99% sure it was Jason Richardsons composition in the intro

you should check out their other music video "Hos Down" where they weave through a few genres in kind of a comedic way. :) another masterful composition worth reacting to.

I lost it at that "what the living heck did you guys got me into" look to the camera. Thanks for the video!

The most impressive part is that these 2 were tour support in Europe for Dream Theater a couple of years ago. Imagine going to a concert and seeing 2 guys walk on stage and then this happens.

3:38 that would be Jason Richardson. He really loves this type of orchestration and i think its one of his strengths. He's uploaded orchestra/programming only versions of a lot of his songs which I think are worth checking out as well.

Luke is an AMAZING drummer. This video doesn't showcase it, but he's also very showy while doing it. Check out his solo videos. He really is amazing to watch.

Having heard this track before I can't help but wait for your jaw to drop. Edit: lets get Devin Townsend - Kingdom 🤘

I believe Taylor Larson was the engineer. He also did Periphery II and Matriarch from Veil of Maya, probably tons more!

Great reaction man! Jason does the arranging for the strings. He said he wanted his album to sound like it was part of a movie track so a ton of the music off his solo stuff has orchestra bits in it. He is a phenominal guitar player and Luke is an absolute beast on the drums! Jason also tracks the base and the synth and they just back track that live. So glad you checked this out. If you want more from him i would check out Hos Down or Omni. He even has a song with the singer from periphery on the album called Retrograde!

A great track that features Jason Richardson is "Aviator" by Polyphia, Jason does one of the most insane solo parts I have ever heard, even he has a hard time playing it perfectly

Yes yes yes 100% yes, love this song so glad you got a chance to check it out. Thanks as always for the great content!

Love you man nice to see someone do something so cool normally people just do reactions and I think it's a waste of time but you educate people to a degree and I think that's AWESOME

Yay! As a beginner/intermediate guitarist, Jason Richardson is one of my biggest guitar heroes! If I remember correctly Jason is the one who composed the orchestral intro. He's one of the best musicians of the current era of virtuosic guitarists/instrumental musicians that's been helping push the guitar to new limits technique wise while creating some awesome music. He was in a few bands before he started his solo band with Luke Holland who's the incredibly talented drummer. Previous bands including All Shall Perish, Born of Osiris, and Chelsea Grin. He's also currently the lead guitarist for All That Remains. A few songs I'd recommend you checking out that are from similar artists are The Woven Web - Animals as Leaders, Aviator - Polyphia and Shibuya - Covet. Another one of Jason's songs worth checking out is Hos Down. It features little parts from multiple genres that somehow mix to make a pretty awesome song. A song from someone you've already reacted to on the channel is Deep Peace - Devin Townsend which is definitely my favorite of his songs. There's a live version with his normal backing band as well as at least part of an orchestra. Thanks for putting out the awesome content. It's interesting to me hearing the thoughts of someone who's had quite a bit of music experience/knowledge and their ways of describing how they believe a song comes together. Looking forward to watching more content!

FINALLY!! Third on my list of the songs i been asking for from them ,Awwwright!!! Please Revisit these guys soon and Do "Ho's Down" and "Omni" too!! You wont be let down!

Luke Holland on drums is INSANE! Jason Richardson has orchestral versions of his songs! Richardson is doing all kinds of work on these songs!

In tears laughing at your face every time a crazy section happened. 😂😂

One of the best modern guitarist! So many youtube guitarist tryed to cover this, i dont if single one was able to pull it off with actual speed!

I going to need some more tesseract my man

These two are some of the most technically capable musicians in their respective genres. This is hands down one of my favourite tracks. Awesome Reaction Geebz!

Criminally underrated react suggestion: Born Of Osiris' "XIV" + "Behold" -- Richardson was a big part of the composition of the piece(s) and he demonstrates just how skilled and connected with his instrument he is/was when he was just 20 years old.

Soo cool to see that older generations react and support new metal genres. Keep up the good work my man

Jason composed the entire thing. Luke "just" improved and tracked the drums. I've been listening to these guys for about 3 years constantly now. They are on another level of crazy

This is literal insanity, especially when you consider they actually play this live just as well. Jason is also such an incredible composer.

Jason Richardson (the guitarist) started writing the piece while he was watching Hans Zimmer's masterclasses. He said in an interview I believe that he stopped watching mid episode and started figuring out the main riff (wrote it in a sequencer at first). I heard that he was really into orchestral arranging.

Go check Luke Holland's Tendinitis drum playtrough! There you can actually see how insane shiet that is! :D

So glad to see either Luke Holland or Matt McGuire on here. Polyphia’s ‘Lit’ is a great instrumental too!

Aviations, Outliers. Prog/metal masterpiece, doesn't get any better. Keep up the good work.

LOL yeah man jason richardson and some metal guitarist are just insane. AWESOME HONEST VIDEO

Ive always appreciated instrumental groups. Night Verses is another great one. And Russian Circles is just "muah" chef's kiss.

Jason is a phenom, great reaction Geebs. Let's see some Arch Echo next, they have some of the best prog instrumental composition I've heard.

Do Pagan Vitalism next PLEASE

Gotta check out Ho’s Down by this duo, Super innovative track

Now you need to watch Luke Holland's Drum playthrough of this! It's crazy.

i just went on one of your videos and requested a jason richardson react then i look at your channel and you posted it 2 days ago! lol thats badass! definitely the best person to react to as far as composing goes

Jason writes all that stuff! He's a musical genius!!!

Glad the guitarist is using a majesty. I wish I could buy one. :-P

I'd love to hear a reaction to The Proverbial Bellow by Between the Buried and Me

Xiv/behold by Jason Richardson is epic 🤘

Born Of Osiris - Recreate ( Jason Richardson plays guitar in this song) 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 - Aint 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 Soilwork - Spirits Of The Future Sun Soilwork - The Living Infinite 1 Celldweller - The Last Firstborn The Algorithm - Floating Point The Prodigy - Voodoo People - Pendulum Mix Novena - Secondary Genesis

Damn. This is crazy! Thanks Geebz!

Some of the coolest guys you’ll ever meet, got a chance to meet them a few years ago, Luke Holland was a huge influence on my drumming growing up

These guys did a song featuring Spencer Sotelo (the singer of Periphery) It's called Retrograde, and I think you'll dig how they sound with a vocalist as well ;) So happy to see Luke Holland on the channel, as a drummer myself lol

really nice inside on the engineering stuff, dont know much anout it but it made me appreciate this track even more

Jason wrote all of the arrangements, luke wrote his own drum parts. I highly recommend omni by these guys, the production is always fantastic

hos down! hos down! hos down! you'll love it!

Thanks for the video, I now have new music to listen to ❤

I love that you can see and hear the technical aspects. Most of all is that I can see that you feel the music/it’s in you because of your body language.🤘🖖🤙

The sheer PANIC on this man's face when the song's finale hits at around 11:30 is just *impeccable*. "Oh! ... OH NO ... WTF NO STAHP!"

i love this guys reaction to this song. New subscriber just on the different facial responses he made. -)

Nice to listen to something completely new to me also and liking this! This channel is amazing! Would love to see you do Ulver. Ulver's a band which has evolved greatly from black and folk metal to avant-garde and much more. Reaction to anything from Perdition City (my favourites being Lost in Moments and Future Sound of Music) would be awesome but also would anything from newer albums like Assassination of Julius Caesar. Keep up the good work!

Sees this video in the suggestions... he's in for it this time

Wow wtf phenomenal. And on top of that, this song is literally a buffet of various metal styles served up on top of a bed of crazy from-the-future metal virtuosity.

Great video! Jason is amazingly good at what he does. He's so bloody good at phrasing and expression I always end up with an idiotic grin listening to his stuff. That's not even mentioning Luke, who's just as insane, as you've heard :)

I just subscribed to you and seen that you did Amber by 311 and I thought you would like sublime badfish it’s a really good song

oh boy, this will be a juicy one! Jason is a freak.

Damn! Can't tell if I need to take something and go lie down to recover or drink some coffee and clean the house

Saw them play this tune live a few years ago in Boston, and holy hell I think I just kinda stood there staring at the stage in awe

Jason is a crazy kid. But he has a huge n great mind of what he is writing. His theory knowledge is amazing

Wow, amazing stuff! @Geebz I know you listened to Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, etc. from a previous video, the guitar gods of your/my earlier days. In my mind - at least from a technical standpoint, bc there's much more to playing than pure technique, guys like this take things to a whole new level of playing. And drumming too has evolved to a whole new level of technical ability. These guys must live, breath and sleep with their instruments.

Jason writes the orchestral things, he's also a pianist. If you have an hour, watch "I", a documentary about him and the creation of the album "I"

Cool background on Jason. He literally dropped out of high school just a few weeks before he would have graduated so he could fill in as the new guitarist for a metal band that were all adults and established. He took a huge gamble but never looked back and it totally paid off.

Jason Richardson is such an amazing guitarist.

Wow, whoever suggested this, thank you ! Thanks for the amazing discovery, this kind of stuff I love very much. Would love to maje you discover something I like, hence my suggestion : "Project 100" or "Heavyweight" by Infected Mushroom. Wish you all reading this an amazing week end !

Think dream theatre was one of his big inspirations and I hear it in his playing. Jason's extremely talented player and composer. There's so many intricacies in his playing

YEAH!!!! These two fit perfectly. Jason Richardson's album "I" is very interesting.

i see so many people giving you songs by these two to check out...i'm just gonna go ahead and say it...you quite literally cannot go wrong with ANYTHING they've done. these two are just ludicrous. their cover of a Lamb of God song they just did is insane.

Do a series on all their videos! Also the most insane example of Jason's playing recorded on video is XIV/Behold. Look that up.

Great video

Yewww first! Love you man!

Love it! Luke holland sure has come a long way. Id love to see Hearts Alive by Mastodon! its a nice long trip and i think a great second Mastodon song for you to react to from their early heavier days!!! Honestly any song from their first three albums would give you a great feel on how far they've come!

Aloha, still here! Wow, more super crazy music, that beyond purple level! New bands and songs to blow the mind, prog metal. Soen: Opal (Swedish prog metal), Borknager: Winter Thrice (Norwegian prog metal), DImmu Borgir: Progenies Of The Great Apocalypse (Norwegian symphonic black metal), Eluveitie: Omnos (Swiss folk) RECYCLE< RECYCLE< RECYCLE: Katatonia: Heart Set To Divide, Draconian: Sleepwalkers, Opeth: Burden, Mastodon: Jaguar God, Type O Negative: Loved You To Death...

see now this is a fantastic reaction and analysis. those morons who sit there, nod and rep the benefits of someone else's work are a joke. Essentially stealing someone's work and posting it. . . this guy analyses it and adds his professional opinion and its great, very informative

Jason Richardson is doing a lot of this work, he's the guitarists. Luke is on the drums. Check out the song he just released with Tim Henson!

If you watch the documentary on this album, 'I', Jason composed all of it with the help of Taylor Larson, a Grammy nominated audio engineer/producer. Theyre both absolute Gs. Jason is probably the best guitarist of this era.

I feel like you listened to about a quarter of my iTunes. Here some progressive gems to check out. Native Construct - Come Hell or High Water Zero Hour - Stratagem David Maxim Micic - Smile

The Arena is also very nice

ELDER dead roots stirring for purple third eye prog Potions by PUSCIFER on the recycle ♻️ Awwlright Sick track. Next level drumming ROCK CANDY FUNK PARTY Aloha. Thank you geebz

2:35 man's about to go holy shiiittt!!!

try stömb! very underrated ambient progressive djent

Aloha Braddah, I'm sure Jason Richardson is playing an 8 string to be able to do the bass as well as the higher octaves. his pick techniques allow him to be so versatile. AJ from Aiea 😆

I've followed pretty much all of Jason's career as well as taking lessons from him in the past. He composes and writes everything himself. When it comes to drums he writes a skeleton and then Luke revises them.

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else suggest any Deafheaven so I’ll throw them into the ring. Dream House or Honeycomb would be really fun to see you react to from a composition point of view since those songs really show the shoegaze/black metal dynamic and juxtaposition really well. Keep being awesome, Geebz 🤙🏻

3 months out! Kamelot - Memento Mori Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest

Jason Richardson is a guitar phenom, and Luke Holland is a drum phenom. They've both done solo work and have been or are currently in bands, but Jason Richardson went out to make a solo record, and he brought in his friend, Luke, to write and track the drums to his compositions. I believe Jason may have given him midi skeletons, but I believe Luke wrote the final part.

Incredible musicianship! It is mindblowing! Keep up the great reactions dude! And when you have time: Dir En Grey - Vinushka ;)

You should check out andromida!!! The guy is blind and plays all instruments using overlays!!!! Amazing

You gotta do Hermann Szobel. 1976 jazz fusion album. Nephew of Bill Graham. Found it on a Rolling Stones magazine list.

Jeff Loomis- album Zero Order Phase, Miles of Machine. His songs seem so simple, lots of space, and is very detailed.

The bass is played by Danny Hauser of veil of maya

I’m glad you finally reacted to them but you gotta check out their song, Hos Down! It has some surprises I know you’d dig!

I'd love to see some branching into different languages as well, like the Soch video you did. There's so much amazing music around the world that we're missing out on! My vote is for Khwaab by Thaikkudam Bridge. Won't nerd out too much right now, all I can tell you is that they've made songs with Guthrie Govan, Marco Minneman and Chris Adler, to name a few. They blend Carnatic (folk) music with western rock. Let's share more music from around the world please!

Yes…Jason plays the bass as well. Jason does it all…with Luke doing the drums…

Jason has a video where he describes how he came up with the main riff- its like charting a synths arpeggio on guitar, crazy

Hey man love the videos. Saw you did Mainstream A7X. Can you please do Exist or Save Me by A7X?

Please do "Hos down" as well, its an absolute masterpiece of a song!

ive been waiting for this!! so awesome. you should check out protest the hero again, i would suggest clarity or c'est la vie. also another canadian band alexisonfire if you've never heard of them, familiar drugs is a great song but really they have soooooo many its hard to go wrong.

You should do a live stream sometime Geebz, get you some of them supa chats.

Absolutely love this song and your reactions/analysis/decomposing! A little bit off genre, but if you get time please check out “The Horse” by A Wilhelm Scream. They’re a great punk band based out of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

I'd love to see wheel by wheel. Or dissipated :)

jason is a god. I was sitting in anticipation for your oh shit face.