FUCK I just came here to listen to this again and as soon as I read your comment I just started crying out of nowhere. I wasn't even in a somber mood but this just hit real hard rn.
When I woke up in the hospital after a near death brain injury, I mouthed the sound of the intro riff from this song. RIP justin, you’re a legend. You’re music was so powerful, it might have kept my brain alive.
Hell yeah bro 🤘🏻I couldn’t help but laugh you sounding the riff out tho lmao docs were probably like fuck he’s brain dead 😂glad you’re still with us ✊🏻
It's 2022 and I still think that this track is one of the best to come out of 2010s djent/progressive core scene. Such a killer riff, song structure, and lyrics. In Dreams is one of the few records from that time that I still put on often, 10 years later. Might be a little biased as a Minnesotan though!
When I was a younger guitarist still stuck in open eight metalcore my senior and stronger guitarist showed me this song to break my aild obsession. This along with periphery 1 were monumental in changing my outlook on the fretboard now in my 30s I have a distinct nostalgia. I know in commenting in a graveyard which only adds to the feeling. I wish we could go back bros didn't know how good things really were
This band should be so recognized because they are really amazing live .. they were actually one of the best concerts I've seen live ever . And I've been to alot .the energy was amazing...
i went into my first pit to them, although i don't remember what song it was. I didn't know them that well at the time. It was a LONG time ago though, so it was something from the early days
As a drummer myself it's a trip watching him live since he's one of the few drummers I know that keeps time with his left hand and has his toms reversed compared to right handed people.
Thats what i love about progressive bands like this and volumes. The rythem guitar, bass and drums are chugging along with the beat when another guitar comes in and takes the whole thing to a new level of awsomeness
This is probably the only song I've ever listened to and gotten absolutely Nothing but a turn around in my thought process looking at my life. this song helps me step back up to the plate and focus. thank u guys
i used to not like metalcore/deathcore/djent so much until i heard this song. justin's one lead during the chorus just stuck in my head, now it haunts me
"Brick by brick, stone on top of stone, I create from these towers built of nothingness; I will fall, and like these worthless feelings, there is an emptiness we long to feel inside."
man, we never get good bands where I live in alaska. any time a big band comes up they either cancel, or are playing in massive arenas that take away from the experience... but we had the once in a life time opportunity to see ATB live in my home state, and in a tight venue at a bar. I had to drive 200 miles to get to anchorage, and since I work graveyards on the weekends I had to call in late, but it was so fucking worth it. they brought down the damn building, this was the song at about the 2:55 mark where in the middle of the chaos, I paused, sort of glanced around and teared up for a moment. I had an epiphany, I've just never seen a crowd, and a band with so much energy, not one solid body in the building, everyone synchronized to the breakdown. that moment, it was so fuckin majestic I couldnt hold myself back emotionally. Idk what it was. the comradery, the song, the fact that I was there watching the band that helped form my musical tastes coming up.. probably all of it! it was enough to drive me to cry like a fuckin baby. I did my first stage dive, surfed the crowd screaming the lyrics to lost in the static, i got a black eye from the an elbow of longest haired ginger kid with a slipknot shirt I've ever seen, I watched my girlfriend get hit on by thirsty bros, I battled and tore people for the front of the stage, they did the same. I knocked people down in the pit, I pulled people up, I got trampled, they pulled me up. my whole body was in pain for weeks and the drive back down to my hometown is well known for taking lives in night, and I was 3 hours late to work, with that said, everything I experienced there that night, the joy, the stress, the anger all come together in a memory I will cherish forever. I shook hands with trent, got a picture with him as they were packing up, told him he was my hero, and he said 'we'll be back next time'. I hope its true man, that night was worth dying for, if i had a chance to relive it.. i wouldnt trade it for all the hookers and black jack in vegas.
being in the navy is very stressful, sometimes to the point that i want to curbstomp some of the people i have to be around everyday. luckily there's talented musicians out there that bust their asses everyday to write good music like this that keeps my stress at bay and helps me not to do that. thank you after the burial, you kept my shoes clean another day
Saw these guys 2018 and Justin Lowe will always be missed. But these guys still sound amazing live and the band hungout w/ the crowd and were so nice and they stole the show, he would be so happy... Rest in Peace.
Grumlyloursfoufou I know, just wanted to say that means something different. But it's absolutely not important this time. It's so sad, I'm still shocked.. Rest in peace Justin.
Shane Marez Playing Djent does not automatically mean that they sound anything like Meshuggah. Animals as Leaders, Volumes, Veil of Maya, and Periphery are all also considered Djent bands and none of them sound similar to one another and certainly not similar to Meshuggah. They have some similarities that allow them to be grouped into the genre of Djent, sure, but their styles are still very different and varied.
I'm a musician. Again that's similar, but not exactly in the same style as Meshugah. Also, pointing to one specific section of the song doesn't make the entirety of it in the same style
This song always kinda reminded me to 5 Minutes Alone by Pantera not sure why, also the camera angles on the guitar are kinda simliar to the video. AMAZING song by the way!
Lyrics When I return I dream of another life Failure transparent in the palm of my hand I am the contortionist We are the contortionist I can feel this distance is further and farther without you Contorting to fit somewhere where I do not belong Brick by brick (brick by brick) Stone on top of stone I create (from these towers) From these towers Built of nothingness I will fall And like these wordless feelings There is an emptiness we long to feel inside Father when will you come home? I have been dying inside Mother where have you gone? Oh so how hard I've been trying When I return I dream of another life Failure transparent in the palm of my hand I am the contortionist We are the contortionist Hours upon hours I am fucking sleepless We are the wretched, no sleep for the wicked And at night we come undone We are anything We are the contortionist This is not who I ever was This is not who I ever was (x2) We are the wordless feelings We are the great divide We are the emptiness We long to feel inside
Anyone here in Dec 2024 hoping for a remaster/re-release that's mixed with ATB fans who wish the low end of In Dreams was more suited to high powered car audio systems? Like, there's nothing "wrong" with this track or encased in ice, or ANY of these songs. I fucking ADORE this whole album as-is... But sometimes I wish the low frequencies were cleaner so that I could crank my car subwoofers to the melting point, and pillage the ears of everyone around me with the volume that ATB deserves to be played at ♥️♥️♥️ Also rest in power Justin. Dig Deep brother 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
It's a mercy that they don't make us sit through Trivum to get to any of the other bands. I agree that dead-first is the best spot for them. They don't even suck.
RIP Justin you were an amazing musician and I can't begin to comprehend the darkness that prompted you to commit suicide :( well, I hope you are doing better on the other side of you believed in one
Sean Jones his car was 10km away from his body. your telling me he walked 10km to jump? also it isn't OFFICIAL that he killed himself. Way to go jumping to conclusions before its official. You know as much as bill clemmins. You dont know if he was or wasent murdered dude
It took me like 10 years to find this song again. Although MUCH has changed like being a single dad to my 9 year old son I still like this song. The video however still doesn't make any fucking sense to me though lol.
Justin... I hope your troubles have ceased and happiness is smiling upon you. Shred in peace, brother.
My thoughts exactly
FUCK I just came here to listen to this again and as soon as I read your comment I just started crying out of nowhere. I wasn't even in a somber mood but this just hit real hard rn.
@@Netsuj151 reading the lyrics of Neo Seoul does that me too. Same with the intro riff
Kudo to you, look at you.... Respecting the Dead.. xD
@@Netsuj151it happens to the best of us brother
When I woke up in the hospital after a near death brain injury, I mouthed the sound of the intro riff from this song. RIP justin, you’re a legend. You’re music was so powerful, it might have kept my brain alive.
Whoa!
yeah whoa too !
Hell yeah bro 🤘🏻I couldn’t help but laugh you sounding the riff out tho lmao docs were probably like fuck he’s brain dead 😂glad you’re still with us ✊🏻
Grateful you were able to thrash through that situation
Hes looking over you
"contorting to fit somewhere I do not belong" damn that hit close to the heart
Just got a fortune cookie that said, "Your troubles will cease, and good fortune will smile upon you."
Had to come back to this gem!
Hope that came true for ya 🤙🏽
It's 2022 and I still think that this track is one of the best to come out of 2010s djent/progressive core scene. Such a killer riff, song structure, and lyrics. In Dreams is one of the few records from that time that I still put on often, 10 years later. Might be a little biased as a Minnesotan though!
Nah, I agree. This track and album are staples of the genre. The main riff in particular.... What a fuckin jam
When I was a younger guitarist still stuck in open eight metalcore my senior and stronger guitarist showed me this song to break my aild obsession. This along with periphery 1 were monumental in changing my outlook on the fretboard now in my 30s I have a distinct nostalgia. I know in commenting in a graveyard which only adds to the feeling. I wish we could go back bros didn't know how good things really were
this album got slept on back in the day by me and my friends and idk why, i went back to it years later
It's damn near impossible to sit still while listening to this song. That riff in the beginning forces you to bob your head.
This band should be so recognized because they are really amazing live .. they were actually one of the best concerts I've seen live ever . And I've been to alot .the energy was amazing...
i write very gut wrenching music and this band is one of those few that gets to me like Saetia and the Number Twelve they just hit different
i went into my first pit to them, although i don't remember what song it was. I didn't know them that well at the time. It was a LONG time ago though, so it was something from the early days
This band seriously needs a bigger fan base.
Taime Lamb for real! they gained another fan in me a couple months ago! \m/
Today they're a very massive band
no pls leave it small like Katatonia's
This drummer is absolutely inhuman.
+Alex Menendez He's..... Superior (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Ya no
As a drummer myself it's a trip watching him live since he's one of the few drummers I know that keeps time with his left hand and has his toms reversed compared to right handed people.
@@jgardner925 he’s a lefty silly
@@datmane5921 LOL
RIP Justin Lowe.
Here missing him on the date of "death'
Wished Justin Lowe's troubles were ceased.
RIP dude. =/
I mean I guess they are now, but without him dying would've been better
Small "Woo!" very quietly in the right speaker between 0:11-0:12 seconds
I hear a ever so soft "woo" at the offbeat of 0:11
***** Fingers sliding up/down the strings in between notes.
SwAgLoRd420 YOLO Nah, definitely a "woo."
The starting riff was meant to be stuck in my head
"We ARE the emptiness we long to feel inside" damn that gives me chills
Thats what i love about progressive bands like this and volumes. The rythem guitar, bass and drums are chugging along with the beat when another guitar comes in and takes the whole thing to a new level of awsomeness
RIP Justin, your riffs will never be forgotten
This music speaks to me in ways that only the others that get it will understand
Tough
This is probably the only song I've ever listened to and gotten absolutely Nothing but a turn around in my thought process looking at my life. this song helps me step back up to the plate and focus. thank u guys
i used to not like metalcore/deathcore/djent so much until i heard this song. justin's one lead during the chorus just stuck in my head, now it haunts me
So much emotion in that simple lead 😥 R.I.P Justin
So good live! Heard this live with Trivium and Devildriver, one hell of a show!
Sounds like a good fuckin show man
This band deserves to be huge
"Brick by brick, stone on top of stone, I create from these towers built of nothingness; I will fall, and like these worthless feelings, there is an emptiness we long to feel inside."
i could listen to this song forever. it would never get old
This song is LEGENDARY!
man, we never get good bands where I live in alaska. any time a big band comes up they either cancel, or are playing in massive arenas that
take away from the experience...
but we had the once in a life time opportunity to see ATB live in my home state, and in a tight venue at a bar.
I had to drive 200 miles to get to anchorage, and since I work graveyards on the weekends I had to call in late, but it was so fucking worth it. they brought down the damn building, this was the song at about the 2:55 mark where in the middle of the chaos, I paused, sort of glanced around and teared up for a moment. I had an epiphany, I've just never seen a crowd, and a band with so much energy, not one solid body in the building, everyone synchronized to the breakdown. that moment, it was so fuckin majestic I couldnt hold myself back emotionally. Idk what it was. the comradery, the song, the fact that I was there watching the band that helped form my musical tastes coming up.. probably all of it! it was enough to drive me to cry like a fuckin baby.
I did my first stage dive, surfed the crowd screaming the lyrics to lost in the static, i got a black eye from the an elbow of longest haired ginger kid with a slipknot shirt I've ever seen, I watched my girlfriend get hit on by thirsty bros, I battled and tore people for the front of the stage, they did the same. I knocked people down in the pit, I pulled people up, I got trampled, they pulled me up. my whole body was in pain for weeks and the drive back down to my hometown is well known for taking lives in night, and I was 3 hours late to work, with that said, everything I experienced there that night, the joy, the stress, the anger all come together in a memory I will cherish forever.
I shook hands with trent, got a picture with him as they were packing up, told him he was my hero, and he said 'we'll be back next time'.
I hope its true man, that night was worth dying for, if i had a chance to relive it.. i wouldnt trade it for all the hookers and black jack in vegas.
minusmodest Thats awesome. I like reading and hearing stories.
being in the navy is very stressful, sometimes to the point that i want to curbstomp some of the people i have to be around everyday. luckily there's talented musicians out there that bust their asses everyday to write good music like this that keeps my stress at bay and helps me not to do that. thank you after the burial, you kept my shoes clean another day
You got that right. Listen to this shit when they call sweepers. Semper Fortis
This is where my agression goes to bub.
Saw these guys 2018 and Justin Lowe will always be missed. But these guys still sound amazing live and the band hungout w/ the crowd and were so nice and they stole the show, he would be so happy... Rest in Peace.
Love the energy and feeling I get from this song. These guys make great music.
this song started my love for this band
This song just picked me up from a very dark place, made me cry but somehow I feel refreshed
Been there, I'm glad you're okay man
Thank u brother
>"I AM THE CONTORTIONIIIIIIIIST"
Nah
You're After the Burial
XD
Very good, Waluigi
+Zyborggian NO THIS IS PATRICK!!!!
Zyborggian Literally everytime I listen to this song I think that 😂😂
Bruh 🤣
Justin, rest in piece brother
Sam Hardy you mean "peace"
Breszko he definitely means "peace"
Grumlyloursfoufou I know, just wanted to say that means something different. But it's absolutely not important this time. It's so sad, I'm still shocked.. Rest in peace Justin.
Fuck, how did I miss that? Damn, well yeah I meant in peace. Still man, condolences to ATB and his family.
"Your troubles will cease and fortune will smile upon you"... I got this on a fortune cookie once. 😉
Remember when I first heard this one! Was so stoked the title was about a movie I loved. Check out Stay (2005)
so.. this is why after the burial is one of my favorites bands evah.
I like these old tones over the new recordings. The new ones may be clean but this has the grit that you want to hear from this style.
2021! RIP justin
Your guitar riffs will always give me goosebumps.Ill never forget your static at Orchard inn 😁
His highs are amazing!!!
This is such a dope song very Meshuggah like :)
I disagree, with the meshuggah likeness, not that it is dope. It is tres dope.
Cire Pohsibly how can you honestly say that? atb is considered to play "djent"
a style INVENTED by meshuggah learn your metal
Shane Marez Playing Djent does not automatically mean that they sound anything like Meshuggah. Animals as Leaders, Volumes, Veil of Maya, and Periphery are all also considered Djent bands and none of them sound similar to one another and certainly not similar to Meshuggah. They have some similarities that allow them to be grouped into the genre of Djent, sure, but their styles are still very different and varied.
listen to the bass guitar specifically then honestly says that again
I'm a musician. Again that's similar, but not exactly in the same style as Meshugah. Also, pointing to one specific section of the song doesn't make the entirety of it in the same style
They have the sickest 8 strings I have ever seen.
just saw these guys live couple of days ago.. one of the most amazing shows in my life!
That really just blew my mind away!!!!!!
RIP J.Lowe
That was a bad ass white boy on the guitar.
ATB was the band that got me into metal. Forever loyal to this band.
cant wait for all stars tour! These guys are gonna kill it!
These guys were amazing live, saw them at the Marquee in Tempe, AZ. Both guitarist using 8 strings and talented!
That intro was bloody brilliant
Saw these guys last night with VoM - little upset they were not headlining but overall, amazing show and first time seeing them live.
Ugh, this man's lyrics.
5 years later. Still bangs
12 years later. Still bangs
they are both amazing
rip Anthony Barry, ill love and cherish u forever
All the memories, feelings come back instantly ▶️. Shit is timeless
I think this everytime I listen to this song.
geez um craw, this song is so good
0:11 Me screaming on your right ear: woo
THE BASS
One of the best vocalists in the game. So much vocal range and control. fuckkkkkkkkkkkkk
Just Great Song!!!
found this band more or less by accident. love the album...
love it love it love it
amazing song. amazing band
This song always kinda reminded me to 5 Minutes Alone by Pantera not sure why, also the camera angles on the guitar are kinda simliar to the video. AMAZING song by the way!
best song ever
this song is so good live
Lyrics
When I return
I dream of another life
Failure transparent in the palm of my hand
I am the contortionist
We are the contortionist
I can feel this distance is further and farther without you
Contorting to fit somewhere where I do not belong
Brick by brick (brick by brick)
Stone on top of stone
I create (from these towers)
From these towers
Built of nothingness
I will fall
And like these wordless feelings
There is an emptiness we long to feel inside
Father when will you come home?
I have been dying inside
Mother where have you gone?
Oh so how hard I've been trying
When I return
I dream of another life
Failure transparent in the palm of my hand
I am the contortionist
We are the contortionist
Hours upon hours
I am fucking sleepless
We are the wretched, no sleep for the wicked
And at night we come undone
We are anything
We are the contortionist
This is not who I ever was
This is not who I ever was
(x2)
We are the wordless feelings
We are the great divide
We are the emptiness
We long to feel inside
best band ever ! thanx u guys =))) u taught me a lot
Grooviest song of all time
This song is so sick live.
Stay was such a great film...
When the words come in, i get a weight in my hut that just wants to scream as loud as i can along to it. This shit hits hard as hell in the feels
Anyone here in Dec 2024 hoping for a remaster/re-release that's mixed with ATB fans who wish the low end of In Dreams was more suited to high powered car audio systems? Like, there's nothing "wrong" with this track or encased in ice, or ANY of these songs. I fucking ADORE this whole album as-is... But sometimes I wish the low frequencies were cleaner so that I could crank my car subwoofers to the melting point, and pillage the ears of everyone around me with the volume that ATB deserves to be played at ♥️♥️♥️
Also rest in power Justin. Dig Deep brother 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
Love it when normal looking dudes make some brutal metal. You guys and Shai Hulud are at the top of my play list right now.
just saw these guys live last week, it was fuckin’ awesome.
just the best band
Great!!
It's a mercy that they don't make us sit through Trivum to get to any of the other bands. I agree that dead-first is the best spot for them. They don't even suck.
I feel like I'm listening to Meshuggah. Awesome!
After the Burial is THE SHIT, love the grooves guys, keep it up
amazing song great band
RIP Justin you were an amazing musician and I can't begin to comprehend the darkness that prompted you to commit suicide :( well, I hope you are doing better on the other side of you believed in one
Warrior Tha Witt justin was murdered dude.
Bill Clemmins The guy had some mental issues that no one did anything about.. it wasn't murder.
Sean Jones his car was 10km away from his body.
your telling me he walked 10km to jump?
also it isn't OFFICIAL that he killed himself. Way to go jumping to conclusions before its official.
You know as much as bill clemmins. You dont know if he was or wasent murdered dude
+Slime Bucket honestly dude, sadly, if I was in that state of mind I could totally see myself going for a VERY long walk before jumping
+Slime Bucket honestly a long walk is exactly what I'd do if I was going to do that.
This is fucking gorgeous.
best heavy band out of Minnesota
Saw these guys live with Born Of Osiris, Monuments and Haarp machine... What a br00tal gig!
@teamSKDM i bet! i cant wait to hear them play stuff off of The Discovery!
DANG!
Holy shit, this just smashed my ears! AWESOME!
I love this ⚔️🖤⚔️ and I love you sumerianrecords ,🖤
does anyone else think that he is giving the band the contortionist a shoutout?
Na. "Contorting to fit somewhere I don't belong."
love that fucking alien sounding dissonant melody
thats amazing :D great music
Sweet, I only listened to their album Rareform, but this is pretty good
2:48
It took me like 10 years to find this song again. Although MUCH has changed like being a single dad to my 9 year old son I still like this song. The video however still doesn't make any fucking sense to me though lol.
even twelve years later we are still the contortionists
love it
RIP Justin
My body is gonna be sore AF tomorrow mornin because of this song .-.
Listening @ 2021
well martyr AD and disembodied were so sick back in the day . sure these guys jammed to that