He did an Oingo Boingo cover on YT during the pandemic that Geebz would probably dig

big fan of pth but never knew he did solo stuff, what's it called??

@@DaDoubleDee just search his name, Rody Walker.

Dude doesn’t get enough recognition. He’s so talented and no one else in the genre really sounds like him

Ah yes, his solo stuff Whoopsie Pooperella doesn't get the recognition it deserves

Fortress and Kezia > everything else There's a few weak tracks on every other release for me but not for those I will say Fortress is my favourite album of all time though

Add another vote for Skies, absolutely one of my favorite songs from volition. That breakdown and followup midway through sends chills down my spine every single time I listen to it.

Yes, amazing song

Yeah +1 for Skies; that song is special. Gotta do it someday @Key of Geebz!

Second this, one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums

Skies is perfect for a composer to enjoy.

Oh wow that’s interesting. I remember looking through the Indiegogo campaign the band did to fund this album and you could pledge like a grand or two to appear on the album as a guest vocalist/musician. I always thought these guest vocalists featured on Volition were some of these people.

I didn't know that this wasn't Jadea Kelly I figured she was doing some different vocal stuff

@@TheLegendofGumby You should check out the "Of Our Own Volition" documentary to see how it all went down. I believe that most of those singers just wound up doing gang vocals, but one lucky guy is featured near the end of Skies.

@@dampersand life embossed has a guest screamer “caving and twisting” and the clean vocals at “breed specific legislature” is a guest vocalist

And to think, this incredible band is technically speaking, and of their own admission, considered to be a "Commercial Failure". This is why they funded their own albums after a certain point, complications with the labels, profits, all that. If I'm not mistaken, and I think I'm remembering correctly here, at the time they put our the indigogo and tested the waters of seeing if fans could possibly fund an album - They actually received enough money to fund TWO albums. Protest has always had an intense following. The people that love this band love it with fierce passion. I've seen them live 7 times, I'm in one of their music videos that was filmed here and the song also written about here, met them many, times, I've got signed staged used drum sticks from some of those shows, all of my CD inserts and set lists signed. They've always been humble and grateful for their fans. The song Mist is about one of the first shows they played here, the line "Stood on the shoulders of proud Newfoundlanders" is quite literal. We rushed the stage when they came on and that shit was not prepared for us. Parts of it collapsed. We held it up for them. I'll always be grateful for them and their music.

eh id argue their complete lack of catchiness is why they are still such a relatively unknown niche band.

@@derpderpin1568 I'd say of all the prog metal bands I listen to, they are by far one of the most accessible and catchy.

Also my favourite album of all time, it still blows my mind start to finish after all these years.

Also my favorite band. I feel like they're always underrated, but also like way more people call them an all time fave than a lot of other bands. Like people either don't know who they are or they would kill and die for them.

Dunsel is such a killer track, probably my favourite off of Scurrilous.

Tongue Splitter and Sex Tapes fan here. Tongue Splitter is one of my favourite songs by Protest and one of my most played, and Sex Tapes has one of the best guitar riffs ever written (the intro riff which uses tapping through chords).

Exactly the same boat here, I'm 31, heard them in 2005 and they're quite easily the 1 band I've listened to more than any other in my entire life. Pure, absolute joy in music form.

@@omegashinra7672 I'm 27 and discovered them in 2008 with Fortress, always been my absolute favourite band of all time. I was lucky I got to see them live once with all the original members. I think they hated the venue and felt like they had a horrible gig at Cardiff Uni, because I noticed they never came back to Cardiff (LOL), but I had a great time! I remember all the people around me were all singing along and knew every single lyric!

For those who don't know, Chris Adler of Lamb of God played drums on this album. This song in particular is most like his normal style (probably something to do with the title/lyrics) but he does get a bit looser than usual on the rest of the album

@@aarononon When the album was being recorded, I was very skeptical about how Chris would fit in with their style. I was so surprised how well it turned out when it was released

@@Cmoore718 I was so happy with Adler's delivery throughout the whole album. I think he is supremely talented with less ego

I believe Moe did grade 8 on the drums actually, but he was a natural talent. I've never been more impressed by creative drumming in my life. Everything he touched turned to gold!

@@Cmoore718 As a drummer, Adler's style of drumming is absolutely nothing like Moe's. The drumming is not as complex as Moe's, it's high stamina and uses a lot of quick double bass pedal. However the actual drumbeats are really straight forward. For example, if I wanted to learn how to play C'est La Vie note for note, it's unbelievably tricky (I've tabbed it out by ear), but learning anything off Volition I'd just have to up my foot stamina. Moe is a beast because he literally changed the beat almost every bar and still made it sound naturally flowing and not jarring at all. His fills were immaculate. Nevertheless, Adler did an incredible job and was extremely disciplined in learning all the drums Luke and Tim had written for him to play. He added his own spin on stuff (no doubt mostly being the double bass triplets that are all over the place on the album) but didn't have much hand in the actual composition. You can hear that the drums were written by guitarists. I remember seeing Adler's vlogs during the session work and he really, really struggled but aced it in the end. One of the reasons he said he wanted to do it was because he personally just loved the guitar work of Protest.

Also, this is one of the bands that sent me from dabbling in prog/tech metal to listening almost exclusively to prog/tech lol. And yes they use a female vocalist and other band members do backups too. Check out a band called first fragment. “Neo-classical tech death” seems like it may be up your alley. The “le veuve & le martyr” play through is unreal. Probably as good a place as any to start!! Keep up the great work!

Divine Suicide of K is my favourite track from Kezia, such a mindblowing song.

The ending to Caravan....... OH. MY. GOD.

I always felt that if queen wrote metal it would have sounded like Heretics and killers

As much as I love H&K, Blindfolds aside would be my preference for Geebz to look at.

@@drewff5 very true or stars over Bethlehem

I’ve listened through Scurrilous soooo many times. Love it

The female singer in most of their tracks where she's featured is Jadea Kelley. She's been a long time collaborator with the band and has done guest vocals on almost every album. Edit: I was mistaken on this song though. The woman on this song is Kayla Howran. That said, Jadea does most of the female vocals for the band and sang on Clarity, Without Prejudice, Yellow Teeth and Plato's Tripartite from volition.

Legendary UK DJ John Peel called Adamson "a new Jimi Hendrix", but I doubt the US heard his earlier, elaborate, less commercial playing - certainly not this prog/metal/rock audience.

Jadea doesn't appear in this song. It's Kayla Howran.

He already did From the Sky

I second the Hail the Sun recommendation, but I'd prefer a song off of Wake, like Disappearing Syndrome maybe. That whole album is the pinnacle of their catalog for me.

I feel like I'd recommend Hail the Sun to people who like Circa Survive more than people who like Protest the Hero.

He already did it, go look it up