Metal band from California, Dig The Grave bought time of members of Mastodon, Anthrax, Lamb Of God, Alexisonfire, Sepultura, Shadows Fall and some others to be in their latest video 'ISO'. Dig The Grave lacked funds, so they used CAMEO to buy just seconds of metal master's time for a simple yet memorable video.
An all-around nice guy with a profile name Old Composer does a reaction and a breakdown of 'Passenger' by Deftones and Maynard James Keenan of Tool on his YouTube channel. He goes just slightly into theory and really appreciates how the band has built the song. There's plenty of videos he uploaded, one of the newest was his reaction to Mudvayne's 'Dig' which he really - dug! He also did a video 'Why Led Zeppelin KASHMIR Makes Your Face Melt'. He is a composer, real name George “GiBi” del Barrio.
“I got a whole bunch of varieties on my playlist now. I used to listen to all rap, now I’ve got rock, old music, 80s. I’d hear songs but I had no idea who made it” - Fred Williams, of the reaction-video twins TwinsthenewTrend told Guardian about how his listening habits changed since he started posting videos with his brother reacting to songs after hearing them for the first time. Williams brothers were raised on Twista and Lil Wayne, so different genres were a surprise - “I guess I’ve been most surprised by rock, which I never listened to growing up. It’s good, and I thought rock was bad”. Fred appreciates it because “There’s no computer or autotune. They just focus on voices, beats and instruments. It’s just interesting how they can make a song like that”. But life hasn't changed a lot since the boys became popular (over 570,000 subscribers) - Fred is still working at his day job as a barber...
Phil Collins' song 'In the Air Tonight' saw a 1,110% increase in sales after a viral video of two brothers reacting to the song while listening to it for the first time, CoS reports. Tim and Fred Williams, a pair of 22-year-old twins from Gary, Indiana, create reaction videos on YouTube under the account TwinsthenewTrend, and their most popular video is their reaction to Collins' 1980s pop hit, with over 4 million views. The song is climbing the Billboard charts, and it has already reached No. 3 on the iTunes Charts.
Tim and Fred Williams are twenty-one-year-old twins from Gary, Indiana, who make videos of themselves listening to famous songs for the first time, and release those on their YouTube channel TwinsthenewTrend. They've uploaded dozens of songs, mostly rock - Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Johnny Cash - and their most popular one is Phil Collins’s 'In the Air Tonight', with over 4 million views. The New Yorker likes the naivety of the two...
"This is a really odd meter they are starting with. This is complicated" - vocal coach Ken Lavigne said in reaction to 'Pneuma' by Tool, watching it for the first time. Coach was watching and reacting mostly to drummer Danny Carey whom he called "a wizard around all these cauldrons... brewing potion”. At the highpoint of the song he stopped and said "I'm new to Tool...and I feel like I have wasted my life", , whereas actually, he should be happy about living in a time when there's so much great music, including Tool, who are great again.
No Life Shaq is a 26-year-old hip-hop head and a YouTuber who started ith recording his reactions to hip-hop songs from the likes of Eminem, Meek Mill, 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes. In October 2018 made the decision to branch out, checking out songs he’d never before heard, starting with Metallica’s 'One', when he got something he would never have expected. Now, he has well over 1.5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel. Complex interviewed him about how he started and where he is now.
