The ultimate SCENE MUSIC iceberg (rawr xD) 

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“Don’t tell my boss I use Chat GPT” as the title of a zany metalcore song will be my contribution to the scene in 2023!

And I also love how, within the span of like 8 months… all the skinny scene guys transformed into fat bearded lumberjacks that drink craft beer.

I remember being in High School and having people ask me "do you consider yourself scene or emo?" Oh my gosh, what a time to be alive.

Really like the sponsor being some art rather than some generic product. Nice move Finn. More of this please

Metro station shake it is a certified Hood classic in the Midwest

If you ever think “wow, this is so bad. There’s no way anyone thought this would become popular”, just remember that Romance On A Rocketship was signed to Island Def Jam Records, who also signed artists like Fall Out Boy, Frank Ocean, Hanson, Shania Twain, Sum 41 and Saliva. People genuinely believed they were gonna break out into the mainstream.

The seriousness when he says "Gene Hoglans Balls" is untouchable 😂

Thanks for being the best scene kid archaeologist in the field! *Finn chisels rainbow raccoon hair extension fossil out of ancient hot topic limestone

I think the F word duct tape on the guitar balances out the "I swear to god mate".

fun fact, the dude from Romance on a Rocketship was in a band called Here I Come Falling and also the band Agraceful before starting this solo project and it's nothing like this.

Forever the sickest kids first album is one of my favorite scene era releases. Interesting song writing and super slick production. Still holds up imo!

Sweet! The first band sponsor! More exposure, thanks finn! Thanks gold souls! I get a ton of my new music, old or new, from pretty much finn. And a friend at work. I didn't have a computer growing up.

Cash Cash was a scene band who surpassed the scene by wisely deciding to stop making scene music, and become DJs. They ended up having a massive hit song with Bebe Rexha, and produced songs for A-list pop stars such as Pink. Now they’re a relevant festival EDM band. All that growth for a band that started by playing Cobra Starship type music.

The people I knew who were into crunkcore definitely partied, but not with hot women, more like desperate 15 and 16 year olds who wanted drugs.

I don't know if I'm offended or embarrassed with the bands/artists finn mentioned in this video

The fucking Come To Brazil comment really got me hahahahaha

Loving the band sponsors. What a great way to find new music

That was intense. And mildly heartbreaking

The funniest thing about the iconic attack attack video is that it's the wrong guy

I'm so glad you talked about jeffee stars music career, I found out about him through his hair song in my scene days 😭

The early to mid 2000's was such a weird and experimental time for music. I can't be the first person to have this idea, but I've never heard anyone mention it, I think it had a lot to do with the increased commercial availability and decreasing cost of music production software and equipment. If you were 16 and had a part time job, you and your friends could go in and for a couple hundred bucks get a DAW and an interface and just go down some weird rabbit holes. There's definitely an ambient musique concrete grindcore band I was involved in floating around the internet featuring a box fan on vocals.

RIP Punk Goes Crunk 😂

Who else could it be but Finn to make my day again with his witty commentary?

No lie for Make Me Famous the song "Earth" actually slaps, it's still on my gym playlist to this day

the fucking lyrics to skin & bones "hush your lips, im about to speak, if i talk real slow do ya think you can keep up with me" incel type rizz lmao

Proud to say I’ve probably been to the Walmart where the Dot Dot Curve music video was filmed. Everything about that video made perfect sense to me.

There used to be a venu in Evansville Indiana called Boney Junes that closed down in 2012. Notable bands that performed were Askikg Alexandria, Memphis May Fire, Hawthorn Heights, August Burns Red, Black Veil Brides, and the list goes on. I grew up about 40 minutes north of here. You are correct it’s a very small city in South West Indiana. Scene music was very popular in this area back then.

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Excuse me, The Medic Droid???!!! Anyone remember them?

So glad attack attack is playing shows again and brought traitors with them for their last little tour!

The fact that I had almost every artist on my iPod back in highschool is so unfortunate

I was rocking out to those first hollywood undead songs, without really understanding what they mean, I loved it (I'm not native english)

I legit thought design the skyline was victory records punking us at the time. Now, I realize we didn't know the gem we had in front of us.

Good video man!

That's just about her Tuesday at the Evansville Walmart lol. And can confirm, I wore plaid shorts and neon scene shirts and am in Indiana 😂

scene music was so all over the place cause there was crabcore, deathcore, but also 3Oh!3, Never Shout Never and Millionares

Still remember that one time i was listening to Make Me Famous while my old ass uncle was visiting and he looked at my way with such disappointment I totally understand now 😂😂😂😂

Gold Souls Walk The Other Way sounds like Avenged circa 2004 meets Architects

My tattoo artist here in Pennsylvania was the guitarist in Capture the Crown lol he's an awesome guy, huge into the tattoo & car scenes.

When I think of this type of stuff, Etienne Sin always comes to mind

I managed to escape Evansville, IN in 2001 to go to college and never looked back... but I am a little sad that I missed the Crunkcore scene there.

Holy shit Finn, I can't believe that you remember Romance on a Rocketship. I went to high school with one of the guys who was the original members and primary songwriter for The Maine. He's now in this badass shoegaze band now called Holy Fawn. We don't have much good local shit here in AZ so everything we get is like a needle in a haystack. They just got done touring with Thrice a couple days ago 😊 makes me so fucking happy to see someone I know really earn the recognition they deserve

“Spritz me with a hose mate” 🤣🤣🤣 Finn you crack me up 😅

needed to add isles and glaciers

6:04 I can't hate too much on that. One of James Hetfield's most iconic guitars is a white explorer to which he added a strip of masking tape that he wrote 'EET FUK' on. Also the fretboard inlays on that guitar are shaped like hands giving the finger, haha. I love Metallica.

I saw Dr.Acula but no Dr.Acula and I am a sad BREEEEEEOIIIIIIIIIII

The Alumni Club, Just The Kid You Were Looking For, School Boy Humor, Select Start are my TOP Neon Pop Punk bands they would all play the local coffee shop a town over. I looked like a neon kid myself i love it

Surrounded by Silence is the equivalent to 10 different Hot Topics playing their in-store playlist simultaneously in the same location.

Ah this takes me back to reading SYWH in high school during study hall. What a time to be documenting music lol

Favourite thing about Scene: it's a Goth off-shoot that somehow has nothing of value to offer

baaaaaaaabbeee finn mckenty dropped again

Some of the best vocals you’ll hear in music haha

“I swear to God, mate!” 🤣

The great thing about the Stick Stickly video. They hit almost every Metalcore music video stereotype in one video. Running in place, playing in a dessert/abandoned building, random pretty girl in a white dress. Then of course accidentally invented Crab stance at the time 😂 only thing that was missing was raining inside the woods/field/warehouse God Attack Attack! Was great

Best RU-vid Channel. (From a French guy)

Awesome Hollywood undead shout, with Jeff star, different times;)

These songs just became the soundtrack to my summer. No regrets.

16:57 thats why I love music, people with no idea on how to make it make music and throwing out the rule booking doing what they think is cool. I live to see artists like that being creative doing what they could with what they have.

The guy from Romance On A Rocket Ship was in two Metalcore bands. Agraceful and Here I Come Falling

Keep the vids coming

Hi Finn. Requesting an iceberg video on early 2000s mathcore. Looking back the shaky jerky peacock haired vocalists filmed on handheld cameras is possibly the most awkward phase in metal music history.

My scene band would’ve been called one of the following -Beautiful Undead -Shallow Razor -The Never-Ending Nothing -The Mind of Morla -The Southern Oracle or -One of the Following

Good video idea homie

I was very happy the second you mentioned Capture The Crown. I wasn’t looking at the screen but I was hoping they were the band you were leading up to. Good shit, Finn

I remember that design the skyline moment like it was yesterday. I was always hyped for victory releases. Then this came out.

design the skyline was basically from my hometown. still have there album on cd

Honestly, Breathe Caroline are really cool dudes. Especially Kyle

I remember in high school, Marianas Trench made a song that absolutely shit on Metro Stations Shake It. That end of the chorus lives rent free in my head to this day "shake-shake-shake-shut your mouth".

The Romance on a Rocketship guy’s hair just made me laugh cry at work, thanks Finn!

Omg the comments about of design the skyline being every genre of sene music at the same time is so painfully accurate. But I feel it’s not just the music the way they look is like every single scene kid MySpace look. The hair, the piercings, the outfits , the makeup. I feel like I’m looking at every one of MySpace profile pics mixed together. I just but the MySpace scene kid lie was the peak of my 31 year old life tbh.

Enter Shikari have turned into a reliable dance/rock outfit.

Those songs at the beginning 😅😂

goddamn, you unlocked memories I wish I didnt have of Romance on a Rocketship

I work part-time at a dive bar in Minnesota. The Midwest Scene Kid plaid shorts fit is still very much worn by some of my 30-year-old late night regulars. They get mad at me when they play that horrible scene Soulja Boy cover on Touch Tunes at full volume 30 minutes before bar close and I skip it.

Bruh obviously they paying you but that gold souls crazy

Damn it I've forgotten about so much old music😢

It's actually so sick to have the sponsor be a band

I saw Make Me Famous at the Emerson back in the day, I remember their guitarist had a Brittany Spears head mic lol

I hope my ears will never be subjected to that sponsor band ever. What were they called ? Coldsore?

"I'm noting boat sken and bunes!" Where the hell is that accent from?

I forgot that capture the crown was now just called capture, I was looking for the like ten minutes on Spotify like “oh shit did they get rid of it?” Lolll

Mitch Rogers from Varials was in Capture the Crown lol

Omg KINGDOM OF GIANTS!!!!! I always forget about that band!!! Which is sad cause my friend a long time ago was their basses (but only when they played live cause they didn’t have an actual bassist for awhile? Idk he had all this proof and no one ever disproved it 😂😂 looking back one line “hmmm maybe he had a different band names kingdom of Giants? 🤔😂😂 but man I loved that shit!!!

This rusty paint can hahaha

who remembers Artist vs Poet?

Brooo this was awesome, I LOVED NSN growing up hahahaha the memories I can’t stop laughing

As an Indiana native, thinking about our Crunkcore scene, its what happens when kids who have so much going on around them get creative. And yeah, Walmart is all we got, either film it their, in your bedroom, or out in a cornfield

The way of letting bands sponsoring content on youtube makes me kind of happy. A nice way to give people a chance to be seen and a much more enjoying way for the endconsumers in front of the screens

I found a dot dot curve shirt at the goodwill wore it for years didn’t even know what it was haha

XDXDMYSPACECORE

Weirdly enough, a decade later, I have neon strings on my bass, and when I play shows there's always someone to praise that.

Daniel the Photographer is another great obscure bedroom scene-pop artist

I was today's years old when I found out that Metal Inquisition was Finn's blog. Everything comes full circle it seems

Did you know the guy from Romance on a Rocketship was in Agraceful?

Design the Skyline was from my hometown. I vividly remember hearing that they got signed and everyone wondering how tf they did because they were just so bad. Like, my brain would straight up just hurt after going to one of their shows, it was genuinely terrible.

That title held me at gun point

I just started but Abandon All Ships better be on here. 😂

As a recovered scene kid, RaWr xD. I think the fever dream was kinda like a 80s lite. Lots of drugs, guys that looked liked girls got the girls(and guys) And there was a crazy over saturation of bands that fed the scene. Another parallel was MTV(and fuse) hyping everything up. Also like the 80s there were a bunch of creeps in the scene. Like I was 14-16 during it and the 18-20ish olds were fucking predators IMO

Yes I remember Hollywood undead 😂😂😂 I loved them so much