Ronnie Radke could be the next Gene Simmons with how much he gets credit for inventing things that existed for generations before him.

I have an immediate fight or flight response when country comes on

"WTF is country metal?" David Vincent

Grant Macdonald’s Ram Ranch is kind of country metal. 😂😂😂

Totally agree with the Panopticon choice lol. I've also considered them to be within the "country metal" camp but I acknowledge that calling them that, while accurate, doesn't necessarily feels right lol.

Idiots: Ronnie Radke was the first to combine Metal with Country Me: *listens to Hellyeah who did the same fucking thing before Ronnie even thought of the idea lol*

Korn invented dubstep? Hahahaha OMG was that a real comment? That is hilarious

Also as a side note, I’ve never understood the hate towards Nickelback. Nickelback is a band that pushed me closer to being into heavier styles of Rock and Metal and to this day, I think their music holds up.

The cover of Nashville Pussy's first record is a gem

Rebel Meets Rebel. There ya go.

Why wouldn’t wayfarer count? The latest record is gothic country and atmospheric black metal

I’m so old I thought everyone was talking about “jelly roll Morton” the old jazz piano player 😝

Volbeat to me is if James Hetfield fronted Social Distortion, but "heavy"

You brought up He is Legend. Do a tier list to aid an ailing world.

Love your content. There's no conversation about country metal without Hank 3. Keep up the good the good shit.

Huge fan of Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. If you like them i'd also recommend The Holly Springs Disaster. They only have one album but its an absolute rager.

Country and metal can be a really cool combo. The band Appalachian Anarchy combines blue grass and metal and it's awesome

Rebel Meets Rebel is the greatest Country Metal album of all time. End of story. 🤘🤠

The Native Howl is one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen! I can’t wait for their new album to come out!

Some of Jerry Cantrell's solo work (as well as a couple of Alice in Chains songs) could be described as country metal, or at least country influenced. Jerry also did a rock/metal cover of a Willie Nelson song as part of a tribute to him in the late 90s.

Lemmy was more of a cowboy than most modern pop country musicians I say this as a huge country fan from West Texas going to see Archspire & Aborted next week 😂

rebel meets rebel is a fun party country/metal album. Dime has some of his best solos on that album AS well.

I predicted you would list Panopticon, and I don't disagree. I would describe his sounds as more folksy rather than county (at least the newer albums)

Yesterday I was listening to "Gunslinger" by Avenged Sevenfold and then this video popped out. What a casualty haha. PD: That Motorhead shirt is freaking dope. Amazing.

Not sure if it counts, but To hell and back by Sabaton does have a lot of american folk music elements mixed in with their classic heavy/power metal

I read this title out loud and curious now

My favorite is BANJO SLAM by KNOWONEGETSOUTALIVE!!🤠

Hank III's band Assjack is more Country Punk but there is som Metal in there. A super obvious one: James Hetfield's vocals in the 90s were very Country influenced and their ballads have a lot of Country in the DNA. If you like Nashville Pussy Blaine's other band Nine Pound Hammer is pretty great too, and has more Country influence. Great video. Thanks.

How about PRIDE & GLORY from 1999? Zakk Wylde formed this band as a side project and they released at least one album. Worth checking out!

Fun fact- The precursor to Dub-step was a track off of Michael Jackson’s Invincible record (cant think of the title), a good ten years before that genre became a thing.

Taake myr. Only a track but love the banjo on it thought it was worth a mention!

Lmao this is a genre I wish I never found out about but pretty cool that it exists. 😎

You mentioned VolBeat, who are originally a Danish band, and here in Denmark we have another band called D.A.D. (Disneyland After Dark) and on their two first albums, 'Call of the Wild' from 1986 and 'Draws a Circle' from 1987, they played, what they called 'cow-punk', which was essentially a original mix of country music and hard rock/metal.. Later they streamlined their sound, but those early albums had a unique sound.. 🤗

"Room temperature whiskey " Perfect!

Hank Williams III

Good lesson. Good you named wayfarer Next...

Seriously though, maybe it's just because I am an old-school guy, but the first thing I thought of when I read the topic was "Oh, so Lynard SKynard but a little bit heavir".... I instantly thought of a cool album I recently discovered, as in just a few weeks ago hearing it for the first time: Special Forces by the band 38 Special. maybe not enough country for some people but the influence is definitely there and so far that's by far my favourite album frm them. I guess people could look into some Molly hatchett stuff as well. I'm obviously way more into rock than country so my suggestions would tend to lie moreon thesouthern rock end of things, but most of that stuff has a priofound influence. You alsohavea number of older metal bands joking around with country ideas. The really cool band Deadhorse from Texas released a fun litte ditty called "Hank" on their album Horsecore--An Unrelated Story that's Time-consuming in the late 1980s. Great album of intense somewhat punky thrash with a lot f cool rock influenes. Their crushing track "Scottish hell" was covered by Entombed at some point. Also a newer progressive weird metal band caleld Leeches of Lore -- seemed to have some country touches as well as bits that could hae come out of spaghetti western scoe, complete with horns and everything. Cool stuff but with real weird vocals.

Not exactly a "Country Metal" fusion but the guy from Ghoultown used to be in Solitude Aeturnus. So there's definitely a link I suppose :)

I just watched 2 1/2 minutes of the FIR video. I hate you for making me do that. lol

Technically you could say Hank Williams III who was also on that Rebel Meets Rebel project as a guest feature. Also though not quite metal per say but his legitimate son Cole Williams aka IV of IV and The Strange Band has at least an interesting debut album that flirts with some adjacent stuff in his music. Also not saying they are necessarily for everyone but figured they were worth acknowledging nonetheless. 😉

Check out Appalachian Anarchy. They've only been putting out music for a little while but they describe themselves as 'Applachian Bluegrass Death Metal'. Really it isn't but it's interesting music if one doesn't mind swinging country every now and again.. This isn't a serious song or video but for a few laughs check out 'My Ex's Lawyer is the AntiChrist' from Travis Shredd and the Good Ol' Homeboys. I stumbled across this some 8-9 yrs ago.

Devildriver's album "Outlaws 'til the End: Vol. 1"

Panopticon is the first band I imagined you would mention when this video started, even though I aree they're not exactly "country metal". Interestingly bi bluegrass fanatics seem to have a different view of the genres, thinking that bluegrass is "bigger" than American country music at least in terms of scope. Unrelated btw but I've always wanted to her a group witha couple of banjos da bluegrass cover of the song "Exciter" by Judas Priest.

I would have been tempted to add Wayfarer to this list

What about Tom Angelripper's band Desperados? Only one album.

This is a deep cut. It's a side project. They only released one LP. "Rebel Meets Rebel" by Rebel Meets Rebel. Redundant? YES, yes it is. David Allen Coe - vocals and guitars Dimebag Darryl - guitars Rex Brown - bass Vinne Paul - drums I'm not saying it's good. I'm not saying it's bad. But it is 100% country fuckin metal.

LOVE Thc! My buddy introduced them to me back in 2015....way before Radfuck

Oh... and I'm glad you didn't mention Hardy lol😅

Check out Crestfallen Dusk

Throwing out Steve 'n' Seagulls, and Slaughter of the Bluegrass for fun and what the hell maybe The Bridge City Sinners coming from the other direction.

I'm still very happy that Dallas Taylor survived and is healing from his ATV incident. That man is a warrior. Been a fan of his version of Underoath for a long time when they were almost blackened death metal.

I like a lot of 40’s to 80’s country and I like a lot of metal, although I don’t really like it when they blind together, it’s just not for me

Check out Cody Parks and the Dirty South Band. Fucking great

I'm in the midst of watching the video, but I just wanted to say that Volbeat's "Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies" does indeed slap, despite me not really loving that much of their stuff

Even though they are more hardcore and metalcore but Every Time I Die used to incorporate country and southern rock in their music before their breakup.

Not really related, but some FIR fan told me that i have an adolescent brain cuz i said that all my life is terrible.

Not enough people talk about texas hippie coalition, they are actually really good. Plus i find it cool how a guy the size of big dad Ritch can sing the way he does.

My pick would be Assjack, the rockabilly/psychobilly project of Hank Williams III. Well done, fun, aggressive, and with this intense country twinge. Unfortunately, it was just a one off thing. Still very good.

Primus? Thoughts?

1:22 First metal band to ever fuse metal and horror? Uhhh... that would be Black Sabbath, literally the first ever metal band. Duh.

Metal and country have been getting their chocolate in each others peanut butter since the beginning: ('71) DUST-Loose Goose ('69) LEO KOTTKE- Vaseline Macine Gun ('72) DEEP PURPLE- Anyones daughter ('75) NAZARETH- Broken Down Angel & Whisky Drinkin Woman ('77) RAM JAM- Black Betty ('79) BLACKFOOT-Train, Train ('79) MOLLY HATCET- Flirtin With Disaster ('92) REVEREND HORTON HEAT-Full Custom Gospel Sounds of... ('00) SLOBBERBONE- Placemat Blues & Gimme Back My Dog ('03)UNCLE FUCKER- Usurpers of Tradition HAYSEED DIXIE made a minor career out of doing bluegrass covers of old metal tunes in the 2000's. The FALLING IN REVERSE kids just haven't been around...

Panopticon is the only i really like, Austin is a great artist

I always felt corrosion of conformity was kind of country metal

I think credit has to be given to the harder edge southern rock bands like Blackfoot and Molly Hatchet for first bringing these styles together.

Cody Parks is pretty bad ass for country/metal

Nickelback was my gateway to metal, yes you read this right, if it wasn’t for Nickelback I wouldn’t be a metalhead, Nickelback legit can get somewhat heavy, I was blown away when I first heard the songs “fight for all the wrong reasons” and “This means war” they definitely have some metal in their discography True story now cope people

This topic is right up my alley, though I have to admit I'm more familiar with cowpunk and southern hard rock than countrified metal. Heavy metal, especially extreme metal, kind of feels antithetical to country ethos, but here goes. Primus. They're not consistently country, but Wynona's Big Brown Beaver, Those Damned Blue Collar Tweakers, and the South Park theme song (especially the latter seasons upgrade) are solidly in the country/groove metal camp. Left Lane Cruiser--a bit more punk/hard rock, but they cross over into metal just enough for me to list them (just listen to Claw Machine Wizard). ASG--the trailer trash stoner metal band. Fucker's wearing a Waylon Jennings wifebeater shirt and a trucker hat in the video for Lightning Song from Survive Sunrise. Might as well toss in Baroness and Corrosion of Conformity here, though I can't think of a specific example of country/bluegrass off the top of my head, but I'm sure it's there somewhere. Drivin' N Cryin'--originally something of a cowpunk band (Scarred but Smarter) that morphed into a more arena rock/hard rock/hair metal(?) sound with Fly Me Courageous. Honestly, Danzig, both in his own band and the Misfits. He always had a kind of rockabilly vocal style, like an evil Elvis. Meat Puppets--again, more on the cowpunk/noise rock side, but there is absolutely a country tinge to their music. Nazareth--hard rock/proto hair metal band from Scotland. Outside of Hair of the Dog (Now you're messin with a son of a bitch), they were best known best for their amazing, turned-up-to-11 covers of everyone from Joni Mitchell (This Flight Tonight) to Nils Lofgrin's Grin (Beggar's Day) to Leon Russell (Alcatraz) to the Everly Brothers (Love Hurts) to Bob Dylan (Ballad of Hollis Brown--a fuzzed out epic). Their cover of Woody Guthrie's Vigilante Man deserves special mention, as it starts out as a straight country cover and just builds and builds until it is just fucking enormous. Tempted to list folk metal bands like Cruachan and Klabautamann, but they're European folk. Birds of Prey--featuring members of other southern metal bands Baroness, Alabama Thunderpussy, The Last Van Zant, Beaten Back to Pure, and Municipal Waste. Hank Williams III--he has several side projects, including death metal/thrash/metalcore (tell me when I start getting redundant) outfit AssJack and, briefly, two of Anselmo's side projects, Superjoint Ritual (I'm not sure if he was in it before or after it was shortened to Superjoint) and Arson Anthem. Superjoint--I'm not a fan of who Phil Anselmo has become, and his whining about PC culture and SJWs on the most recent Superjoint album really soured the enjoyment of the album (the ultimate irony, fighting SJWs makes you an SJW, just for the conservative status quo nonsense), but I can't deny, they weren't a half bad band when they started. Chat Pile. They call themselves noise rock, not metal, but I think they qualify. Even their name is a reference to the mining operations in northeastern Oklahoma (Picher and Miami especially, as well as some of the towns in SE Kansas, are surrounded by these lead-contaminated rock piles). Speaking of Oklahoma bands, Helen Kelter Skelter. (I'm going to name drop Blattaria while I'm at it, though they don't fit the list, as they are a discordant black metal band (solo artist?), also from Oklahoma, that almost exclusively releases their albums on cassette (I think there's one they released on CD, and most of their output is available for digital purchase on Bandcamp super cheap (name your price). No, I don't work for them or bandcamp). Today is the Day. On the album Temple of the Morning Star, they even sample a Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson song. Electro-acoustic band Horseback. They're metal enough to be on Relapse Records Black Tusk, Red Fang

For some reason, I think a lot of Sludge bands are heavily influenced by country. Also I think you would put Corrosion of Conformity here, at least the 90s era.

I'm not a Nickelback fan but if I had to pick between them and Radke, who wants to go see Nickelback live? 😂

I respectfully disagree about Panopticon. Panopticon is black metal with elements of folk and blue grass woven into his songs, but it is not a fusion of the two genres. That would be like saying White Ward is jazz metal because they include saxophone. I completely agree with all of the other bands you mentioned(I was able to sample each band you mentioned), but I've gotta give some push back on Panopticon. And I welcome comments disputing my claim.

what Ronnie Radke innovated is more ways to annoy the masses with his never-ending idiocy...that said...Although I am not a country is not my thing and I don't relate to it, I appreciated the fact that you took the time to go find country influenced metal. Gotta love the Metal Meltdown...Oh yes...I will gladly take Nergal over that clown show Ronnie Radke and that fathead Jelly Roll any time of the week

Love me some Nickelback!

I enjoyed the new Falling In Reverse song, but it's definetely corny asf (like the rest of their discog.) Also, how have the FIR fanboys never heard of Rockstar by Dolly Parton? It's a great album!

Corrosion of Conformity?

Anti Metal is your answer!

Volbeat 🤘🏻 🤘🏻 🤘🏻

I got no shame to say this but I do enjoy some Nickelback’s music such as Far Away, If Everyone Cared, Burn It To The Ground, Side Of A Bullet, Edge Of A Revolution and some others.

COUNTRY METAL 🪕🎻🎵🎶

Why would anybody want to take credit for this? If Ronnie Radke wants credit as the creator of "Country Metal", let him have it. "Country Metal" is a terrible idea. I remember hearing Rebel Meets Rebel many years ago and it was awful. After watching your video, unfortunately I became curious and watched 'All My Life' by Falling in Reverse. First and foremost, it's a radio-friendly Pop Song, not much different from the stuff Pop Punk bands like Sum 41 were releasing 20 years ago. If you enjoy this music, you're a Pop fan. Yes, it is Country-tinged and it has some heavy guitar interludes, but it isn't really a Metal song. Also, I've heard an Ice Nine Kills Song now. So thanks for that *he said sarcastically*

Nonsense !! Miss me with that bollocks !!

I predicted you would list Panopticon, and I don't disagree. I would describe his sound as more folksy rather than county (at least the newer albums)