THE WORST & BEST METAL VIDEOS
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2024
- We look at the best and worst metal videos from Slipknot, A Day To Remember, Attila, Pantera, Avenged Sevenfold, Danzig and more to decide what makes a metal music video great, not so great, or just horrible.
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14:43 seriously dude? That was sarcasm, right?
So you expected Danzig to make Samhain again? Bro your so cringe with some of your opinions. Coming off a bit holier than now aren't you.
"Why is this guy wearing hand wraps in a music video *scoffs down nose*" i dunno maybe its called a music video and he wanted to look cool?
@@davemonster2 if he wanted to look cool then why is he wearing arm wraps? Yer not making sense 😂
@@xp8969 lol he isn’t fucking relax my dude
Idk if cherry pie is sexist. Sex sells. Women choose to do it with only fans all the time. Her deciding to be in that video for mens viewing pleasure isn’t sexism. It’s good business.
I think the smartest thing you did with this video is the alternating between old skool and modern stuff consistently to subvert people's expectations and keep them engaged
The duality video was actually filmed at a fans house in Iowa that was “due for renovation” and slipknot gave them 50k for the damages
Where did they find all those pasty kids though? I think the "Duality" video illustrates perfectly why I never got into Slipknot and bands like that. It seemed like an outlet for both school bullies and disaffected nerds at the same time.
yeah somewhere in des moines
I literally went to high school with people in that video...Like literally... I saw them in the video... not my scene at all, most of those kids were dicks too. most, not all! Really they were just a bunch of ostracized dickhead bullies that found a tribe of other dickhead bullies in the iowa corn fields. with that being said, the song freaking slaps hard.
@HEY!YO!IT'S!RAZORCLA(E)W as a metal head born and raised in Slipknot's back yard this is 100% true and correct.
There was an open casting call for this video in March 2004 in Iowa. I would have gone (I lived close enough), but I was cast in the college musical “Once Upon a Mattress” and had 2 shows that day. No regrets, the musical was fun to do and a lot of them look really cold, so it’s all good.
This thumbnail has some “grumpy boomer metal guy” vibes I like it. Always on point with the thumbnails
Looks like Rauta.
Theres no such thing as a boomer metal guy. Metal started with gen x
@@Rstecki76 Metal started with black sabbtah, which is definitely a boomer band.
@@WednesdayAddams5150 that was hard rock ozzy dont even consider it metal. At least for me anyway the 80's is when metal started.
@@Rstecki76 Even if you don't consider sabbath to be a metal band (which they totally are, there basically the blueprint for every stoner metal band) preist started in the 70s and there definitely a metal band.
When you described How you thought Danzig was going to be heavier based on the imagery, that is EXACTLY how I felt about Ghost.
Right? My thoughts exactly
@@DavidDavisDH I wanted to love them, but I always saw them as the Kiss of our time.
Same! Can’t get into them, tried and tried. Respect them and what they’ve done, but they’re just not for me
I feel a key difference for them for me tho is Danzig takes himself 100% seriously in every way, while Ghost is very tongue in cheek and using their imagery for intentional theatrics. Not saying you like em, just why I personally can enjoy one and not stand the other.
@@Dashaway22 totally agree with you. Danzig’s gimmick is that he truly believes he isn’t and he’s the only one not in on the joke. Love the Misfits though
If it looks good I might buy a "black metalling in the woods" shirt
Anyone else notice how Finn NEVER talks about Rammstein?
We all know his opinion on anything European 😂
And they have some of the best music videos. They put these music videos to shame. I guess Finns afraid of a firestorm to hit him if he gives his opinion.
He did a segment on them in a recent video. It wasnt flattering haha
Rammstein isn't even good...
@@noir4356 Well their good to me better then almost anything Finn listens too like his crush from falling in Revers.
It's still so impressive that A7X became big by convincing people that they already were. They literally willed it into reality!
Kind of like KISS in the 70s
Kid Rock before blowing up:
“I’m going platinum!!”
Manson did the same
Warrant wrote "Cherry Pie" in just a few hours because the label wanted them to write "a hit" for the album. Whether or not they "had" to do it is an open question, but it is possible their album could've gotten shelved if the label didn't like it.
I actually like the song, as well as a bunch of other Warrant songs, but I do agree that video is downright awful. It's too bad Warrant didn't have success after this album, because Jani Lane was a phenomenal songwriter and had a great voice right up until the end. RIP Jani Lane who would've been 58 years old today.
Uncle Tom's Cabin should've been the hit.
I'm not a hair metal fan but I find that era fascinating, so I've checked out a lot of interviews and all that. One thing I always noticed was the amount of praise everybody gave Jani Lane for his skill as a musician, singer, and songwriter. It seemed like he actually cared deeply about artistry and his heart just couldn't take becoming a joke like this.
I had to skip over that part, not funny at all knowing the context
Heaven is way better than this garbage
Imagine if Warrant made a song called Roast Beef Sandwich.
As someone who was a disaffected doughy white kid from the Midwest in 2004, I absolutely love the Duality video. It does perfectly capture the Slipknot vibe.
Glad another disaffected doughy white kid from the midwest is representing in finn's video comments! but every slipknot fanboy i knew was a dick to me.... soooooo. And i was in the belly of the beast, Ankeny Iowa was my stomping grounds in the early 2000s
Actually laughed out loud at "Mudvayne is breaking into Corey Taylor's house! It's the record label's fault!"
Mother didn't become popular until 93 when it was re-released with a music video. Dirty Black Summer was one of his first hit singles even though Mother was originally released before it
I think Her Black Wings might have been the first hit. At least it was the first video I saw and bought the album. I didn't even know who Glen Danzig was. I was probably about 14.
The most Metal music video ever actually predates Metal music itself by about 3 decades.
It’s called Night On Bald Mountain and it can be found on Disney Plus. 🤘🏻
I always find it so funny that the suicidal guys were actual dangerous gang members and stuff but their videos give me bebop and rocksteady vibes lmao
to me knowledge, the band members were not. it was the fans/ their friends.
@@MrSimondaniel3 oh nice thanks for the info dude ! , after reading the nofx book I was kind of confused if Mike Muir was part of the gang or not …
Suicidal tendencies definitely were affiliated. Maybe not actually doing it but from the way they acted to how they dressed, they were real
Danzig came into a record store in Phoenix, AZ years ago and flipped shit yelling at the store clerk because they had bootleg Misfits 7"s in the used vinyl section. They were Czech Republic made knockoffs that had probably been sitting there gathering dust since before that clerk even worked there. That's some record store clerk lore that has been going around for years. Coincidentally this happened around the time when Danzig got punched out, in that infamous clip that everyone has seen. The moral of the story: yelling at retail workers is bad karma.
Nothing says "punk rock" more than yelling at underpaid minimum wage workers.
Didn’t he get KO’d in Arizona as well? He must hate this state makes sense since he loves to kick sand
Yup, he got knocked out in Tuba City, AZ
@@dgk6661 Wasn't it the singer of the opening band who punched him out too, or it that just the punk rumor mill at work?
@@GonzoCiosain Yeah dude, one of the local band's singers
Danzig did shoot some movies. And they have mad The Room vibes.
I can easily imagine a band coming out with a video like Cherry Pie. It's called Gloryhole by Steel Panther.
yea it's silly, you can totally still make videos like that. it's just a cliche to say "that wouldn't go over now".
The difference is that Steel Panther is tongue-in-cheek satire of hair metal, while Warrant got saddled with having to make a video for a lame hit ordered by the label.
i saw Danzig live in the early 90's at Harpo's in Detroit, he kicked a guy in the face that was trying to climb up onto the stage, it was hilarious... Twist of Cain is pretty good
Good ol' Harpos... the Detroitest venue in Detroit.
Twist of Cain became a huge hit when Metallica covered the song, and changed the title to Enter Sandman
while shaking your head in disappointment
“this kid here, he used up all his chakra.”
I don't know that Jani Lane so much solely blamed the label as much as he just never forgave himself for not pushing back and putting out something he felt was inauthentic. It honestly seemed to consume the guy. The whole story just makes me sad. rip Jani.
I remember when 15 year old me sat at home and watched MTV. Out of nowhere Slipknot came up with the video to Left Behind. I never heard and saw anything like that and I was completely blown away. Wtf was that? For me it's still the best music video ever. By far.
17:07 The Duality music video is like Corey Taylor just went, "Does anyone remember Surge? I fuckin' loved Surge, man. Yes, the soda... can... can we just make the music video, thaaaaaat?"
Your Duality analysis was simply Legendary.
That was one of the greatest things you have EVER done.
I still say "walk on home boy" all the time. Classic line
I think Tool had really great videos. Adam Jones having ties to the film industry really came through. I remember an interview with Kurt Cobain where he talked about being surprised they hadn’t had a lawsuit over them due to a resemblance to another piece of material by the Brothers Quay. Also check out the brothers quay if you aren’t familiar and like that weird surrealism stuff.
The album that became Cherry Pie was already done and turned in to the label, Warrant's A&R guy wanted a single and Jani Lane farted it out. Then it became a massive hit and basically ruined his life so.
I think a good example of the ‘real fans’ genre is Last resort by Papa Roach. Really focusing on who they are in a way that perfectly for the genre and moment
Glad to see the chat defending the Slipknot fans in the vid. They don’t need to be bullied anymore man
Holy shit that Attila video came out nearly 10 years ago?? I cringed then just like now 😂
The first 2 Danzig albums are actually insanely good.
Devil's Plaything is my jam
Agreed
I started to be into metal right back in 2014 and I saw the About That Life as a relative relevant thing. Now seing in YT that video was 8 years ago did feel very strange, and then I felt just old lmao
Institutionalized was my first hardcore song that I heard in 1983 at the age of 17- hooked me on Descendents, Black Flag and Minor Threat. Good Memories: props to all OG Hardcore fans!
One of my all time favorites is the music video for 5 minutes alone by Pantera. Such a kick ass song and I love the guitar shots and just the whole band jamming out.
Back in my mom van/army days I used to give guys rides from the barracks. One day I gave a 215+ Ib juiced to the fucking gills unit of a man that beat the shit out of a green beret to win a boxing contest a ride. Never heard him say a single word until 2nd sucks came on, after which he uttered a barely recognizable "Hell yeah" and shook my car into the oncoming lane. Fantastic times, truly.
King
How in the bloody hell did Finn NOT know Cherry Pie was a euphemism? I've known that since it came out in 1990, and I was EIGHT YEARS OLD!!!
He’s joking brah
Man I can't believe you didn't comment on the entire wave of "Playing in a field outdoors" metalcore videos that dominated the 2000's. That was like the peak of shitty metal music videos.
Great vid, thanks for posting!
Sorry but i disagree with you at the point that Danzig would be bad. "Mother" and "Last Ride" are very good songs and he's the Elvis of Hell in my Opinion and that is no bad thing at all.
Yeah, this hurt...I've got a Danzig tattoo, a Misfits tattoo, saw Danzig a half a dozen times...Finn is just wrong. And they were incredibly heavy live...oh well.
Finn: "How can you draw this badly"
Me looking at that drawing thinking that's better than anything I've ever drawn: "Hold my beer"
As the resident Avenged Sevenfold homer, I'd like to reiterate how awesome that video and that song are. And of course, props to you and Linh for having great taste!
Avenged Sevenfold is one of my favorite bands
Sorry Finn have to hard disagree....Cake is better than pie. If your having dry cake you made the cake wrong. Moist, spongey, multiple layers of frosting. You can't go wrong with that
Speaking of singers in weird acting roles, Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. was actually almost cast in Terminator before they got Arnold to do it instead. Imagine if he actually did the role lol
I think Slipknot did really fucking good job during the Vol. 3 era, I love all the videos. As you said, Duality captured the band's relationship with their fans. Before I Forget was like watching a rehearsal, taking away the masks and close ups of them playing were cool (I can vividly remember the shot of Joey stomping on the pedals). And then it was the Vermilion, I think it is a great piece of cinematography. The women with super animated and jerky movements with world around her going super fast just sets this creepy, tragic and yet somehow sensual mood.
Other than that I don't really care about the music videos really. Usually I really like the live videos, especially for bands that are known for their energy live such as Happiness Is A Smile by TDEP or ETID's The Coin Has A Say. I think it is way more important for a band when releasing an album to keep the same mood or style - for example I liked Vein.fm's videos from Errorzone having that mutilated guy going through some bizzare 'evolution'.
Totally, Before I Forget it was my intro into the Knot. I really dont care about music videos but man they nailed it in that era. Also Red Fang videos are hilarious and fantastic.
"Black metaling in the woods" would look great in the hobbies and interests section of someone's c.v.😁
2nd Sucks is my favorite song of all time, just so amazing. And I love the performance bits of the video, the people moshing across the shots of the band gets me stoked every time!
I'm guessing he thought "Hey I'll play it like a traditional bass and it'll look cool" and failed miserably.
I love the reference to super position. I’m an engineer by trade but really loved all my chemistry and physics classes.
Sadly, yes, Glenn was a popular fancast for years to play Wolverine. He even made it into Wizard for being a “perfect fit” for the character.
possessed to skate was definitely one of the formative heavy songs for me, I remember it was on my mp3 player while I was skating in middle school.
Finn McKenty: Look at this horrible Danzig video and song. He pays a woman to serve him coffee. What an ofense.
Proceeds to puts Attila´s video with a close up of a woman´s crotch and the whitest guy ever rapping. It´s a masterpiece
yea that atilla thing blew the whole video's cred
Not gonna lie im down with eskimo callboy haha! Sometimes the metal scene can take shit so seriously and its really refreshing to see these guys just being goofs having fun with it but still putting out some decent riffs and they can actually write a decent pop hook to hahahaha
Hearing "i like immortal" made me smile. And yea i feel like Immortal are the spinal tap of black metal
"Call of the Wintermoon" is art, I've been in love with that video for 10+ years. And yeah, it's as damn bad as it is iconic!
Great idea for a video segment. Please keep it going.
Dammit Finn, you said the word "Park" twice and my dog heard it and now is looking at me expecting a park trip at 6 pm when it's dark n the 30s out lol...hilarious part of this experience I was not expecting, but awesome video!
Great color commentary Finn!
i love the fact things like hypa hypa are coming back, videos that are just fun.... fun is something that has been missed in metal.... people like alex terrible and eskimo call boy are what is going to bring metal back to pop culture if anything. just show that it's fun, not depression and anger
One of my favorites is Affiance - call to the warrior. I still don't know why I love it so much
One of the things that I enjoy while watching Finn is that we can agree sometimes, for example Duality by Slipknot is one of my less favorite songs too and not to mention, his take on the Avenged Sevenfold fanart was hilarious.
The video for DragonForce’s “Heart Demolition” is insanely fun, and it’s for one of their catchier songs. You might like it.
UA-cam must actually like you. Cause I see all your videos from this channel. And I didn’t even realize it was a second channel for a while. And since UA-cam puts almost all your videos from this channel on my feed. I didn’t even realize I wasn’t subbed ! And I’m a huge punk rock MBA fan so that’s why they show me this content. But there are other content creators with second Channels that I never knew about cause they were never in my feed.
Lol I’m glad UA-cam likes you cause I love this content! BTW. I subbed right as soon as I realized love your content man. Especially when talking about pop punk and hardcore and stuff, sometimes I feel like my words are coming out of your mouth. Only worded better haha.
Keep it up.
Thank you!
the best video of all time is mastodon's " the motherload"
Mmmm tasty
Love the content dude
Thank you!
As much as I know what you're saying about the Walk riff these days my god I still love that tune as much as I did as a kid :D
Worth mentioning that Timothy Leary is at the beginning of the Suicidal Tendencies video.
Suicidal Tendencies used the same prop food items and containers from Repo Man in their video for Institutionalized. They just say "FOOD" or "CHIPS" with a white background on the containers and bags
Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator is one of my favourites, it’s just so ridiculously over the top and well animated which really complements such an excessively brutal song
Nothing compared to the decapitation video tho lmfao
All their videos are great, Three Bastards blows that Attila video the fuck away, it's hilarious and charming instead of cringey and embarrassing. And then Motherless Miscarriage is...well, let's just say daring. Can't think of any other metal bands who would be willing to do a video like that.
Best metal video moment for me has to be in "Killed By Death" by Motorhead when Lemmy drives a motorcycle through a wall.
this was the most fun I've had while drunk, thankyou for this video
21:46 that bat looks waayyyyy too happy. Like the artwork they put on the side of a McDonald's Halloween Happy Meal box.
I was at the Pantera show when the shot walk TLA in Philly
2013 was one of the highlights of my life and I'm not happy that it's almost 10 years ago.
Fuckin same bro 🤦🏻♂️
Might be worth checking out (aka I'd love hearing your reactions on):
Malevolence by A Plea for Purging
Redneck by Lamb of God
Tears don't fall by Bullet for my Valentine
AFI had to get tough guys for their video, Slipknot invited their own psycho fans.
Pantera guitars tuned to hard r is probably one of the funniest things I've heard.
Very informative and interesting video.
Damn I like Danzig, lol. I totally get the cringe factor and "boring blues jam band" vibe at times. How The Gods Kill, Twist of Cain, Dirty Black Summer, Long Way Back From Hell, Devil's Plaything, Her Black Wings, Left Hand Black....... all classics. I guess a majority of the albums are a pass though.
And Finn, didn't Danzig "do what he set out to do?" LOL I'm making the case :D
IMO first 3 Danzig albums all pretty killer, save for a couple songs here and there.
Some music videos are good and some are bad and some are both.
One thing about Eskimo Callboy and We butter is that they have some really high quality music videos. Like I really love the style of "Meine Brille" from We butter.
Glen Danzig is exactly what would have happened, had the Doors gone metal - He is the metal version of Jim Morrison
19:13 see, what this is, that girl from earlier was getting ready to really let one rip, and he breathed in at the wrong time. His eyes have only just now stopped watering.
Can you maybe do a video on bands from the early thousands that sound like Heavy Heavy Low Low? Cause as a teen, there was this small venue in the suburbs and I swear heavy heavy low low was on the bill all the time when Skronky hardcore would play there…which was a lot. Mostly deathcore back then but even bands like the blood brothers played with HHLL. You talked about that new scene that sounds like those bands (see you space cowboy) but I couldn’t really find a video that is just strictly about that 03-09 dirty Scene core bands. There was. Band called Me and him call it us back then. And they were one of the heaviest screamo bands ever with just two people. (HHLL also played with them at the venue lol )
Also, maybe a video about Steve Albini and his impact on underground music production, all the way to how Steve Albini directly effected that 2010s “death wish core” as I call it, but all the Kurt ballou recordings that he used Steve’s kind of philosophy of just trying to capture the actual sound in the room, but applied it to all the deathwish stuff with Jacob.
Sorry for the long essays.
You're my absolute fav UA-camr
If I see your thumbnails I instantly klick and I know I will get entertained
The video for Slipknots Duality was shot in Des Moines, Iowa, at a fan's house that was due for renovation.
i remember how wild we'd get when they'd play it at Skateland. Man, being 13 was crazy!
A little tidbit about the Warrent video, another reason he really hated this song was because this song wasn’t a song that they had written for the album. They had already finished the album and they were really proud of the album as it was and the record company came back and basically said they wanted them to make a catchy cheesy song that they could make a video of . So they really never wanted to even make this song they were kind of threatened by the record label and were told if they didn’t make a song like this that the album wasn’t going to be released so it took them about three days to write this song and they recorded it and the record company loved it and it became the lead single and that was the only song they were known for after that.
Listening to Danzig is like getting fun sized Starburst on Halloween and they're all yellow. Absolute disappointment.
Out for a walk while enjoying some Finn
LOL That Final Fantasy reference to Immortal had me on the floor.
“Pie is better than cake”. Never agreed with you more. IMO the critical factor is that even a bad pie is good. Bad cake, no. It falls apart and gets all crumby and flavorless.
Suicidal Tendencies is hella underrated and Join the Army is an awesome album. And I have to agree on Danzig. There are a couple of good songs but the rest of it is not as heavy as it should be. He has a lot of fans tho so he's obviously done something right.
there is a College Humor video called "The Irrationally Long Number Pi Song". I didn't know that it was actually based on a real song (Cherry Pie)! I only realised now because of this video mentioning it! Thanks for that! I really recommend watching that parody video, it's quite entertaining :)
I don't always agree with you, but at least you know to stay objective as much as possible. And your analyzes are great.
Got the Possessed To Skate test press. Definitely a prized possession.
The final boss in the 2nd Sucks video is definitely a not-too-subtle jab at Four Year Strong.
From 1990-1994, Pantera did great albums with some awesome riffs. 1990 was the last good year for Hair Metal like Warrant. Especially when you have video vixens like Bobbi Brown in the Cherry Pie video. Here's an amusing thought: I've got a bit of nostalgia for 80s Hair Metal & absolutely love Slipknot as well. I can honestly say that I'm a fan of Avenged Sevenfold. Got 3 of their albums.
Slipknots duality video/song was my gateway into metal. I had heard metal and screaming vocals but i didn't like it. But duality was more pop, had a good chorus, and the screaming wasn't as aggressive as some that I'd heard. So i checked out more of the music, and slowly discovered more bands, and got heavier and heavier over time. Love that song for that reason
@ 4:24 THIS IS TRUE!!!
since it was a huge studio production... he passed because the band was too active at the time. He didnt wanna take the time away.
Its true! I was PISSED When I saw Hugh Jackman like 6'3 when Glenn was BUILT for wolverine! Short and build like a house! Wouldve been great to see!
In the end, I feel Jackman did a GREAT JOB! and he loves the role and recognition from it.
I can't tell if he's serious about not realizing what the cherry pie song was about.... I'm concerned.
Also, There's plenty of current "music" that would be way more offensive than the cherry pie song as well.
Bro ADTR wrote 2nd sucks about Four Year Strong touring with them and getting super upset for getting moved out of headline spot because of fan demand/label sayso. There’s a lot more nuance to the story that I don’t recall.
I’m pretty sure it had to do with the tour happening during “Homesick”‘s release; hence ADTR being suddenly huge enough to justify the spot move
When I was in college many many years ago, I saw Pantera live. But they opened for Skidrow! 🤦