Otep is a real piece of work. She made a post on her Instagram that said she's a voice for the entire LGBT community. I replied, "I can say with certainty that you don't speak for my boyfriend or myself" and she lost her mind. She threatened to have her "fans" find and unalive me. One of them did find my IP address (somehow) and posted it in the comments. It's funny how she always tells people to be "independent thinkers" yet goes crazy when you don't agree with her "thought" pattern. And I'll say it, Aaron Nordstrom leaving Otep was the best decision he made. Gemini Syndrome is much better than Otep, IMHO. Even he said that she's nothing but a bully and a control freak.
Its so funny how he was going after like all modern death metal vocalists and then he goes into the studio and records objectively some of the worst death metal vocals of all times.
Sad. Chris Barnes was my introduction to death metal, it was Six Feet Under’s “Haunted” (still a gem in my opinion but that’s prolly nostalgia). Found Can Corpse after that and now I’ve seen Corpse four times live and even got to meet them all!
@@scottydu81 A couple of their records really are not terrible as far as straightforward death metal goes but the vocals Chris Barnes is willing to put on a studio album these days should be a massive embarrassment to the other band members. Even if they write good riffs or perform solidly his faded vocal talents drag the whole thing down into parody. Then he has the absolute gall to try to shit on pretty much everyone else in the industry. That's how you go from a legend into a laughingstock. It IS sad.
@@themetalmeltdownofficial It's kinda typical of their community to preach tolerance yet be so intolerant themselves, not surprised at all. The lack of gatekeeping is actually part of what's destroying western civilization, along with people lacking skills in discernment which is why there's so many bad people in that community that get away with so much shit now and conservatives have become so discriminated against and even when they realize that's happening, they just say they all deserve it. People can't seem to figure out it's never been an issue with race, gender, ect, it's always been a human nature issue and now their community is showing the tables just keep turning because of that. They're literally proving what white conservative men in particular have been saying would happen true and so are feminists. Even if you support their community as a white, cis, hetero conservative male they'll still think you're a piece of shit just for existing as that no matter how much you apologize for literally doing nothing wrong and pander to them so there's no point in doing it at all. In fact, white men doing that is part of the problem(like good men simping for not so great women and women abusing that and laws meant to be abused to exploit good men to enrich the lives of not so good women, but they lie and say it's meant to protect good women from all the bad men), guilt tripping them into just being okay with non-whites and women getting job literally just for not being white and/or a man despite being less qualified which is why so many planes are falling apart now due to women engineers and all women flight crews.
Great video and happy birthday! The only Five Finger Death Punch album i have appreciation for is Got Your Six. And that's because i used to live in a rescue mission, and one of the people working there just so happened to be the Bassist's Mother In Law, and as a result i got a copy of Got Your Six on CD that was signed by the Bassist. And i enjoyed the album a lot at the time, so even though i'm not a fan of Five Finger Death Punch's music anymore, it still brings back good memories when i think about that album
I bought a convertible Mustang GT in the early 2000s, the sale guy asked what kind of music I liked and I said metal, I go to pick up my car and he said I would love what was in the CD player, got in the car, turned the CD player on and Limp Bizkit comes on, hit eject, frisbeed the CD at the guy and drove off.
That horrific Design The Skyline song I find somewhat tragic because they were clearly out of their depth and trying to tap into a sound they didn't have the chops to pull off, it's like they got the concept of polyrhythms through a game of broken telephone. That said their later stuff wasn't nearly as incoherent as their infamous debut, but still not very good. What a weird year where we got both Design the Skyline and Attack Attack! Although the latter was at least somewhat ironic and they were just taking the piss but people just took them way too seriously. I kinda think of DtS as "what if Imperial Triumphant lacked the musical chops and good sense of aesthetics."
Happy birthday to one of my favorite metal youtubers! Also I agree with your list, or in cases of bands who I don't hate that much (I fuck with some early Limp Bizkit material, some, and Still Sucks is one of their worst due to all the "self aware" stuff) I at least get where you coming from
Happy Birthday to you, and Happy early Birthday to Anna! Hope you both have great celebrations. Also, the Tougher Than Nails album has been reuploaded to Bandcamp by some Christian metal label, and turns out there's quite the gold mine of awful bands on there. I just heard this Christian DSBM band where the guitars were painfully out of tune and the drums were pretty off
FFDP is certainly pretty cringe nowadays. Way too pretentious tough guy for me. I personally prefer the first record of theirs from 2007. Production wise it’s not too overproduced, and sounds like a genuine fusion of Pantera, Slipknot, hell, even a lil bit of the Motograter stuff Ivan did a few years beforehand. I would recommend that album to ya if you want something from them that’s tolerable, but hey, you make your own decisions Buddy. Happy Birthday, Sir!
Until that duology Wrong Side of Hell or whatever, I enjoyed FFDP very casually. Not stellar but not bad either. When Got Your Six dropped, I pretty much stopped caring about them, because boy did that album sucked ASS.
There is one good thing about Dungeon Wolf. They make me think, maybe I should do a metal album. Because I don't often do metal, but I'm sure I could do a better job than that.
Otep is a sad case for me. I found her in high school through a cosplay friend. Growing up in Puerto Rico as a metal head tomboyish queer woman in a religious family, I didn’t really have someone I could look at or hear and relate in my anger. (We didnt have radio playing much metal and my parents were Spanish and classic rock people). Like “finally a woman who’s not scared of seeming aggressive or unfuckable.” Her first records still hold a place in my heart, but the last one was genuinely unbearable and my views have moved more left while hers stayed very performative. A shame.
I also really like Otep’s first couple of records, but ever since Hydra I feel, she’s becoming more and more unbearable by the album. The last one was easily the worst thing she’s put out in her whole career, I definitely don’t have any more interest to listen to anything she puts out after that.
Happy birthday dude🎉🎉🎉🤘🤘🤘 Also I can’t help but enjoy Limp Bizkit. Yes, they’re stupid and juvenile, but honestly, they never fail to put me in a good mood if I’m feeling down. Their music is so ridiculous that it’s fun to turn my brain off and rock out. That being said, I definitely don’t like all their albums; anything after Chocolate Starfish doesn’t really appeal to me, but their early stuff scratches an itch that not much else does. I completely understand why some people like yourself hate them, but I like them. I do agree with several of your picks here, especially Tougher Than Nails. When I first heard their album Arise Warrior, I got about 5 seconds in before I started laughing uncontrollably. I now know what death metal sounds like to people who hate death metal. They actually had a second album called “Delusional Blasphemies Destroyed”, but the backlash was so severe that they completely removed it from the internet. Lyrically, it’s like the Westboro Baptist Church wrote the lyrics for the album, and the album cover depicts a warrior striking down other soldiers, and one of the soldiers that’s killed has an LGBTQ+ flag on his shield, which should give you some inkling about the hateful lyrics. Another band that aggravates me, though a less popular pick, is Arghoslent. Not only are they proud and outspoken racists (they literally have an album called Incorrigible Bigotry), but their admittedly unique fusion of melodic death metal and blues music has inspired countless copycats that have flooded the underground melodeath scene with this crap. Their comeback album that was released this year is one of the worst things I’ve heard in recent years.
Love the Dying Fetus long sleeve. I had a similar one, but I left it at my mom's house and she threw it out (along with my original NIle Festivals of Atonement long sleeve).
Happy Birthday Robert :) I don't really have many strong feelings towards a lot of the bands you bring up because I have not really dove that far into their music....yet. I will say though, Falling In Reverse is a band that I do think is terrible overall but I can have fun with. Watch The World Burn is probably the funniest metal song of 2023 for me, even if completely unintentionally. Something about its over-the-top nature combined with its awful and at times hypocritical lyricism (NOWADAYS EVERYBODY'S SO SENSITIVE), mixed in with some people's reactions to it (Anthony Fantano comes to mind), just gives the song a "so bad it's good" quality that I can't help but find stupidly endearing LMAO. But paired with that, the "chorus" that it goes into towards the second half is quite fun and catchy LOL, and can show that Radke does have a solid amount of talent even though he wastes it in goofy ways IMO.
I feel the same about this band. Ronnie is hilarious. He's like a ridiculous movie villain from a comedy and his music sounds exactly how I described the man. He is entertaining as hell
Also happy birthday! And thank for providing us with the timeless meme material that is Psychosinner. Some days, I still pause and think “what the hell was that.”✌🏼
I like Limp Bizkit and Five Finger Death Punch but as always i respect your opinion Heres my list Kim Dracula Falling In Reserve King 810 Lostprophets Mushroomhead Trapt Hinder Buckcherry Theory Of A Deadman Six Feet Under
Happy birthday dude! Hope you have a great one! 🎉 The bands I have heard of here I mostly agree with and also think are terrible. The only thing I will say is that while I absolutely hate everything 5FDP has done since 2015, I still really like their first 4 albums. I was listening to War Is the Answer a few weeks ago actually and it held up surprisingly well for me 🤣 I just find them really really frustrating now. I know that technically speaking they're better musicians than a lot of the other butt rock bands, but they seem to always choose to not fulfill that potential and phone in the same steaming, reheated pile of horseshit every 2 years for almost a decade at this point. Even Jeremy Spencer, despite being an absolute laughing stock now, was always (to me at least) a pretty killer drummer. It's infuriating now and after the atrocity that was AfterLife I think I'm done giving them a chance Some more bands/artists I absolutely hate are Marilyn Manson, Kim Dracula and Skindred. I've always hated Manson, even before the allegations against him came out, and I always thought his music was an absolute atrocity, that debut album from Kim Dracula is genuinely one of the worst and most cringeworthy things I've ever heard, and I have never ever understood what anyone sees in Skindred. What makes that even worse is that despite them being probably my least favourite band out of the ones I've mentioned, I have still seen them 3 fucking times! They are always on right before someone who I wanna be on the barrier or in the pit for and I hate it 🤣
Otep is the reason why me and my band drifted away from political songs. Listening to her latest stuff I didn't wanna sound like that. It was annoying I agree with you
Happy Birthday dude and a early Happy birthday to your wife! Maybe next year You can do Her top 10 favorite metal bands or her least favorite metal bands! Let's see if there's any crossovers!🤔🤔
Just as a side note, Poseritus should be a meme. If that doesn’t get turned into a meme then that’s a crime against humanity lmao. It’s so genuinely stupid that it made me laugh
I like that you said that it's fine if you like any of the bands on this list. Personally, I like The Three Tremors mainly due to Casey Trask's guitar work. But I seriously don't think I've ever met someone who genuinely liked Tougher than Nails or Dungeon Wolf.
I remember that festival in 2013 with FFDP, they had a whole fuckin picket line of kids from the crowd throwing up the middle finger on stage when they were at my stop. A whole bunch of parents brought their kids there to see them here and they all acted just like the guy you described in your experience. same thing happened at what i think was the next rockstar festival with Avenged Sevenfold, tons of parents dragging their kids to sit around and look miserable until they came on stage.
I personally will never forgive Limp Bizkit for single-handedly killing Nu Metal's serious undertones and any validity the genre had. They became so popular that they became the face of the genre, and gave way for more misogynistic white trash bands like Crazy Town and Methods of Mayhem to pop up in the Nu Metal scene, which really hurt Nu Metal bands like KoRn, Deftones, Linkin Park, Static-X, Sevendust, Slipknot, Mudvayne and many more who had really exceptional musicianship and lyrical ability by being associated with Limp Bizkit. Im glad the kids these days are coming back to Nu Metal and giving the good bands of that genre much overdue credit and love and appreciate their contribution to Nu Metal (which in my opinion was 85% of bands in the genre) shame though that they came back to Limp Bizkit. But anyway, thats just an old thrash head's take on them. Loved the video man
Have a great birthday Robert, it has been also my birthday today. Anyway my pick has to be modern FFDP and Falling in Reverse, I don't listen to trash music a lot of the time just because I avoid quite a lot of it when you and other content creators upload reviews talking about them but I've of heard of most of these artists but I'm glad I haven't experienced the same pain and suffering as you did listening to them.
Every time Design the Skyline comes up I am LEGALLY REQUIRED to mention that they are from my original hometown and the only thought anyone had was “yep, that was our one shot to get on the map and it passed the second it came.”
ROBERTTTTTTTTTT HAPPY MOTHERFUCKIN BIRTHDAY MY DUDE! Hopefully you don't torment yourself by listening to these bands... hopefully. I'm not gonna talk shit about artists I hate, so instead I'll talk about my favorite... "discoveries", we'll call them, of the year, metal or otherwise Hellripper Victory Over The Sun (potentially AOTY, but we'll see in a few weeks...) Danny Brown Thantifaxath Lotus Eater Machine To The Grave JPEGMAFIA Sprain Mitski And I guess Radiohead would count? I mean I hadn't heard their shit for a decade, it's basically a discovery
Dungeon Wolf Me: This heavy metal band is not too bad. Also me: What do you mean it wasn't made in 1978 in someone's garage? Edit: Happy birthday to you and the misses \m/
Happy Birthday man🎉🎉🎉 I hate all these bands myself, I do have to say I sort of had fun with The Way Of The Fist the first 5FDP album but mainly while getting drunk and playing a good beat em' up game lol.
@@themetalmeltdownofficial But I kinda’ like them for that! Yes, there are some lyrics that are not politically correct for today’s standards, but their singer Eric Adams can freaking belt it!
Happy Birthday Robert! Sevas Tra by Otep was actually really good, then it went off the rails from there haha. Wicked Wisdom is by far one of my most hated bands. So much so that we booed them at Ozzfest ‘05.
Happy birthday and happy early birthday to Mrs. Meltdown! Reminds me of my mom's on December 11, my stepdad December 12th, and their anniversary December 10th, so... yeah. It's all good! Loved the cooking video, need to watch w/my Love. Definitely looking forward to the next one!
Did like FFDP's earlier material mainly from Way of the Fist to American Capitalist but yeah they went downhill after Wrong Side of Heaven vol 1 tbh. Great video btw.
Thanks for putting us (The Three Tremors) on the list. At least we made somebodys list! We did play over 100 live shows together where those people that were at the shows loved us which makes being on this list a lively chuckle. Now go listen to Cage it will put some hair on your chest Junior
Ffdp, bring me the horizon, psycho sinner, avenged sevenfold, machine head, judas priest, cradle of filth, mayhem, periphery, falling in reverse (hate is a strong word and some of these bands I may like certain songs and different aspects about them but overall the bad outweighs the good for me, also there are probably worse bands than these most definetly but I tried to pick my top 10 being more controversial picks from the bigger bands that get alot of praise. I would say bring me, ffdp and psycho sinner pretty much take the cake though, Machine head would be cool if it wasn't for Rob 😂 ) BTW happy birthday also
10. 3:18 9. 5:53 8. 8:32 7. 11:44 (kinda found shocking never seen a lot of hate for them even people who don't lean that way in their beliefs seem to like them (also haven't heard the covers your talking about but for me personally the cover of Royals by Lorde favorite version 6. 14:21 5. 17:00 (never heard of them) 4. 20:00 (one of my favorites for all the wrong reasons should have just leaned into the jokes and become a parody band like steel panther) 3. 23:04 (never heard of them) 2. 25:35 (never heard of them) 1: 28:05 (never heard of them)
The funniest part about barnes is how goddamned serious he takes himself. Like, he unironically believes sfu are kings of death metal, and cannibal are trash pretenders
Oooh this is certainly gonna be a fun list. My all time hated bands for me Dishonorable Mentions: Kid Rock Hollywood Undead Machine Head Five Finger Death Punch Liturgy Crazy Town Attila King 810 Rings of Saturn Emmure Skillet Kiss Trapt Otep 10 Absurd 9 Brokencyde 8 Six Feet Under 7 Falling in Reverse 6 Dungeon Wolf 5 Tougher than Nails 4 Arrogance 3 Intolitarian 2 Blood on the Dance Floor 1 Psychosexual/Psycho Synner
Happy birthday! I want to thank you for this video. I am 51 years old and I feel this video serves more of a PSA than anything. I haven't heard some of these bands so thanks for the warnings.
Happy birthday! To be honest this list is a mixture of bands I'm somewhere between 'eh' and 'urgghhh' on, and those I just have never heard and see no need to, so no complaints here.
Happy Birthday man🤘I pretty much agree with you 99% - I do like about a half dozen Six Feet Under songs from way back...but I get your hating them, they are absolute garbage for at least 20+ years now
Limp Bizkit is the kind of thing you put on at a bonfire or house/garage party with your friends for the good nostalgic vibes. Listening to it seriously doesn’t work.
Growing up as a hardcore kid where most people had no idea what hardcore was was fun. People'd ask what kinda music you like and I'd say hardcore, and they'd say "like Slipknot?". Dude fuck Slipknot 😂😂😂. Also, I'll never understand how FFDP got popular.
Happy Birthday dude. I subbed once you threw the can and said "Nailed it." 😂😂 Edit - Completely agree with your list. Your list is my list.....has been for years. 😂😂 The funny thing is..........when you meet someone thats all about one of these bands......
Happy birthday Brofessor Robert and happy future birthday to the missus \m/ I will do my best to at least check in and say hi to you guys on friday but if I dip out its because I'm going to see Exodus Fit For An Autopsy and Darkest Hour that day, but rest assured I will rage extra hard for you guys and spark up some birthday joints for the two of you. Not a whole lot to disagree with here you are pretty much spot on with everything, I will say that I am still able to cut Otep some slack but I definitely get how she and her music can rub people the wrong way and I'm not going to die on that hill defending them. Everything else is pretty close to my personal takes on everyone on this list. Also my god "Diet Obituary" is a fucking nuclear bitch slap from God and I don't think anyone making fun of Chris Barnes will ever top that.
Lol Limp Bizkit.. i unironically love "Break Stuff". Me and a buddy of mine would sing that shit at work as a joke, and also just say the lyrics to explain how were feeling. Its great
Happy Birthday! Good stuff … can’t believe Limp Bizkit is a thing again … total trash! The Three Tremors lineup I always heard about was Bruce Dickenson, Rob Halford and Geoff Tate of Queensryche. Hadn’t hard about the Ronnie version, interesting. Would have loved to hear either one.
I've never heard of Falling In Reverse, Design The Skyline, Three Tremors, Tougher Than Nails or Dungeon Wolf. I did see OTEP open up for Nonpoint about 15 years ago. Not bad way back den
I used to be a 5FDP fan when I was in high school/college, and I used to wonder if I genuinely just outgrew their music as I just stopped listening to them altogether. I heard singles here and there from like 2015 onward and was like "bro, did they used to be this whiny and bland. Also, like why is this so water down?" Then I went back to their first 3 albums and realized that they really started to crumble from American Capitalist onward. The starting albums have some tracks that if someone played them on their radio, I'd probably vibe with it (even if some of it has not aged well, "The Way of the Fist" comes to mind), but they are not a band I have in my rotation anymore. I generally don't hate what bands put out, but the bands that really make me go "why the hell did they think this was something worth releasing?" is Emmure, Attila, Six Feet Under, Theory of a Deadman (or I guess they go by Theory now), Falling In Reverse, and I will even throw in the seemingly agreed upon bad eras of Metallica, All That Remains, and Suicide Silence, because goddamn, those times made me question why I was of fan of their music to begin with. I definitely have a longer list of individuals who genuinely make me very irritated to have them performing in the generally from both an artistic and personal lens, even if I do find some of them to be talented, but that would be too long of a comment. I would have included Psycho Sinner, but that would mean I acknowledge what they put out is music, and I think anyone who watches you knows the reasons why I say that. Hope you had a great Birthday and listened to much better music after all of this!
What pissed me off is FFDP was the headliner and Megadeth opened for them. WTF Also if Amon Amarth and COB didn't get a guy fired up I don't want to know the guy. I think if I'd been at that 2013 concert, I would have walked out on FFDP. Six Feet Under-I loved their stuff throughout the years but I won't go near their past three albums. 2/14/98 -Houston TX Concert Attended/Loved It!!!
I'm pretty convinced that Dungeon Wolf is just a bunch of trolls having the time of their life.When I've seen those comments I couldn't take any of it seriously.
Otep is a real piece of work. She made a post on her Instagram that said she's a voice for the entire LGBT community. I replied, "I can say with certainty that you don't speak for my boyfriend or myself" and she lost her mind. She threatened to have her "fans" find and unalive me. One of them did find my IP address (somehow) and posted it in the comments. It's funny how she always tells people to be "independent thinkers" yet goes crazy when you don't agree with her "thought" pattern. And I'll say it, Aaron Nordstrom leaving Otep was the best decision he made. Gemini Syndrome is much better than Otep, IMHO. Even he said that she's nothing but a bully and a control freak.
she did WHAT?????
@@themetalmeltdownofficial On God. She's a terrible person.
@@GH0STST4RSCR34M Ngl, I don't really mess with the LGBT community. There's too much drama, for my liking.
@@GH0STST4RSCR34M Same here. It's so hard to keep up with what they want.
Holy Jebus H Crust. That's insane. The damn audacity and entitlement...
Chris barnes is the literal definition of "old man yells at clouds" it's a shame how far he has fallen cause he was great at one point.
Its so funny how he was going after like all modern death metal vocalists and then he goes into the studio and records objectively some of the worst death metal vocals of all times.
Sad. Chris Barnes was my introduction to death metal, it was Six Feet Under’s “Haunted” (still a gem in my opinion but that’s prolly nostalgia). Found Can Corpse after that and now I’ve seen Corpse four times live and even got to meet them all!
@@scottydu81 A couple of their records really are not terrible as far as straightforward death metal goes but the vocals Chris Barnes is willing to put on a studio album these days should be a massive embarrassment to the other band members. Even if they write good riffs or perform solidly his faded vocal talents drag the whole thing down into parody.
Then he has the absolute gall to try to shit on pretty much everyone else in the industry. That's how you go from a legend into a laughingstock. It IS sad.
@@mediumvillain Reminds me of the Áñåł Çüňť song “Chris Barnes Is A Pussy”
Leave daddy out of this!
“Many years ago today something grew inside your mother… that thing was you!”
Happy birthday dude!
Still one of my favourite Dethklok songs lmao
Otep is female liberal Ronnie Radke
Accurate
I read stories about the Otep vocalist having a bad personallity towards co-touring bands.
Yeahs apparebtly very rude and impatient with touring bands, not sure why.
@@themetalmeltdownofficial It's kinda typical of their community to preach tolerance yet be so intolerant themselves, not surprised at all. The lack of gatekeeping is actually part of what's destroying western civilization, along with people lacking skills in discernment which is why there's so many bad people in that community that get away with so much shit now and conservatives have become so discriminated against and even when they realize that's happening, they just say they all deserve it. People can't seem to figure out it's never been an issue with race, gender, ect, it's always been a human nature issue and now their community is showing the tables just keep turning because of that. They're literally proving what white conservative men in particular have been saying would happen true and so are feminists.
Even if you support their community as a white, cis, hetero conservative male they'll still think you're a piece of shit just for existing as that no matter how much you apologize for literally doing nothing wrong and pander to them so there's no point in doing it at all. In fact, white men doing that is part of the problem(like good men simping for not so great women and women abusing that and laws meant to be abused to exploit good men to enrich the lives of not so good women, but they lie and say it's meant to protect good women from all the bad men), guilt tripping them into just being okay with non-whites and women getting job literally just for not being white and/or a man despite being less qualified which is why so many planes are falling apart now due to women engineers and all women flight crews.
Great video and happy birthday! The only Five Finger Death Punch album i have appreciation for is Got Your Six. And that's because i used to live in a rescue mission, and one of the people working there just so happened to be the Bassist's Mother In Law, and as a result i got a copy of Got Your Six on CD that was signed by the Bassist. And i enjoyed the album a lot at the time, so even though i'm not a fan of Five Finger Death Punch's music anymore, it still brings back good memories when i think about that album
Question everything , the title tack and your not my kind go hard AF
I bought a convertible Mustang GT in the early 2000s, the sale guy asked what kind of music I liked and I said metal, I go to pick up my car and he said I would love what was in the CD player, got in the car, turned the CD player on and Limp Bizkit comes on, hit eject, frisbeed the CD at the guy and drove off.
That horrific Design The Skyline song I find somewhat tragic because they were clearly out of their depth and trying to tap into a sound they didn't have the chops to pull off, it's like they got the concept of polyrhythms through a game of broken telephone. That said their later stuff wasn't nearly as incoherent as their infamous debut, but still not very good. What a weird year where we got both Design the Skyline and Attack Attack! Although the latter was at least somewhat ironic and they were just taking the piss but people just took them way too seriously.
I kinda think of DtS as "what if Imperial Triumphant lacked the musical chops and good sense of aesthetics."
Happy birthday to one of my favorite metal youtubers!
Also I agree with your list, or in cases of bands who I don't hate that much (I fuck with some early Limp Bizkit material, some, and Still Sucks is one of their worst due to all the "self aware" stuff) I at least get where you coming from
Happy Birthday to you, and Happy early Birthday to Anna! Hope you both have great celebrations.
Also, the Tougher Than Nails album has been reuploaded to Bandcamp by some Christian metal label, and turns out there's quite the gold mine of awful bands on there. I just heard this Christian DSBM band where the guitars were painfully out of tune and the drums were pretty off
FFDP is certainly pretty cringe nowadays. Way too pretentious tough guy for me. I personally prefer the first record of theirs from 2007. Production wise it’s not too overproduced, and sounds like a genuine fusion of Pantera, Slipknot, hell, even a lil bit of the Motograter stuff Ivan did a few years beforehand. I would recommend that album to ya if you want something from them that’s tolerable, but hey, you make your own decisions Buddy. Happy Birthday, Sir!
I'll pass, not a fan of ANYTHING they've done lmao, props for trying though.
I'm sorry but that all sound the same to me.😭
Regardless if thats a good record by itself or not it is still their best 100%
They’ve always been a generic butt metal band
Until that duology Wrong Side of Hell or whatever, I enjoyed FFDP very casually. Not stellar but not bad either. When Got Your Six dropped, I pretty much stopped caring about them, because boy did that album sucked ASS.
The day I heard Tougher Than Nails, is a day that redefined what I thought "bottle of the barrel" could mean.
There is one good thing about Dungeon Wolf. They make me think, maybe I should do a metal album. Because I don't often do metal, but I'm sure I could do a better job than that.
Otep is a sad case for me. I found her in high school through a cosplay friend. Growing up in Puerto Rico as a metal head tomboyish queer woman in a religious family, I didn’t really have someone I could look at or hear and relate in my anger. (We didnt have radio playing much metal and my parents were Spanish and classic rock people). Like “finally a woman who’s not scared of seeming aggressive or unfuckable.” Her first records still hold a place in my heart, but the last one was genuinely unbearable and my views have moved more left while hers stayed very performative. A shame.
I also really like Otep’s first couple of records, but ever since Hydra I feel, she’s becoming more and more unbearable by the album. The last one was easily the worst thing she’s put out in her whole career, I definitely don’t have any more interest to listen to anything she puts out after that.
@@MarceloZ2 I like a few songs out of hydra but after I didn’t like the album after. And this one was just bad
Unfuckable is definitely a correct word for her 😂
Happy birthday dude🎉🎉🎉🤘🤘🤘
Also I can’t help but enjoy Limp Bizkit. Yes, they’re stupid and juvenile, but honestly, they never fail to put me in a good mood if I’m feeling down. Their music is so ridiculous that it’s fun to turn my brain off and rock out. That being said, I definitely don’t like all their albums; anything after Chocolate Starfish doesn’t really appeal to me, but their early stuff scratches an itch that not much else does. I completely understand why some people like yourself hate them, but I like them.
I do agree with several of your picks here, especially Tougher Than Nails. When I first heard their album Arise Warrior, I got about 5 seconds in before I started laughing uncontrollably. I now know what death metal sounds like to people who hate death metal. They actually had a second album called “Delusional Blasphemies Destroyed”, but the backlash was so severe that they completely removed it from the internet. Lyrically, it’s like the Westboro Baptist Church wrote the lyrics for the album, and the album cover depicts a warrior striking down other soldiers, and one of the soldiers that’s killed has an LGBTQ+ flag on his shield, which should give you some inkling about the hateful lyrics.
Another band that aggravates me, though a less popular pick, is Arghoslent. Not only are they proud and outspoken racists (they literally have an album called Incorrigible Bigotry), but their admittedly unique fusion of melodic death metal and blues music has inspired countless copycats that have flooded the underground melodeath scene with this crap. Their comeback album that was released this year is one of the worst things I’ve heard in recent years.
Love the Dying Fetus long sleeve. I had a similar one, but I left it at my mom's house and she threw it out (along with my original NIle Festivals of Atonement long sleeve).
Happy Birthday Robert :)
I don't really have many strong feelings towards a lot of the bands you bring up because I have not really dove that far into their music....yet.
I will say though, Falling In Reverse is a band that I do think is terrible overall but I can have fun with. Watch The World Burn is probably the funniest metal song of 2023 for me, even if completely unintentionally.
Something about its over-the-top nature combined with its awful and at times hypocritical lyricism (NOWADAYS EVERYBODY'S SO SENSITIVE), mixed in with some people's reactions to it (Anthony Fantano comes to mind), just gives the song a "so bad it's good" quality that I can't help but find stupidly endearing LMAO. But paired with that, the "chorus" that it goes into towards the second half is quite fun and catchy LOL, and can show that Radke does have a solid amount of talent even though he wastes it in goofy ways IMO.
I feel the same about this band. Ronnie is hilarious. He's like a ridiculous movie villain from a comedy and his music sounds exactly how I described the man. He is entertaining as hell
"my life is liek a video gaym"
Happy birthday my guy wish you the best health and happiness and success with everything you do in your life . Stay heavy and stay metal 🤟🖤
happy birthday!! seeing radke on the thumbnail is already all i need to support you :)
Happy Birthday dude, mine least favorite is: Five Finger Death Punch, King 810, Theory Of Deadman, Trapt, Hollywood Undead.
Not sure Trapt really counts as metal, but they are DEFINITELY terrible.
@@themetalmeltdownofficial but they do count as alt-metal in my eyes LMFAO
I always mistake Otep for Opeth.
Not musically (of course!), but the name.
Also happy birthday! And thank for providing us with the timeless meme material that is Psychosinner. Some days, I still pause and think “what the hell was that.”✌🏼
Your opening birthday number was quite nice actually lol , you have a nice voice! Happy birthday!
I like Limp Bizkit and Five Finger Death Punch but as always i respect your opinion
Heres my list
Kim Dracula
Falling In Reserve
King 810
Lostprophets
Mushroomhead
Trapt
Hinder
Buckcherry
Theory Of A Deadman
Six Feet Under
Lostphophets is pretty accurate considering the ex-frontman is a pedo.
Happy birthday dude! Hope you have a great one! 🎉
The bands I have heard of here I mostly agree with and also think are terrible. The only thing I will say is that while I absolutely hate everything 5FDP has done since 2015, I still really like their first 4 albums. I was listening to War Is the Answer a few weeks ago actually and it held up surprisingly well for me 🤣 I just find them really really frustrating now. I know that technically speaking they're better musicians than a lot of the other butt rock bands, but they seem to always choose to not fulfill that potential and phone in the same steaming, reheated pile of horseshit every 2 years for almost a decade at this point. Even Jeremy Spencer, despite being an absolute laughing stock now, was always (to me at least) a pretty killer drummer. It's infuriating now and after the atrocity that was AfterLife I think I'm done giving them a chance
Some more bands/artists I absolutely hate are Marilyn Manson, Kim Dracula and Skindred. I've always hated Manson, even before the allegations against him came out, and I always thought his music was an absolute atrocity, that debut album from Kim Dracula is genuinely one of the worst and most cringeworthy things I've ever heard, and I have never ever understood what anyone sees in Skindred. What makes that even worse is that despite them being probably my least favourite band out of the ones I've mentioned, I have still seen them 3 fucking times! They are always on right before someone who I wanna be on the barrier or in the pit for and I hate it 🤣
Otep is the reason why me and my band drifted away from political songs. Listening to her latest stuff I didn't wanna sound like that. It was annoying I agree with you
I was alive 30 years ago lol but I agree with you about Six Feet Under
Happy Birthday, and also agree with your picks.
Mainly Limp Bizkit, FFDP, and Psych-sexual…
Happy Birthday dude and a early Happy birthday to your wife! Maybe next year You can do Her top 10 favorite metal bands or her least favorite metal bands! Let's see if there's any crossovers!🤔🤔
Great idea
Just as a side note, Poseritus should be a meme. If that doesn’t get turned into a meme then that’s a crime against humanity lmao. It’s so genuinely stupid that it made me laugh
Lmao agreed
Some fuckers join me, let’s form a band called Poseritus!
@@themetalmeltdownofficialyour channel should be called pink panty meltdown .
@@Anton-rn5zw Your channel should be called 'Anton The Bitchy Boomer'
@@themetalmeltdownofficialstill whining?
oh damn happy birthday dude! Your hair looks neat. Crazy enough, one of my exes birthday fell on the same day as mine. we celebrated hard
I like that you said that it's fine if you like any of the bands on this list. Personally, I like The Three Tremors mainly due to Casey Trask's guitar work. But I seriously don't think I've ever met someone who genuinely liked Tougher than Nails or Dungeon Wolf.
If he hates the Tremors Im definitely checking out Dungeon Wolf then!
FFDP did a very similar kid thing when I saw them with Metallica, Ice Nine Kills and the Pantera reunion last year
I remember that festival in 2013 with FFDP, they had a whole fuckin picket line of kids from the crowd throwing up the middle finger on stage when they were at my stop. A whole bunch of parents brought their kids there to see them here and they all acted just like the guy you described in your experience. same thing happened at what i think was the next rockstar festival with Avenged Sevenfold, tons of parents dragging their kids to sit around and look miserable until they came on stage.
I personally will never forgive Limp Bizkit for single-handedly killing Nu Metal's serious undertones and any validity the genre had. They became so popular that they became the face of the genre, and gave way for more misogynistic white trash bands like Crazy Town and Methods of Mayhem to pop up in the Nu Metal scene, which really hurt Nu Metal bands like KoRn, Deftones, Linkin Park, Static-X, Sevendust, Slipknot, Mudvayne and many more who had really exceptional musicianship and lyrical ability by being associated with Limp Bizkit.
Im glad the kids these days are coming back to Nu Metal and giving the good bands of that genre much overdue credit and love and appreciate their contribution to Nu Metal (which in my opinion was 85% of bands in the genre) shame though that they came back to Limp Bizkit. But anyway, thats just an old thrash head's take on them. Loved the video man
Have a great birthday Robert, it has been also my birthday today. Anyway my pick has to be modern FFDP and Falling in Reverse, I don't listen to trash music a lot of the time just because I avoid quite a lot of it when you and other content creators upload reviews talking about them but I've of heard of most of these artists but I'm glad I haven't experienced the same pain and suffering as you did listening to them.
YEEE HAPPY BDAY BUD
Happy birthday bro, mine is November 24th hahah, congratulations!! Greetings from Argentina.
I think your face would melt if you heard Peosphoros Pink Metal album. lol Happy Birthday by the way.
I've heard it lmao, it kind of feels like if The HIRS Collective tried to write an Anal Cunt album.
Every time Design the Skyline comes up I am LEGALLY REQUIRED to mention that they are from my original hometown and the only thought anyone had was “yep, that was our one shot to get on the map and it passed the second it came.”
ROBERTTTTTTTTTT HAPPY MOTHERFUCKIN BIRTHDAY MY DUDE! Hopefully you don't torment yourself by listening to these bands... hopefully. I'm not gonna talk shit about artists I hate, so instead I'll talk about my favorite... "discoveries", we'll call them, of the year, metal or otherwise
Hellripper
Victory Over The Sun (potentially AOTY, but we'll see in a few weeks...)
Danny Brown
Thantifaxath
Lotus Eater Machine
To The Grave
JPEGMAFIA
Sprain
Mitski
And I guess Radiohead would count? I mean I hadn't heard their shit for a decade, it's basically a discovery
Love Danny Brown, jammin Quaranta right now.
Luv Thantifaxath, from my hometown of Toronto, some Frigid White North art-damaged black metal! Good taste! 🦃🤘🦃🤘🦃🤘🦃🤘🦃🤘🦃🤘🦃🤘🦃
Dungeon Wolf
Me: This heavy metal band is not too bad.
Also me: What do you mean it wasn't made in 1978 in someone's garage?
Edit: Happy birthday to you and the misses \m/
Happy Birthday man🎉🎉🎉
I hate all these bands myself, I do have to say I sort of had fun with The Way Of The Fist the first 5FDP album but mainly while getting drunk and playing a good beat em' up game lol.
Happy birthday! Nothing like spending part of your day shit talking bad bands. Enjoy the day, my friend!
Five Finger Donkey Punch
Disderped
Six Eeee Under
Man-OhhNo-war
Manowar is so fuckin dumb lmao
@@themetalmeltdownofficial But I kinda’ like them for that! Yes, there are some lyrics that are not politically correct for today’s standards, but their singer Eric Adams can freaking belt it!
youre a dorky punch
Surprised u didnt add sleep token 😭
Happy birthday bro from a New Zealander (kiwi) living in Japan, it's been a great year for Metal
Happy Birthday Robert!
Sevas Tra by Otep was actually really good, then it went off the rails from there haha.
Wicked Wisdom is by far one of my most hated bands. So much so that we booed them at Ozzfest ‘05.
@23:17 It was to be called The Three Tenors, not Tremors.
Not it wasn't, because The Three Tenors is already the name of an opera group.
Happy birthday uncle melty 🍻
🍺🍺🍺
Hope you’re having a great birthday man! Enjoyed the video
Imo, the first 3 5FDP albums aren't that bad, I actually found myself enjoying them. The rest are complete shit though
agreed. though i do also like the odd 1 or 2 songs from the Wrong Side of Heaven & onwards but that's about it.
Happy Birthday Robert, hope you have a great day, cheers from Brazil :)
Happy birthday and happy early birthday to Mrs. Meltdown!
Reminds me of my mom's on December 11, my stepdad December 12th, and their anniversary December 10th, so... yeah. It's all good! Loved the cooking video, need to watch w/my Love. Definitely looking forward to the next one!
Is katatonia going on the best of albums list because that would be disappoint if it does not make some of people's end of the year list
Sky void of stars
shhhh no spoilers
Was i the only one 1 l who loved the new omega infinity the
Anticurrent album this year tho or tallah the generation of danger
Did like FFDP's earlier material mainly from Way of the Fist to American Capitalist but yeah they went downhill after Wrong Side of Heaven vol 1 tbh. Great video btw.
Happy birthday dude 🎉 I found the channel just a few months ago and I love all the vids. Wish you the best :)
Why did you turn the comments off for the Still Sucks album review?? 😆
death threats
12:10 "queer and political"? And you say she's an awful person irl? The surprise!
Happy birthday Robert! Nice video. Tbh, out of the bands you mentioned I only know Limp Bizkit 😂😂
Limp Bizkit deserved to be on the list tho. The band sucks because of Fred Durst.
Thanks for putting us (The Three Tremors) on the list. At least we made somebodys list! We did play over 100 live shows together where those people that were at the shows loved us which makes being on this list a lively chuckle. Now go listen to Cage it will put some hair on your chest Junior
'Junior' lmao old man energy
Six feet unders haunted album was a banger, but after that? Wtf was that?
Happy birfday bud. Great video. Love your content.
Ffdp, bring me the horizon, psycho sinner, avenged sevenfold, machine head, judas priest, cradle of filth, mayhem, periphery, falling in reverse (hate is a strong word and some of these bands I may like certain songs and different aspects about them but overall the bad outweighs the good for me, also there are probably worse bands than these most definetly but I tried to pick my top 10 being more controversial picks from the bigger bands that get alot of praise. I would say bring me, ffdp and psycho sinner pretty much take the cake though, Machine head would be cool if it wasn't for Rob 😂 ) BTW happy birthday also
Judas Priest? 🥺🥺🥺
Judas Priest? You're not a Metalhead and no one will ever take you seriously.
10. 3:18
9. 5:53
8. 8:32
7. 11:44 (kinda found shocking never seen a lot of hate for them even people who don't lean that way in their beliefs seem to like them (also haven't heard the covers your talking about but for me personally the cover of Royals by Lorde favorite version
6. 14:21
5. 17:00 (never heard of them)
4. 20:00 (one of my favorites for all the wrong reasons should have just leaned into the jokes and become a parody band like steel panther)
3. 23:04 (never heard of them)
2. 25:35 (never heard of them)
1: 28:05 (never heard of them)
Happy birthday G, Love your videos even though I sometimes disagree. Love the content. Long Live the MM
The funniest part about barnes is how goddamned serious he takes himself. Like, he unironically believes sfu are kings of death metal, and cannibal are trash pretenders
Never heard of Dungeon Wolf before. Someone needs to fire their "PR" department 😂
Happy birthday! I’ve never heard dungeon wolf but you peaked my curiosity lol
Happy birthday bro, what better way to celebrate it 👍
Oooh this is certainly gonna be a fun list.
My all time hated bands for me
Dishonorable Mentions:
Kid Rock
Hollywood Undead
Machine Head
Five Finger Death Punch
Liturgy
Crazy Town
Attila
King 810
Rings of Saturn
Emmure
Skillet
Kiss
Trapt
Otep
10 Absurd
9 Brokencyde
8 Six Feet Under
7 Falling in Reverse
6 Dungeon Wolf
5 Tougher than Nails
4 Arrogance
3 Intolitarian
2 Blood on the Dance Floor
1 Psychosexual/Psycho Synner
Absurd... second that
Happy birthday! I want to thank you for this video. I am 51 years old and I feel this video serves more of a PSA than anything. I haven't heard some of these bands so thanks for the warnings.
Happy birthday! To be honest this list is a mixture of bands I'm somewhere between 'eh' and 'urgghhh' on, and those I just have never heard and see no need to, so no complaints here.
Happy Birthday man🤘I pretty much agree with you 99% - I do like about a half dozen Six Feet Under songs from way back...but I get your hating them, they are absolute garbage for at least 20+ years now
Happy birthday man! Hope you have a good year ahead of you
Limp Bizkit is the kind of thing you put on at a bonfire or house/garage party with your friends for the good nostalgic vibes. Listening to it seriously doesn’t work.
Happy Birthday bro!! 🎈🎉🎊
Thanks for all the great content!!😎
And happy birthday to your wife in advance!!😊
Growing up as a hardcore kid where most people had no idea what hardcore was was fun. People'd ask what kinda music you like and I'd say hardcore, and they'd say "like Slipknot?". Dude fuck Slipknot 😂😂😂.
Also, I'll never understand how FFDP got popular.
Happy Birthday my metal mate! Love your work bro!
Happy Birthday dude. I subbed once you threw the can and said "Nailed it." 😂😂
Edit - Completely agree with your list. Your list is my list.....has been for years. 😂😂 The funny thing is..........when you meet someone thats all about one of these bands......
Happy birthday Brofessor Robert and happy future birthday to the missus \m/
I will do my best to at least check in and say hi to you guys on friday but if I dip out its because I'm going to see Exodus Fit For An Autopsy and Darkest Hour that day, but rest assured I will rage extra hard for you guys and spark up some birthday joints for the two of you. Not a whole lot to disagree with here you are pretty much spot on with everything, I will say that I am still able to cut Otep some slack but I definitely get how she and her music can rub people the wrong way and I'm not going to die on that hill defending them. Everything else is pretty close to my personal takes on everyone on this list. Also my god "Diet Obituary" is a fucking nuclear bitch slap from God and I don't think anyone making fun of Chris Barnes will ever top that.
Pretty accurate for the most part. The only exception I’d make is the first six feet under album,haunted. Love that album.
Love Cage, Peck is an amazing vocalist. Give 'em listen. Some of the best in the genre without a doubt. Hell Destroyer is a classic!
I dont think he has enough testosterone in his body for Cage. Definitely hes loaded w Estrogen
@@SteelCartel What a goofy ass comment lmao
Happy birthday! I won't be able to tune in on Friday so tell Anna I said happy birthday too.
Lol Limp Bizkit.. i unironically love "Break Stuff". Me and a buddy of mine would sing that shit at work as a joke, and also just say the lyrics to explain how were feeling.
Its great
Happy Birthday!
I still don't feel bad for throwing on some Limp Bizkit in between the likes of Archgoat, Blasphemy or Von
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It was my birthday yesterday lol!!!! Happy birthday fellow november- born metalhead!!!
wait youre telling me "my life is like a videogame" is by falling in reverse?? that is fucking hilarious, i never knew that lmao
Happy Birthday! Good stuff … can’t believe Limp Bizkit is a thing again … total trash! The Three Tremors lineup I always heard about was Bruce Dickenson, Rob Halford and Geoff Tate of Queensryche. Hadn’t hard about the Ronnie version, interesting. Would have loved to hear either one.
Yeah it was not Dio, his research on Spotify didn't work out so well
You're birthday is the same day JFK got assassinated. That's pretty f**king cool. Happy B day
The only nice thing about 5FDP is that it reads as an abbreviation for "5 sons of a bitch" in Portuguese (5 filhos da puta).
That's it.
I was born on November 22nd as well, JFK unalived anniversary babies rise up!
Happy Birthday, to probably my favorite RUclips channel!
Also all deathcore is shit in my book death and thrash will always reign supreme.
The Tougher Than Nails discography is all rated lower than a 1 on Rate Your Music, by the way, which is the only time I've ever seen that.
Happy birthday dude❤🎉
I hope you have a great life🫶
Happy birthday! This was an entertaining and accurate list!
I've never heard of Falling In Reverse, Design The Skyline, Three Tremors, Tougher Than Nails or Dungeon Wolf. I did see OTEP open up for Nonpoint about 15 years ago. Not bad way back den
I used to be a 5FDP fan when I was in high school/college, and I used to wonder if I genuinely just outgrew their music as I just stopped listening to them altogether. I heard singles here and there from like 2015 onward and was like "bro, did they used to be this whiny and bland. Also, like why is this so water down?" Then I went back to their first 3 albums and realized that they really started to crumble from American Capitalist onward. The starting albums have some tracks that if someone played them on their radio, I'd probably vibe with it (even if some of it has not aged well, "The Way of the Fist" comes to mind), but they are not a band I have in my rotation anymore.
I generally don't hate what bands put out, but the bands that really make me go "why the hell did they think this was something worth releasing?" is Emmure, Attila, Six Feet Under, Theory of a Deadman (or I guess they go by Theory now), Falling In Reverse, and I will even throw in the seemingly agreed upon bad eras of Metallica, All That Remains, and Suicide Silence, because goddamn, those times made me question why I was of fan of their music to begin with. I definitely have a longer list of individuals who genuinely make me very irritated to have them performing in the generally from both an artistic and personal lens, even if I do find some of them to be talented, but that would be too long of a comment.
I would have included Psycho Sinner, but that would mean I acknowledge what they put out is music, and I think anyone who watches you knows the reasons why I say that.
Hope you had a great Birthday and listened to much better music after all of this!
What pissed me off is FFDP was the headliner and Megadeth opened for them. WTF Also if Amon Amarth and COB didn't get a guy fired up I don't want to know the guy. I think if I'd been at that 2013 concert, I would have walked out on FFDP. Six Feet Under-I loved their stuff throughout the years but I won't go near their past three albums. 2/14/98 -Houston TX Concert Attended/Loved It!!!
I'm pretty convinced that Dungeon Wolf is just a bunch of trolls having the time of their life.When I've seen those comments I couldn't take any of it seriously.