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The real cringiest metal bands are the friends we made along the way.

I think the only band that truly deserves to be in the "pure cringe" tier is blood on the dance floor. And yes, mostly due to the frontman being a bag of human excrement hidden behind pretty makeup. I love bands that put in some effort into their appearance, whether it's crazy costumes or strong makeup or ridiculous stage shows cause it's a bit of extra on top of the great music, especially since it adds an extra visual dimension, it's like that cherry on the top, a dose of eye candy for the dessert after the musical main course but... you get to blood on the dancefloor and the meal they're serving is kinda shitty and the ingredients are rotten. So yeah, I don't think HIM and Otep should be on the same tier. Skillet I dunno, never really listened to them :D

Every time I see the lead singer of Cradle of Filth, I keep thinking of a hyperactive chihuahua.

"Cringe" is purely subjective. One man's "cringe" is 100% another man's comfort zone.

How are you going to put Disturbed on here and NOT bring up the mommy assault bridge on Down With The Sickness? Lol

I feel personally attacked in your accurate description of my teenage years being a Cradle of Filth fan lol

Ministry "Land of Rape and Honey" and "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste" was the soundtrack of my LSD soaked highschool years... Along with Pantera and Deicide.

Kiss is just the original Blood On The Dance Floor/ Brokencyde where they got some bangers but there's no denying that their main goal in making music was getting laid 😅

And then you have the absolute Kings of Cringe: Five Finger Death Punch!

Love these lists, man. Also love your comments on politically-themed metal: it better be done as an art and not pandering. I have very strong political views, but I DO NOT NEED my music to reflect that. It sucks when people just want their music to pander to their beliefs. I'm not saying I am an ethereal being who has ascended to a level beyond: I'm saying I hate that a lot of badly-themed music is coming out because people who need their politics constantly massaged in every aspect of their life will eat it up. Demand better! Oh and fun fact: my wife knew Brandon from Bleeding Through and said he was a massive tool.

I like how both groups that Tyler Smyth works with (Falling In Reverse and I Prevail) are this high in tier lists. Can't wait to see Dangerkids getting own tier in next video.

I wouldn’t say Baby Metal are cringe. I see why they can be labeled as such, but they’re just industry plants. Those girls have been through absolute hell being used up by the Japanese “idol” scene that rely on abuse, neglect and near-torturous methods to get their albums on the global scale. Same reason why I don’t find BTS music cringe, but rather depressing on how big they are, and how many people enjoy that. And as soon as I saw Pantera on this list, I had to pull out the 🍿! More lists like this please.

My theory is that Al Jourgensen hates the early pop records of Ministry so much, he doesn't even want them to be considered the worst albums.

I’m in my late 20’s and HIM is my favourite band of all time and seeing them be described as cringe hurts but I do understand why. I never show them to people for a reason

I didn't know who Blood on the Dancefloor were..and now I really wish I didn't, holy shit yikes.

I've always enjoyed some good cringe! In the early 80's my favorite bands were Loverboy, Billy Idol, and some really bad "christian metal"

The fact that BOTDF has been getting popular again in the current scene community too.......

I would've put Deicide and Sumo Cyco in "Cringe but fun" but otherwise perfect list. I actually kind of like the Ascension by Otep, but holy, the 14 year old Rage Against the Machine politics are a bit much. I almost feel bad calling them cringe because like KoRn, they touch on some really sensitive subject matter, but KoRn didn't bring politics into it.

7:14 do you think he knows the upside down cross is called the Petrine Cross, or the Cross of Saint Peter? Man literally just burned an ancient Catholic symbol into his forehead.

What amazes me about Bad Wolves is that the drummer was the drummer for Devildriver. He went from the Groove Metal machine, to butt Rock Bad Wolves. Love the guy though.

Mudvayne's Dull Boy is actually my favorite mudvayne song ever. it's an homage to Stanley Kubricks the Shining, so are many of Mudvaynes music.

To be fair, Skillet's early stuff is what got me into metal because it was a Christian band. Now I'm deep in the rabbit hole of Swedish death metal. Who knew?

"Cringe But Fun" Yeah, I'm definitely within this neesh!

"We're not fake like WWE, we are real like the UFC" - Bloodywood, 2022

These videos are always fun. Can't really argue with any of the reasoning even I do like some of the bands.

I absolutely love how respectful you are while ranking these bands I'm not afraid to admit some of the bands I like are cringe lol

i just wanna say if anyone here feels like arguing about the bands that were called cringe here, it could always be worse - i listen to breathe carolina unironically lmao

I love CoF.Dani's vocals are insane

I think Cradle of Filth end up being less cringe than you'd expect because they take themselves about as seriously as an episode of Blackadder...if they were really really earnest and deadly serious, they'd be waaaaay worse. But Dani is generally just taking the piss most of the time. Interesting that you have an issue with Disturbed's version of Sound Of Silence, since Paul Simon himself praised them for their performance of it. I really like that version (and I love the original) because for me it does capture and express the quiet anger in the lyrics.

NOT HIM😭

HIM cringe?! Well fair enough, but god damn do I fucking love it! XD

Y’all call those cringe? Allow me to make my ✨DEBUT✨

I still love Cradle of Filth and their CD Existence is Futile is the best album they made in recent years. Otep's first 2 albums were good, then her content sank and recycled the same subject matter over and over.

I respectfully disagree with your assessment of Disturbed "The Sound of Silence". I have long enjoyed the Simon and Garfunkel original, and when I heard Disturbed's version, I was impressed. What was a quiet and minimal song was now a heavy song that seemed to grow as it progressed, becoming a song to the masses. I don't think it affects the original in any negative way, and even Paul Simon himself regards the song as an excellent cover of the original. Is it as good? Debatable. Is it good in its own right? Yes. Actually I've thought Disturbed has a knack for turning pop standards into metal songs and doing it well (see Shout and Land of Confusion). But in the end, we have our opinions and if we disagree, we should do it in a civilized manner. Thank you.

I love Babymetal, they got me reinterested in heavy sound after a long time off. Babymetal is fun and approachable, G-rated. They aren't for everyone.

Not gonna lie. I love most of the early HIM catalog, all the way to Love Metal and some of the songs in Dark Light and Venus Doom where not bad. You say there are other bands that does this kind of music better. Fair enough. But you didn't mention any names. Bah! Since HIM is no more and Ville Valo's solo songs are certainly songs, I'm starving for some sad love metal shenanigans. Do you mind sharing any of these bands name? Thanks. 👍

How was five fingered not here? Also love the my new haircut meme, haven't seen that in fucking ages

The most Cringe bands are black metal: Immortal, Abbath, Burzum, Carpathian Forrest, Maniac Butcher, Torrr But the worst of all is Mayhem.

Blood on the Dancefloor is beyond pure cringe

HIM Is defintly not pure cringe. Cringe but fun at most. The rest are pretty spot on

Even if something is cringe, it can still be fun. Dig what you like.

I like older nightwish, but i stay away from other fans

On ministrie, I only saw them live because Jordison (RIP) was featured on drums.

Putting I Prevail there hurt me a bit 😭

Otep is the Ellen DeGeneres of metal music. I do like a couple songs from the first ep and the debut, but not much else.

Since when the fuck has Deicide been cringe?!

Good vid man, its the first one of yours I've watched and while I'm into metal its not something I follow. So for you to keep me engaged to the point I finished the video.. well done man

I'm cackling that you have Dahvie Vanity and Otep in the thumbnail together considering BOTDF plagiarized an OTEP song, because they have to do everything they can to be the worst music act of all time.

My first Pantera show... It was kinda a festival. Sepultura and Prong were the opening acts. Max of Sepultura had surgery, so they canceled. My homie Rick Dog left 10 minutes after hearing the news. Sepultura not playing was too much for my big homie. Prong is awesome. I've seen them as many times as NIN. Good times. And then Pantera hit the stage. Decent pit. Then about 30 minutes into their set, Phil breaks into a endless soliloquy about doing drugs. Pit died. Energy gone. Fuck Pantera.

I totally get the I Prevail rank, but I love 'em anyway. DO NOT KILL THE CRINGE IN YOU, BUT KILL THE PART THAT CRINGES

Dude, "good friends and a bottle of pills" is such a fun ridiculous song, I feel like they knew what they were doing.

Bro, I personally love Skillet because they were the first band to introduce me to rock music when I was in high school (next to Breaking Benjamin) and without them I probably wouldn’t listen to some of the greatest rock and metal bands that i listen to today. So yeah I found it absolutely painful to see you put Skillet on “pure cringe”😂 but I understand, that band is not everyone’s cup of tea.

I see your point on OTEP But.......I think they got REALLY good after a while ! I havnt heard there newest stuff if there is but Smash the Control Machine era i liked a lot ! Even the Nirvana cover i liked !

Blood on the Dance Floor is the worst mainstream band of all time, and you can fight me on that. They’re so bad that it’s kind of fascinating. I was legitimately in shock when I heard them for the first time. I still don’t know how these guys aren’t satire. Their aesthetic is pure cringe, their entire marketing relied on MySpace, and Dahvie Vanity is genuinely one of the most disgusting, vile people in rock and metal music, and that’s saying A LOT. I would rather listen to a whole Six Feet Under album than one BotDF song. Don’t even give this band a stream out of morbid curiosity, it’s really not worth it. Just sleep easy without the knowledge that this band exists.

Five finger death punch is in the S their list of cringe

I'm glad I'm not the only one that dislikes Bad Wolves cover of "Zombie"

Love that nightwish was put low. But like there imagination talent and skill is pretty unmatched. Floor is one of the greatest singers of the day. Anything regarding power metal is going to be corny. That's the point to embrace fun and imagination

The only bands missing are Machine Head and Six Feet Under. Rob Flynn and Chris Barnes deserve a tier all to themselves.

As God is my witness, for 30 years I thought the name of that band was Decide. I blame the fucking death metal font. Can't make heads or tails of it most of the time.

Way back when I was 11, before the internet I went into a local record store to pick up an album from a band I saw on Headbamger's Ball. I didn't remember the name of the band correctly because I bought Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste. On the car ride home I expected to hear some generic thrash metal and on comes Thieves instead. That was quite a shock, but one I subjected myself to over and over in the coming weeks. Yeah and I actually do enjoy almost everything by Mudvayne, but damn, LD50 was so much better than everything after it. They dropped the silly face paint which was good, but then they decided to play radio metal, which I like but if they'd stuck with the LD50 thing they'd probably be lauded as one of the greats instead of a festival band. Aww man...yeah Bad Wolves suck but as someone who heard Zombie all throughout high school watching the video knowing what happened to Dolores and the way they shot the video legit made me mist up. No it's not the best cover, I really hate they replaced the year with 2018 and bombs with drones but I guess it was inevitable, but Dolores signed off on it and was supposed to be in the video and I think on the track as well.

As someone who enjoys the early albums, I'm surprised marilyn manson wasn't on this list for his more cringy stuff

Throw tool on this list. I chose a little t because everything about the band is low t. The only thing more cringe than tool are the fans.

C'mon, I don't think Nightwish belong here. All symphonic and power metal is cheesy, but that's okay.

Oh nooooo, I get why people hate HIM but I’m one of those people who love the fuck out of them. My favorite band of all time lol idgaf

I absolutely love Nightwish and other Nightwish fans I have met are relaxed about them and love Epica too (let’s face it Epica is INCREDIBLE and Nightwish with Floor is fantastic as hell too. Nightwish Vs Epica is like Metallica vs Megadeth. Nightwish has their songs that just aren’t pleasing lyrically and sometimes vocally but are very well composed. Epica is just incredible all around

Coal Chamber's first 3 albums I loved. The newest album was so bad. Otep's first album was so good, Everything since is just bad. Mudvayne LD50 was one of my favorites, The second album had 3 good songs everything after that was bad. Panatara I enjoy Sumo Cyco's music isn't bad but those vocals. She sounds Jamaican Everything else is really bad. I hate I prevail and HIM.

Thank you for the mention about AIC and Godsmack (the band) never belonging in the same sentence. But yee i dig Voodoo. Anyone who says that song isnt catchy is going in to rock and metal edgelord territory.

every glam band there ever was should be put at the top

The fact that Otep peaked early with House of Secrets is just sad.

• Ministry: No opinion really. I didn't even know they made metal music but to be fair, I only discovered them as recently back in 2010 and it was only their Industrial/EBM type music that I was listening to, never really ventured into their 2000s stuff. • Cradle of Filtth: They're is a fun one. I think the stuff has aged a bit and can be seen as "cringe" but they had some of the nicest shot music videos and their instrumentals (mainly when they incorporated orchestral stuff in it) are so nice. I remember I hated Dani's singing style but loved the way the instruments sounded and the operatic vocals provided Sarah Jezebel Deva. And I did eventually warm up to Dani's vocals lol. • Godsmack: Agreed. Admittedly they are nostalgic for me because I listened to their singles released at the time when I was in middle school and first two years of high school. But whenever I go back to their songs, I do cringe at the lyrics because they're just so edgy and I can't relate with them, especially their song "Whatever" which used to be one of my favorities when I was 13 haha. I agree with the "cringe but fun" moniker for them for sure. • Mudvayne: Agreed, they're definitely a product of the time and didn't age the best. I still enjoy their hit singles "Happy?" and "Forget to remember" but ultimately the stuff is pretty cringe and not easy to go back to unless you're in the right nostalgic mood for it. • Otep: Split. I think a lot of their early work pre-Smash the Control Machine is pretty good. Some of the lyrics are edgy but the sound was interesting (mainly on 2004's House of Secrets) and it's hard because they're one of the first female fronted metal bands that I got into (Kittie being the first). But yeah, my brother who was also a fan sent me some of their recent music back in the 2010s and what I saw/heard was pretty cringe imo. I respect your opinion though,. I don't care for the later branch of their work at all. • Nightwish: I LOVE them. But only the era with Tarja Turunen. I never could get behind Anette Olzon after being spoiled by Tarja's opera-style singing. And plus the lyrics during Anette's time definitely skewed more on the edgy side than poetic spectrum during Tarja's era. Floor is good but Tarja still gets it for me but for the sake of the tier, I think your ranking was more than fair even though I would put them in "Cringe but fun" because even with Tarja, I'm sure there are people who would find her stage presentation cringe (and I'd disagree but to each their own lol). • HIM: I actually do enjoy their early stuff pre Dark-Light. I did get annoyed when people would call them "modern goth rock" when that isn't the genre they play, they were like the male equivalent of Evanescence, Darker style Hard Rock. That said, Vile Valo has a pretty voice and I listened to "DarkLight" on repeat back when I was 14. I'm not sure if I'd put them in the "Pure Cringe" but that's just me haha. • Coal Chamber: I only ever heard their first album and never ventured into their other stuff but yeah if we're talking about the first album, it is cringe lol. Listened to it a bunch as a 15 year old but the stuff has aged and it's hard to listen to today even if I like the instrumentals for "Sway" lol. • KISS: Haven't heard a lot of their stuff except for their well-known stuff. No real opinion. • Bad Wolves: I actually have not heard of them until you mentioned their cover of "Zombie" and oh my gosh, so that's the band who did that awful cover. This cover would play on the daily at my job and I thought it sounded like absolute crap compared to the beautiful original. Now I know who the band is and I agree. Awful awful though to be fair, the original song is hard to top, Dolores' voice and the way the instruments were arranged was near perfection. • Skillet: No real opinion, never listened to them but I remember I'd get recommended them a lot back in the day. The thing you said about the whole Imagine Dragons formula that many "butt rock" bands have been going with though, hard agree. It's the main reason why I had such difficulty getting into a lot of newer rock bands during the 2010s and many of them were doing that auto-tune like effect to the vocals and electronic-ness(?) to the chorus parts of songs which just ruined it for me personally. • Delcide, Bleeding Through, I Prevail, Sumo Cyco:, and King810, No opinion, never heard lol.I was never really into Death Metal and Metalcore. • Pantera: Only heard their songs "Cowboys from Hell"and "Walk". Very surface level view but that one song you featured, No, just no. • Baby Metal: Never could get into them, the instrumentals are fine but the high-pitched singing is just too annoying. I'll give them this, it's original at least (I haven't heard a combination like that before so forgive my potential ignorance) even if it was obviously superficially crafted.

Pantera's the great southern trendkill is the most badass metal album ever (beside acid bath when the kite string pops). Although Phil turned out to be what he is, they were amazing. Was lucky enough to see them twice, that was the definition of what a show should be. Rip dime & Vinny

you nailed it with Godsmack - absolutely perfect description!

I don't think Pantera is cringe. Phil outside of it...possibly. They were a real band, not very gimmicky

Scars of the crucifix will forever be the greatest metal video. Whenever I'm sad I will watch that video.

Honestly I agree with everything on this list except for HIM being at the top of the cringe list. Their early albums definitely embrace what Gothic metal is, other then that solid video my friend 🤘

HIM slaps, I feel no shame in loving them :)

Otep the band kicks ass. Otep Shamaya the person is a cringe factory. I stopped listening when they were still bitching about Bush doctrine In like 2013 or something

you know godsmack started as an alice in chains cover band obsessed with heroin hence the name godsmack, i always disliked theyre music but i was a heavy heavy heroin addict for over a decade so i was pretty aware of the band

Kiss is cringe but fun. Gene is just cringe

Disturbed is not cringe. Now while their cover of "Sound of Silence" was heavily overplayed, all of their albums have been bangers. I would put Mushroomhead in their place. Or Asking Alexandria, specifically after Danny rejoined.

I was thinking about being like 11 and LOVING two songs from Blood on the Dancefloor (Death to your Heart and I think the Wonderland one???). I couldn't figure out what the band was called for good reasons, but it's so bad lmaoo. I have a core memory of them joking about their music being inspired by the sound of a dying cat?? Where's my Wonderland still is decent but the lyrical writing is SO lazy. It took looking up "cringy scene bands" to find them though, so I can now rest in peace.

I don't listen to anything past Hydra with Otep. Love her, love her work, but whatever direction the band is going isn't my sound. Wish them the best, hopefully we get something that blows our brains out.

I don't get why people say Nightwish is cringy, lol. Their songs are godly, their singers are literal angels and their performances has 0 over the top production lol. You could easily replace them with Powerwolf. It's one of my favorite bands of all time but damn it's hard not to laugh at their super exaggerated performances.

Love Ministry but i see your point on the later stuff . Cradle is cringy but i still love a bunch their stuff ! Which is the point your making . I get it . Godsmack ! Every song has a Go Away Get Away Stay Away type line ! LOL ! While they are not my thing , i saw them live a few times with other bands , and they are SOLID af live ! It made me appreciate them more for that alone . I give props where its due !

Older Ministry is mild cringe. Everything now is hot garbage and "orange man bad"

I used to love Otep, they head such banger albums like The Ascension, Smash the Control Machine and Generation Doom. But after 2016 she just lost it. We all know what happened that year that made har snap, but its made her music pure unfun preachy cringe.

Nightwish my ex fav band. Early albums are so good, the last three ugh.... they have left the darkness of the night and headed sadly into the sunshiney ballad feel good folksy territory and lost their edge

What about volbeat and five finger death punch.🤮

Dude, the amount of times being in a full car in high school and playing Amir of the Desert and all of us voicing along

Let's fo this! I'll be back when you make me mad! So yeah, the Zombie cover wasn't great but the video did make me mist up a little with the way they shot the Dolores lookalike covered in goop just like in the original video. Considering she died unexpectedly right before that was shot the way the Dolores doppleganger smeared the goop over the glass blocking herself out did make me sad. Of course I grew up with their music all over the radio. Side note, I had two girls who I had previously both dated do a duet karaoke version of another one of the Cranberries songs, Linger, while I was there with the girl I was currently dating. One of the most uncomfortable four minutes of my entire life

Still love Cradle of Filth.

If you want ultimate cringe regarding KISS, look up Gene Simmons's cover of Prodigy's Firestarter. That thing exists.

When you mentioned bad wolves Zombie I had to subscribe. Their cover of zombie was the second worst thing to happen to The Cranberries since Delores died. It was also particularly badly timed. I will say that Deicide played the single hardest show I've ever seen in my city (Richmond) and I got jumped by like 20 people while they were absolutely brutally jamming so that informs my opinion that they are indeed not cringe. Especially since they've had the satanic schtick for like 36 years.

King 810 could have toured with Limp Bizkit in 2000 on the Anger Management Tour.

Pantera isn't cringe, Phil Anselmo is cringe but fun

Damn did skillet a little dirty but otherwise the most accurate list I've ever seen

Agree that the last otep album was pure cringe on another level (you would need to add another tier just for that album) but The Ascension is still one of my favourite albums ever.

seeing HIM at the top hurts me, they maybe has too much love songs but ville valo is arguably one of (if not the best) gothic metal vocalists of all time

I’ve been listening to HIM since their first album and it really bums me out how much hate they get. Their music is definitely not for everyone but to label them as pure cringe is extreme lol