Reacting to the Top 10 Metal Songs

In this episode of my Spotify Reviews, I check out the latest Top 10 Metal songs.

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[ruffy]

Lindemann: "Ich hasse
Rick: "Nice!"

As a German that was kind of funny

[fuhryfhavyre]

Till Lindemann: "I hate kids"
Rick: "Nice!"

[luisrocha]

I love how Rick is always respectful with everything he's listening to and keeps his criticism on the most "technical" side of the song, which is production and recording stuff. Music critics have a lot to learn from him

[rockandrollisyourmom]

Rick during that Beartooth song is all of us guitarists every time we hear a song while holding a guitar.

[gogpoydi]

Most of these “metal” songs sound like late 2000’s pop rock

[jpjpjp]

I'll be polite and say that the majority was lackluster sounding drek.. There's a reason why there is such a vast underground of Metal bands, sounds, and scenes that do their best to avoid this.

[cafesociety]

Child; "I want metal".

Mum; "We have metal at home".

[nicolelittle]

Congratulations Beartooth. You made Beato wince several times.

[cody_sorensen]

summarizing:
Technology has improved, recording and mixing has diminished.
Songrwriting is dead and metal now is distorted pop.

[tonylanman]

The thing that makes me facepalm every time on most of these songs are the straight up pop choruses. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with pop, but the only difference between most of these choruses and a Taylor Swift song is simply TIMBRE. It's "metal" because the guitars are distorted, but it's all the same chord progressions, and all the same melodic tricks. I feel dismay because of the diversity and inventiveness of different genres being lost and homogenized. So many today think of this as metal because of screaming and/or slightly raspy vocals and heavy guitars. Timbre does not make a genre or a style.

[zachhessler]

I am surprised at how pop the singing is, even in the screaming songs when they sing. Metal has changed. Seems like a lot of metal bands these days need to get better sound engineers.

[jacktowers]

Can we just appreciate Ricks talent for how quickly he knows how to play a tune he’s hearing first time by ear

[LRMo]

10:55 Till Lindemann: "I HATE CHIIIILDREN!"
Rick Beato: "Nice!"
😂😂😂😂😂

[crispinmcsticks]

Scooped mids, flat hypercompression, didn’t know we were back in early 00s metalcore.

[mikeb]

When Rick hammering on the guitar trying to figure out the songs sounds better than the actual songs.

[thevillainycontagion]

The funny thing about this list is. Some people would hear these songs and think that they are too heavy and some people would say they sound weak. I personally feel like a lot of this stuff sounds weak, the singers sound like they’re 13 and whoever mixed the songs didn’t eq anything. However everyone likes different things so if this is your thing then go somewhere and love it.

[danpremo]

On the Beartooth song,
Rick: "And the drum fill has no impact."
Me: "There was a drum fill?"

[yammahopper]

Treat yourself. Check out Japans hard rock/metal bands. About 15 years ago Japans government decided to stress the arts as much as engineering and made learning an instrument a requirement in school. The results have been spectacular.

[AimlessMoto]

Till/Rammstein have had some amazing production values in the last 5 years.

[OriginalNuckChorris]

Just speaking German you're already doing metal.