Ranking the WORST metal fanbases 

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As a certified Tool meat-rider, it’s true. There’s no fan base more annoying than us. I mean, Tool themselves have multiple songs about how awful Tool fans are so….

As a Sleep Token meatrider, I am offended that we didn't win the Meatrider contest :(

Man if this channel has taught me anything, it's to laugh at myself. A majority of bands I listen to get trashed here, but your content is still so entertaining I force myself to ease up on my opinions. No joke thank you.

I’ll never be surprised if Megadeth fans really think that Hatebreed is screamo

As a die hard Tool fan for 25 years i have to say their fans can be insufferable. Tool fans act like they are still this misunderstood underground band that they need to explain and not one of the most mainstream bands of all time that knocked Taylor effing Swift out of the #1 spot when they released their last album.

Surely the thing with emo nostalgia is not about wanting to go back to high school to be bullied, but about reminiscing about the music that (in their minds) helped them through that bullying in the first place?

My Dad died listening to Sleep Token. He nailed his head to the dining room table, ripped his ears off and stuffed the flaps into the holes to block out the horror, but the sheer naffness of their music stopped his ticker. His last words were “King Diamond…”

Finn "I have 2 Hatebreed tattoos" McKenty running defense for every Hatebreed dickrider in the line of a hardcore show telling a tiktok kid to listen to Satisfaction is the Death of Desire but not The Rise of Brutality

YES! This will upset people and cause negativity and hurt feelings! Thank you Finn!

Chad RU-vidr moment knowing a phone mic is better than many entry level mics out there

Neopunk FM would have had their own show on MTV back in the 90's

Megadeth has the highest meat-riding to quality of music ratio. Maybe that doesn't make them the winner of this bracket, but it truly is something to behold.

Meat riding bracket sounds like a fair premise for a Steel Panther concept album.

It's not a McKenty video until he tells us about his TWO HATEBREED TATTOOS.

"Alternative military people" I feel personally attacked by the accuracy lmao

I'll actually try my best to avoid telling people I'm a metal fan these days lol

Sleep Token ONE HUNDRED PERCENT should have won this. Everyone praises them for being so "unique" and "original" and "groundbreaking", they're literally doing nothing new. They play the most generic Weeknd inspired R&B and then throw in royalty free RU-vid djent riffs.

I was at a Blink 182 concert a couple months ago with Turnstile opening and i hadnt even heard of them before but the crowd was going absolutely nuts. My wife and I were like "Who the hell are these guys?"

I identify as a Gojira fanatic and I am not ashamed

Finn, you gotta do a black metal version of this! The true cult meatriders are lubing up as I type.

"Mystical Meat Ridding" what a time to be alive. The fact that this string of words landed together in a row to be forever on the Internet. Thank you Finn!

As a psychologist I have seen it quite a few times; the vaunted fan who's salty their fav isn't socially relevant anymore and channels that resentment into uncontrollable D riding as a coping mechanism. I'm waiting for PTMRD to gain acceptance in the scientific literature. Post Traumatic Meat Riding Disorder is ravaging our online communities and they need our help!

“British guys screaming over synthy beeps and boops” 🤣🤣🤣 8:01

I still dont understand having a fit over millenials going to festivals. Life sucks, let people enjoy themselves

I see these videos and it just makes me so grateful that I only have about 4 friends that like metal

Finn…..there’s only one thing to do here. A band meat rider tier list

I feel like these guys just conflate having nostalgia with meat riding and it's just not the case

as a 31 year old I thank you Finn for reminding me I only have a few months of being cool left. When I'm 32 I think I will start listening to megadeth. Also... doorguy metal ftw.

25:30 I feel like Dave Mustaine is the only person still talking about him getting kicked out of Metallica. He even has an official Truth Social profile (seriously) and in his bio he lists himself as a former member of Metallica.

What people fail to understand over and over and over is that a human being cannot help what musical art speaks to their soul. So if I don't like your band I don't like your band but I'm glad they move you and speak to your soul. Metal Gatekeepers are some of the worst... I don't care about 15,000 subgenres of metal. Pigeonhole and cornering it into all these little boxes takes away from any enjoyment you can have with some fans

Megadeth has the meat rider fanbase because of their rivalry with Metallica. Rivalries always create loyal and tribal fanbases: you're Megadeth or Metallica, Pepsi or Coke, Nintendo or Sega.

If Sleep Token was a thing when I was a teen, I would've been the most annoying meat rider. Now I just love them normally. Though I had to clown on Fantano's review a little.

Finns frustration with Sleep Token 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I can kind of explain the hand tattoo stuff, I can only speak for the Navy side but a few years ago they changed the tattoo regs to allow full sleeves again, a smallish neck tattoo, and hand tattoos. I'm in San Diego which is a big military town and hand and neck tattoos have exploded here

For A7X costume, just wear your dad's Affliction shirt after he gets done playing guitar for a somewhat racist puppet show.

Props to the other dude in the original video for just holding the phone mic with zero complaints lol

i love Lateralus and 10,000 Days but Fear Innoculum was boring as fuck, huge disappointment

i remember all i listened to was Tool. every day till the songs went numb on me....and then more lol. watching concerts, lyrical meaning videos, occult stuff, learning what little history we have of them.....then one day it fizzled out unbeknownst to me haha. now i'm in a "nu-metal bands i've somehow missed and have on repeat" phase rn.

To my memory Linkin park (back in 03-06ish) was kind of a Naruto-nerd and woo-girl band. Polyphia is the clear “winner”

Literally cry laughing at Finn raging over Megadeth again 😂 gets me every time. Great video as always this had me creasing up 😂❤

How are Slayer fans not on this list? I like Slayer, but their fans are super fans.

Jimmy with the Rawlings batting glove had me rolling haha nice video

Do you ever stop to think about how nice these bands’ meat must be? They have a lot of riders and that must mean great meat!!

As a metal fan I have not heard of 90% of these bands.

I work in a mechanic shop the amount of nu metal you hear in there would melt you brain

You guys together in this video was so perfect

Seeing Finn getting upset is a delight. Always a blast watching ya

These guys should seed the NCAA tournament this year. Fuck it throw a baseball team in there like they threw Turnstile in there

I'm in a '90s hardcore Facebook group has to be the most dad energy old head thing I've ever heard! 😂😂😂 I say this in all respect! Love your content, bro!

I just want to see Rrrrrrrramstein make it to the finals so I can hear Finn say Rrrrrraaaamstein over and over.

As a fan of Polyphia and Gojira, I’m ashamed of my fellow fans who hate on people that don’t like the bands. Also love Finn saying “I would ride Tim too.” 💀

Not even kidding, at my first Tool concert some random drunk guy asks my friend and I out of the blue if its our first concert (as if its written all over our faces). We're like, "yeah." He replies, "BOY, YOU GUYS ARE IN FOR THE GREATEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIVES." I'm like, okay lol.

Love your content, man 😊 can you do a video about Billy Talent?

Tool versus rammstein in the first round is cruel.

People don't acknowledge the term that I love to call "normie alternative e-girl core" so... bands like "bad omens" "ghost" (I like ghost btw) "ice nine kills" "Lorna shore" are in, their Fandom are just 😬

I'm sure Sleep Token are Bastille in disguise

I saw this channel Finns reviewing they did a video /gameshow called "hardcore lyric or terr*r!st manifesto" One of the best music related video I've seen in RU-vid in a LONG time

I did the bandana under a trucker hat look in seventh grade to impersonate M Shadows. Low key, that along with a cut off black shirt is a solid look

Thank you Finn for pushing me outside my metal bubble. I'm enjoying life lately outside the annoying metal community lore. And I mean real outside, touching grass and all that. This is no joke, there are so many metalheads needing this that its just sad. Hell, even my W girlfriend likes some Archspire songs, so I paid my dues to the community lol. Speaking of them, Archspire fanbase is great because the band is full of great and funny guys who dont take themselves seriously. Or at least thats the vibe I get from them.

Damn, you’re actually reacting to a video I’ve already seen 😂

That’s weird about sleep token, the only people I’ve seen going crazy over them are 12 year old girls.

"Avenged Sevenfold has fans. I don't think they have meat-riders." -An Avenged Sevenfold meat-rider You sat there and lied to us because you wanna stay friends, bro. Come on, be real.

Also I think the Bring Me the Horizon meatriders are the guys who are like “you’re not a real fan unless you listened to them when they were deathcore!”

Where do you stand on the new single by guns and roses?

The fact that Sleep Token was gone in round 2 means these guys have zero credibility anymore. I've personally received 10,000 word essays on why ST are the greatest band ever and I just "don't get it" when i've dared to say "ehh they're good musicians but it's not my thing I guess" on the latest Metal Hammer post about Sleep Token on fb

"Not a single finger to be found" You kill me dude. Hahaha

I’m an older metalhead but I’m always open to new bands and ideas. I’m curious to where metal is heading. I remember being this young and shitting on older music and their fans. This vicious circle will continue ad infinitum. LMAO🤣🤣🤣

I am so happy that Finn introduced me to those guys.

I'll meatride sleep token into the sunset all day every day

I feel like Bring Me has done too many different styles to really nail down a sizeable per capita of meat riders.

I went through my "thrash big 4" phase in 2003 in highschool. I still only listen to Metallica from those 4, they were the biggest band then and now for a reason.

Even dressing according to what music you like is a no go zone.

The Sleep Token hate is crazy to me 🤣. From a steady following and two albums in, with a defined multitude of inspiration and talent. Then they go viral on tik tok and every hater is, all of a sudden, a hyper critc on what good music is. Y'all take yourselves way too seriously, you either enjoy or not 😂.

To me, if you're not into thrashing, you're not a metal fan. Polyphia, as they said, is just nerd-core for ppl who like scales and music theory. It's not really music that makes you bang your head against the wall in order to forget your childhood trauma.

Waking up and seeing “metal meatriders” on my feed is a great start to the day

Picking any of these bands over Sleep Token legitimately upset me. Sleep Token has more stans than literally any band I have ever seen in my life.

Megadeth fans really wanna try to convince you that theyre better than Metallica

"european personality disorder" - I am stealing that, one sentence that explained what is wrong with me.

Interested to hear your thoughts on Fantano's recent video about Ronnie

Maybe next you can do a video on worst Yacht Rock fanbases 🍻

I have never heard the term 'meat rider'. Thanks again, Finn!

Megadeths dystopia album is one of the best albums ever made.

Im a really big Sleep Token Fan…. We can’t compete with Tool fans… I give a tool fan some Lore, they give me memes, Fibonacci Sequence, weird timings, Maynard, Danny Carey, novels….. I appreciate and respect Tool as a band, but their fans are pretty hard to talk to. Haha

I had this experience in high school, but with punk music. A couple years later when I got into metal, all that noise seemed to disappear (this was around 2004 so the internet wasn't what it was with opinions and gate keeping). I still loved punk, but it got exhausting being fucked with over which sound waves were pleasant to my ears. Maybe they knew not to fuck with the tritones in metal.

I legit think this is the funniest video I’ve ever seen. I don’t know why I laughed so much.

As a millennial, I apologize for every other generation on earth. For being born before Boomers and Gen X died and for not dying when Zoomers and Alphas were born.

I will forever be an unapologetic Megadeth meatrider And I’m not even 30 🤷🏻‍♂️

kind of sad how the metal fans spend all their time pissing on each other

As an Origami Angel meatrider, idk why we're putting them in the metal category.

Sleep Token got me in a chokehold

One average meat riding tool fan buying a single mediocre bottle of wine from Maynards vinyard straight up dunks on every other meatrider out there in metal. Its not even close.

Dave Mustaine is the ouroboros of meat riding.

When they compared Slipknot/A7X and mentioned that Knot fans have tatts for the band, have they not seen how many skull/batwing logo A7X tatts there are?

Am I the only one who has never ever heard of Origami Angel?

Haha agrees with Finn on everything except Avenged. Maybe not as much lately, but the late 2000s/early 2010s was an absolute meatriding frenzy period for them. Final would’ve been Sleep Token and Tool with Tool winning if it were up to me. Fun video!

Maybe it’s the area I live in? I’m a meat rider for Sleep Token, yet the majority of people I know either don’t care for them, flat out hate them, or to this day have not even heard of them. I can count on one hand how many people I know who love them.

Right off the rip I'm glad you mentioned Glassjaw . My God I was read the riot act from countless friend's on why I should LOVE and ADORE their greatness ! To me , It just didn't grab me . Yeah some of the lyrics they forced me at gunpoint to read were pretty cool I guess . But they are playing me these songs smiling and bobbing their heads waiting for me to react like "SEE ! YOU SEE NOW ? " And I'm just like um...not really . So to shut it down I just say hmm.....maybe it will grow on me , if YOU like it their must be something I'm missing ! LOL !!!

meanwhile Gen X me will binge my Judas Priest & Iron Maiden and….Megadeth still kicks ASS

Oh, I get 34 min of this? Fuck yeah. Hell yeah, borther.