Eurovision 2023 was WILD! 

*Smash like for breakdowns*

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Never thought Id ever see Nik react to Eurovision

I live in Liverpool, which hosted this years Eurovision, and everyone walking around the city this week has been singing “CHA CHA CHA CHACHA CHA CHA”. The people wanted Finland to win. Electric Callboy for Germany next year please to right the wrong.

I'm from Finland and let me tell you, because of Käärijä every store is full of green products, every brand and company changed their logo to fit Käärijä and every single person here seems to love the song from an infant to the elder people. Would've loved to see Electric Callboy in Eurovision.

I'm from UK and watched all 4 hours and Finland was robbed. Germany deserved better

I checked a few spotify stats. At the time of the semi-finals Lords of the Lost had about 600k monthy listeners and Käärijä had about 1m. Now LOTL doubled their listeners and Käärijä tripled his listeners so good for them

Lord of the Lost actually did a heavier cover of Cha Cha Cha. It's pretty awesome 👍

Voyager who represented Australia is a decent metal band btw. They describe their style as colorful metal and have a big discography. Check them out!

Really don't know why Germany placed below the UK. I'm from the uk and our entry was awful lol lord of the lost for Germany are an unreal band with so many bangers and the fact that the vocalist Chris harms really plays on the androgynous theme with his outfits which adds so much showmanship is just amazing. Kaarjia deserved the win clearly with the song nevermind the fact I'm sure many noticed the tattoo on his chest is a Rammstein one (so he's a metalhead too) and the beginning of the song really had that Rammstein feel to it Also go listen to lord of the lost cover of Finland's song released not long ago it's so good

Käärijä said he was inspired by Rammstein, he's a huge fan .. I'm still so sad he didn't win because the song is written with such an eye for detail. And the jury favoured an Popsong again

It's not metal, but in 2019 Iceland sent the band Hatari, which had screaming vocals and was in 10th place! it would have been in 6th place without the jury so people definitely liked them

Sad that Lord of lost didn’t get more points

As a Swede, imma just go full out and say: I literally wanted any other country to win. I really hoped that Finland would win, Australia had a banger of a song and Germany deserved WAAAAY more points that they got.

There's no way a metal band ever wins as long as juries are picking their neighbors or the blandest radio-friendly pop songs possible.

In 2018 there was a metal band from Hungary called AWS who did perform at Eurovision. They had a pretty nasty breakdown.

a perfect example of a band that became big after Eurovision would be Lordi, which you showed a pic of, they are fun in camp way, i dig them.

As a Finnish rock/metal fan, this year’s Eurovision was the best ever! I found so many new bands and artists (Voyager, Lord of the Lost, Joker Out, Sudden Lights and of course our own Käärijä) to listen to. A great year!🤘

Lord of the Lost supports Iron Maiden on their UK tour this or next year. Seeing them as headliners with Esoterica as support in September. If you like something heavier why not check out Ruins by them, probably the heaviest song they got.

Finland brought the party and finally all the fun to an evening full of safe songs, but before that, Serbia had me hooked. It´s such a creepy song and it did things to my brain that I want more of. All the harder acts were in my top 5, but also Norway.

ngl, that moldova song needs to become part of your "proof anything can be metal" shorts

Käärijä was robbed! He brought life to this year’s Eurovision. The crowd went crazy!

I love how respectful Nik is towards other genres besides metal. there’s too many metalheads on social media who get pissed of when they hear a pop song😅

For me, CHA CHA CHA is a mix with TATTOO from Rammstein but with an Electric Callboy vibe !! Actually the singer is a Rammstein fan (he has a Rammstein Rosenrot tattoo on his chest), his outfit is inspired by the pink fur top of Till Lindemann and even Rammstein’s drummer reacted to this song (which is even awesome) !!! ABBA are going to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their Eurovision victory in 2024 right when Sweden are going to organize Eurovision 2024, but it’s just a « big coincidence » 😂

I'm so happy Lord Of The Lost are getting more recognition. They are a good band and even if they were last (which I am disappointed) them gaining new fans is like a victory in itself. Also, you should try reacting to some entries in Eurovision like Voyager (2023), Blind Channel (2021), Hatari (2019), AWS (2018), maNga (2010), Teräsbetoni (2008) and Lordi (2006)

As a fan of Eurovision for 8 years already and also a metalhead I will never forget Hungarian people for choosing AWS to represent them in 2018. And of course Blind Channel got big after participating in the contest 2 years ago, after that they got signed by Century Media Records. Hard Rock/metal'ish songs in Eurovision making me happy asf

I've been listening to Lord of the Lost since 2019. Back then they had between 100k to 200k listeners on Spotify. It's nice to see them have so much listeners, they've certainly earned it. The band was formed in 2009 or 08 so they've been around for a while now. I also found Voyager interesting, gonna look into their music.

Käärijä is such a great performer and I am still bummed he didn't win. Voyager from AUS and Lord of the Lord from GER were insanely good. Part of me regrets only giving Käärijä 10 votes and 5 each for Voyager and Lord of The Lost, but regardless my votes hardly mattered as an outside of Europe voter. My heart still says I should have gone 100% Käärijä.

Finland were robbed, his performance was a lot more genuine and the fact he sang it in his mother tongue made it all the better.

I want to hear full Norway song in a metal style, I think it fits. Guitars in Finnish chorus was amazing and added a lot of energy, sad that Norway didn't have this

If you liked Lord of the Lost I *highly* suggest you check out their track Voodoo Doll. It was a letter written by a woman about the mormon church and, my god it is amazing.

Apart from the rock/metal songs I also really digged the Serbian track and their visuals. I just can't stop imagining Bring Me doing a cover version, it would sound even more awesome. Oh yeah btw, Lord of the Lost did a cover of Cha Cha Cha, also really slaps!

me and my flatmate went absolutely feral whenever we saw guitars on stage 🤣 Also Blood and Glitter absolutely felt like one of those crazy songs that would come out on top :( HOW TF ARE PEOPLE NOT ENTERTAINED?????

Lord of the Lost was in Eurovision? That’s dope. Their track “Priest” is straight fire

Average rock band in Eurovision: exists Everyone else: oh no what is this satanic abomination 😦 It is nice to see some variety, I hope it increases the number of metalheads in the EU! 🤘

I can't even tell you how happy I am that big (metal) reaction channels world wide are talking about Käärijä and how the juries are rigged. A big moment for Käärijä and Finnish music in general, never in a million years would we have thought in Finland that a Finnish party song would go on the Global top 50 list on Spotify and get this kind of recognition. Cha cha cha, it's crazy it's party 💚

I've just found out that Lord Of The Lost (Germany) made a cover of Cha Cha Cha and it's awesome

Been listening to Lord of the lost for years, such a great band. They have heavier songs, they have lighter songs, they really do like to experiment with their sound. They performed much better than a lot of countries who scored higher, guess world still gets scarred by screams. Songs I'd recommend to check out: The Future of Past Life, La Bomba, Full Metal Whore, Gospel of Judas, Lighthouse

i worked in the sound team at eurovision and hearing both germany and australia for the first time in the arena a couple weeks ago was absolutely mind blowing. wasnt expecting to hear riffs or vocals like that at an event like eurovision at all. also the lead vocalist from voyager came into the IEM prep room at the end of the event while we were all packing down and thanked us for our work which was a nice moment - note to all musicians out there, be nice to your techies!

I'm Swedish, and I thought our song was super weak. It's a boring EDM-pop-ballad-by-numbers basically. Her voice sounded super off as well, and I don't think we deserved the win, but I mean, it was generic, and the average person likes generic shit. But yeah Finland went hard, they deserved the win!

Even if Electric Callboy would be representing Germany next year, they could play the best Song but despite would be the last again. It doesn't matter Germany will be last without a reason. And Finnland was robbed.

I met the dudes from Lord of the Lost a couple of times, course they are from my hometown, even worked with their bassist at a music store for couple weeks. They are the nicest people and really don't deserve the last place. Every year it feels a bit like everybody at eurovision just hates Germany

Lord of the lost actually visited my school and it was pretty cool. Sadly they only could play acoustic tho.

Lord of lost is not metalish they are very much metal. More specially overall industrial and gothic metal with other genres mixed in

You should totally check out more @voyagerau - they started off as a old school power metal band, then got more proggy from 2011 on. Some legit breakdowns in their last few albums. Ghost Mile and Hyperventilating are awesome tracks

Voyager is great. If you haven't listened to them before, Nik, you should check out their Ghost Mile album. Full of bangers.

I'm still upset about Lord of the Lost being completely steamrolled by the terrible political voting! Definitely one of the best songs & performances of the ESC! I gave them all my votes from Hong Kong plus many, many others I know, wondering where those votes went?!

Eurovision is always great. Finland always used to do metal with some Vikings but this year they switched it up. There’s always at least 1 or 2 hard rock/metal performances

They werent metal but Nik should totally react to Croatia's entry for Eurovision.....

I think the jury vote should count as like half the public vote. So it’s only 1/3 on the jury and 2/3 on the public vote. As a Brit, I’m fully aware this’ll mean we get 0 points way more often and that’s fair. But yeah Finland deserved to win it this year, it was a more ‘Eurovision’ song and the one that’s stuck in my head. And Germany deserved far better than dead last.

Saw Voyager last year while they were touring Europe with Vola, they were amazing live! I barely knew a couple of their songs and still their energy on the stage was great and caught me right into it

I hope you check more of Voyager's music some time soon, their spin on prog metal is really cool 🤘

Finland was robbed and so was Germany Eurovision just seems to hate Goths 😫

A thing about it that most countries have a tornanent of their own to pick a song, ppl voting. I am 🇸🇪 rooting for 🇫🇮

Sad you didn't mention the punkers from Croatia. Check out Let 3, they're so much fun.

I had no idea Voyager was representing us in EuroVision this year. That's dope! I was first introduced to Voyager at Download Festival Melbourne, in 2019. They were the first band to play on one of the main stages, and they've got some genuine bangers: What a Wonderful Day and Ascension being the two that stuck with me the most. I'd recommend checking them out.

this year’s Eurovision was on really close to where I lived and i checked it out on one of the days. Absolute madness and i am HERE for it

Slovenia & Latvia were amazing as well. Good indie rock bands.

I would really love to see some metal from Sweden in the Eurovision but they tend to send these generic pop songs (because they win, apparently). Nothing wrong with that, just boring as heck. Would have preferred if they had sent Smash Into Pieces - Six Feet Under this year.

A Finn here. Käärijä was amazing, the best. But loved Australia too - great song!!

People are confusing of LOTL genre as theres a lot of pop and only screamo. Technically they're gothic metal and their latest album are much more glamrock since they do every album differently. Plus LOTL deserved a lot more than that, but what I'm happy is that they gained a lot of more fans and more reckonigion.

Well, its always funny to see Americans trying to understand ESC but I think the top was that Käärijä is a person, not a band...

As a Finn nothing makes me more sad and angry than this, as a long time käärijä fan, this years eurovision could have been our only good chance in years to come, loreen has been there twice which is really really unfair as she has all the love from juries and also fans already, also abba will have their 50th birthday next year so whats better than hostong eurovision in sweden 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

I'm European, living in UK - most years I'm indifferent to Eurovision but this year it was electrifying and I can't stop going Cha Cha Cha as I'm doing random things. Although they did have harsh vocals and metal acts going back a couple of decades, with one group of masked metallers even winning - Lordi, from... you guessed it... Finland!

Kinda wild that lord of the lost, a band known world wide, came last

I was super disappointed when Germany didn't do well :(

Europe loves metal. USA forgot what it is.

Im german and I didn't even realize that Esc was happening this year, wait I know the lord of the lost and I didn't even knew they were performing at the Event lmao. Probably the best act we ever had.

Bro… when I saw Lordi win in 2006 I was like 5 years old! Saw then live with Sabaton and Babymetal 2 weeks ago in Stockholm and man it still slaps hahahah Also we had a great metalcore entry in Sweden in 2012 with Dead by April! Good shit!

Last Year, everyone said that Germany might have had the chance to win this thing with EC. This year, when Germany finally sent in a Metal Song, I fear that we have been proven wrong. EC would have had no chance at all. Not because of the Song, but because Eurovision People are DONE with Germany. Next year, they will probably send in another generic Pop Song, because it just doesn't matter anymore, and personally I can't blame them anymore... The whole thing was totally rigged towards Sweden because next year it's the 50th annyversary of ABBA winning Eurovision Song Contest and they wanted it being hosted in Sweden, the country where ABBA came from. It gives the Judges, which are mostly Radio experts, the justification to blast ABBA in the radio for the next year.

💚Käärijä got so massive televote points that it's insane that he didn't win! But he made history: second for most televoting points EVER in Eurovision history!!!!🤯💚 Most televote points got Ukrain last year Kalush Orchestra - Stefania🧡 Im living in finland and day mefore eurovision final I went to buy some green makeup..I was not there alone buying green makeups😂 and everybody was so happy and talk how they need Käärijä colors😂 and saying "Have a good Eurovision!" 💚 And I went to buy green top .. and in that line I was not alone with my green top😂💚 and everywhere you go you see statues with green Käärijä boleros and he is just everywhere! 💚 Damn this Eurovision spring was amazing💚

Love lord of the lost awesome band.

Dude Eurovision is incredible from a production view. Hers some insane stats. Sixty miles of cabling. 165,000 channels of lighting control. In a light that has Red Green Blue, one channel will be red. 23,700 individual light sources. 28,000 lighting cues. As a stagehand that has worked on everything from corporate dinners to massive bands like Guns n Roses and solo artists like pink, Taylor Swift and Adele; These stats blow my mind

If you are not European and you suddenly you feel like Eurovision is somehow rigged... and you want to talk about it all does not makes sense unless there is some plan behind it.... you slowly begin to grasp why this is such a big thing.... Kudos for Lord of the Lost, they did not deserve this place and I hope Bruce cheers them up a little, also Kudos to Voyager, which I did not know before this year, but which are totally awesome and the most aussie and the most german thing at the same time..... we do need to talk about the Finnish participant.... Finnland does what Finnland does and it will always be glorious

Bruh I loved the German one 😂😂

Omg yes Nik!!!! Thanks for this video! We also got Blind Channel in 2021.

This year was quite interesting but even past editions were really cool in terms of alternative/metal bands😍 I just mention few bands I've discovered and love: Hatari, Blind channel, AWS and Go_a 🤘

I was on the floor for the final. Loved it. Käärijä was robbed and everyone in the arena knew he was. Hence all the chanting we did! We could see it coming.

Voyager is an amaaazing prog metal Band!!!

I discovered Lord of the Lost last year when they toured with Iron Maiden, loved their stuff and was super happy for them to be there and them getting last was kinda upsetting. I think they had some of the most wholesome Eurovision-months out of all of them, covering all tracks presented, doing interviews, etc. but I guess dance pop/ballads are still more mainstream

And you forgot to talk about Let 3 "mama sc" 👀

Dude Voyager slaps so hard you should check out their album called Ghost Mile it's a pure djent and prog metal record and it's great. Super underrated band

Voyager are our local Prog Metal band. They open for like every international metal band that plays here in Perth, so i've seen em live like 10+ times. Awesome band, but I honestly really like their old cheesy power metal stuff :P

i have always loved Lord of the Lost. Nice to see them here nik you should def check them out

at 2018 Hungary had a metal performance too...once in my life i was proud

Let me explain Eurovision voting system. Every participating country has their own separate jury voting and public voting. In both cases, points go to 10 artists that got most votes. 1st place gets 12 points, 2nd gets 10 and 3rd to 10th get points desceding from 8 to 1 point. You can't vote for participant from your own country. So, if someone is unlucky to be 11th in public voting in every country, they get 0 points and are 26th (last) while being 11th in voting. So I don't really care when something I like doesn't get many points, because it doesn't reflect their actual results from public voting. But I'm really sad to see shitty acts get more votes than quality ones. Norwegian contestant sounded like she could lead symphonic metal band, her voice was awesome but juries didn't give her many points and her chance for win was gone. LOTL frontman Chris Harms is probably the most skilled vocalist that was on that stage, and he gets 15 points from public and 3 from juries (thanks Iceland, probably the only sane jury that night), while Polish singer Blanka (sorry for our country sending her) got like 50 points from that public while she sounds rubbish.

I never thought id see Nik talking about eurovision pfpfpfp. Also do recommend Hungary's entry in 2018 that is the closest the contest has ever gotten to metalcore. It didn't score that high in the final but it qualified Also they did try to make a version of Eurovision but it was the US states but they didn't promote it at all and it got canceled after 1 year. Also no metal entries so.

I loved the metal of this year. I even covered Lord of the Lost. It’s not usually that heavy but i hope it starts getting heavier over time, good songs this year

As a Portuguese fanatic with eurovision for 2 decades now I highly recommend you take a look at Hungary in 2018. AWS - Viszlát Nyár is the band and song. It's in my metal playlist! Very good

Can't forget about Lordi winning it in 2006 🤘 I think they might have been my forst introduction to metal 😁

Bro after the final everyone forgot israel even there💀

Lord of the Lost is actually really good, people should totally look into their backlog, they got some industrial metal going on in there, been listening to them for years now. 🤘

juries used to be 0-25% back in the day but they changed it to 50%. it is little silly that 5 people from every country have same power as millions of people....

Worth mentioning - only vocals are live in eurovision. I'm surprised people find kaarija more similar to electric callboy than rammstein's Tattoo. I think Kaarija even sampled the riff, considering how big of a rammstein fan he is, even has their logo (kind of) on his chest. He didn't win wurovision, but peoples hearts!

Eurovision helps to kickstart a career. Like a band which gonna have his 50th anniversary next year: ABBA. Weird that next year eurovision will be host by sweden, does it? Loreen is a good singer, but there were better songs.

I've been following Eurovision since like 2017, it's an absolute blast every year

I have never really cared about EuroVision but this year since Finland had actual chance to win it I stayed up to until the final which was like 2am

it's for the first time ever that i knew a band prior to them taking part in eurovision, and damn lord of the lost deserved so much better cause they're the only band on there that i actually listen to

i really thought that this year wed have a chance to not get last place for once because i thought blood and glitter was a big banger compared to what we usually present xDd

Heyo Nick, I'm from Hungary, I really love your content and I would like to suggest you a Hungarian metal band that was on Eurovision back in 2018. The band is AWS they make it in to the Grand Final whit the track ,,Viszlát nyár,, -> Goodbye Summer. after that they really got a big bang in Hungary, unfortunately the vocalist Siklósi Örs is passed away in 2021. thanks if you check them out.