[2020] No matter how the new KDA song goes down tomorrow, let’s all please remember to be kind

Originally posted by zlawd

this is just a bad take. How are you going to put down and entire genre and gender? metal is much note niche than pop/rap. thats just the way this generation is. Sure simps help, but at the end of the day a pop song draws in more people, accept that.

Originally posted by EmeraldParrots

Alright bruh. Are we getting Pentakill Kayn? Would love to see my edgy boy be even edgier. (If that’s even possible)

Originally posted by l_Pyro_l

I'm sure you've been asked this many times, but how's the next Pentakill album coming? Hopefully y'all haven't been too affected by the pandemic.

I still listen to music from the last two all the time and I'm really excited to hear what's next.

Originally posted by EmeraldParrots

Hmmm..... I’m not really a big metal fan or a music genre lore expert, but after watching Karasmai’s stream (he listens to a lot of loud stuff like that while playing Kayn) I’ve found a few songs I like by My Chemical Romance and Fall Out Boy. As far as the whole metal theme goes I can’t really contribute much since it’s not my kind of music and I don’t know much about it buuuuuuuut...

I do enjoy thinking of Kayn skin ideas since that’s literally my dream job lol, to work at Rito and make the hottest Kayn skins ever. If you want I can dm you some of my Kayn art and stuff on Twitter or something if you wanna see. Sorry I’m not much of a help, just curious when our boy is gonna get a new skin/if it’ll be a music themed one (because you guys + the art team make super good music videos and all that stuff and it would be super cool if Kayn got to be in a music video)

Originally posted by Sresla

Please no, no Pentakill Kayn. There was a concept floating around a few months ago that, while very well done, had him in KISS-esque or Marilyn Manson make-up. While I realize that KISS sort of borders between rock and heavy metal, it just wasn't a look that worked for me.

Were I to associate a type of music with Kayn, I could realistically picture him liking Depeche Mode. I couldn't tell you why; it's just what immediately springs to mind. Maybe one of their more iconic songs like Strangelove, which - while not entirely lyrically on-point - could sort of stretch itself to encompass his and Rhaast's relationship. "I'm not trying to say I'll have it all my way, I'm always willing to learn when you've got something to teach" or "I give in to sin because you have to make this life livable" ... along those lines. He's taken up the Darkin weapon and does tap into Rhaast's power but he probably (because there's no accounting for my boy's ego) knows at some point Rhaast will get the upper hand. So what he's doing will likely be the end of him, but he thinks he's doing it for the right reasons, yadda yadda.

Originally posted by Kergara

This is true and sad that people just can't let others have their genre of music. Just a humble question why don't you just produce 1 - 2 songs in a collab, Kpop with metal like Babymetal does with Jpop and metal, of the bands and show the people: "Hey dudes they can make music together so stop the gatekeeping in music, please." This could maybe help stop spreading the hate between the fans. Which is stupid to begin with anyway. (When more pentakill though?) much Luv

Originally posted by OneMinuteDeen

I can't answer for Kayn, but I think Sett would really fit a power metal / Sabbaton theme :)

Originally posted by zondabaka

I feel like metal has suffered from not reinventing itself for far too many years

Could you elaborate a bit on this? To me it always felt the opposite, that metal branched into too many different directions to be a meaningful umbrella term at all.

Originally posted by Floppuh

Please just do more of what was on Grasp. That album is really unique for me just for the wonky grooves, the oddly placed guitar and drum fills, its all strange on the first listening but Ive never heard such guitarwork again.

And its hard to recommend to people cause...well, its pentakill. I want pentakill to be a thing you can enjoy without league involved, and if you guys start trying to copy random subgenres to fit the theme of skins its gonna seem even more like a joke band. Hell, I hope there are no skins just for this reason alone.

I absolutely adore Grasp and would love nothing but more of that. Dead mans plate, Bloodthrister, Infinity Edge, these are songs that can stand on their own as metal releases, without the gimmicks of other tracks (like the 5 hour choruses in Mortal, the weird crowd addressing in Cull, the entirety of Hexcore and Hexcore mk2), and they make me want more.

That's just the take of a guy who loves the 2nd album and gets laughed at for doing so. I guess I'm just trying to say don't change the style too much, or something. I just love talking about this stuff

Originally posted by AncientGrapefruit

Unrelated, but you bodied that Amumu track from a few years back!

Originally posted by Sandalman3000

How do you feel about Dream Theater/John Petrucci?

Originally posted by Spideraxe30

Are you working on both Arcane and Pentakill simultaneously, since that seems like a lot of work for two drastically different creative mediums

Originally posted by Sandalman3000

I can't get into the first album, production and vocals irk me, but I love everything else. Long car drives I totally reserve for Metropolis PT 2, Octavarium, or Six Degrees. I currently have an E-kit, soundboard combo combined with custom songs on Rock Band 3 for playing drums their sons too. (Pentakill on Rock Band hopefully some day). And I agree about Myung, he complements the group well, and you can't be second grade to play with that group. I also high key love Fatal Tragedy.

I also feel The Astonishing has grown on me. The more I appreciate it on a full album scale helps me appreciate the individual songs, even 4/5 finished a map for Beat Saber for Three Days.

I write music in a purely hobby sense and I definitely take inspiration from Dream Theater, especially with time signature experimentation. Definitely makes me happy to discuss them with anyone.

Originally posted by Sandalman3000

Agreed, I think Mangini captures the play style but not as much the creativity of Portnoy. His beats have such a unique flair to them.

My first entry was Panic Attack as I was a late bloomer into metal in general. I've got a special love for Octavarium for all the music theory shenanigans, like how each song represents part of the scale, Root and Octave respectively being represented in their songs, the theme of ending up where you begin, how they used that to end their steak of albums leading into the next, Panic Attack, the 5th, utilising 5/8 timing, everything about it makes me giddy. And don't get me started on the Twelve Step Suite. How did you feel about the change from Moore, to Sherinian, to Rudess?

Originally posted by Sandalman3000

Moore was with you for Erotomania. And I do believe I recall reading that back when Smite and Ignite first released but thanks for the refresher, now I'm gonna have to listen extra hard to those keys.

I'm curious, how does writing keys for such a talented artist go? Do you write a outline or have a strict sheet music that you intend the performer to stick right to? I feel like I would, if I knew I was writing for someone like Sherinian, write something that push his limits and he would come back to me and be like, "Yeah that lick at measure 59, my fingers just physically can't do that."