking about the last time he saw The Rev. M Shadows has struggled with the fact that after their roadie Jason’s wedding, he turned in for the night despite The Rev’s insistence that they take a keg left over from the wedding back to Shadow’s house that was just down the street from the wedding venue. He said good night to The Rev so he could get to bed because of his early tee time the following morning. He feels that if he just let The Rev stay that he could have protected him. The Rev told Shadows good night, he loved him, and scurried off into the night to continue the party with people he didn’t know. M is haunted by all the what if’s. Tragic.

I feel so much like Brooks is just what the Rev would have wanted for the guys ❤ the drums are so on point.

awesome❤️

this is what i call "music". unique, catchy, progression and soul. this is music.

Has to be the best song they’ve ever written. Unreal and the lyrical content is so powerful.

This is the most fucking very good damn song I have ever heard, especially the last part🫠

that brooks guy really killin it in this album, what a beast

I love this song and this album so much

This album is making me work more on my less than beginner( 🙃 ) piano skills...

Those drums 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Amazing album.

Reminded me of beyond the pines from Thrice, to me on how good something can be

jolly wants to know if you know the chords for the last song life is but a dream on piano thanks

How did you get the track breakdown like that? Is there a way to just drop it in logic like that?

Hearing this song on my kali monitors for the first time was probably one of the best experiences I've ever had to be honest.

Masterpiece, period