Fun fact. Andrew wrote the guitar parts and did lead guitar for this song. That's why the instrumental feel has more of an Eidola vibe than a DGD vibe. Brought a fresh feel to their music

If you like the swancore style you should listen to Royal Coda their newer song "We Slowly Lose Hope For Things To Come" is phenomenal and features purely Kurt Travis one of the earlier DGD leads

Would love to see you react to Feels Bad Man. It’s a bit more pop than their usual, but it’s some of Tims best base playing on the album IMO. Love all you guys do here - you’ve re-ignited my drive to learn music (and music theory specifically)

Jon's voice has evolved so much since the first album its insane. Hands down best scream vocalist in the game in terms of sound/clarity and it isn't even a competition

There was shoutouts to the band members, but let’s not forget the late, great Tim Feerick on bass. He brought so much groove to this album, even if it’s a little less prominent in the mix of this song. He brought so much to the band.

I'm not sure if it's auto-tuned but Tilian's vocals are definitely processed on the album and he uses a lot of layering. However he can definitely hit all the same notes live so I think it's mainly for effect, gives it a very "poppy" sound a lot of the time. Also in the future it'd be cool if you checked out one of their songs like "Nothing Shameful" or "For The Jeers" which have prominent vocal spots by the 2nd guitarist Andrew, he's a phenomenal singer in his own right. Or you could check out his own band Eidola, their song "Mutual Fear" has a good music video as well as a feature from Jon Mess so it'd be pretty familiar territory I think.

Do "Feels Bad Man" off their new album. Such a groovy tune and you get to see Tim Feerick in his element one last time.

now you gotta do Feels Bad Man. :) Thank you for more DGD though.

I don’t know about auto tune but I saw them live last year and tillian hits all these notes live.

I think Andrew actually wrote most if not all of the guitar parts on this song.

Watch “uneasy hearts live” it has all 3 of the clean singers from throughout the years

More DGD! Feels Bad Man, Cream of the Crop, Ember, One Man’s Cringe. Always enjoy your reactions.

ahh finally! now do the rest of the album

You introduced me to this band way back when and MAN it was of the pivotal points of my music listening enjoyment lol

If you love Tilian’s vocals here than you HAVE to react to Here Comes The Winner. His vocals are unbelievable

How do I request you reacting to the band "Gold Necklace"?? Especially the song Vibe with Me. The lead singer is ex lead vocalist for Dance Gavin Dance Kurt Travis and the band seems to have perfected the Soul Rock style. Knowing just how much you enjoy jazz and dance gavin dance, I think this would be something you'd love!

You need to give dayseeker a chance! I think you’d love Rory’s voice!

I'd be super curious to hear what you think of the Jonny Craig era of DGD Play some Elder Goose!

Industry standard is to use auto-tune, but not in the way of fixing anything. You can usually tell when it’s a good/bad singer. With a bad singer, you’ll use it to fix their vocals, but most producers and mixers only use auto-tune to shape the already good vocal, and trim things, more than fixing a bad take or anything.

53?! You dont look a day over 43! Love your reviews man, been getting into bands I've ignored in my teen years.

Please please PLEASE react to “Ember” and “For the Jeers”. Honestly…. probably the best (which I’m sure will be debated) songs on the album!!!!!! Please please please! POR FAVOR!!!!!!

Finally the trilogy is completed! Die Another Day was a solid DGD song, not to much of anything, not too little, and covered all the bases (kinda like a bowl of plain oatmeal, then dumping an ass load of maple syrup, but only from "cage-free" TREES). I love your reviews, especially the fundamental breakdowns of the individual instruments/vocals that go unnoticed! There is still alot more DGD to cover! Alot of their best songs dont have music videos but there are still some gems!

Back on deck is amazing. Check that one out plz.

I'd love to hear your reaction to One Man's Cringe, there's this really cool part where Tilian and Andrew go back and forth with vocals, it's beautiful

So couple of notes to some questions you asked and a request! 1) Kris Crummet has mixed, recorded, and produced every one of their albums 2) normally Will does all the writing but this song in particular was written by Andrew! 3) While everything has auto tune nowadays, I’ve seen them like 5-6 times and depending on when you catch em on your, Tilian can either definitely hit these notes or he’ll avoid/hit lower register to probably save his voice. 4) Andrew is the vocalist of Eidola, who you should definitely do a reaction to!! Perennial Philosophy or Mutual Fear ft. Jon Mess being some suggestions!

Jon Mess' vocal progression has been amazing. If you haven't already, you should react to "And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman" which is off their first full length album. It is without Tilian, but Jon Mess is there and sounds so different to what he sounds like today

you said you were looking to sere an evolution of jon's voice. that's a great opprotunity to go back and listen to the older jonny craig stuff. the music of that era was also incredible.

Gotta do the whole album. It's incredible.

Glad you did this one. It's easily my favorite of the 3 released singles

was waiting for this for forever!!!!

Every artist ever in the past 20+ years uses autotune however I’ve heard tillian hit notes live and god damn that man is talented

If you want to hear how Jon Mess sounded early on, you should check out And I Told Them I Invented Times New Roman from Downtown Battle Mountain. You also get to experience Johnny Craig era DGD

Heck yeah this whole album is super dope. Jon absolutely crushed it as usual, and the instrumentals are some of my favorites from DGD. The song "pray to god for your mother" is really groovy.

Been waiting for this 🙏🏼🙏🏼

FLOYA is a band I think youd love! Love the videos!

I've been waiting for this reaction!! Let's gooo

I love that you ask the same questions me and my musician friends also ask like "how did they discover their voice" how did they figure out this sound that isn't often taught. Love your videos

I absolutely love when you cover DGD here, they're phenomenal and I love seeing the reactions.

Their last 3 music vids "Synergy", "Pop-Off", and "Die Another Day" are connected

I already love listening to DGD, and Tilian is not from this world, but listening to them along with your reactions totally tickles me and adds a whole other vibe to the experience. Glad to have come across your channel - thanks for being you!

Fun fact! Andrew wells was the one who wrote the instrumentals for this song!

Been waiting for you to do this album

Been waiting for another dgd.

Adding to the Feels Bad Man request train that seems to be going on. My favorite song on the entire album.

Tim will forever be missed❤

They do very minor correction, but Tilian is also a perfectionist and he is really really great at his layering and self-correction. Their song One in a Million off of Afterburner, I believe Tilian did 17 or so layers at the end? Created his own choir. Fuckin nuts. Andrew is also incredibly versatile in his singing too! Would love love love to hear you react to a song that Andrew has leads on! Their closer off of the new album, Have a Great Life really shows off their back and forth. As well as Swallowed By Eternity. Your videos are always so awesome. Really hope you can catch them live some time

In my experience, Tilian sounds pretty similar live so IDK how much if any auto tune is used.

dang man i wouldve never guessed u were in your 50s.. late 30s to mid 40s at most. whatever ur doing you look great

FEELS BAD MAN. YOU GOTTA REACT 10000%

Have a Great Life to me is such a fun song by them from the new album, not as popular but the trio singing together made it for me

Don’t sleep on Eidola. Andrew’s vocals are supreme.

Bands to check out for amazing musicianship: - Zeal & Ardor - while she sleeps - dresden dolls - bury tomorrow

They'll use some post processing on the vocals from what I can tell but not really what I'd call auto-tune. Tillian can hit those notes live if you wanted to do a live reaction from them there's some good ones out there from warped tour a few years back.

Everytime I see a Dance Gavin Dance reaction I turn into an excited child

53 i thought you where younger 😄, your a cool dude btw, the piano demonstration is what made me sub, yeah he hits some really difficult notes

I see a lot of people getting mad about the auto tune vocals question; but I do know that they used a lot more vocal layering on this album!

I know youre past the DGD videos, but you have to check out War Machine. Their last single with Tilian and it showcases their talent for sure

That's a great video idea to go in on how both vocalists developed their voices. You could do Tree City Sessions to compare Jon on current versions vs original few albums, and tides of Man tilian

Pretty sure they add some reverb that cuts off really quickly and layer his vocals so it could be mistaken for auto tune.

DGD are considered to be in the post-hardcore genre, which is sometimes referred to as "screamo". I guess you could say it's somewhat a 'sub-genre' of emo, mixing melodic elements of "emo" or pop-punk with the heavier tendencies of hardcore [punk] music

as much as I respect your knowledge, that intro of the slower cover of the song on piano killed my vibe. best of luck, you can do it!

you need to hear thee whole album

Fun fact about Die Another Day! Andrew Wells (second guitar and vocals) wrote and performs the guitar lead. He also did the writing with Martin Bianchi in Bloodsucker and Will had no parts.

YOUVE GOT TO CHECK OUT THE ALBUM!

Now we just need Feelsbadman video reaction and we got the whole album! 👌

More DGD! Also check out the adjacent swancore band Royal Coda!

Would love to see you react to "Into Your Arms" by The Maine Live with Sydney Sprague! or perhaps their song "Never Loved You a Little"

Probably not auto tune, but they definitely use Melodyne in the studio.

When my son started playing DGD around the house, I also said that they sounded like Yes - minus the "unclean" vocals. Really impressive musicianship.

Hail the Sun! Glass half empty :)

You should listen to their older stuff with Jon. His progression is incredible, he gets better every album. There was also an album here Will did the unclean vocals. Pleas do a react to Feels Bad Man

Just found your channel and I'm loving your reactions. DGD is one of my favorite bands, Tillian is a great singer but have you heard or reacted to any of Jonny Craigs songs when he was in DGD, or even Emarosa or SLAVES?

Check out Andrew Wells' band, Eidola. Check out the song "Counterfeit Shrines".

Swancore, a sub-genre? of Post-hardcore ;)

Man you'd really enjoy Tilian's old band Tides of Man, Dreamhouse and Empire Theory are GREAT albums.

For the auto-tune question you asked: No matter how great a singer's pitch is while recording, a pitch correction plugin is often applied during mixing, because frankly, our ears expect it. The sonic artifacts that a plugin like melodyne or autotune have can act as a sort of "glue" to help the vocals sit in the rest of the mix. A lot of mixers even run screams through pitch correction software. These plugins aren't only used to correct bad vocal takes anymore. Without the the software, it would still sound good. However, if you heard a mix of this song without pitch correction, you'd notice that something sounds a bit off. You just probably wouldn't be able to put your finger on it. For bands with really good vocalists, autotune is used more as an effect than an actual correction of pitch. I went to school for music production and audio engineering, along with being a musician myself. It's often a subtle but necessary step in the mixing process.

You should react to “Waiting on you” or “cutting it close” or “talk to myself” by The band Rain City Drive!

Current Events. One of my favorites on the album

I can’t believe you paused it at one of the best transpositions at 4:18

Also, the engineer for all of their music as well as a lot fo others within the genre is named Chris Crummett. And he is a genius

I know someone has said this before, but I think the highest note he hits is in "Here Comes The Winner". He goes absolutely hypersonic.

i don't know if you've checked out Andrew Wells' band Eidola, but they're also fantastic. They have a video up for the song Counterfeit Shrines

Goddamn finally David!!! Making us wait like this....not cool!

Love your analysis! Stumbled upon a reaction to Spiritbox a while back and has been one of my favourite subs in the last while. Would love if you did some Deftones! Keep up the killer content, cheers!

You gotta watch Synergy, then Pop Off and then this (Die Another Day) to get the whole video scheme.

When I had dgd on my mother also said it reminded her of YES

I've waited so long for this video... Please do Feels Bad Man. You'll like it

You also really really really need to check out ember off this album, tilians parts give me chill

Do a 5 by of the new DGD album! But if you want to see how Tillian evolved? His first song with DGD is Robot with the Human Hair pt 4

The voice scheme started with Mess and Johnny Craig. Mess left and will swan took over rough vocals then mess came back with tillian

You should check out Badflower!

Something similar to this that I think would be cool to check out is a new song from The Dooo, GBSN, and John Silkie called _but I pretend i'ma beginner. They are all musicians on KZfaq that came together to put out a song.

I’ve heard Tilian and Andrew hit those high notes live.

judging based on the young robot unboxing video, Id say if they use autotune its extremely little, and the mixer and masterer is kris crummett and he's been the same mixer since they started which i believe also gives the consistency the band gives.

kris crummet produced all their albums also Tilians earliest bands is tides of man, also reccomend listening to whatever i say is royal ocean. one of the first dgd albums

I’ve seen Tillian live and that’s his real voice

That's a great question. How has your vocals style developed over time? I would love to know that about them too.

please do feels bad man!!! i think you’ll really like it

Listen to “Feels Bad Man” it’s such a great song! And the bass!

tides of man knowing is a good song to see tilians earlier voice. from 2009. im pretty sure john mess has been in dgd since 05 i think? so some older dgd stuff u might hear jon?