I remember when we used the term "poop" as almost a badge of honor amongst the worst of the worst metal bands. We used to have small competitions about who could find the absolute worst of them and we would spends hours just dying of laughter making fun of them.
The dude behind Tougher than Nails posted his album on the death metal-sharing group I am a part of. The admin, being the usual hero that he is, deleted the post.
If you're doing a promo then yes, even then I put more thought into alignment and symmetry. The logo isn't that bad though but it's too evil looking for a Christian metal band.
Tougher than Nails is completely midi minus the vocals of course. Considering it’s all midi it’s surprising how it could possibly be off time and out of sync
I've seen midi tracks get out of sync, but that's pretty easy to fix. It usually happens as a result of copying and pasting sections with either too much or not enough of the sequence selected - creating an unintentional polymeter because the measure is either cut off or extended with an extra beat or so of silence.
@@DumbVidsIMadeForAlexthat's what I was thinking. As soon as you play the song/sequence/pattern, shit like that sticks out like a sore thumb. Unless you're not listening to the final product. But honestly, why would you put out a song you haven't listened to? This whole album is a fucking anomaly and I don't understand anything about it.
You mean Mortification has 2 amazing albums, most of their stuff is almost Six Feet Under level bad. I like the early stuff but apart from that they are one of the worst DM bands I have heard.
I’ll give them their props for going for it, putting it all together, and releasing it on vinyl. So kudos to them for that. Also - That Shaggs album is awesome + way ahead of its time. If Sonic Youth had released it then the media would be spunking all over it calling it a “bold experimental masterpiece”...
Shaggs is definitely something interesting for music as a whole. Sonic Youth and Frank Zappa found interest with it in a way to inspire their Wild experimental music.
As you said, SFU's *instrumentals* are fine, it's just so extremely disappointing how Chris seems to have completely forgotten how to do death metal, after he laid the foundations for how it's done. It's not just that it sounds bad, which it does, it's the disappointment that comes along with how good he used to be.
It feels like those "badass skeleton" memes I keep seeing, especially with the shield in the bottom left corner with "LGBT" written in rainbow letters.
if you want some actually decent Christian extreme metal, check out Echoes from a Fallen World by Hard Look. it's a pretty fun deathcore album from last year.
I consider myself to be very knowledgeable about the history of death metal and extreme music in general. I’ve listened to a lot of underground demos and long forgotten banda (thanks Ken’s DM Crypt) There is so little information about this “band” and it’s infamy. They really scrubbed a lot of their work from the internet. The only video of the album I could find has comments locked. I need more information about this band, the songs and lyrics, the recording. Is this all a huge troll? Or was this a serious attempt at releasing thoughtful music into the world? A true mystery of extreme music whos story needs to be delved deeper into. Thank you for shedding light on this incredible piece of atrocious sonic torment!
@@mjstories7181 lol, but fr the guy had a Facebook page as of the last time I checked a few months ago. He was a real guy, very odd, zero self-awareness.
So, I looked this dude up on the Metal Archives. Turns out, he has had a few projects, one of them entitled "Devastation Inc." (so badass) Anyways, if you look up Devastation Inc's only full-length "Withdrawn into the Abyss Within" you'll get an absolutely bonkers, public access tv style music video that's quite a treat to watch. The music is about on par with Arise Warrior. Enjoy!
Same here, I looked him up and found his Twitter. It's mostly just him selling his shit paintings and music, political rants, or recommending other Christian death or black metal bands on bandcamp. Now and then I see something about a cyberfrog 🤷♂️ whatever that's about. Interesting chap.
@@DaisyTheSadboi I don't really know how selling NFTs works, but the ones he has up look like they were drawn by ChrisChan and are priced in the millions lol, this dude is a psycho
I absolutely love the album and freely admit that it is bad, but the fact it's so bad combined with the fact that they were forced to make the music brings it around full-circle and makes it a truly enjoyable listen, and the lyrics are so earnest and unsophisticated it's endearing. 10/10 album
Tougher than nails is one of those things I ran across and just laughed about for hours after hear it.. i listen to goregrind and noisegrind regularly, so the fact this made me bust out laughing says something.
Have you ever checked Agoraphobic Nosebleed? A mini cd with 99 tracks in 28 minues, I think, but the fun part is seeing the tracks number skipping as it goes... it's an experience you should live
Delusional blasphemies cover is fuckin funny. that shield made me laugh my ass off when I saw it, the whole cover looks like a Christian Facebook dad's Facebook meme 🤣
Every once in a while, I come across an actual Six Feet Under fan. Clearly someone is buying their music and/or merch. There’s no other explanation for their continued high profile record deals. It’s mind boggling.
I haven't listened but DM has so, so many bands that are nondescript, competent but bland. Being especially bad to the extent that you get noticed means you're doing something unique and interesting.
Right when you said "Christian technical death metal" I got a horrible cramp in my leg and proceeded to fall out on my chair on to floor screaming in pain. I don't think that was a coincidence.
I listen to a few Christian bands and am religious (though not orthodoxy), the Christian doom metal scene is incredible plus there's some decent bands like Mortification and Vomitorial Corpulence out there.
There was this other Technical Metal band with some sort of deer skull on their album cover that sounds just as bad as Tougher Than Nails. I heard it once on YT last year and now I can't find the video or remember the name. It was one of those "so bad you have to hear it" situations too.
Not a deer skull, but your desc vaguely reminds me of behold the arctopus, reeeeaaaally bad, random notes tech metal. You know anything else about the obe you meant?
@@eenpersoon2881 No, that is not it, but I eventually found it with my watch history from just over a year ago. The album is Resting in Beartooth by Red Burns North. It's really bad, over-processed djent. Or just your average djent.
@@eenpersoon2881 Completely different things, though. Can't say I'm a fan myself, but Behold... are ridiculously competent musicians that could do something more conventional in their sleep if they wanted to. Tougher Than Nails, on the other hand, are just bad at what they're actually trying to do.
i’ve been recommending this album to people as being totally fucking brutal and it gets funnier every single time. your reaction to the vocals is so on point 💀💀 it’s like a fucking dog trying so hard to reach the mailman
Tougher Than Nails really gives me the confidence to keep making music. No matter how bad I feel, at least I'm not TTN. Thanks for sharing this gem with the world 👌
I had the same reaction with Scab Addict - Eye Popping Noisecore. But funny thing is, Scab addict is intenionally bullshitting. Tougher Than Nails was dead serious...
Took a listen to the record for context and I feel like the biggest issue is the fidelity of the recording. The album is really clearly made from chopped up samples and I actually kinda like it conceptually. I just feel like this guy could come out with something legitimately great if he took this concept and improved the separation of the instruments.
Morbid curiosity got the better of me, checked it out before you did your little reaction bit and yes, can confirm that this album made me burst out laughing.
I don´t consider this death metal. It´s bad, fast but tedious, lame production.... nothing out of this world... oh and CHRISTIAN lyrics!!!! nnnnnniiiiice!
the butthurt by people defending this is just too funny. he's giving it attention with this video being self aware of it in the sense similar to enjoying ironically . metal fans are the best at being the worst sometimes.
Gorguts - Obscura is even worse. It's not Tech Death, or even Death Metal. Obscura made no sense whatsoever. It's hilarious how Gorguts through random chords together and convinced people that Luc was a genius.
The thing about Six Feet Under is they have an insane bass player and drummer. And they still come up with horrible shit. What I really want to know is how did no one in the studio say, "this is fucking garbage"...even more so...how did anyone at the label be like yea this is releasable....
Ah, behold the majestic calamity that is "Delusional Blasphemies Destroyed," an album so bewilderingly cacophonous, it makes a kazoo sound like a symphony of drunken elephants attempting ballet! The lead vocalist, whose vocal cords were clearly harvested from the depths of a haunted accordion, belts out lyrics so nonsensical they could perplex the most seasoned linguist, leaving us all questioning the very existence of coherence itself. Each track on this auditory abomination feels like a battle between a rabid squirrel and a malfunctioning typewriter, with guitar riffs that meander like a lost hamster in a labyrinth of confusion, desperately searching for melodic solace. The drumming, oh the drumming! It resembles a frenzied squirrel tap-dancing on a drum set made of Jello, producing a rhythmic calamity that could leave even the most stoic music connoisseur questioning their sanity. As for the album artwork, it is an avant-garde masterpiece of bewildering absurdity. Imagine a collage of surreal images, like a flamboyant penguin performing brain surgery on a rubber duck, while a rainbow-haired unicorn plays a kazoo in the background, all set against a backdrop of exploding cabbage heads. Truly, a visual feast for those with an insatiable appetite for bewilderment. "Delusional Blasphemies Destroyed" will undoubtedly carve its own niche in the annals of musical bewilderment, forever etching its name alongside the greats of experimental insanity. So, brace yourself for an auditory journey that defies logic, sanity, and any semblance of musical coherence. Prepare to have your eardrums caressed by the sound of delightful chaos!
So I am two minutes into this album and I cannot tell if they are being serious or not. Like you said, I cant tell if they are in on the joke or not lol.
Trust me dude , when I got into Death Metal back in the late 90’s I never liked Six Feet Under, weird how I can still listen to the early CC records but can’t stand six Feet Under
Dude u should check out this one project I found called “Daeva Angra Mainyu” it is essentially the black metal equivalent to this. I promise you you will be dying within 15 seconds of listening to it I recommend the song “The Cold Cruel Mountains”
I read your comment and checked them out, I bursted out laughing within seconds. The vocals sound like King Diamond being squeezed into a meat grinder.
I checked it out in the description but the album was almost done? I don't remember checking out before lol. But now I think when I was a sleep I think i was listening to some goregrind and this shit was playing after it 😂
I checked it out and liked it to an extent. If they were a noise grind band that was experimenting with some death metal style riffing and stuff it would be pretty good, knowing that's almost certainly not what they're going for makes it bad.
I'm not sure this is as 'bad' as you think it is. I have had a quick skip through it and, if intentional, it is just a 'metal' version of the glitch genre. I wouldn't be surprised if the glitched up guitar parts were sampled from something else. It's not my cup of tea, but the way it has been arranged with said glitches might actually be quite clever. I've worked in electronic music for years and there seems, on the surface, to have been some work that has gone into this. I may well be wrong though!
I get what youre saying as it could be a form of cybergrind but there's still the reviews ive read about the album they took down. it was intentionally offensive towards LGBT and was very pro christian in the same attitude of something like what the westboro baptist church preaches. Plus they're signed to a label that everything else is death metal. the vocals no matter what anyone says are incredibly off note . what youre saying about Tougher Than Nails in your comment is oddly similar to what Frank Zappa thought of positively when he found interest with The Shaggs. I know I stated numerous times this is "The Worst Death Metal Band" but its the kind of terrible thats fascinating.
@@wyattxhim I wouldn't say the lyrical content is what makes it bad IMHO. It's the music that's absolute garbage. Some of the best metal I've heard (and I know you can cosign me on this) have lyrical themes that could be considered sketchy.
8:00 and Frank Zappa loved it lol. but seriously, I love that their Grandmothers vision ultimately came true just not in the way that she thought it would. Ok after listening to their debut, yeah it sounds more like a noise project like Xper.xr instead of a death metal band lol.
the combination of MS Paint album cover, Movie Maker production value, and Christian(?) lyrics(??) really makes this go all the way around to "so bad it's awesome" tbh, i would wear a t-shirt with that stupid shield logo on it for laughs
I found something questionably more humorous. First Born of the Dead - "Self Inflicted Cerebral Zombification" is like Tougher Than Nails but a tech death approach
I checked them out here on YT when Wyatt's video was only a minute going (perverse curiosity it is called, I believe) and amidst that banging and clattering assortment of sounds that makes up the 'music' of Tougher than Nails I immediately picked up on something along the lines of "blood of christ" in the coughing fit that pass as vocals there. Together with the bible quote on the cover of this "Hero Arise" thing, it was clear to me. Yup, these are christians. Now, I'm not averse to christian metal, I like stuff such as Vengeance Rising, Horde and old Mortification. Hell, when I'm in a cheesy mood, I'll even wail along to "Soldiers under Command" by Stryper, but the thing is: its got to have the tunes, and that is very not the case here. Them being these bible bashing cellar dwellers in combination with the ham-fisted music, that's just hilarious. It's probably their way to 'pray the gay away' or something.
Tougher Than Nails is even funnier to me because I know the guy behind the "record label" they're on. Dude once (unironically) claimed he had gotten PTSD from the Ratchet and Clank fandom apparently harassing him for his Christian beliefs. I wish I was kidding.
Hellhammer's 'Triumph of Death' is one of the most twisted songs I've heard; it isn't really a song but rather the sound effects of your descent into Hell.
Ive always used The Shaggs as an example of payola. if their dad wasn't richer than god, they would have never been able to get studio time to record an album based on talent (which they didn't have).
You don't magically get studio time based on talent. Either you pay for it or someone else pays for it (your label, your dad, whoever else). It would be an example of payola if they got airplay on radio stations.
