God, Earthmover is such a whirlwind of emotions, but the lyrics towards the end are a total gut punch. ‘An army of the golems is stalking, now, the heart's lands Eating all reality Producing only dust and sand Nothing hurts them Nothing gets under their stone skin And when their earthen mouths will open up Just what words should come out? But "We wish we were dead"
When i listen to earthmover i always picture it like the heat death of the universe. Like all of existence is crashing into itself, creating a blackhole that nothing can escape from.
I try not to listen to music like this too often anymore, its not necessarily healthy lol. If I ever see a friend playing Deathconsciousness on spotify I always check up on them. This really is one of the most depressing albums I've ever heard, but its an incredible album even if only enjoyable in moderation for me
Since everyone has already suggested Giles Corey, I suggest either more of HANL or below the house by planning for burial. Literally one of the most ominous records I've ever heard
Man I fucking cried again with earthmover, these days I just needed to let it out, and oh man it broke me again, your reaction to this, is one of my fav, keep going man, this was really good
Your reaction to disc 2 was pretty appropriate. It's a masterpiece, but definitely sounds larger than life. Not an album I can put on very often, but when I do it always blows me away
"I don't love" is where I realized that yeah, this album is gonna make me sad, and then suddenly there was explosion of sadness as the song really kicked in😂
The chords at the end of HFS is definitely one of the most satisfying moments in all of music. It’s such a great cool off from all the tension building up until it
I have noticed in the comments people recommending Giles Corey, great solo work. Dan Barrett has an incredible solo discography between Giles Corey and Black Wing, but Tim Macuga also has made solo work, but has never gotten the same wide appraise as compared to Giles Corey/Black Wing which is Flowers of St. Francis Vol 1. to Volume 5 currently. It's a completely different experience compared to Have a Nice Life and Giles Corey if you're into these weird noisy electronic soundscapes. There's also earlier demos and b-sides for Have a Nice Life, predominantly Voids and Voids II carrying a lot of their earlier works and earlier versions of songs found on Deathconsciousness that sometimes I like more than what made the album. Dan and Tim also came to make a small project called Gate with an EP named Now, While They Aren't Looking, Tear It Apart, a very noisy post-punk, hardcore album which has elements from Deathconsciousness but taking that sound to a completely different direction. However the project I found most beloved by my is not actually either Dan or Tim's, but Dan's brother. During the time while Deathconsciousness was being worked out, Dan's brother wanted to express the lost of his dad through music as well, but he had no musical background and it makes for some of the most haunting outsider music I've ever listened to and I recommend everyone to at least look into Afterlives - A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop, and at least listen to All Teeth. It is not HANL, it's not Giles Corey, it is it's own thing, but strongly related and could only wish one day it would be on Spotify. I know this comment it becoming long, but I think as many people have recommended some of the more popular projects similar to Deathconsciousness that we also celebrate the more obscure or forgotten parts of their music.
Have you ever listened to Sigur Ros? Their music can have a similarly expansive/emotional sound as this album - but while being significantly more light and beautiful rather than dark and gloomy. You would probably love Agaetis Byrjun or ( )!
Like others have said, you've got to listen to his self titled album Giles Corey. It's even more depressing than this in my opinion, but every track sucked me in with it's unique style of field recordings, ghost recordings and of course the reverb. I highly recommend it. Amazing reaction as well, it was like listening to the album for the first time seeing how you experienced it!
This entire album was specifically made to make you react and feel how you did to the album. It was made by people in their lowest points in life. I believe at one of their concerts a singer collapsed on stage when earthmover went crazy. I love this album and it really really expresses the inhumane levels of depression and sadness Edit: collapsed, not passed out
you NEED to listen to voids!! imagine if earthmover had the impact of every single song. it’s a 2023 remaster of all of their demos. recently discovered your channel and loved your reactions particularly this one and thought why not recommend more suffering
Giles Corey as has been recommended is amazing, but another of his projects is also really worth checking out. It's called Black Wing and I specifically recommend the album No Moon if you decide to check it out. It's probably one of my favorite of his projects, although I really love all of them. I'd say it goes more into the atmospheric/ambient side and is less post-punk-sounding.
My first experience was insane. I told my sister I had heard about this album, and she told me her friend recommended her the one song (being Earthmover). It was like 2:00 AM with some friends while staying a week at a friends house. The next day, I woke up at 4:00 AM before everyone else, so I went downstairs and listened to the entire thing completely in the dark in a house I’ve never been in with everyone else asleep. Especially considering where I was in life at the time, was a wild listen.
No kidding. Wasn't my first time, but listened to Bloodhail and Earthmover once while just looking up at the stars out on my patio one night out in rural/suburban Chicagoland area. I now connect albums like this with that time in my life, and I absolutely long for the days of living in relative happiness and comfort with my friends and everyone I knew there at the time. I'm now 28 and living in what we'll just call a much more packed-in and busy place, not the city, but close... and I fucking hate it. I don't expect everything to go back to the way it was before 2019 when I lived there, when I used to have a spiritual experience listening to albums like this completely sober, to have that friend group back... that time has passed, and you shouldn't cling to it, or you'll lose yourself completely... but I do hope I can, one night in the future, go outside and look up at an unpolluted sky again, stare at the stars and feel the vast weight of the cosmos hanging over me, listen to this or something like it, and feel those feelings again. Numbness from giving up on any notion of having a life beyond mediocrity and despair has damaged me deeply, and I just know I have to get the hell out of here and reconnect with myself, or it'll kill me, for real. Sorry for trauma dumping a little there lol, but this album gets me going, thinking about those things: our tiny, insignificant blip of an existence on this planet, how we choose to spend it, and how the beauty and color of the world fades into the background as you age. It's only albums such as Deathconsciousness that can pull me out of that numb haze, and remind me of what I want to ultimately live for one day.
On any other album Deep, Deep would be my favorite track. It's not for this album only because Bloodhail and Earthmover are on it. It's definitely underrated in this banger of a tracklist.
I agree tbh. Deep, Deep is kind of like the climax of this album imo and it’s one of the few truly emotionally charged songs. Not just pure nihilism on that song. Not that pure nihilism doesnt work on the album but when the emotional climax does come, it sets Deep, Deep apart from the other songs.
If you want less depressive and less heavy album from them you should listen to unnutural world, it's more catchy imo, but deathconciousness is classic
Just came across your channel and and loving your reaction. Don't know if you know it but have you heard "I Have a Special Plan for This World" by Current 93? I think it will be right up your street.
you never forget the first time you hear Earthmover
Earthmover is legit one of the best songs of all time lmao
not even the best by hanl, trespassers w (demo version on youtube) is better i would say
@@ГлбКотенко the original voids version of trespassers w is insane and I will forever be sad that they changed it for sea of worry
why are you making this statement like you're joking lmfao.
Earthmover has enough emotional weight to create a supernova
has enough emotional weight to move te earth
God, Earthmover is such a whirlwind of emotions, but the lyrics towards the end are a total gut punch.
‘An army of the golems is stalking, now, the heart's lands
Eating all reality
Producing only dust and sand
Nothing hurts them
Nothing gets under their stone skin
And when their earthen mouths will open up
Just what words should come out? But
"We wish we were dead"
Such real and powerful emotions
When i listen to earthmover i always picture it like the heat death of the universe. Like all of existence is crashing into itself, creating a blackhole that nothing can escape from.
When the beat drops by the end all I can imagine is a child screaming in pain or mental agony..
I try not to listen to music like this too often anymore, its not necessarily healthy lol. If I ever see a friend playing Deathconsciousness on spotify I always check up on them. This really is one of the most depressing albums I've ever heard, but its an incredible album even if only enjoyable in moderation for me
That low end on There Is No Food is monumental. Always hits so hard and is completely overwhelming. Great review of a great album!
Since everyone has already suggested Giles Corey, I suggest either more of HANL or below the house by planning for burial. Literally one of the most ominous records I've ever heard
Deathconsciousness is a 10/10 record.
Dude lighthouse was the perfect reference for this album
Man I fucking cried again with earthmover, these days I just needed to let it out, and oh man it broke me again, your reaction to this, is one of my fav, keep going man, this was really good
Your reaction to disc 2 was pretty appropriate. It's a masterpiece, but definitely sounds larger than life. Not an album I can put on very often, but when I do it always blows me away
"I don't love" is where I realized that yeah, this album is gonna make me sad, and then suddenly there was explosion of sadness as the song really kicked in😂
The chords at the end of HFS is definitely one of the most satisfying moments in all of music. It’s such a great cool off from all the tension building up until it
I have noticed in the comments people recommending Giles Corey, great solo work. Dan Barrett has an incredible solo discography between Giles Corey and Black Wing, but Tim Macuga also has made solo work, but has never gotten the same wide appraise as compared to Giles Corey/Black Wing which is Flowers of St. Francis Vol 1. to Volume 5 currently. It's a completely different experience compared to Have a Nice Life and Giles Corey if you're into these weird noisy electronic soundscapes. There's also earlier demos and b-sides for Have a Nice Life, predominantly Voids and Voids II carrying a lot of their earlier works and earlier versions of songs found on Deathconsciousness that sometimes I like more than what made the album.
Dan and Tim also came to make a small project called Gate with an EP named Now, While They Aren't Looking, Tear It Apart, a very noisy post-punk, hardcore album which has elements from Deathconsciousness but taking that sound to a completely different direction. However the project I found most beloved by my is not actually either Dan or Tim's, but Dan's brother. During the time while Deathconsciousness was being worked out, Dan's brother wanted to express the lost of his dad through music as well, but he had no musical background and it makes for some of the most haunting outsider music I've ever listened to and I recommend everyone to at least look into Afterlives - A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop, and at least listen to All Teeth. It is not HANL, it's not Giles Corey, it is it's own thing, but strongly related and could only wish one day it would be on Spotify.
I know this comment it becoming long, but I think as many people have recommended some of the more popular projects similar to Deathconsciousness that we also celebrate the more obscure or forgotten parts of their music.
i wanna give u a hug so bad bro ily
🙏❤️
Have you ever listened to Sigur Ros? Their music can have a similarly expansive/emotional sound as this album - but while being significantly more light and beautiful rather than dark and gloomy. You would probably love Agaetis Byrjun or ( )!
Takk is beautiful as well!
Like others have said, you've got to listen to his self titled album Giles Corey. It's even more depressing than this in my opinion, but every track sucked me in with it's unique style of field recordings, ghost recordings and of course the reverb. I highly recommend it. Amazing reaction as well, it was like listening to the album for the first time seeing how you experienced it!
This entire album was specifically made to make you react and feel how you did to the album. It was made by people in their lowest points in life. I believe at one of their concerts a singer collapsed on stage when earthmover went crazy. I love this album and it really really expresses the inhumane levels of depression and sadness
Edit: collapsed, not passed out
This album destroyed me, while earthmover I could just stare at the ceiling trying to comprehend what have I just listened, a completely masterpiece
you NEED to listen to voids!! imagine if earthmover had the impact of every single song. it’s a 2023 remaster of all of their demos. recently discovered your channel and loved your reactions particularly this one and thought why not recommend more suffering
Giles Corey as has been recommended is amazing, but another of his projects is also really worth checking out. It's called Black Wing and I specifically recommend the album No Moon if you decide to check it out. It's probably one of my favorite of his projects, although I really love all of them. I'd say it goes more into the atmospheric/ambient side and is less post-punk-sounding.
The fact that my fist time listening to this was at night was crazy
My first experience was insane. I told my sister I had heard about this album, and she told me her friend recommended her the one song (being Earthmover). It was like 2:00 AM with some friends while staying a week at a friends house. The next day, I woke up at 4:00 AM before everyone else, so I went downstairs and listened to the entire thing completely in the dark in a house I’ve never been in with everyone else asleep. Especially considering where I was in life at the time, was a wild listen.
No kidding. Wasn't my first time, but listened to Bloodhail and Earthmover once while just looking up at the stars out on my patio one night out in rural/suburban Chicagoland area. I now connect albums like this with that time in my life, and I absolutely long for the days of living in relative happiness and comfort with my friends and everyone I knew there at the time.
I'm now 28 and living in what we'll just call a much more packed-in and busy place, not the city, but close... and I fucking hate it. I don't expect everything to go back to the way it was before 2019 when I lived there, when I used to have a spiritual experience listening to albums like this completely sober, to have that friend group back... that time has passed, and you shouldn't cling to it, or you'll lose yourself completely...
but I do hope I can, one night in the future, go outside and look up at an unpolluted sky again, stare at the stars and feel the vast weight of the cosmos hanging over me, listen to this or something like it, and feel those feelings again. Numbness from giving up on any notion of having a life beyond mediocrity and despair has damaged me deeply, and I just know I have to get the hell out of here and reconnect with myself, or it'll kill me, for real.
Sorry for trauma dumping a little there lol, but this album gets me going, thinking about those things: our tiny, insignificant blip of an existence on this planet, how we choose to spend it, and how the beauty and color of the world fades into the background as you age.
It's only albums such as Deathconsciousness that can pull me out of that numb haze, and remind me of what I want to ultimately live for one day.
I'd recommend listening to voids, it's a collection of demos and such, and it made me appreciate this album so much more.
Bless TH-cam for bringing this across my recommended tab... I feel fed today : )
yess been waiting for this
i feel like deep deep is pretty underrated, instrumentally and lyrically this track deserves so much more recognition
On any other album Deep, Deep would be my favorite track. It's not for this album only because Bloodhail and Earthmover are on it. It's definitely underrated in this banger of a tracklist.
I agree tbh. Deep, Deep is kind of like the climax of this album imo and it’s one of the few truly emotionally charged songs. Not just pure nihilism on that song. Not that pure nihilism doesnt work on the album but when the emotional climax does come, it sets Deep, Deep apart from the other songs.
I Don’t Love makes me bawl like a child
watching your reaction gives me hope I won’t completely fall apart when I eventually listen to this album
If you want less depressive and less heavy album from them you should listen to unnutural world, it's more catchy imo, but deathconciousness is classic
I still don't understand why it's so good, it's just amazing can't describe it with words .
I have a feeling he quite liked this album
dang how did you know
@@DAVECHER just a hunch
You have to do Giles Corey in the future, made by Dan Barrett, who is half of this band
Earthmover is soooo good
5:48 from zero to forty thousand
Earthmover can crush the most sane guy
If you liked this album, I'd strongly recommend "Songs About Leaving" by Carissa's Wierd. It's powerful and very emotional all the way through.
Just came across your channel and and loving your reaction. Don't know if you know it but have you heard "I Have a Special Plan for This World" by Current 93? I think it will be right up your street.
I'd be curious to see you react to Ecailles de la lune
deep deep is the best song on the album
Plz react to Leaves Turn Inside You by Unwound next, I promise you'll not be disappointed
based
real
PINK FLOYD'S ANIMALS PLEASE!
the lyrics make me cri
Same
Same