Every single Meinl video has been insane! If you guys have the time and energy, we would love to see more!

Just so you know... I have been waiting on this song since i heard it live. Hearing it like this is even more incredible. Every little nuance. You guys never fail to amaze me

Everybody is freaking out about El Estepario Siberiano, but you are my absolute favorite drummer right now. I hope to see more covers from your latest album.

Awesome play through! If you have a chance could you tell us what snare you are playing here?

@@zedtozer0788 DW 14"x 6.5X Collectors Stainless Steel. It looks huge because of the camera lens distortion.

Second that. Plus, he's very friendly!

That’s one thing I love about brands like meinl or zildjian. They’re bringing awareness to their artists through these play through videos. Sabian didn’t do shit for Jay in terms of advertising him. So sad.

@@osanan Thanks, I'm goint to see them play in São Paulo next month and was afraid that he could bite me if I approached him. Now I'm cool

​@@EdNieves82, they all are very friendly! Go and enjoy the concert and meet them!

It is an incredible achievment

I totally agree. Parts had the hair stand up on my arms with the goodness

It really is. It's the perfect mix between all their previous album especially of One and Altered State. And they have even managed to add something new. This album is a masterpiece from start to finish.

​@@jkh3959absolutely agree. Its monumental

For me the bands foundation is One, every albums has built on this, but War of Being has aspects of all of them, but is far more diverse with production, making the album more interesting a journey. Earlier albums, as much as I love them, the production are quite limiting of their sound. War of Being has brought the heavier djent compositions of One, that each album on, the more progressive compositions of Altered State, the more melodic compositions of Polaris, where the bands production expanded, and the bigger sounding riffs and refined compositions of Sonder, where King is representative of. War of Being, compositionally, has brought all these elements together and by far the most developed to date. Others can still prefer older albums, like Altered State, and I have loved all their albums since I discovered them in 2011, but, if we were to be objective regarding composition, production, technical skill, vocal range, emotional feel, War of Being is the most advanced. The band took a risk and wrote an album that "feels" right, members have stated they dropped the "ego" and thought more about what songs "needed" not simply how "difficult" they could make every section to play. They also mentioned, each member "contributed" more to the songs this album. At the moment, if I had to choose a track I currently like most, I would choose Sacrifice. Again, this album is an achievement of the TesserecT approach to modern metal.

He plays a bunch of the songs on his live streams. twitch.tv/jaytesseract

he's doing a 5:4 polyrhythm between the hat and the stack, which is fucked

its disgusting and foul

Have taken lessons with Jay - you need the HH to know where tf you are in the complex grooves...it's actually a coping mechanism. I spent 20 years without pedalling my HH and now it's second nature and extremely liberating (thanks to our man Jay).

@slashesjdt It's a 3:2 polyrhythm where we feel the pulse as the 2 part (stack) and the 3 part is grouped in 4 (HH). There are many ways to look at it but 5:4 is not one of them.

Seeing them in Seattle next month hope they play the whole new album!

​@@Lolaandcassidyadventuresthey wont, but it's a great set!!

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That's the main gripe that I've seen from most people regarding this album. A lot of people seem to not like the mix

​@gavinrains7781 haha wtf..... the mix is off the chain?

@@shaneroyer6531 I like it, but I do agree that some tracks can sound a little muddy at times

Are you guys listening to the new album through a wire and a tin can?? Album mix is great and really highlights Jay without losing the impact of the rest of the band. Listening through my Bose car audio, studio monitors, and Audio Technica headphones....all sound good.

@@tylerolinde it sounds fantastic on good gear but I'm afraid a lot of the people complaining are listening with shitty hardware.

Jay is has literally become one of the best drummers of modern day music in any genre. As a drummer myself, I get giddy watching how recognized he's become and he plays some of the hardest mind fuck things and makes it look easy. I play a lot of metal and other great drummers, but trying to learn Jays stuff is absolutely some of the hardest to learn. I put him up there with Matt Garstka at this point!

@@Daddy-ep8ng I place him in the same tier as Gartska, though, Gartska has a more jazz fusion flavour. Another drummer that I place on their level is James Knoerl of Aviations.

Lord Amos on the Bass.:)

Amos Williams is the bassist for tesseract. Not nolly, nolly is periphery :)

@@evan.burnzyNolly is just mixes and produces for Periphery, he’s not in the band

@@MannyMo_ he plays bass on albums still!

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My guess from personal experience would be that he just tunes it really goddamn low, like kick drum low. But it's hard to say for sure. I think it might also be an 18 which definitely helps with fatness.

Yeah, they seem pretty loose. Head choice and eq play a part, too.

The head is so loose you can see one of the tension rods rattling around. He probably goes through a lot of heads

18" floor, G2 top, G1 bottom, both heads tuned lowwwww

@@BionicleSaurus yeah i remember jay saying in a podcast that he likes using the floor tom as an extension of the bass drum, so i imagine its tuned super low

Matt Halpern started it all and has influenced a lot of drum artists like Malyan and Postones

​@@MannyMo_Jay's been in the scene for roughly as long as Halpern has.

@@MannyMo_ Lol get your facts straight. Periphery, Monuments and Tesseract all started off at the same time and they even toured together once back in 2010/2011. If anything, the biggest influence these guys have is from Tomas Haake although they have other influences like Mike Portnoy, Neal Peart etc