Finn and his hate for european music is hilarious as a European.

I'm sure Finn got bullied by a European when he younger lol. 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

"Who were the big european pop-punk bands? They dont exist" Millencolin: wtf dude

Finn: Europe is CRINGE Also Finn: Ya'll ever hear of gay porn?

I'll never forget going to a virgin records store in Berlin when I was 16. The rap and R&B section was labeled "black music" and they had a massive poster of...Eminem 😐

I can't play metal, but I think I've just been inspired to do a yaoi hip-hop concept album

I mean... It's not like us europeans haven't roasted every part of US culture and politics and whatever yall do over there for years so I think we need to suck it up, these are some well deserved roasts!

I try _really hard_ to spot the differences when Finn says something is "bad" versus when something sounds "good" but to me they sound almost identical.

Funny video, I think I - as a european - have a few things to add to this: The singers of Siberian Meat Grinder are wearing masks, because they're leftists in russia, that had to deal with a shitton of neo nazi violence and government repression (remember, Russia is a country where journalists critical of the government regularly just get shot in some back alley), so they do have a good reason to cover their faces. SMG is basically a side project of the political rapcore band Moscow Death Brigade, and they were guests in Hoya's (Madball) podcast a couple of months back. Wolf Down broke up a couple of years ago, because Larissa (the singer) accused some of the other bandmembers of seuxally assaulting her. She now has an industrial-metal something project, which is pretty interesting from a musical perspective. Since this probably already is the most european comment ever, I'll just shut up now.

I remember walking thru Baltimore with my family about 20 years ago, and as we approached a group of people listening to some sort of street comedian, I overheard him saying "how you can you tell the difference between Americans and Europeans? The Europeans smoke". Annoyingly, me, my mother, stepfather, were all smoking cigarettes.

Finn hates Europe because he can't find that "country" on the map.

Finn in 2021: *tries to be a force of positivity, even kind of apologizing for his black metal video* Finn in 2022 after a full year of viewer growth, and having to deal with internet assholes: “Fuck europeans” 😂

As an cringy European i agree on everything Finn says. We are cringy, and we love it

America braught us Mumblerap So...I guess it is a draw. Greetings from Germany.

As a European I can agree that some of these are actually really wack, just like I've seen so many American bands being equally cringe at this amateur/intermediate level. But if there is a genre where Europeans have always managed to stand out worldwide is Metal. Influential bands like Meshuggah, Rammstein, Opeth, Iron Maden, Gojira, Black Sabbath, etc made it as big as many Americans. There will always be good and bad stuff everywhere at the end of the day. But yeah, I understand the humoristic side of the video.

As european, this video was hilarious, congrats. Remember: as USA citizen, you can't feel offended about your culture because you don't have any!

Some dude: Wears a backwards hat Finn: "lmao he's literally cosplaying as an american"

So many people don't understand that America is very culturally different across it's (roughly the same size as continental Europe) area. Especially most Americans.

That German "psychobilly" band is part of a huge subculture here in Europe where people cosplay as "rednecks", we have a few of those types of bands here in the Netherlands but Germany absolutely takes the crown. It's always so cringy to see those kinds of people.

Finn is a low key better comedian than most pro comedians

Continuously slaming Europeans for being cringe while simultaneously pronouncing European names and terms in the most American way possible ... ... the Chad energy is truly off the charts here! 😁

Nasty are hilarious, and I totally agree, one reason why this works is that they are fully aware that what they do is inherently ridiculous and they go all in on it (Nanowar of Steel are another example, terribly european, but so over the top...). Best example is probably the end of the "At war with love" video, the singer spinning the basketball on his finger, menacing stare to the camera, the ball drops to the floor, and he just stands there, finger raised, staring at the camera, doesn't even blink, like nothing happened... 😅 though from what I heard (primarily on this & the punkrock mba channel), it's probably a bit tougher for european bands to pull of this "tough guy" image when neither they nor their audience have any background in that. I don't think I ever met a single aggressive person at a concert. Especially the hardcore/beatdown shows. There is blood, not everyone leaves with the same amount of teeth that they come with, but everybody is happy... I got so confused when I heard you talk about people starting fights at shows on purpose, that is something I'd never ever expect to happen. EDIT: Being German, I think the most European thing to do now is to totally overdo it and make part 2 :D

I fucking lost it at the moment the german disclaimer popped up xD Great job as always Finn! Edit: I think the fact that a lot of the cliches that finn brings up are same stereotypes we use in europe to shit on our neighbours just underlines his credebility in this subject xD

ROTNS actually has a close relationship with Japan in their own way. they even raised money for the crisis after the recent tsunami. they are also very heavy into japanese pop culture and anime etc. they grew up watching the french dubbed imports of popular anime tv series. over all they are not bad guys at all. pretty stand up.

One of my pet peeves is hearing American’s say “I’m going on vacation to Europe” *So where tf are you actually going?!*

A lot of great metal bands up here in Canada are heavily influenced American bands. Which, of course, makes a lot of sense. You should definitely make a video on Canada’s Metalcore/Deathcore scene and react to bands like Threat Signal, Comeback Kid, Ion Dissonance, and Despised Icon.

The wolf down vocalist actually left the band and founded venom prison who are one of the best Death metal bands around at the moment

Someone in the chat said the England isn’t European anymore and I have news for that person: leaving the EU doesn’t change the continents.

Man do I love European music: Powerwolf, Alestorm, Insomnium, Amaranthe, feuerschwanz, Rammstein and so on (from the top of my head and at work.) It's okay to not like that kind of music (obviously.)

Also, the lead singer from the last band Wolf Down is the current singer of Venom Prison, which is definitely a huge step up😂

i'm norwegian and this is hilarious, i don't understand why people get so triggered! it's just lighthearted fun, based on cultural stereotypes. we make fun of ourselves all the time 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I didn't realise that Americans invented hats *and* wearing them backwards. This channel is always so educational. Listening to these bands reminded me of listening to the century media comp from '98 that had loads of euro hardcore bands. It was a simpler time.

This should be a series, do one for each continent! 😂

There's so much good stuff from Europe you can easily find.

Brother, I'm a Brazilian dude that has been living in FInland for the past 7 years, I laughed out loud at many things you pointed out there as they are extremely accurate, and specially Finland of all countries gets to be even more extreme with their Europeaness (nordic countries in general are more like that), and music wise, damn, that's something else. I was watching Euro-fucking-Vision with my wife yesterday and for sure the existence of that show as it is proves all the points you make in this video haha. And I 100% agree that if they would embrace their dorkyness and cringe worth vibes that it would make everything better already haha.

HAHAHAHA. As an uptight Scandinavian, I want this video series to go on FOREVER. Keep 'em coming!

As a Norwegian. I would love for you to do a segment on Scandi-Rock, Kvelertak, The good the bad and the zugly, The Hellacopters, Combos, Lut, Death by Unga Bunga, Blood Comand, The Dogs, Turbonegro. Just to name a few

Is Millencolin skate punk or pop-punk? Either way, I know Finns not a fan but they had a huge impact here in Southern CA across more than one scene.

This video is honestly a contender for the best video on this channel right next to the black metal video. Would love to see you do more of these, genuinely hilarious highlights.

Jokes aside, it is funny how two European bands like At the Gates and Meshuggah saved contemporary metal influencing watered down US trends like metal-core and djent. The US had their chance with Mastodon but guess what? They ended up not taking themselves very seriously.

You should do an episode on Turbonegro. They had all the problems you highlighted in this video but somehow transcended their Euro-ness.

Glad you can appreciate how us southern europeans are the least cringe of the bunch. Just don't look up spanish power metal bands.

I'm from Germany and all I have to say is: Thank you for another entertaining video. You've picked some real awful bands for this. Anyway, there are countless awful american bands and one could easily make countless videos about them. So what? There is one big misunderstanding here: European hardcore bands are not cosplaying as american bands. American hardcore is as cringy as Manowar. European hardcore bands are just parodising american bands. That's all! To my fellow Europeans: Just relax if Finn is making fun about us. We are making fun of Americans as well, aren't we? About their "We are the center of the universe" attitude, about their system of measuring lenghts and weights (no logic at all), about the way they elect their president (again no logic) and about the horse piss they call beer... But who knows? Maybe Finn is just pissed because rock is only dying in America while it's doing very well in Europe? Cheers, Finn!!!

You should definitely react to some german medieval rock. Guys who do medieval-themed LARP and play some kind of cringy folk rock. You're gonna love it

Dude I haven’t spit out my drink laughing so much in a long time. I didn’t expect that to be near as hilarious as it was. Great job Finn!

As a central European living in america I absolutely love how on point this is. Especially with how much shit so many Europeans talk, they never seem to be able to take it.

The vocalist from the last reviewed band (Wolf Down) is Larissa Stupar. She does vocals for the british band Venom Prison now.

Finn is on a mission to collect as much salt from europe as humanly possible 😂😂😂

I see you Finn, this was hillarious even for a serious Dutch person.

The three kinds of european metal Im a motorcycle maannnn I am a viiikiiinng I am darkness and evillee Sometimes a mix of those

The whole German Mexican-influenced cholo style is not far off considering the ridiculous amount of cringe-worthy, Mexican Rammstein tribute bands. It all comes around

Funfact: After Larissa (singer of the last band shown here, now in Venom Prison) left band, they portrayed themselves as some kind of social justice warriors which was pretty successful for them until they turned out to be a bunch of rapists. Was a huge thing in the german hc scene.

Although I hated the Brexit result, does that mean us in the UK are now exempt from the Euro cringe label? 😂

Well, no wonder Purgen got 1.5m views. They're like one of the oldest functioning punk bands in Russia. They got a lot of respect from the scene. And a few laughs along the way. Purgen is pronounced like "poor-ghen". Purgen is also was a pretty common laxative back in the soviet days.

The Pott in Pottboiz actually refers to the Ruhrpott (short Pott) an area of severeal cities that are border to border (like Essen, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen), which used to be a big part in mining coal. So no weed for anyone there. Never heard of most of these bands though lol and I'm not mad at Finn showing "us" the mirror. Oi! is way to relevant in europe (germany). i always hated this but everyone seemed to love it.

I love that you have not mentioned Austria at all. You would not believe the insane amount of cringe that this tiny country was able to bring into this world up until now and i really mean that. Besides that, the main problem with European bands, as we all just witnessed here for the past 20 minutes, they REALLY WANT TO BE AS COOL AS THEIR U.S.AMERICAN IDOLS! So very few even dare to sing in their native language. And it is somewhat okay when the singer's English is above average but man, when it is not then it is ear bleeding time. Now say that with the heaviest Austrian accent you can and you're getting close. The difference between U.S. and EU bands is so big, sports and art, when i was living in the U.S. for a year in 1990/91 i met some cool people and they would practice every single day after school, just like the athletes, over here, when we started to get serious, in my case with my 2nd band when we were 19, 20 years old, and we would rehearse 2 to 4 times a week, we got the "uhhh, you guys really mean business, hu?" comments from our friends and families..... I have been working as a live sound guy in 2 small venues in Vienna for really interesting, niche, extreme or just off label music, and let me tell you, when there is a bill of one band from the U.S. and a local band opening for them, even if they make basically the same music, just the attitude is miles apart, like the Austrian band would almost be asking if it would be okay, if they were to play one more song, you know? That would never, ever happen with a band from the USA. Having said all that, there are some incredible musicians here and all over Europe obviously, but due to the lacking support system, which for sure got better thanks to the internet over the past 2 decades, but still, it is just not the same and you have to be so lucky to get some publicity when you are not trodding along in the same old boring major label garbage cringe crap they can put out to the drunk masses and rake in the cash, small labels are usually "you have to pay for the record yourself"....and i am now getting off track and this is way too long already..... you said to not send you good European music, so i won't, but i sure would like to see you make a video with some real bands, musicians instead of this copycat garbage but thanks for the laughs, i nearly lost it at "Stinky", haha...."'ello...vee arree Stinky, frommm Toulouse and WE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE!" yeahhhhhhhh!!!!

dude we are cringy in music for you as you to us. for us Americans are like you are trying to overdoing everything, oversize in food, in ideas, too much explosions in movies, too much humor, everything that is put in something doesnt seems natural but done by force. too proud of america like nothing else exixst in this world, thinking you are superior. Thats how you americans seems to us. and yes you are right in something but that is stupid mentality of this world that says only america is cool nothing is better, so as you would expect we try to put ourselves up. like music or movies if you didnt came from west noone would care about you. It is stupid nonsense but its true. Anyway will you do video about the good music from europe?

“The British are ok” - I’m glad at least someone thinks so. I can sleep easy tonight.

Youre right about the cringe 😂 however I'd also love to see your opinion on the biggest EU metalcore bands (e.g. Architects, While She Sleeps, Caliban, Heaven Shall Burn, Bury tomorrow etc)

Der Pott is a german term for "der Topf" (engl.: the pot) a region in the biggest german state Nordrhein-Westfalen and includes cities like Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen or Bochum. The Pott is known for their coalmines and their workers mentality. The region got great social issues because we close all the mines. I think that's one of the reason why they try so hard to look tough like in the gangsterrap videos we grew up in the 90's.

Pop punk sucks. I'd rather listen to a Viking themed metal band than Green Day. EDIT: My husband is a European nerdy metal fan and I love him to death! At least Europeans have free healthcare.

i'm from germany and i totally agree with everything that was said in this Video and i'm not even halfway through

We need a part 2 to this!!

It's interesting that you mentioned Toulouse, because I lived in this town at the end of the 90s and there was a local radio station named "Radio Mon Païs" that had a program every week about hardcore and skacore, which made me discover tons of bands (No Use For a Name, Satanic Surfers, Bad Religion, Skankin' Pickle, Mu330, Reel Big Fish,...), never played on national radio stations in France. At that time, a good hardcore/surf-punk band from Toulouse was Greedy-Guts (two guys and a girl playing a bit in the style of the aussie band The Hard-Ons).

I wonder if I ever live to the day that Finn releases a video on good European music, don't worry Finn, you'd get views too.

As an American who has been living in Poland for almost 20 years, this has completely destroyed me! I damn near pissed myself laughing! Although, I DO actually like Siberian Meat Grinder, especially seeing them live, but that's another thing. Keep it up!

you know what genre they absolutely kill at? DNB. UK drum and bass is so damn good, even UK rappers sound dope on top of it.

I have to admit, I was a bit butthurt at first. But then you showed Die Dorks... Now I understand everything. I'm sorry we released this into the world...

It's fantastic to be following you and watching your videos for so long and after all this time you're proving your haters wrong that you can actually laugh out loud! It's weird to see what internet has done to European HC: in the past shitty bands wouldn't be allowed by their moms to leave their hometown and nobody would care for their music, but these videos are bringing the local cringe to a global level. Luckily it made a certain PRMBA very happy!

"European Music is Cringe" says the guy who made a video about Pop Punk. Someone needs to make a video "American Music is Cringe" and put Blood on the Dance Floor, Brokencyde and whatever the worst limp bizkit song is :D

I’m a Brit snd I’m totally here for this hilarious content! I bloody love a roast! Thanks Finn - you’re on top as usual!

How the hell did finn not bring up the assault rifle guitar during the purgen band at like the 32 minute area LMFAO

I couldn't help but laugh at the warnings because just like pretty much EVERY european tour, it doesn't contain spanish HAHHA

"The upside down cross... They got that wrong" had me laughing out loud. I am from Sweden, so I guess I'll just say "ve vill not do this".

Could you make a video about good and influencual European music? Cause I think that there are a lot of great European bands and lot of American punkrock is based on English punk. The blink 182 accent for instance is based on English. And most successful American musicians are from European origin. (Max martin, and all House DJs) and I know that a lot of American bands have European band members cause a lot of European musicians move to LA for they're music career. To me it just seems that most people just don't know that a band is European when they're not cringe, and cringy bands are also just very low budget, American low budget bands are cringy too. couple of examples for great European bands: bring me the horizon, messuggah, unprocessed, normandie, Chunk no captain chunk, landmvrks, etc you probably know these and they're all great!

This may be your funniest one yet and that's saying something. Thanks for introducing me to nasty, gonna listen to their entire discography now

Why do americans treat europe like its a single country?

Finn, lol, your music taste is some of the most cringe stuff I've ever heard

Speaking about Europeans like there one huge monolith, dying of cringe.

I love that you know Merauder master killer influenced TF outta everything after it. I loved them from back when minus sang for them. OG!

As a Dutch guy I have to say we have some kick ass metal bands here as well, some very influential in the Death Metal scene. And for Techno our country next to the USA in the early days of House are also the pioneers in the genre. It got aggressive and more aggressive, eventually it became Hardcore Techno (around 1992/93) but the scene called it Gabber, it was a lifestyle in the early to mid 90's eventually died out in the late 90's. Especially the early days of our Gabber culture was the most extreme and could be in the same boat as Metal in aggressiveness. Atari Teenage Riot would be a good example if both genres are combined.

Spain is the birthplace of the acoustic guitar and their flavor of Latin Punk is great. Greece have great Metal scene too.

What is the difference between America and yoghurt? After a few hundred years, yoghurt develops culture and it comes in fat free.

As far as metal, Europe has us destroyed

Finn haha, Rise of the Northstar is f-cking good! I can understand the reasons why you hate this type of style, but maaannnn, ROTNS is such an amazing band. The concept and the music itself is pure power. I´ve known their music since, I don't know... 2014 or so, and it was love at first sight. Actually ROTNS is one of those bands that I'm always looking forward waiting for new music. Europeans have pretty good bands. I also have amassive love and respect for Poets of the Fall... oh, and I must thank you, because thanks to you I found Astroid Boys, a Welsh rapcore band that you also say is terrible haha, love you man

Imagine being American yet dissing European music for being cringe.

31:00 I hear French tanks have their heaviest armor on the back of the tank to protect them as they are running away from a fight. lol

This is the one video on this channel that had me laughing at the music every but as much as the commentary. These guys trying to do American culture reminds me so much of all the “Faith +1” Christians tryin’ to do rock music…where they may like rock music, but they just don’t understand it as much as someone who didn’t have such a sheltered upbringing. This needs to become a recurring feature!

Doesn't get more western European than the islands of the United Kingdom.

I’ve got a soft spot for European Hardcore after going to a bunch of shows when I was stationed in Germany during my time in the army. The bands were always good, and the shows were always tons of fun!

Something Americans have that we don't in the UK ... school shootings

Does anyone else remember back in the 80’s there was a feud or fake feud about a band that released an album titled with another band’s name, and the other band responded and said we are going to make an album titled their band’s name? I want to say it was REM and a band called Green who said “we are going to title our next album REM now.” Anyway, Stray from the Path needs to make a song called Wolf Down now. All in good fun.

Never thought I would ever hear Finn talking about yaoi

Ah yes Americans, the only one's wearing backward caps lmao

This probably won't be seen but what's ur opinion on rammstine

This is Finn’s peak! never gonna have a better video than this

"My culture is not a costume!" *looks down at battle vest and sheds a single tear* "f@$k".

I laughed so hard at this. Reading comment section of this video proves that you are right 100 %.

need a part 2 of this asap

funny thing is: there might or might not be a few bands i've seen live that you mentioned in the video... if you make a volume2 of this: include nastys german songs like 'scheiße', fallbrawl, optimist and in terms of oi and punk something like fontanelle, fckr or oidorno.