I'm convinced "Scott Ian from Anthrax" is Scott's full name. Nobody ever says just "Scott Ian."

This channel is the side project of 'The Punk Rock MBA' and I'm all for it

Your tier lists are definitely my favorite kind of content across both your channels. You could be talking about something I have absolutely no interest in but I’ll still watch anyway if it’s a tier list.

Down is one of my favorite side projects, bluesy heavy and just enough bad ass riffs crowbar style

Absolutely perfect analysis of Velvet Revolver and the whole G&R situation.

I was surprised to see AvA as S tier for Finn's taste, I'm definetly an AvA stan, glad to see them having some well deserved love

That original Transplants record is a classic!

Angels and Airwaves probably had the most underhyped debut of all time, Tom really should have built it up more

Do a Tier List of Female Frontwoman Rock/Metal Bands (Halestorm/Evanescence/Dorothy/The Pretty Reckless/The Warning/Etc.) These bands always get forgotten and overlooked and it's freaking ridiculous!!!!

I remember when Angels & Airwaves dropped The Adventure, I was just learning how to play guitar and that lead guitar kick is just fucking beautiful. I was like 14 and yeah, it's really a great song IMO.

Some of the best side projects in Rock, Metal.and Experimental. Down Mr Bungle Fantomas Nailbomb Soulfly Temple Of The Dog Mad Season Audioslave Praxis Damageplan OSI A Perfect Circle

I got to see Brujeria make a very quick "guest appearance" when I saw Fear Factory in 94. The lineup was Machine Head opening for Clutch and Fear Factory. After Fear Factory's main set, before the encore, Brujeria came out, played 4 songs, while wearing bandana's to "hide their identity" and then said they had to leave quickly because they were on the run. It was pretty awesome.

I like Velvet Revolver and Down is one of my fave side project album. I could listen to Stone The Crow all damn day and never get sick of it.

My band in high school was called Aiming for Angels, which started the same year Angels and Airwaves came out. Naturally, everybody poked fun at it. “Oh hey, you’re the guitar player for Angels & Airwaves, right?” “What are you doing tonight? You goin to the Angels & Airwaves show?” That sort of thing. Lol. I was probably a little frustrated by it at the time. In retrospect, however…how could they resist? I would have probably joined in on it if I was on the other side of it. Thanks Tom Deshlonge! Thanks a lot!

I love velvet revolver. The entirety of Contraband and most of the second album rocks. “Slither” alone puts em in the A Tier to me lol

Your Deftones apathy is completely forgiven after AVA got a S tier classification. I can sleep peacefully tonight.

I got to admit the song The Adventure from Angels & Airwaves was one of my favorites when I was a teenager still a very unique song in my opinion

Dang forgot about the Transplants. Gotta find their album. A Perfect Circle is S tier based on their first album alone (one of my favorites of all time). Their second and third albums are also good but not S tier. I saw them open for NIN in 2000 and it was an unbelievable show.

Tom Delonge gets his fair share of flack but man it is way harder to consistently come up with great melodies than it is to write a Tool song, I mean that wholeheartedly. To take 3-4 chords and make them so catchy and memorable is a gift in itself

Infectious Grooves first album (with Perkins) was really rad actually. A lot of Suicidal Tendencies still felt throughout a great deal of it... and an appearance from Ozzy to boot

Fun fact about Velvet Revolver. There is a Canadian rock band called Big Wreck, Ian Thornley is their lead vocalist/guitar player. The guys in Velvet wanted Thornley to be the vocalist before they got Scott. He went to some practices and he decided he wasn't energetic enough to take the lead because he was more comfortable playing guitar while singing. Check out Big Wreck, they are awesome. Thornley is such an underrated musician.

Transplants is S tier for me! I think they're great since I first heard them. I kinda like them better than rancid and blink. That's a dream team right there.

I've said this a million times. Kottonmouth Kings is a group you listen to for a week straight after you start smoking weed in 7th grade and then you never listen to them or speak of it again.

Yea i remember one high school friend in the early 2000s that liked Down, and I thought it was weird because it didn't sound like Slipknot. Only now I realize how advanced that dude was for repping Down back then

Great show Finn - totally chill and good for my nerves. Always love hearing your take on things so I know what is ok to like and not like in the big wide world. For example, I’ll always give someone a chance now if they have good wrist accessories. You’re 🔝💯💎🇬🇧

The dammed things were forgotten but totally A tier.

Love this stuff. Gotta do tier lists for features and collabs, solo careers of people who got famous in bands, and replacement members.

Your tier list videos are wildly entertaining

This was a very fun video. Your tiers are always great.

Definitely gonna need another episode of this. There are so many more.

Your Tier list videos are the absolute bomb Finn! Keep em coming bromandude!!

Can't wait for round 2... Another great vid

Downs Nola was such an amazing debut Side Project. I remember liking it a lot better than Pantera at the time, huge influence

If you read this I have a few recommendations: -Demons & Wizards(side-project of Blind Guardian and Iced Earth) in case you want to attract the ire of power metal fans. -Bad Astronaut(Lagwagon's Joey Cape's side-project). -Lard(Jello Biafra and Ministry's side project). I think my favorite side project though would have to be the band ALL. Basically The Descendents minus Milo. Over the years they had a few singers, originally Dave Smalley of Dag Nasty but I think their best lineup was with Chad Price. That is all(literally). Love your content!

Lindemann is a another good side project. It feels like an Rammstein DLC

The lists never disappoint! Thanks Finn 😄

Yay! I just love the tier lists and the charts!

Agree with all of your placements. Now I need to go listen to that Transplants album. Suggestions for next one: Head Automatica (Glassjaw), Gimmie Gimmies, and Sound of Animals Fighting (Anthony Green + Rx Bandits)

I really like all of Blink's side projects. AVA, +44, Boxcar, Transplants were all fantastic in their own right and all pretty musically different which is so cool to me.

Thanks for the great content Finn 🫡

Glad to hear you mention KMK, my old favorite band from highschool!

DOWN is amazing. 1st album is alllll bangers and then the next albums have such variety that it really fits daily listening really. So fucking good I had no idea anyone liked The Transplants. I thought it was universally hated and one of those "pretend it didn't happen" sort of things for Tim and Travis and such. Wow. Surprised there

END & LS Dunes are seriously two of the best "side projects" or super groups in modern music. END ist heavy af, has members of Counterparts, Fit For An Autopsy (Will Putney is one of the best metal producers in the world), Misery Signals, Shai Hulud and it's soooo sick and insanely heavy and dark. Ls Dunes just made one album last year and it is sucessful af, they have members of My Chemical Romance, Thursday & Saosin eich are three very important emo bands, even tho MCR aren't really emo but still they were the biggest Band in the scene.

Thanks for the amazing content Fin:) I’d really like to hear your take on Acid Bath. I know your not a fan of the Sludge Metal stuff, but I’d think you’d at least appreciate them. As a small, relatively unknown band from Louisiana, they did a lot for the genre of metal.

I'm a big fan of Down, I always have been. Maybe it's because of when I was listening to them a lot (that is important), but yeah, always loved them. Their first two albums especially

I actually really like Infectious Grooves. Violent and Funky is a classic. Only the lack in vocal department is why I wouldn’t put them in the S tier.

When it comes to VH1’s supergroup I always think of Sebastian Bach yelling “Savage Animal” like it’s the coolest band name of all time lol

a couple of my favorite side projects (though i suppose they would stem more from the "core" scenes than straight rock/metal if we are getting technical) are: - Ghost Atlas (Jesse Cash of Erra) - Anthony Green (Circa Survive) - Darko US (Chelsea Grin/Emmure) - Hurtwave (2 of the Dayseeker guys) - Basically anything Landon Tewers does

Always good shit Finn!

Blaqk Audio is a great side project too. Glad to see that they continue to put out records and tour.

I used to own the Epiphone version of Tom delonges signature hollow body guitar. And let me tell you it's definitely not a normal take on a hollow body. They had super high output pickups that caused extra harmonic frequencies when you used fuzz pedals. My biggest regret in life is selling that thing, because it was a sleeper metal guitar. It was genuinely one of the nastiest sounding instruments I ever owned

When I think of side projects/ super groups a few specific bands come to mind (not all from the world of rock and metal), and they usually have some nostalgic attachment: A Perfect Circle- Quite possibly my favorite example. I could never get into Tool, I guess this was just way more accessible for a normie or like me. Straylight Run- probably my second fav and they got more play time from me than their OG Taking Back Sunday. Fort Minor- it’s no Linkin Park but if you compare it to other sides it comes out fairly solid. My sister was all about Patrick Stump’s Soul Punk. It was a tad too “artistic” for me. She also touted The Wreckers, which I didn’t mind listening along as we’d chill. My wife still brings up Gorillaz. Then there was that time that my dad gave Chickenfoot a try… I knew how that was going to go the moment I saw how much effort had been put into their naming / logo… I never understood how that much talent could flop like that, but your big ego explanation makes a lot of sense there.

I could see a part two for this tier list coming someday.

comin from a friend on fieldy's dreams is actually a banger with great life lessons

I really wanted to see you mention methods of mayhem

3:00 I can't express how happy I am out of the gate you label AVA as S Tier. Truly one of my favorite bands of all time and I would agree side project band.

Down has been one of my favorite bands since they came out. I love Superjoint (first 2 albums) as well, probably more than Down. You should check them out if you do another one of these.

Finn is right - tier lists are peak Finn content. Never disappoint.

I'd like to see The Falcon, Bad Astronaut, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes and/or all the Green Day side projects in one of these, they're always fun and educational

Glad to see VR get some respect put on their name 🤝🏼

Mike muir has a great eye for truly amazing musicians, he's had rob trujillo, roy mayorga, thundercat, brooks wackerman, and currently has ben weinman and dave Lombardo

That Tim Armstrong impression was SCARY good

I had those Fieldy shoes! I had the ones with the Bass Clef and other designs all over them. I thought I was the baddest kid in middle school.

Great video.

I'd like a 2nd version of this with more modern bands. I've always wanted to hear your opinion on Danny Worsnops side band, We Are Harlot. Also, Starsets singers side project MNQN, and Ronnie Radkie's very unfortunate solo project.

One of the sickest sideprojects/supergroups that brought out an insanely killer record is Absent In Body. Guitarplayer Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove and Singer Colin H. Van Eeckhout from Amenra, Scott Kelly from Neurosis and ggor Cavalera. Maybe not your jam Finn, but deserves a shoutout for the algo, it totally flew under my radar and the record blew me away.

I do like Transplants, but it took me some years to realise that it is basically Tim Armstrong doing Big Audio Dynamite.

we need that kottonmouth kings video or something related to supporting radical habits (srh) 😈

A Perfect Circle deserves to be in the top tier

Awesome list as always. However, I can’t believe you didn’t put Audioslave somewhere in here. I know you’re not their biggest fan but they’re better than most side projects.

Still waiting on Austrian Death Machine to show up on here!

Plus 44 were awesome 😍

I saw EyehateGod in concert. They opened for Pantera

Getting into Brujeria in the late-'90s listening to Raza Odiada, me and my friends always pronounced it "Brew-HAIR-ee-uh," until I brought them up to a Cuban co-worker who laughed in my face because he'd never heard that word pronounced so gringo before. They are the S-est tier of any of these kinds of bands and I will never cease blowing out my speakers playing "Don Quixote Marijuana" driving back from a night on the town.

I think Velvet Revolver is S tier, but my first tattoo was a Velvet Revolver tattoo so I am a bit biased

Nice Tim Armstrong impression Finn

Include The Dead Weather next time! Great list 😂

If there is a part 2, does Audioslave qualify. I loved Chris Cornell's vocals with Tom's guitar.

Velvet will always be S-tier for me.

Psycho Synner sounds like someone thought Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell was a documentary that needed a soundtrack

rating art is like rating a conversation

Yo I was looking forward to more music from the transplants, I thought they were going to explode at some point

I’m pleasantly surprised to hear you talk positively about Angels and Airwaves (S tier?!?). I definitely would have stereotyped you as an AVA hater. There are a few songs by them that I absolutely love and I have a major soft spot for their first album!

Oooh you rated Psycho Synner!! 😮😃😃Will wait to see what you rate. I'm guessing F but will be interested of your take

Jessica Pimentel from Orange Is The New Black was a background vocalist for Brujeria! 🤘

NOLA from Down is S tier

I'll always remember watching that Supergroup show and Sebastian Bach being like "lets name the band Savage Animal" hahaha

Skinhead Rob was a hype man for Paul wall on the fire and ice tour,he came out in a long tee and a fitted lol.

One the cabinet makers at my job is this really sweet guy who is very gullible, so I got allll of the lore delivered in utmost sincerity when he told me of Brujeria!

lmfaooo not me watching this while wearing an eyehategod shirt.... i agree w your rankings on AVA and +44! when both bands debuted, my friend group went nuts over +44 while my ears preferred AVA a bit more

I bought fieldy's dreams album,I thought it was gonna be a korn mix with limp bizkit sound

Velvet revolver is indeed mad underrated

Infectious grooves was elite my dad was playing that in his car I think that was a big door into primus for me for some reason

Also Nawleans' Acid Bath are the GOATS of sludge metal!

Finn, thanks for the video. I was too young in 2006/2007 to know so I'm curious, who was the more popular band between +44 and AvA? Commercially and within the scene? Thanks!

It's interesting that you said you'd like the Transplants even if you didn't know who they were, because if I didn't know Tim Armstrong was involved in the project I might like them even more.

Shout out to Street Sweeper Social Club and Mad Season. Maybe Evil Stig too, if that counts! Huge props to Dodge Main as well. I mean a Dead Boys, MC5 and Stooges super group come on! I was a lucky 10th grader to see one of their 3 (maybe?) shows in Cleveland.

On the tier list of tier listing content, your tier listing content is S tier on the tier list

Your tier lists are my favourites as well. Coming soon: The tier list of Finnisms! Including: Hell yeah brother! Here's the thing! I'm a Death Metal elitist! And all the other stuff...

I love these