I love how everything Fantano wanted out of the Take Me Back To Eden was what he hated in Life Is But A Dream…it’s like the man can’t come up with his mind.

The most youtuber npc comment ever

You're good but too much metalcore & deathcore for me to subscribe - that's a small part of metal

NEVER!

I would bet money they don’t care at all what that dude thinks. Especially considering he’s a cross between shrek and Harry Potter.

@@petehorrorwood man, fantano has to see ur comment

Matt kinda responded to it because someone tweeted about it to him. He said and I quote "It's the best review we could get honestly. This record is a 10/10 and equally a 0/10." W humble response

@@petehorrorwood fantano doesnt care what you think either lol hes always including peoples digs at his appearances in videos (or at least used to, havent watched his content in a long time)

Seriously

That’s cause it’s so much more easy to slag something off creatively than applaud it with style

​@@largeformatlandscapeFantano actually doesn't like anything.

@@DragonTigerBoss A funny thing to imagine is him as a dirty old man screaming at the world... That's who he'll grow up into "In my day we had proper metal music!"

My likeliness of checking out a project is directly correlated to how much melon hates it. If hes shitting on something, I know chances are I’m gonna love it.

The reviews where he LOVES a record (9 or more) are also pretty entertaining. Not in a funny way like with the not goods, but it's just nice to see someone very excited about something.

they used some stuff and took inspiration from it. I think Mattel and Beautiful Morning in particular did. And Easier was an unused song he helped write back in the white album days

I heard a small bit of Mr bungle influence tbh

@@gooeyghobliniyeah Beautiful Morning is something that pinkly smooth has sung on stage as well as it being a running thing that they would sing kinda randomly while warming according to an interview I saw of Matt after the album came out. Forgot who’s video it is tho

the one that always had me wondering is the nightmare album because he did a pretty significant amount of singing in the demos for it. The album also seemed to flow like a soldier getting stuck in a nightmare coma wanting to be saved based on the demos. the plans for it were so insane prior to his death. his death was the thing that pushed the final version to be more of a tribute album rather than some crazy concept album. dude was straight up working on an absolute masterpiece and sadly got cut short.

i dont think people realise how much more insane this album would be if the rev were still alive today. he was MILES more insane and energetic than the rest of the members and his songwriting was way more deranged and out there than the rest of the members like with alpoh. this record with jimmy still alive to help write it might have actually caused peoples' minds to implode

His head is small, it looks like nut

Libera

album is also trash :)

@@noahleach7690 Every Death Grips album sucks ass regardless of what Anthony Fantano has to say

@@ChadKing69 whatever you say grandpa

Normally I'll tap my foot to something I don't like but I didn't even do that 😬

You forget "experimental". You always need to say "experimental" when defending bad music.

Seriously though, if you feel discomfort listening to music, you might need to see a doctor. It sounds like you have terminal MORE-Disease.

Yeah I put only 2 songs on my playlist. The rest are just too out there for me.

@@The_LaughingHyena It's not pain or anything, it just makes my body feel unconfortable. Not a great way to describe it. Just actively uncomfortable listening to the album.

Same

same

same

I straight up wasn't a fan I didn't hate them but like never really liked them, but I like this album.

Right!? And you can hear the references all over and understand, like “oh I see what you are doing here”, both in terms of lyrical and musical themes.

I got news for you. You're a prog metal boy.

I thought that too but I also think a lot of me liking it is because I’m biased because I ducking love the band. But I’m sure they can take the criticism off this album and do it better the next one.

You probably shouldn't admit publicly such a trash band is your favorite band and that you like such a garbage album, now everyone knows you're gay.

​@@nyxx7813nah record is famtastic, fantano has no taste. He is just an hipster

They gave up of being one biggest metal bands of all time. So much waste of potential. Even if they start to realease one 10/10 album after the other ppl will just not pay much attention

​​@@nicolasgarcia2690What are you talking about? If you're worried about metrics, this album is more successful than their past two. If by success we mean the ratio of audience reach and acceptance. 10/10, indeed.

@@user-zx1ur dude are u blind? The stage was also a downgrade, but it had one or two successful songs, this one dont a single successful song. Just end with your argument, this album even in its release failed to put one single song on the charts of avenged sevenfold spotify top 5. Even in its release were musics are supposed to be in they own top 5. About public acceptance , nobody even cared to listen after nobody song. The most listened song in the entire album only had 10 million views, thats what u called success? Comparing with the other 2 albums just go check the numbers of hail to the king . Avx7 gave up being one the all time greats in rocknroll history and trowed all in the trash . Now and on its fair to say that they are retired for 99.9% of the ppl and even if they put 3 10/10 albums in a row nobody will not even gave it try

​@@nicolasgarcia2690Tell me your a metal elitist without telling me your a metal elitist. Buddy you do know The Stage album wasn't even advertised or teased like the other albums, it was announced and released the same week, hence the poor sales, no one expected it.

​That's just your own opinion. I respect it but disagree.

agree its just not for me i respect it though

They knew people would hate it but figured it would be more respectful towards the fans to do something they wanted to do instead of the same stuff.

Sir you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't listen to their self-titled. Unless you like their first two albums and that style more, their self-titled album is easily their best release after City of Evil.

i really love the album man

​@@xravenx24feI agree. Very underated

Very true! I also feel like, as fans, knowing what M went through with his voice, we are a lot more forgiving for the change in singing.

Confirmed. There were a few which I instantly liked like Cosmic, G and the title track but for a lot of them I was skeptical at first but then they started to grow on me

Yeah, i fell instantly with mattel and cosmic. but later on i put we love you, easier, and nobody to my frequently-repeated songs from LIBAD.

I had to listen to the album/songs 5x minimum before I didn’t hate most of them. I had to listen to the album 20 times before it really, really clicked. I was stoned, with headphones on (necessary) and I just sat there, eyes closed and mouth agape as I finally HEARD what this album had to offer. The high level philosophical themes are fucking amazing. And the sheer depth of the music is mind blowing. I’ve heard the interviews and read the interviews and I knew Brian had made “soundscapes” on this album. But I didn’t truly hear them till last night. Everything under the main drums and guitar really plays on the emotion of the lyrics. You’ll be listening and realize you hear a soloing guitar like 7 levels down. If you step back from that solo, you just realize it’s part of the “soundscape” and that’s why you never even noticed it before. I think Brian moving away from “riffs” was the smartest thing ever. This is their most guitar driven (a statement I did not agree with at first) their most musical, daring, envelope pushing, cinematic, high art album they’ve ever made. This album is probably the best album I’ve heard in decades. An album that was an experience. It’s not just a bunch of riffs and drum fills. It’s like a goddamn symphony.

im sure you can get used to torture too if you force it

Its cause this dude is only relevant when he is doing these shit reviews. He doesn't know anything about music. He hasn't recorded any albums. He is a critic. People that can't just judge others that can. I didn't like the album, but i dont have to make a video for attention off someone elses work.

last good album from a7x was hail to the king, everything afterwards are trash with the exception of some music

Definitely. This album is a mixed bag but I think they can do any genre pretty good, they are a very versatile band

This is a shit take. They're trying this for the first time. They are not very good at it nor have they been able to properly focus. They have been focusing on nft's instead of doing a proper experimental record, so this is a half-baked mess at best. You are allowed to like that, since you obviously don't actually listen to experimental music, but you're in the lower range of musical intelligence and you are not an authority on how others think.

Naw man this album to me feels like it's going through 5 identity crises

when those older albums already exist theres no reason to make a 2nd one of them because they are already amazing

This album is great.

Nevermind, I tapped out after 2 minutes.

Called The Stage the worst album of the year. He hates A7X unabashedly.

@@Jwlar yup. Love Fantano but dude definitely has blind spots in his music taste and he’s not the neutral, objective critic a lot of people think he is. When did he say that about The Stage anyway? I’ve heard people quote that but I don’t know what video or livestream it was from.

@@CaptainQwark4 I'm pretty sure he never actually even said anything about The Stage lmao.

@@lucasgoncalves7774 He did. Google it.

Oh 100%, I have no idea how someone can complain about the vocals on a metal record, give it a 0 out of 10 and proceed to give trap idiots who sound like utter shit a 7/8/9/10

​@@mirkecWii some of the black metal hes given like 8 or 9s i think is some of the worst stuff I've ever heard

@dickthehead1145 yeah I gave up on his channel a long time ago

@@mirkecWii Because lots of the rap he gives 7’s, 8’s and 9’s to are actually fucking great. He also dishes out NOT GOOD’s and 1’s and 2’s to really bad pop and r&b and rap records. Kendrick Lamar’s TPAB is a STUNNING album and I’m tired of this side of the heavy music community that discredits every other genre of music. That album is ABSOLUTELY a 10. I’m a guitar player and a producer, and I can tell you that this attitude of “oh they’re not playing real instruments, it’s crap” is absolute nonsense. It’s much easier to play guitar and make creative riffs in my opinion than it is to make genuinely great beats and samples. He’s not a robot either, he gave the new POST HUMAN BMTH album an 8 and he highly rates bands like Code Orange, Knocked Loose, Cannibal Corpse and more.

⁠thank you Ryan, hard agree. And to the op, yes I agree that Fantano certainly is quite liberal with his shitting on things he doesn’t like, but yeah the vocals for this record just feel undercooked. Like it’s mixed poorly aswell. Just because there’s screaming and loudness in metal vocals does not obstain all vocalists from sounding like shit on a record. Yes it may be hard to believe, the A7X record is simply mid compared to any other metal I have at my disposal. Yes opinions exist, buts it’s no coincidence more people dislike it than like it. All borrowed components on this album have sounded better elsewhere, leaving no real reason to listen to it other than for fans to continue a fandom, so to speak.

Much like Eminem with Revival. Maybe they need a good diss to bring out the big guns again.. 🤷‍♂️

Just him staring at the camera for 58 seconds and then a roaring scream at the end

"still"? It just came out, tf????

@@tmw3489 well i listened to it 30 times as i wrote my last comment..

I hope so, Devin doesn't deserve to be slandered. By catching strays no less

Nah, that was absolutely a shot a t Devin. He wouldn't have specifcly put up a pic of Lightwork if it wasnt intended as a diss.

I've never heard him say anything positive about Devin, ever.

Nah he likes Kendrick Lamar and bends over backwards for him. Get a grip lmao

The vocals sound like he's literally taking a shit while singing.

Fantano wold be praising it if the singer was a schizophrenic black guy

They’ve been playing the same setlist for the whole tour and the new songs are terrible and you can tell the majority of the fans don’t like it. Vibe completely changes when they play new songs

@@jd0879Nobody and Mattel were bangers at the concert I was at in Chicago.

@@jd0879I’m genuinely convinced you haven’t seen any footage from these concerts. Went to the show in Minneapolis, everyone was loving the new stuff beside G.

The problem is that what they are trying to do has already been done but better. They might have their own "spin" on it, but other bands just did it better, and a long time ago at that. Mr. Bungle, UneXpect, Sigh are examples.

Dog, with peace and love, expand your music horizons if you think this is boundary pushing. It’s more of a sponge soaking up other styles presented as a whole unique album, but when squeezed you see exactly what bad was in the album and how it could be so much cleaner and boundary pushing

It’s also important to be aware of one’s limitations. If you get in the deep end and after five seconds you’re flailing your arms around, don’t try and finish the lap, get the fuck back in lane.

Uhm, the problem is that people wont allow you to explain that you do like experimental music and that this is a very half-baked, non-finished project because they have been focusing on nft's instead

​@@tmw3489stop with the nft bs. This is just straight up misinformation at this point saying "they are bad because nfts1!11!!"

My god..

NO STRAIGHT NO

It's disliked because it's weird, not because they replaced the snare with a trash can

@@toomanyblocks8448 it’s as close to a trash can as they can get without violating copyright. I like weird music. This is just some kind of awful.

@@antonis958 worse? 😄

Of course you're being biased. You wouldn't fuckin care about this garbage if it was made for some unknown band. You like it because of the band's history and previous stuff.. but this album is total shit. And I'm not saying it because I'm a hater, since I like them a lot and have been supporting them since waking the fallen, but, damn, be honest to yourself.. no way someone would care for this album if it wasn't avenged sevenfold.

Avenged Sevenfold was my favorite all time band. After Nightmare, they started falling off. Really hard. As someone who loved the drum tracks and their old writing process, they can't possibly be the same band without The Rev. He wrote all their best songs. He was an incredible drummer, he didn't let any groove be simple after Waking the Fallen. It was against him, and the entire writing process of what Avenged Sevenfold committed to. They already perfected their sound. Finding a new one isn't the answer. Brooks sucks. We get classic rock beats with a couple huertas now. Until this point, they played it safe with their sound, playing radio rock. And now, they do a rip off Sleep Token flip. It just doesn't work. I was the biggest Avenged Sevenfold fan on the planet. They are a whimpy shadow of their former selves, and they should've called it quits 14 years ago while they were on top of the world.

​@hellzturkey you lost all credibility after saying Brooks sucks, not to mention saying this is a Sleep Token rip-off Not only were they far more proginal in their sound on this album, they do far more different soundscapes that neatly tie together on the album, you are just objectively wrong here You don't gotta like the album, but the band never fell off

@@jcbiggs7658 Brooks sucks. As a genuine drummer myself that has spent his entire life warming up to Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold and Meshuggah tracks, yes. Brooks sucks lmao. Go back and listen to The Rev. Never fell off? The entire quality of their music fell off. They devolved harder than any band I can think of off the top of my head, Slipknot would've had a better time replacing Corey Taylor. A7X would've had an easier time replacing M Shadows then The Rev. He was literally the heart of the band. He wrote their best songs. He was the heartbeat, the unnecessarily complex, fun heartbeat of the band. And to say they didn't fall off, is to say you were oblivious to the entire change. Writing process became lazier. Instruments slowed down until they fell off, with the exception of a quarter of The Stage, and maybe two songs from the new album. Yes, they fell off. I'm sorry you don't feel that way as a super fan, but they fell off. I was once a bigger fan than you are. It's just too bad that they kinda suck now. Maybe they'll get Portnoy back one day and get off this gay avante-garde shit. It's not their sound. They already found their sound.

@@hellzturkey Yeah this whole comment right here just reads as straight bitterness to me. How cringe does it feel to be this much of an elitist? I like how you try to big dick your accomplishments with drumming as if that's supposed to be a point too, and with your complete surface level knowledge on Brook's as a drummer, yeah, i wouldn't be surprised if you were fool of shit either. There was a change to their music, yes, but that's literally how their entire discography has always been, since STST. They never fell off, they just changed to a style you didn't like, which is okay you don't have to like it but i can tell that's something you won't admit to. "Their writing became lazier" How? is there a metric to it? Does every song they write have to be what they did in CoE or Nightmare to be considered less lazy? "Instruments slowed down" The fuck does that even mean? So they slowed down the speed of their instruments, which means that they fell off? My guy, whatever you do, don't listen to Pink Floyd then either, you might think they fell off by the time Meddle came out lmao "I was once a bigger fan than you are" This doesn't mean anything lmao "Gay avant-garde shit" More elitism... You don't have to like their new sound, but saying its objectively bad and that they fell off is dumb

the problem is that I know that matt is a phenomenal singer and u can see that in the recent live shows but, the literal choice of the vocal style that he did on the whole album was mostly super shit, this has nothing to do with his capacity as a vocalist or his vocal surgery, etc, it's what he and the band wanted to do with his vocals the whole problem.

Produce some music or your own

This is my exact take. The album has a whole is filled with hit or misses. Mostly misses for me honestly, but Cosmic is incredible.

@@jjones9904 I mean, I do and I still can’t stand the album. On top of this, using the argument that because someone doesn’t produce or write music themselves they can’t criticize a piece of art is absolutely absurd.

@@jjones9904don’t need to get ran over by a truck to know it hurts.

The Stage was the best album A7X had ever made up until that point. Small-minded, gatekeeping fuckboys are the only types I've seen hating on The Stage. If you only want to hear high school metalcore, go listen to their first album.

Without question it needs to be listened to as a whole. I recommended the album to a 17 year old that I work with and told him "You have to listen from front to back", and he LOVED it. He singled out "Cosmic" as sounding like something from "The Stage". I can agree with that.

I distinctly remember some dance gavin dance album getting a 0 for reference

Same. It's definately a 50/50 album. You either love it or hate it and both are understandable. I just wish people were less agressive about it in both sides. If you dislike it, then people who love it say you just "don't get it" and "should listen again". If you like it, then people who hate it say say it's just "the worst music ever", that that you must be stupid to like it and that there's no way people genuinely like it. That's why I hate the Metal community in general nowadays because if an album released by a band isn't their best sound ever or doesn't resonate with you, then it's just trash. I recently got trashed by someone because I liked Prog, but then I got trashed by a Prog fan because I liked Core and Hard Rock. Tbh, I feel that's kinda why Metal has been on the decline for the past years. Almost nobody really supports new sounds unless it's perfectly what a certain group is expecting.

​@@whiteshadow0122Im actually surprised there are ppl that dont like prog.

@@joevahkiin2329 a friend of mine can't stand Prog. Sometimes I play Tool or Between the Buried and Me in my car with him and he just gets kinda bothered by it. As for me, I really dislike Deathcore, but I get why people love it and props to those who do.

⁠@@whiteshadow0122 like LIBAD, but Fantano just made me laugh. I watch him semi-regularly, and rarely actually agree with him.

I quite like it, however I would not describe myself as an A7X fan. Maybe that's what the band was going for?

Found the one guy

@@JoeBidensAdderallno it’s actually great

I absolutely love it.

Both

Same.

It's common practice for him... how else are you supposed to talk about specific lyrics if you want a visual cue?

@@WilliamRouachedMusic there are other websites that don't provide braindead analyses of songs.

@@alexbrown4426 Genius get the official lyrics and credits, hence the use of the website. If he wanted to draw attention to the 'braindead analyses', he would have pulled them.

@@alexbrown4426 you don't have to see the people's analyses. but genius is the best lyrics site out there still. All I care is that the lyrics are correct, and that's the best chance for it (99% of online lyrics have mistakes in them)

​@@WilliamRouachedMusicHe handles the braindead analysis on his own. See "Rich Men North of Richmond".

If all of your albums sound the same, you're probably not a very good band.

I used to be that guy until I started liking bad bunny and went the oposite route.

Fantano was one of the people shopping in HT lmao

...he makes fun of people for that NOW

They are metal. It may be pop tinged stadium metal but metal it is. It's not like the early albums were Lorna Shore either, lol

@@tabithacakes3624 If they don't change, then it's same old, same old. No win situation.

Why do people like you pretend Ghost gets hate? You stans are so butthurt and sensitive at all points....

Yeah. Fantano is pure entertainment.

They factually are not. They have been spending their time on NFT's instead of finishing baking their record.

@@tmw3489 ok bud….they are top tier musicians whether you like the new album or not.

Including that god awful brain EP?

@@megadouche Yes! Baked potatoes are my favorite kind of potato. 🥔🥔

Honest question, why are his opinions highly regarded? Is it just because he makes entertaining videos?

@@rubdub4 Nah because he knows so much about music and he is also very well spoken i guess...

@@rubdub4 apparently people like the way he breaks apart music and talks about it in more dissecting terms other than just “oh I like/didn’t like this” or “it was good/bad”

He's a pretty pretentious douche. The way he trashes Will Swan's guitar playing when Will Swan is one of the most influential guitar players of his generation makes me have no respect for Fantano. He was talking about how all Dance Gavin Dance albums are mediocre or bad except Mothership and Artificial Selection. Those albums are good, but Downtown Battle Mountain and Happiness are their best albums besides Downtown Battle Mountain 2 which is their magnum opus. No DGD fan is going to pick a Tillian album over a Jonny Craig album.

Btw it'd be nice if more people responded to criticism they didn't agree with the way that Nick did.

It sure is Optimus Prime

Calling A Little Piece of Heaven anything but cringe is the wildest take I've seen here lmao

It’s just bad

he’s always had it out for Dev and it bums me out

Pretty sure Nik doesn't even know Corey Feldman lmao.

Copium

Of course he did. The album is so garbage that he thought Cosmic was good said that Cosmic was probably an accident.. non intentional good song off of the record. Didn't you hear that part?

@@asscher10 nah, must have missed it. I think he was kind of missing the concept. "Cosmic" sort of ties the whole project together, I think.

When people find a problem with the album, it's in the production...Fantano historically dislikes over produced or massaged production values...this album has that in spades...it's a very strange, tingy, thin guitar tone coupled with really overworked vocals...it's definitely a love it or hate it kinda deal...

@@johnjohn37371 normally I'd agree with him, but that's another reason I'm so impressed with this album. Every aspect of it has been fine-tuned in production and writing, both music and lyrics. The amount of studio time required makes it make a lot of sense why this took so long.

He has and he is the biggest music critic on the planet and of all time.