xSymbiose | Through the Shattered Lens

This song is one of my favorite of 2013 and it helped make this summer’s World War Z more entertaining than what many was predicting. This was a film that was considered dead on arrival before it was even out, but it persevered and the decision to use “Isolated System” by Muse as the film’s opening theme was genius.

This video is an excellent piano cover by YouTube user xSymbiose. As someone who has had some piano training I can assure doubters that this cover was and is authentic and not a well-done fake. It’s easy enough to overlay the original song over a video and try to sync-up as perfectly as possible the song with the piano playing. This time around this wasn’t the case.

The playing by xSymbiose is not just precise but almost matches the original song’s tempo. There’s really only a few seconds difference between this cover and the original song’s running time.

Everytime I see piano covers executed nigh-perfectly as this one makes me wish I had continued with my piano lessons. For now I will just live vicariously through those whose skills far surpasses my own. I have our very own Leonard Wilson to thank for finding this little gem.