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No one hates Metal more than metal fans

You know Finn not liking Metallica, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and Judas Priest doesn't even surprise me anymore. I just expect takes that shatter my soul and insult my bloodline 😂🤣

The problem with us metal fans is the giant chip on our shoulders because our favourite bands don't get the mainstream recognitionition we think they deserve. But then when they do, we crap on the normies who likes that one song... Or we shit on the band when they do get mainstream recognition for selling out! We're the worst kind of fanbases in the world.

I think mic the snare is a really good creator and deserves more subs

Mic the snare is going through a really difficult time right now so he’s taking a short break but I’m sure he’ll appreciate this video when he sees it eventually. I’m what you’d call a normie Finn, I love your channels so much but I still haven’t got into metal…yet 😂 one day. I gravitate towards the indie rock canon but I agree with you that indie fans at concerts are the absolute WORST. Went to a strokes photography event recently and got eyed up and down by hipster folks as if to say, “you’re not cool enough to be here”. Okay then corduroy pants.

Butt Rock and Country Fans just don't know how to use the internet.

Love mic the snare. Hoping he’s doing well and comes back to KZfaq soon

As a longtime fan of both channels, I'm so glad to see this crossover

Mic the Snare is sick dude, cool to see you react to his video.

"The only reason why you think brutal technical death metal is monotonous is because you haven't heard technical brutal death metal" I couldn't stop fucking laughing at this bit and had to rewind it.

"I have never owned a Metallica album in my life"...seconds later..."I also purchased Master of Puppets when I was twenty" Really tough to keep Finn's Wikipedia page updated with his own lore

I think death metal was the first time the dark album cover actually matched the music. You'd look at a Iron Maiden Killers or Number of the Beast album cover and think it's gonna be heavy af. Then you listen and you're like " wut....."

finn: i dont like sabbath, maiden, megadeth. i started to listen pantera and machine head, so they seeemed to me too light. finn: linkin parκ? wow, great band!

What actually surprises me is how he could get so far without anybody recommending Slipknot.

Such a sick and unexpected crossover. You, Mic The Snare, Todd In The Shadows, Brad Taste In Music, Adam Neely, and SongPsych are some of the best music youtubers in the game!

Raining Blood is a perfect example of how songs don't have to sound perfect audibly to not only stand the test of time, but also kick ass.

I feel sorry for you that you've never listened to the first 4 Black Sabbath albums.😥

Hey Finn! I can't wait for your video where you explain the difference between Slamming Brutal Technical Death Metal, Brutal Slamming Technical Death Metal, Brutal Technical Slamming Death Metal, Technical Brutal Slamming Death Metal, Technical Slamming Brutal Death Metal and Slamming Technical Brutal Nu Metal.

Metal is a real music scene around the world. Classic bands, new bands, diferent Styles, METAL FESTIVALS. This is not a music fad like grunge. Even You don't like it.

Grew up on nothing but hardcore hip hop my entire life but lately I've been trying different types of metal and really getting into it especially once I found the heavier stuff.

Coming from a hardcore/punk and grunge background at an early age, I've also always had a hard time with pre-Pantera/Sepultura metal. Metallica & Megadeth have grown on me over the years, but when I started with Cowboys from Hell, Arise, and 90's west coast hardcore, it was tough to go backwards.

"I'm a metal fan" "I listened to Iron Maiden like 20 years ago but I hate them" "I've never listened to Black Sabbath but I hate them" "I've listened to a few Metallica songs but I hate them" bro like actually listen to the songs before you form your opinion

One of the funniest videos I have seen in a long time. Loved this!

respect for all the Spoon lovers and all the Spoon lovers appreciators! I personally love every next Spoon album that’s following a previous one.

Mic The Snare is awesome. A crossover I didn't expect but welcome

Thanks Finn for mentioning Bury Your Dead. They are amazing.

If there was a music branch of stand-up comedy, i would definitely recommend you do it

Yoda: "Not listening to Metal you must. Metal listening leads to St. Anger. St. Anger leads to Babymetal. Babymetal leads to Black Metal. The Path to the Dark Side."

Black Sabbath + weed = good times

I may be the minority here but I find it wholesome that iron maiden writes songs about their mommys

To be fair, if my experience with metal came from these albums, I wouldn't give a fuck about metal either. The only one of these artists I listen to is Iron Maiden, and that's just kind of a carry over from when I was a kid, I don't actually choose to listen to them very often. That's the great thing about metal. It's such a vast genre that I can sit over in my corner and listen to beedly weedlies and breakdowns and blast beats. 😂

Finn’s good natured trolling is making my metal fan skin thicker 😂🤝🤘

I think I'm like ~4 years older than Finn, so I was way into Metallica, Maiden, Sabbath, etc before I heard stuff like Sepultura or Bolt Thrower. So I get it if you heard heavier stuff first when you were getting into music and couldn't go back, BUT just out of curiouity/historical significance, you really should check out alot of this older foundational stuff with an open mind. The record about the mummies is actually (surprisingly?) pretty sick.

Vulgar Display of Power is the album that I would use to gateway someone into metal. It’s accessible and heavy. Almost perfect. After they are warmed up, it’s time for Slayer and SOD.

I dare you to listen to a full SOAD album.. 😉

Actually, Chaos AD is my favorite Sepultura album. 😊

I started with nu metal, pop punk and oldies like sabbath, maiden and metallica, then i got really into hardcore and "extreme" metal in general

Never listened to a Black Sabbath album, or owned a Metallica/Iron Maiden album, Finn?! Are you even human?!

so this is why that video popped up on my recommended videos list this morning.

"But hey listen man, I gotta go pick up my kids. Good talk!" laughed heartily

I found a book called "Louder than Hell" that drove me down the heavy metal road. About 666 pages (I kid you not) of oral history from the late 1960's to the mid 2010's. For a guy who grew up on '60's pop to '80's pop to 2000's college and indie rock, I loved the book. It gave a view of the other side of the music I didn't grow up with, but came to respect most of the artists who created it. It did reaffirm my love for Anthrax and Motorhead. It also reaffirmed my hatred for most late '80's metal/ hair metal.

One of your funniest videos Finn! Loved this

As a person who makes metal his own identity for ten more years, and trying to get back control of life as normal humanbeing, Finn is top tier comedy

This is so wonderful

Whenever I make my crappy songs on my laptop I always remember that there are black metal bands that have millions of views and they sound like they were recorded with a hot pocket.

I too, have not personally owned any sabbath records. I respect em and all, but I really love the reaction I get from the metal guys who say "SABBATH IS GOD AND EVERY METAL BAND IS A SABBATH CLONE" when I tell them I don't really care for the Sabbath

the description of metallica albums by this guy was golden

Watching Finn reviewing Mic The Snare's metal video directly after watching said video is like the greatest KZfaq meme ever. :)

Hey Finn, I've been a long time subscriber back when you first started uploading this type of content. I love when you take the piss out of metal heads and a lot of your critiques on the genre - and that's coming from a metalhead. However, it seems with the past few months it seems your views are less critical on aspects and more disdain for the music, genre and the fans all together. Yeah, I get it you're just joking around, some of it even pretty funny. But that only takes you so far. It feels more like these are just your feelings, and that's cool. My question is though, is why do you continue to do this content then? Like you said, your values, worldview, and tastes have changed quite a bit. I almost get the feeling you wouldn't listen to this music at all if it wasn't for your channel. And idc what your like or dislikes about music are, I'm not offended or whatever. It just seems to me you'd be happier doing content you're more passionate about. Anyway, have a good one, man.

I think I figured it out. Finn doesn't like any metal song that: 1 - Has a melody or 2- Has vocals that can be understood by the listener.

Lmao because of one your videos, I literally wore my shoes for crews to a concert. 🤣

the next step in mics journey in falling in love with metal should be collaborating with finn mckenty

My way of looking at metal, death metal, ect... is an added flavoring to my original love: HARDCORE.

As a kid I went back to Maiden after listening to Slayer's God Hates Us All. Still love Maiden to this day, it's not heavy but it's fun and catchy.

Saving this to watch later because I'm at work, but I gotta say I have no idea what to expect based on the comments 😄

My best friend in middle school turned me on to Metal in the early 90s. It was a refreshing change of pace from the Hair Metal stuff in the same way that Grunge was. But some of the Heavy Metal hasn't aged that well unlike Classic Rock.

My man Finn, you truly need to go through the entire Sabbath with Ozzy discography.

I can respect someone not liking metal or liking the biggest bands in the genre, im sure finn puts respect on their names even if he's not a fan

The pandemic did a lot for metal. I have the feeling that a lot of people were so bored that they tried something new. Just look at all the hip hop and vocal coach reactors that started to listen even to deathcore and found the musicality in it.

Im a core guy, mostly, and yet I have huge amounts of respect and appreciation for Iron Maiden. They have consistently worked out quiet good albums, with great live performances, mostly down to earth, nice boomer-rocker attitude... Obviously the nostalgia glasses are pink. I very much doubt I would listen to Iron Maiden and get excited with my first "metal exposure" being stuff like Shadow of Intent, and the sumerian records core in general, wich I adore (specially the 2005/2015 era). Haha. BUT they are quiet good nonetheless. A product of another era, for sure, but being "antiboomer musical energy" myself, I really do defend Iron Maiden as a solid band, being really influencial, and most importantly, staying mostly consistent in terms of quality, while doing some experimentation over the years. I like em.

This is the closest Finn will be to hearing Neil Cicierega

I grew up on a pecan orchard in Mississippi with 75+ trees to harvest every season, & I can tell you sir that your preferred pronunciation of pecan is 100% CORRECT! I've had numerous debates over the years, especially with Northerners, but it is most definitely pronounced correctly as PEE-CAHN (like James Caan), not Pee-can (like something you'd void your bladder into on a long car trip lol).

Your troll game is so top notch. Much respect and love.

I listen to lots of different kinds of music, but my heart belongs to metal. Always has, and probably always will. My brother pretty much only listens to underground hip hop, which I have a really hard time listening to for more than a couple songs. So, I suppose, if I can have such a hard time with underground hip hop, I can understand someone having the same issue with metal.

10:54 as someone that knew Riley personally (RIP), I show my bias as singing praises of Power Trip and the Nightmare Logic album. It's a great mix of metal that had a lot of appeal across subgenres of metal. I can kinda agree it's a predictable pick for good metal to get into.

I can’t believe the Punk Rock MBA doesn’t have at least a certificate in Metal

I agree with you on old metal, I'm 44 so by the time I was 12, 13 I was into mid 80s stuff and early 90s stuff that older kids I knew where into 👍

In a lot of places in Europe you can get “American-style” pizza which consists of red sauce, cheese, canned corn, hotdogs and eggs. It honestly kinda fucking slaps.

I went to a 'metal bar' by mistake once, around 2003. The footwear of choice seemed to be Doc Martens. Only had a couple of drinks before leaving, but was aware of the unrelenting staring from my fellow patrons. It was not dissimilar to when I went to China around 2009, or accidentally going to a gay bar around the same time. The bathrooms were definitely the worst I've seen in Europe or North America.

if he was a real metal fan he would have listened to attack attack and motionless in white

I didnt get into metal till i was 18 and getting into maiden was tough. Took a couple tries, as they sounded bit bland, but more i listened to, the more i liked and they put on some of the best live performances.

I genuinely appreciate this dude because he gave metal a chance and was like nah and I respect that

Honestly I think you can be interested in something heavier and move on to something less heavier. I recently discovered bands from Amputated and Guttural Slug which I really enjoyed and I am currently immersing myself in the discography of Black Sabbath (I only knew Paranoid and Iron Man until now). I just think it depend on what you like in general: heavy, ''soft'' or both. For example The Great Southern Trendkill is my favorite Pantera album because you have both of this type of intensity (Floods & Suicide Note part 1 and then Suicide Note part 2, War Nerve, eponym song...)

Interesting colloquial take for a guy who grew up saying “ pop” “suckers” and “ melk”😂

I’ve tried to listen to Deafheaven with an open mind. But to me it sounds like Cradle of Filth covering Smashing Pumpkins songs.

the restaurant I work at features an elote pizza in the summer that has corn on it and I promise you'll like it

Mic the Snare is cool

This is a very funny reaction video. 😆

You have no idea how many pairs of slip-resistant shoes I have ordered from Shoes for Crews.

I love both of you guys, so it'd be great to see a Collab or podcast appearance of some sort. I think you guys would definitely get along.

I just wanna say, despite the way Mic the Snare may present from the vid titles you mentioned (and he definitely does), he’s just soooo much more than that! Oh, how I love Mic the Snare ❤ His comprehensive ‘songs of the 2000s’ breakdown is pure, unequivocal gold 😊

Fin I feel like you were in my head cause watching this video you were saying my thoughts out loud lol also was wearing my brutal technical death metal shirt I got from your store lol

Can someone explain the comparison between Gojira and Throwdown for me? I really feel like I must be missing something. I just feel like their sounds are so different, but maybe that's because my main Gojira experience is from L'enfant Sauvage.

I'm 35. My dad, who is right on the boomer)genX line raised me on Metallica and other heavy bands from that era, so I always had an appreciation for them. But when I started to develop my own music taste I couldn't help but think they sounded pretty corny whenever I went back to them. I can still listen to that older stuff, but I'd rather listen to a 2000s era metal band cover them.

I started listening to extreme metal like Napalm Death in 1988 and I had no problem going back and listening to Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and more classic rock bands like Thin Lizzy. I recently became a fan of Madness, as well. Not even metal adjacent! Listen, regardless of what this clown says, you can go back. Listen and enjoy without any prejudice or peer pressure from windbag content creators.

This is just perfect .... Absolute truth

Aw man Arise, what a record! And beneath the remains … those 2 were permanently on my old Walkman back in the day … happy times!

If you're curious about that Deafheaven song Finn said he liked, it's called Dream House. The album it's on, Sunbather, IMO is a very well made album and a good gateway into black metal if anyone is interested.

FINALLY, someone else who doesn't worship Maiden and everything they have ever done. And for the same exact reason too - my intro to metal was Beneath the Remains, which I picked up in a bargain bin at a used CD store. So by the time I went back to check out Maiden, it was so tame

Man Finn, go easy on this guy! I like his content haha

Love you Finn. Darkthrone is amazing. This should a be a lesson to all commenters that you can have different taste and still appreciate a video. Fucking nerds.

I wish someone could have saved me from metal at the young age of 8. Hell…music fandom in general. The music I listened to was my identity pretty much every day of my life until I was like 40. The things I could have accomplished in life if I had just listened to Top 40 radio!

I've never commented on your videos but this one is actually great and funny ... love it 😎

Also as a british guy, it's "pee kun".

Great Sabbath songs: The Wizard, Hole In The Sky (Pantera covered it), Never Say Die, The Writ, Symptom Of The Universe, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabbra Cadabra, A Hard Road, anything really off Master Of Reality or Vol 4

Mad respect Finn. I appreciate your honesty.

Thanks, Finn. I too am a balding 26 years old in the metal and hardcore scene who has never deliberately listened to Black Sabbath, Metallica and Iron Maiden. I finally feel validated.

I liked Metal a lot in HS, but hadn't kept up with it since the 90s. That is until covid, when I caught up on everything from 2000 - 2020.

03:34 Black Sabbath actually started out as a blues band called “Earth”…