Reacting to the Top 10 Metal Songs

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In this episode of my Spotify Reviews, I check out the latest Top 10 Metal songs.
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@ruffy0001 2 года назад

Lindemann: "Ich hasse Kinnndeeeeeer!" Rick: "Nice!" As a German that was kind of funny

@sawnmiwe1460 Год назад

Hahahaha

@carlosflores4179 Год назад

I hate childrens!

@niklasr992 Год назад

Hahaha, exakt der Moment, an dem ich in die Kommentare gesprungen bin :D

@jstuckless Год назад

Maybe Rick also has a deep aversion to young humans :)

@RichRobinson 10 месяцев назад

“I hate children” 😂😂😂😂😂

@fuhryfhavyre6799 2 года назад

Till Lindemann: "I hate kids" Rick: "Nice!"

@AxxLAfriku 2 года назад

I don't have any friends because they are ashamed of the videos I upload. Are they really that bad, dear f

@synkraut9633 2 года назад

I know several people who are close to the Rammstein guys and - who would have thought - they are really nice dudes

@davidfinney6855 2 года назад

@@synkraut9633 Just met a guy here in Germany. Claims to know them well. Eh, I don't know. I've seen them in Qubec, Spain, Mexico and have about three more shows lined up. Can't F'ing wait.

@computer_toucher 2 года назад

@@synkraut9633 Who would have thought they weren't? WIth those kinds of stage shows and extremely Butch Leathergay image? People that insane are usually nice folks. Like black metal people, usually some of the most polite, friendly and tolerant people. This will sound weird to some, but: If true bastard racist shithead psycho people had tried something gimmicky like Rammstein, it would turn out tasteless and vulgar. Many might see Rammstein as that, but they do more of a /tasteful/ vulgarity (if you're not a 60 year old shut-in conservative). The others would be just nazi punk bands with gimmicks -- the artist's sentiments always kinda show in their art..

@skylineXpert 2 года назад

Im deutsch: ich hasse kindern. When i discovered what it was about. Where have you been all my life till lindemann. A child kicked my seatback from Billund to somewhere over franco german border so...

@luisrocha26 2 года назад

I love how Rick is always respectful with everything he's listening to and keeps his criticism on the most "technical" side of the song, which is production and recording stuff. Music critics have a lot to learn from him

@roy_for_real2674 2 года назад

You should watch vocal coaches on RU-vid. They're always so technical and open.

@jeffm5991 2 года назад

I'm not sure why music critics exist.

@ossiehalvorson7702 2 года назад

@@jeffm5991 Same reason critics exist for anything else. Somewhere along the way most people decided they needed to defer to somebody else's opinions on whether or not they should like something. Relying on your own taste requires you to take responsibility for it and stand by it, so if someone criticizes you for it, you can't just say "wull it's in (insert site here)'s top 10 albums of the year so.."

@ceelothatmane9421 2 года назад

@@ossiehalvorson7702 so wouldn’t those critics be speaking in terms of their own taste and literally owning up to it making criticism to defer to people who have similar interests to them?

@ossiehalvorson7702 2 года назад

@@ceelothatmane9421 You had me in the first half and lost me in the second. They're trendsetters, meaning people who are interested in pop culture (including music) have common interests because they're looking to the trendsetters to tell them what their interests should be. You can see it everywhere. Fashion companies like Gucci are literally built around that same concept. If they can control the trends, they can control public interest.

@cafesociety8525 2 года назад

Child; "I want metal". Mum; "We have metal at home".

@gogpoydi 2 года назад

Most of these “metal” songs sound like late 2000’s pop rock

@travistotle 2 года назад

#1 on this list is a straight-up pop song that happens to have a distorted guitar

@mrrob516 2 года назад

Every "Metal" band nowadays be sounding like Fall Out Boy

@george474747 2 года назад

Rick's failed to take into account the way marketers abuse language. Calling this metal because that's how it's been branded is like calling The Simpsons the same show it was in the 1990s - the title's been stolen and stuck on something completely different, that's all.

@indowithbadenglish3775 2 года назад

Degrading off course. Rock is dead

@rickc2102 2 года назад

@@mrrob516 exactly, all these whiny emo voices are so punchable

@LRM12o8 2 года назад

10:55 Till Lindemann: "I HATE CHIIIILDREN!" Rick Beato: "Nice!" 😂😂😂😂😂

@ergolineL 2 года назад

Haha, that gave me an unexpected chuckle.

@timvonr2802 2 года назад

I love Americans listen to Rammstein and lindemann not knowing the playing and double meaning of his lyrics… Sadly there’s enough Germans not getting it in english songs either 🙈

@robadobdob 2 года назад

Can't wait for Rick's deep-dive into "Ich Tu Dir Weh".

@thevoidalone 2 года назад

@@timvonr2802 I still chuckle at Till's masterful punning with haben/hassen when going from German to English for "Du Hast"

@computer_toucher 2 года назад

@@timvonr2802 I'm not German but read through the lyrics as I sit here (haven't heard the record yet) and got a laugh and an aaw, it is very relatable. If I got it, that is, I can like understand written or spoken German and get 90% of the jist and deduce the words I don't know from context, but don't ask me to speak, because you'll awe at the pronunciation then laugh heartily at the horrible grammar I did run it through Google Translate for fun though, just to make sure I didn't completely misinterpret everything about the lyrics and I have to ask you, if I'm correct in interpreting "Ich näher' mich der Klagereihe" as NOT meaning "I'm getting closer to the series of lawsuits" like Google would have it? I thought more like "I'm getting close to the Wailing Wall (like in Jerusalem)" "Immer lauter dasch näher' mich der Klagereihe Geschreie" right afterwards is like "louder and louder the closer I get, the screams of that wailing wall intensifies" (poetic freedom here sorry) So self-doubt here; do I know German well enough to understand the point here or should I listen to Google Translate lol

@rockandrollisyourmom 2 года назад

Rick during that Beartooth song is all of us guitarists every time we hear a song while holding a guitar.

@vannjunkin8041 2 года назад

Pretty much.. muting, finding the fret, note tasting.. lookin all crazy

@salty_3k506 Год назад

@ConManliness that's how people back in the day learned when there were no tabs or other things to learn from, they just had to figure it out by ear and that's how you stumble across things that sound cool on the guitar

@nicolelittle6429 2 года назад

Congratulations Beartooth. You made Beato wince several times.

@Daniel-om4ce Месяц назад

Whiny emo vocals tend to do that to most people

@jpjpjp453 2 года назад

I'll be polite and say that the majority was lackluster sounding drek.. There's a reason why there is such a vast underground of Metal bands, sounds, and scenes that do their best to avoid this.

@jpjpjp453 2 года назад

@@badgasaurus4211 Like being a Kraft factory.

@rog2224 2 года назад

I tend to find it seasonal - summer is often a weak chart.

@kevinshanholtzer 2 года назад

rick, cover discordance axis lol

@TenFalconsMusic 2 года назад

Definitely👍

@countdebleauchamp 2 года назад

Hear hear. Butt rock posing as metal.

@muknuk1121 2 года назад

Till: "ICH HASSE KIINDEEER!!!" Rick: Nice

@jitblues 2 года назад

Lyric: I hate children. Metal 2021? Black Sabbath: Megalomania. Metal.1975 Lyrics. I hide myself inside the shadows of shame, The silent symphonies were playing their games. My body echoed to the dreams of my soul, Inside is something that I could not control. Maybe the real problem is illiteracy.

@AlexBergPlays 2 года назад

@@jitblues you need to read Till Lindemann and Rammstein lyrics my man.

@samyagdrsti 2 года назад

@@jitblues Maybe you're not familiar with all of Rammtein's and Lindemann's individual work, both music and poetry? If you enjoy German literary tradition, some darkness, and sarcasm, they're a treat. Though I love it as well, not everything in life is about British over the hills and far away romanticism.

@mrnelsonius5631 2 года назад

I’m not a big fan of modern metal, but Rammstein gets me every time. Till’s attitude is perfect for the genre in my opinion, it’s smart AF but also self aware enough to not take themselves too seriously. Every time I hear Rammstein I’m completely on board from the get go. Had the same response to this little snippet of his solo project. I’m also just a big fan of industrial anything (that’s good).

@notaname8140 2 года назад

@@jitblues Ah yes, the band who rhymed "masses" with "masses" in War Pigs, such masterful lyrics

@mikeb2420 2 года назад

When Rick hammering on the guitar trying to figure out the songs sounds better than the actual songs.

@jacktowers7533 2 года назад

Can we just appreciate Ricks talent for how quickly he knows how to play a tune he’s hearing first time by ear

@Ltgoat03 8 месяцев назад

Makes me so jealous

@micahbecenti3292 6 месяцев назад

I think it’s more how basic the song is, because a lot of these are really easy to play along to because it’s just 4 chords throughout the whole song

@GutekZ 6 месяцев назад

He even knows what guitar to pick before even listening to the song ;)

@666Musik Месяц назад

@@GutekZ 😹

@jessebeckwith3446 Месяц назад

Always

@danpremo6958 2 года назад

On the Beartooth song, Rick: "And the drum fill has no impact." Me: "There was a drum fill?"

@SomeUnkindledAsh 2 года назад

Lol. I swear I was like, 'what drum fill'

@Alpysf 2 года назад

Exactly!

@AffordableGuitars 2 года назад

All the Beartooth mixes are like this...shame really, cause the songs are so strong.

@hochhaul 2 года назад

@@AffordableGuitars The mixing issues that Beartooth has are all too common with many many acts these days. Compressed and boosted until there's no discernible dynamic range.

@drdre4397 2 года назад

@@hochhaul A lot of these just sounded as you mentioned far too compressed and produced. Can barely hear the instruments just a general feel of bass and a singer, metal without guitars that can be heard... Ok sure.

@tonylanman 2 года назад

The thing that makes me facepalm every time on most of these songs are the straight up pop choruses. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with pop, but the only difference between most of these choruses and a Taylor Swift song is simply TIMBRE. It's "metal" because the guitars are distorted, but it's all the same chord progressions, and all the same melodic tricks. I feel dismay because of the diversity and inventiveness of different genres being lost and homogenized. So many today think of this as metal because of screaming and/or slightly raspy vocals and heavy guitars. Timbre does not make a genre or a style.

@brandonanderson2066 2 года назад

Well said.

@journeyfortwo5211 2 года назад

Absolutely true. It's like "pop goes punk" covers

@nirmalvarma3386 2 года назад

Exactly! Add to it the theatrics and that is enough for the average listener to call it metal. And if you point this out, you are automatically an elitist.

@ManticoreSigma 2 года назад

THIS! This is the mullet of metal: Heavy in the verse, uplifting rock anthem in the chorus. EVERY. FUCKING. TIME! Memphis May Fire and Black Veil Brides had SO much potential until the Breaking Benjamin, anthemesque chorus kicked in.

@FoOtFoOt542 2 года назад

You nailed it

@zachhessler8722 2 года назад

I am surprised at how pop the singing is, even in the screaming songs when they sing. Metal has changed. Seems like a lot of metal bands these days need to get better sound engineers.

@anduuhar 2 года назад

This aint metal...metal hasn't changed.

@slamdangles 2 года назад

this is flat out NOT metal, but radio rock.

@datutturugang666 2 года назад

@@slamdangles yea, and at the same time not, i do agree on the fact that this is not metal, in facts it’s hard rock ahah, the thing it lacks, is the ol school pull, like a good headbanger riff, but unless you’re already a big band like metallica or slipknot or any other well known band, it’s really hard to get air time in radios, but yea this ain’t metal. the best one in this was till, but again, he is already famous, and he has proper musical knowledge..

@notsure1135 2 года назад

It’s what I hated about Linkin Park.

@SmokingBirds 2 года назад

@@slamdangles if this is radio rock, then radio rock sure has changed a lot! so either one has had to change. probably both did.

@thevillainycontagion103 2 года назад

The funny thing about this list is. Some people would hear these songs and think that they are too heavy and some people would say they sound weak. I personally feel like a lot of this stuff sounds weak, the singers sound like they’re 13 and whoever mixed the songs didn’t eq anything. However everyone likes different things so if this is your thing then go somewhere and love it.

@billrobertjoe 2 года назад

they're all bad

@VArsovski10 2 года назад

The majority sound like a college band "fast hit" and "catchy", but by most of them sounding similar/same nothing "stands out" tbh, almost like all of those are a "30 seconds to Mars" song

@neandercan 2 года назад

they sound like imagine dragons with distortion guitar

@psd993 2 года назад

it's not even that the concept of the songs is that bad, the mixing and the sound is just bad.

@billrobertjoe 2 года назад

@@psd993 no these songs are bad, not just the mix

@crispinmcsticks 2 года назад

Scooped mids, flat hypercompression, didn’t know we were back in early 00s metalcore.

@guguigugu 2 года назад

was just about to say, this all sounds like the music i listened to in high school 20 years ago

@deathoftheendless001 2 года назад

@General Pershing the mids are turned down

@brandon6759 2 года назад

@General Pershing mids dialed down to nothing. @Crispin I was hearing the same thing. Made me laugh. What has happened to metal?! 😆

@Dirge4july 2 года назад

@General Pershing it’s when you make a delicious ice cream cone full of mids. Scoop the mids as the cool kids say.

@dissident1337 2 года назад

This is why I still listen to 80s thrash.

@SolenceOfficial 2 года назад

haha loving this!! I can definitely attest to the fact that the waveform of our song "Indestructible" looks like a big fat sausage! haha All the best

@hanstilstam7858 2 года назад

Heja Norrköping

@iwonttell4958 2 года назад

Not much metal here, except Till and Bullets...

@simonwootten5821 2 года назад

Great song, very well done. Completely different class that the rest of the pack.

@costalongajp 2 года назад

The song is great! Congrats! I agree with Rick, there is some room to improve the dynamics there but far from spoiling anythig, keep rocking!

@bryanharrison3889 2 года назад

I'm not trying to be rude, but who the hell did you guys blow to get on a metal chart?

@samk6880 2 года назад

Blown away how quickly you pick things up Rick, you’ve got a great ear and clearly know your way around the fret board and in different tunings. And omg! So refreshing to hear what you said about most of the guitars mixes and lack of mids/ the guitars getting lost. It’s my biggest problem with new age recording and mixing, and you nailed the truth about the lack of dynamics. Cheers Rick🍻🤘, they don’t make ‘em like they used to.

@AimlessMoto 2 года назад

Till/Rammstein have had some amazing production values in the last 5 years.

@cody_sorensen5757 2 года назад

summarizing: Technology has improved, recording and mixing has diminished. Songrwriting is dead and metal now is distorted pop.

@Ambervanrooijen 2 года назад

It's the same with good quality pop music. You won't find it in the (popular) charts ;) Plenty of amazing (metal)bands out there. Trust me.

@loganbrown3565 2 года назад

Don't jinx it brutta

@launder0 2 года назад

@@Ambervanrooijen still, it's interesting how people who supposedly doesn't like pop are listening to distorted pop (i really likes that way to say it)

@kdm71291 2 года назад

I think I agree with that assessment.

@DrRepper 2 года назад

Just like every other genre, 95% of metal is made by technically competent but utterly tasteless and unimaginative instrumentalists, and 95% of metal fans wouldn't know a decent piece of music if you tabbed it out on a bat and hit them with it, so you end up with eye-gougingly cheesy, derivative, formulaic, over-produced, sacarine bilge water like the above getting all the attention while all the good stuff flies under the radar. It was ever thus.

@CamiloDiaz 2 года назад

Every chorus is like it’s from a single producer that just makes emo chorus. As in the same guy, who knows like 4 and a half chord progressions

@PacificoAyala321 2 года назад

And the same guy on growls/screams.

@totallykoolyeah 2 года назад

midi pack world

@kdm71291 2 года назад

It all sounds so very "formulated"......like '80s hair metal but without the pleasantness and fun, haha!

@DJGodaryD86 2 года назад

@@kdm71291 Honestly most of those edgy crap sounds like someone chopped up a generic distroted guitar sample pack changed some EQ and called it a day, doesn't sound like actual guitar play. And by now it has been done to death.

@Neufertful 2 года назад

@@DJGodaryD86 Yup. It bores me to hear this type of music on the radio. Also the drums and the bass sound very similar from song to song.

@Patrick-857 2 года назад

I would class this as radio friendly rock, not metal but that's just me.

@aw2584 2 года назад

These lists are specifically made for record labels and marketing companies to pay out for Spotify or whoever created such list to put their artists new release on it. The bigger and more popular the list, the shittier the music gets. Remember that whole Drake debacle? His face became a cover for like 3/4 of these playlists, even if they had nothing to do with his genre of music (top pop songs, top country, top young, top old, top sad, top gay, top trans, top national socialistic Black metal, didn't matter, drakes face was the face of the week and his song was nr 1). Just an example of marketing executives overdoing it a little.

@kaydgaming 2 года назад

@@aw2584 “top national Socialist Black Metal” Lmao… my pfp is seething

@Andy_Classic 2 года назад

@@kaydgaming boflll

@ChikaNeca 2 года назад

Perfect

@pearljaime2 2 года назад

Yeah, me too. Cept for fear factory and Till and the number two, I guess.

@SmokingBirds 2 года назад

wow that memphis may fire song really had a lot going for it! the chord progression, the half time, cool drum fills, and a wicked transition to the interlude-hook riff!

@yammahopper 2 года назад

Treat yourself. Check out Japans hard rock/metal bands. About 15 years ago Japans government decided to stress the arts as much as engineering and made learning an instrument a requirement in school. The results have been spectacular.

@Darkenfair 2 года назад

I kinda like band-maid, but that may not be entirely about the music!

@Guy-bm5wh 2 года назад

I think Japan has the best and worst metal rn.

@LakriTs9 2 года назад

true! but not only hard rock and metal their electronic music is very cool to especially stuffs like sakuzyo xi etc. and yeah they have a billion off underground circles that composes great music like demetori etc. I still feel like some off their hard rock is abit generic to when u dig deeper into it its alot off octave chord strumming usually i mean it's different from ours usually but when you listen to it enough you start kinda recognising alot off patterns in their music to.

@IcarusNadir 2 года назад

@@LakriTs9 I just think in general the chord progressions Japanese rock/metal bands use are a lot more interesting than what we generally use in the west

@IcarusNadir 2 года назад

Sithu aye displays it perfectly

@JakeDaCakeM 2 года назад

I would love to see Rick do a Rammstein song for his "what makes this song great" series.

@clod2529 2 года назад

yes

@darkone9572 2 года назад

Sepultura !!

@darc9782 2 года назад

I've asked him to before - I hope he does it!

@coolhandluke9987 2 года назад

Du hast

@josephlopez1063 2 года назад

Freuer frei

@OriginalNuckChorris 2 года назад

Just speaking German you're already doing metal.

@charliewenthe4411 2 года назад

I used to think that being a huge fan of rammstein but I think Russian has taken its place

@Glasshexagon 2 года назад

@@charliewenthe4411 Lmao, I guess you decided that by just hearing Slaughter to Prevail. Beyond this band Russian is not that metal, trust me

@ilikeyourname4807 2 года назад

@@Glasshexagon Neither is German beyond Rammstein

@Glasshexagon 2 года назад

@@ilikeyourname4807 *laughs in Oomph/Megaherz/Einsturzende Neubauten*

@francistherien 2 года назад

I really like the critisism you have on these songs. I'd love if you made a video on 10 metal songs you think are really great and explain why. That would be an awesome video !

@jaebassist 2 года назад

Agreed. It would also be a very LOOOOOOOONG video lol

@jimmystetler2572 2 года назад

There is a vast richness of metal being made right now and none of it was on this list.

@brandonleisure9999 2 года назад

^^this^^

@gabolujan 2 года назад

@@anemaldemomusic8182 Nightwish, Eternal Champion, Opeth, Powerwolf, Ayreon

@shREDhead44 2 года назад

@@anemaldemomusic8182 spiritbox, alluvial, bad wolves

@chrismonaut 2 года назад

@@anemaldemomusic8182 check out some newer bands like Spiritbox, Oceans of Slumber, Blood Youth, Eidola, Tetrach, Make them Suffer... lot's of cool new stuff out there! :)

@devolve42 2 года назад

I was just thinking most (not all) of the metal I like is from the 80s and if this is what metal is now it sucks.

@lua504 2 года назад

Would love to see Rick do a “What Makes This Song Great” - Opeth

@robertgrubb9508 2 года назад

I was just thinking the same...

@lua504 2 года назад

@@robertgrubb9508 Of course the problem is figuring which one. 🤔

@Stev0BabaGhanoush 2 года назад

Heir Apparent would be awesome.

@piotrjureczka7601 2 года назад

Cups of eternity

@dmacpher 2 года назад

Drapery falls!

@kylephillips7527 2 года назад

Its amazing how the tracks sound when Rick plays along, I know the tracks arent a direct input to our speakers; but you can tell what he means by a flat EQ curve.

@silenoz666 2 года назад

Sharon den Adel from Within Temptation is badass singer. It’s a Dutch band rocking since the 90’s. I love more their first albums, but, overall, it’s a great band, with so much killer songs in their repertoire.

@OgamiItto70 2 года назад

First song: "Indestructible." Second song: indecipherable.

@TheKaiserFritz 2 года назад

Reminds me of the song Centuries by Fall Out Boy especially when he sings indestructible. Also i thought this song was going to be a cover of the song Indestructible by Disturbed

@jbon9319 2 года назад

Beartooth has some great stuff. I wish it would have been a different song.

@kennethlambert 2 года назад

Some of these songs are really bad mixes. Drums and guitars get crushed in the mix.

@kennethlambert 2 года назад

The mix on the pain song was so much better.

@jonnybabich9667 2 года назад

I feel like all the "mainstream metal" choruses have pretty much sounded the same for the past 20 years now. It was fun for a couple years, but jeez...

@BLZArmwrestling 2 года назад

Disturbed started this 20 years ago i would say

@TheDSasterX 2 года назад

Yeah the four chord "power" chorus is pretty bland. The staple metalcore riffs -- if you can call them that -- aren't anything to write home about. 0-1 breakdowns have all replaced cool solos of the past. all the concessions to pop music mentality and punk musicianship leaves for pretty bland musicality. No offense to Rick's ability, but if he can figure your song out in under 5 seconds, it's probably not very interesting. Maybe it's well arranged or whatever, but the individual pieces are all pretty simple these days.

@Chris-MusicTheoryAndFretboard 2 года назад

@@TheDSasterX I don't think complexity necessarily translates to better music though. Rick probably can figure out every song in under 5 seconds.

@midesti 2 года назад

I first came to associate this sound with low-income, quick-to-fight, rural white kids (often tweakers) in the Midwest about 20 years ago.

@stephengitau1830 2 года назад

True.

@archibaldsalyards926 2 года назад

Ricks guitar playing actually sounds better than the studio productions!!! Thank you Rick for sharing your knowledge and talent with the world! Love your channel!! I’ve watched at least 100 videos!!

@AfanOlovcic 2 года назад

Your sound is really cool , I love it ! It is so clear and heavy in same time

@michael.davides 2 года назад

I love when the intros scare Rick. Hilarious.

@alexo5861 2 года назад

I think Rick has his monitors cranked, and he plays into the genuine shock of the first big hit just a little.

@taffmanetothyme7 2 года назад

Absolutely, and also when he realises that's it's dross on a couple of those tracks. Very funny Rick. 👌

@OlivierTravers 2 года назад

Rick knows that the algo loves reaction shots, all YT thumbnails are now exaggerated facial expressions.

@realobama1100 2 года назад

This is just pop with fuzz guitars lol.

@Atlas65 2 года назад

I so agree with you. My roommate was showing me some screamo bands he is really found of. Bring me the horizons or something like that. I said to him, you know this is really just pop music with distorted guitars, at least the choruses. Just as generic, even more generic than pop music. Since the top pop musician often aims to be a little bit edgy, to stand out from all the other thousands of songs.

@tanzu7 2 года назад

@@Atlas65 bmth has a huge ass discography spanning across multiple genres. Listen to Chelsea smile, diamonds aren't forever; and tell me if that ain't metal

@40g33k 2 года назад

I basically said the same thing, and most of these boy-band style vocals died out in the early 2000s

@slawaxas 2 года назад

@@tanzu7 also bmth invented all the stuff these bands copy from

@vinzjames 2 года назад

Sounds like beiber with distorted guitar

@Gustafo_Olshadski 2 года назад

Very interesting format. Please make more such videos about new outcome tracks. Very useful, it helped me to find out new cool tracks and how you dismantle songs it’s awesome

@amplifire558 2 года назад

The thing that keeps me interested in metal since decades is complex and surprising song structures like older Opeth stuff or Dillinger escape plan for example. As a lot others already said, this is just pop garbage with distorted guitars.

@aholder4471 2 года назад

I remember when I first came across Dilinger Escape Plan. I thought to myself, why didn't anyone else turn me on to this....nobody else I knew was hip to them. Same with The Contortionist. I then proceeded to tell everyone about them wether they were into it or not.

@jingyitay6179 2 года назад

Isn’t Dillinger more punkcore?

@jingyitay6179 2 года назад

This sounds like thrash metal trying to be industrial

@steveb6718 2 года назад

listened to Gojira Art of Dying and Pray go listen and let me know if you haven't

@gitsurfer27 2 года назад

Dillinger is mathcore with punk influence i would say. Great band suggestions in this thread, I would add Mastodon, Meshuggah and Sikth to that list as well - highly technical without the "look how fast i can go" ego, just pure music...i'm sure you've all heard them but check them out if not!

@proteusblack8913 2 года назад

Most top "metal" is actually what I call "pop-as-metal" where the arrangements are exactly that of mainstream pop but just played with hard rock instrumentation. Blah.

@herculesbrofister265 2 года назад

That's how it's always been. Go listen to a priest, maiden, or sabbath song. Verse chorus verse chorus etc. Metal fans are such clowns

@keithacarl 2 года назад

This is true of all the genres, especially Country, which is pop/rap with a token fiddle or steel guitar thrown in for aesthetics. Pretty soon we'll reach a musical Singularity.

@orlock20 2 года назад

The instrumentation sounds like the same band and they just got some person from an Emo band to sing over the top.

@travistotle 2 года назад

This shouldn't really be a surprise. This is a list of the most popular metal songs, aka the songs that appeal to the widest variety of people that happen to listen to metal. So obviously it's going to sound very poppy and mainstream.

@dricardkr 2 года назад

BLAH!

@ibanezleftyclub4058 2 года назад

I see the definition of “metal” is pretty loose these days. Half of these sound like pop rock.

@editorrbr2107 2 года назад

I’m pretty sure stabbing westward was heavier than this 20 years ago.

@zeromant80 2 года назад

Just like “wanyk”

@thomaskittock2866 2 года назад

Lots of pop punk/punk influence too.

@Noreceipts400 2 года назад

People like to throw the term metal around a lot, but anyone who actually listens to metal knows that a lot of this stuff isnt metal. Honestly ive never heard any of these songs

@marcvolgers8352 2 года назад

Agreed. It's just pop with distored guitars. 3rd song is the first song I would qualify as metal (not very good, but that's just another thing), but the song by the Black Veil Brides finally had a decent metal riff, but we're already halfway there...Well the good news is #1 is decent metalband from my country ;-)

@stevec6427 2 года назад

Mostly quite weak, almost pop played on heavy sounding guitars. Lindemann and Fear Factory were cool but then the Lindemann song sounds like Rammstein 20 years ago and Fear Factory haven't really changed their sound in 30 years. There is some amazing new metal. Chelsea Wolfe & Converge's new album is an absolute masterpiece, incredible from start to finish. Gojira's new album is just brilliant, the whole band are on an amazing level of talent yet have combined the technical brilliance with superb songs rather than fall in to the trap of technically brilliant but ultimately dull music that so many others have done.

@newagain9964 2 года назад

Yeah. There isn’t much real metal these days. And even then, most of it is not good.

@carlodave9 2 года назад

Almost pop? Almost?

@damiensam464 2 года назад

also Exodus with there Persona Non Greta

@theverminator8048 2 года назад

@@newagain9964 ever heard of SION or maybe spiritbox?

@plantdesigns7889 2 года назад

@@newagain9964 there's plenty of real and good metal these days, it just isn't as mainstream. Trivium: In the Court Of The Dragon Rivers Of Nihil: The Work Jinjer: Wallflower Twelve Foot Ninja: Vengeance Between The Buried And Me: Colors 2 Arch Enemy has dropped some great singles lately Just a few of the bands I'm listening to right now Oh yeah, Be'lakor: Coherence

@alaresrock9810 2 года назад

Rick you’re a genius! I am 52 and open to listen to new things but after listening to this I always end up appreciating more Metal and Hardcore from the 80’s and 90’s Metallica, Pantera, Fear Factory, Pro Pain, Maiden, Biohazard, Sepultura with Max Cavalera, Type O Negative, Kreator, Death Angel, Judas Priest, Fight, Anthrax, Carcass

@klauswassermann8054 2 года назад

Till Lindemann has such a peculiar voice and phrasing, and his lyrics - which I believe he all writes himself - are some other kind of ornately skewed poetry. Being a native German speaker and not a Rock or Metal guy myself at all I am still fascinated by the aesthetic quality he manages to deliver incessantly over the decades.

@jail2634 2 года назад

He writes all of them. He also published a book of like a hundred poems He wrote.

@frankalfar 2 года назад

@@jail2634 interesting got a link.

@MickeyKraut419 2 года назад

My dad's grandparents' families originally came to the US around the late 18th century. They passed down the language for a number of generations with my grandfather, his siblings, and great grandmother still speaking German daily when I was growing up. That tradition of passing on the language sadly ended when my grandfather divorced my grandmother, so my German is woefully lacking, but I do remember and understand enough to have developed a profound appreciation for the tongue in cheek way that Till has of incorporating puns, slang, and twists of German idioms into his lyrics. Add in the unique characteristics of his voice, cadence and timbre that you mentioned... It's a unique combination of things that truly make him stand out.

@NwoDispatcher 2 года назад

Hail the German people!

@karstenbursak8083 2 года назад

@@frankalfar search Amazon for "In stillen Nächten" for the german original, or "In Quiet Nights" for the english translation

@walkerthompson3320 2 года назад

When it comes to this genre, I think Ricks followers should collectively curate a list for him to check out rather than whatever Spotify puts together. As Rick knows, there is so much to impressed by in this genre if you know where to look.

@troystaunton254 2 года назад

Hahaha I’d force fairies wear boots in there just cos haha

@johnanthony9923 2 года назад

Does it really matter? I've literally never heard Rick say he didn't like a song in the top 10 of ANY genre when he makes these videos. He may criticize the production, but NEVER the song. Ever. I don't know if he just likes whatever's popular or he knows you get more thumbs up by saying you like everything. (Look at any song "response" channel on RU-vid if you want proof of this.)

@IuriFreytag 2 года назад

I would love to hear his thoughts of Borknagar - Up North. I feel it's not a complex song, but there's some captivating strangeness to it that I can't really figure out.

@robring1001 2 года назад

Agreed, however to me the point of these videos is to remind ourselves how the music industry has hit rock bottom, and we need to do everything we can to not sound like this bubblegum garbage.

@CosmicGlue 2 года назад

YES!

@newworldlubbock 2 года назад

I love watching his response to the first blast! Rick seems to be surprised when it hits!

@gkhnc 2 года назад

When Fear Factory released their first few albums, their style was considered a bit rare and extreme. But now they are mainstream because today all the metal music sounds industrial and brutal :) :)

@KennethJordangnosthiseauton 2 года назад

With the exception of Till and FF, you could have told me that all these were songs from the same band and I would have believed you.

@jimrichens665 2 года назад

Exactly!!!!

@IanLoughead 2 года назад

The singers sounds like the same person

@VGVindaloo 2 года назад

@@IanLoughead Yeah, even Within Temptation, who have a female singer, but she sounds just like the rest here. I mean, on occasion I like a good pop song with distorted guitars, but not if they all sound the fucking same.

@nirmalvarma3386 2 года назад

And Pain. Remember Peter Tagtgren is a legend.

@evildoer79 2 года назад

They all sound fall out boy. Garbage.

@christaylor6674 2 года назад

Sad state of affairs when "REAL DRUMS" gets Rick excited.

@brucanthwood 2 года назад

Especially because we're talking about Metal here.

@ErickMcNerney 2 года назад

I get what you're saying, but the real test to me is if it sounds good. Doesn't matter if it's real or not to me. A lot of this doesn't sound good, regardless.

@cadj5853 2 года назад

@@ErickMcNerney yea 100% i think that electronic drums can sound amazing and better than real drums in certain scenarios (ofc its case to case and depends on what the song calls for). I think that the only problem is when people try to emulate real drums out of sheer laziness to record real ones and so the song completely loses its feel.

@christaylor6674 2 года назад

@@ErickMcNerney I agree thst most do not sound good and I think part of the reason is the fake drums. A drum machine has no soul. It is why I like live recordings better.

@AdamManley7 2 года назад

@@ErickMcNerney the digital stuff would be great if they didn’t just copy paste everything, the real drums sound better simply because real drummers can put their own creativity into the music mistakes and all

@jayray9527 2 года назад

Thank you again sir for playing the guitar along with the songs! just amazing!

@algermilitia 2 года назад

Man... I would never call this stuff metal

@AMPProf 2 года назад

An old man once said, "Money is king and Your Metal isn't real Metal anyway Son!" Old man

@meitho7130 2 года назад

Well this bullet song is metal, some are more rock-ish

@jzdude01 2 года назад

You might not call it metal but play it to the majority of the world and they would.

@yung_doood 2 года назад

the new bfmv stuff is pretty metal tbh

@sweetiepenguinman 2 года назад

you'd never call fear factory metal? Get out!

@reverb508 2 года назад

There's so much great metal music being made today; too bad none of it is in the top 10.

@nickagero 2 года назад

Ich hasse Kinder is definitely an exception in my opinion

@tychormthorp 2 года назад

Taste is subjective but it certainly isn't Leviathan

@gunner642899 2 года назад

That's because none of them will be Pantera nor Metallica. Originality like that is hard to come by.

@Imrre 2 года назад

Like what?

@phipschi4255 2 года назад

@@nickagero exactly

@PacificAirPhoto1 2 года назад

Methinks Spotify gets too much credit for deciding what the “top” is.

@MinusCube 2 года назад

Totally agree :)

@elec123 2 года назад

He's pretty quick to clarify that it's Spotifys top list

@Freshd1995 2 года назад

Tbh I don´t think it even says that anywhere. It´s just spotifys main metal list.

@UnbeltedSundew 2 года назад

I've been listening to Spotify for a couple of months and it is really kind of bad. The way it chooses its mixes just ends up repeating the same stuff over and over endlessly, so I'm guessing the "top" stuff is just things that people get in their lists that isn't bad enough to remove but endlessly gets played.

@davep8221 2 года назад

Not if you make your own decisions.

@pong86r 2 года назад

im glad you called it out the flat guitar editing! i have to do so much eq work sometimes to get the music to sound decent, that it's wild

@hiwayhighway9925 2 года назад

Love this stuff Rick. Thank you.

@user-ny5ip5sx2s 2 года назад

Why tf almost all "metal" bands in this chart sound like fall out boy lmao

@MichaelKire 2 года назад

Pop punk emo metal /shrug

@rjr6912 2 года назад

Cuz Fall Out Boy stopped using actual instruments at some point

@mikeenachos 2 года назад

Cuz Emo poprock sells 😂😂 and the industry wants that

@axehound3718 2 года назад

To 10 year old girls!

@AMPProf 2 года назад

Is that the band with the stinky hat guy!

@bookwyrm1383 2 года назад

Outside of Rick's parts, a lot of this sounded like I was listening to $5 speakers.

@guy_autordie 2 года назад

Looks like it's not in HD on Spotify. And the HD on Spotify is not lossless.

@TheAwesomeMister 2 года назад

That reaction when Till Lindemanns song hits in. haha. Rick is the best!

@PierreVonGuersing 2 года назад

And once again I've discovered cool bands! Thank you Rick!!!

@wienersmcbutts 2 года назад

These metal charts are basically a “here’s your weekly who to avoid list”

@bxp_bass 2 года назад

as the guy who always lurking lastfm for new music - I'd say that "top"-oriented music ALWAYS the weakest and blandest among all other music. Even lame localbands mostly better and more inventive

@artinrahideh1229 2 года назад

I agree

@hhdhpublic 2 года назад

You dissin Till?

@PavolMagic 2 года назад

Yeah... no. There's Till. There's Fear Factory. Not everything popular is automatically bad.

@laidtorest387 2 года назад

I agree, except Till and Fear Factory are amazing as always.

@74aztlan 2 года назад

So much of this stuff has a "wannabe Linkin park ending up like Nickelback" vibe to it.

@shanewilson199 2 года назад

That is a great summation of the state of affairs

@eddierayvanlynch6133 2 года назад

🤔 Nickel Park? Lincoln Back? Yeah... that's accurate

@brandonthompson8640 2 года назад

i miss Linkin Park so much though. i know people have their opinions on everything after Meteora, but its crazy to think we probably would have had another album by now if Chester were still here. RIP

@mrporcupine4140 2 года назад

Came here looking for this comment, my thoughts exactly.

@AndrewBeveridge461 2 года назад

I'm surprised he doesn't say anything about how almost every song has the exact same minor 6th chord transition for the chorus. Between that and him getting excited for "ooh half time!" at about 8:30 is basically the bingo card of pop metal chorus tropes of the last 15 years.

@catherinewalker8850 2 года назад

I know nothing at all about metal, just wanted to say that Rick has GREAT hair 😂

@lazyjsrelaxathon1179 2 года назад

If you know nothing about metal now. Watch this video and you'll know even less. This music is what is know in the industry as " bullshit" ," garbage" , " retarded" along with many more I'm sure you get the point love.🤘

@morgellon9449 2 года назад

Listen to Current of Death by Holy Moses. That's metal.

@yung_doood 2 года назад

@@lazyjsrelaxathon1179 tbh i love the new bullet stuff

@KlaustheViking 2 года назад

I’ll go out on a limb and say the more pop-sounding “metal” has the same generic pop vocals that isn’t distinct from the rest. Idk, just my opinion… kind of sounds like a “I’m going through a phase” metal lol.

@tstayin 2 года назад

Just terrible, simple, and predictable choruses.

@rickc2102 2 года назад

Phase Metal lmao

@bennymountain1 2 года назад

Frankly sound like metal arrangements of pop songs.

@PDGX 2 года назад

Well, I suppose not every new metal band is Tool or Metallica.

@Pizzastealingninja 2 года назад

True, but there's always a generation of teenagers going through a phase, and they deserve new music to be excited about too. Yeh, it's a bit crap, but that doesn't matter to a kid who's decided they identify with its emotional content

@travistotle 2 года назад

Props to Black Veil Brides on that intro riff, I think I've only heard that chord progression 27 different times before at most lol

@elliotcarroll7888 2 года назад

Sounds like six pounder from children of bodom

@cade_olson 2 года назад

I dont listen to em but i know theyre insane musicians. They just write lame music.

@martinepstein9826 2 года назад

@@elliotcarroll7888 Yeah, but Bodom just used it under the vocals and added lots of interesting stuff. That intro would've sounded cliche 30 years ago.

@snessub 2 года назад

This is so true xD I thought of My will be done by Unearth

@SUPERSCUMDK 2 года назад

@@elliotcarroll7888 That's it! You're right!

@MrSparkula 2 года назад

Rick, thank you for always being so positive.

@riotkiley675 2 года назад

Cool to see Pain on the map again. Till Lindemann is brilliant . . Within Temptation are also amazing. Lots of great tunes and artists here. Awesome video. Rick. I love your content.

@chadsux 2 года назад

Remember kids, just because something is popular, doesn't mean it's good.

@4amazinggrace 2 года назад

Amen

@dougk359 2 года назад

Exactly, I couldn't even make it through one song. You kids get off my yard.

@BRO77TX 2 года назад

@@dougk359 take their knees out with the .12 gauge before they leave!!

@BRO77TX 2 года назад

@Damon Ashley triggered snowflake?? 😆

@schwilly6667 2 года назад

Touché

@RobertDouglasLW 2 года назад

Spotify doesn’t really do genres. Their curated playlists are just different versions of overproduced pop music.

@Bidens_Diaper 2 года назад

What do you mean, it's literally the most listened to songs in "x" genre.

@RobertDouglasLW 2 года назад

I understand they’re just following the numbers in terms of the most streams but the production typically sounds very similar regardless of genre. Guitars are usually crunchy and bright as hell, for example. That plus the fact that many of these songs follow predictable chord changes and many share a similar and rather simplistic song structure as well.

@gonzalozamora5715 2 года назад

Metalcore is still metal tho

@ingregulous3141 2 года назад

“Overproduced pop music” - exactly what I hear as well.

@skyinsession 2 года назад

so true. half those songs are just a bit of metalish nonsense in between pop choruses. there is soooo much more happening in metal, but none of it is ever going to show up on this kind of list. really wish rick could find more interesting music to cover.

@joathescientist 2 года назад

You rock Rick!!! some of these are very "popsy" for metal but still some cool stuff

@mortimusmaximus5485 2 года назад

Till provides wisdom and unmatched integrity in his voice and words. He is the real thing for others to desperately immitate.

@Freedum_Fries 2 года назад

I love how Respectful he always is to hot garbage lol

@amusicalheart7 2 года назад

That’s because Rick is a class act.

@JasCeeGee 2 года назад

Hot Garbage - nice band name

@afish4447 2 года назад

Even though it wasn't my style, the Memphis May Fire was decent

@proximityclockworkx1572 2 года назад

"Hi I'm Rick Beato, and today's song is Explosive Diarrhea"

@lucastrader8320 2 года назад

@@JasCeeGee they work hard in marketing and production but not that much in writing music

@jasoncowley4718 2 года назад

"Metal" Thumbs up for Till and FF wading through the dross.

@captain_green278 2 года назад

Pain is cool too

@bioburden 2 года назад

Agreed. Most of the other songs all sound the same to me tbh, especially the production style.

@MikeParent 2 года назад

So the big question is why has Rick never reacted to Devin Townsend?

@steven_marque_official_channel 2 года назад

I'm way past the target demographic for these artists/songs, but I still think you're dead solid perfectly on point about most of the poorly mixed guitars. There seems to be bias against clarity and effective frequency management/saturation until Bullet for my Valentine. Anyway, if the cacophony makes 1M people happy, I'm happy for them.

@faaip0de0oaid 2 года назад

for spotify standards maybe "extreme metal" would actually be more interesting.

@ShockBot127 2 года назад

I truly doubt it.

@daphenomenalz4100 2 года назад

People would still put poppy metal on the list despite its name -_-

@JG-nx3jg 2 года назад

If you see the term 'kick ass' next to any playlist, you know it's gonna be the sugary pop end of metal

@jamesdegirolano4922 2 года назад

love that 6505+ tone through that marshall cab! When I was picking out the amp to get when I was poor I listened to many bands and Norma Jean Bayonetwork help me make my final decision on a tone! Axe FX is my main tool now. Still can't get that raw power feeling from the axe though lol!

@thomasbjor2332 2 года назад

I love spending time with you, good weekend man🍻

@charlesbean7396 2 года назад

That Beartooth song isn't even Metal. Sounds like every Alternative rock stations music

@gregorymichael9031 2 года назад

Most of these just sounded like bad pop songs with some distorted guitar..

@EzioHanitore 2 года назад

Sounded like downtuned pop punk but bad lol

@mmf-rules 2 года назад

Their song "Dominate" laughs on this, that blast is fire 🔥🔥🔥

@defectivetoaster7713 2 года назад

The rest of the album is heavy it’s just a couple down tuned pop punk songs

@mmf-rules 2 года назад

There are 2 songs with good melodies (or pop vocals if you want to call them), the lead singles, to call more people to listen to rock / metal music and not get stuck with the same people who just want scratchy vocals and solos everywhere. , the rest is like punk, but on a next level, with explosions, growls and screams in a chorus, it's a fun album with so much energy.

@the.barnstormer 2 года назад

Your channel has gotten me back into the guitar. Was obsessed 10+ years ago. Excited to get my calluses back.

@jarrusjenkins 2 года назад

Dude, that Tele though that 6505 sounded awesome! Theres no way I could make that setup sound that good!

@Snaffdude 2 года назад

Dead by April is my favourite of the Pop Metal acts around today Pontus Hjelm has a tremendous ear for pop sensibilities and he's written some bangers! he's the guitarist and clean vocalist

@energythief 2 года назад

Beginning sounds very similar musically to The Birthday Massacre, a band that is criminally underrated.

@billwarner213 2 года назад

Hey, Rick! You know what would be interesting? You should pick a random year in history and do an “I listened to…” video for the top 10 from a random week in that year. It would be interesting to see how things compare to modern music, better or worse.

@benkyle76 2 года назад

Needs more Gojira

@dompling 2 года назад

Always more Gojira!!!!!

@neobh 2 года назад

And Jinjer!

@benkyle76 2 года назад

@@neobh yes! I almost said them too

@Eon2137 2 года назад

Talk about terrible mixing, Gojira is on top of this problem. Especially vocals, are mixing god fucking awful. Such a good band and production value on they singles are tragic.

@andrade2129 2 года назад

@@Eon2137 Still better than 98% of this "new" metal

@TSmith-yy3cc 2 года назад

Glad to see Lindemann get some love; I really like them. The lead guy from Pain is the other half of the core of Lindemann. Always appreciate this channel's work; such a genuine, knowledgeable guy.

@qba-bomb3959 2 года назад

I've loved Within Temptation since forever! I also have to ask, in the verse in Pains song, did anyone else hear a little bit of Rockin in the Free World??? 🤔

@umarae27 5 месяцев назад

I just discovered them this year via my favorite Cover Artist, Dan Vasc. I fell in love with the song called Faster. I hope he covers even more.

@DrAvalanche73 2 года назад

that trend of trying to sound really tough and heavy in the intro and verse - then comes a super predictable melodic pop-chorus…

@better.better 2 года назад

That's actually probably Fear Factory's fault... they were the ones that started that, although they came at it from a metal perspective instead of the pop perspective. Linkin Park made it a "pop" thing to do and now we can't get away from it. the Screamo interlude trend has a similar story, as does the rap interlude. for a while it was the thing to do for every song to have either a Screamo segment or a rap segment, and usually they're bring in someone from those genres to do it as a way of cross promoting... kind of like the hip-hop trend of "featuring" another artist (beats by some studio engineer who did it for $5 so he could overlay his advertising clip every 6 minutes)

@felixspoor7054 2 года назад

Yeah I think it's moving on from the trend of cookie monster verses into a melodic chorus lol. Most of these songs didn't really sound metal tbh.

@fiftyakaMighty 2 года назад

This trend is like 20 years old. Melodic or djent intro. Djenty riffs, clean vocals, and power chords in chorus. Solos without soul only technical mess, and showing off. Everything blended in a horrible mix and here we go new shitty song that sound exactly the same.

@paulojcduarte 2 года назад

Even metal has become super formulaic. Not my genre tho, last thing that I found fun was Ever Forthright

@foto21 2 года назад

It's a trend that really pisses me off, because it's as manufactured as BTS. What's weird is that a lot of the verses are actually decent.

@triad5766 2 года назад

These songs make breaking Benjamin sound like obituary.

@jobrimar8291 2 года назад

Now there’s a band, old school Tampa DM legends, still laying it down!!

@erikkroll2154 2 года назад

Love Obituary.

@joandrumz3176 2 года назад

For real tho😂

@bigkrut 2 года назад

I gave the video a thumbs up, not because the songs were any good, but because Rick is such a bad ass figuring them out in seconds.

@JAMPROSOUND 2 года назад

I can't help but want to sing some Neil Young over "Party in my head" from Pain. Keep on Rockin' Rick. Merry Christmas from Boise, ID.

@DownUFO 2 года назад

I never understood why metal bands scoop mids. When I crank the low mid growl and high mid bite, it creates a MONSTER guitar and bass tone, you can really hear the aggression with pronounced midrange. Scooping it just leaves you with a soft carpet. And this isn’t just a modern phenomenon. I started playing music 20 years ago (almost to the month) with metal heads who loved all sorts of thrash and industrial, even though I wasn’t a big metal head. But it blew my mind even back then, that almost every metal fan scooped their mids, meanwhile I was more into punk at the time but I was able to create for more crushing guitar and bass tones just because I was open to the full spectrum of the EQ.

@NullXNXVoid 2 года назад

One of my favorite bassists in modern-ish metal is Ryan Martinie from Mudvayne. Has his mids high and it sounds beastly.

@orlock20 2 года назад

Modern acts in most genres are copy cats to a fault. Everyone copies the leading act.

@cattycats4 2 года назад

go and listen to butchered at birth by cannibal corpse, it might be your last chance to realize how crushing your midrange tone ISNT

@pixel_seph 2 года назад

Depends on the mix, the amps used, and mics/EQ at the amp head; for example, scooping your mids on a solid state amp head sounds massively different compared to a tube head, even with the same microphone on your cabinet. And if you scoop at the source, you shouldn't be scooping in the mix. A good reference for this is Pantera's "Reinventing the Steel" releases (the original, done by Dimebag and Vinnie Paul; and the remaster done by Terry Date [who did their other records previously compared to, say, "Vulgar Display of Power." Dimebag, especially when I started playing guitar in the early 00s, was THE scooped-mids tone chase for all the players; he ran a solid-state Randall head and Marshall cabs on Vulgar, and switched to a Krank Rev-1 head on Steel. The original mix on that record is fucking horrid, but the remaster breathes some life into those songs. Why? Because Terry Date doesn't scoop the mids in the mix, at the very, absolute least.

@bennymountain1 2 года назад

Pantera scooped their mids almost 30 years ago.

@lymphhh 2 года назад

"What makes this song great" with any of the Rammstein songs would be so nice by the way.

@La_sagne 2 года назад

Adios please :)

@lymphhh 2 года назад

@@La_sagne Whole album is a masterpiece!

@johncurvyroot9217 2 года назад

Yaaaaas!

@jamisonandrewmanhorvaththe1124 2 года назад

I think it’d be hard for him to pick a song

@jeanpaulmichell7243 2 года назад

Mein herz brennt. Still their best opener after all these years.

@dovm5d 2 года назад

About good recording by Lindemann: that is not just "dude from Rammstein", that's group of two, and the second one is P.Tagtgren - dude from Pain/Hypocrisy, often referred as "best damn tech on european metal scene", so ...

@hooligan_3 2 года назад

Thankfully there is a lot of great metal no one knows about, that isn't on this chart. On another note, though I am not a musician, I am amazed at how quickly Rick picks up these songs and can play them virtually note for note after only one listen.

@edmarmatos4044 2 года назад

Yes!! there are still bands trying to come with their own sound, but we don't find them on the main channels!!

@nickkohlmann 2 года назад

@@edmarmatos4044 Exactly! Metal is FAR from dead and I explore amazing new bands every single week, just not in the main local radio or a big top 10 Spotify playlist.

@lukasscholz405 2 года назад

Rick should make a "what makes this song great" video about a Rammstein now.

@BasVossen 2 года назад

this band is all about the show element and has not much to say, musically. Imho.

@LWS1989 2 года назад

@@BasVossen Really?! Till Lindemann's deep haunting vocals, the innovative synth parts, the absolutely massive sounding guitars, the crushing riffs, the incredibly tight drumming, the beautifully arranged orchestral parts. I'd say there's plenty to talk about musically, especially the "Mutter" album.

@dale9491 2 года назад

I'd love to hear his reaction to the opening of Mein Herz Brennt

@Thyrfing666 2 года назад

@@BasVossen That's ridiculous. Listen to songs like Rosenrot, Reise Reise or Mein Herz Brennt and tell me you changed your mind.

@Thyrfing666 2 года назад

@@dale9491 Good one. Probably a top 5 Rammstein song for me

@stkaris 2 года назад

Rick not knowing the songs and playing along makes this dreck sound better.

@voyantcreative 2 года назад

It will always make me smile knowing that when modern metalcore/proggy/scene metal stuff comes up, Rick genuinely vibes with it hard. I'm so used to boomers just not "getting it" and it seems like my man just genuinely loves new music.