Thanks for the shout out! Here are my thoughts: Believe it or not, I actually go out of my way in my videos to annunciate and soften my accent for international viewers. In real life, you'd be right, I do say me'al with a glottal stop. If you can't understand me, idk I guess you just have to get used to the accent. Sorry Finn, I was 9 years old in 2009, so I'm afraid I don't remember the false Slam discourse. I was watching Ben 10. 16:50 THEY DID BRING IT BACK! Sort of. Just for one song. Listen to their song Triple Beam of 2018's Catharsis. It sounds like a Nu Metal "don't do drugs, kids" school video. Also, I know you're being ironic in a lot of this but just to be clear: I don't think I have ever said anything gatekeepy in my videos. I like a lot of the same bands that "elitsits" like but I'm happy to admit when I like a Nu Metal or Deathcore band.

I think Finn’s grand plan all along was to start making youtube videos about metal music to lure the metal Community in. And now that we’re all here he’s locked the door and is bullying us. Total Chad move.

I listen to metal because the world's a fucked up place and listening to pop seems like gaslighting myself

Can’t believe Mgk literally created screamo

lmao the inhale part killed me 😂 had a guy audition for our band back in 2008 and he made two videos: one inhale, one exhale, just in case we wouldn’t “allow” inhales

I was expecting a comprehensive video on "harsh vocals" but all I saw was a list of screamo bands😤

I think I actually loved growling the first time I heard it. The black metal hiss is still a bit harder for me to get into even 30+ years later.

My normie friends call anything with screaming “screamo”. It drives me nuts

Definitely agree that scream and death growls are very different. I quite like screaming, especially when it is of the James Hatfield "Screaming in key" variety. And I am fine with death growls but if I am listening to death metal its for the guitar rather than the voice in most cases. With the growl, if the singer has a really great sense of rhythm and knows how to do it in a way that the vocals sound considerably different from song to song, I'm more inclined to appreciate the growl. Find I prefer growls that are a little higher pitched. I also quite like metal that has cleaner vocal styles.

Why does Finn want Rob Halford to step on him or kick him in the balls? Nevermind, I don't think I want to know.

You see Corpsegrinder in that show dressed like that then you might run into him at Disneyland wearing the Mickey ears and with a Mickey plushie in his hands

Finn is a hardcore jock. Making fun of Europeans and Scotts is really representative of how most HC fans are pretty much trying to look cool and tough, projecting their insecurities on ''normies''.

I was in high school when the nu-metal machine head album dropped and it was the sole reason I didn’t know machine head didn’t always sound like that for a solid decade because I wrote them off immediately. I have since learned the error of my ways

Finns keen eye and ability to describe metal and rock dress styles are undefeated

The original video is unironically amazing and worth watching without Finn's reaction

Finn; "where do you hear the t in death metal?" Me; "in Scotland"

I remember that once Marilyn Manson said something like that: 'if they even don't understand lyrics because they don't know language they can feel my emotions" and I as teenager felt that.

LOL I was the same as a kid "I like metal but all that screaming is a bit too much for me." Even though I listened to Nu Metal, which had a ton of screaming in it. That's why I got into bands like Linkin Park, Korn, Papa Roach, etc. But Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, and all the others grew on me, and now I need screaming.

Never seen myself as a "MetalHead" or even a part of that community i still enjoy the harsh vocals and fast paced riffs because i find myself more relaxed by it than other genres of music

I drink gallons of beer, so you don't have to 🍺

Finn: I never went thru a nu metal phase Also Finn: if machine head played their nu metal album front to back live, I’d pay for that

I love Finn's sarcastic vibe. Funny af

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I'm thirty. My days of showing metal to people that definitely don't want to hear it, are long gone lol. It's something you grow out of

This is honestly one of my ALL TIME favorite vids from you Finn. From the rage bait to the undeniably hilarious sarcasm like ah man I just had a hard day at work bro, and this with some great food I just had is EXACTLY what I needed. Good shit sir ✊🏻🤘🏻 I fucking love your content man

I used to HATE “screamo” music. Metallica was THE heaviest I would ever listen to. I’m 43 and my oldest son is almost 18. When he took a music appreciation class at school coupled with voice lessons, somehow he became intrigued with the techniques used by extreme vocalists. He started telling me about it and showing me examples and diving deep into all the cool sub genres. We’ve been going to shows together for the past couple of years and i ❤️ extreme vocals and metalcore🤘

I like screaming because it makes the music feel heavier. Its more interesting and i just like deeper voices and more intense sounding stuff

You complain alot about Metalheads but YOU Are THE BIGGEST Metal Elitist Ever. You can't help yourself. It's Gold!

Its generally because studies show the murder rate is increasing due to climate change which in turn causes more murders due to the murder rate increasing. Therefore its generally because the murder rate is increasing which means more metal fans are currently being murdered while listening to dying fetus than ever which in turn causes them to need to release pent up gun shot wound pain which in turn causes them to enjoy hearing the sound of fetuses dying as emulated by the singer from dying fetus which is supported by the current literature. -Liver King

Machine Head had a couple of nu-metal throwback songs on their last album FYI

The fuckin screamo bit killed me every time. I have friends that do this unironically and my pedantic inner voice SCREAMS and it's so hard to shut it up lol.

Loving beer is even more difficult to explain than loving screaming. (& I do love both. XD)

Finn, Machine Head did play their entire nu-metal record online last year and two songs from the follow up plus Sepultura's Roots Bloody Roots. Find the stream. If they did that, Robb is probably down on touring with the Burning Red as a theme. lol

The Mean sarcastic Finn is my favorite Finn.

There are bands I’ve listed to for decades and I still can’t understand the lyrics unless I have the captions on to read along with the song

Screaming is one dimensional. A low pitched growl is going to sound the same with very small variations between artists. Same with high pitched screaming. There's just less wiggle room at those high and low ends. That's a fact. Mixing it up is what I personally like. A wall of noise works in some cases but not all that's why those bands kinda just are relegated to a niche pocket and will never reach as many people as bands who have more vocal range. If you take Metallica at their peak for example (AJFA), they had plenty of growling going on and the music itself was fast and heavy but Hetfields vocals had a lot of range. He did some low growls but in key moments, he did some higher pitched growls in other moments. He did some light singing, some vibratto's etc. There is just a much wider range which produce different sounds which translates to different feelings from the end listener. Vocals are just another instrument, it's kinda why a consistent drum machine blast beat is boring as fuck after a while because there's nothing else being offered. Same reasoning can be applied to vocals, or anything for that matter. Too much of 1 thing can make it bland and boring. But that's just how it is. It's why there are sub-genres. To say "metal fans" like screaming is very reductionist thinking. There's like a thousand sub genres under "metal" and they all aren't the same.

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One reason I gravitate toward metal is that screaming expresses emotion. Sometimes it soothes me mentally. I still find it hilarious when I put on Breaking Benjamin and my friends got intimidated by Ben’s growls 🤣🤣 like you ain’t heard shit if that’s the case. Same when I put on Bad Omen’s Dethrone and my mother thought I was listening to death metal.

that was great, good to see not only the video explaining it but your commentary on it as well; lol at dressing like fork lift drivers and Sabaton

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I’ll watch whatever you post cause I love your content but I prefer the tiered lists or other highlights as opposed to these reaction videos you’ve been doing lately. I want to see your takes on things not what you think about someone else’s

1. I'd pay a great sum for daddy rob to step on me 2. Imagine bands like Suffocation, Deicide or Devourment with all their heavy and chaotic drums, bass and guitars, but clean sung vocals. Would be bizarre.

I believe the Machine Head album was Supercharger. I almost stopped liking them in that year. Then the Blackening came out, and I was like "alright, it's ok wear their shirts I have again."

thank you for bringing attention to pergproductions he did an amazing series on metal subgenres.

As an English speaker, I struggle to understand Finn McKenty tbh. I don't understand American

Seeing people talk about Machine Head makes me so happy. So fucking happy.

“How can you like metal?” “How can you like what you listen to? Whatever your answer is, is the same as mine” That’s as far as my conversations go about it

I’m not a metal head but harsh vocals add to the emotion songs should bring.

Demilich is from my city! I love them and seen them live here in Finland.

I like screaming if it’s tasteful. It’s one of the most raw displays of emotion a person can make. It can also be overdone. Just have to find an artist who can find a happy medium. Parkway Drive comes to mind.

I sang in a "Metal band" (I use the quotation marks due to how directionless/clueless we were) for a brief time. We played 3 shows, sort of. Our finale was in a bar with probably 8 people in attendance. Lyrics? What are those? I just screeched/screamed/gurgled random syllables.

Scottish guy here. I wish to address your comments about needing captions.... Aye, that's fair.

I got into metal with Children of Bottom at the age of 10 or something. Hatecrew Deathroll, which I still hold dear, was my second album that I ever owned after buying a Billi Talent album a couple months prior. However for harsh vocals to be the dominant vocal style in my playlists it would take several years of mainly Power Metal and NWBHM. Now harsh vocals are not something I tolerate, but something that vastly improves most metal songs imo.

"Guess who has two thumbs and never had a nu metal phase" I think Finn is in his Nu metal phase currently

Oh flower of Scotlaaaaaand

Travis Ryan (from cattle decap) is a guy who's got some super brutal vocals and you can actually understand him pretty well...

Pantera has the perfect metal vocals. Anything heavier than that is a bit too much for me in most cases. But I love metal guitars.

Finn: you don't pronounce the T in "metal" Americans: "mEdAL"

I always think about this. More and more I’m realizing that in A LOT of pop and rock music I can’t understand what the singer is singing anyway, sooo….doesn’t really make a difference there

I'm such a big metal fan, that in college a pretty girl asked me if I wanted to go to a party tonight, and I said "sorry, I gotta go home and listen to deathcore"

He has the most understandable Scottish accent I've ever heard. It's almost American! I'd hate to watch you try and understand me haha.

I won’t tolerate beer slander

Noticed a lot of metal fans truly do loe objectivley bad things.. cheap beer, wwe wrestling, poorly drawn art and tattoos, bad low budget horror films ect

The "Live Cannibalism" DVD is what got me into Cannibal Corpse - that concert sounds so good - still to this day.

I know the elitist hate when bands screams and clean singing but that's my favorite I love the contrast between the two

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Aww yo is this that little Scottish kid?? Yooo funny you running into little dude; he made this little subgenres of metal series thingie that my austistic ass had a lotta fun watching. You might actually like it too *no shade lol* But yeah i also found this guys proposition pretty fascinating Cool to hear his perspective on the idea

metal fans like vocals, which harsh vocals happen to be a type of

Appropriate Response: "Metal up your @$$ \m/ \m/!!"

Screaming is like spicy foods. Logically theres absolutely no reason that a person would enjoy eating it. Yet people do. They even love it.

Concur: beer sucks. I hate it. Get me a white claw and let's watch the OC.

My first contact with heavy music was with Linkin park, I thought: "yeah rap with rock music and the singer is great" then Chester started screaming and it blew me the fuck away, it changed my life literally, I was never the same kid, I got addicted to screaming and from the I move to SOAD to, then bands like Metallica or Megadeth, then metalcore bands like Trivium or As I Lay Dying, and now in my 20's I fucking love Black and Death metal. And I still listen things all the way up to Linkin Park, never forgot were you came from boys

Joooo the inhale/exhale debates. Lord have mercy what a flashback to simpler times.

They honestly nailed the metalhead experience; every song with harsh vocals is “ScrEmo”, “it’s just noise”, “you can’t even tell what they’re saying”!?

I'm still waiting for the listens to sports metal merch.

Screaming is a primal force, to me it’s a percussive heavy accent to the point one is making with the lyrics. Almost like a battle cry to breakthrough or prevail.

Kudos for bringing up Demilich \m/

I have waited my entire life for Finn to say “Come on Daddy Rob”

0:19 was just sad but true

Late to the video here. Didn’t realize I wasn’t subscribed, I’ve been following you for over a year. Love your content, that said I love screaming fucking vocals. It’s more of an “acquired” taste and I love it, I sure as hell didn’t wake up one random day blasting extreme metal. Took a lot of time and musical development to get me to the fine dining that is metal vocals. I tell my friends that in much of Metal extreme vocals are just an added layer of instrumentation. It slaps. 😊

Finn we must have similar for you pages because you always end up doing a video I’ve just seen within a week of watching it

This video is so great! But the beer being disgusting comment at the end!!! *chefs kiss*

I couldnt stand Finn McKenty AT ALL at first. After a year of watching this channel i finally have come to terms that we have almost the exact same thinking process about a lot of music. Im tuned in everyday now.

This is your funniest video ever, every joke was on point LOL

It's more because people say that metal is bad because you can't understand what they are saying.

Unto the locust awakened me as a kid. My jaw dropped when i heard locust in the sleeping dogs radio

Shout out for Wormrot ! My band played with them and Phobia once . Yep , that is my lame claim to fame ! LOL !

We should do a fest wtih all these thrash band playing their Nu metal songs only, featuring Metallica St. Anger and Fred Dust pop song singing. This show is called " when we are wrong"

Johann Hegg (Amon Amarth).and Joe Duplantier (Gojira) are big gateway into harsh vocal bands.

Everyone in slipknot look like they work at a fuel station, lol

Good “screaming is like beer” analogy it taste bad and it’s bad for you but you learn to like it.

The dude from the used has such a good scream..

As a nice conservative church boy, I'm glad I don't understand what they're saying.

I always tell people that it's the same reason people like watching cars go fast in a circle, or watch dudes beat each other to death in a ring, or even do a triple axle on the ice....because its badass. That's basically it. Without getting into the technicality of extreme vocals, it's just cool. Some people like it, some people think figure skating is cool. That's the long and the short of it. Also, if you're sad, do you not cry? If you're angry, do you not shout? It's a way to express an emotion.

I‘m Not even a native english speaker and I can understand everything Perg is saying

It's vocals and guitars equally for me. I can't much enjoy one without the other

18:14 I was someone who disliked death metal vocals too; I was a big prog-head and the heaviest thing I listened to at the time was maybe Slipknot? but Opeth was the same for me, instantly obsessed and started digging deep into death metal. Now it’s my most listened to genre

I used to hear that comment ‘I don’t like the screaming’ All the time.

Machine Head's nu-metal era was awesome, just sayin'. My second-favorite album of theirs.

@pergproductions my boy!