spastic ink - mosquito brain surgery

[AlexLococo]

FUCK OFF WITH DT ALREADY! I love them and everything, but the only thing they are similar between each other is odd time signature. Not even same genre.

[DRINKSandDRUMS]

bobby jarzombek would tear gavin harrison up FACT!

[divinegrinder]

@DRINKSandDRUMS Any top level drummer like Gavin H. would have no problem with this if put in the position. Can't hear him ever doing something like this though...Porcupine Tree doesn't write stuff like this.  Vinnie Colaiuta was doing shit like this in the late 70's with Frank Zappa. Guarantee Vinnie could play this song first time seeing the sheet music in one take...probably while daydreaming. And I would rank Gavin closer to Vinnie, not Bobby J., as far as drummers go.

[divinegrinder]

@divinegrinder That doesn't mean I don't think Jarzombek is awesome. He's a great drummer.

[Joeskateapool]

@DRINKSandDRUMS I feel like both drummers are fantastic in their own right and genre. let them both be an inspiration to you as musicians. But hell Bobby is fucking insane! and Gavin has that sweet technicality through his groove and style. DRUMS SHRED

[deepseabattles]

Sick bass run at the end

[NightSilencer]

Is the drummer human? He can't be.

[Blink182plus44equ226]

@NightSilencer He's no Gavin Harrison.

[NightSilencer]

@Blink182plus44equ226 I wholeheartedly agree.

Gavin Harrison is my favourite drummer ever.

[DeathWarranty]

Kings among men

I just came

[GxAxL]

Dream theater is better!

[LichKingSkullWart]

@GxAxL I'm so sick of people saying that Dream Theater are the best band "EVAR" - Shut the fuck up about fucking Dream Theater!

[DeathWarranty]

@GxAxL get off of my youtube page and grow some ears

[AlexLococo]

@GxAxL I like DT better too, but comparing them with each other is stupid. Fuck off.

[robzillopez]

Alot of Zappa undertones!!! I like

[MovieMajic]

Despite the oddness, I love how the jazz elements manage to come out and be noticed. I love prog music, these guys did a wonderful job with not only the technicality, but they also didn't lose the feel of the music, to the point where it just sounded like atonal guitar work with percussion. Also I'm a huge DT fan, and I can't stand these idiots who the second they hear odd time signatures with syncopated guitar riffs they immediately mention DT. That's very common in prog music, DT was not first

[shredsaxes]

@MovieMajic DT?



[MovieMajic]

@shredsaxes Dream Theater.

[IMBACHABRI]

i don't get it....how did  i miss this band?really cool stuff...

[skateNappreciate]

how thoughtful! they play funeral music at the end for all of it's listeners minds that died

[666metalsucks666]

weird... not bad though. well, like it or not, you can't say it isn't interesting.

[Sk8Nature]

Dude

i dont know what to say o what i just hear

But the only think i can say is

This is Fucking awesome

[Tarabos1]

Hello to all, who like this. If you don´t know the MATS MORGAN band, check them out on YT here. You´ll also like them !

[Pennys1]

Sounds like a death run!

[nzSkitzo]

Cool reminds me of Cynic

[LolitaSupreme]

Technical as fuck. I love it.

[TheKaappari]

Finally I can hear the bass with out strugling. A lot of bands especially in metal scene have great bassists and basslines that can't be heard

[UnforgivingCritic]

Spastic's best song so far is "A Wild Hare".

"Words for Nerds" goes 2nd. at least for me.

[manmadeaids]

Buckethead should not be mentioned in the same breath as Ron Jarzombek.

[SpartanLaserCanon]

@manmadeaids If you like this song you will also like this one, Suspyre - Possession search it on youtube

[brainphreak]

@manmadeaids - Dude buckethead and Ron are surely fans of each other. If you don't think so, you have not really heard buckethead... That dude is also all over the place. Of course Ron is way better technically for sure (who is better? , but buckethead is definitely an amazing guitarist, with a similar feel on some records and deserves some definite respect. I would recommend "Kaleidoscalp" for one... Or praxis, Or even Cuckoo Clocks of hell.. That shit is heavy and Different.

[sacredb0b]

@manmadeaids Finally someone who understands the skill levels of guitarists. Abasi, Jarzombek, and even Sotelo put those shredders to shame.

[TheOrangeFondler]

my brain hurts now

[aligatorsandwitch72]

NEW FAVORITE GUITARIST

[yoznfroogurt]

@aligatorsandwitch72 Check out tera melos.

[cgorman72]

New Dream Theater Drummer? I hope so! This guy is insane!

[chillichomper]

@cgorman72 Would be cool but DT might be too lame for him. He might fall asleep behind the set.

[CyValkarion]

@chillichomper So true. But Collapsar could really do with him. Collapsar's drummer has a shit tone.

[SpartanLaserCanon]

The Only Reason I Can Handle This Is Because Listen To Buckethead Lots.

I'm Going To Say This Band And Buckethead Have A Strange But Badass Sound

To Them

Man.

[Amazongrassmonster]

@SpartanLaserCanon lol y do u capitalise the first letter of every word?

[SpartanLaserCanon]

This Is A Band That Has Lots Of Influences From Behold The Arctopus And Buckethead. Like A Mix.

[jeezuschryst]

@SpartanLaserCanon sorry, did you just say this band is influenced by behold the arctopus??

[SpartanLaserCanon]

@jeezuschryst I don't even know who the hell they are influenced by. xD

[LOLXMRADIO]

that bass interlude is sooooo good

[sasukeowns777]

fucking wicked shit!!!

[stairway100]

eh... it's kinda too complicated for me :)

[DancinRic]

reminds me of Mahavishnu Orchestra a little bit

[mdo0bm]

badass. i clicked on it because they perform brain extractions on fruit flies in the next lab...

[RandomResponse]

I feel like the deeper I get into music study, the more I will appreciate this music. This is definitely not background music. This is all encompassing, swallow-your-entire-perceptual­-field music. Love that last chord. It makes me breathe a sigh of happiness.

[blitzspeer]

This is awesome and Dream Theater is great and this is music for the more demanding musician.Why would some dumb fuck say Dream Theater sucks just because they favor this and other more underground music more?I just got back from the Bahama's and most of those islander's haven't heard of ether!I was so happy to get back to the state's.I hate calypso music in the first place but after 3 day's I would have been happy to hear the monkee's.The world outside is big.

[denciokups]

they are the masters of space and time

[Drumspiracy]

Bobby Jarzombek is to drumset as a brain surgeon is to a brain!

[zjcov]

This is Spastic Ink's masterpiece.

Don't get me wrong, there's not a song by them I don't like, this one just takes the cake. 4:56 - 5:46 just blows me away.

And then, at the very end of an extremely technical album, after the barrage of mosquito brain surgery, there's that calm passage. I think the rest is for our benefit as much as it is for the musicians!

[12Padawan]

I can hear the JARZOMBEK factor in this song

[PandusBear]

Wow 1:57 is like a carbon copy of riffs from dream theaters Dance Of Eternity...still amazing nonetheless...but you can kind of see their influences showing.

[concrete852]

Please wiki the release dates of everything before aking yourself sound foolish

[BlikeNave]

I'm too lazy to listen to a whole dream theater song to pick out where it sounds like that. What part of the dream theatre song is it at? or is it a chorus or something, cuz i'd be interested in hearing it.

[burninglegions]

Just for your information this is Ron Jarzombeks music, he is as well the guitar player for Watchtower! And Watchtower are Dream Theaters main influence. So if anybody sounds like Spestic Inc, then it's Dream Theater trying to sound like Spestic/Tower and not the other way around.

[mostafal1994]

The beginning of this song is strikingly similar to that of "When The Water Breaks" by Liquid Tension Experiment (the part when the guitar comes in after the keyboard intro, etc.)

[XxSconeManxX]

Too bad that Ink Complete came out two years earlier. I guess the song you're referring to actually sounds strikingly similar to Mosquito Brain Surgery, by Spastic Ink.

Contrary to common belief, John Petrucci didn't inspire anything and everything that involves progressive metal. Cripes.

[SpartanLaserCanon]

@XxSconeManxX Spastic Ink is a band i think should be way more famous. They are way head of their time and only a few amount of band sound like them.

[Gradius143]

Dream Theater could play this,but they dont have that crazy (superb) mind of Ron & Bobby Jarzombek to come up with something like this !

[cheezruff]

@Gradius143 mike p couldn't play bobby's parts if his life depended on it

[Coldman217]

@Gradius143 Well said! Good sir!

[charvinaldo]

@Gradius143 I wouldn't take one over the other necisarily. I mean considering all the albums petrucci has written for DT, LTE, Explorers Club, and his solo album, he deserves some serious respect. Then again, Jarzombeks have worked with spastic, blotted, arctopus, and gordian, so thats something to be respected as well. I just look at them both as excellent examples of musical composers at their own special places on the spectrum.

[SpartanLaserCanon]

@Gradius143 ya but just imagine if Spastic Ink had the same tone as Dream Theater!!! then the world would be sucked into a new dimension

[guscus69er]

insane drums are a +

[iamyouifyouareme]

Jarzombek is amazing for so many different reasons. I fucking love his music.

[f1freak94]

its awesome that these people fit together so good with the difficult rhythmes

[McLeod54]

Greatness exemplified!

[kaneeye]

wtf !!!!!

THIS IS PRO. STUFF

CAN'T SAY BETTER THAT "DT"

[micanut48]

can't or can? This is very, very good but it's little too broken to me. My ears like Blotted Science (another of Jarzombek's projects) a little more. But in any case, this (and many other bands) blows DT out of the water. DT is just more famous, that's all. Not necessarily better.

[666quebec666]

@micanut48 they are different. this is crazy prog music, like blotted science is... DT can be as progressive as Ron's songs. Ron simply elaborates his (prog) elements on a bigger scale i think. DT is more general prog music. plenty of styles with prog elements all around.. i think DT could play this imo.

sorry if my sentences make no sense, my english sucks.

peace

[micanut48]

@666quebec666 do you think DT could play this good? I understand they are very, very good musicians on their own but I doubt they are this accomplished. There is this sick element in Ron Jarzombek's stuff, sort of like some classical pieces of top old masters, where only a few artists can actually perform their compositions. I think RZ belongs to this few. His obsession with perfection can be matched by only handful of people in the world. I honestly think DT does not belong to this group. peace

[dvsdez]

Look up these DT songs

The test that stumped them all

The Dance of Eternity

A Change of Seasons

In the Name of God (Guitar and Keyboard unison)

Pretty sure they can play this

[KreatorOfDeath1985]

@dvsdez

they could play this

but they couldnt write this Dream theatre sucks

[dvsdez]

The balance between technically and musically interesting must be addressed. Attending only to technicality and ignoring musical appeal leaves a mess of notes

[XylussN]

@dvsdez Good thing that isn't happening here.

[DanielCriticalMX]

they don't suck, they are just as amazing as spastik ink and blotted science, but these guys are technical metal and they are prog, its just a different genre. Liquid tension experiment has some of the most amazing metal compositions of all times.

[ScreamxBloodyxGore]

I believe you are overrating Mike Portnoy and Myung. Petrucci could probably play this though.

[wadungalungasertotin]

@micanut48 i'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks that

[f1freak94]

in the first part...is it 9/8?

[winds0fcreation0]

yeah count it, 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4 5, repeat.

Fun

[Techdeathline]

Yep

[knumorvid]

more like 9/4 isn't it?

[blown0883]

yup in my opinion not understanding music inspires me to listen even more

[yusifer]

Well said.

[aliens1985]

this is win

[vinbasshred]

I love this song...its not just the herb...this song is well put together.

[corecorina]

p.s. check out another great technical band called ' Knife the Glitter'

[ArendNijhuis]

Its when arrogant musicians that think they're too good for a certain style of music do "over the top" progressive music to try to show their skills off. Frankly, I can respect talent, but I would never listen to any of it because it isn't written as music, it's written as a challenge. It hardly sounds like music either (and this isn't a call out to say I don't know metal or anything, since I listen to far more 'brutal' stuff, on occasion).

[SqueezCZ]

'Heaviness' of metal isn't a measure for metal knowledge...

[ArendNijhuis]

I never said that at all. I listen to plenty of genres of metal, including some progressive bands. The only reason I brought up the fact that i listened to more "brutal" music was only to avoid people telling me to go back to listening to nickelback and billy talent and that i didn't know what i was talking about because i dont listen to metal.

[corecorina]

If you listen to far more 'brutal' stuff, then how do you qualify what sounds like music and what doesn't?

I find this extremely enjoyable b/c I can hear the song structure - it reminds me of classical structure where there's more than a chorus verse bridge allignment...

this is *clearly* written as music, just because you can't hear the music in it doesn't mean the artists were merely showing off their technical proficiency... jeez

[XylussN]

exacto

[overlord3069]

@corecorina There is some more brutal neo-classical tech death out there, if you look hard enough. There is a band from italy called fleshgod apocalypse, and they incorporate a lot of piano intros and solos, and a lot of their riffs sound very classical music inspired. It's very favorable in my opinion, but like you said, its a little bit harder to decipher the sound structure through the speed and heaviness they play at. Their older band hour of penance was good too, check them out

[dickiecrow]

@overlord3069 also check out spawn of possesion!!!!!

[sonicslaughter]

@dickiecrow Indeed, Spawn of Possession sounds like classical music translated into death metal.

[diaphanoux]

@corecorina

Second this shit dude!!!...

[KreatorOfDeath1985]

@corecorina

Please, Jarzombek got court order not to show off his true potencial because it caused insanity, and fatalities in some cases.

[SpartanLaserCanon]

@corecorina This is way more technical than Unexpect but not as demonic as Unexpect.

[jsteele07189]

@SpartanLaserCanon lol that's not saying much, since Spastic Ink is extremely technical and not demonic at all!

[TheKlanks]

@corecorina fuck you

[KalterStien]

Well written and well said.

[herecomesthecumshot]

0Mg y00 Ar3 br0000tall!!!!!!!!you're comment is retarded. this isn't prog wankery. brutal death metal sucks btw.

[mattthedream]

Music is just organised sound dude, after that anything goes..people have been writing music as a 'challenge' for hundreds of years, from bach to shostakovich, music to challenge a norm or concensus, in the case of Spastik Ink, it is a case of writing music to create a polarity against all the mediocre crap that is spilled from the mainstream

[Guitfiddlejase]

@mattthedream JESUS! Talk about hittin' the nail on the head...

[MeistroMac91]

@mattthedream I couldnt have said it better my self I totally agree with you!

[CalLumpyK]

@mattthedream biggest bullshit i've herd.

[INSPIRITION]

@CalLumpyK Thanks for letting me know.

[SpartanLaserCanon]

@mattthedream If you like this song you will also like this one, Suspyre - Possession search it on youtube

[stratisfire]

@mattthedream actually the first written music was for royalty or wealthy familys exclusively. anything out of the "norm" was frowned upon which is a shame because if they were able to do what ever they wanted imagine what people like handel and bach would be able to accomplish

[KalterStien]

Their tone is just so perfect for what they play.

[FEARTTX]

Can be, yes. As to pun Metallica; Sad But True.

[Q2W3e4r5tss]

its good. I call this jazz

[FEARTTX]

You'd be wrong. This is Progressive metal. ;D

[GiannisVP]

Musicians call that aimless metal...

[GlamMetalShinobi]

Not all prog metal is aimless! I can see what you're getting at but look at Opeth! They're all true musicians! But they are without a doubt progressive metal!

[GiannisVP]

Opeth are death metal, with progressive influences, not progressive metal... anyway, I am a Dream Theater fan so I know that not all progressive metal is aimless... I know when prog is aimless or not, and this my friend... is...

[GlamMetalShinobi]

Ahh right.

Not arguing with you!

But have you heard the Opeth album, Damnation?

That's pretty much as far from Death Metal as you can get!

[XylussN]

Some people just don't understand some music. It's alright, you aren't alone.

[KreatorOfDeath1985]

There is no right way to understand music man,

every piece has a different story, and meaning, with every different person.

[XylussN]

Music may mean different things to different people and all that. but there is a level of understanding for all music. A 6th grade beginner in music would not understand music that had, say a 5 over 3 to 9 over 3 polyrythm in a piece of music with an 11/8 time signature. I'm talking about understanding the music in an intellectual sense as far as theory and influence and themes and references and such go. just because a piece of music doesnt appeal to and strike up feelings and emotions

[XylussN]

for someone doesn't mean it isn't musically sound. they just simply don't understand the music to it's fullest extent.

[KreatorOfDeath1985]

That had nothing to do with what i said man. haha

[aliens1985]

i agree

[knumorvid]

and what are "musicians" in general trying to accomplish that "aimless metalers" don't? Money?

[dvd21]

@fearttx

don't you hear jazz here?

[FEARTTX]

I hear it alright, In influence. This is definately Prog metal though. Reminds me of BTBAM without vocals.

[wilmotaustin]

damn cuhh.

this doesnt sound like btbam without vocals at all fag-mo

[FEARTTX]

Note i said it reminds me of. They don't sound THAT alike, They just remind me of BTMAM minus Vocals. Calm down.

[KrisstheKrunt]

I think a lot of prog is riddled with acid jazz! I'm glad someone else is on the same wavelength! :)

[krzymthrfckr]

this is just great

[theman66613]

Great upload dude