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Wasnt expecting a vlog from you guys, awesome surprise! This was my first Bloodstock (and first ever festival) so thanks so much for your videos as they were a massive help! I had an incredible time and will definitely be doing it again. Was nice to meet you briefly on the Thursday, I saw you all a bunch of times afterwards but didnt want to bother you 😂
That's so cool to hear! Glad you had a great time and thanks for checking out our video. Apologies for the delayed reply, just got back from Arctangent 😅 Two fests in two weeks, now time for bed🤘
Ignea I saw backing up fear factory last year they are amazing. And I shall be in the pit for them. Even at my age. King kraken I’m looking forward to and wanna see Mimi barks again as I think she’s underrated for what she does. And can I say no more than septicflesh. Hope to see you gents. Great video gents. Plenty of amazing bands.
The same people shitting on Scene Queen are the same people who probably think Dream Theater is "fake metal" because of James Labrie's power tenor vocals. Not every fucking band needs to have cookie monster growling ffs
Metal is where the guitar or equivalent takes the lead over vocals. It's why metal can have incoherent lyrics but still sound good. It's why power metal is called power metal. The guitar in it takes even more of a lead in that basically every song has a solo. I don't feel like listening to this garbage bland shit to analyze it but feel free to do it and find out if she's metal or not.
In defence of gatekeeping: I am from the punk scene, so I don't have a dog in this particular fight. But we have a similar issue over in our corner. I don't have a problem with any of this music and I'm sure it will all find it's audience, but this latest generation of music makers doing the genre mashup as if they are the first to do so (as if Hayseed Hardcore wasn't a thing in 1983), but beyond being blind to history, even all that is cool, at points. My problem comes when you can apparently tack on the word 'punk' (or 'metal' for all yall )to anything, just because you want the street crew, or whatever, it just diminishes the meaning of punk (or metal). Basically, in my opinion, anything beyond one adjective immediately takes you out of 'the family'. Hardcore punk, that's punk. Anarcho-punk, that's punk. Cottagecore minimalist synth punk? That's definitely something, and I wish them the best, but it's not punk. 🤷♂
i think people are being way too deep. she wants your money, give her it or dont. please dont use this band as more fuel for gender wars. none of the quoted comments were mysgonistic, Metal is used to girls lol dont stoop to drawing for that card. not everyone likes every thing. thats fine. I havent listened to the band, this is my only exposure to Scene Queen. I do listen to Metal and guess Im kinda "elitist" to my taste. That is, I like what I like because I like it and dont venture very far from it. I just havent heard new or other stuff. But Metal is kinda gonna be Metal whether I listen to it or not. Trap has gone a bit Metal, pop, edm, punk, rock, country for gods sake, have all been a bit Metal. You cant gatekeep Metal. People need to remember they are insignificant, not in a nihilstic way just that, thats like, YOUR opinion, man. ;)
Bands/artists that mix different things together always appeal to me more than those that do not, especially in rock and metal music. Thanks to this video popping up on RU-vid, I've found another fun and original artist with a sense of humour and originality, so cheers for that! However, using a few comments from one article as being proof of misogyny in the metal scene is a bad argument. This is mainly because none of those comments are about disliking the music because it is made by a woman in the first place. Even if they were, what reason would there be to assume that they would represent as many people as your video implies? You've projected your own assumptions on to those comments when, at face value, those people appear to just not like the music or image, which is their prerogative. I don't like hairy overweight men in black band t-shirts scowling at me in band photos but that doesn't make me a misandrist. Why did you mention your country of origin, skin tone, and you not being a transsexual as being barriers to talking about this subject? There is no connection and it makes no sense.
Can't speak for the other two but to my shame I know next to nothing about Clutch 😅 But the announcment for next year's lineup is straight after them so I for sure will catch some of it. Seen so much hype for them this year, hoping they live up to it 🤘
Bloodstock don't usually do secret sets. Machine Head did one in 2022 but that is the only exception I'm aware of. They're pretty adamant when asked that that was a one off and don't expect anything this year.
Great vid guys, that Friday is fuckin stacked, i like to roam around and check out other stages but i can't help think i'll be rooted to the main stage all day 🤘
Metal has always had this 'push and pull' between conformity and subversion, it was like this when I was a kid in the 80s, you always had people insisting they could definitively answer what constituted 'real metal'. An exercise in futility then, and even more so now.
i had heard the Girls Gone Wild Collaboration with Wargasm, but now I really got enlightened to what is happening over there... I kinda like the way she sort of makes fun of the pop sleazy tunes and then explodes into the metal combination, perhaps it strikes on my bipolar side, yet to some the clash of genres might not be their thing
I’ve never had you pop up in my feed before, and as a Scene Queen fan, who very much loves and relates to this album, your thumbnail got my attention. It is so nice to hear an actual, informative review that highlights the artistry behind Scene Queen. I am typically more drawn to the death and thrash subgenres, so Scene Queen is very different for me and you hit exactly why I was drawn to them, including in the sound. Sure, there’s a heavy pop influence but there’s also very “traditionally” heavy elements that I hope people don’t overlook.
Man I worked for an alternative radio station late 90s early odds, and whenever a "female" hard band came out everyone was fascinated, but like the same way you would at a freak show. And I was no different: remember interviewing a smallish all female band at the Warped Tour (god can't remember who) and I kept circling back to the fact they were girls. I really didn't mean anything by it, and I was just really interested in how that made them unique, but the signer kinda took it differently and god offended after a few questions in that direction. At first I was taken aback and sort of offended myself (maybe a bit because there was really not much to their music IMO) but a few years later I got it: they just wanted to play their beats and be part of it, and I'm guessing they got a LOT of tasteless shit backstage too. That's what I called the "Zoo Period" (you go and gawk, then go back home and forget about it). Then bands like Kitty in the "real" metal scene, Nightwish in the "look we do opera" crown (they were actually stellar people, met with me for an interview at brunch after they couldn't make it the night of their show... great folk), and a metric ton of other bands with females started taking off in popularity. Then came Evanescence. Boy did they ever get hate. I still hear a shameful amount of people saying how this was just done for the "trend" and it was because they wanted radio play... well yeah! It's the early 2000s, that's the ONLY way you can make it! Anyway, after a while it became clear that all female or female fronted bands weren't just a trend, and that they made some solid music, and yet they still got tons of hate just because it was perceived as being different. Now we have amazing bands with female singers or musicians that make some of the best metal out there, or at least objectively, contribute to metal music in a meaningful way, and not just in this little crease of the scene they were bestowed like it was 20 years ago. No, real impact with real music. Whoever talks about the purity of the scene, or what's metal and what's not, or who should or shouldn't be praised or hated really are only using their opinions as facts. If you don't like it, for whatever reason, just don't fucking listen to it and move on! No one is forcing you to listen to anything. Unless you're a permanent resident in Guantanamo but I digress. Bottom line is I bob my head at Scene Queen, it's not bad workout music actually. Some of those breakdowns are pretty hard too. Would I go see a show? Eh maybe if they were with another band I really like. Shit I'd go to a Baby Metal show to see how that goes and I'm not really big on their music. And if she's fighting against the machine, then by fuck good on her!!! This is not my fight, but I can certainly respect a warrior... Metal started out by disenfranchised youths trying to carve themselves an identity and a culture they felt safe in. We all think this way at some point. But we need to ask ourselves: who the fuck are we to tell other people how they should be? Because that really only makes us the people that the first metalheads wanted to steer away from. Dear god that was a long post. Sorry. Great vid! \../
This type of music has been a big thing in Japan for a long while, now. Even before Babymetal, there were bands doing this (like this genre I love called "Oshare-kei", which is colorful, poppy music that sometimes blends metal and screams into hyper joyful songs). I hate some of it, and I love some of it.
The post at 3:57 was funny, like he really put Scene Queen on the same level as MGK, literally *any* artist or band sounds better than that whiny bitching posing tard, also Scene Queen (and bimbocore in general) is more niche right now but is better in comparison, also it helps that she looks hot too, so even if you don't like her music, at least she has other things going for her. Also I actually heard some of Scene Queen's songs at Download this year, she honestly sounds meh or whatever, like it's the Mean Girls version of metalcore, I guess some people like it but I not a fan at all.
We got so many various artists and music nowadays, everybody should just listen to whatever he likes. I saw Scene Queen live (twice) supporting PVRIS in Europe a couple months ago and it wasn’t this bad at all
I thought I had meticulously gone through the whole lineup for bloodstock to see which ones I founded and which ones I didn't. Yet I still managed to completely miss ankor which is right on my street. So thanks for the video guys without you I probably would have missed them 😊
Excellent video, makes me sooo super excited and can't wait to be there. Totally agree about New Blood and everyone should go there as much as possible. Bands I'm most excited for: Septicflesh, Burner, Carcass, Raised by Owls and Igorrr
Metal have mingled with "pop" since forever. If there's a popular music trend going on you can bet that metal with try to do something with it. Listen to Bang Bang with Danger Danger and tell me it doesn't sound like I wanna dance with somebody by Whitney Houston for example. I was made for loving you with Kiss sounds lika pop disco song by Donna Summer. Limp Bizkit cashing in on the hip-hop pop trend in the early 90's. Alice in Chains sounds like if you metalized Grunge and Rammstein as if you metalized synth pop.
