Metal riffs on a BANJO actually sound INSANE! 

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This needs to be a real thing now, that was amazing! Death metal banjo should become a new genre.

I honestly love the hollow, old-world sound of the banjo.

That distortion sounds so good. 🤯🤘

0:25 - I love that Bernth giggles at the absurdity and then tries to take himself seriously moments later. 😂 Really cool!

I remember a while back a friend and I were in a small music store. I was messing with a four string banjo and started fret tapping, my friend and I were laughing because it sounds like that rolling banjo thing. The old man who owns the place storms over pissed saying you can't play a banjo like that and wanted us to leave. he's out of business shockingly 😂

Totally insane, never knew banjo could sound so good with distortion. Love it man.

There's something almost magical sounding about it. I need an animated music video about wizards and dragons to this! lol

A 6 String Banjo, this was played famously by the great Johnny St. Cyr.

We need the revival of the bass banjo. If I remember correctly, there were only 3 of them ever made, and they all had 42.5" scale lengths (the playable length of the strings).

I love when people mix surprising instruments with genres associated with very specific instruments and sound. Like Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan picking up an electric guitar 😁

Now this is a certified banjo moment

I’ve been wanting to hear banjo in metal ever since I first heard Doc Holliday by Volbeat. American-style folk metal is a fountain of untapped potential.

That was cool! I'd like to see you shred on a sitar or on a lute next🤘

This sounds fresh and really provides a great twist to this music turning it into a great fusion between folk music and metal. The first band I heard using a banjo to do more than folk was Gungor in Wake Up Sleeper, awesome song.

Great experiment! You asked what we like to see in the future. Songwise I really enjoyed your collab with Syncatto - definately one of your best songs ever. So it would be AWESOME to see you perform collabs with other great musicians. Not only guitarists but also other instrument-players - although a duett with Manuel Gardner Fernandes should be really fantastic 🤤

Yes!!!!!!!!! I need more artists to add to my Heavy Acoustic playlist!! So far it's just Ewan Dobson, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Opel ocean, and few other select songs. I started playing last year, using your techniques/teaching, just to hear more rich acoustic riffs

LOVEIT !!! It sounds incredible, as if it were a video game boss that you never want to run into again, the strongest and most desperate boss of all 🖤

Not what I had expected, but definitely some of the most awesome banjo-playing I've heard in a long time.

It actually just sounds like Yngwie Malmsteen when he plays acoustic. Those nylon string acoustics that he uses live sound remarkably similar to this when he does his super fast alternate picked shredding on them.

New Bernth's song, that means it will be a great saturday evening. And also congratulations for 800.000 Subscribers

The arpeggios on the banjo sound AWESOME!!!

Sounds amazing, it's very reminiscent of some of the Asian metal bands that are using traditional instruments that have gotten big lately. (The HU comes to mind)

Congratulations on the 800,000, for the content you make you deserve many more!!!!

What I want to see next? How about instrumetal battle between banjo, ukulele and... accordion

Great vid. Been thinking again lately how I'd like to learn to play banjo. Enjoying hearing it with an atypical genre of music.

It's sounds extra spooky and deathy. Love it

Fleeing the downpour outside -- the party finds itself in the warm embrace of a cozy tavern. The glow from a hearth illuminates in low shadow the only other thing you see. A dead-headed man plucking an ominous and haunting tune on a banjo. With a smirk and a tap of his foot on an arcane box on the floor -- the melody turns violent and as the tempo increases. He regards you all with hollow black eyes and an inhuman grin that stretches ear to ear. "Shall we? Yes, let's shall". Roll initiative.

That was awesome. You should do Death Metal on a Cello next!

Distorted banjo is actually great sounding. This was awesome, thanks for pushing boundaries man... always something new to experience on this channel

That is not a banjo! It's a guitar disguised as a banjo!

Wooow, that Piano, calm part is so cool, I really like it 😌, amazing melody. Respect Mr. BERNTH🙏😌

I been craving for some Dubstep / Metal Mashup but I myself don't have the technical knowledge to make it real. If you could colaborate with a house / techno musician and make it real I think it might be the new FAD of the music really soon. Something about the edginess of the dubstep sounds and the absolute SHRED of your style should be memorable!

as a southerner, i didnt know how badly i needed banjo metal in my life until watching this video

As a real banjo player it breaks my heart when I see the 6 string banjo being played 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

the finger on the stomp box was hilarious

But that's not a banjo.

This is amazing! Keep playing and sharing.... LOVE IT!

Fact check: not a banjo.

I cant thank you enough for getting straight to the point in your videos. I have grown tired of 10 min stories. Thank you

Bernth, you bring the melodies i had in my head for so many years to life.. I cant explain it!

I love how clear the strokes are

a metal version of "foggy mountain breakdown" would be awesome!

Ok listen.. I honestly did not believe there could be content so perfectly niched down to me.., like this is me in content form. I’m an Appalachian gal raised by a bluegrass musician (who plays banjo as his fave but also mandolin, guitar, bass, piano.. etc etc) but who also somehow grew up a metal head… most people see bluegrass and metal as being at odds w one another but I wholly disagree.. this is really awesome, thanks for sharing

That works really, really well. I'd love to see what you could do with an entirely acoustic ensemble. Strings probably wouldn't be enough- it would need horns.

Imagine going to your family with the good ol' banjo and then playing this

I clicked expecting nothing less, the best part is how much fun you seem to have playing in the video.

that was so sick! love it

Air, fire, water, and now, dirty Banjo. So much innovation. Outstanding!!

The mad man has done it. Now a new genre of metal exists. Can't wait for the first all Banjo metal bands 🤘

I'd love to hear Metal played on the upside down metal wash tub, broomstick and string next!

You never cease to amaze!

First time I've ever seen a banjo with 6 strings, crazy the innovations they're coming up with nowadays

Mandolin Orange is a fantastic bluegrass band. The guy that plays mandolin/ banjo/ guitar got his start in a metal band.

I came into this expecting it to be a meme but it's actually really good

Simply f**king awesome, bro!

That transit to distortion was insane! Great playing :)

This sounds like boss music for an Indie RPG Maker game

There was an obscure Seattle band called Guardian Alien that performed distorted banjo music back in the late 90s and early 2000s.

So good Dude! Helped cheeer me up after losing a buddy yesterday. I love your goofy smile in the beginning. Thanks for your work. Your lessons are helping my ligaments get stronger. especially the 4nps alt picking exercise. my sweeping is also starting to find form. thanks for helping with that dream. I love how that banjo has a guitar neck. Is that a thing or did you customize it. Oh I see you texted it came like that. Didn't see the text in small window view. The double time section kicks serious ass!!!

When the dragon on the kingdom turns out to be a giant alligator in the swamp

just.....wow. Metal banjo. One more thing I never knew I liked, or even knew existed this morning

I love how banjos basically sound amazing at anything other than it's actual intended genre lol.

OMG thats so SICK with Banjo!!!

I've been begging for metal banjo a decade now Yes

Wow! My wife inherited her uncle’s banjo and I didn’t intend to put any time into playing it but - DAMN - that was awesome.

I was stuck in a mountain town one summer as a kid. There was a banjo. So I turned it to like a drop D guitar and played death and thrash metal till my fingers were bleeding. But I'm not near the player you are. Listening to this touched my honorary red neck metal soul.

literally everything sounds "insane" for this dude

Reminds me of the Metalocalypse episode where they had to put a troll back to sleep with "old timey" instruments.

they’re making metal with banjos now, that’s the new thing

Now we need the banjo-kazooie soundtrack in this style

How does he make it look so effortless

Subbed within 30 seconds. I'm here for it.

A Harley Benton banjo…damn that was good

Well, this was random in my feed. And HELL YEAH it was worth listening to.

That almost made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

This is like rain pouring spontaneously.. beautiful

The only time I haven't been repulsed by a ganjo! Nice job

This sounds so cool! Dave Mustaine used a 6-string banjo in The Blackest Crow, and although he doesn’t shred on it, it still makes for a really good, iconic metal song. I think it’s so cool when metal bands use instruments that aren’t typically used in metal music, such as the banjo, cello, sitar, etc.

Your dexterity is amazingly fluid. Having been born with a tin ear, a frog in my throat, and sausages for fingers, I salute y'all !!!

Like a Greek metalhead on meds 😂. Kudos, that was amazing.

If a person grew up outside of or is unfamiliar with bluegrass this would be considered novel. Kind of neat but also kind of silly. Because it's just a guitar with a banjo resonator. Strung and tuned and picked like a guitar. Without the tuning and the drone string it's kind of just an acoustic guitar. Not even using calw hammer or frailing.

sounds like a flamenco shredding

My Banjos are 5 strings, high string up top. A completely different tuning and skill set, and I want one of these 6 string Banj-tars! My mind is spinning, at what sounds I could make with this revolutionary 6 string. I have an electric sitar, that is basically a real sitar, but with a pickup on it. I think you would love the sitar, like I do.

Aside from the awesome tone, this composition is beautiful! Thanks for writing this and sharing with us. ❤

Always sth New, never boring. Thx.

Please take this as the compliment it's meant to be, because this sounds like the most rad Crash Bandicoot music

Jazz with blue grass instruments, awesome.

00:40 Sounds like when you pause Donkey Kong Country for SNES

I am literally going to buy a banjo just for this

A banjo player walks into a bar with a stage on it. A rockband just got finished playing and now he goes up to play a song. Everyone laughs at him, but then he starts shredding with his banjo.

never thought i would see the day where ppl played metal on a banjo

Suddenly I realise that ALL metal bands need a banjo!

For the love of all things metal, please do more of this!

2 things... Number 1,everything musically is so well done,so smooth and vibey,a great example that Tash can really do it all,and do it well. I mean,that bass line is really good c'mon! Also well written,it flows so well. And number 2...well,forgot,cause it's so good lol. I will always keep listening to this awesome music!!

There's only 1 banjo song that blows the roof off the house, the 1949 version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.

I was doing this in the late 80s. Larry LaLonde from Primus inspired me. Props to Harley Benton for making an affordable 6 string. There used to be very few options and they were all pricey.

I know there are a handful of people who write of the banjo as a goofy instrument, but this sounds nothing like you would expect a banjo to sound like (I love the banjo btw)

I've a 5 string, and a 6 string banjo. Banjitar or gitjo. Heard them called both. Definitely going to be running them into the gear now.

The banjo is my favorite instrument and I love metal. What a sick video.