ROCK & METAL SIDE PROJECT TIER LIST (they're not ALL bad...)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- The rock & metal side project is here! Where do rock & metal side projects like Angels & Airwaves, Down, Corey Taylor, Psycho Synner, Velvet Revolver, Damnocracy, Fieldy's Dream, +44, Brujeria, Transplants and more belong?
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This channel is the side project of 'The Punk Rock MBA' and I'm all for it
Travis Barker’s on drums😂
@@stevenbacon-cheddar9914 standard 🤣
It's like his anti-white comedy side hustle.
Finn McKennty wanted a separate channel where he can voice his own opinion and go a little off script and I can respect that
F tier, with Psycho Sinner. XD
I'm convinced "Scott Ian from Anthrax" is Scott's full name. Nobody ever says just "Scott Ian."
🤣🤣
Or just Scott
Your tier lists are definitely my favorite kind of content across both your channels. You could be talking about something I have absolutely no interest in but I’ll still watch anyway if it’s a tier list.
definately, fun stuff. i'd love to have a teair list of popular bands, but only deep cut songs, nothing popular
His interviews arent so bad lol
Absolutely perfect analysis of Velvet Revolver and the whole G&R situation.
Both wildly overrated bands
Absolutely this
Down is one of my favorite side projects, bluesy heavy and just enough bad ass riffs crowbar style
More like COC style. Phil anselmo and pepper keenan are the main songwriters in Down
@@arsenioarsenico8384 I was referring to the riffs. Kirk has his kind of style that's pretty recognizable
That first album is top 5 album all time for me.
Bury me in smoke sounds like a Kirk riff. But I could be wrong.
@@1848revolt pepper wrote it m.th-cam.com/video/Sezr7f8fhB8/w-d-xo.html
I was surprised to see AvA as S tier for Finn's taste, I'm definetly an AvA stan, glad to see them having some well deserved love
Meh
i jumped up and down in celebration when i saw AvA got an S tier.
I agree.
Angels and Airwaves probably had the most underhyped debut of all time, Tom really should have built it up more
He hyped it up a lot, I just think blink were on their way out commercially so people at the time didn’t really care about a&a
@@BigOwl51 that's the joke, he hyped it up too much
Lol my trust in anything Tom hypes up will forever be tarnished because of this (even though I liked the AVA debut)
Could you say he didn’t need to whisper?
@@BigOwl51 bro he literally said that WDNTW was going to become a "rock and roll revolution" (i guess because he was into painkillers) - idk what else you wanted
Tom Delonge gets his fair share of flack but man it is way harder to consistently come up with great melodies than it is to write a Tool song, I mean that wholeheartedly. To take 3-4 chords and make them so catchy and memorable is a gift in itself
You can mean that wholeheartedly, but that doesn't make it true. I can guarantee you alot more work goes into the writing, production and recording of a Tool song than anything Tom Delonge has ever written. That's not a knock on Tom, just objectively the truth.
@@chairmanofthebored6860 It may not take a lot of effort because the entry barrier is not how much work you can put into it but how much talent for writing catchy melodies you have. Doesn't mean it's actually easier
@@chairmanofthebored6860 I would still argue that it's harder to write both a simple and interesting melody/harmony. You can spend ages painting the background of a portrait but without the main subject it'll likely fall into unrestrained self-indulgence that not many people will be attracted to.
Theres a literal science to writing catchy melodies and hooks. That's why theres a whole industry of people who's job it is to do just that over and over for major labels. So no.
I'd listen to Blink over Tool any day.
That original Transplants record is a classic!
That album goes!!! By tangled web I ended up in a room at the Mondrian with the drummer playing us an early demo of Tall cans in the air.
I really enjoyed the album
I remember when Angels & Airwaves dropped The Adventure, I was just learning how to play guitar and that lead guitar kick is just fucking beautiful. I was like 14 and yeah, it's really a great song IMO.
The band isnt S tier, but the adventure sure is
I got to see Brujeria make a very quick "guest appearance" when I saw Fear Factory in 94. The lineup was Machine Head opening for Clutch and Fear Factory. After Fear Factory's main set, before the encore, Brujeria came out, played 4 songs, while wearing bandana's to "hide their identity" and then said they had to leave quickly because they were on the run. It was pretty awesome.
Lucky bastard. Brujería did very few shows (less than 10 probably?) before the 2000's, i bet it was fucking awesome to see them at their absolute peak
Saw them as well although at a different show. Fear Factory headlined at the Whisky A-go-go and brujería came out at the end to do about 4 songs. These songs were recorded and released on the “marijuana” EP. Coal Chamber and Spineshank were there too, both were signed but had not yet released their albums.
@@FranciscoRodriguez-ly9so Funny. The show I saw them at was also the Whiskey A Go Go.
Do a Tier List of Female Frontwoman Rock/Metal Bands (Halestorm/Evanescence/Dorothy/The Pretty Reckless/The Warning/Etc.) These bands always get forgotten and overlooked and it's freaking ridiculous!!!!
Ad Infinitum... :-) Melissa Bonny, beautiful cleans, brutal screams...
@@Ninjaturtlemadness had not heard Ad Infinitum! Wow awesome. Thanks for the recommendation! Devilskin is also a cool band out of New Zealand worth checking out!
I love velvet revolver. The entirety of Contraband and most of the second album rocks. “Slither” alone puts em in the A Tier to me lol
Same. I think "Sucker Train Blues" and "Dirty Little Thing" are really good too.
headspace and illegal i song are such underrated songs
I like Velvet Revolver and Down is one of my fave side project album. I could listen to Stone The Crow all damn day and never get sick of it.
Down’s NOLA is one of my “Perfect Albums”
@@SethHMG yes! Just incredible
@@SethHMGsame here. I'm fond of temple of the dog and Mad Season also.
Your Deftones apathy is completely forgiven after AVA got a S tier classification. I can sleep peacefully tonight.
My band in high school was called Aiming for Angels, which started the same year Angels and Airwaves came out. Naturally, everybody poked fun at it. “Oh hey, you’re the guitar player for Angels & Airwaves, right?” “What are you doing tonight? You goin to the Angels & Airwaves show?” That sort of thing. Lol. I was probably a little frustrated by it at the time. In retrospect, however…how could they resist? I would have probably joined in on it if I was on the other side of it. Thanks Tom Deshlonge! Thanks a lot!
Those people were uncreative and unfunny and your band's name was cool.
Some of the best side projects in Rock, Metal.and Experimental.
Down
Mr Bungle
Fantomas
Nailbomb
Soulfly
Temple Of The Dog
Mad Season
Audioslave
Praxis
Damageplan
OSI
A Perfect Circle
My man!!!
I really like Soulfly but they're not really a side project, they have been Max's main band after he left Sepultura
Check out Killer Be Killed, another Max project w Troy Sanders of Mastadon and Greg Puciato of Dillinger Escape Plan
Great list 👍.
Fun fact about Velvet Revolver. There is a Canadian rock band called Big Wreck, Ian Thornley is their lead vocalist/guitar player. The guys in Velvet wanted Thornley to be the vocalist before they got Scott. He went to some practices and he decided he wasn't energetic enough to take the lead because he was more comfortable playing guitar while singing. Check out Big Wreck, they are awesome. Thornley is such an underrated musician.
Dang forgot about the Transplants. Gotta find their album.
A Perfect Circle is S tier based on their first album alone (one of my favorites of all time). Their second and third albums are also good but not S tier.
I saw them open for NIN in 2000 and it was an unbelievable show.
their last album "in a warzone" is quite amazing too, came out in 2013
Absolutely! Another dream team. I also love Puscifer lyrics and humor. Basically anything Maynard does is S tier for me.
I've said this a million times. Kottonmouth Kings is a group you listen to for a week straight after you start smoking weed in 7th grade and then you never listen to them or speak of it again.
also super happy that Finn also likes Transplants. they were really hard for some people, even fans of both Blink and Rancid, to get into but I loved that record as well. very unique style and it totally works. Tall Cans In The Air fucks hard as hell.
I got to admit the song The Adventure from Angels & Airwaves was one of my favorites when I was a teenager still a very unique song in my opinion
Transplants is S tier for me! I think they're great since I first heard them. I kinda like them better than rancid and blink. That's a dream team right there.
Infectious Grooves first album (with Perkins) was really rad actually. A lot of Suicidal Tendencies still felt throughout a great deal of it... and an appearance from Ozzy to boot
Yea i remember one high school friend in the early 2000s that liked Down, and I thought it was weird because it didn't sound like Slipknot. Only now I realize how advanced that dude was for repping Down back then
Downs Nola was such an amazing debut Side Project. I remember liking it a lot better than Pantera at the time, huge influence
I really like all of Blink's side projects. AVA, +44, Boxcar, Transplants were all fantastic in their own right and all pretty musically different which is so cool to me.
No Aquabats D:
The dammed things were forgotten but totally A tier.
Lindemann is a another good side project. It feels like an Rammstein DLC
Emigrate with Kruspe is also great. Maybe not as ecclectic as Lindemann, but really cool riffs and colabs.
If you read this I have a few recommendations:
-Demons & Wizards(side-project of Blind Guardian and Iced Earth) in case you want to attract the ire of power metal fans.
-Bad Astronaut(Lagwagon's Joey Cape's side-project).
-Lard(Jello Biafra and Ministry's side project).
I think my favorite side project though would have to be the band ALL. Basically The Descendents minus Milo. Over the years they had a few singers, originally Dave Smalley of Dag Nasty but I think their best lineup was with Chad Price. That is all(literally). Love your content!
I actually really like Infectious Grooves. Violent and Funky is a classic. Only the lack in vocal department is why I wouldn’t put them in the S tier.
END & LS Dunes are seriously two of the best "side projects" or super groups in modern music. END ist heavy af, has members of Counterparts, Fit For An Autopsy (Will Putney is one of the best metal producers in the world), Misery Signals, Shai Hulud and it's soooo sick and insanely heavy and dark.
Ls Dunes just made one album last year and it is sucessful af, they have members of My Chemical Romance, Thursday & Saosin eich are three very important emo bands, even tho MCR aren't really emo but still they were the biggest Band in the scene.
When it comes to VH1’s supergroup I always think of Sebastian Bach yelling “Savage Animal” like it’s the coolest band name of all time lol
Great show Finn - totally chill and good for my nerves. Always love hearing your take on things so I know what is ok to like and not like in the big wide world. For example, I’ll always give someone a chance now if they have good wrist accessories. You’re 🔝💯💎🇬🇧
DOWN is amazing. 1st album is alllll bangers and then the next albums have such variety that it really fits daily listening really. So fucking good
I had no idea anyone liked The Transplants. I thought it was universally hated and one of those "pretend it didn't happen" sort of things for Tim and Travis and such. Wow. Surprised there
I used to own the Epiphone version of Tom delonges signature hollow body guitar. And let me tell you it's definitely not a normal take on a hollow body. They had super high output pickups that caused extra harmonic frequencies when you used fuzz pedals. My biggest regret in life is selling that thing, because it was a sleeper metal guitar. It was genuinely one of the nastiest sounding instruments I ever owned
Yeah that signature model is very cool. Neck profile is much thinner than most epiphone / gibson guitars. The dirty fingers pickups are a nice touch as well. I believe they were introduced in the 80's and were meant for hair metal levels of gain.
I'm a big fan of Down, I always have been. Maybe it's because of when I was listening to them a lot (that is important), but yeah, always loved them. Their first two albums especially
Still waiting on Austrian Death Machine to show up on here!
I'd like to see The Falcon, Bad Astronaut, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes and/or all the Green Day side projects in one of these, they're always fun and educational
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes is overrated. The Falcon is some cool shit, though.
a couple of my favorite side projects (though i suppose they would stem more from the "core" scenes than straight rock/metal if we are getting technical) are:
- Ghost Atlas (Jesse Cash of Erra)
- Anthony Green (Circa Survive)
- Darko US (Chelsea Grin/Emmure)
- Hurtwave (2 of the Dayseeker guys)
- Basically anything Landon Tewers does
Not gonna lie, Eyehategod is some of my fav weight lifting bands and one of the most fun shows I’ve ever been to
When I think of side projects/ super groups a few specific bands come to mind (not all from the world of rock and metal), and they usually have some nostalgic attachment:
A Perfect Circle- Quite possibly my favorite example. I could never get into Tool, I guess this was just way more accessible for a normie or like me.
Straylight Run- probably my second fav and they got more play time from me than their OG Taking Back Sunday.
Fort Minor- it’s no Linkin Park but if you compare it to other sides it comes out fairly solid.
My sister was all about Patrick Stump’s Soul Punk. It was a tad too “artistic” for me. She also touted The Wreckers, which I didn’t mind listening along as we’d chill.
My wife still brings up Gorillaz.
Then there was that time that my dad gave Chickenfoot a try… I knew how that was going to go the moment I saw how much effort had been put into their naming / logo… I never understood how that much talent could flop like that, but your big ego explanation makes a lot of sense there.
I do like Transplants, but it took me some years to realise that it is basically Tim Armstrong doing Big Audio Dynamite.
Love this stuff. Gotta do tier lists for features and collabs, solo careers of people who got famous in bands, and replacement members.
I think Velvet Revolver is S tier, but my first tattoo was a Velvet Revolver tattoo so I am a bit biased
Thanks for the amazing content Fin:) I’d really like to hear your take on Acid Bath. I know your not a fan of the Sludge Metal stuff, but I’d think you’d at least appreciate them. As a small, relatively unknown band from Louisiana, they did a lot for the genre of metal.
They are ok
@@FinnMckentyPRMBA Thanks for the response man🙏 Keep kicking ass. I’m a huge fan.
If I took this cigarette and put it out on you…would you love me? EEEEEOOOYYYHYYAAAAOOWWW
Agree with all of your placements. Now I need to go listen to that Transplants album.
Suggestions for next one: Head Automatica (Glassjaw), Gimmie Gimmies, and Sound of Animals Fighting (Anthony Green + Rx Bandits)
Down has been one of my favorite bands since they came out. I love Superjoint (first 2 albums) as well, probably more than Down. You should check them out if you do another one of these.
Blaqk Audio is a great side project too. Glad to see that they continue to put out records and tour.
Your tier list videos are wildly entertaining
A Perfect Circle deserves to be in the top tier
Velvet will always be S-tier for me.
Getting into Brujeria in the late-'90s listening to Raza Odiada, me and my friends always pronounced it "Brew-HAIR-ee-uh," until I brought them up to a Cuban co-worker who laughed in my face because he'd never heard that word pronounced so gringo before. They are the S-est tier of any of these kinds of bands and I will never cease blowing out my speakers playing "Don Quixote Marijuana" driving back from a night on the town.
Mike muir has a great eye for truly amazing musicians, he's had rob trujillo, roy mayorga, thundercat, brooks wackerman, and currently has ben weinman and dave Lombardo
NOLA from Down is S tier
Glad to see VR get some respect put on their name 🤝🏼
This was a very fun video. Your tiers are always great.
That Tim Armstrong impression was SCARY good
They only recorded one album but Them Crooked Vultures is an S tier imo. That line up of Josh Homme on guitar and vocals, Dave Grohl on drums, and John Paul Jones on bass is one of the best supergroup lineups ever and the album is kick ass.
Plus 44 were awesome 😍
Tom is the heart of Blink. Mark is the brain and Travis is the soul.
Travis is ridiculously overrated. You only like him because the media has told you he's a decent drummer.
@@chairmanofthebored6860 Why do you say he's overrated? Genuinely curious.
@@kevingrems eh he's honestly just a mediocre drummer who learned a lot of hand technique from his drum line in high school. Lots of rolls, lots of paradiddles. Nothing spectacular or even done particularly well. He's just a good drummer for people who don't pay attention to drums. It does help that he plays in a band with rather simplistic music, so he stands out as being the most talented of the 3. Mostly because the other 2 can be matched by any high school pop punk band ever. Not taking away Blink's achievements, but musically it's just meh.
@@kevingrems also, thank you for being a respectful person. Every other comment on this video has seen a ton of hate for voicing my honest opinion as a musician. Blink has as much of a cult as Tool apparently.
Thanks for the great content Finn 🫡
Your Tier list videos are the absolute bomb Finn! Keep em coming bromandude!!
Velvet Revolver is like a Hair band if they actually evolved in the 90’s.
While a band like Buckcherry is like a Hair band mixed with Nickelback.
Papa Roach almost became a Hair band during their sellout to the Emo trend days, but then again Papa Roach are just trend followers.
I had those Fieldy shoes! I had the ones with the Bass Clef and other designs all over them. I thought I was the baddest kid in middle school.
we need that kottonmouth kings video or something related to supporting radical habits (srh) 😈
One the cabinet makers at my job is this really sweet guy who is very gullible, so I got allll of the lore delivered in utmost sincerity when he told me of Brujeria!
Every time when i hear words Nu Metal im so torn, because after 2001 nu metal became so popular that its almost like a hair metal revival, with hollywood parties, sponsorship deals, special effects, mtv shows. And late 90s nu metal and alt metal were like really griddy and street, which still has my fav albums in that era. Everything in mid 00s had some buttrockness gene in it lol.
Definitely gonna need another episode of this. There are so many more.
Velvet revolver is indeed mad underrated
I saw EyehateGod in concert. They opened for Pantera
rating art is like rating a conversation
I really wanted to see you mention methods of mayhem
Also Nawleans' Acid Bath are the GOATS of sludge metal!
Awesome list as always. However, I can’t believe you didn’t put Audioslave somewhere in here. I know you’re not their biggest fan but they’re better than most side projects.
Their first album is excellent!
@@6slayer6sam62 agreed
Glad to hear you mention KMK, my old favorite band from highschool!
Finn is right - tier lists are peak Finn content. Never disappoint.
3:00 I can't express how happy I am out of the gate you label AVA as S Tier. Truly one of my favorite bands of all time and I would agree side project band.
Audioslave, MCC, Atoms for Peace, The Great Discord, Ataxia, Priest, The Smile, Henrik Palm, Jonsi, Drongo, BoyGenius, 3rd Secret, Eddie Vedder, Empire State Bastard and stuff
I remember Them Crooked Vultures being pretty good.
Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, and John Paul Jones.
I was today years old when I learned brujeria was a super group.
It's crazy how much elite heavy metal artists have been part of brujería at some point. from Dino, Jeff Walker of carcass and Jello Biafra of dead kennedys
Tom was not THE key for Blink....he is one of the Tri-Force pieces that made Blink what it was. Without either of the 3 parts, it's just mid.
As for the shoe thing...not sure about it being the ultimate nu-metal thing lol. I, a random youtube hockey player, have a custom signature shoe by Adidas.
I agree when it comes to their success, but all I'm saying is if they had replaced Mark instead of Tom I probably would have given it a chance. Lol
It's interesting that you said you'd like the Transplants even if you didn't know who they were, because if I didn't know Tim Armstrong was involved in the project I might like them even more.
On the tier list of tier listing content, your tier listing content is S tier on the tier list
If there is a part 2, does Audioslave qualify. I loved Chris Cornell's vocals with Tom's guitar.
comin from a friend on fieldy's dreams is actually a banger with great life lessons
Psycho Synner sounds like someone thought Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell was a documentary that needed a soundtrack
One of the sickest sideprojects/supergroups that brought out an insanely killer record is Absent In Body. Guitarplayer Mathieu J. Vandekerckhove and Singer Colin H. Van Eeckhout from Amenra, Scott Kelly from Neurosis and ggor Cavalera. Maybe not your jam Finn, but deserves a shoutout for the algo, it totally flew under my radar and the record blew me away.
Can't wait for round 2... Another great vid
"It's like a deaf person trying to sound like Type O Negative." LOL!!!!
OK, psycho synner or psychosexual: Is the best unintentional comedy band I’ve ever seen in my entire life and the amount of content that they put out is staggering.
I bought fieldy's dreams album,I thought it was gonna be a korn mix with limp bizkit sound
Yay! I just love the tier lists and the charts!
I'd like a 2nd version of this with more modern bands. I've always wanted to hear your opinion on Danny Worsnops side band, We Are Harlot. Also, Starsets singers side project MNQN, and Ronnie Radkie's very unfortunate solo project.
Angels & Airwaves and Radiohead are two of my favorite bands by far, and I was shocked too see someone rather unusually praise the former while listing the other as very overrated, so while conflicted, this is really refreshing to see.
The lists never disappoint! Thanks Finn 😄
D or E tier feels like a guilty pleasure tier to me, at least that’s how I’d use it
I gave my girlfriend my Down cd in 98'. She loved them. 15 yrs later, she sent me a picture of it signed, by all the members.
Your tier lists are my favourites as well. Coming soon: The tier list of Finnisms! Including: Hell yeah brother! Here's the thing! I'm a Death Metal elitist! And all the other stuff...
The Andy Biersack "Here's the thing" makes me laugh every...single...time!!!
“ska punk is cartoon parrot music” is s tier
I was just thinking about Angels and Airwaves and how it's odd how much more I like them than blink.
Velvet Revolver and Down are my favorites from this episode.