The BEST METAL SONG of every single year.
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- Опубліковано 9 кві 2024
- I react to Loudwire's list of best metal songs of every year since 1970
Loudwire's article: loudwire.com/best-metal-song-...
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If Alice in Chains isn't metal, then Ghost is DEFINITELY not metal.
Yes! To me AIC is metal and Finn says Tool is hardly metal but it's more metal then Ghost.
AIC is more metal than Tool and I enjoy both. I don’t care cause just hit play and listen to whatever I want.
AIC is definitely metal and imo the best grunge band
Love aic. Not really metal.
AIC certainly qualifies as grunge metal. And 🔧 is certainly metal
Everytime Finn says “I know this is going to upset a lot of people…” I grin from ear to ear lol
There is no point in watching someone who is just going to agree with me all the time. There have been plenty of times where I started out swearing he was wrong but he sold me.
Same here. Any time he pisses off the gatekeepers makes me happy, as well.
"Here's the thing"
When Finn says that, I'm like, "Okay, this is gonna be good!"😅
I love it when he disagrees with me
Metal bands in the 2010’s: exist
Loudwire: I can only see Ghost here
Literally suicide silence 2010 album like started death core
A7X is fire
@@corytimmons1418despised icon had 4 albums by that point broski
@@Dad420right.. suicide silence was huge but im tired of people ignoring despised icon, through the eyes of the dead, red chord, all shall perish, knights of the abyss, etc like they werent all around at the same time or before suicide silence
Finn's voice deteriorating with all the Ghost entries by the end killed me.
70's metal is great! You're crazy
Yea when he said that I nearly stopped watching. Dumbest take
His generation gave us Staind. What do you expect?
No A7X or BMTH on here was certainly a choice.
Yes, and a great choice at that! 🤘😆
@@adamvanderriet9669 lol BMTH are the best metal band around, everyone still chasing a sound they moved past a decade ago
@@Vivi_9 who's this "everyone" you're talking about? because there's many bands putting out new stuff that smokes whatever bmth is doing.
A7X was never good enough, BMTH only had...two albums that were good enough?
A7X is hard rock, not metal. I’d listen to arguments on the 1st album though but that’s it.
My kind of content, nerdy annoying metal guy stuff!
Finn's whole vibe
*Gay stuff
But yes totally agree
Is he nerdy? Yes is most of it a joke meant to feed the outrage algorithm? Also surprisingly, yes. Is your contribution via interaction by interacting with the post appreciated by him? IDFK, I assume probably.
Brave New World by Iron Maiden is one of their best, most consistent albums of their entire catalogue. No filler tracks, Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith rejoined the band the year prior, and the 6 dudes just clicked perfectly and were firing on all cylinders. My personal favorites on that album are:
Ghost Of The Navigator
Blood Brothers
The Fallen Angel
Out Of The Silent Planet
Not an Iron Maiden fan and I agree that album was really good
I totally agree with you! I remember buying the album when it came out and just listened to it non-stop.
Good times :)
It's their last great album imo. Definitely a solid and excellent comeback album but it was definitely downhill from here for Iron Maiden unfortunately. They started getting real repetitive and predictable.
Their only good album in the last 30 years.
@@cope847 X Factor was pretty great, but I know that's a controversial opinion.
The fact there was no Architects, Linkin Park (admittedly they only have 1 metal album) or Lamb of God is insane.
Both hybrid theory and meteora were nu metal
@@austinwalker2000 meteora was not nu metal. It was accessible rap rock at its absolute "heaviest"
Architects should’ve been there instead of Ghost at least once.
@@juliankitts544 so is half of the shit on this list
Also some songs on minutes to midnight (given up)
The crazy thing about Judas Priest is that the "Firepower" album actually IS that good. It's probably their heaviest album ever and has great songwriting. Lighting Strike is a banger, it's insane for a band that late in their career to put out some of their best stuff ever.
Invincible Shield is also a banger.
I get that I’m a boomer millennial, but the drop off in the metal scene is so apparent at 2010. The four Ghost tracks says it all
I'm a boomer millennial too and I remember these years clearly. The 2010s were easily the darkest years for metal since the 70s. Hip-hop was going strong and evolving in exciting ways. EDM was (albeit briefly) on top of the world. Metal was struggling to just to remain relevant. It's weird to say because I remember the 2000s, but heavy music is in a better place right now than it has been for at least 15 years (and it's still terrible lmao).
Metal as a genre took a break between 2011 and 2016 lol
cmn guys Parkway drive had Atlas architects had daybreaker and went huge 2012-2016 , while she sleeps droped this is the six, enter shikari had fresh flood of colours - all amazing albums and the list goes on and on. Deafheaven droped sunbather,Rivers of nihil,Nails,beartooth showed up on scene,etc
I feel like rock in general kinda lost steam in the 2000's, metal went right after
Man, some of my current favorite bands got their start in the 2010s. Allegaeon, Archspire, Ne Obliviscaris, Black Crown Initiate, Rivers of Nihil, Beyond Creation, Fallujah.. Other bands had amazing albums in the 2010s, like Obscura, Cattle Decapitation, The Faceless. Not to mention Paradise Lost returning to their death-doom roots in 2015 and releasing a couple fantastic albums.
2000 should be Only for the Weak by In Flames
I would similarly give 1999 to Embody the Invisible. ❤
@@dmphaxu spelled ordinary story or zombie inc wrong
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 both amazing tracks!
Here's the thing Finn......
We need a tier list!
We need a tier list of all his tier lists.
@@NoThisIsPatrick.eventually we will get a tierlist that is about tier list which is comparing tier lists
We got a Hot Girl music compass, still waiting on the Hot Boy counterpart 🥵
Absolutely mind blowing that Nightmare by A7X wasn't the 2010 song or even the runner up.
It's mind blowing Avenged wasn't on the list at all, but they dedicated over 10% of it to Tool and Ghost? And then the weird inclusion of Judas Priest towards the end, snubbing a lot of good bands
Maybe not Nightmare, but I agree Avenged should have been in this list. Afterlife came out in 2007 I think and that was one of the biggest hits of their career. Or even Bat Country in 2005.
bat country won them an mtv music award at a time when metal wasnt even close to the mainstream and they still picked opeth over them lmao loudwire is a joke
Loudwire has never heard good music
@@djentisnotagenre_picking opeth over them is totally justified, opeth is god
The amount of ghost and tool on this list is brutal to me
Worst two bands ever
Scooby Doo rock and hipster metal
Once I saw them put 2000 era Iron Maiden over 2000 era Linkin Park I lost all hope for the list and I was proven right the longer it went on.
@@xenos_n.scooby doo rock is hilarious!
As a Tool fan, I WISH that hipsters were who liked them. Tool fans on the whole are the literal worst.
I love Tool 😄
Toxicity is unquestionably THE album of 2001. No joke.
iowa also is in there
@@suoiverdnaSounds I thought that was 2002. Either way, stellar record 🙂
@@suoiverdnaSoundsI would say Iowa
God Hates Us All ??
@@legendsidewinder7206 That is probably the best Slayer album I've heard. Hot controversial take, I know. But it wasn't the defining metal album of that year.
Well… I think it’s obvious… you now need to make another video with your picks for each year with one runner up. It has to happen
That’s what I thought THIS video was, the moment I saw Loudwire in the video I was like “Oh no, not this again” smh
No Linkin Park, no BMTH, no Suicide Silence in the list... Just wow.
Ik I thought Linkin park and suicide silence were going to be on the article
Idk if you're joking or not
No architects either. Picking Judas Priest in 2018 over doomsday is inexcusable
@@WinedandDined27 so true! Nearly all modern metalcore bands still try to reinvent Doomsday
no avenged sevenfold or periphery either
I love when finn goes metal snob. Tool rules😮❤
But metal?
Well, he suggests that Linkin Park is metal, so a matter of opinion I guess 😂
That 2018 Judas Priest album is cool as fuck.
The last few Judas Pruest albums fucking rock. They're more metal and heavier than any metalcore bands have been in the last 10 years.
Ghost of Perdition is such a sick song.
Blackwater Park I find even better, both songs are stellar.
Ghost Reveries is peak Opeth
Rammstein songs (from the 4-5 first albums at least, after they lost their inspiration mostly) only sound the same if you're not paying much attention, or you could say that of any band with a definite sound: Maiden, Slayer, Type O, Korn, etc.
I agree! Definitely doesn't all sound the same
Totally agree with what you said here.
We all have a tendency to put bands in boxes, if their sound isn't exactly matching our tastes when we get introduced to them. Only IF you're digging deeper, you automatically pay more attention and are able to pick up the different nuances.
Happened to myself with Rammstein, and I eventually became a fan.... with the other bands you mentioned not so much tbh
You either die young, or you live long enough to see yourself agree with most of a top metal songs list
Great vid !
I say The Scorpions were the bookends of Hair Metal.
It started in 1984 with "Rock You Like a Hurricane" and it ended in 1991 with "Winds of Change" (it came out in Jan 1991, 8 months before Nirvana exploded)
Didn't Motley Crue's "Too Fast for Love" came out in 81?
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 yeah and Jump by Van Halen was released in late 1983. I just like the idea that one bad encircled a genre.
@@HurQlez Fair, and perhaps Motley Crue's debut was a bit too heavy and raw for what we now know as hair metal. IMO the sound started with Pyromania 83
Need to redo this and include your picks for each year
I saw Neurosis in 99 opening for Soulfly-same kind of experience that you described: The floor cleared out almost completely with only a few dudes kind of swaying around as if in some neurotic trance. Up to that point I’d never seen people outwardly booing and mocking an opener on such a high profile tour. “We hate you, go away” was heard echoing throughout the venue.
And then Hatebreed (pre-Perseverance) came on and the place exploded. They saved the day, honestly. It seemed like an all out riot was about to erupt.
I’m not exaggerating.
Dear Finn
Syncopated does not mean what you think it means.
Also death rules, get your ears checked.
Fuck yea “ 43% Burnt” for 1999
Seconded
I'd put Zero Signal by Fear Factory as my pick for 1995. I remember seeing the Mortal Kombat movie in the theater and hearing it play during the Johnny Cage/Scorpion fight. I went out and bought the Demanufacture the next day.
List doesn’t include as I lay dying 2005 album or attack attack which literally created a sub genre.
Especially as I lay dying. They started metalcore for almost everybody.
That's what I was surprised about as well. Especially with as I lay dying. That guitar tone is the sound of an era and style of metalcore. Killswitch had the choruses for me that decade, but as I lay dying had the riffs. You could probably play any track off "an ocean between us" without vocals and people would know the tracks right off the bat
AILD the kings of metalcore 👑
I love Tool, but 1996 was Antichrist Superstar time, Manson really disrupted the mainstream with that one.
Or jester race which thrust swedish death metal onto the map
Definitely
Your 2006 complaint could be corrected with In Flames - take this life
Would definitely be on my short list
2000? a couple of little songs called 'One step closer' and 'In the end'? didnt even get a runner up
Yeah, that's nuts. No 2000's alternative metal and yet 3 Tool albums? Useless list.
Linkin Park are garbage.
That Priest album actually effin rules.
I don't agree Crazy Train being underrated, it's probably Ozzys signature song and is played even on pop stations and everybody knows the song
The new Judas Priest stuff is actually really awesome, if you like Priest even slightly you should give it a listen.
Their music is great, but vocals (extremely raspy or high, idk, i like more balanced stuff) I don’t like it! I like his vocals in breaking the law, victim of changes, deceiver deceiver, electric eye
Judas Priest 50 years into their career was actually the best metal album that was released in 2018. Insane comeback album
There are many haters but DeafHeaven's Dream House should have taken 2013. They weren't the first to do that kind of music but it's hard to argue that it wasn't the most influential that year.
I saw them live about a year ago, and I do not understand the hate, Deafheaven are pretty damn good at what they do
Nookie is actually THE metal song of 1999, also rollin is the song of 2001, sorry slipknot your time doesn't come until duality
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Ghost is the Dio of the 21st century. Looks hard AF, sounds like contemporary pop rock.
I love how it feels like some point onwards the grammy co-hosts took over the article lmao
Would love to see Finn’s version of this same list.
Got sent home by my Spanish teacher in High School for wearing my SOD shirt. Didn't really think that through before wearing it lol.
As a kid I always thought Kiss must be be very heavy. When I first made the connection between their looks and their poppy music I was so surprised.
I thought Slaughter was gonna be heavy af
Mouth For War is my favourite Pantera song too. Lol
I'll never unserstand Finn's dislike of SOAD. To me they're easily the best nü metal band, if you can even call them that. Their political commentary is fantastic, the riffs and drumbs go hard, Serj's dramatic singing fits the wacky tone perfectly, they can go hard, they can go soft and it's all perfectly balanced by their amazing sense of humor. Legit one of the best bands out there, IMO
Also, where is Static X, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Disturbed, Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for My Valentine, Motley Crue, Sevendust, BMTH, Trivium etc.
Avenged sevenfold 2003,Bfmv 2005 and Bmth 2013,this list is a joke
Caught in a Mosh by anthrax could've easily been the pick for 1987
Loudwire was doing okay for a while, but three Tool songs and FOUR Ghost songs really hurt the validity of this list.
Also, the song of the year for 1990 OBVIOUSLY should've been "Ritual" by Blasphemy 😎
Lol Blasphemy
@Leave_The_Hall_69 the world's best terrible band 🔥
@@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic definitely a tragic one, too bad they were retconned into a fashion trend
@Leave_The_Hall_69 hahaha, the legion of bands in gas masks that followed was truly fantastic
@@AgainstTheeWickedlyMusic truly CRANGE FR FR
I heard SOD when I was 10 when it came out my neighbors dubbed it on cassette. My life totally changed.
I love your videos man, and I respect the way that you don't give a fig if you piss people off!
"I don't care about the 70s and I don't listen to iron maiden". Oh boy...
No writing on the walls by underoath for 2006 off an album that went #2 on billboard?
No Counting Worms by Knocked Loose in 2016?
No Just Pretend by Bad Omens for 2022? Wtf?
Idk if Just Pretend could be considered a metal song
@@frozenandchosen I mean anything with low guitars these days is called metal. Like sleep token isn't a metal band but here we are
@@TWProductions90 fair enough, I just feel like JP is even less metal than a lot of ST songs but I do get the reasoning
Just pretend isn't even a top 3 song on that album lol
@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 wasn't a single but became the biggest on the album and propelled them to a higher level....I'd say you're wrong lol.
SOD was my first exposure to heavy metal when i was like 13 when it was new. Crazy album. I didnt know what i was hearing. Agree that it still holds up today.
when is Finn gonna make a tier list of his best tier lists
Megadeth rules but I'm mostly into Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Some Nu-Metal and Black Metal.
Megadeth 1000 times better than Shitallica
@@chronicthingz Agreed!
@@chronicthingz battle of mid
@@chronicthingz🧢
To be fair, the late 70s had some great Judas Priest albums, and the NWOBHM has some solid bands
Also for 2011, Havok released Time Is Up. Amazing thrash from Colorado
Eh, Deep Purple…”Speedking”? There were more than Judas Priest…..
Great bands? oh, do you maybe mean bands like Motorhead, the godfathers of any metal genre that's heavier than straight heavy metal? Bands like Pentagram? Or god forbid, Black Sabbath?! Naaah, that can't be right
Goddamn, these youtube music experts are something else.
Yeah, yeah, I admit, I only dropped by to get triggered like a bitch, cause I'm bored, lonely and not high enough
Thanks Finn! Good points. I wouldve liked Dillinger’s 43% burnt to represent them. Very happy Lorna was up there. Thanks for your hard work Finn… I can now make my reac video to yours❤
Lame
Ghost sounds like a Halloween party monster mash music.
And I love it
I think the Grammys helped them out with this list.
I am a big Tool fan, and even I would agree that there are many more choices I would pick over Tool if we are choosing the best metal song of the year.
I loved progenies of the great apocalypse. The whole album is awesome.
Dimmu borgir says they’re not black metal, which I agree with. They have black metal elements, but aren’t solely black metal.
Arch Enemy and Megadeth for 2022 really… over arguably the biggest baddie core atm. Hipsters don’t need to be in charge of any lists lol
That was rough, especially considering how much great metal there was that year
Arch enemy is great tf u mean
@@ghostofmoredishesmorebitch1507 Didn’t say they were bad but are they making the best and most popular music in the scene currently…no they’re not relevant
@@slowboy1236 when had death metal ever been the most popular? Doesn't change the fact they're damn good
Morbid Angel #1
Stream idea: make your own list of best metal songs through the years. I agree, four Ghost songs is overkill and I have nothing against them.
1 is too much
Loudwire really shat the bed on the early 10's picks. Also 2022 lol
Arch enemy is great
Bro they didn’t put waking the fallen on 2003 and tears don’t fall on 2005 wtf is this list,they have 5 ghost songs and 3 tool,they make me think Metallica and panthera suck to tool and ghost,wtf
You're wrong about Death. We wouldn't have other death metal without Death. But that's just like, my opinion man.
You'd have Possessed, or even Sepultura who made death metal earlier than Death
Finn, death is UNDERRATED bro
Get outta here. Every metal hipster nerd is riding this shit... Worst thing that could have happened to metal imo
@@MrHamtits you’re the metal hipster with the hot take that they’re the worst thing to happen to metal 😂
@@JakeSemeniuk are you 14?
@@digitalmortality2804 yes I am 14
@@JakeSemeniuk called it
Finn, it's like you and I have opposing metal tastes. I love Tool, SOAD and Gojira, and Mastodon is probably one of my top 3 bands of any genre.
When he said gojira is a b tier band my blood pressure rose
I don’t understand the Rammstein love. Except for the scene in XXX. That shit was so early 2000s and I love it. 😂
Tool's Lateralus is an experience. Amazing album.
It's quite great and entertaining album, but... I don't think like it should be on a list. It is something everyone should find themselves on their own. Like I did (almost).
That list is a stone cold atrocity lol
Totally with you there about Mouth for War Finn, my fav Pantera track too
Finn I’m digging the self deprecation as of late on your channel. Keeping it real. I appreciate.
2007: Avenged Sevenfold Afterlife
2010: Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare
2013: Avenged Sevenfold This Means War
2016: Avenged Sevenfold The Stage
No thanks, A7X is the most overrated hipster plagiarist band of all time 🤘😆
@@adamvanderriet9669 In the interest of intellectual honesty… what styles of metal do you prefer?
@@BeatsAndMeats I can't think of a single sub-genre of metal that I don't like at least one band from, my palette is extremely broad. Which is why I can see everywhere bandwagon hopping A7X steals their shit from, they wouldn't know an original idea if it bitchslapped 'em across the face 🤘
@@adamvanderriet9669 Ah that makes sense! I like them because they do a lot of different things. So the reason why I like them is the same reason you don’t like them… fair enough!
Man, 2000 we had Albums like Hybrid Theory, The Sickness, Issues, White Pony, Machina, etc. and they chose Iron Maiden.
Don't get me wrong, Brave New World was cool, but I don't remember it standing out as really significant back then.
Clayman too
@@Wailmur You're right!
Finn, on one of your older videos you named a band that had a jazz fusion sound with Metal. I also believe the lead singer is/was a black man. I think they were around late 90s or 00s era. I listened to them after the video but did not save their info. What was the name of that band?
Probably Candiria
@@FinnMckentyPRMBA Yes! Thank you so much. I was driving myself crazy trying to remember their name. Appreciate it
I feel like the people at Loudwire have a very specific taste in metal
More Drum Circles in metal
"Is Alice In Chains really metal?", also "yeah where's Linkin Park" lmao
KoRn is my favorte band, again, after giving up on them after Issues. I moved onto death metal in 2001. Now I don't listen to a lot of death metal anymore and rediscovered KoRn a couple years ago. First six albums are top notch. Issues, Untouchables and TALIM grew on me. After that it's a nosedive.. #BringBackDave
Stormtroopers of death and suicidal tendencies and so on are interesting bands because they are crossover thrash. Thrash metal and hardcore punk combined making them both punk and metal
Finn bases his metal enjoyment on his 12 year old self.
I'd argue Babymetal deserve to be somewhere on this list. They came out at a time when metal had largely grown stale and made it feel fresh and different.
“Metal really started with Reign in Blood 1986” as he glazed over an Exodus album from 1985 . “This (reign in blood) was really the beginning of thrash” , LOL😂
Slaughter of the soul is the runner up when that album had blinded by fear on it
Yeah and Inlike nausea over slaughter as well
I kinda agree with Finn over Rammstein's Deutschland song not being great (the music is a 6/10), however the music video is an absolute piece of art and needs to be taken into consideration for this song.
The fact that Shadow Moses wasn’t picked for 2013 is actually insane.
2018 is a weird pick since Architects Doomsay came out
And has been basically a template for metalcore since
“I can’t believe they covered the Killswitch song!” 😂😂
1996 = The Beautiful People
Finn: skips the 70s
Me: skips the 80s and 90s
you're a noob if you do either one
There was this girl at a show one time with the gojira tree head thing tattooed on her back. And my friend said “woah she has an infant sausage tattoo” and I was so confused
What the fuck was he talking about? I don't get what he thought it was..lol
@@Veganerd_ the name of the albums is some French word that looks kinda like Infant sausage. He knew it was the gojira album that’s just how he thought it was said
@@jtkappy7742 Oh yeah! L'Enfant Sauvage lol the translation is The Wild Child.
If you count nu metal as metal then Korn and linkin park for sure should have taken over the late 90’s early 00’s. Also I’m assuming they put avenged sevenfold and bring me the horizon as rock artists because there is no way they would not be included otherwise
1999 belongs to Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity
If I have to consider one song from this album based on pure metalness, it would certainly be Home.
"I don't listen to Iron Maiden." - Dude is covering best metal songs of the 80s and doesn't listen to Maiden. GTFOH
3:18 i thought of slippery when wet, one of the songs from that album
He summed it up perfectly in the first 13 seconds
2000 belongs to Mudvayne’s LD50
2001 belongs to SOAD or at least Slipknot for Iowa.