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I let the butt hurt leave my body and pooped myself. Thanks Finn.

I've been in the metal community for over 30 years and on the Internet about as long... and if there is one thing I can count on is that if the "metal community" says a metal band either isn't metal or isn't good, or both, then that metal band is going to BLOW UP and become a leader in the genre.

Sleep Token has a few tracks I think are really fucking cool, but a deep dive through their discography told me, not really my thing. I see why people do really like them, tho. It felt fresh to my ears. Spiritbox, however, absolutely slaps, and I LOVE them. I'm very happy they are getting noticed.

Yeah. As someone said in the video. You can not like a thing and still give a band props. Just because you don't like a thing doesn't mean it sucks. It's absurd to say Spiritbox sucks. And absued to say the same for Sleep Token. It's totally fair for you to not like either. But to say they suck tells me exactly what type of person you are.

Basement house party shows were wild as fuck during the MySpace Deathcore era. Lots of broken staircase railings and holes in the basement walls.

i’ve seen spiritbox live and they definitely do not suck, they were one of the tightest and most energetic bands i’ve ever seen

You know before this video.. I was always so embarrassed of my pedestrian taste in music.. but after that therapy session so kindly provided by Finn. I think I’m finally starting to embrace who I truly am. Thank you Finn

The Freudian slip where he called the music industry the mucus industry. 😂 You weren’t wrong my guy!

You can not help what music speaks to your soul, nor should you be ashamed of what makes you groove and move. All music is for everyone!

The craziest thing that happened at a concert was a guy at this year's knotfest in Australia he climbed the speaker towers and they had to stop the show to get him down

I went to highschool in Victoria BC with Courtney from Spiritbox. She used to play in a band called Unicron with her brother Jackson before she got discovered by Iwrestledabearonce. My first band played our first show with Unicron for their first show. Mike used to play in a band called Fall In Archaea way way long ago. I used to work at the hospital with his mom. Both of them are incredibly talented, but I have to say I'm more than a little surprised by the level of success they've had. Aside from Nelly Furtado and Steve Nash, Victoria is not really all that well known for turning out huge success stories. Courtney was always very polite and kind, I really liked her a lot. Our bands did a lot of shows together back in the day. Mike I didn't know that well but he played in a fairly generic chug chug breakdown mathcore band. Crazy guitar player, just not that original. Good for both of them.

Finn, I appreciate your response. I have taken what you said to heart, released the butthurt, and am ready to move forward as a new person. Thank you for helping me grow.

I wish I could go back to the days subgenres didnt matter so much to me. It’s something that’s become imbedded into my brain and now I can’t get it out.

I swear to god, this is why rock and metal will die.

My old “non metal listening to” roommate used to refer to In Flames as screamo and it would drive me nuts. 😂

I love when Glassjaw gets mentioned on this channel.

I have the unfortunate situation of hating on Sleep Token because I didn't chose to listen to them and having my wife spam the songs Alkaline and the Summoning like 500 times. I can't listen to songs that many times in a row. If it was just that it would be one thing but I had a coworker who used to listen to exclusively Imagine Dragons for hours on end and I understand the comps between the two with the way they both sing. I think my body just has a visceral reaction now to that throaty talk singing.

The thing that annoys me the most is that a lot of metalheads seem to just forget that they can simply ignore music they don't like. You think that Slipknot is boring and too mainstream? Then don't listen to them, you don't have to dedicate your entire life to hating on them. Your life is not at all worse by a band you don't like being out there.

I barely enjoy Sleep Token's music, but Take Me Back To Eden is simply a unique masterpiece. I've never heard a single song amongst thousands of songs that sounds anything like it.

Blink 182 is my favorite country band.

It’s not that they’re not good, it’s just that I personally don’t like them. And that’s the true meaning of Christmas

I’m kinda surprised by the Paramore vs. No Doubt take. I also think that Paramore hasn’t really released a bad or even a not good album. They’re all very listenable and catchy with great lyrics, hooks, and songwriting.

I mean… good or not there’s a lot of people excited about them so they are doing something right.

9:00 Finn, you DO understand. People who listen to heavy music are typically outcasts and grew up as such, looking for anything to attach their identity to. So when you get their favorite genre wrong, they look at it like you're misrepresenting their identity, their "tribe" if you will

Your YT channel is certainly NOT the worst of all time. Your channel is the most sincere and honest of the music reaction channels I have been exposed to. Love listening to your opinions and reactions even if I don't always agree. It's enlightening and true. Keep it up.

Deftones are beyond phenomenal. Sleep Token and Spiritbox are sweet.

Great video man! I'm finally off work so I got to watch it right after you uploaded.

Sleep Box and Spirittoken.

Oh god the boombox test… I was listening to Brand New at work one day. My boss strolls by and goes “Oh I figured you were in to that metal music stuff”. 😂

AFI fan for over 20 years. I still don't know what genre they. What song, what album just depends.

Hot take: the non-heavy Spiritbox tracks are vastly superior to their heavy stuff. Their heavy stuff is boring but like mentioned, Rotoscope is crazy good and all the lighter stuff is super good

What’s your take on the whole sick of it all vs no fun at all, not sure if you already talked about it (it did happen last year)

Okay, I am now realizing these are two different bands. For whatever reason reason, whenever I heard Sleep Token, I would think Spiritbox, or if I heard Spiritbox, my brain would think Sleep Token. From that, my brain fused both of them into just being one band, and now I can have clarity that they are not the same band. Lol

I don’t get sleep token, but I don’t think they suck. They are definitely Ghost for the numetal generation, but they’re pretty good at it. I’d just rather listen to Deftones. 🤷‍♂️

Took me while to get into Sleep Token, thought the vocals and the all over the place genre bending was a bit much but they've grown on me like crazy. Musically theyre fantastic, especially the drummer.

So Finn, what genre is Morgan Wallen then? Post-Screamo Deathcore or Brutal Technical Bro-Slam?

You’re doing a great job Finn, thanks for all of the content 🙏

Spiritbox is so damn good!

Personally I would like to have a video you made about modern hardcore. Sure the content of popular bands such as Knocked Loose or Turnstile is nice but hearing about some more underground modern bands gets those bands attention and helps viewers find new music outside of what's force fed.

I saw Paramore last night and they were incredible. Hayley is one of the best front people of the last 20 years hands down

Ive been waiting far too long to hear you talk about Nekrogoblikon

The reason why I hate people that miss genre bands is that it’s cringe. Do you really want to hear someone say “yeah I’ve been listening to that Punk band Metallica”, or “yeah I listen to Rock, I like Twenty One Pilots, Imagine Dragons, The 1975, and Portugal, The Man”. It’s fucking cringe hearing that.

When i was a kid i went 3 days to ermal island and i saw nickeback get stoned out of the stage. The next day a huge fat guy was swinging a huge katana during dimmu borgir and cut of my friend finger,i got smashed againt the fence and faintet,had to be croud surfed to the nurse. That same day the parkinson guy pissed all over a girl and then said "thats my mom". 😅😅 i think his mom was watching and didnt get wet. That was a festival. ❤ still got one of the tickets. Im 40yo

Nekrogolikon is dope, nice to see them getting some love. Just started watching your stuff, have you ever covered post-metal like Pelican, Isis, Russian Circles etc?

There are many metal bands i would not put on my playlist, but would love to go see live, likeSpiritbox and Sleep Token would be bands fitting that catagory for me, im picky when it comes to my playlists, and what i listen to, or i listen to entire cataloges from certain bands. but i can see myself go to a live concert with a lot more bands then i got in my headphones usaly.

“Metal fans are into things like pro wrestling and horror movies” is probably the truest statement I’ve ever heard lol 😂

Showed Spiritbox to some guy and he snubbed them. A few weeks later, he’s listening to Hurt You, and Rule of Nines, and The Mara Effect 😏😒

Nekrogoblikon are incredible live!!! Saw them on a boat in Bristol with Dickie Allen, what more could you want!!!

i think the thrash metal gimmick has always been something medieval and nordic. The long hair and beards are definitely a homage to something medieval or orthodox.

Every time I watch your videos, they are always enjoyable. I never take your videos so serious dude. We’re all just having a good time. Love your videos man

I'm a lifelong metal fan and the theatrics and visual aspects are one of my favorite things about metal. Most of my favorite bands are very theatrical- Cradle of Filth, GWAR, Arcturus, Finntroll, Nightwish, etc... Even though I'm American, the whole core and emo sides of metal were never my thing aside from some select bands, but I appreciate the aesthetics

"Mucus Industry" Sounds about right.

When ppl ask what genre ____ is, I always answer sarcastically and say its tejano

12:08 This is what I needed today. Hey look it's okay guys you can put your quirky pitchforks way now.

“When they were ska that shit sucked” I’m pretty sure that was a given

I love your takes on everything.

"Breathe out, and imagine the butthurt leaving your body." HAHAHAHAHAHHAA

Gimmicks can be super fun and honestly keep the genre humble and fun. Without them I get the vibe the scene would take itself too seriously. Sometimes I want heavy but I don’t want it to be super deep, in those cases I’ll throw ECB or babymetal into the shuffle. ECB was one of the most fun crowds I’ve been in at a show too.

You should do a video of your favorite non rock or heavy metal artists and bands

Hardy just did a feature with Beartooth and the Beartooth fans did not appear to be very happy about it.

Beartooth did a song with Hardy so at least someone is listening and paying attention

Looking forward to your music video!!!

@7:30 but when ronnie radke does something similar its a big deal LMAO

“What genre is it?”= can you simplify this bands entire career into one or 2 words for me so I can label it?

6:14 "I wish I was in home playing video games"

Love Sleep Token but I find Spiritbox generic unless you are thirsty.

Do you like Glassjaw Finn? and do you have any shows on them? I frikken love those first 2 records

This is why finn will never grow, he’s too worried about the haters and being hated on instead of making good & new content.

Rotoscope by Spiritbox is a banger!!!! And I respect Finn’s opinion, that Sleep Token doesn’t suck, they just aren’t for him… but, If you want to make videos that get views…. That’s your band… haha

8:30 following this logic, according to a classmate of mine blink-182 play a music style called "Metallica"

I saw Jelly Roll open for Shinedown last year, and he got a pretty great crowd response. So rock fans accepting him doesn't sound too out of the question.

Love the few finn songs I've heard. Glad at least one song will be officially released.

Here for you as a parent who's child is waking them up around 5 AM too ✊

Love the Deadguy reference!!

I don't need to imagine the butthurt leaving my body. I can hear it.

8:49 So true. I dont get the anger too.

Turnstile is Nu-Weezer. They might have been hardcore 10 years ago but not anymore.

The nekrogoblikon part was funny 😂

We need more sports metal videos tbh

I put Lincoln Park on at work and got yelled at for putting on death metal

Hey Finn are you cool with Sean Clark was wondering if you knew of him and his music career and he is a manager of many actors for Horror conventions now...✌🏼

"Don't Let Me Down" off of ND's *Rock Steady* is Paramore-ish, Finn.

Best part of the video was dude in chat with the “Cold-Cut Token”

What you described about 90s hardcore shows are literally the same environments I first saw bands like Walls of Jericho, E Town Concrete, etc.

Thanks finn

I literally wearing my nekrogoblikon hoodie watching this so good here’s a chilis southwestern egg roll to you all

Koe Wetzel, when I was doing my counseling internship at an inpatient rehab center, there was a patient on the male's side who I would talk music with pretty often, and he told me to check out Wetzel (and some other cool country rock artists that I just can't remember the names of right now), I got the band/artist names written on the back of my binder somewhere in my office-oh, Riley Coyote is one of em. I actually have a couple two three of RC's songs on my Viddy Well playlist. Those bands were all good bands imo. They kinda border on crust and gutter punk (some of em, like RC does), because the crust and gutter punk scene is all about marrying punk and rock themes like heartbreak, resentment, drug and alcohol abuse, depression, being broke, unemployed, and traveling. The gutter and crust punks play their folk punk with country and western instruments and influence (like C&W musical influence, melodies, chord progressions, song structure, etc), and some of these Texas-or at least, Southern-based "country rock" artists-or whatever you'd classify them ass; I think of these country-esque bands as more like... Idk, "neo-outlaw" (?) Idk if that's even a sub genre already or not, but they remind me of Hank III (grandson and son of HWS and HWJr respectively), which I see as the pioneer, or at least the best example of "neo-outlaw". Anyway, the gutter/crust/folk punk scene is almost the same type of musical direction as these new country rock (neo-outlaw) artists. The two subgenres are a ven diagram with a lot of overlap. And honestly, I don't really like crust/guttr/folk punk, like the Railyard Ghosts, or whatever they're called, like that whole corner of anarcho-punk, I can't stand it. I much more enjoy the more country side of this newish country rock movement. The songs (and definitely the vocals) are just a hundred times better 😂

Since DEFTONES never appealed to you, I'm extremely curious what your review of CROSSES would be? To me, it mirrors RTJ's EP, to RTJ1. Each feature, has an outro track!

Finn, have you ever heard of Kim Dracula? I would be interested to hear what you think of them?

Yes! I love Let’s argue, Finn McKenty edition, pls do more

How did screamo become the term for heavy anyways

Ill just give u another comment...i enjoyed those drums and good luck w your band!

Never expected a Nekrogoblikon shoutout from you lmao. Speaking of Hardcore... do you have any opinions about ORTHODOX?

I have been bamboozled and clickbaited, there is nothing in this video I can get angry about! False advertising! Oh wait, I can be angry about that, Finn playing 4D chess again, god damn it!

Wait how old is Finn? He started listing to metal since 1991. I was born in 90 and he looks only a few years older than me

Im a die hard sleep token and spiritbox fan and im so glad i actually watched this video instead of just malded at the title

Metal's early history is so confusing but yeah especially those second wave groups. If you changed their image they'd just be hard rock of the era.

Bowling for Soup is my favorite screamo band.

You should shed some light on Full Of Hell sometime