Mirar are two guys, i highly recommend their interview on the Nik Nocturnal podcast, i loved every second of it. And Mirar are the best thing that ever happened to heavy music, i guess.
Yup, I actually mentioned that at the end of the video when I went through the credits! Also, checked out the podcast; they seem like proper down to earth blokes👏🏻
they're prolly just trolling us, there was never any announcements for the ep or any single ever they've been surprise dropping everything they drop, everything also usually takes a while until it gets to Spotify, typically not more than a week tho so expect it soon
Whenever I listen to mirar I can’t help but Think that it would be the perfect metal soundtrack for a armoured core game. It’s just so ridiculously industrial that it really suits it( you can decide if I mean the game or the music)
I love how danceable this whole album is with the consistency of the drum patterns despite being batshït crazy and heavy af. It's like edm for metal heads 🤯
@galebe135 I bring this up in my reaction a bit. Mirar shines when those crazy ass riffs (not breakdowns) are melodic. The ending track has a Baroque (or Renaissance I forget) style of chord progression, which is cool as fuck
Craziest thing is: they implicitly state in the bio of the video that no electronics were used. All guitars just pitch shifted and edited to fucking insanity
The artwork is "the fall of the damned" by peter paul rubens. Parkway drive used this painting as an album cover too. I also have it framed, hanging in my room lol it rules
Thank you for such an extensive review! This album has been taking over my brain the last several weeks and I am finally in the "what do others think" section of my fascination. Haha.
This is the first time that I've heard these guys and I gotta say, this is some incredible stuff. I do wish that the drums were higher in the mix, they get a little drowned out due to the percussiveness of the riffs which is a little disappointing. Other than that, though, this sounds fantastic. Very Mick Gordon, but also very 00s EDM sounding. Great stuff!
To answer the question in the title… depends on what you’re looking for in metal. This album is very much inspired by dubstep. I personally prefer metal to be grounded in playable riffs and real sounding drums, but this brings something fresh that i don’t really enjoy. I’m sure many people will find this enjoyable though.
The opening to the album could be the soundtrack for the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey when he's floating toward the monolith... the rest of it is inside the monolith.
It just clicked for me. The overlay with the guitar over the keys!!! The keys is what the guitar would sound like if all the effects, pitch shifts and semi-tones were removed from the guitar.
If they do have vocals, it should be like Our Common Collapse. Those low hellish vocals would be perfect. And there should be no singing lol but honestly I agree, this with vocals would be doing a disservice to the actual instrumentals themselves.
This is what I imagine metal sounds like to non metal people. This also reminds me of Binarys old request Noisekick - The Woods this is the metal equivalent but in a good way.
The thing you mentioned about vocals is definitely true.. for harsh vocals. I was thinking that softer vocals like the pianos and the harpsichord stuff might actually suite this band quite well.
Technically impressive, mixed and mastered impeccably…. But it all kinda blends together to me. I think Thall is better as an accent to other genre. It’s purest form is experimental and gets a bit much rapidity. Still, this is impressive
I completely agree with you. But I’d nearly actually argue that thall is actually the accent in this case. It feels like this is borderline rave/dance music with a thall flair at times🕺🏼
@@Ahab2710 Sounds like you have a predisposition to disliking this style of metal, and are being reductive since you don't understand why people prefer it over what you deem as proper metal. If you don't understand why people think its great, that's fine. But you dont have to treat it as generic because you dont actually take the time to understand music.
Happy New Year Folks🥂
What album(s) are you looking forward to the most in 2025?👀
Mirar are two guys, i highly recommend their interview on the Nik Nocturnal podcast, i loved every second of it.
And Mirar are the best thing that ever happened to heavy music, i guess.
Yes, but Vildhjarta was the group that "made/founded" Thall!🤘💀🖤
Pales to Vildhjarta, no knock on Mirar, just true. Masstaden Undervatten is king in metal.
Yup, I actually mentioned that at the end of the video when I went through the credits!
Also, checked out the podcast; they seem like proper down to earth blokes👏🏻
I genuinely didn't expect to see two chaps in the most fantastic knitted jumpers I've ever seen. Absolutely lovely 🥰
TOMBE AND FAUX-AMIS ON TOP 🤘🤘
I would love to have folks in the edm realm review this.
This is nuts. Happy new year!!
Yup, that’d be something I’d watch ✅
Many happy returns to you sir🥂
I would love Excision to do a collab with them.
Mirar should be scoring Doom: Dark Ages
This would fit that perfectly, great shout
I agree
I had never listened to Mirar before this album. My mind was absolutely blown.
nice Calvin pfp
The first time listening to this band is just an otherworldly experience.
@ ;)
24:02 is right before when THE Riff happens
they're prolly just trolling us, there was never any announcements for the ep or any single ever they've been surprise dropping everything they drop, everything also usually takes a while until it gets to Spotify, typically not more than a week tho so expect it soon
Whenever I listen to mirar I can’t help but Think that it would be the perfect metal soundtrack for a armoured core game.
It’s just so ridiculously industrial that it really suits it( you can decide if I mean the game or the music)
Now I’m gonna replay armored core 5 with this album going!
26:57 "You're not gonna make me cry."
Not 10 seconds later the voice cracked "Am I?" Lol that was great
5:08 I need to relisten to the album with this made up story in my head lol.
Puts this album into a whole new perspective
I love how danceable this whole album is with the consistency of the drum patterns despite being batshït crazy and heavy af. It's like edm for metal heads 🤯
holy, the only reaction where someone caught the callback to the ep despite everyone being like oh yeah, really repeated the ep a lot
28:44 is the start of one of the greatest riffs of our generation. That riff is gonna have a chokehold on the metal community.
you know ball brother
Prolly listened to this riff 100 times by now. its literally insane
29:31 this riff is the definition of helplessness imo
Chills everytime
Best section of the album for me. So beautiful and grand man, wild stuff
This is the section that got me so bad
i feel like this is a Marius riff for some reason, it’s more melodic than usual, like the end of Hestehov (which I think is his)
@galebe135 I bring this up in my reaction a bit. Mirar shines when those crazy ass riffs (not breakdowns) are melodic. The ending track has a Baroque (or Renaissance I forget) style of chord progression, which is cool as fuck
Lmfao had a mouth full of food right when you dropped the "ultimate forkliftcore" line and nearly covered my monitor in salmon and rice bahahaha
😂😂😂 close call brev
Every EDM sounds are actualy guitars! So yeah....Mirars albums is just outstanding amazing🤘💀🖤
Love how this album is insanely heavy without them ever using blast beats…
They use 1
mirar needs a nobel prize in music
Craziest thing is: they implicitly state in the bio of the video that no electronics were used. All guitars just pitch shifted and edited to fucking insanity
Very misleading comment. There were synths used. The dubstep noises however are guitars. That doesn’t mean there are no electronics though
The intro song gave me M83 vibes
Anthony fantano would say it sounds like imagine dragons
More soft than that
Anthony fantano would give it a 5
The artwork is "the fall of the damned" by peter paul rubens. Parkway drive used this painting as an album cover too. I also have it framed, hanging in my room lol it rules
I think its actually the best instrumental album i've heard since joy of motion. This album is monumental
Thank you for such an extensive review! This album has been taking over my brain the last several weeks and I am finally in the "what do others think" section of my fascination. Haha.
Great reaction. Really interesting music this. I find it very relaxing!
This is the first time that I've heard these guys and I gotta say, this is some incredible stuff. I do wish that the drums were higher in the mix, they get a little drowned out due to the percussiveness of the riffs which is a little disappointing. Other than that, though, this sounds fantastic.
Very Mick Gordon, but also very 00s EDM sounding. Great stuff!
To answer the question in the title… depends on what you’re looking for in metal. This album is very much inspired by dubstep. I personally prefer metal to be grounded in playable riffs and real sounding drums, but this brings something fresh that i don’t really enjoy. I’m sure many people will find this enjoyable though.
10:28 bro said 🙏
The opening to the album could be the soundtrack for the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey when he's floating toward the monolith... the rest of it is inside the monolith.
This shit is so heavy that ripped a hole in the fabric of space-time 🤯
Reminds me of a metal version of Aphex Twin!!! Found my soundtrack for when I go for a night drive. Thanks 👍
6:32 this bit reminds me of a song from the Scott Pilgrim game.
2025 gonna be the year I give up trying to do music
fantano would absolutely hate this album lmao
He'd probably say something like "it's overproduced, the genre mixing doesn't work, and this sounds like imagine dragons."
@ so true. it doesn’t sound like shit so it’s not good metal, obviously
@@kingnary9th688kinda does sound like shit tho
It just clicked for me. The overlay with the guitar over the keys!!! The keys is what the guitar would sound like if all the effects, pitch shifts and semi-tones were removed from the guitar.
Just got it on Spotify 😎
The first couple of minutes has an amazing vangelis/blade runner feel to it
That intro reminds me to the ending scene of Midsommar, as in a sense of solemnity and absolute despair at the same time
Track 3 gives me darko us vibes
This feeds my A.D.D. 🤯
The intro of the album reminded me of Caspian (Post Rock) ❤
These guys clearly understand music at a deep level.
plssss lets get this to fantano
he’d hate it lol
He’d get through the intro and maybe 40 seconds in on second track and claim it NOT GOOD hahahaha
@@CruciaLou literally
That oslo part tho!!! is brilliant
If they do have vocals, it should be like Our Common Collapse. Those low hellish vocals would be perfect. And there should be no singing lol but honestly I agree, this with vocals would be doing a disservice to the actual instrumentals themselves.
When are we gonna get a Paleface Swiss “Cursed” reaction? Love the content Drew!
Thanks dude, I’ll hopefully check it out at some point this week🤝🏻
as a Swede, understanding that you said 'månstaden under vatten' took some time! sorry for or word! Fuck Mirar is masters of thall!
Hells nightclub type beat
Espada II - Clayton King reaction when 👀
Didn’t even know it was out, gotta check that out ASAP
Metal music will never die 🤘💀🤘
A lot of these "weird sounds" have dopplegangers in the electronic music world.
I feel like this album is the musical equivalent to the infinite monkey theorem
It is indeed all guitar doing the EDM 😂😂 just 2 guys in Norway in a room cooked this shit insane. My favorite project to come out in years
A great way of starting 2025, that beeing said, that beeing said I haven't listened past 3/4's of It. A little too avant garde for me
This one's more chaotic than the first lol
Dude metal peaked in 1980. Where have you been?
Humanity’s Last Breath has entered the chat.
This is what I imagine metal sounds like to non metal people. This also reminds me of Binarys old request Noisekick - The Woods this is the metal equivalent but in a good way.
baby's first Mozart. adorable
the oslo callback is wild though, dont forget
Can’t find this album on Apple Music. Wtf.
Just bandcamp for sale for now I think and TH-cam. Not on Spotify either.
It is available as of now
The thing you mentioned about vocals is definitely true.. for harsh vocals. I was thinking that softer vocals like the pianos and the harpsichord stuff might actually suite this band quite well.
nothing has ever been heavier
That “20:25” riff has to be done intentionally
do i miss something ? this is just all over the place noise thrown in a blender
Technically impressive, mixed and mastered impeccably…. But it all kinda blends together to me. I think Thall is better as an accent to other genre. It’s purest form is experimental and gets a bit much rapidity. Still, this is impressive
I completely agree with you. But I’d nearly actually argue that thall is actually the accent in this case.
It feels like this is borderline rave/dance music with a thall flair at times🕺🏼
@ fair
is it good? no, the next thing to brilliant
album of the year. nothing can even dream to compete with it this year
I've never disagreed with anything this strongly before
@@7StringGuy its ok to be wrong as hell man
@@artistrankings6794 yeah and your comment is completely irrelevant since I was merely expressing personal opinion
@ no man for sure enjoy the new architects album when it drops
@@artistrankings6794 maybe I will, maybe I won’t. And you enjoy the scratch and screech sounds man
MUSIC
M80 - Outro sample on the album intro is fucking funny, metal has defo peaked lads
Fantano would hate this and call it overproduced incoherent trash lmao. He only likes metal that sounds raw as hell
it is overproduced as fuck tho
More hype than music, maybe high on mushroom works out, comparing this with meshugga, humanity's last breath is a joke.
Strapping Young Lad did it better
They do everything better
overproduced deathcore, what's revolutionary about this?
Define ‘Produced’ because the majority of what you’re hearing isn’t production, it’s guitar….which is exactly why it’s revolutionary😂
@@DrewFortune97And yet it sounds exactly like any modern metalcore/deathcore album
Dumbest comment ive ever read
@@Ahab2710 Sounds like you have a predisposition to disliking this style of metal, and are being reductive since you don't understand why people prefer it over what you deem as proper metal. If you don't understand why people think its great, that's fine. But you dont have to treat it as generic because you dont actually take the time to understand music.
Also, you play ARAM, opinion discarded.
Its awful 😂 what is everyone going on about. Did 2025 suddenly cause people to lose braincells and forget what good music sounds like
skip
Sound like crap tbh
This is painfully awful, I think they are trolling the internet , they can't play so bad , only on purpose