WIFE FIRST TIME LISTENING TO Symphony X - Children of a faceless God | COUPLE REACTION
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ม.ค. 2022
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Another great song from them. Nick thanks for bringing these reactions to us. I love the guitar riffing and the bass so much! And yes there are elements of tool all over this song. Loved this ! Take care! Love you both! Cant wait for the next video!
Super glad you liked it Eric!!
I love this song and SX! Nice reaction!
Ooh another new band to explore! Thanks you two. Lots of love! ❤️
Definitely do more Symphony X! 🤟
Excellent to hear someone react to Symphony X. I got into them when I was waiting for some more Rush to come out and needed something to fill the void. They offered really great musicianship and interesting lyrics as well. Another really great band in this ilk is Spocks beard. I was into them as well at the same time as Symphony X.
I love Symphony X as well! I hope you get some Dream Theater again, being the new album or finish "Scenes From A Memory"
Hoping to attend their 25th anniversary tour in Orlando this year!
Yes they are coming to Denver to open their tour. Lexi and I will be there 🤘
Another one of my favorites. I love Symphony X. But i'm still waiting for some Pain of Salvation reactions. Guys, you don't know what you're missing.
... but it’s better if you do.” And the Smiths are playing in the background, I think. Ohhh, maybe a Morrissey request. 😜
I’d vote for Morrissey even more than Panic! At the Disco. The SMITHS - “How Soon is Now” was so reflective of a time. #nicknlexreaction (Edit: but it is more of a dance or club vibe (repetitive) which doesn’t always translate to a focused headphone listen because it does repeat 🤷🏻♀️ .
You got it!! 👏
This is my son’s music
but, yeah I get it!
Zeppelin etc..was mine..
generational continuation.
Love rock🔥💖!!
Enjoying your vids.
Go for it Alexia, it's time to show Nick more of "your" music 🙂
Symphony x the edge of forever
Track 3 on damnation game. I think it's my favorite song or at least my all-time Romeo solo
@@NicknLex I'm pretty sure it's my favorite SX song.
Through The Looking Glass - Part I, II & III
Hi Nick, you should play some pinch harmonics on your guitar to show Alex how much you can vary the sound. I'm sure she would appreciate it. Thanks guys 😎👍🍁
MOAR!
YES!!! DO MORE SYPHONY X REACTIONS!
YES!!!
I totally relate to the years of only symphony x
I found out about them in 2009 and they were the only thing I listened to till like 2012/13 or something
This band is just amazing!
So little reaction to Symphony X - thanks so much. My introduction to their music was "The Odyssey", and like you, I listened to them ceaselessly for years. There was so little prog metal to enjoy. I too, have since discovered other incredible bands in this genre - try these on for size:
For it's similar storytelling to "The Odyssey", here is Norway's Circus Maximus -' "Glory of the Empire" : th-cam.com/video/PgJvBfQh_cE/w-d-xo.html
From semi-rural Pennsylvania, come "Shadow Gallery: "Cliffhanger 1 and 2": th-cam.com/video/N1Zhcwrs1Y4/w-d-xo.html
From Britain..."Threshold" - "Mission Profile": th-cam.com/video/GaxkZdAEUXU/w-d-xo.html
Finally, from way back, an epic prog track from "Uriah Heep" - their opus "Salisbury": th-cam.com/video/zau-okpFssg/w-d-xo.html
Salisbury is great, but I even like Magicians birthday better because of its fantastic guitar solo ... have you heard it within the last 10 years :-)
Take The Pebble. Play "The Barbarian", ELP is calling you out, surrender.
_The Barbarian_ should take heed the Fates Warning of "Fata Morgana"! :O
Love Symphony X too and surely also a good song but their - in my view - all time favorite song is also on this album and should have been chosen which is WHEN ALL IS LOST ❤😍❤ maybe any time soon you'll also do that one too. Just phenominal. Thanks and all the best
Dio sound, vocals!
This is new to me. Very intense, but not bad 👍
Love this!
Have you checked out Michael Romeo's new solo single (Divide & Conquer)?
De las mejores bandas de metal progresivo/ power que escuché. michael romeo debe ser junto con timo tolkki de los mejores guitarristas de éste estilo
Technically and musically... flawless.
As a fan of Rush who was on the band wagon when it was just a push cart I am not just an old fogy with flowers in my ponytail.
I used to work a pub at university where the bands were either Punk or Metal (loud?.... musical CPR) and had my fill of the genres (and real bloody idiots). Interesting to hear (actually hear) something that isn't a guy attempting to scream louder than a Rickenbacker though a wall of Marshalls. Still find the level of intensity exhausting, but it may be that at 65, I am a bit old for some "head banging" ....
Play on young lovers....
I totally get it. Even for me now that I have been exposed to more 70's prog and more and more classical rock I don't know if I could still listen to an entire album of this kind of intensity myself. Used to listen to Iron maiden and Metallica all day and I can't do it anymore. Thanks for your comment.
@@NicknLex my first night working the pub, the headliners were....
Nine Inch Nails
(think on a blackboard)
'nough said about that.
Here's a little gift, Max Webster
You heard them in a duet with Rush
Battlescar was the tune.
Two tunes to show both sides of the band (and Kim Mitchell)
In Context To The Moon (prog)
On The Road(mellow prog?)
No reaction needed, that way you can just put it on and enjoy.
@@davidgale7384 thanks David. We will definitely check it out 😉
@@davidgale7384 a big plus one on more Max Webster
@@1charlesallnut I used to see if them in the bars in Toronto 76-80.
Rough Trade, The Spoons, David Wilcox, Ian Tamblen, Jeff Healey... Was at the Elmo (SP?) the night of the SVR TH-cam video. That was a mind altering experience.
We have/had some pretty amazing artists up past the 39th.
Just sounds like Dio to me . . .
Which isn't a bad thing.
Hello, I'm Germán from Argentina and I recommend you listen to the band Myrath and the song Under Siege
When I'm at the gym and this song comes on my ipod I turn into an air guitar animal.
I probably look silly. But the again I don't give a rats ass! 🤣
youve got to do "heart of The Sunrise: and "To Be Over" by YES. Take my word for it.
I had wanted to react to the previous Symphony X, but I somehow forgot ... how could this happen. But I remember, what's always on my mind: on the throne of Progressive metal guitarists I have John Petrucci sitting in the middle, at his sides Mikael Romeo and Jim Matheos of Fates Warning, 3 masters ! My personal problem with Symphony X is, that one of their big + (plus) is also a big - (minus) : the strong voice of Russell Allen - he starts singing and you are totally impressed, but if he goes on with full power, I can stand it for max 40 - 50 minutes ( the original LP length), after that it's getting too much for me ... he should have more variety .. but maybe I heard the "wrong" albums of Symphony X. So I'm willing to learn, tell me, if there are CDs, that I should give a try. Other than that, the music is beyond doubt, great progressive metal, great thrashing and everything ... And thank you for giving my advice to your subscribers, whenever you start feeling not well because of the volume at concerts, you better use earplugs, I tried to avoid them as long as possible, but a lack of fun of pure sound is better than lifelong tinnitus, fortunately I stopped at the right time. Ask people who got it, what a pain in the a** it is, it's a loss of life quality .... sorry for preaching, I only want the best for you all :-)
Amen! Jim Matheos (and his often side man "Frank Aresti") is a VERY underrated Guitarist. Hopefully very soon, N&L will get into different era's (and bands) of their music :).
Who's better than Sir Allen?
_“Incorrect. I am not an AI. My code name is Project 2501. I am a living, thinking entity that was created in the sea of information.”_
I'm a sucker for any band/album where the subject is about Technology gone wrong and Robots (Terminator, Matrix, Ai, Ghost in the Shell etc.), which I've collected in 2 Themed Playlists over the years. And of course, a few tracks from this excellent album are featured.
Though I can remember when this and the previous album were under a bit of scrutiny because there were long time fans that wanted "Sir" Russel Allen to return to his more _melodic_ singing, which he does well. Its funny that his rougher voice was still quite "melodic", where as there are countless vocalists that scream, wale, or do guttural/death metal vocals (yet are in key with the music) comparatively. I like it all, but I understand with Allen because it was so distinctive, but the music gets heavier, so it needed a voice to go with it (I guess the argument about the music getting heavier was also contentious).
I need to go back to listening to this album as a whole, its been awhile to hear it. Also I need to get more into the earlier albums _before_ "V" (which you guys had reacted to a track). Those albums are very proggy and have a medieval quality about them (the choir-like harmonies of Allen's voice) because of the subject matter.
Haha another Holdsworth "shot"! Love the artwork of this album as well . . .
SYMPHONY X founder & lead guitarist Michael Romeo has the following to say about Flanagan’s art:
"We worked with Warren on the last CD, Paradise Lost, and have a good relationship with him. When I talk to Warren about artwork ideas, a lot of times we end up making comparisons to films and movies. With the new CD, Iconoclast, the music and lyrics have a darker mechanical/technological theme, and I remember us talking about scenes from films like The Matrix and Terminator. From there, we sent him some song titles and lyrics (songs like 'Dehumanized,' 'Bastards Of The Machine,' 'Electric Messiah') and just let Warren run with the ball. He has a great imagination and style, and he totally gets what we are trying to convey with the music."
All the things I love of high concept art meeting the music as a representation of what's "inside" (like a Book cover). Be sure to see the "2" covers (1 for the regular edition, and the other the Special Edition).
This is another great track from them, very hooky chorus and pre-chorus, and those great Allen lines where he can emote. Very groovy track (like you Nick, its been awhile to hear this). For Lexi, the "pinch harmonics" are those guitar "squeals" between the heavy riffs at that section that Nick pointed out (the subtle touching of the string to make a "harmonic" twang, between the thumb and pick. Marty Friedman does it alot, as well as Zakk Wylde, and John Sykes/Blue Murder, and many others). Traditional Death Metal players do that often as well.
You have "Allen/Lande" to checkout (Jorn Lande of Ark), Adrenaline Mob (Allen and Portnoy's Metal band), Ayreon with guest Allan and Michael Romeo, Arjen Lucassen's other _Sci-Fi_ band "Star One", Allen's solo album "Atomic Soul", 3 solo albums by Romeo, Allen with "Avantasia" and guesting in many other projects.
That was great! Cool to see Lexi getting into the bands we enjoy. Though keep in mind SX is a Prog Metal/U.S. Powermetal band (sometimes seen as a "Symphonic Metal" band), "Metal" is usually associated with Heavy Metal between 1979 thru 1985 (and modern bands of that "style"), and then the "subgenres" started to be born and has grown much from there.
- Nice surprise to end the night! \m/
Oh! P.S. . . . I have not figured out Lexi's quote (scratching the goatee of knowledge)! :p
"Hold me, Machine Messiah
And show me
The strength of your singular . . . . eye".
Your knowledge and love for this band is amazing. I had a permanent grin on my face reading your comment. This band means so much to me and also influenced my style of playing. Romeo is a monster. Allen is just mesmerizing! I do enjoy the first album with the old vocalist. The remake of the song masquerade done with Allen is so good!! It's on the Japanese edition of the Odyssey. I hope we can do the 24 min track odyssey with Alexia soon. Check out the song "frontiers" and tell if Romeo is not channeling Allan Holdsworth in that solo. His legato is of the charts in that one. Let me know what you think?
@@NicknLex - Will have to check that out Nick (and take another shot ;)!
And yes! "The Odyssey" will make lots of fans happy :).
So . . . .
Did you get the1st quote?
The 2nd one at the very end of my comment is a "track" from an Album you MUST checkout (and that you now own). Hopefully a "fan" will reveal where its from ;).
@@mvunit3 will check it out 🤘 the quote I think is major from the original Ghost in the Shell. Alexia and I just bought Akira in 4K today!!! I love the quote thing and we will continue doing that. Did you figure out Alexia's in this video. Such a great film! Watch the scene on TH-cam
@@NicknLex - GitS it is ;). Its not the Major saying it though . . . . .
Oh! Yeah, I looked it up after I couldn't figure it out. Don't know the movie though, and I see that it was in a song by a well known Alternative group. I won't say what it is since I "cheated". We'll see if someone gets it :).
@@mvunit3 yeah I had to look up some quotes too. The one Mark posted. Closer is such a good film. Just amazing writing and acting. Really good. I'll send you a link of a scene that is just so amazing. It doesn't spoil the movie.
This is very good, I love the vocals, the only thing is I can't hear the bassist... I guess it's because I love when the bass stands out.
I'm 0-2 in movie quotes... 😪
Stumped by the movie quote... the music is very good though. Not real familiar with Symphony X.
Sympho y x heretic very good