My dear friends of the internet comment section. I now realize that I said "Warbinger" instead of "Warbringer". In all honestly, I actually like the name "Warbinger" as a cross between harbinger and war. However, this band is really lovingly named after one that brings war. A "War Bringer" i.e. either a nation or perhaps in many cases as history has shown us, a person. Now, you must understand the stress Rich and myself go through on camera. Each week we struggle to provide you with the best quality entertainment. There a blazing hot studio lights. Stress from our team of producers constantly demanding quality content under the threat of termination. And, of course, competition. Mainly from other TH-cam channels like ones who prank strangers, play video games or the Mr. Beastman who is actively curing diseases and helping to rid the world of poverty. So, while I don't really know the difference between Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Slam Metal, Doom Metal, Beast Metal, Grave Metal, Game Metal, Groove Metal, Prank Metal, or Ska Metal, I do pride myself on my ability to read. I'm looking down at my paper I've printed out on the blank sides of old Map Quest directions from last week and I'm dripping sweat on the pages. Producers are screaming into my ear piece "Keep it moving! Keep it funny!" and, "Less than a minute left, Mr. Evans needs to hop a jet to Singapore!" - you can understand how I could have easily misread that band name. Again, there maybe some factual errors in this video. Personally, I blame our team of researchers who spend hours and hours working on the content we present to you in these videos. It's not me just creating a word document and then copy/pasting band names in a list (single column formatted) so that I can read them to my friend Rich Evans in order to make him laugh and/or have a lively and humorous discussion. If you think it's just that well, then you're wrong. Thank you for your support and love in these dark and trying times. - Zak Bagpipes
I love the care that goes into the PR of this video even though 100% of the comments I read were positive. Can we expect this as a new ongoing form of RLM entertainment?
My dear friends. Please understand. We would never judge someone's taste in music. From Yoko Ono to Analcunt, it's whatever floats your boat. However, we reserve the right to our opinions. We reserve the right to laugh at things we don't understand. I will admit I have not listened to any of these bands. Some might be great. Some I might love. Others I might not love. I like talking with my best friend Rich Evans about things and topics and riffing with him. This was just that. Please don't be upset.
Take it from a metalhead, it comes with the territory. But we welcome all to the genre. Come to a concert sometime, we’re actually quite nice people. This is just something we enjoy for one reason or another.
You can judge someone's taste in music based on their clothes. Mike wears black so there's a chance that he secretly admires death metal to some extent. Meanwhile Rich's favorite death metal band is apparently the Amazing Spider-Man
I am the drummer of DEVOURMENT and a massive RLM fan. They said this crossover would never happen and I told them they were all wrong. I’m so happy right now I could cry. - Brad Fincher (DEVOURMENT)
My dear friends, I do in fact know that The Netherlands is not a nordic country. I was going to say Norway, but for some reason Netherlands fell out. Many of the bands from this list are from The Netherlands and it was on my little mind. Please forgive me. - Rich Evans
@@RakastanPorkkanakakkua All the bands he mentioned are comprised of old men in their mid to late 50s. Obituary: formed 1984. Anthrax: formed 1981. Lamb of God: formed 1994. Machine Head: formed 1991. Suicidal Tendencies: formed 1980. Fear Factory: formed 1989… it’s more like a young person ranting about the older generation’s culture.
I feel like you can really see one of the foundational aspects of their friendship on display in this video - Mike likes to make Rich laugh but he doesn't want it to be easy so he sets things up to let Rich know he's trying to make him laugh so Rich resists the urge to laugh making it all the more satisfying when he finally does. This is on display in a lot of the things they do, it's really cute how much satisfaction it seems to give Mike. We should all be so lucky to have a friend like that!
Mike was 100% right about The County Medical Examiners. From the Wikipedia: The County Medical Examiners is an American goregrind band who, in their own words, exist for the sole purpose of recreating the sound of early Carcass albums. The band is also known to do no live shows at all. All of the current members have graduated with an MD in medical school or are currently taking medical school classes, hence the name of the band.
I remember these guys. I think one of the members was like 30 years older than the other guys and he was a coworker who thought it’d be fun to join the band.
@@supersts7628 There was another gimmicky carcass clone active around the same time whose lyrics were PC master race and Morrowind>Oblivion. Can't remember the name for the life of me but one of the band member pics was a middle finger at a computer running SW Galaxies.
Makes me think someone on the crew is staying up late drunk going through YT comments which is both sad and extremely funny and awesome and relatable, personally.
Huge shout-out to Cannibal Corpse, their lead singer plays crane/claw machines at various places when they tour, and donates all of the toys he wins to children's hospitals. He's been doing it for years and years, and is damn good at it!
Gnarly dude. I guess if you play those machines enough you'll get a knack for how they work, and you can learn their 'timing' (as in when they allow you to actually win).
@@DF-ni5sy Uh, he probably was. He builds their sets, wheels of the worst/misfortune, Plinketto boards, BOTW tables etc (the comment was a joke though)
I feel like you can really see one of the foundational aspects of their friendship on display here - Mike likes to make Rich laugh but he doesn't want it to be easy so he sets things up to let Rich know he's trying to make him laugh so Rich resists the urge to laugh making it all the more satisfying when he finally does. This is on display in a lot of the things they do, it's really cute how much satisfaction it seems to give Mike. We should all be so lucky to have a friend like that
@@alice88wa I mean that’s all friendships tbh. I love making my friends laugh. And they’re used to my sense of humor so it’s a fun challenge. Mike and Rich have that and show us :)
As a metal fan and huge RLM fan this may be one of my favorite episodes to date man mike doing random growls made me cry laughing and just hearing them react to bands I know is gold
This episode has the energy of two parents that just found their child's CD collection and are appalled at the names and themes of the bands and albums.
Again...metal has been around for 60 years. Naming your metal band a dumb name has been around since before these two were born. Sometimes dumb things are dumb.
The question is, did he see the tv show or did he see them in concert? FYI - the live concert is about as deadly to your hearing as the Dethklok stage is to the audience in the cartoon.
@@CodyLenhart Only metal I really enjoy listening to. The Toki vs Skwisgaar guitar audition solos in Doomstar Requiem are ridiculously good. If I had a metal band, I'd what to call it Baby Shoes For Sale - Unworn
@@Junuman1yea all black cargo shorts and black shirts. One picture, they were wearing all white with fake blood splattered on it... Im guessing that's what OP meant when he referred to 'blood soaked scrubs' (except those aren't medical scrubs, they're white pants and shirts)
The most surreal episode for me. Not only do I know 90% of the bands that are mentioned but in personally friends with some of them. To hear Mike and Rich talk about your mates bands is a weird experience.
@@NevetsTSmith Haha, it isn't disgust. It is just boredom and second hand embarrassment. Metal is juvenile edgy attention seeking at its worst. Like rap, it is completely talentless and easy to mimic. For example - "So I shared a toke with Baphomet" "How could I forget" "The he-she goat of Mendes" Just made it up on the toilet. So the lyrics are almost all crap. What about the instrumental backing? Once again 99% of the time it's just crap.
As a big fan of both death metal and RLM, this was a great surprise! Also, Cattle Decapitation just came out with a new album and you all owe it to yourselves to hear it.
I think Mike would have laughed a bit more if he knew that Cattle Decapitation was a Vegan band that has songs and themes about Climate Change and Animal Cruelty
It's funny that Rich mentions Metalocalypse. There's a bit that they do as an easter egg on one of the DVDs where the band just sits in a closet with the lights off, naming bands. And it goes on for like 25 minutes. It's basically the same thing as this episode.
Yeah, when I saw some of those names, I thought for sure that Mike was just setting up a bit and looked up a whole bunch of names that looked "hardcore" to an old hack
I only recently discovered this channel. It's been a tough few months for me, so I'm glad to have found this great source of laughs and entertainment. Thanks, guys.
Rotting Christ is one of the most wholesome positive bands I’ve ever seen saw them with Revenge who were also absolute sweethearts. They both were like “ we love u brothers and sisters! ❤”
@@thelegendofxander haha I thought he was talking about Revenge and it was funny to imagine them after playing a war metal set to just be normal Canadian dudes being overly polite
RLM and Metal is the crossover I would never ever thought I would see and here you guys did it. One of the best things of Metal is the self awareness we have as fans, we know it's silly, and yet that's part of the charm of it. Some will take it seriously, but that's not the majority of the audience. From now on, I will quote every single explanation you guys did for every name of this bands as canon.
Rich almost nailed it. Gorgoroth is from Lord of the Rings but it's a place, not a creature. Also fun fact, this is one of the few bands named here that is actually black metal. The more you know!
I remember them, because they had a televised concert on polish TV. I mean severed goat heads and and naked ladies on crosses. Didn't go down well, police got involved. 😂
To be fair I listen to this type of music and I don't know who exactly is Black Metal. Burzum - definitely Dimmu Borgir - maybe Opeth? Wilderun?? Edge of Sanity???
What I like most about this, is how Mike repeatedly tries to make fun at Rich's expence, but it never really lands, because of the obvious love between these two old friends. Just beautiful!
Rich's decent media literacy when matched against Mike's pure-hearted ignorance will always be a match made in heaven because Mike will never believe when Rich is telling the truth
@@iceman4768i mean ive heard a lot of metalheads proudly proclaim that their genre is the modern equivalent to classical music. I cant speak to that because I know nothing about composition, but there's definitely an air of "we are so fucking awesome for being so fucking different", idk if pretentious is the right word. But most people use pretentious as a synonym for "something weird that i dont like" anyways 🤷♂️
I like the subtle moment where Mike is about to correctly describe Cannibal Corpse as death metal, then catches it and immediately calls them black metal instead. Also, fun fact, I know someone who started a death metal band called Maggot Erotica.
This is the funniest RLM video I have seen in a long time. I haven't laughed this hard since the Half in the Bag Episode with Xandu the Alien God (The Maze Runner: the Death Cure). The discussion of the band name "squid hammer" had me "ugly-crying" with laughter.
“(…) unfortunately i had to decline the offer… not because i didn’t believe in the project, or thought it wasn’t a story worth telling; far from it. in fact, the reason i chose against accepting the role is because i felt that the role would require research i felt i was unable to undertake tactfully. more specifically, i believe to properly embody the character of oskar schindler, i would need to have not only first-hand accounts and past interviews of schindler himself, but that i would also personal interviews with a number of survivors. this in and of itself is not an issue, but, the fact that a significant number of the survivors would likely be elderly, (given that the end of the war was, at the time of the casting, a bit under 48 years ago), is. this might not seem like an issue to you, but, you see, even the mere *thought* of an ailing elderly person has the power to bring me to tears of uproarious laughter. i didn’t want to subject that to these people, who have already gone through so much. i felt like leaving was ultimately the right move, especially once a proper replacement was found. funnily enough that reminded me of an episode of sta[tape cut]” -definitely a real interview with definitely the real mike stoklasa
@@michaelmyersknife8426 There have been websites that distributed CP with thousands of paying viewers... Yet the vast majority of people aren't pedophiles and the vast majority of people aren't into heavy metal. Do you actually think the whole worlds population attended your metal concert? Why are metal heads so dumb? None of this should have to be explained, it is basic logic.
@@educateme8455 i mean metal isn't the only genre that does 3 day weeks. This is pretty common for most music festivals. Sometimes you go for half a day, sometimes you go for the full thing. We're still people man lmao
@@educateme8455 Its a fantastic weekend trip, but you better stay away from city based festivals, those often suck hard, 100.000 happy-drunk metal fans camping on some field in the middle of nowhere for a weekend is very fun...
Hearing the elderly discuss death metal feels like a peak into my future when I'm old and full of farts and showing my band shirt collection to my knitting circle.
I used to work in a retirement home. This one old lady had like 10 band stickers on her walker, stuff like Slayer and Cannibal Corpse. We'd throw up the horns when we saw each other at work
@@tempexrer5627 My neighbor who I help out is 67 and constantly wears metal band t-shirts. She showed me her room once and she has various metal band posters on her wall and, I kid you not, a fucking Metallica bedspread and sheets set lmao
So the creative choice was either: Have Josh and Jay have a meaningful discussion on music or have Mike and Rich crap all over death metal... They chose wisely.
When Mike called us all idiots, I realized I just spent nearly half an hour listening to him read from a list of band names. But I thoroughly enjoyed it anyway.
4:48 "So what do you think of when you think a crowbar? " - Gordon Freeman spanking a wall with a crowbar doing the "CLANG CLANG CLANG" noise in Half Life 1
It reminded me of when David Letterman described Star Wars when the special editions came out in ‘97. He said something to the effect of “Aren’t you familiar with THE STAR WARS, Paul? That’s when the Star Wars team went into outer space to battle the Martians.”
Rich: "Mike, I've seen Metalocalypse." Rich is the best. Mike: "Gorgoroth." Rich: "Sounds like a LoTR creature." Almost, it's a region in LoTR. Rich is still the best.
As someone who has loved and been adjacent to the metal scene for over 20 years, I can tell you most/maybe almost all of the bands you guys mentioned here would absolutely love this video.
One of my favorite parts is hearing these classic, amazing bands, get read off like they're a bunch of weird kids- but like Gorguts is in their 40s-50s. But i thought this was a video about Star Trek, so i hadn't watched it- so it just shows we're all nerds for something
Best RLM video ever. I love watching these old men riffing on my favorite genre of music. It brings back nostalgic memories of when I was younger having classmates and adults asking me how I could listen to this "screaming garbage."
Squidhammer checking in to say thanks for the PR! LOL. 😂 Kinda wishing you would've included the urban dictionary definition of "Squidhammer" in the segment. Lol. Whole different direction.
OMG what a funny and EDGY name. So fucking cool and unique and funny. Did I mention it was cool and funny? Sucks you're the most mid band in the lineup. If only your music was as cool and awesome as your band's name. 😢
As a fan of both Metal culture and RLM, my appreciation of Mike in full boomer mode explaining something he, clearly, has no term of reference, to Rich is one of the best things ever. PS; great line-up.
He's actually younger than me, and I'm "considered" Gen-X. I'm assuming that the whole "boomer" thing is anyone older than the other person. Either that or the Boomer Twitter feud with Shatner was referring to Shatner and not Mike... 🤘
The death metal genre is roughly 40 years old. Mike's a boomer but not because he finds DM to be cringe worthy. Most modern high schoolers and college students find it cringe worthy.
Raven is a band from the early 80's. It was a simpler time, and you could get away with calling your band Raven or Crocodile, or Lion...because they were cool animals.
After hearing Mike and Rich break down these names and having a laugh at it i think i'm finally understanding what my dad means when he says death metal is "stupid". Oh well! i'm too invested in this, it's too late for me to jump down! PD: my fave death metal band name is Fulci, an italian band named after the movie director, mostly because its a geeky name
Fun fact, a funeral home scamming their customers by reusing the same casket over and over is actually the premise of the 1963 Vincent Price and Peter Lorre film Comedy of Terrors.
It was also the B plot to an early episode of CSI (the one in Vegas). The mortician dumped a body in a dumpster in downtown Las Vegas as was surprised when he was found out. Go figure.
Now they just scam people by pretending to cremate their loved ones, but really just tossing the corpses into a cesspool out back and giving the family an urn filled with cigarette ash.
No joke: I had wished for an Dying Fetus CD for my 20th or so birthday and my dad, absolutely not into this kind of thing, had gone to a record shop, asked for it and got it for me. I love my Dad.
I was never into death metal but I always liked "Fornication Terrorists" and to this day it's their only song I know (I knew a metal head who had a giant collection).
Mike is 1000% right about going on the internet and finding all the good names taken. It's maddening and exactly how you get weird names like Funeral Drape.
My dear friends of the internet comment section. I now realize that I said "Warbinger" instead of "Warbringer". In all honestly, I actually like the name "Warbinger" as a cross between harbinger and war. However, this band is really lovingly named after one that brings war. A "War Bringer" i.e. either a nation or perhaps in many cases as history has shown us, a person. Now, you must understand the stress Rich and myself go through on camera. Each week we struggle to provide you with the best quality entertainment. There a blazing hot studio lights. Stress from our team of producers constantly demanding quality content under the threat of termination. And, of course, competition. Mainly from other TH-cam channels like ones who prank strangers, play video games or the Mr. Beastman who is actively curing diseases and helping to rid the world of poverty. So, while I don't really know the difference between Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Slam Metal, Doom Metal, Beast Metal, Grave Metal, Game Metal, Groove Metal, Prank Metal, or Ska Metal, I do pride myself on my ability to read. I'm looking down at my paper I've printed out on the blank sides of old Map Quest directions from last week and I'm dripping sweat on the pages. Producers are screaming into my ear piece "Keep it moving! Keep it funny!" and, "Less than a minute left, Mr. Evans needs to hop a jet to Singapore!" - you can understand how I could have easily misread that band name. Again, there maybe some factual errors in this video. Personally, I blame our team of researchers who spend hours and hours working on the content we present to you in these videos. It's not me just creating a word document and then copy/pasting band names in a list (single column formatted) so that I can read them to my friend Rich Evans in order to make him laugh and/or have a lively and humorous discussion. If you think it's just that well, then you're wrong. Thank you for your support and love in these dark and trying times. - Zak Bagpipes
Understandable, have a nice day
Fair enough.
Trap Them!!! ('them' as in those hack researchers)
😂😂😂😁😁😁👌👌👌
I love the care that goes into the PR of this video even though 100% of the comments I read were positive. Can we expect this as a new ongoing form of RLM entertainment?
My dear friends. Please understand. We would never judge someone's taste in music. From Yoko Ono to Analcunt, it's whatever floats your boat. However, we reserve the right to our opinions. We reserve the right to laugh at things we don't understand. I will admit I have not listened to any of these bands. Some might be great. Some I might love. Others I might not love. I like talking with my best friend Rich Evans about things and topics and riffing with him. This was just that. Please don't be upset.
You’re good Mike, no worries
Take it from a metalhead, it comes with the territory. But we welcome all to the genre. Come to a concert sometime, we’re actually quite nice people. This is just something we enjoy for one reason or another.
Do more episodes like this! Love it 😀
You can judge someone's taste in music based on their clothes. Mike wears black so there's a chance that he secretly admires death metal to some extent. Meanwhile Rich's favorite death metal band is apparently the Amazing Spider-Man
Not upset, most entertaining, as usual 🤘🤣
Honestly, Mike could be the front man for a death metal band.
"Elder Abuse" could be their name.
And Mike could growl about the elderly falling over 😂
i mean there *is* a noise rock band called child abuse
@@michaelstudley8062 Well played, sir, well played :D
"Elderly Abuse" sounds more fitting.
Let's come up with some song names
-Dialysis Destruction
-Shattered Skeleton
-Colostomy Incantation
ft Mr Pinkett moaning in pain, and a special guest star by Emperor Plapi!
Even at 45 years old this is like watching my 75 year old dad discuss this topic
LOL
... isn't it great 😆?!!
55 YO here; same.
For a Metal and RLM fan, this episode was a beautiful little unexpected treat.
I am the drummer of DEVOURMENT and a massive RLM fan. They said this crossover would never happen and I told them they were all wrong. I’m so happy right now I could cry. - Brad Fincher (DEVOURMENT)
You are a killer drummer!
Saw you guys last night in Chicago! Excellent show!
Come to Buffalo!
Hi Brad
Nice! My favorite Devourment song is Festering Vomitous Mass. This is the best comment section ever.
Let us know if you would like some Goatwh*ore shirts or LPs XD!
Oh my god- worlds are colliding
saw them months back, awesome shit
Everyone like metal blade’s comment!
Amazing lol
This was unexpected to see.
Little did Mike know, by demonstrating his sick growls now every metal band is gonna want him for guest vocals.
They could sample him.
Honestly pretty good voice for metal.
Should just be a recurring bit, so funny and not bad.
reminded me of new darkthrone.
10:50 The way he says IKEA is pretty great
"Death Metal," sometimes referred to as "Black Metal."
Incredible. These men are national treasures.
My dear friends, I do in fact know that The Netherlands is not a nordic country. I was going to say Norway, but for some reason Netherlands fell out. Many of the bands from this list are from The Netherlands and it was on my little mind. Please forgive me. - Rich Evans
Thank you Rich Evans™ for your needed apology, it was brave and I personally feel better seeing this.
No
Rich taking all the heat like a good friend.
Rich’s mind collapsed like a rusty folding chable
I forgive you forever Rich.
I'm totally here for the "we're uploading whatever we want" era of redlettermedia
“We’ve run out of bad movies” will never be an excuse.
Living out their golden years, care free!
This entire video felt like an old man sitting next to you on a bus and ranting about the younger generation's culture.
If they'll start doing rich evans on retro video games, discussing the intricacies of original hardware vs emulation vs FPGA... I'll just plotz
@@RakastanPorkkanakakkua All the bands he mentioned are comprised of old men in their mid to late 50s. Obituary: formed 1984. Anthrax: formed 1981. Lamb of God: formed 1994. Machine Head: formed 1991. Suicidal Tendencies: formed 1980. Fear Factory: formed 1989… it’s more like a young person ranting about the older generation’s culture.
I feel like you can really see one of the foundational aspects of their friendship on display in this video - Mike likes to make Rich laugh but he doesn't want it to be easy so he sets things up to let Rich know he's trying to make him laugh so Rich resists the urge to laugh making it all the more satisfying when he finally does. This is on display in a lot of the things they do, it's really cute how much satisfaction it seems to give Mike. We should all be so lucky to have a friend like that!
You get it
Mike was 100% right about The County Medical Examiners. From the Wikipedia:
The County Medical Examiners is an American goregrind band who, in their own words, exist for the sole purpose of recreating the sound of early Carcass albums. The band is also known to do no live shows at all. All of the current members have graduated with an MD in medical school or are currently taking medical school classes, hence the name of the band.
The fact that they're actually in the medical field makes that such a perfect title.
I remember these guys. I think one of the members was like 30 years older than the other guys and he was a coworker who thought it’d be fun to join the band.
@@lostinthegrave7462 How based!
its better than just recreating the sound of early carcass, im pretty sure they literally play carcass riffs backwards
@@supersts7628 There was another gimmicky carcass clone active around the same time whose lyrics were PC master race and Morrowind>Oblivion. Can't remember the name for the life of me but one of the band member pics was a middle finger at a computer running SW Galaxies.
Mike having to explain himself in the comments is my favorite part of this video
😂😂🤣🤣
"My dear friends"
same
Makes me think someone on the crew is staying up late drunk going through YT comments which is both sad and extremely funny and awesome and relatable, personally.
Imagine the view spike if they announced they had chosen 10-15 videos to go back and comment/elaborate their thoughts under randomly
Congratulations to The Netherlands for joining the Nordic countries!
Mike is half alcohol and half American. It is amazing that he can name any countries at all.
Close enough
they grow tulips fss
Effectively the same genetically so nice one Mike
Sweden's joining NATO
The Netherlands are joining the Nordic countries
Cats and dogs are living together
Rich calling the Gorgoroth one correctly with the LOTR ref is pure nerd knowledge creeping from the back of his brain, love it
It's a place, not a creature though no? Pretty close though.
Huge shout-out to Cannibal Corpse, their lead singer plays crane/claw machines at various places when they tour, and donates all of the toys he wins to children's hospitals. He's been doing it for years and years, and is damn good at it!
Gotta love Corpsegrinder. So wholesome.
@@jackthompson1544 Yes! Dude loves shopping at Target!
Gnarly dude. I guess if you play those machines enough you'll get a knack for how they work, and you can learn their 'timing' (as in when they allow you to actually win).
His Instagram is one of the most wholesome things on the Internet. All claw machines and doing stuff with his incredibly normal family.
Corpsegrinder, not Barnes
I love how sweaty Rich is looking because he was probably doing something more important than this video until Mike made him do this.
Oh god you're right 🤣 "Rich! Stop building that set and come listen to me read band names for a half hour!"
But also we still won't let you leave Rich until you finish all your work but you still have to shoot this video
@@DF-ni5sy Uh, he probably was. He builds their sets, wheels of the worst/misfortune, Plinketto boards, BOTW tables etc (the comment was a joke though)
Nothing is more important than this video
It’s because it’s suddenly 80-some degrees here. We haven’t had time to shed our winter coats.
This episode feels like Mike was lonely and missed his friend, celebrity-superstar Rich Evans. Please make more.
Wait, THE Rich Evans?! From the Ellen DeGeneres show?
I need more "Mike reads from a list while Rich laughs" episodes.
Rich has spent lots of time on the red carpet events lately. It’s good that Mike keeps him grounded.
@@SteffeBNL close, the rich degenerate show
What happened to Kevin alone at Home?
This is just Mike and Rich hanging out and I love it
I feel like you can really see one of the foundational aspects of their friendship on display here - Mike likes to make Rich laugh but he doesn't want it to be easy so he sets things up to let Rich know he's trying to make him laugh so Rich resists the urge to laugh making it all the more satisfying when he finally does. This is on display in a lot of the things they do, it's really cute how much satisfaction it seems to give Mike. We should all be so lucky to have a friend like that
@@alice88wa I mean that’s all friendships tbh. I love making my friends laugh. And they’re used to my sense of humor so it’s a fun challenge. Mike and Rich have that and show us :)
As a metal fan and huge RLM fan this may be one of my favorite episodes to date man mike doing random growls made me cry laughing and just hearing them react to bands I know is gold
This episode has the energy of two parents that just found their child's CD collection and are appalled at the names and themes of the bands and albums.
All you need to do now is contact the PMRC
Again...metal has been around for 60 years. Naming your metal band a dumb name has been around since before these two were born. Sometimes dumb things are dumb.
Extreme boomer energy
Not so much appalled as disappointed.
I see this as a preview of the kind of discussions these two will have when they've quietly retired to the Shady Pines Nursing Home.
Mike trying to explain death metal to Rich and Rich just being like "Mike i seen Metalocalypse" is a certified birthday boy moment.
Dethklok is so much better than it has any right to be. Brenden Smalls is amazing.
That was the high point of the video.
The question is, did he see the tv show or did he see them in concert? FYI - the live concert is about as deadly to your hearing as the Dethklok stage is to the audience in the cartoon.
@@CodyLenhart Only metal I really enjoy listening to. The Toki vs Skwisgaar guitar audition solos in Doomstar Requiem are ridiculously good.
If I had a metal band, I'd what to call it Baby Shoes For Sale - Unworn
Holy fuck this made me shit my pant sin laughter
I just want Mike to know that General Surgery actually wears bloodsoaked scrubs and not just black shirts, this is wholesome information
But when I looked them up all I saw was black buttoned up shirts
@@Junuman1yea all black cargo shorts and black shirts.
One picture, they were wearing all white with fake blood splattered on it... Im guessing that's what OP meant when he referred to 'blood soaked scrubs' (except those aren't medical scrubs, they're white pants and shirts)
Not gonna lie. This lineup is fucking incredible.
holy fucking fuck yes fuck!!!
Fuck!!! amazin' incredibles!! fantiastico!!!
fucking fuck!!!
A real banger of a concert, definetely would have bought a ticket !
"Dying Fetus....that's my mom's favorite band"
Never change Mike 😂😂
Love the fuck out of that band. ♥
@@MegaAedu So does my Mom!
Haahahahah, gold
@@ubertaker2299 Your mom is awesome!
Mike explaining metal bands to Rich is like my mom explaining metal bands to Rich.
The most surreal episode for me. Not only do I know 90% of the bands that are mentioned but in personally friends with some of them. To hear Mike and Rich talk about your mates bands is a weird experience.
Watching Grandpa learn less than 1% of metal lore (and get so much wrong) has been supremely validating.
What's validating about being a gossip girl for atrocious "music"?
@@BumboLooks i dunno why don't you tell us.
@@kage6613 I'm not a heavy metal fan babe.
@@BumboLooks It's always satisfying to know there's still a few holdouts reeling in disgust.
@@NevetsTSmith Haha, it isn't disgust. It is just boredom and second hand embarrassment.
Metal is juvenile edgy attention seeking at its worst.
Like rap, it is completely talentless and easy to mimic.
For example -
"So I shared a toke with Baphomet"
"How could I forget"
"The he-she goat of Mendes"
Just made it up on the toilet.
So the lyrics are almost all crap.
What about the instrumental backing?
Once again 99% of the time it's just crap.
Knowing that Rich has watched Metalocalypse decreased my depression.
DIE FOR DETHKLOK
Dude same.
Can't wait for the Metalocalypse movie.
Think we can petition Rich to voice a side character?
I’m cured
Watching Mike trying to explain death metal to Rich, who already knows more about the topic than him is amusing.
I would like to think it's for the benefit of the audience.
Mikesplaining
Hearing Mike list off my favorite metal bands with grandpa level confusion warms my heart so much.
The boys are always good for a David Carradine joke
Nothing makes me more happy in these videos than seeing Mike pull out a piece of paper.
As someone who been steeped in this culture since I was a kid hearing Mike talk about these bands like a grandma has been the best.
Mike went full boomer and I'm loving it.
Its adorable
@@VikingTeddyMy grandmother would be over like 110 years old and she grasped metal more than Mike does.
@@fluffskunk I'm sure he's hamming it up just a tad.
ofc "metalheads" would be indoctrinated at a young age, i feel sorry for u guys
As a big fan of both death metal and RLM, this was a great surprise! Also, Cattle Decapitation just came out with a new album and you all owe it to yourselves to hear it.
CATTLE DECAP!!
Cattle Decap rules! :D
I think Mike would have laughed a bit more if he knew that Cattle Decapitation was a Vegan band that has songs and themes about Climate Change and Animal Cruelty
@@gkezele It makes sense, Napalm Death (also mentioned in this video) is anti-war, and the like.
I would listen to Mike's Death Metal Band!
Random angryjoe encounter in the wild. Hello Joe
Yo nice to see you man. Keep up the good work
His Palpatine impression would be better suited for black metal.
Oh shit, it's Pissed-off Pendejo!
But seriously, apply for a BOTW episode. Or a Star Trek-themed one-off episode.
@@juergen4ever oh god
Mike joking about the fans pronouncing "Macabre" and then not understanding "Micawber" is the funniest part of this bit.
Micawber Culkin was a great guest
I just posted this then seen your comment. A truly missed opportunity for a Rich laugh if they had noticed this.
milcauber wisconsin
you mean Mike Weber?
Or warbringer. It's war-bringer lol
Standing ovation for Zak Bagpipes. I laughed the loudest for that one.
At this point in my life, I genuinely need to hear Rich Evans laugh once a day
It's funny that Rich mentions Metalocalypse. There's a bit that they do as an easter egg on one of the DVDs where the band just sits in a closet with the lights off, naming bands. And it goes on for like 25 minutes. It's basically the same thing as this episode.
Duncan. Duncan. Duncan Hills Coffee!
is it really an "Easter egg" if it's the whole episode?
@@a_sconefieldIt isn't an episode. It's literally just a DVD easter egg
As a 90s metal head, the most shocking thing to me is that half of these bands are still going
Imagine them at 85 on stage, on walkers and wheelchairs, but still dressed up. After every line they sing a nurse pops a breathing mask on them.
Yeah, when I saw some of those names, I thought for sure that Mike was just setting up a bit and looked up a whole bunch of names that looked "hardcore" to an old hack
They are like... zombies (with trombones)?
Napalm Death were old when I was listening to them in the 90's lol
@cyberlyme the band members of Napalm Death would have been in their 20s - early 30s during the 90s. Unless you're 14 I wouldn't consider that old.
I only recently discovered this channel. It's been a tough few months for me, so I'm glad to have found this great source of laughs and entertainment. Thanks, guys.
He doesn't just bring war. He binges it.
Make it a movie.
"Unless you die on a wednesday, everyone is dead by wednesday." -Mike Stoklasa, 2023
Mike has set relations between us metalheads and normies back decades JUST by starting with "black metal and death metal are the same thing."
I have a buddy who loves RLM and metal, so I'm watching this with mixed emotions. Haha
@@knightslegion1731 I love Metal and RLM and i'm watching this with mixed emotions lol
@@AgentLemmon haha!
I came here to say that, thank you 😂
@@AgentLemmon I attended metalfest this last weekend, when I clicked on this video I was NOT expecting them to be talking about it!
Rotting Christ is one of the most wholesome positive bands I’ve ever seen saw them with Revenge who were also absolute sweethearts.
They both were like “ we love u brothers and sisters! ❤”
the heavier the band's music the nicer the people are I have found.
Canadians.....
@@uchiigtana they're actually from greece!
@@thelegendofxander haha I thought he was talking about Revenge and it was funny to imagine them after playing a war metal set to just be normal Canadian dudes being overly polite
@@DanCohoonpart of the reason I love metal and find metal shows to have the best and most friendly crowds
RLM and Metal is the crossover I would never ever thought I would see and here you guys did it. One of the best things of Metal is the self awareness we have as fans, we know it's silly, and yet that's part of the charm of it. Some will take it seriously, but that's not the majority of the audience. From now on, I will quote every single explanation you guys did for every name of this bands as canon.
Rich almost nailed it. Gorgoroth is from Lord of the Rings but it's a place, not a creature. Also fun fact, this is one of the few bands named here that is actually black metal. The more you know!
I remember them, because they had a televised concert on polish TV. I mean severed goat heads and and naked ladies on crosses. Didn't go down well, police got involved. 😂
@@djchristian82 Black Knights of Minas Morgul is my favorite death metal band
Khazzadum, there's actually 2 bands with the name, spelled differently, Melkor, Angband, Mordor, are a few 🤘
I do enjoy how much lotr has influenced Rock and Metal. Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Megadeath and so on.
To be fair I listen to this type of music and I don't know who exactly is Black Metal.
Burzum - definitely
Dimmu Borgir - maybe
Opeth?
Wilderun??
Edge of Sanity???
You know a video's gonna be good when Mike pulls out the paper list
... almost literally from his ass. 🍑
Never read THAT one before 😅
That’s every episode
What I like most about this, is how Mike repeatedly tries to make fun at Rich's expence, but it never really lands, because of the obvious love between these two old friends. Just beautiful!
As a metalhead, I simply loved every moment of this. I was waiting for Mike to mention Assuck, and sure enough he did.
I'm just disappointed they didn't make fun of us
same!
I came here to say this.
@@StonedJesus Holly man! didnt know you guys are fans :DD hope you guys doing great and wish you would get back to czechia soon
Your music is metal? Okay.
tbf that's pretty good name
Rich's decent media literacy when matched against Mike's pure-hearted ignorance will always be a match made in heaven because Mike will never believe when Rich is telling the truth
We miss you kip, come home
Rich is like Jesus.
"Where the fuck is GWAR??" That just nailed me xD
@@skitkjell85
GWAR is kinda in a field by themselves.
@@greggstrasser5791 That... I fully agree with xD Still amazing though ^_^
idk how many times i've seen this video already, it just makes me genuinely happy
I could listen to Mike and Rich mock metal band names all day. This is incredible. Please, more of this.
It’s a shame Josh wasn’t in this video to give a full biography of every band on that list
He's busy with his music jobs and such, and he'd probably hate Mike if he was on, considering he's the main music man of the 5
I want a part 2, with Josh
@@Squatch-sj3vg That'd be even better cus then mike could just make fun of him
@@Squatch-sj3vg Josh would be all "oh sure, Cunt Breacher, they were never as good as "The Skeleton Lickers"
@@iceman4768i mean ive heard a lot of metalheads proudly proclaim that their genre is the modern equivalent to classical music.
I cant speak to that because I know nothing about composition, but there's definitely an air of "we are so fucking awesome for being so fucking different", idk if pretentious is the right word. But most people use pretentious as a synonym for "something weird that i dont like" anyways 🤷♂️
It's feels weird watching a new red letter media episode with obscure bands that you've listened to for years
I get dick tingles everytime they off-handedly mention the Insane Clown Posse... which weirdly happens with more frequency than one might expect.
It’s like a crossover episode!
@@SlimDodger a crossover-thrash episode
Casket talk with Mike and Rich - feels like we are all living in one nice big Home for the Elderly together! ;)
I'm convinced Mike made this video to flex his death metal screaming talent
I like the subtle moment where Mike is about to correctly describe Cannibal Corpse as death metal, then catches it and immediately calls them black metal instead.
Also, fun fact, I know someone who started a death metal band called Maggot Erotica.
Seeing Mike lose it over "Zack Bagpipes" genuinely made my day better.
As a RLM and metal fan… this is a hilarious crossover I did not expect
This is the funniest RLM video I have seen in a long time. I haven't laughed this hard since the Half in the Bag Episode with Xandu the Alien God (The Maze Runner: the Death Cure). The discussion of the band name "squid hammer" had me "ugly-crying" with laughter.
Fun fact, Mike was a frontrunner to play Oskar Schindler because he likes making lists.
AIDS
Would be subtly different movie if Schindler's list was about metal bands.
But, do we get to see Rich Evans running around in a red dress?
If so I'm in.
“(…) unfortunately i had to decline the offer… not because i didn’t believe in the project, or thought it wasn’t a story worth telling; far from it. in fact, the reason i chose against accepting the role is because i felt that the role would require research i felt i was unable to undertake tactfully. more specifically, i believe to properly embody the character of oskar schindler, i would need to have not only first-hand accounts and past interviews of schindler himself, but that i would also personal interviews with a number of survivors. this in and of itself is not an issue, but, the fact that a significant number of the survivors would likely be elderly, (given that the end of the war was, at the time of the casting, a bit under 48 years ago), is. this might not seem like an issue to you, but, you see, even the mere *thought* of an ailing elderly person has the power to bring me to tears of uproarious laughter. i didn’t want to subject that to these people, who have already gone through so much. i felt like leaving was ultimately the right move, especially once a proper replacement was found. funnily enough that reminded me of an episode of sta[tape cut]” -definitely a real interview with definitely the real mike stoklasa
Schindler's List 2 - Mike's List (Electric Boogaloo)
I love death metal and red letter media, so I know this is going to be good. I also know Mike's going to hate it.
As a metalhead, this episode was quite a pleasant surprise. I loved every second of it.
A terrifying yet intriguing glimpse into old age. Thanks Mike!
p.s. Blood Incantation is an amazing band!
As you are, we once were.
As we are…so shall you become.
So is gorguts!
Old for making fun of crap music?
Most people of every age range hate heavy metal.
@@michaelmyersknife8426 There have been websites that distributed CP with thousands of paying viewers...
Yet the vast majority of people aren't pedophiles and the vast majority of people aren't into heavy metal.
Do you actually think the whole worlds population attended your metal concert?
Why are metal heads so dumb?
None of this should have to be explained, it is basic logic.
Props to Rich for being a big enough nerd to sus out Gorgoroth was Tolkien-related
Everyone loves a bit of metal but who wants three full days of it?
What does that person do with themself in a normal day?
@@educateme8455 probably sleep, eat, drink, the typical.
Get a stern lecture from their ENT.
@@educateme8455 i mean metal isn't the only genre that does 3 day weeks. This is pretty common for most music festivals. Sometimes you go for half a day, sometimes you go for the full thing. We're still people man lmao
@@educateme8455 Its a fantastic weekend trip, but you better stay away from city based festivals, those often suck hard, 100.000 happy-drunk metal fans camping on some field in the middle of nowhere for a weekend is very fun...
Hearing the elderly discuss death metal feels like a peak into my future when I'm old and full of farts and showing my band shirt collection to my knitting circle.
Idk I’m 3 years older than Mike and this is a pretty cringe take on it all. But also that’s probably the joke.
I thought they hit the nail on the head. Those band names are fucking dumb 😆
I used to work in a retirement home. This one old lady had like 10 band stickers on her walker, stuff like Slayer and Cannibal Corpse. We'd throw up the horns when we saw each other at work
@@tempexrer5627 My neighbor who I help out is 67 and constantly wears metal band t-shirts. She showed me her room once and she has various metal band posters on her wall and, I kid you not, a fucking Metallica bedspread and sheets set lmao
@@Curleysound He's right though, black and death metal suck.
2:58
When Mike said this i got kinda nervous, this is the closest RLM has ever got to mentioning Varg
as a metalhead, I'm happy to have all these great new recommendations... thanks Rich and Mike!
So the creative choice was either: Have Josh and Jay have a meaningful discussion on music or have Mike and Rich crap all over death metal... They chose wisely.
I love ‘em but Josh and Jay’s discussion would been about guys with ironic facial hair making bleep-bloop music released only on 8-track
@@capsjukeboxI could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure Josh could hold his own on a discussion about death metal / black metal
@@capsjukebox which would have been awesome
When Mike called us all idiots, I realized I just spent nearly half an hour listening to him read from a list of band names. But I thoroughly enjoyed it anyway.
4:48 "So what do you think of when you think a crowbar? "
- Gordon Freeman spanking a wall with a crowbar doing the "CLANG CLANG CLANG" noise in Half Life 1
Same
Listening to Mike and Rich Evans talk about Extreme Metal is the most surreal experience I think I've ever had
Mike's opening explanation of death metal was the most Norm Macdonald thing I've ever heard
It reminded me of when David Letterman described Star Wars when the special editions came out in ‘97. He said something to the effect of “Aren’t you familiar with THE STAR WARS, Paul? That’s when the Star Wars team went into outer space to battle the Martians.”
please don't say that. norm was actually funny.
Rich: "Mike, I've seen Metalocalypse."
Rich is the best.
Mike: "Gorgoroth."
Rich: "Sounds like a LoTR creature."
Almost, it's a region in LoTR. Rich is still the best.
“Mike, I’ve seen Metalocalypse” is the new “Larry, I’m on DuckTales”
@@jalefkowit I have no idea what that means.
As someone who has loved and been adjacent to the metal scene for over 20 years, I can tell you most/maybe almost all of the bands you guys mentioned here would absolutely love this video.
Was thinking the same
One of my favorite parts is hearing these classic, amazing bands, get read off like they're a bunch of weird kids- but like Gorguts is in their 40s-50s. But i thought this was a video about Star Trek, so i hadn't watched it- so it just shows we're all nerds for something
Best RLM video ever. I love watching these old men riffing on my favorite genre of music. It brings back nostalgic memories of when I was younger having classmates and adults asking me how I could listen to this "screaming garbage."
Does Mike know he could add more columns to his Word document list to reduce the twelve pages? 😂
Bold of you to assume Mike doesn't use Notepad for these
He may only look like hes in his 60s, but hes 100+ when it comes to using technology.
Don't anyone dare bring up Excel.
You guys are all wrong. He wrote it by hand on those kindergarten-ruled sheets for practicing capitals & lowercase.
he did but he used a large font so he could see them better
Any episode with Rich cannot be the least viewed episode. You can't argue against science
In the thumbnail, no less
I'd actually argue he's a superstar. However, it could easily be their *last* viewed episode, because of his extreme age. And diabetes.
4 out of 5 dentists agree
Science is a dumb b**** sometimes tho like with round earth theory
It’s not the least viewed. It’s the second least viewed
Alternate Title: two old men discover death metal
I love Mike's "explanation" of Metal. As a Metal head, its great
Squidhammer checking in to say thanks for the PR! LOL. 😂 Kinda wishing you would've included the urban dictionary definition of "Squidhammer" in the segment. Lol. Whole different direction.
You live near them, go on one of their episodes 😄
"thanks for the PR!" cringe
OMG what a funny and EDGY name. So fucking cool and unique and funny. Did I mention it was cool and funny?
Sucks you're the most mid band in the lineup. If only your music was as cool and awesome as your band's name. 😢
@@Filthy_Casual5 who hurt you?
@@Filthy_Casual5 man who the fuck pissed in your cheerios?
you know it's gonna be good when mike whips out his paper list of items written on paper
God I wish this would happen more. Even with star trek some of the notes were short. I love it when they really latch onto something and tear it apart
Just the low-effort entertainment I needed.
This lineup was actually insane
As a fan of both Metal culture and RLM, my appreciation of Mike in full boomer mode explaining something he, clearly, has no term of reference, to Rich is one of the best things ever. PS; great line-up.
He's actually younger than me, and I'm "considered" Gen-X. I'm assuming that the whole "boomer" thing is anyone older than the other person. Either that or the Boomer Twitter feud with Shatner was referring to Shatner and not Mike... 🤘
The death metal genre is roughly 40 years old. Mike's a boomer but not because he finds DM to be cringe worthy. Most modern high schoolers and college students find it cringe worthy.
Boomer mode is just a figure of speech. I’m gen x and older than Mike.
Raven is a band from the early 80's. It was a simpler time, and you could get away with calling your band Raven or Crocodile, or Lion...because they were cool animals.
Mid 70's, actually
ZEBRA!!!
After hearing Mike and Rich break down these names and having a laugh at it i think i'm finally understanding what my dad means when he says death metal is "stupid". Oh well! i'm too invested in this, it's too late for me to jump down!
PD: my fave death metal band name is Fulci, an italian band named after the movie director, mostly because its a geeky name
Have to say, after a few drinks, this was the funniest 26 minutes RLM have ever produced
Here’s to a part 3 🍻
Fun fact, a funeral home scamming their customers by reusing the same casket over and over is actually the premise of the 1963 Vincent Price and Peter Lorre film Comedy of Terrors.
It was also the B plot to an early episode of CSI (the one in Vegas). The mortician dumped a body in a dumpster in downtown Las Vegas as was surprised when he was found out. Go figure.
You beat me to it. Great movie!
You beat me to it, too.
It is also one of the topics of the Serbian film "Maratonci trce pocasni krug". It is a very old movie.
Now they just scam people by pretending to cremate their loved ones, but really just tossing the corpses into a cesspool out back and giving the family an urn filled with cigarette ash.
This video contains two of my favorite things: Rich Evans' laugh, and Mike's progressing dementia.
A truly fitting tribute to Jerry Springer I'm sure he would give you a standing ovation if he could.
Blood Incantation and Imperial Triumphant are incredible bands.
I listen to so many of these bands, and watching these elderly men discuss them tickles me pink with joy. What an age we live in.
No joke: I had wished for an Dying Fetus CD for my 20th or so birthday and my dad, absolutely not into this kind of thing, had gone to a record shop, asked for it and got it for me. I love my Dad.
Great taste ... Sean is my 1st cousin 🤘🏻 i live in the UK now so dont get to see them as often but they love & respect their fans!!
W dad
Well, your Dad definitely loves you too.
I was never into death metal but I always liked "Fornication Terrorists" and to this day it's their only song I know (I knew a metal head who had a giant collection).
I saw the poster and went DYING FETUS FUCKING ROCKS THO
Mike is 1000% right about going on the internet and finding all the good names taken. It's maddening and exactly how you get weird names like Funeral Drape.
The RLM Grows Elderly arc is really picking up steam in unexpected ways