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"Imagine the sound of no bitches. That's was Dream Theater sounds like." That almost killed me.

“Imagine the sound of no bitches.” This needs to be made into a meme.

I don´t know about the rest of the world. There´s one thing that pisses me off about the Metal scene here in Germany. Whenever a new band comes along and gets a little more attention by the media, the fans are pissed off and complain about the media hype. It´s like Metal bands are only allowed to be successful if they were successful in 1987.

When everything is heavy, nothing is.

As a ear trained musician and producer i would definitely say learning FL took me just as long as learning a new instrument

I just wanted to say I love every use of that "here's the thing" clip, I get a kick out of it every time

I always thought the indicator of a dying genre is that people talk about it as something that needs to be "resurrected", "passed on to new generations" or whatever. Because this sort of talk indicates that a genre is not edgy and cool anymore and has to be kept alive artificially. A genre has to come naturally to feel like it's not just a fossil

just here to say i love that little chuckle you do sometimes when you say something funny

Never ever ever stop adding in the clip of Andy saying “here’s the thing” I’m a huge BVB fan, I have their logo tattooed on my chest, and I find it hilarious as shit 😂😂😂

"Anyone who doesn't like breakdowns is not welcome in America." Subscribed.

im 197 years old and i've shown my 3 grandkids a lot of rock songs,and they love it! What do you mean rock is dying? It has never been so alive!

I think it's just cool to say, "metal or rock is dead" but I've been hearing since the late 80's that metal/rock is dead but yet it's still around and gaining new & younger auidences all the time.

I go to Dream Theater shows solely to pick up chicks. I fail every single time but I become so mesmerized by John Petrucci's solos that I forget to even care anymore.

Finn never beating the poser claims by not knowing how to spell "dick"

The thing that's hindering rock and metal from being as popular as it was years ago isn't "black culture"; it's Nostalgia. Every new band's first output is measured against the greatest albums from the Greats of 30, 40, even 50 years ago, along with all the context behind the greats telling us how great they were for the last however many years. Nostalgia culture has eaten nearly all the radio space, most of the print space, and at least half the other channels by which "mainstream" people can discover stuff. That lost space for new rock and metal disadvantages it against everything else.

idk why these nerds only ever seem to think like the USA is the only country in the world. Like sure metal will never be popular again in the USA (it never was really all that popular in the US to begin with, the US is more of the country of popstars), but I can tell you that I was just in Sweden a few years ago and literal random people in the mall were coming up to me and my friends to talk about black metal and showing me their autographed memorabilia like "look I have this book signed by Nattramn from Silencer!". my advice: if you want to be in a place where metal is more of a cultural "accepted" thing i'd say just move to europe. theres nothing wrong with that but im fine with being in the US where Playboi Carti is my current favorite rapper (and i cant wait to see him on my birthday)

It's not important to be popular, it's important to be true and real... And amazing! 😊

It's funny, I think metal as a whole is better now than it ever has been. Lots of great bands, but I fall down massive rabbit holes and find great albums from bands with like 250 followers on Spotify.

Metal guys: "this song is easy to play, therefore it sucks" Normal people: "this song sounds good and/or makes me feel something, therefore I like it"

I think people are confusing ‘sequencing a drum pattern, dropping some samples in an audio track and mastering with ozone’ with learning how to DAW.

great way to start the day

Only someone that has zero appreciation for the production side can say learning a DAW is easier than an instrument... Even just the mixing aspect is as intricate as learning an instrument. And then you've also got to have at least the basics of all the instruments you incorporate. There's legendary producers in rock and metal for a reason.

I don’t think there’s any genre with more bands than metal it’s the most popular it’s ever been

I love getting these vids in the morning, so I can watch them before work. Thanks Finn! 🙏

Fin is the best....I've gained so much knowledge from him and now listen to so much music I never knew about .....

I’ve played drums and bass in bands, and I DJed and produced for a long time. DAWs are not easier than learning an instrument, by a long shot. Consider that MIDI controllers exist, you still have to know how to play piano to use a MIDI keyboard. That’s literally learning one instrument right there, and that’s without getting into sound design: understanding waveforms, oscillation, compression, and a whole slew of other effects. It’s extremely difficult - I’d say even impossible without copious amounts of dumb luck - to create the specific noise you have in your head if you don’t understand every little minute detail of your DAW and VSTs. I always laugh when people try to say it doesn’t take any skill, I’ll straight argue it takes _possibly_ more, but definitey a _wider range_ of skills. *IF* you’re doing to right. Some people just cut and paste a generic loop and paint a melody over it: that’s garbage, but properly produced music is definitely difficult to make.

Going to church when I was a kid, there was a man named Dick Harden who would give sermons. You could see people trying not to snicker when they announced his name. Why he didn’t at least go by Richard… I have no idea.

The outro for Wait and Bleed still has one of the best groves to this day.

It’s funny to see people getting butthurt when they’re preferred Music gets criticized as if it’s somehow sacrosanct and immune from all criticism.

I enjoy this channel much more than the Punk Rock MBA. there's my hot take!

Pretty sure the "pissing off the establishment" comment was mostly referencing the fact that she started rerecording her old shit to stick it to her former label after she lost her masters.

I’ve always described dream theater as “they’re good musically but I’ll never listen to them”

I cut my teeth on Bands like SlipKnoT and System Of A Down as a young teen and Death Metal is where its at for me now and I Think the SlipKnot take is spot on. Their first 3 albums were them at their peak and everything afterwords never came close. save for the odd banger here and there like Dead Memories, Snuff, Psychosocial, Sulfur, Unsainted and Devil In I.

You know, when grunge was big in the early nineties, everyone said metal was dead. Well it wasn't, it was maybe less popular than in the eighties, but underground there was great stuff being made. And I consider the nineties still the best and exciting decade for metal.

I went to school with a guy whose last name is Glasscock. Somehow he didn’t get bullied

Always new to the hardcore scene (if that doesn’t make sense, think of how people list dozens of different bands as “oh you like metal, of course you know ‘ameer’”and get pissed off when you ask them to spell it. Metal is in a new, formative phase, kind of like the decades of music before the fifties with rock n roll, and its demand, and eventually it will be “settled” enough before really competent singers can captivate audiences over it, and really competent producers will chop bits from each era to a captivating palette. It really works and meshes in workout playlists, or “cool riff” playlists, but this compared to the pop songs that have lasted decades is more like a “musical excursion”. Trap is in parallel, going through the same thing, with more “AB beats and throwing a bone for the dogs so it stands out in a playlist” but much less truly ballsy stuff (if I may say, a Stairway to Heaven) and once it does all its permutations on this prenatal phase, it will be ready to come out as this relic that is truly ready to fill stadiums. Otherwise, it would be sacrificing everything for Spotify Pennie’s, instead of just fitting in with the mosh of sounds that music labels, their venues and festivals, expect.

Watching this after just finishing drum programming on Ableton haha.

I think of brake-downs like insults: if you can be creative then I respect it

“The nail the sticks up get hammered down” in Australia we call this “tall poppy syndrome”-the tallest poppy gets cut down to the same size as the majority in the field….

I noticed in my 49 years , scenes come and go and a band becomes more popular and makes more money when they come back for a reunion or a comeback.

Metal is really popular in Europe, especially Scandinavia.

If metal is being represented by the 4 bands in the thumbnail for this video than metal is already dead. Bring back the thunder of 80s metal and it'll come back to life.

It's about accessibility people who listen to heavy metal should be introducing people they know who haven't really heard heavy metal to the accessible stuff such as Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Powerwolf, Sabaton, Sleep Token, Creeper ect.

Great video again brother!💯

am I tall if I'm 6'2" with long arms/used to be able to dunk a basketball on occasion? asking for a friend.

This video is finn hitting every trending music topic from the last few months ask in one video. You're a genius, Finn. Lol

i think the best breakdown build up ive ever heard was ERAA- nigh to silence. holy shit that build is bananas.

Perfect vid to watch before school

I agree with AVA being good, and stand out on their own, even if it feels a bit repetitive and not groundbreaking, but they have been around quite some time. Some Blink is just outstanding and mold-maker

People need to stop referring to things as “Punk Rock” when they mean “rebellious” or “anti-establishment. Punk Rock is Punk Rock. Nuff Said.

Whats the band from the thumbnail with the red/white mask?

Honestly, I think metal and hardcore is in a much better place now Id argue its doing better then rap because of how much they have been struggling recently and dont get me started on how much No Jumper fell apart.

Breakdowns are to todays Metal as long winded drum outros were to stadium rock bands in the 70s and 80s: they’re contrived and overdone.

One of my favorite parts of your videos is the sound bite at the end lol always gives me a good chuckle

So being a dude that's never listened to angels amd airwaves what album should I have a go at ?

Name-drop the man & band on the "here's the thing" clip, I forgot again

Here's a hot take: Sleep Token are Boring AF

I literally watched my old high school jock Rick say that "Joey Ballsack" line ... voice was 12/10 😂

The "they'll never understand " add killed me 😂

Did Finn make a Scenes From a Memory reference while talking about Dream Theater?! lol

Popular music rotation goes in a cycle of : Rock---> Pop---> Metal(core)---> Rap/R+B, then repeats again, depending on how sick and saturated we get of the previous genre.

I would have no issue with metal never being popular again. Metal has been the worst when it's been the most popular. For example: glam/hair metal, nu metal, metalcore and now deathcore (sort of popular).

it's like with horror movies, they don't know what to do anymore.

There’s beauty in the breakdown.

I've seen too many TikTok videos of (young) rock fans complaining that Olivia Rodrigo is called rock and was nominated for rock category of Grammy

Finn ur dope, don't listen to the haters. Wish we could hang out and I could ask u a billion questions about music haha

Is anyone gonna mention the Dillinger Escape plan reunion with Dimitri?

@04:12 HELL YEAH BROTHER I'LL HELP EM PACK!

Good metal will never die. The vocals really kill dream theater

around 2014 everything felt very corporate controlled, aiming for what is popular, so i checked out of new metal music. it sucks too because i don't really like any other style of music. I think the only new albums ive listened to since then are the gojira albums and even they have gotten a little weird now.

It is so hard to strum that tight.

It’s just the gatekeepers that ruin everything imo

3:30 I'd say that I have to agree, apart from one example: The River by Wage War. That song is essentially non-stop breakdowns with a few interstitial bits between here and there, but I would still say that the breakdowns hit hard and it's great overall

Im 6'3" and dont think of myself anywhere close to tall.. LOL

You gotta get on the Psychosocial/Bieber "Baby" mashup. 🥰

I’m just wondering what the next most extreme thing could possibly be?

Cool sounds are cool man

If you don't have a good right hand technique,any metal can be hard.

6'4" here!!!

In Fort Wayne, Indiana, there was almost a "Harry Baals Government Center", named after the town's former mayor Harry Baals. The people voted yes but they vetoed it. Fml This is also the same state that once housed the infamous "Butt Drugs" pharmacy

I think I could play the breakdowns maybe. However it would be much harder for me to record, upload, and ultimately send it to you

Chugga chugga, weedley weedley Best description ever

Curious to know what that means for Box car racer

"Some people say I'm a contrarian and that's not true"

Taking bets on "I agree with Joey Ballsack" is the closing soundbite...

Was never a breakdown guy until recently….people criticize the chug, but what makes chugs a challenge to write, is understanding which pattern is necessary for what you are going for and how mixed the pattern is, is it an 8 bar pattern, 4 bar pattern, does it have variations? Where should the space be put, how much space, the list goes one Does it vibe like an angry march, does it give a war drum vibe, or a swingy drive? Does it make you feel primal? Maybe the song calls for getting in your most caveman stance and make minor repetitive movements. Breakdowns can be easy to learn and play, but it takes more thought to understand its meaning, and what it can do to the vibe…..I feel like chug stuff is especially good for vocally driven music, that lays the landscape for storytelling without taking too much attention away from the message….similar to rap. Of course there is so much more to think about, writing a good breakdown is like writing a good pop song, it should be easy, theoretically, but indeed there is nothing easy about it, and if it is easy, then you must have put in the work that or your the Bruno mars of breakdowns

1:44 yes

I am the same age as you and growing up rock fans (for the most part) were constantly hating on the music they love. The whole "Oh there haven't been any good bands since Zepplin" sentiment or "that band sold out because they have a softer sound or signed to that label" dumb shit like that, really didn't work out well for the world of rock 'n' roll. Whereas something like rap was the complete opposite. A new, popular rap song would be considered "old" or uncool a year after its release forcing rap artists to test new ideas, keeping the genre fresh and attracting new fans like, white teenage girls, which in previous videos you mention teen girls in general decide what is cool. I mean, if you think about it the majority of people who call Metallica sellouts for making the Black Album were born in the late 80s and into the 90s. That kind of sentiment is not good for the genre when you consider those same people likely have a thousand dumb opinions on everything music. Rock is dead, the fans are the culprits, and now we just get the Foo Fighters corporate rock factory.

To prove breakdowns aren't all easy to play, Finn picks an objectively easy breakdown to play. 😂

Metal has always been outside music for outside people. Metal and metal heads have never been popular culture, that's the point. I was there in the 80's and 90's at it's most popular and it wasn't popular. FTW my brother, keep up the great videos. 🤟❤️🇨🇦

that emmure breakdown was the same as endless by unearth

Wait... is something good based on how difficult it is to play? Sounds more like a musician judging another musician rather than the actual listener enjoying music.

I also have to agree with the fact learning a DAW to the means of making interesting sounding electronic music has always felt very fucking hard in comparison to playing actual instruments. Maybe not at the stage where you are satisfied with your amateurish Nexus preset music (made a lot of dnb & trance tracks as a kid like this) which is just midi map painting, but when you get to actually programming non-plastic sounding synths and doing your own sound design it's a completely different world, you almost have to approach it like an engineer. I never got as good there. Playing instruments, all the dynamics are simply in your fingers & muscle memory, which is a satisfying process that just comes along when you play.

New blink def should’ve went the self titled and angels & airwaves route

I dunno if the argument is that breakdowns "are easy" as much as it is that they "are easier than other playing styles in metal". at least, that's the argument to me. relatively, almost every breakdown I've ever heard is definitely easier to play than a lot of fast-paced death metal riffs. if the standard is that both have to be played really tightly, I'll take that part in that Emmure song or most breakdowns over the opening riff to Legion of the Serpent by The Faceless or even the opening riff to Hammer Smashed Face. jumping from string to string playing 32nd notes at that speed fuggs me up. I can even play Bleed more tightly than the riffs I mentioned. I'm not necessarily saying I can play any of these things well, the breakdowns are just easier for me than the death metal riffs. If you compare these breakdowns to something like Master of Puppets, sure, I could see the argument that they are equally difficult or even more difficult than that song. To Dyer's Eve? Doubtful. Much of this is based on my own strengths on weaknesses on the instrument so perhaps it differs for others, I dunno. Thing is, being "easy to play" is not a bad thing. I'm not making this argument to say breakdowns are bad or anything. "Easy to play" =/= bad, unless you wanna sit here and tell me that Moonlight Sonata is a bad piano piece or that the main "Rohan theme" from the Lord of the Rings sucks because the violin being played is not hard compared to some other pieces. anybody saying breakdowns suck because they are relatively easy to play is probably not being intellectually honest. they probably dislike them for other reasons.

This was quite informative, but then is making a beat on DAW far harder than what Thomas Haake does with drums? This is just a real eye-opener to me. Further, are the pop stars and EDM musicians who work with DAWs applying their full potential?

Hot take, all hope is gone is a great album

Finnnnnnnn "Like dance dance ya know, cut a rug" *does a little dance* that was adorable haha

Honestly I never cared what's popular. I still listen to Agnostic Front and wear Madball shirts. Among other stuff of course.