So in terms of the meaning of the song: Deathconciousness came with a booklet about a fictional person named Antiochus, who essentially was a religious philospher who was focused on and obsessed with the concept of death and the afterlife. Every song on the album is based around this philosophy of Antiocheanism. This song is literally about a great hunter building a stairway of bodies to the sky to kill God with arrows. It's representative of humanity and its insatiable love of death, to the point of killing our spiritual selves. The whole album is just dealing with the idea of death and what an afterlife could actually be. It's basically pure misanthropy, but in a very cathartic sense. I highly encourage you to find a copy of the booklet.
Man, that’s a metal story. Idk, there’s just something so cool about stories of people being so pissed off that they make their lives’ missions killing all of the gods.
@@thc_freebaser Dan's actually my brother, he and Tim recorded a large chunk of this album in our house we grew up in. We don't own the house anymore though so no sitting on the couch!
Agreed, definitely felt like drowning in thoughts. But in a nice contemplative sort of way. I enjoyed that. Loved the bass line running through it, and the vocal harmonies / counterpoints.
You did a HANL song in your shoegaze week. This album is a mix of post-rock, post-punk, shoegaze and more.. I totally recommend the whole thing, it's great!
Great analysis, i recommend listening to Dan’s solo work “especially no one is ever going to want me” by Giles Corey. One of my favorite songs ever and I’d think you like it, great video !
These guys have been on my radar for a while but I've never gotten around to them. Really enjoyed this track and I can definitely see myself loving an entire album of music like this. It definitely has touches of post-punk, especially the more atmospheric, gothic post-punk (like The Cure) that eventually evolved into shoegaze and post-rock. To me, this is probably closer to shoegaze or post-rock than post-punk, but since those genres grew out of post-punk it certainly belongs in that lineage. Beyond the genre, I think the key attraction of this track and other shoegaze/post-rock in general is the creation of a specific, often very lush and voluptuous atmospheric and how easily it is to sink into it. Music like this is definitely more about production and tonal effects that creates over the "purely" musical elements, but that's OK. EDIT: To clarify, post-rock originates with Talk Talk's late albums. Talk Talk started out as a synth-pop/new wave band and new wave was very much one of the specific genres that evolved out of late-70s punk. So Talk Talk, while not strictly post-punk, were very much post-punk adjacent (there was a lot of overlap/crossover between post-punk and new wave: I think the distinction is almost entirely in how "poppy" the music was, with the more accessible stuff getting labeled new wave and/or synth-pop). Shoegaze similarly grew out of post-punk via The Cure and Cocteau Twins, both of which started out as prototypical post-punk bands before forging their own sounds (goth rock and shoegaze respectively). You can very much hear something of all these bands/influences in this track.
haunting is incredible, damn i tear up every time i hear it. 'no one will ever want me' comes to mind though. a mix of all we might find as 'consumable' with a deafening act of destruction that pertains to self righteousness, or lack of :/.
@@theofficialassmob i just thought some parts in haunting for example where few vocals are singing at the same time would be more memorable first time experience of the band
3:33, yeah idk about the snare turned off, when I played drums I'd mostly play with the snare turned off mostly cuz i couldnt tune for shit and it was easier for me to have my snare be a sharper tom. Also I got really into snare off drumming durring the last few years of my drumming. I was really against the snare cuz it hust sounded bad to me and I could do more with the drums with snare off. I think I had 14" snare, an 8" tom, a 12: tom, an 18: floor tom and a 22:floor. 20 inch ride, 14 inch hihat and I wanted a 12v or 13 inch, a 16" and 14" crash.
Gorgeous track! I also got the slight Gothic vibe of The Cure on the guitar mainly, like Jeannette mentioned. I've been meaning to check this album but the length has deterred me so far. I should definitely do it, though. I feel I'll really like it, considering I deeply enjoyed both tracks we've checked here. Great analysis as always, Bryan!
If you like Have a Nice Life you'd probably enjoy Greet Death, specifically their most popular album New Hell. It's not as reverb heavy and shoegaze based as Have a Nice Life and it focuses more on indie rock inspiration rather than post punk.
Always. I'm not going to enjoy every piece of music out there, and I'll express that, but I'll always look for something to positively take away from it. There's always something to be learned with an open enough mind.
So in terms of the meaning of the song:
Deathconciousness came with a booklet about a fictional person named Antiochus, who essentially was a religious philospher who was focused on and obsessed with the concept of death and the afterlife. Every song on the album is based around this philosophy of Antiocheanism.
This song is literally about a great hunter building a stairway of bodies to the sky to kill God with arrows. It's representative of humanity and its insatiable love of death, to the point of killing our spiritual selves.
The whole album is just dealing with the idea of death and what an afterlife could actually be. It's basically pure misanthropy, but in a very cathartic sense.
I highly encourage you to find a copy of the booklet.
I read that booklet and the Gyles Corey one, amazing stuff, can't stress how much it adds to the music knowing all the lore behind it.
Man, that’s a metal story. Idk, there’s just something so cool about stories of people being so pissed off that they make their lives’ missions killing all of the gods.
Masterpiece. This whole album is extremely depressive but brilliant.
the whole album is a masterpiece. true beauty
They wrote this whole album in my living room, recording acoustics on a tape recorder. Their recent live stuff is great as well.
One of the best albums of all time was created in your living room wow that so crazy to think about
Holy shit really
I hope you listen to it sitting there a lot. Did they own your house at one point? Or were previous roommates?
@@thc_freebaser I think their related because of his last name Barrett the same as the memeber Dan Barrett
@@thc_freebaser Dan's actually my brother, he and Tim recorded a large chunk of this album in our house we grew up in. We don't own the house anymore though so no sitting on the couch!
THIS IS MY SECOND FAVOURITE ALBUM OF ALL TIME FOLLOWED BY TWIN FANTASY BY CAR SEAT HEADREST
My man
this is my ranking too
@@greyscalewoods711 YOU HAVE A NITW PFP OF COURSE IT IS
Jesus Christ
Agreed, definitely felt like drowning in thoughts. But in a nice contemplative sort of way. I enjoyed that. Loved the bass line running through it, and the vocal harmonies / counterpoints.
And it lasts as long as it possibly can
You did a HANL song in your shoegaze week. This album is a mix of post-rock, post-punk, shoegaze and more.. I totally recommend the whole thing, it's great!
The guitars reminded me of The Cure, one of my favourite bands.
Always reminds me of if a DSBM song had groove to it
That is due to the Flanger being the go-to effect for The Cure, so it became their trademark
They recorded the album on a laptop (laptop mic?) with stock plugins from logic, pretty crazy
True lofi right there
Love the song Hunter from this album
Great analysis, i recommend listening to Dan’s solo work “especially no one is ever going to want me” by Giles Corey. One of my favorite songs ever and I’d think you like it, great video !
These guys have been on my radar for a while but I've never gotten around to them. Really enjoyed this track and I can definitely see myself loving an entire album of music like this. It definitely has touches of post-punk, especially the more atmospheric, gothic post-punk (like The Cure) that eventually evolved into shoegaze and post-rock. To me, this is probably closer to shoegaze or post-rock than post-punk, but since those genres grew out of post-punk it certainly belongs in that lineage. Beyond the genre, I think the key attraction of this track and other shoegaze/post-rock in general is the creation of a specific, often very lush and voluptuous atmospheric and how easily it is to sink into it. Music like this is definitely more about production and tonal effects that creates over the "purely" musical elements, but that's OK.
EDIT: To clarify, post-rock originates with Talk Talk's late albums. Talk Talk started out as a synth-pop/new wave band and new wave was very much one of the specific genres that evolved out of late-70s punk. So Talk Talk, while not strictly post-punk, were very much post-punk adjacent (there was a lot of overlap/crossover between post-punk and new wave: I think the distinction is almost entirely in how "poppy" the music was, with the more accessible stuff getting labeled new wave and/or synth-pop). Shoegaze similarly grew out of post-punk via The Cure and Cocteau Twins, both of which started out as prototypical post-punk bands before forging their own sounds (goth rock and shoegaze respectively). You can very much hear something of all these bands/influences in this track.
yo, what about vocalist's project "giles corey"? i would suggest song "haunting presense"
haunting is incredible, damn i tear up every time i hear it. 'no one will ever want me' comes to mind though. a mix of all we might find as 'consumable' with a deafening act of destruction that pertains to self righteousness, or lack of :/.
@@theofficialassmob i just thought some parts in haunting for example where few vocals are singing at the same time would be more memorable first time experience of the band
@@ShadinCore absolutely agree. hanl and giles corey both have phenomenal vocal harmonies
good call mane. my favorite from 'giles corey' hands down is "winter's house."
hope you're doing well homie, godspeed.
@@stuntman321 godspeed you! black emperor to you as well, kind person of the interwebs! 🥰
3:33, yeah idk about the snare turned off, when I played drums I'd mostly play with the snare turned off mostly cuz i couldnt tune for shit and it was easier for me to have my snare be a sharper tom. Also I got really into snare off drumming durring the last few years of my drumming. I was really against the snare cuz it hust sounded bad to me and I could do more with the drums with snare off. I think I had 14" snare, an 8" tom, a 12: tom, an 18: floor tom and a 22:floor. 20 inch ride, 14 inch hihat and I wanted a 12v or 13 inch, a 16" and 14" crash.
Play this in my funeral fr
This whole album is just a masterpiece
Gorgeous track! I also got the slight Gothic vibe of The Cure on the guitar mainly, like Jeannette mentioned. I've been meaning to check this album but the length has deterred me so far. I should definitely do it, though. I feel I'll really like it, considering I deeply enjoyed both tracks we've checked here. Great analysis as always, Bryan!
damn I can't believe HANL got mainstream
I'm pretty sure the drums on all these songs are programmed. It was made for only a 1000$, a masterpiece.
If you like Have a Nice Life you'd probably enjoy Greet Death, specifically their most popular album New Hell. It's not as reverb heavy and shoegaze based as Have a Nice Life and it focuses more on indie rock inspiration rather than post punk.
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fantastic song.....brillant
Thanks for the honest reaction!
Always. I'm not going to enjoy every piece of music out there, and I'll express that, but I'll always look for something to positively take away from it. There's always something to be learned with an open enough mind.
Fuck yes!
cover is the Death of Marat
Well, punk is short for punk-ROCK - so post-(punk-)rock fits 😁
Brilliant