Anata - The Great Juggler

[TrepidationUK]

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[Presekaman]

Fuck, I love this band!

[MrPurulent]

me llega mas este disco no hay tantos reefs tecnicos como en el otro!!!!!!!!!

[mujuma]

Thankgod, I was expecting Deathcore ball-squeeling vocals...

Not very interesting growls, but atleast they're there.

[Kingslayer76]

I love this entire album but if i had to choose one song it would be Better Grieved than Fooled.

[shredh3d]

whoever Anata is signed with isnt doing them justice, they are really great =)

[aerosmithfan984]

This song is orgasmic.

[chongo666]

Bought this song off iTunes like a month ago allready has 78 listens...they're arrangements om theyre albums are fantastic every song is thought out no fillers

[wildfrost]

the mainriff is insane, fucking love it!!

[inagartenrules]

fucking earache, c'mon release the record already!

[shitknot69]

Fucking awesome riffage, these guys really work together as a band

[l341972]

never heard this band before...halfway expected the vocals to start ... and think ... pussy.... I was wrong... happily wrong... this is a great sound, brutal riffs and i dig the vocals... none of that no ball having crap, are these guys still together?

[TSEDTIKS]

@l341972

Anata's still around, but they've been choking since one of their guitarists left. Supposed to finally get their next album out this year, though.

[Garegin]

criminally underrated. probably the only band that properly and tastefully blends classical styles into metal riffs. ps. gorguts had done it, but it is not active.

[kick52]

ahah shiieet this song is actually about juggling.

[SoundChiefProduction]

The lyrics are sad lol

[TheSonsofHorusx]

sick!

[wishiwuzazagthoth]

Probably the most pretty sounding DM i've ever heard.

[IMBACHABRI]

I dislike whole Scandinavian metal scene,but anata is something different:D

[lygophile]

@IMBACHABRI. what?? you can't like metal and dislike scandinavian metal anymore then you can like metal but not distorded guitars.

ok, bad analogy. but scandiniavian metal still leads.

[desolateline]

@lygophile actually i'd say that was a damn good analogy lol

[alreadytaken334]

Sounds like the guitarists are jugglers.

[Miittle]

Hey, the drummer actually plays something not impossible! 1:02

For no more than 10 seconds. XD

[JatinderGill9]

Riff at 0:39 - So delightfully awkward.

[inquestFLASH]

great stuff.

[PrivateSnowballTFC]

These lyrics are grand, and personal to me. Maybe for 12th grade english class, we should do a few Anata songs for the poetry unit. Not only that, but the music is badass as well.

[bubblesandcuppcakes]

why cant this bee what kids grow up on instead of the shit mess on mtv

[roxzor1993]

@bubblesandcuppcakes

my father teached me well XD

[brendanfode]

@roxzor1993

... I'm sorry, is that irony?

[roxzor1993]

@brendanfode

nope xD

[purplesquirrl]

@bubblesandcuppcakes Because it takes atleast some level of maturity to like ANY form of good music. Classical, Jazz, any form of good metal...Even Power Metal, it takes something a lot of people don't have to appreciate it, but especially with music like this.

[PhilxEulogyx]

man, these guys are beast...metal needs more originality like this.

[Chri5tl]

0:45 - THOSE blasts!!!! OMG!

[paperwaves123]

that last comment on the dawkins vid was not @ you. hope you didnt think it was!

[XOdenXHorusXZeusX]

Awesome shit.. \m/

[brendanfode]

Love the screech and growl combo @ 2:32

[dmguitarist99]

jesus christ, the riffing in this song makes me want to do something nasty

[TSEDTIKS]

Check out Anata - Complete Demise.

That is, imo, their best riff by far.

[AMRadioHits]

Ka-wink?

At any rate, it's a great song for several reasons. You know the first few: Anata's awesome, this song is awesome, etc. But it's also a song so heavily dependent upon its rhythm, yet it doesn't fall into just being a chugged song. There's melody to it too, and it rounds it off very well.

[nilzardo]

I like this bass playing.

[TheZiqvpix]

Intro bass is so epic!

[tacityrn]

about the great juggler u could say he was always about trying to fit in, tried to live life beyond what he knew, life on the outside eventually became meaningless to him once he fully comprehended how cold people really are no matter how hard you try to find love.

he eventually receded back to the circus... the ring

the only family he knew

the only way he knew how to live life.

THE WRESTLER STARRING MICKEY ROURKE!

[AMRadioHits]

Coming to a theater near you this...er...quite a few summers ago!

[tacityrn]

or in my case the creation of stfu BUT FUCK U!

[tacityrn]

good nick for them would be the creation of destruction!

[tacityrn]

anata always has and will destroy.

[z00z99]

holy shit,this is insane.

[MetalCallOut]

sweet!!

[LukeTheBeef]

Epic

[Thundermaned]

Sure thing. ;)

[Thundermaned]

About the great juggler, he wants to fit in. He tries to be cared about. But in the real world, people will just look at him as a great clown, begging for attention. You might say it's about trends, trying to fit in the crowd.

[tacityrn]

@Thundermaned i've always loved thunders analogy the most lol

[Thundermaned]

@tacityrn Thanks. ^^ However I think I'm not entirely accurate. Look up the lyrics, the last few sentences have a great poetic meaning. :)

[tacityrn]

@Thundermaned lol of course, i read the lyrics first actually and that's why i loved your breakdown of the meaning so much :P

also why i kind referenced the movie the wrestler and ESPECIALLY for the last lines

bro ;)

[InsideOutAnus]

@Thundermaned Actually Schalin said it was referring to himself how he became so wrapped up in his music that he shut himself off from the rest of the world. The line 'joined the circus at 17' is a reference to him joining Anata when he turned 17.

[Thundermaned]

@InsideOutAnus Interesting, never knew that. I guess what I said could still be psychologically relevant though.

[lumpofloight]

this song fits the cover art so well. some of my favorite-sounding metal vocals. raspy yet still guttural, it sounds like the wind in my ears. i love their balance between slow and fast, catchiness and proggyness.... !.

[ninezones123]

this album is so cool

[irrelevantius]

a clown can be a juggler, but a juggler will never be a clown and mustn´t necesarry go to circus you fool. Nice music although but in my opinion the lyrics are not ok

[TNorbiSBW]

Well said.

Is the artist a juggler? Or another guy on the street who assumes shit without actually knowing anything.

Juggling torches, and throwing high are the 2 least skillful things, and make you about the most ungreat, boring, run-of-the-mill juggler out there.

Just a thought.

[TMA2]

i think you're both taking it way too literally.

[gavransava]

no shit

[LiquidCruelty]

DICKS EVERYWHERE

[Thundermaned]

You are a whiner, not a fucking whiner becuz you aren't getting laid... just a whiner.

Anyway, goddamn dude, just understand the meaning of the lyrics, don't make interpretations when it has meaning.

[StevensonMark]

I can't get enough of this album. I'm so pumped about their new one.

[95b18c1gsr]

Dude I cannot WAIT til their new album comes out...... the myspace clips sound amazing.......

[lumpofloight]

no time to comment— i have to go buy this album immediately.

[95b18c1gsr]

You will not regret it!

[LiquidCruelty]

Fuck yes

[lumpofloight]

backup-shrieker makes my gas foot go downward

[AlucardII]

fucking love this song. half-time drums ftw

[TSEDTIKS]

That's because it's friggin' awesome.

[UnwillingOrigins]

@AlucardII what is half-time? I've never understood time signatures lol.