SEE?? I said I'd be back. Thanks for being so kind and stoked with episode one, hope you dig this because I think it rocks. Need to figure out how to pass the time between monthly episodes, so join the Discord if that's your thing and tell me how to use it better because I'm a boomer (I'm not, I'm just ironically very bad at some key aspects of being online): discord.com/invite/YwdztaU77F
Sam, I am so glad you're back with these long form videos. This Exists has been my favourite RU-vid channel for yeeeeeeeeears. I've watched each video in your back catalogue many times over. He's back y'all.
Can't help you with discord but DAMN I'm so happy your back and the signatures worked 👍 I was pretty cynical as to whether it would work when I signed but it's shown me that it's always worth doing something for a channel that I think puts in the dedication, hard work, gives me a lot of smiles and gives others the same-that signature was nothing compared to the heart you put into your show and thank you for that. Ok that's my fawning over now 😂 I'll make sure to try to keep sharing with others!
Can't believe we're still talking about cybergrind in 2024. I'm 27 now and I was making cybergrind music that maybe 5 people listened to when I was 12/13.
It's so bittersweet watching this series again. It used to be mine and my ex-wife's favourite youtube show, I don't think she even knows it's back now. I'm glad I kept the account where we subscribed! Keep rocking on, Sam, thank you for the amazing quality and care you put into this!
Let's not forget Korn and Nu-Metal's contribution to the 'Queen of the Damned' film soundtrack. An adaption of the very queer Vampire Chronicles novels by Anne Rice.
Jonathan Davis was the sound track director and wrote the songs sung in the movie. his record label wouldn't let his vocals be on the soundtrack release so we got chester, wayne, david, marilyn, and jay instead' on the soundtrack
@@Fordddyyy its the one of two good things in that movie. The other good thing is how aggressively nu-metal it is in looks, but damn is the story and acting balls which honestly makes it even better.
@@AzathothsAlarmClockThe Berzerker were definitely pioneers in the realm of fusing grindcore with pummelling electronics, not to mention the likes of Eustachian and Phantomsmasher. I'd also argue that at least some debt is owed to Agoraphobic Nosebleed, O.L.D. (particularly their later records), and that whole mini-wave of industrial thrash bands like Malhavoc and Nailbomb. The bizarre Japanese psych-grind act Clotted Symmetric Sexual Organ also feel very proto-cybergrind aesthetically speaking, and certainly the Czech deathgrind scene (Contrastic, !T.O.O.H!, etc.) had some extremely weird shit going on in a similar vein.
It never ceases to amaze me how consistent the 20 year cycle is for predicting resurgences and nostalgia. People started getting misty eyed over the Star Wars prequel bang on time, The Matrix got a legacy sequel bang on time amd now Nu Metal is back!
It's been ten years, Sam. Back then, we were talking about Narco music propaganda, Snuff, and the bloop. Now we're chilling and talking about the genre revival I live for and play in. Feels good man.
I'm so happy that you're back making these videos again. It seems to me that this is a sign that some things might actually sometimes get better. Thank you for doing this. Truly.
first of all absolutely peak lets fucking go but also ... The fact that Nu Metal is polarizing enough to be associated with trump alt right AND modern queer culture is kinda insane and proves Nu Metal does have a kinda magical quality.
So glad this popped up. I honestly forgot This Exists existed! Loved this and looking forward to catching up on all the videos that exist, that i missed!
Thank you for this. This was my life. I graduated from high school in '02 and joined the Army in '04. To say that I was surrounded by Nu Metal during my formative early adult years is an understatement.
Sam, I am so glad you're back with these long form videos. This Exists has been my favourite RU-vid channel for yeeeeeeeeears. I've watched each video in your back catalogue many times over. He's back y'all.
God I love this fucker, so glad you're back keep at it man. literally listening to Wargasm and KFC Murder Chicks recently and felt like something new and great is happening that mines this genre space, lo and behold you post this. Digital Hardcore revival like LustSickPuppy and Machine Girl seems subsumed under this and it's my jam as a huge breakcore guy, not sure if it warrants another video but big things are happening there too.
This Exists is one of my only "Notifications On" channels, and I'm so glad for that. I love your take on things, Sam. So glad you're back, and can't wait to see what strange cultural corners you're going to get into now.
Love this video and that it exists. Also grew up on nu-metal as the first style of music I latched onto. Branched deeper into death metal, grind, BM, hardcore, etc and put nu-metal on the back burner for twenty years pretty much. But I came back to it deeply by doing my own tribute to it with my project Memorrhage but fusing nu with some of the subject matter and elements of extreme metal I picked up over the years from my other projects. Also special thanks to Holiday Kirk’s passionate helm of ‘crazy ass moments in nu-metal history’ for spearheading this lightbulb moment for me personally getting back into it more than ever these last two years.
The whole time I kept thinking of the Slayer/Atari Teenage Riot song on the Spawn album: "No Remorse (I wanna Die)". Great music. But as an oldster now I loved stuff like 'My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult', 'Revolting Cocks', stuff like that. It intermingled so much stuff and was tongue-in-cheek and dark.
Looks like this 4am just got a little bit brighter; nice to see you again! Nu-metal arrived at a certain point in music-business history, too; the point where the big corporate entities, the Clear Channels, Live Nations, and big labels, re-established their control after having it been seriously threatened by the rise of "indie" music culture and industry. What that meant could take a book to poorly explain; but i suspect it meant something.
DAMN i was big into this channel when was like 11/12?? and i had a cybergrind phase in like junior year .... just relistened to that cutting pink with knives album today
IM SO GLAD SAM IS BACCCKK Also Cutting Pink With Knives was my first taste of cybergrind like 15 years ago. I ought to relisten to them it's been forever. Takes me back to music blogs and mediafire links
Glad to see cybergrind is still a thing. Remember Grindcore Karaoke helping release a lot of stuff that was typical metal, and stuff that definitely more Internet music😂.
One of the best parts of a resurgence is it brings to light all the great stuff released in the "lull period" that got no attention previously. There's a Japanese band called ikd-sj (weird name I know) that's had their 2009 album blow up recently, pretty good. People should give the track Oddeye a listen at least to see if it's something they'd be into
