"Exist" is the musical interpretation of the Big Bang. The calm bit in the beginning is before the Big Bang. Then where it gets metal is the actual bang. The Vocals are the existence of humanity. Everything else is the universe after the end of humans. Unchanged.
This is their best song in my opinion. It shoes Syn's maturity, and their creativity as songwroters. Avenged Sevenfolds gets a lot of crap, but they don't deserve it.
That's complete ignorance on their part. I mean, it's their opinion, but basing a song on "heavyness" just seems ridiculous to me. Nothing wrong against heavyness, I'm a deathcore fan, but it's just ignorant. Especially this song, it's beautiful man.
Tá cáin goidte I think a lot of people who shit on A7X only know them for being metalcore. Now, I don't know who decided that all metalcore was bad, because it isn't, but they clearly haven't heard records like The Stage where they've matured a lot more.
I've been on and off avenged for years but in my opinion this album shows they have found there place. Such a good album and musicly a lyricly it's a journey. Hats off to them
The Stage is such an underrated album. A7x squeezed so much prog/metal black metal and just a mixture of styles. This album is my favorite and this closer is an epic one
Such a great song and reaction. Fun fact, A7X had Neil Degrasse Tyson come into the studio to record that bit at the end of the song. He only had one condition, that they use his words only for educational purposes.
As I watched more of the video, I enjoyed your thoughts on all of this songs subject matter. I also appreciate both of your in depth commentaries. I find your reaction videos the best on all of TH-cam. Keep it up you two.
Absolutely true Brandan, I totally forgot about that part. Carl Sagan's "little blue dot" speech is wonderful. It truly shows how vast the universe is and how we are like a higgs boson particle comepared to it. Perhaps even smaller.
0:00-1:31 The almost empty universe 1:31-2:20 The Big Bang 2:20-4:06 The constant yet instability formation of stars and exo planets 4:06-4:40 The formation of the Milky way. A place utterly insignificant and almost unregarded among the other millions 4:40-5:20 Earth formed and a part of us slips away forming the moon, which gravitates towards Earth. Forever then. 5:20-6:10 Our planet Earth revolving around it's axis, cooling down... 6:10-6:56 Water showering over Earth and the so thought Art begins 6:56-7:26 Evolution takes place from the first anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria to the hominids 7:26-11:45 Humans. The supreme beings reigns over. ( I sincerely do not know if this was a pretty neat idea) Till then, bask in with the final words of Neil Degrasse Tyson. 11:45-15:40 ... "Until the rise of a new visionary culture, the cosmic perspective; a perspective in which we are one, fitting neither of the above nor below, but within."
Exist is the finale on The Stage, their album about space, humankind progressing too far, becoming one with artificial intelligence and trying to be immortal. This song is supposed to be a musical representation of the Big Bang through to the future of the human race. "Sailing away" and "high from the heavens" refer to humans achieving space travel and gaining access to farther reaches of the universe. But for all that advancement it's still a "shot in the dark." Then Neil comes in and talks about the plight of humanity as you so well analyzed. Just thought I'd give some context to relate the multiple parts in this song!
I also feel like the album is about everything that is wrong with our society. For example: The Stage - Those who are higher than us. Do we really have liberty? Are we really free? Or are we just puppets on a Stage...? God Damn - Religion Exist - Kinda sums it all up, and concludes all the points mad in the album, and at Tyson’s speech, gives a solution.
Recently found this channel, but avenged is my favorite band. And I love philosophy, and I love hearing your take on the lyrics and musicality. Y’all are great and a joy to watch and learn from!
Hily shit you guys actually did exist? You HAVE to do something from the city of evil album! Do "The Wicked End"...that whole album is about the book of Revelation.
haha that was my original reaction when I saw this video lol. Can't believe they did this song. An hour long reaction too lmao this is too much. Great job guys!
Hey guys! Love your reactions, your ideias and how you keep your minds open to try understand everything and everyone. God bless u now and always! Cheers from Brazil!!
I absolutely love this song and that you guys took the time to listen and really analyze it. You guys rock. I use this song as my main work out song, 15 minutes and I listen to it twice it comes out to a perfect 30 minute workout haha.
Im glad you guys did this, and it makes me happy you noticed the drums! After the Rev they had Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater finish recording the drum tracks and tour with them. The next album Hail to the King they had this guy I really didnt feel his drumming. They fired that guy and now they have Brooks Wackerman from Bad Religion and ton of others bands. He played so well on this album, such a good fit for the band. Im sure the Rev would approve
Such an amazing song, band and reaction! Avenged Sevenfold is definitely my favorite band of all time, I just feel like I can relate to them. You guys should check out Requiem by them! It's dark and heavy, but so good!
Such an amazing song! This is a7x at their best in terms of musicianship. Synyster Gates is on fire and also it's so easy to get sucked in by Neil degrasse Tyson's words at the end that it's easy to bit even notice the fact that the drummer is going absolutely ham during that whole spoken word segment. These guys would definitely be considered heavy metal but they change their style so often it's a bit hard to really classify them into any one sub genre. I think they mostly remind me of iron maidens style mixed with post black album Metallica mixed with a tendency towards prog metal.
You two are nailing the point of this song...awesome interpretation! Very intelligent...yes, the 20 century was nuts, but was also a huge learning curve for us.
@@civil_fellow2985 dose is fucking incredible. It took itself to number one in my list. I've listened to it countless times and i feel it gets better everytime. You always find something new.
There are parts to this song when you guys started talking about Metallica, that sounded a lot like the instrumentals to Damage Incorporated by Metallica. And then I thought I’d rather just listen to Damage Incorporated. But I stayed for the conversation :) I can’t really put my finger on why I haven’t been able to get into Avenged Sevenfold.
The vocals are part of it. I also think they are fairly dirivitive, I haven’t listened to them on a deep dive. But songs I’ve heard I end up hearing familiarities that seem more like shop lifting from other bands. Where I tend to gravitate to bands that push boundaries or have a sound that is uniquely theirs.
I suggest you songs like Unholy Confessions, Bat Country, A Little Piece of Heaven, Afterlife, Almost Easy, Dear God, Critical Acclaim, Nightmare, Welcome to the Family, Danger Line, Buried Alive... they're pretty original songs of them I think ;)
You two are really great and I enjoy your content. I also appreciate how much you dive into the meaning of the songs you listen to. Vin definitely has a lot of knowledge on philosophy and physics from what I got from this vid . What makes you different from other channels is you spend a lot of time discussing the songs and their meaning and I appreciate that. Thank you.:)
You guys are awesome. In-depth discussions on the bands/songs that I happen to love - you guys are taking up all my free time. Please do Avenged Sevenfold - "Roman Sky", Live at the Grammy museum!
This is my favourite song right now. Super glad you guys did this and enjoyed it. You definitely need to do more Ghost songs. Thanks for the great content!
Exist is a masterpiece. It's their musical rendition of the Big Bang. I think it was M Shadows who said that the instrumental part of the song is the beginning of the universe and once the singing starts is when humans came to be.
Their greatest song to date! Rarely do bands put insane stuff out like this when they are that huge. Loving this channel they don't do the usual boring stuff
35:10 You get that feeling or thought when you learn that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Which means every atom in your body came from an exploding star. So you no longer feel as being separate from the universe, but that the universe is a part of you, technically making you and everything you see in the sky at night, the same thing.
Brilliant song, brilliant reaction. I can't help but to think that the singing part and especially the part directly right after that was written somewhat with The Rev in mind. The words if you look at it and think about it probably has a lot to do with the way he lived and died. Then the kickass drumming after that. The Rev is smiling listening to that. Man, those drums were off the chart crazy good. Plus I think the thinking on the front part and last part of the song encased his memory of humanity and the fragility of it. All in all you guys, the best reaction yet, by far. Be cool and keep up the great work. Love you guys. FTR, I'm not an athiest.
I know I'm late (first video I see of you guys) but fantastic review, I love how you guys don't just talk about the music but all things it makes you think about. It's not a review but a reflection of your interpretation of the song. Really beautiful, thanks guys!
I'm really impressed with how your video quality has improved in such a short time. You guys are doing a great job. Exist is a great song and I really dig the selections you've made so far. Keep up the excellent work!
This song is written BEAUTIFULLY. It is a masterpiece which is hard to fully comprehend. It takes on the journey of not just life but literally everything. It shows all events and all emotions and everything is represented in some way in this song. This song is literally everything
Hey guys, very good video. I really enjoy this, I love that they go beyond the basic reactions and that they discuss the structure of the song, the lyrics, the music, what it means and what it makes them feel. Avenged Sevenfold is my favorite band and that someone can enjoy their songs that way makes my skin crawl. Keep making such good videos. Greetings from Mexico. 😎🤘🤘🤘
23:06 so I'm paused right here cuz i gotta go to work soon but here's the gist of what you need to know about this song. It's meant to be a metaphor for the Big Bang. The spacey 2 minute intro is the time before time, the explosive sweeping solos is the explosion, the breakdown with qaudruplets after the solos is the cosmos forming, the clean guitar is the earth itself forming, the vocals coming in after the guitar represent us as a species coming to fruition on the planet, the build up before the riffs that are in the background of the speech is meant to be our struggles and conflict (you can hear the tensions of the notes) and neil degrasse tyson speaking is meant to be both a warning from the future and our introspective look at our species to try and right the path that we are on. Alright I'm off and I'm paused around the 43:30 mark. Listeing to your opinions, i think you may be looking a little too literally at the writing. Avenged is RARELY direct in their writing. Lyrically the true meanings tend to be hidden within the diction and normally there's more and more layers the deeper you look as opposed to surface level literal work. Good review of the song, just keep in mind that all the guys in Avenged are phenomenal writers and everything they do musically and lyrically is intentional.
I recommend reacting to Atreyu and Bleeding Through. The band members in Avenged 7X, Atreyu, and Bleeding Through went to the same high school in Huntington Beach, Cali and have collaborated with each other. M.Shadows and Synyster Gates of A7X were featured on Bleeding Through's "Savior, Saint, Salvation" (a song you guys should react to, cause it's really good). I also recommend Atreyu's "Her Portrait In Black".
I learned that in Revolver Magazine's A7X issue (when "Nightmare" came out). Anyway, Bleeding Through's new material is sounding KILLLLLLEEEERRRRRR!!!!!
The instrumentals at the beginning were to depict the progression of Earth's construction after the big bang. Some parts chaotic, others melodic, all leading up to the birth of man and our mysterious nature.
When ever I need to settle down and just think I put this song on. Of course with headphones and you can just think about different scenarios while listening to it. It’s completely and utterly amazing
What’s interesting to me is when theists try to tell atheists they live in a paradigm of despair. I have been a Christian and as an atheist seeing both sides and I can tell you that life has far more meaning to me when I am completely accountable for my actions and believe that my life is my only time to spend with loved ones and every moment for me now has infinitely more meaning. I’m more active, life is vibrant and I’m not taking anything for granted because this is as good as it gets. :)
I don’t think you were listening close enough. I quoted the classics, then I specifically said that other atheists may have a diff point of view... hence the show. Btw all the stuff about deeper wasn’t from Christians, it was from Bertrand Russell and Voltaire... hardly Christians ... we’re wasting valuable vlodcasting material !!
VinAnd Sori the beauty of atheism is nobody can speak for you. There are miserable people who don’t believe in God. There are also miserable people who do. I can only speak of my own experience and what I’ve seen reflected 1st hand in the atheistic Community.
that was pretty trippy. after you cut during the spoken word near the end the song was echoing and freakin me out . lol7\10 :p also react to EPICA-The Phantom Agony
at 35:30 you are talking about something I have always wanted to bring back...the idea of the Open Forum where people of all walks of life discuss, openly and respectfully, all topics that man faces. Very cool of you guys to come to the same conclusion! As someone who was raised catholic, fell out of religion, and now years later consider myself on many levels spiritual, but still generally agnostic/athiest. Forever open minded, but driven by evidence, and a humanistic point of view in that, we shouldn't need such things as Gods when we can find the power and beauty in the majesty of the Universe and Nature as en ever flowing system of life, awareness and intention. We are the universe, recognizing itself. but yeah so, I would enjoy that sort of podcast very much! Great idea!
This song is literally the best metal song in history in my opinion. So melodic in many chilling ways. Perfectly mood tingling solos. And the message behind it makes this so dam perfect :D
Guys, I am so happy you made such a long video with such a long discussion. You respect other people's point of view, you open your minds and try to get what an artist wants to say. That's awesome! Didn't expect you to talk about history and philosophy like that. You're my favourite reaction channel I guess :) oh btw Save me by A7X is a song you rated 10 as well ;)
I love the analysis in these videos, great reaction! First I was wondering why there was a 20 minute outro, but then I was like "oh, I see what you did there" xD And "a little piece of heaven" needs to happen ^^
First I just wanna say I love your content! I love hearing your thoughts on songs coming from your religious perspective. As an Atheist, I don't think Atheism leads to a problematic world view anymore than any other religion. There will always be problematic people within any view of the world. You can see evil in religion and you can see evil without it. To say that Atheism leads to a dangerous thought process is a bit short sighted. I could just as easily say that religion can lead to a dangerous thought process due to extremists out there, but I wouldn't do that. There are mostly good people in both camps, believers and non-believers. And yes I can still appreciate art, I don't know why any godless person couldn't. I also love life and don't need a god to love it. No despair here! Just my two cents! Love your content keep it up! If we can't share ideas with open minds we are surely doomed.
Well of course there are some religious extremists but blaming religion for their actions is not a proper thing in my opinion, especially when we talk about christianity where Christs says himself that killing people is absolutely wrong because we are all children of God who loves us etc. It's a moral codex that is based on love and forgiving. Science describes precisely all these things that religion does not (like when and how some things happened) but doesn't say what should be done and why.
I from México, and i love your videos xd The first video that i saw, at the beginning when Sori said her name, i thought “why did she said *im sorry*?” 😹
I'm so glad to have found out about your channel guys. I'm binge watching reactions from bands that I know that you've already done lol. Seeing how you guys love music that don't have the need to rush and that have interesting proggressions I went looking for Dream Theater reactions and saw that you did Wither, which is a monumentally weak song compared to their best stuff. You would love to react to A Change Of Seasons, or dozens of other songs by them too, their discography is vast and rich, hope to see more of them in the future. Love the channel.
You are correct Vin, the song is structured as the universe. Only space and time in the big bang, hence only music in the begging. The lyrics start as symbolism of the begging of human thought.
For the longest time the only songs I listened to were their popular ones..Blinded In Chains, Seize thr Day, Bat Country, Almost Easy, Afterlife, etc. took me years to listen to their whole albums. Can’t believe I’ve missed out on so much. I didn’t listen to MIA until last week
If you look at the chorus again, you'll see this follows the part that you thought was in regards to life after death: Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone Far beyond the dreams of everyone High from the heavens I can't see the pain Does anybody care? "High from the heavens" = cosmic perspective. He's looking at earth from space (sailing away beyond the reach of everyone). What he sees is just the earth and not the pain and suffering on it. Just one planet that does have all of us on it but we here on earth can't see that we're all cute little Earthlings on the same planet in an incredibly vast universe ("Does anybody care?"--care about this perspective). The first portion of the chorus is about that journey into space. Does anybody know? could very well be asking if anyone knows what it's like to be journeying out beyond our familiar confines of earth and our common humanity into the virtually unexplored space.
Great reaction and discussion as usual! When sori said "she's beautiful", Vin could've said, "like her mom." :p anyway nice that 10s were finally given out. You'll do that a lot when doing the lateralus project too I think :p
You are correct on floating in outerspace. In an interview M. Shadows says Exist represents all the stages in the Big Bang theory. Copied from Genius: 0:00 - 1:31 (Preceding the big bang “15 billion years ago” there was the singularity, little known and very speculated, where all the matter and energy that exists today, were confined in a single infinitely hot point, which logically had no space, and no time). 1:31 - 2:19 (The big bang followed instantly with the expansion of the universe. From the second initial of the expansion “appearance of space, time and energy”, passing through the Planckian periods; Separation of gravity; Separation of the 4 fundamental forces of the universe; Creation of quarks; Of protons, neutrons and electrons; And the formation of the first chemical elements, Hydrogen and Helium; 800,000 years passed). 2:19 - 2:51 (High-density clouds with Hydrogen, Helium and perhaps other elements, were gravitationally agglomerating and attracting, was the appearance of the first galaxies). 2:51 - 3:14 (With the emergence of galaxies and their different dispositions, the stars, which progressively appear and collapse in events known as the supernova, for example, creating other chemical elements such as Carbon and Iron.) 3:14 - 3:35 (From the ashes of some stellar explosion came the “our” Sun …) 3:35 - 4:19 (…From the remaining materials of the sun’s appearance, the solar system was formed, with its comets, asteroids, and planets…) 4:19 - 5:18 (Among these planets, 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth appeared. That before the “present” constitution, it passed through many phases, among them, the great asteroid bombardments that came from the material that remained of the solar system, for example, and that directly or indirectly gave rise to the rocks and the first forms of relief.) 5:18 - 6:55 (About 2.5 billion years ago, the first forms of life appeared, which despite having experienced great periods of mass extinction “when the guitar stops” some have evolved until they reach …) 6:55 (…1.6 million years ago, the emergence of the human being). Even though I'm an atheist I would like to say that I do believe that "People kill and get killed in the name of someone else’s concept of God" is not against religion itself. It is the fact that people kill because a dictator or any other person with power uses religion to kill.
The sailing parts was about the exploration of the seas, Discovery of the "New world" ( north america) by colombus. Crossing the oceans for the first Time with no land in sight and no map other than the stars. Keep Up the good work!
I took the chorus as perspective from somebody that passed and is wondering if anybody on Earth recognized that they’re gone (thinks about them, misses them, etc.) initially. Doesn’t really go with the entire theme of the universe/existence but was wondering if they threw it in from the Rev’s perspective. I think you are spot on though- it probably has to do with people being so self-absorbed that they can’t see beyond what happens next. Awesome review!!
I think the first line of the vocal section is about space exploration, because of the star we learn to fly to the sky and find the answer. That's why it said " Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone .Far beyond the dreams of everyone .No light to follow A shot in the dark" Its talking about shooting rocket into the darkness of space only. Heaven here represent space here (This is how scientist in the old day e.g. Newton describe space in general).
If I had a nickel for every time an Avenged song made me reference a Jordan Peterson idea. You guys remind me of the way my buddy and I talk to each other. From a guy who doesn't share your world-view: Just found you guys today and I really enjoy your insights. I like the way your minds work.
Sori in the first like 5 minutes of the song had me rolling LOL. I could tell she loved it. Great song, I'm glad A7X decided to try and experiment in more prog stuff
In my opinion, atheism and agnosticism are also a concepts of god, so I don't think Neil/A7X were trying to blame religions and putting atheists/agnostics as the ones that do no harm. For me, as agnostic and living in a catholic family and country, makes me enjoy watching you guys, it is really interesting listening to all sides. For me believes is not about who is right or wrong, it is about viewing life from different angles, so it is always constructive discussing about these topics.
Amazing review ! Just great to see how open minded you go listeining to this music and deeply analyze the lyrics. Keep Going :) Next Song I suggest : Avenged Sevenfold - Roman Sky This song's about the roman theologian Giordano Bruno, he proposed ideas way beyond his time about space and science. In generall the infinity and eternal duration of Space. For that he got executed because of charges heresy by Roman Catholic Church.
You should check out some Isis. They were around way before dumb terrorists took the name... :0/ anyway, they are very good. a good album to start with would be Oceanic (their first album from 2002) or In the Absence of Truth (a few years later in '06) Definitely worth a listen!
As far as I am concerned I think you should feel free to thank your patreon subscribers, after all they are making it easier for you guys to do what you do which benefits all the rest of us who are watching for free
"Exist" is the musical interpretation of the Big Bang. The calm bit in the beginning is before the Big Bang. Then where it gets metal is the actual bang. The Vocals are the existence of humanity. Everything else is the universe after the end of humans. Unchanged.
So I was close! That’s brilliant so brilliant !
Very very close! Keep up the good work. I dig it.
Thank you.
This is their best song in my opinion. It shoes Syn's maturity, and their creativity as songwroters. Avenged Sevenfolds gets a lot of crap, but they don't deserve it.
Tá cáin goidte people hate them because they aren’t “heavy” enough for their tastes
That's complete ignorance on their part. I mean, it's their opinion, but basing a song on "heavyness" just seems ridiculous to me. Nothing wrong against heavyness, I'm a deathcore fan, but it's just ignorant. Especially this song, it's beautiful man.
Tá cáin goidte true I see it a lot with slipknot which is frustrating lol
Tá cáin goidte I think a lot of people who shit on A7X only know them for being metalcore. Now, I don't know who decided that all metalcore was bad, because it isn't, but they clearly haven't heard records like The Stage where they've matured a lot more.
I've been on and off avenged for years but in my opinion this album shows they have found there place. Such a good album and musicly a lyricly it's a journey. Hats off to them
"I like when bands are patient with the music" oh boy. You're in for a treat
Yes, we need that patience in our lives too, so it would actually help us think better and do less chaos.
Avenged Sevenfold - Higher!!!
I second that lol
i third to that
This is the first time I've ever heard a song from them. Very impressed!.....15 minutes in, seeing it through :)
You've missed a lot my friend.
The Stage is such an underrated album. A7x squeezed so much prog/metal black metal and just a mixture of styles. This album is my favorite and this closer is an epic one
👍🏻👌🏼 they are sooooooooooo good. Avenged Sevenfold are amazing 🤩 Synyster Gates is 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🤘🏻🤟🏼🤘🏼😍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Such a great song and reaction. Fun fact, A7X had Neil Degrasse Tyson come into the studio to record that bit at the end of the song. He only had one condition, that they use his words only for educational purposes.
Legit!!
As I watched more of the video, I enjoyed your thoughts on all of this songs subject matter. I also appreciate both of your in depth commentaries. I find your reaction videos the best on all of TH-cam. Keep it up you two.
Also they only used NDT because Carl Sagans' estate wouldn't give them permission to use "little blue dot"
Cool!! What a huge compliment!!!-Sori🤟🏻
Absolutely true Brandan, I totally forgot about that part. Carl Sagan's "little blue dot" speech is wonderful. It truly shows how vast the universe is and how we are like a higgs boson particle comepared to it. Perhaps even smaller.
This is not a song, it's a adventure. an experience. A masterpiece.
A journey from the beginning to the end of all
0:00-1:31 The almost empty universe
1:31-2:20 The Big Bang
2:20-4:06 The constant yet instability formation of stars and exo planets
4:06-4:40 The formation of the Milky way. A place utterly insignificant and almost unregarded among the other millions
4:40-5:20 Earth formed and a part of us slips away forming the moon, which gravitates towards Earth. Forever then.
5:20-6:10 Our planet Earth revolving around it's axis, cooling down...
6:10-6:56
Water showering over Earth and the so thought Art begins
6:56-7:26
Evolution takes place from the first anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria to the hominids
7:26-11:45 Humans. The supreme beings reigns over. ( I sincerely do not know if this was a pretty neat idea) Till then, bask in with the final words of Neil Degrasse Tyson.
11:45-15:40 ... "Until the rise of a new visionary culture, the cosmic perspective; a perspective in which we are one, fitting neither of the above nor below, but within."
Brooks Wackerman is a god level drummer. Insane. What a song !
Exist is the finale on The Stage, their album about space, humankind progressing too far, becoming one with artificial intelligence and trying to be immortal. This song is supposed to be a musical representation of the Big Bang through to the future of the human race. "Sailing away" and "high from the heavens" refer to humans achieving space travel and gaining access to farther reaches of the universe. But for all that advancement it's still a "shot in the dark." Then Neil comes in and talks about the plight of humanity as you so well analyzed. Just thought I'd give some context to relate the multiple parts in this song!
I also feel like the album is about everything that is wrong with our society. For example:
The Stage - Those who are higher than us. Do we really have liberty? Are we really free? Or are we just puppets on a Stage...?
God Damn - Religion
Exist - Kinda sums it all up, and concludes all the points mad in the album, and at Tyson’s speech, gives a solution.
- チェーボーCheebow God Damn is not about religion, it’s about government control.
WELL SAID
Spencer Hawk agreed about space travel. The singer is Christian, he wasn’t preaching atheist
"heaven" in this song mean "earth" so it would make sense.
React to Avenged Sevenfold "Roman Sky"
Jack DaKiller123 great song
Yeah its why I want them to react to it.
Jack DaKiller123 I was just seconding your choice
I know I agree
When you know what the song is about it's even better! It's my favorite after Save Me and Exist.
Recently found this channel, but avenged is my favorite band. And I love philosophy, and I love hearing your take on the lyrics and musicality. Y’all are great and a joy to watch and learn from!
Avenged Sevenfold is a great band!!
Bricktowne Media yeah
It sure is!
There the fucking best
*best band
all personile are musician and insane , always top on line
Hily shit you guys actually did exist? You HAVE to do something from the city of evil album! Do "The Wicked End"...that whole album is about the book of Revelation.
Lol! Enjoy! -Sori🤟🏻
VinAnd Sori I already have.Thank you guys...
haha that was my original reaction when I saw this video lol. Can't believe they did this song. An hour long reaction too lmao this is too much. Great job guys!
Please reaction Wicked end
100% agree! I'd be happy with anything off City of Evil, really.
“A Little Piece of Heaven” please ❤️
Now THIS is how you review a song hahaha. love it.... keep the a7x songs going!
Thank you !’
Hey guys! Love your reactions, your ideias and how you keep your minds open to try understand everything and everyone. God bless u now and always! Cheers from Brazil!!
Appreciate that !!
That's Avenged Sevenfold!!! The greatest band ever! Forever! 😎🤘
This song is a masterpiece! Greetings from Brazil
I absolutely love this song and that you guys took the time to listen and really analyze it. You guys rock. I use this song as my main work out song, 15 minutes and I listen to it twice it comes out to a perfect 30 minute workout haha.
Lol that’s commitment !
Im glad you guys did this, and it makes me happy you noticed the drums! After the Rev they had Mike Portnoy from Dream Theater finish recording the drum tracks and tour with them. The next album Hail to the King they had this guy I really didnt feel his drumming. They fired that guy and now they have Brooks Wackerman from Bad Religion and ton of others bands. He played so well on this album, such a good fit for the band. Im sure the Rev would approve
Insane drumming.....
That wild beast-Brooks.
OMG!
Such an amazing song, band and reaction! Avenged Sevenfold is definitely my favorite band of all time, I just feel like I can relate to them. You guys should check out Requiem by them! It's dark and heavy, but so good!
Such an amazing song! This is a7x at their best in terms of musicianship. Synyster Gates is on fire and also it's so easy to get sucked in by Neil degrasse Tyson's words at the end that it's easy to bit even notice the fact that the drummer is going absolutely ham during that whole spoken word segment. These guys would definitely be considered heavy metal but they change their style so often it's a bit hard to really classify them into any one sub genre. I think they mostly remind me of iron maidens style mixed with post black album Metallica mixed with a tendency towards prog metal.
George Bedrin Brooks is a beast.
"the stage" is a song think you'd both love the lyrics and message to from this band
Brooks is insane. This might be the best drum album EVER!!!
You two are nailing the point of this song...awesome interpretation!
Very intelligent...yes, the 20 century was nuts, but was also a huge learning curve for us.
'A little piece of heaven' and 'Dose' should be next by avenged sevenfold
Tristan Begay isn't Dose a cover? I agree with A little piece of heaven, though. Great song.
Dose wasn't in the line of covers. One of their singles that needs to be more known.
@@civil_fellow2985 dose is fucking incredible. It took itself to number one in my list. I've listened to it countless times and i feel it gets better everytime. You always find something new.
Please React to "Shepherd of fire" by Avenged Sevenfold.
Let's take a moment and break thee ice
@@GetmGoneCuddy So my intentions are known
@@victor-th3sb see I have pity in watching you suffer
@@dillonfehr7545 I know the feeling of feeling of being damned alone
Avenged sevenfold - Afterlife next. Has to be the lyric video tho. Oh and BTW, don't forget about nothing else matters by Metallica
Got it! -Sori✌🏻
Ruan Singh yes please
Ruan Singh
Like when Van Halen did the video for the movie TWISTER, Awesome 🤘😎🇺🇸🍻
Yayyyyyyyy at last. I have been waiting so long since the last A7X song. Thanks for doing Exist. Love it
Avenged Sevenfold is not metal, Avenged Sevenfold is AVENGED SEVENFOLD haha! Please react to Roman Sky!
Good choice
@Jaime No this is Patrick!
Andy Salter and country
I've sent this video to one of the band members, hopefully he'll watch it. You guys did a great job. 👌
There are parts to this song when you guys started talking about Metallica, that sounded a lot like the instrumentals to Damage Incorporated by Metallica. And then I thought I’d rather just listen to Damage Incorporated. But I stayed for the conversation :) I can’t really put my finger on why I haven’t been able to get into Avenged Sevenfold.
Well thanks for staying!!! Vin said ur right it did sound like damage incorporated...I would know...yet;) -Sori✌🏻
My pleasure, looking forward to y’all digging into the greatness that is old school Metallica. :)
For me, The singers voice sounds like it's coming out his nose.
The vocals are part of it. I also think they are fairly dirivitive, I haven’t listened to them on a deep dive. But songs I’ve heard I end up hearing familiarities that seem more like shop lifting from other bands. Where I tend to gravitate to bands that push boundaries or have a sound that is uniquely theirs.
I suggest you songs like Unholy Confessions, Bat Country, A Little Piece of Heaven, Afterlife, Almost Easy, Dear God, Critical Acclaim, Nightmare, Welcome to the Family, Danger Line, Buried Alive... they're pretty original songs of them I think ;)
You two are really great and I enjoy your content. I also appreciate how much you dive into the meaning of the songs you listen to. Vin definitely has a lot of knowledge on philosophy and physics from what I got from this vid . What makes you different from other channels is you spend a lot of time discussing the songs and their meaning and I appreciate that. Thank you.:)
Thank you so much for taking the time to listen to our show for so long! I really appreciate that so much !
Giggity Giggity. Thank you for taking the time. You guys are awsome!
Enjoy!!! 🤟🏻-Sori🤟🏻
You guys are awesome. In-depth discussions on the bands/songs that I happen to love - you guys are taking up all my free time.
Please do Avenged Sevenfold - "Roman Sky", Live at the Grammy museum!
When Syn’s vocals come in I always get the feeling of listening to the Beatles again for the first time... so amazing
Brooks feat avenged sevenfold, the drums in this song is insane
This is my favourite song right now. Super glad you guys did this and enjoyed it.
You definitely need to do more Ghost songs. Thanks for the great content!
Syn gets a lot of respect but everyone always seems to overlook Zackie Vengeance
Exist is a masterpiece. It's their musical rendition of the Big Bang. I think it was M Shadows who said that the instrumental part of the song is the beginning of the universe and once the singing starts is when humans came to be.
Their greatest song to date! Rarely do bands put insane stuff out like this when they are that huge. Loving this channel they don't do the usual boring stuff
35:10
You get that feeling or thought when you learn that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. Which means every atom in your body came from an exploding star. So you no longer feel as being separate from the universe, but that the universe is a part of you, technically making you and everything you see in the sky at night, the same thing.
Brilliant song, brilliant reaction. I can't help but to think that the singing part and especially the part directly right after that was written somewhat with The Rev in mind. The words if you look at it and think about it probably has a lot to do with the way he lived and died. Then the kickass drumming after that. The Rev is smiling listening to that. Man, those drums were off the chart crazy good. Plus I think the thinking on the front part and last part of the song encased his memory of humanity and the fragility of it. All in all you guys, the best reaction yet, by far. Be cool and keep up the great work. Love you guys. FTR, I'm not an athiest.
I know I'm late (first video I see of you guys) but fantastic review, I love how you guys don't just talk about the music but all things it makes you think about. It's not a review but a reflection of your interpretation of the song. Really beautiful, thanks guys!
I'm really impressed with how your video quality has improved in such a short time. You guys are doing a great job. Exist is a great song and I really dig the selections you've made so far. Keep up the excellent work!
Very thought provoking song and great discussion afterwards
This song is written BEAUTIFULLY. It is a masterpiece which is hard to fully comprehend. It takes on the journey of not just life but literally everything. It shows all events and all emotions and everything is represented in some way in this song. This song is literally everything
Hey guys, very good video. I really enjoy this, I love that they go beyond the basic reactions and that they discuss the structure of the song, the lyrics, the music, what it means and what it makes them feel.
Avenged Sevenfold is my favorite band and that someone can enjoy their songs that way makes my skin crawl.
Keep making such good videos.
Greetings from Mexico. 😎🤘🤘🤘
23:06 so I'm paused right here cuz i gotta go to work soon but here's the gist of what you need to know about this song. It's meant to be a metaphor for the Big Bang. The spacey 2 minute intro is the time before time, the explosive sweeping solos is the explosion, the breakdown with qaudruplets after the solos is the cosmos forming, the clean guitar is the earth itself forming, the vocals coming in after the guitar represent us as a species coming to fruition on the planet, the build up before the riffs that are in the background of the speech is meant to be our struggles and conflict (you can hear the tensions of the notes) and neil degrasse tyson speaking is meant to be both a warning from the future and our introspective look at our species to try and right the path that we are on.
Alright I'm off and I'm paused around the 43:30 mark. Listeing to your opinions, i think you may be looking a little too literally at the writing. Avenged is RARELY direct in their writing. Lyrically the true meanings tend to be hidden within the diction and normally there's more and more layers the deeper you look as opposed to surface level literal work. Good review of the song, just keep in mind that all the guys in Avenged are phenomenal writers and everything they do musically and lyrically is intentional.
Good call! It’s crazy you listened to that much bro!
I recommend reacting to Atreyu and Bleeding Through. The band members in Avenged 7X, Atreyu, and Bleeding Through went to the same high school in Huntington Beach, Cali and have collaborated with each other.
M.Shadows and Synyster Gates of A7X were featured on Bleeding Through's "Savior, Saint, Salvation" (a song you guys should react to, cause it's really good). I also recommend Atreyu's "Her Portrait In Black".
Cole Jordan I second that request for Atreyu! Anything off Lead Sails and Paper Anchors or the song The Crimson personally!
I didn't know they went to the same high school lol man, small world!
I learned that in Revolver Magazine's A7X issue (when "Nightmare" came out). Anyway, Bleeding Through's new material is sounding KILLLLLLEEEERRRRRR!!!!!
The instrumentals at the beginning were to depict the progression of Earth's construction after the big bang. Some parts chaotic, others melodic, all leading up to the birth of man and our mysterious nature.
One hour reaction video to this song is what it deserved
That was amazing to watch. Love this band love you guys experiencing it...... Welcome to A7X
React to Avenged Sevenfold M.I.A
Nameless Earth yes please
Nameless Earth YES, YES
all of the yes
YES
"Real Metallica" = Creeping Death 😂 love to see Sori's reaction
..and a live version..
Listed... unforgiven trilogy coming to a close soon !!
When ever I need to settle down and just think I put this song on. Of course with headphones and you can just think about different scenarios while listening to it. It’s completely and utterly amazing
Warmless on the soul
Its a soft and awesome song with so much feels
What’s interesting to me is when theists try to tell atheists they live in a paradigm of despair. I have been a Christian and as an atheist seeing both sides and I can tell you that life has far more meaning to me when I am completely accountable for my actions and believe that my life is my only time to spend with loved ones and every moment for me now has infinitely more meaning. I’m more active, life is vibrant and I’m not taking anything for granted because this is as good as it gets. :)
I don’t think you were listening close enough. I quoted the classics, then I specifically said that other atheists may have a diff point of view... hence the show. Btw all the stuff about deeper wasn’t from Christians, it was from Bertrand Russell and Voltaire... hardly Christians ... we’re wasting valuable vlodcasting material !!
VinAnd Sori the beauty of atheism is nobody can speak for you. There are miserable people who don’t believe in God. There are also miserable people who do. I can only speak of my own experience and what I’ve seen reflected 1st hand in the atheistic Community.
that was pretty trippy. after you cut during the spoken word near the end the song was echoing and freakin me out . lol7\10 :p also react to EPICA-The Phantom Agony
I love Avenged Sevenfold AND Opeth! This is a great song, and A7X has a shit ton of awesome songs, as do Opeth and many other bands. You guys rock ✌🏻
at 35:30 you are talking about something I have always wanted to bring back...the idea of the Open Forum where people of all walks of life discuss, openly and respectfully, all topics that man faces. Very cool of you guys to come to the same conclusion! As someone who was raised catholic, fell out of religion, and now years later consider myself on many levels spiritual, but still generally agnostic/athiest. Forever open minded, but driven by evidence, and a humanistic point of view in that, we shouldn't need such things as Gods when we can find the power and beauty in the majesty of the Universe and Nature as en ever flowing system of life, awareness and intention. We are the universe, recognizing itself.
but yeah so, I would enjoy that sort of podcast very much! Great idea!
Yesssss!!! I was so excited to click on this!!! I was super giddy!! :)
This song is literally the best metal song in history in my opinion. So melodic in many chilling ways. Perfectly mood tingling solos. And the message behind it makes this so dam perfect :D
Yes 1hour of content thanks guys. And how much more we have to wait for more opeth???
Lol hopefully not to long....I’m wanting more too!! -Sori🤟🏻
Guys, I am so happy you made such a long video with such a long discussion. You respect other people's point of view, you open your minds and try to get what an artist wants to say. That's awesome! Didn't expect you to talk about history and philosophy like that. You're my favourite reaction channel I guess :) oh btw Save me by A7X is a song you rated 10 as well ;)
Truuuuuuu
Thanks for this video, really opened my opinion even more about Exist
Awesome! I love this song, even though it's long it's still amazing
Justdat799 I think it's amazing just because it's so long :D
You 2 are actually my fav reaction group
Maybe react to some older Songs? like Warmness on the soul, And all this things will end, Shattered by broken Dreams - that's pretty good songs too ;)
I love the analysis in these videos, great reaction!
First I was wondering why there was a 20 minute outro, but then I was like "oh, I see what you did there" xD
And "a little piece of heaven" needs to happen ^^
First I just wanna say I love your content! I love hearing your thoughts on songs coming from your religious perspective.
As an Atheist, I don't think Atheism leads to a problematic world view anymore than any other religion. There will always be problematic people within any view of the world. You can see evil in religion and you can see evil without it. To say that Atheism leads to a dangerous thought process is a bit short sighted. I could just as easily say that religion can lead to a dangerous thought process due to extremists out there, but I wouldn't do that. There are mostly good people in both camps, believers and non-believers. And yes I can still appreciate art, I don't know why any godless person couldn't. I also love life and don't need a god to love it. No despair here!
Just my two cents! Love your content keep it up! If we can't share ideas with open minds we are surely doomed.
You get it big guy!! I’m very excited for the podcast, and I think we’ll probably do a series of us all dialoging with each other ! !!
Well of course there are some religious extremists but blaming religion for their actions is not a proper thing in my opinion, especially when we talk about christianity where Christs says himself that killing people is absolutely wrong because we are all children of God who loves us etc. It's a moral codex that is based on love and forgiving. Science describes precisely all these things that religion does not (like when and how some things happened) but doesn't say what should be done and why.
I from México, and i love your videos xd
The first video that i saw, at the beginning when Sori said her name, i thought “why did she said *im sorry*?” 😹
Hahahhh sooo many ppl have thought that!!! -Sori✌🏻
I'm so glad to have found out about your channel guys. I'm binge watching reactions from bands that I know that you've already done lol. Seeing how you guys love music that don't have the need to rush and that have interesting proggressions I went looking for Dream Theater reactions and saw that you did Wither, which is a monumentally weak song compared to their best stuff. You would love to react to A Change Of Seasons, or dozens of other songs by them too, their discography is vast and rich, hope to see more of them in the future. Love the channel.
Nice an enjoyable hour of vin and sori🤘
You are correct Vin, the song is structured as the universe. Only space and time in the big bang, hence only music in the begging. The lyrics start as symbolism of the begging of human thought.
Sori's reaction is AWESOME!!!! btw i hope you react to some from Rush soon!!!
For the longest time the only songs I listened to were their popular ones..Blinded In Chains, Seize thr Day, Bat Country, Almost Easy, Afterlife, etc. took me years to listen to their whole albums. Can’t believe I’ve missed out on so much. I didn’t listen to MIA until last week
Please check out the Live in LBC version of Critical Acclaim. You get to see The Rev sing live. Great performance by the band.
If you look at the chorus again, you'll see this follows the part that you thought was in regards to life after death:
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens
I can't see the pain
Does anybody care?
"High from the heavens" = cosmic perspective. He's looking at earth from space (sailing away beyond the reach of everyone). What he sees is just the earth and not the pain and suffering on it. Just one planet that does have all of us on it but we here on earth can't see that we're all cute little Earthlings on the same planet in an incredibly vast universe ("Does anybody care?"--care about this perspective). The first portion of the chorus is about that journey into space. Does anybody know? could very well be asking if anyone knows what it's like to be journeying out beyond our familiar confines of earth and our common humanity into the virtually unexplored space.
Great reaction and discussion as usual! When sori said "she's beautiful", Vin could've said, "like her mom." :p anyway nice that 10s were finally given out. You'll do that a lot when doing the lateralus project too I think :p
You are correct on floating in outerspace. In an interview M. Shadows says Exist represents all the stages in the Big Bang theory.
Copied from Genius:
0:00 - 1:31 (Preceding the big bang “15 billion years ago” there was the singularity, little known and very speculated, where all the matter and energy that exists today, were confined in a single infinitely hot point, which logically had no space, and no time).
1:31 - 2:19 (The big bang followed instantly with the expansion of the universe. From the second initial of the expansion “appearance of space, time and energy”, passing through the Planckian periods; Separation of gravity; Separation of the 4 fundamental forces of the universe; Creation of quarks; Of protons, neutrons and electrons; And the formation of the first chemical elements, Hydrogen and Helium; 800,000 years passed).
2:19 - 2:51 (High-density clouds with Hydrogen, Helium and perhaps other elements, were gravitationally agglomerating and attracting, was the appearance of the first galaxies).
2:51 - 3:14 (With the emergence of galaxies and their different dispositions, the stars, which progressively appear and collapse in events known as the supernova, for example, creating other chemical elements such as Carbon and Iron.)
3:14 - 3:35 (From the ashes of some stellar explosion came the “our” Sun …)
3:35 - 4:19 (…From the remaining materials of the sun’s appearance, the solar system was formed, with its comets, asteroids, and planets…)
4:19 - 5:18 (Among these planets, 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth appeared. That before the “present” constitution, it passed through many phases, among them, the great asteroid bombardments that came from the material that remained of the solar system, for example, and that directly or indirectly gave rise to the rocks and the first forms of relief.)
5:18 - 6:55 (About 2.5 billion years ago, the first forms of life appeared, which despite having experienced great periods of mass extinction “when the guitar stops” some have evolved until they reach …)
6:55 (…1.6 million years ago, the emergence of the human being).
Even though I'm an atheist I would like to say that I do believe that "People kill and get killed in the name of someone else’s concept of God" is not against religion itself. It is the fact that people kill because a dictator or any other person with power uses religion to kill.
Thank you for react to more A7X.... please now react to disturbed - inside the fire or avenged sevenfold - fermi paradox
Nicee!! Avenged Sevenfold strength of the world
I Love This Song, and I Love You VinAndSori greeting from Indonesia 👋🤘
Was the extra time in the outro displaying your FB/YT subscribing your own take on "Exist?" Ahaha, nice and well thought out reaction! 10*
The sailing parts was about the exploration of the seas, Discovery of the "New world" ( north america) by colombus. Crossing the oceans for the first Time with no land in sight and no map other than the stars.
Keep Up the good work!
I took the chorus as perspective from somebody that passed and is wondering if anybody on Earth recognized that they’re gone (thinks about them, misses them, etc.) initially. Doesn’t really go with the entire theme of the universe/existence but was wondering if they threw it in from the Rev’s perspective. I think you are spot on though- it probably has to do with people being so self-absorbed that they can’t see beyond what happens next. Awesome review!!
I think the first line of the vocal section is about space exploration, because of the star we learn to fly to the sky and find the answer. That's why it said " Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
.Far beyond the dreams of everyone
.No light to follow
A shot in the dark" Its talking about shooting rocket into the darkness of space only. Heaven here represent space here (This is how scientist in the old day e.g. Newton describe space in general).
If I had a nickel for every time an Avenged song made me reference a Jordan Peterson idea. You guys remind me of the way my buddy and I talk to each other. From a guy who doesn't share your world-view: Just found you guys today and I really enjoy your insights. I like the way your minds work.
I NEED TO TURN ON MY NOTIFICATIONS
Hahha y is that? -Sori🤟🏻
Because I was having a bad day and I was waiting for you to upload and I didn't even realized you already had hahaha! AND AN HOUR LONG VIDEO YES!!! 💕
Sori in the first like 5 minutes of the song had me rolling LOL. I could tell she loved it. Great song, I'm glad A7X decided to try and experiment in more prog stuff
In my opinion, atheism and agnosticism are also a concepts of god, so I don't think Neil/A7X were trying to blame religions and putting atheists/agnostics as the ones that do no harm.
For me, as agnostic and living in a catholic family and country, makes me enjoy watching you guys, it is really interesting listening to all sides. For me believes is not about who is right or wrong, it is about viewing life from different angles, so it is always constructive discussing about these topics.
Good call Hugo!
Amazing review !
Just great to see how open minded you go listeining to this music and deeply analyze the lyrics. Keep Going :)
Next Song I suggest : Avenged Sevenfold - Roman Sky
This song's about the roman theologian Giordano Bruno, he proposed ideas way beyond his time about space and science.
In generall the infinity and eternal duration of Space.
For that he got executed because of charges heresy by Roman Catholic Church.
Avenged sevenfold a little piece of heaven. That will blow your mind, believe me. Its a great song.. and video too
this is my excuse to listen to my favorite song ever
Lol same
Awesome reaction as always.
You should check out some Isis. They were around way before dumb terrorists took the name... :0/ anyway, they are very good. a good album to start with would be Oceanic (their first album from 2002) or In the Absence of Truth (a few years later in '06) Definitely worth a listen!
As far as I am concerned I think you should feel free to thank your patreon subscribers, after all they are making it easier for you guys to do what you do which benefits all the rest of us who are watching for free