OMG I spaced on my intro - THE OLDER I GET THE BETTER I WAS!!!🤦🏽‍♂️

This song specifically is a letter to the drummer's brother, who died in 2016 and was the founding guitarist. The video and song contain a lot of symbolism, and the light in the sky is intended to be him I believe, or his soul per se.

Please listen to "Gone with the Wind" from "All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us". Beautifully poignant. Written by the lead guitarist/song writer, Tom Searle (like most other tracks), who had terminal cancer and sadly passed away not long after. A lyrical and musical masterpiece. Heart wrenching stuff. RIP Tom Searle.

Since you seem to like orchestral arrangements, Architects have just released a live version of their song “Animals” recorded live at Abbey Road studios with a orchestra. It’s something that gave me chills. I think you will really enjoy it. I believe it’s only available in KZfaq right now.

I miss the aloha at the beginning, would always make my day hahaha

Architects!!!!!! Memento Mori would make a great video. I get goosebumps/chicken skin every time I listen to it!

This song is written by the drummer, Dan Searle, for his brother Tom, who died of cancer end 2016. His song Gone With The Wind on their album All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us is written by him. A musical and lyrical masterpiece

Been digging these guys new album. ERRA is another good band. Gungrave is a good song from their newest album.

This was the first song they released after the main song writer/guitarist Tom Searle died from cancer. The guy meditating is his twin brother Dan who is also the drummer in the band. Memento Mori would be a great song for you to dissect, it's the last song on the final album written by Tom who was very much aware of his own mortality and the inevitability of death. The meaning of the song (and album) has really altered after Tom’s death since none of his fans knew his cancer returned until after he died. Please check it out!!!

That "souls don't break they bend" part gets me every time, amazing!

Oh man, they just released a song played live with an orchestra and it's phenomenal, you HAVE to listen to it. Architects - "Animals" (Orchestral Version) - Live at Abbey Road

Many people will recommend some of their shorter more accessible songs, but I think theres a case to be made for you, when you revisit these guys, listening to memento mori, its 8 minutes of grief at its finest.

the vocalist, Sam Carter, i think has the BEST RANGE of vocals. Powerful screams, beautiful melodic singing, everything he does and delivery is POWERFUL #AWWWRIGHT!

Architects is an awesome band , i started listening to them a couple months back , and they just released an Orchestral Version of their song "Animals" which i think you would like a lot , on the same note Bring me the horizon also has a bunch of songs perfomed live with an Orchestra if you wanna check them out :)

Literally every architects song made in the last 7 years is a complete banger. For your channel I recommend anything off the Holy Hell album, or "Gone with the wind"

Every time I hear this song I just can’t imagine how tough it was to be Dan losing his twin brother. RIP Tom Searle I know you’re smiling down on your Architects brothers reaching new musical heights 🖤

If you do another song by them, as much as I'd like to recommend olfer stuff, they just released a live studio version of the song Animals with a full orchestra and brass section. It's amazing!

Engineering side: this was mixed and mastered by the duo that does it for Periphery and a lot of other bands with top notch sound: Nolly Getgood (Periphery's former bassist) and Ermin Hamidovic

So pumped for you to hear more Architects!!!

Architects released very very recently an orchestral version of their new single "Animals". I think you will find interesting, it is really a fascinating journey

Architects is probably one of the biggest influencing bands in metalcore... Some metalcore fans even say, that the album holy hell is the best album (in this genre) ever maid. The album was written and released after tom (the band's guitarist) died. In this album, you can really feel the anger and despair of the band.

the rhythm guitar player and bass player play the synth sections live. this song was their first after tom searle passed and his brother dan, the drummer used meditation to help him through his passing

#alright in for all the Architects. These guys have always been very dynamic and thoughtful in their composition.

This was such a pleasant surprise from you! Thank you so much for reacting to my favorite band. Would love to see you decompose "Memento Mori" by them as well, I promise you won't regret it!

That was some intense screaming...actually gave me the chicken skin a few times. Dude was literally rocket blasting his soul into the microphone.

These songs are in our musical B.I.B.L.E.- Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth. They convey all our feelings, thoughts & hopes in melody. Music is Life. Life is Song. Song is an embracing of the Universe. Life is short- Music is Forever🎶♾

Tom Searle had some of most amazing and relentless riffs...definitely check out some previous Architects work! Oh and some new Erra too : )

Put Northlane on your list, their vocalist is brutal!

If you liked this, you should definitely check out the band Erra. They also have that incredible production, crazy riffage. Their new album has a bunch of bangers. Gungrave is solid.

One of my favorite songs, can't wait to finish this after work.

the old composer / decomposer line blew my mind

Anyone else see at 4:27 the bright speck on his chair move downwards from the headphones to his heart? I'm 39% convinced that is Tom hanging around to watch people enjoy their music.

Would love you to check out Pray For Rain by Polaris, they're a fairly recent Aussie prog/metalcore band and they get compared to Architects a lot, this song in particular has an awesome arrangement and form. #AWWWRIGHT

Architects are soo unic. I love all in that band specifically the lyrics.

This song always brings a tear to my eye

#ALLLLLLRIGHT. Architects is an incredible band and Doomsday is one of their best!

A little bit about the VOCALS: Sam Carter is a legendary vocalist. His clean singing is beautiful, but he's definitely known for his screams. In my opinion he has perfected the "fry scream" technique, and does an expert job of mixing that same "fry" sound (compression based-grit) with his true cord phonation (singing). On top of this the production is amazing and the vocal layering of screams/singing is wonderfully done. I've seen Architects multiple times and Sam's near flawless performance always amazes me. One of the best live bands 🤘 Awesome reaction Geebz can't wait for more!

I JUST RECOMMENDED THIS SONG! IM SO EXCITED! PLEASE MORE ARCHITECTS! HAVENT EVEN WATCHED THE VIDEO YET BUT THIS IS GONNA BE AMAZING! :D

Thank you so much for this, great analysis and breakdown of the song 👌 RIP Tom Searle 🖤 You should check out Josh Middleton's band Sylosis, he's the other guitarist in the band. I would love for you to do their song "I Sever"! 🤘

Man oh boy i smiled when i watched this! My all time favorite band. You almost made me cry breaking this down. Thank you! Best channel on youtube by far. I got another Architects for you that would be lovely for me to watch you listen to (hehe) wich is 'Dead Man Talking' on from the Lost forever, Lost together album. It is one of their finest believe me. You could choose any song and i would be happy. This is juat a recommendation. Have a great week!

It's me again! Hey Geebz! Please react to more Architects! Hereafter and Gone With The Wind are two of my favs. But also Downfall, Gravity, Goliath, Deathwish, Phantom Fear, A Match Made In Heaven, Royal Beggars, Modern Misery, The Seventh Circle, Libertine, Impermanence ... They're all good :) Congrats on (just about) a year! I changed my mind. My top pick is Gone With The Wind. And if you want to feel extra emotional listening to it, do a little background into the song/band before listening. It's incredible.

gone with the wind makes me cry every time ) : such a good album

Heart wrenching video, when you know what it's about.

Architects are an amazing band

#awwwright As others have noted, this genre is generally quantified as "metalcore".

I wrote a comment 30 seconds in. And now I want to express my awe in your musical explanation and sheer brilliance. I supported Architects back in the day in Manchester and they were so cool. I love you have given them your attention. Have a great weekend my friend

Love your reactions dude! ALOHA.

Oh my god Yessss!!!!

Definitely check out more architects, anything from albums "All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us" and "Lost Forever // Lost Together" is phenomenal but even their other albums have tracks worth reacting/reviewing

Your analysis is incredible! Thx!

Huge shout out to Nolly on the production too ! His work is always incredibly well done !!

Keep it up!! Love your work and energy! #AWWWWWRIGHT!!!

Veil of maya - fracture Protest the hero - from the sky You’re gonna love em, first is just guitar/drum/production madness. PTH is just an amazing song, hope you get around to do these in the future Love from sweden

Love this breakdown! Their new album has a lot more experimentation while also keeping their root sound intact. BTW, please react to the new LANDMVRKS, specifically their song Lost In The Waves!

never heard this band before. they sound sick. gonna work through their albums.

I love good lyrics, but the overall of sound of a song is what draws me in at first. Then I'll start paying attention to the different bits, and I go through several phases of loving the same song for different aspects of it. First, I just love the song. Later, I'll love it for the drum work, then it's the intricate guitar bits that keep me coming back, then the vocals, the bass, the lyrics. Hell, it might be something very simple, like a bass slide, or a particular scream, that has me loving it.

God the last 20 seconds of the video always stab me right in the heart.

It is time for me to recommend Textures - Awake. My favorite song in this genre.

If you haven't already you should check out the live music video for this song, it somehow has even more emotion

he almost seemed scared of it until he started talking about it!!

Please do more Architects! Also the bass player doubles as the piano player.

You should check out the danish band VOLA , a really cool progressive metal blend between Meshuggah and Depeche Mode , they are fantastic 😍

Love this song. First time on the channel, really enjoyed it and will be back!

Steven Wilson's song "To the Bone". I think you'd like it!

Another fun story about this song is that when they released this song back in 2017, they said it was a standalone single and wouldn't be on the next album, Holy Hell. When I bought the album, because it's amazing, I was going to sleep. Now, they didn't put a tracklist on the back of the CD, so when I heard this song on there, I was sat right up in bed with joy :)

After asking for Architects for weeks, I’m sooo glad you enjoyed it as much as you did. You’ve got to check out some of the new album that came out last month as it’s moved on even more since this song! Maybe try ‘Goliath’ (which has Biffy Clyro’s singer - if you know them - on it), or ‘Libertine’. #Alriggghhhtttt

Perfect Circle ‘Imagine’ pleeeeaaaassseee!

Great reaction. Great band. Rest In Peace Tom.

One of my favorite songs ever. This song was from their heart and soul!

This is fun. They did a Piano version of this song. It would be cool to hear you break that down and talk about they differences and similarities.

RIP tom you are so missed

Actually most of those background effects are not from a keyboard... It's layers and layers of guitar arrangements with effects. This band is amazing. You definitely have to check out their new record

AWWWLRIIIGHT!

You NEED to check out their song "Animals" (Orchestral Verson) holy crap.. powerful, powerful song.

Great reaction. Love from the Uk

#allright you are good at this whole audience engagement thing

This song is a super emotional song in all ways.... one of there guitarists had written this song and he was the key writer from the start of the band... The guitarist (Tom) passed away from cancer and this is the last song he almost finished.... the drummer was (Tom's) twin brother who you saw holding the crystal in the video.... the way that he played the drums and the way Sam (Vocalist) sang the song was very heavy and emotional and you could feel the pain.... Great Videos.... you should check out Currents- Second Skin

Rest in peace Tom

Loving the work still Geebz. Got a few suggestions: Dethklok - a "fictional" melodic death metal band, written and mostly performed by one guy. Try the song "Black Fire Upon Us" The Devil and the Almighty Blues - slower, kinda grungy blues rock band, maybe the song "Root to Root" (tho anything from their first two albums is killer) Mick Gordon's "BFG Division" - as we're doing videogame soundtracks now, this will melt your brain

Animals is another great song of theirs.

Oh no....they gave you the Architects. I gotta see this. They are in my library, on the edge of the heavy shelf. Their hooks really stick in head for awhile, their whole compositions make my mind melt at times trying to make sense of it...like Tool or other prog stuff. For me, It's usually jazz, 70's/ early 80's classic rock or 90's alt rock...Deftones and radiohead (how I found you...and sub'd) keep the vids coming, I look forward to every one of them no matter the material.

Anyone who's missing the old Architects as badly as I am check out the new self titled Erra album. It's filled the gaping void...

do gravedigger I'm listening on loop it's another great song by architects

man i really enjoy watching you enjoying the music i enjoy

You mention how the singer has a great emotional range in this song.. you're completely right. And I bet this one came easier to him than most when you learn about the lyrics. I find this song heart breaking.

Great choice! And to answer your question, their bass player also does the keyboards and drum pads. All these guys are awesome and some of the best at this type of music. New album just came out, if you decide to check out more Architects.

Architects: always a journey

Slice The Cake - Stone And Silver Part 1 - The Mountains of Man Textures - Awake Slice The Cake - Unending Waltz Slice The Cake - Westward Bound Part I - The Lantern Slice The Cake - The Holy Mountain Emarosa - The Past Should Stay Dead Emarosa - Pretend. Release. The close. Emarosa- A Toast To The Future Kids! Slipknot - Vermilion part 1 and 2 The Faceless - The Autotheist Movement 1-3. Type O Negative - Love You To Death Soilwork - As We Speak Circa Survive - Get Out Van Halen - Ain`t Talking Bout Love Cane Hill - Kill The Sun Static X - Destroyer Coal Chamber - Loco Deftones - My Own Summer Billie Holiday - Blue Moon Spiritbox - The Mara Effect pt.3 Fifth Dawn - Allure The Paper Melody - The Nightmare Academy Vildhjarta - All These Feelings Letlive. - Younger Celldweller - Switchback Shakey Graves - Roll The Bones (live) Glass Cloud - If He Dies, He Dies Ovid`s Withering - The Omen of Lycaon Rings of Saturn - The Macrocosm Rings of Saturn - Embryonic Anomaly Animals As Leaders - Brain Dance Born Of Osiris - Recreate Soilwork - The Living Infinite 1 Spiritbox - The Mara Effect live

Architects are incredible. Animals (orchestral version) is a masterpiece

Geebz becoming an Architects fan makes me so happy! I'd love to see a breakdown of some Sleep Token, specifically "Higher" or "The Offering" 🙏🏻

Check out Memento Mori. This was written by their guitarist with terminal cancer about facing death. It’s long but gives me goosebumps every time. A Match Made in Heaven is also really good. You can’t go wrong with another from All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, songs like Gravity and Gone With the Wind are good but Momento Mori is amazing.

Nice :) the lead guitar player has his own band: sylosis. would be nice to see you react to one or some of their songs too! try apparitions or invidia :) would love to see a video on those as well!

Wow, I'm early on this one, and one of my fave bands aswell, can't wait. AWWWRIGHT!! Much love from the UK.

#AWWRIGHT. Yeah great reaction man. My vote for your next Architects track is “Gone with the Wind”. I’ve seen other comments talking more about the song and the band but it’s their pinnacle track.

By the way. Just for you to know how talented this band is they produce their own record. Most exactly their lead guitarist and drummer.

Interesting thing about the video, it takes a lot of visual cues from a movie called The Fountain which is all about accepting the inevitability of death and making your peace with the loss of loved ones; hits hard with the song having been written about the loss of their bandmate Tom Searle.

Erra + Protest the Hero are definitely a couple bands worth listening to in the prog rock/metal family.

I like Architects a lot. To me their best song by far is Impermanence.

Fun fact about this band... they don't use pads in this song and in this album. It's actually a guitar. They use a crunchy tone and mix it with a plug-in called Valhalla Shimmer and turn that baby up to 100 and boom... that pad sound... but with a guitar. That pattern that you heard is the guitarist tremolo picking the note. That creates that huge sound. It's truly beautiful and they use the same plug-ing in their clean guitars as well. That creates that ambience. I love that about this band.

Yeees! This was my favorite song for about 2 Years