Yeah that got me I was like "wait.... Nik is a former WoW player??" Because I'm STILL playing WoW, even after 20 years. Mainly just Classic now, but I did play Wrath classic... Makes me wonder if Nik played any of it!
Underrated country core is the 2015 song Sevendust - Chop combining acoustic country/southern rock combined with drop G madness. Glad this is becoming more popular
UA-cam Music has been coming in clutch for recommending alternative listening music that has been needing but not knowing it. I’ve really started to get into outlaw country, thanks to Cory Marks. He opened for Travis Tritt back on Aug 4th at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally @ the Buffalo Chip Cory’s also just did a track with Sully Erna of Godsmack and another featuring Ivan Moody of FFDP, both of which features THE Mick Mars on guitars and Travis Tritt. He’s also done a track featuring Lzzy Hale of Halestorm, and another with DL of Bad Wolves Lakeview was recommended to me by UA-cam Music. Another artist is Tim Montana
Man, sometimes UA-cam music is so good, other times its so fucking trash. Thursday is probably my most listened to band, and it never told me that they had a new song. Like how the fuck does that happen!?
Colter Wall and Tyler Childers is the only country I like so far but I'm going through my third Underoath phase currently so those guys are on the back burner for now.
The problem with country is the problem that presents itself here: songwriting. "Every country song sounds the same." That's been the meme (and largely the truth) for decades now. And this does not beat the allegations.
@@tastyenchilada modern country is southern pop music. It far closer resembles pop than country does, that's why it works. So you can just write a poppy metalcore song and sing with some twang = country metal. "Real country" so to speak is so different in its flow and mood it wouldn't fit with metalcore very well. You could maybe adapt some slow sad country songs to fit with shoegaze or sad boy stuff like Balance and Composure.
Today was the first time I heard country core listening to Bilmuri, and then I had this realization that Mitchell Tenpenny keeps showing up to collab with all these bands i've been listening to for years. First State Champs(not metal, but definitely not country), then Bilmuri, and now I'm seeing this.
@@SamBrockmann After a couple of songs, including House of Cards with lyrics, I'm just as confused as the other guy. What are the specific Western references, besides maybe "dead man's hand"? Seems more like just a bunch of common expressions about poker/card games to me.
The ongoing concept album saloon. The song “cover girl” is a great example some good southern metal or what ppl are calling it now country core. Old MMF even the song Sharkbait by Capstan has that southern/country feel. I like that this genre is getting more attention cuz for years I’ve been going down a rabbit hole with this genre and I don’t wanna stop lol
Mitchell Tenpenny used to be in a metalcore band back in the day WAAAYY before he broke out into country music. You can actually see/hear his screams in this song along with Underoath. His low screams are brutal
Okay fine it turns out apparently I like another subgenre of country now. (if it ever gets combined with "female character getting revenge on person that did them wrong (bonus points if the revenge is murder)" subgenre, I'll be happy forever)
@@AaronMorgan666 I'm not sure if he gets radio play but with a million monthly listeners on Spotify, he's still making some waves in the country scene. There is a member of Thirty Called Arson in a current hardcore band called Tell Lies which also features a member from Enlow.
A what in the world a collab now!?! At this point lad like Hardy definitely falls under the Country Metal category too, if he isn't the inventor of it to some degree 👀
Oh yeah I also just remembered this about Mitchell Tenpenny AKA where the last name came from Tenpenny Joke, was an Australian rock band... So go figure him getting into a little bit more of his I guess you would say roots in a more aggressive style It only makes sense.
@@concretefinisher57eh I wouldn’t particularly say country metal but it’s been called southern metal since the beginning of time. Yes maylene was one of the first to blend it with metalcore but there are loads of bands that we’re doing it around that time.
This actually slaps. Been getting into modern country the past few months so can appreciate this crossover and not the mainstream artists like beyonce jumping on the bandwagon
@@nocentz4656it can be, but real modern country is stuff like Zach Top and Charley Crockett and that’s not pop music. Check it out, especially Charley is all about story telling and shit. It’s fantastic
@@ElMapache33 there are definitely good artists in thr mix for thr majority ruins it for them to the point where I won't even look. Like jelly roll for example.
@@nocentz4656 for sure. In basically every genre the surface level stuff isn’t the greatest so most people don’t get a feel for the good stuff because you need to work a little to find it
Country music is the only genre that is still selling albums, so if you can get in on that action it could be a real boon for pocketbooks of some of these bands.
Now that you've checked out country metal, how about reggae metal - Aurorawave - Boiling Point (w/ The Ghost Inside) or Aurorawave - KINDNESS (w/ Attila)
this hits me in the feels the way the first time i heard Thrice and Saoisn. Growing up in rural PA being VERY country by nature but hating the music and listening to pop punk and metalcore and emo. This would've went hard killing brews in the hommies civic outside of the gas station after watching dirt track racing. its a very hard feeling to describe but if you know, you just know
@@augustbaptiste9001 Wrong. He's not the first one to do country metal. Listen to bands like Every Time I Die and Texas Hippie Coalition that mixed country with metal WAY before Ronnie did.
As a Metalhead that grew up primarily in the sticks of AL and TN, you're gonna have a hard time convincing me this genre wasn't created specifically for my friends and I... Time to start a band for the first time in over a decade! 🤣
I heard in an interview that Mitchell actually started in music by doing harsh vocals in a band, then switched to country. Doesn't shock me he's been involved with some heavier stuff, I hope he does more
mitchell tenpenny grew up obn emo scene and pop punk and played in stuff in his teen years i heard. also hardy is anothercountry artist with metal hard rock influences.
So um, im surprised nobody has mentioned it yet, but like Hank3 is OG meta-punk/country-western fusion. You'll have to dig a lil deeper for it cos his label wouldn't let him release the heavy stuff.(Assjack is a good starting place) Closest i seen in the comments was mention of Rebel Meets Rebel, Hank appeared on Get Outta My Life.
If you want something a little more old-school country, and a little more old-school metal, check out "Cody Parks and the Dirty South". I have not been a country fan my whole life...until this year, and they have been the band that made me get over the fear of admitting that I'm OK with country now. Just do whatever makes you happy, man.
I am not really surprised to see this sort of stuff really starting to pop up. Modern country when you look at the lyrics is pretty damn emo with the amount of times a song will be about a girl or break up it's just instead of "So cut my wrists and black my eyes" it's "Chug some beers and drive my truck." Add in that a lot of the musicians playing these days are metal heads who are paying the bills being session or touring musicians for a main country act it's not hard to see them start messing around in a jam session and something like this coming from it.
Check out Royale Lynn and her songs Death Wish (ft Danny Worsnop from Asking Alexandria), Redneck Rockstar, and Six Feet Deep. Not sure of any other female artist mixing the genres like this.
You should do a video on the subject and invite Tank you’ll be surprise the amount of metal musicians or simply metal fans are working in the country industry.
The bassist left Fit For A King to join Koe Wetzel, country is where the money is at!! Although I dont listen to the genre, I dont blame him.. Combining both genres together is crazy but works
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Nik moves to Florida and countrycore is instantly a thing. Coincidence?
I think NOT
LMAO but yeah, why not 😂
Florida Man
So blame Nik for this?
All it took was for a Canadian to move to Florida
Everyone knows bluegrass was the original thrash metal.
It’s called bloodgrass or thrashgrass check it out
@@tannerpowell6525 now im intrigued. “Thrashgrass”!???
@@tannerpowell6525 If I had a band in the Thrashgrass genre I'd have to make a song called Touch Grass, just for the memes.
"and Wrath of the Lich King just came out"
Well that took me back.
Yeah that got me I was like "wait.... Nik is a former WoW player??" Because I'm STILL playing WoW, even after 20 years. Mainly just Classic now, but I did play Wrath classic... Makes me wonder if Nik played any of it!
@@ReverenceWarlock lol same! still playing, since 2007. pretty cool Nik is about the culture haha
@@JKernx I'm still making PvP montages for sure lol, all these years and it's nice to meet other ogs who still play ❤️
wow is life
He was also on 'All Gas' in Bilmuri's new album!
Yup😊❤
American Motor Sports for Album of the year
Still cranking my hog to that one 🐗
Great album
@@ConfermentRMnot a single bad song on that album
You can take underoath out of Ocala but you can't take Ocala out of Underoath.
3:58 - WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAT!!!??? Damn -
Happy to see you here. Probably not going to review this one since you just listened to it.
The Geebz
Underrated country core is the 2015 song Sevendust - Chop combining acoustic country/southern rock combined with drop G madness. Glad this is becoming more popular
Finally, I'm not the only Sevendust fan on UA-cam!! Chop is a killer track for sure. Hell, the whole Kill The Flaw album is awesome
Brother, Gideon was on a country song two months ago too! "Money Where Your Mouth Is" is a fire song by Lakeview.
I was thinking the exact same thing haha
Dude ive grown up never really caring about country, and now so many of my favorite bands are blending it SO WELL. IM HERE FOR IT.
UA-cam Music has been coming in clutch for recommending alternative listening music that has been needing but not knowing it.
I’ve really started to get into outlaw country, thanks to Cory Marks. He opened for Travis Tritt back on Aug 4th at the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally @ the Buffalo Chip
Cory’s also just did a track with Sully Erna of Godsmack and another featuring Ivan Moody of FFDP, both of which features THE Mick Mars on guitars and Travis Tritt. He’s also done a track featuring Lzzy Hale of Halestorm, and another with DL of Bad Wolves
Lakeview was recommended to me by UA-cam Music. Another artist is Tim Montana
Man, sometimes UA-cam music is so good, other times its so fucking trash. Thursday is probably my most listened to band, and it never told me that they had a new song. Like how the fuck does that happen!?
Colter Wall and Tyler Childers is the only country I like so far but I'm going through my third Underoath phase currently so those guys are on the back burner for now.
Job for a cowboy
When I hear the term country metal. I think Rebel Meets Rebel. And that's it.
amen
Getcha pull! Black tooth grin!
Does nobody remember Rebel meets Rebel when Dimebag and Vinnie Paul did an album with David Allen Coe!
Dude yes! That Rebel Meets Rebel album positively FUCKS! It’s so rowdy 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thankyou! Totally thought of that. But this is definitely sounding different. But i still likes
This may be a hot take... but I'll take more of this song over Rebel Meets Rebel
the song in the video actually sucks
I think this song sucks as well. Give me Rebel or even the Devildriver country covers album. Both are better than this.
Man I just love Underoath. I'm not into country but the Spencer and Aaron parts make me feel good
There's a brazilian band known as Matanza that is known for fusing heavy metal, hardcore punk, and country rock
Maylene walked so these fools could stumble…..Nobody does this better and probably never will.
1000%
I mean, Hardy with Jeremy McKenny was pretty badass because it went hard as fuck
The problem with country is the problem that presents itself here: songwriting. "Every country song sounds the same." That's been the meme (and largely the truth) for decades now. And this does not beat the allegations.
Because it's just pop country but with what passes for a metal twist. It's formulaic bullshit. But notice all the comments lapping it up. It sells.
@@tastyenchilada modern country is southern pop music. It far closer resembles pop than country does, that's why it works. So you can just write a poppy metalcore song and sing with some twang = country metal.
"Real country" so to speak is so different in its flow and mood it wouldn't fit with metalcore very well. You could maybe adapt some slow sad country songs to fit with shoegaze or sad boy stuff like Balance and Composure.
@@tastyenchilada Correct unfortunately
@@tastyenchilada hell yeah dawg.. if i hear this at the bar or the radio, more power to it
You just gotta branch out from the mainstream country, it’s the same thing with every genre
Mitchell also screamed for a second on Bilmuri's All Gas, can't wait to see what else he does
Check out Aurorawave’s song “Kindness” with Atilla! It’s Reggae and Metal and it’s pretty good ngl!
Can you imagine if country singers dipped into the pop-punk movement back in late 90's/early 2000s? Would have been wild.
If you dig this you should check out Lakeview and Gideon “money where your mouth is”. Good stuff!
My best friend died in february and he loved "home team"... what a fucking banger that is!
One of my favorite songs of the year
Today was the first time I heard country core listening to Bilmuri, and then I had this realization that Mitchell Tenpenny keeps showing up to collab with all these bands i've been listening to for years. First State Champs(not metal, but definitely not country), then Bilmuri, and now I'm seeing this.
He was on a song in Bilmuri's new album, AND on a song on State Champs last album too, he's great!
Lakeview does this sound best out of anyone imo
Beat me to it.
Yep. That tune with Gideon is way too catchy. And dude from wage war writes lots of their parts
I love the Lakeview stuff! but I’m personally not a huge country fan but all the country core stuff coming out. I dig all of it lol!
Facts. Country is something Ive been waiting for the core scene to get into.
Came here to say the same. 100% the best at it.
A nice blend of genres, which I never thought would be produced seriously.
Definitely showing this to my wife haha
Check out the band Deadlands, folks. They write metal with a country flair.
Dead lands are fucking brilliant. I cant see the country vibe but amazing all the same!
@@gregmarsh3396 , their whole shtick is Western.
@SamBrockmann not the vibe i got but... a very anti country guy gpt me into them!
@gregmarsh3396 , watch the lyrics video for "House of Cards". There's so many references to old Western films it's insane.
@@SamBrockmann After a couple of songs, including House of Cards with lyrics, I'm just as confused as the other guy. What are the specific Western references, besides maybe "dead man's hand"? Seems more like just a bunch of common expressions about poker/card games to me.
The ongoing concept album saloon. The song “cover girl” is a great example some good southern metal or what ppl are calling it now country core. Old MMF even the song Sharkbait by Capstan has that southern/country feel. I like that this genre is getting more attention cuz for years I’ve been going down a rabbit hole with this genre and I don’t wanna stop lol
i LOVE country.. and i LOVE metal...
this is a perfect blend of my highschool days metalcore and country. i love it
I can’t help but think the “47% is not subscribed” hasn’t been updated in a while 😂
This song is something I always wanted. After "Cottonmouth" with Ice Nine Kills, I wanted this evolution.
It’s been around since the 80’s. A band called Dead Horse started it. What rock have you been under. They called it Horsecore.
Mitchell Tenpenny used to be in a metalcore band back in the day WAAAYY before he broke out into country music. You can actually see/hear his screams in this song along with Underoath. His low screams are brutal
Proof?
@@Carolina_Cut proof of what? Him in a metalcore band or him screaming in this song?
Has everyone collectively forgotten about maylene and the sons of disaster?
Even got Aaron Gellespie on the track. I love it
Just proof that it doesn’t matter the genre or band or anything, a banger is a banger
Someone in the twitch comments said “morgan wallen-core” and i cant stop laughing
Okay fine it turns out apparently I like another subgenre of country now. (if it ever gets combined with "female character getting revenge on person that did them wrong (bonus points if the revenge is murder)" subgenre, I'll be happy forever)
Being from mississippi like hardy we grew up on all genres of music
we've had country-core for a long time, bands like maylene and the sons of disaster, and mourning tide from australia, etc.
Flip yea. More of this please!
Also. Johnny franck warned you that some of the younger country guys are old school hardcore guys. Glad it was real.
John Moreland from Oklahoma was in A hardcore band called Thirty Called Arson. There's definitely a lot of overlap in the scenes and I'm here for it!
@angdaedurelen1206 thanks. Idk who that is but I'll check both them out.
@@AaronMorgan666 I'm not sure if he gets radio play but with a million monthly listeners on Spotify, he's still making some waves in the country scene. There is a member of Thirty Called Arson in a current hardcore band called Tell Lies which also features a member from Enlow.
@angdaedurelen1206 is that 3 metal bands? Or is thirty called arson a country group?
Enlow and, telling lies, are metal?
@@AaronMorgan666 TCA, TL, and Enlow and all hardcore bands
A what in the world a collab now!?! At this point lad like Hardy definitely falls under the Country Metal category too, if he isn't the inventor of it to some degree 👀
Gotta Say I love Country and Core, So happy this is a Thing!
Let's just call this sound YALLTERNATIVE and make it official
Maylene is still the king of this genre
Preach!! Thank fuck they're back!!
Well that song made me go goosebumbs and that's fricking rare thing even with older stuff.... That's saying something
Mitchell identified first as a metal guy. Until his mom heard a country song he wrote and told him she loved it. So the story goes
Rob Zombie is THE pioneer of Country Metal. He's the OG Hellbilly.
This isn't country....This isn't metal...This is just straight Rock with a bit of screaming in it
Mitchell Tenpennys guitars are tuned to C.
Oh yeah I also just remembered this about Mitchell Tenpenny AKA where the last name came from Tenpenny Joke, was an Australian rock band... So go figure him getting into a little bit more of his I guess you would say roots in a more aggressive style It only makes sense.
SOMEONE CALL BIULMURI AND SHOW THAT MAN WHAT HE STARTED. Crabcore king and now Country Metal Pioneer. This song is so sick.
A god damn modern day music legend
Maylene and the sons of disaster started country metal
@@concretefinisher57eh I wouldn’t particularly say country metal but it’s been called southern metal since the beginning of time. Yes maylene was one of the first to blend it with metalcore but there are loads of bands that we’re doing it around that time.
@@concretefinisher57 mmmm yeah no... look up sludge, my son
I think I remember Mitchell tenpenny used to be in a metal band before he decided to do country
I've been saying for years. This is what Nickel Back was doing. It was country disguised as metal-ish.
This actually slaps. Been getting into modern country the past few months so can appreciate this crossover and not the mainstream artists like beyonce jumping on the bandwagon
Modern country is just pop music with banjos lol
@@nocentz4656it can be, but real modern country is stuff like Zach Top and Charley Crockett and that’s not pop music. Check it out, especially Charley is all about story telling and shit. It’s fantastic
@@ElMapache33 there are definitely good artists in thr mix for thr majority ruins it for them to the point where I won't even look. Like jelly roll for example.
@@nocentz4656 for sure. In basically every genre the surface level stuff isn’t the greatest so most people don’t get a feel for the good stuff because you need to work a little to find it
When Underoath picks up a Tele...
Don’t give Tim ideas. He’s right behind me smiling right now
Country music is the only genre that is still selling albums, so if you can get in on that action it could be a real boon for pocketbooks of some of these bands.
anime opening vibes
Saw the thumbnail and thought “ahh finally he’s doing Maylene”
WRATH OF THE LICH KING JUST CAME OUT LMAO
this one is more of a country artist featuring on a metal artist than a country metal song, I dig it
It’s not country core but a metal cover of a country song & it’s killer, it’s Our Last Night’s cover of Something In the Orange.
It's like pop country and Atreyu had a baby.
Now that you've checked out country metal, how about reggae metal - Aurorawave - Boiling Point (w/ The Ghost Inside) or Aurorawave - KINDNESS (w/ Attila)
Treaty Oak Revival. Real country with a guitarist and drummer who sound like they’re in a post hardcore band from 2002.
If country was like this I'd listen to it
Memphis May Fire is the original country core.
this hits me in the feels the way the first time i heard Thrice and Saoisn. Growing up in rural PA being VERY country by nature but hating the music and listening to pop punk and metalcore and emo. This would've went hard killing brews in the hommies civic outside of the gas station after watching dirt track racing. its a very hard feeling to describe but if you know, you just know
If you like the Country/Metal hybrid, you NEED to check out Lakeview and Devil’s Cut. Those dudes are awesome 🤘🏽
Asking Alexandria? Nay, this is Demanding Alexa!
Uh oh, here comes Ronnie to say that they’re copying him.
Ronnie is right
@@augustbaptiste9001 Wrong. He's not the first one to do country metal. Listen to bands like Every Time I Die and Texas Hippie Coalition that mixed country with metal WAY before Ronnie did.
@@augustbaptiste9001 bruh.... Danny Worsnop is the OG countrycore
But they are. 😂
@@maxkliegl2001, did you just call THC "metal"? 😂😂
I think the reason post hardcore lends itself so well to this typa stuff is because of the melodic element already rooted in ph
Mitchell started off in metal bands. He’s posted a video or two to his TikTok of him doing some gutturals which were pretty sick
Mitchell Tenpenny used to play in a metal band in the Nashville scene before he switched to playing country.
These artists all hangout in Nashville and come up with these crazy ideas
As a Metalhead that grew up primarily in the sticks of AL and TN, you're gonna have a hard time convincing me this genre wasn't created specifically for my friends and I... Time to start a band for the first time in over a decade! 🤣
Mitch tenpenny actually used to be a rock singer before going country!
I've been saying for years that Grungetry needs to be a genre
Nick, we’re gonna need a “how to country core in 30 seconds”!!
I heard in an interview that Mitchell actually started in music by doing harsh vocals in a band, then switched to country. Doesn't shock me he's been involved with some heavier stuff, I hope he does more
He actually threw down some sick screams on All Gas by Bilmuri too
mitchell tenpenny grew up obn emo scene and pop punk and played in stuff in his teen years i heard. also hardy is anothercountry artist with metal hard rock influences.
Damn that song is a Banger
So um, im surprised nobody has mentioned it yet, but like Hank3 is OG meta-punk/country-western fusion. You'll have to dig a lil deeper for it cos his label wouldn't let him release the heavy stuff.(Assjack is a good starting place)
Closest i seen in the comments was mention of Rebel Meets Rebel, Hank appeared on Get Outta My Life.
Can't tak about country metal without talking about Maylene, He is Legend, Horizontal Orange, some ETID etc
Let's call It Karcus core
If you want something a little more old-school country, and a little more old-school metal, check out "Cody Parks and the Dirty South". I have not been a country fan my whole life...until this year, and they have been the band that made me get over the fear of admitting that I'm OK with country now. Just do whatever makes you happy, man.
Country Metal is on the rise! Anyone who likes this underrated genre would love Djentle Cowboys! They’re a must listen.
I was literally thinking about listening country metal last night
I am not really surprised to see this sort of stuff really starting to pop up. Modern country when you look at the lyrics is pretty damn emo with the amount of times a song will be about a girl or break up it's just instead of "So cut my wrists and black my eyes" it's "Chug some beers and drive my truck." Add in that a lot of the musicians playing these days are metal heads who are paying the bills being session or touring musicians for a main country act it's not hard to see them start messing around in a jam session and something like this coming from it.
I think we all need to be cool with the intermingling of music...so many great songs have come out lately from collabs of different genres.
Bilmuri has the album of the year for me
Mitchell tenpenny is the shit! He also has his own weed through Rise dispensaries.
Check out Royale Lynn and her songs Death Wish (ft Danny Worsnop from Asking Alexandria), Redneck Rockstar, and Six Feet Deep. Not sure of any other female artist mixing the genres like this.
Danny Worsnop was also just on “Death Wish” by Royale Lynn.
Not the Wrath of the Lich King reference Nik😂
I love Y’allternative Countrycore
You should do a video on the subject and invite Tank you’ll be surprise the amount of metal musicians or simply metal fans are working in the country industry.
As soon as you said Devourment, I subbed.
The bassist left Fit For A King to join Koe Wetzel, country is where the money is at!! Although I dont listen to the genre, I dont blame him..
Combining both genres together is crazy but works