Agreeing & Disagreeing YouTubers Top 10 Albums (Nik Nocturnal, Hard Core, Rachelle Reacts)

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►Nik Nocturnal / @niknocturnal
►Hard Core / @bogdanhxc
►Rachelle Reacts / @rachellereacts

[@RachelleReacts]

thanks for checking mine and taking the time to make this into a video!! appreciate you as always

[@METALBIRB]

Of course! Can’t wait to release our podcast tomorrow too!!

[@jctheii]

aw shit let’s go 🔥

[@bogdanhxc]

What a cool video concept, loved watching this

[@mateolindenberg8407]

What a cool comment concept, loved reading this

[@METALBIRB]

Hell yeah glad you liked it man!

[@Dyserved]

Listen to The Chosen

[@tomdorrington3465]

Hardcore and metalbirb are my two top go to PoV vids on KZbin so to see you bat your opinions off of each other was a coll concept

[@mundanemorselsmundanemorse7028]

Dude THANKS for introducing me to Rachelle! Never heard her. Greyscale Season on that list with FfaA at 1? Matches my taste perfectly. Can’t wait to check her out in 23.

[@METALBIRB]

We have a podcast tomorrow that I'm stoked about. We talked a lot about everything haha

[@mundanemorselsmundanemorse7028]

@@METALBIRB that’s awesome I will be watching for sure.

[@mesmer6131]

Rachelle's list was the most unpredictable. I discovered a lot of cool bands from her channel.

[@SteveCastaneda93]

I really love Bodgan and Rachelle's lists (and you, Birb!) because some of the music you all listen to is similar to my tastes but there are also new bands/artists that will catch my attention and want to check out like Vatican, Banks Arcade, and Ithica to name a few! Also, Rachelle's explanation of putting Color Decay on her list is very relatable; i remember checking out Prada back in their Rise Records days and I feel like i've grown up with the band a lot to where Color Decay is just a great listen front to back and where i'm currently in life combining the happiness i'm currently experiencing! My record for 2022 was Children of the Great Extinction by Becoming the Archetype and I feel like I will be the only one that will have that record in a top 10/20 AOTY list because the band is not that well-known even though they're on the same record label with Prada and Norma Jean, but I was super excited when they returned out of nowhere with the original lineup and the record just took me on a beautiful, metalcore ride; Enterprise Earth's The Chosen was my 2022 AOTY for the longest time but Becoming the Archetype just came out of nowhere to take it down, lol! Great video; love seeing all the music that 2022 brought us and excited for 2023!

[@JohnnyRychous]

Yeah, Obsidian was my shit and my personal AOTY 2022. Just super refreshing. Now, I’m here waiting for new Periphery 🔥 Great video idea!

[@karl00l]

Great video idea, love to see the interaction with these awesome reactors!

[@nyctophilex7]

Such a cool video idea, you should do this again next year!

[@Joose]

My top 3: Lorna Shore - Pain Remains Zeal & Ardor - Self-Titled Fit For An Autopsy - Oh, What The Future Holds

[@Kwisgaar]

Cool video Metalbirb! Keep it up

[@flaahgration7315]

I think I actually find lists like this more interesting when they don't align with my own. I think it's more fun to see what other people gravitate towards that I maybe didn't connect with as much or even had never heard of.

[@Turb0v]

Absolutely loved Banks Arcade this past year. It was my #2

[@aliyahburnette8018]

Yes I love banks arcade they are so underrated.

[@ahsoka5385]

I’m surprised Within Destruction doesn’t get that much attention, Metal Trenches mentioned them in one of his videos and Lotus is my favourite album of the year so I recommend checking it if you like modern deathcore / Metalcore

[@moltentheoryx3332]

based

[@MrNickoOD]

click click boom

[@CrypticlyEncrypted]

The comfort is nice. Check out the song the beginning.

[@maxc5981]

Love the video idea!

[@thebuckethatguy]

Ngl, Broken is such an under appreciated song off of Color Decay. It’s my favorite song off the album and from the band to date! It literally made it in the top 50 songs I discovered in 2022 list!

[@Idyliss_Official]

I think that TEKKNO of Electric Callboy was one of my favorite metal releases. But in other recent albums, I'd say Self Titled BFMV, Slaughter to Prevail's Kostolom, TESF of Slipknot, Omens of Lamb Of God, Eternal Blue of Spiritbox, and of course welcome to horrorwood of ice nine kills. All of these are perfect records for me.

[@bigbunn_]

Spire of Lazarus and The Devil Wears Prada were my top ones of the year. They change daily so they both take the number 1 spot.

[@transient442]

Counterparts is one of those bands you really do have to see live to really get. At least thats how it was for me, i saw them back in 2013 and i knew and liked a few of their songs before but i didn't really appreciate the musicianship till i saw it live.

[@nolankuffner3573]

That might be how it is for you, I get alot of enjoyment out of their recordings as is. Honestly, they're what I hoped Misery Signals with Jesse to sound like, instead of a band that thrived more with Karl (Controller is the best things they will ever write). Growing up with that band when it went through those changes, Counterparts is a similar yet progressively better band that scratches both the emotional and technical itch I look for. And to be blunt, while the visceral elements are still there, I find they lose some of the emotionality live.

[@jayjd1996]

If Above, Below released an Album last year I would of had it as my top 1 album because Lotus Chapters has been my top 5 for like 2/ 3 years lol

[@J4K3exe]

My favorite album from last year was Antimai by the dear hunter My top 5 looks something like this Warforged- the grove sundial Fallujah - empyrean Krosis- E.V.I.L Thornhill - heroine The dear hunter- Antimai

[@METALBIRB]

Hell yeah spreading the word on The Dear Hunter!

[@J4K3exe]

@@METALBIRB I may have missed it, but did you end up reacting to Antimai?

[@TundraCH]

Everyone sleeps on Fallujah man

[@jaydenjbryant8665]

@@J4K3exe No he didn’t but he has said it was a little disappointing. I kinda agree because after 5 masterpiece albums, I expected another one

[@Squirrel_101]

Interesting video bud!

[@trevorburns]

Here's my Top 20 Albums Of 2022 1. Malevolence - Malicious Intent 2. Tallah - The Generation Of Danger 3. Enterprise Earth - The Chosen 4. Undeath - It's Time... To Rise From The Grave 5. Electric Callboy - TEKKNO 6. AVOID - Cult Mentality 7. Ghost - IMPERA 8. Darko US - ONI 9. Venom Prison - Erebos 10. Stray From The Path - Euthanasia 11. He Is Legend - Endless Hallway 12. Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor 13. The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist 14. Greyhaven - This Bright And Beautiful World 15. Machine Head - Of Kingdom And Crown 16. Spiritworld - DEATHWESTERN 17. Decapitated - Cancer Culture 18. Moon Tooth - Phototroph 19. Blackbraid - Blackbraid I 20. Dream Unending - Song Of Salvation

[@jaydenjbryant8665]

Nice list! Tallah was my number one

[@Idyliss_Official]

Tekkno is the only album that automatically gives me a good mood

[@jeffreyparent1795]

you Definitely gotta check banks arcade future lover, it's sooo good

[@osiriskid77777]

Parrhesia getting slept on for sure

[@slickwillie7159]

Banks arcade album is top 5 of 2022. The song freaks is sick

[@christianmusician16]

No love for Monuments- I hate it here

[@normcollison2659]

my Top 3 are: 1. Fleshwater-We're not here to be Love 2. Ethel Cain-Preachers Daughter 3. Chat Pile- God's Country

[@viktor821]

I look at these videos to find new bands honestly

[@CrypticlyEncrypted]

Windwaker was my fav album of 2022 😭

[@nolankuffner3573]

Personally, I had FFAA at #1 because unlike Sea of Tragic Beasts, I found it actually expanded their sound. Even on songs like Shepherd and Napalm Dreams where they add moments of diversity (a different scream, a cool breakdown), there's genuinely nothing like the drum beat of Higher Level of Hate, the vocal flow of Savages, and I found that where they used cleans (The Man That I Was Not, In Shadows) it was both better executed and better integrated than anything on SOTB. I expected everything I heard on Sea of Tragic Beasts and, for me, the year it came out, While She Sleeps' You Are We was a FAR more interesting release. Had Sleeps Society come out this year, FFAA would have beaten it handily, even just weighing the 'real' songs against one another, and unlike most critics who seemed to just shit on it, I loved most of that album. And let's drop this for those who agree that (while still very much a Fit For An Autopsy album) Oh, What The Future Holds is everything Sea of Tragic Beasts could have been.. The predecessor was a pre-Covid album that the new one absolutely obliterated. It has had the best response from the community and the most longevity of any of their albums. SOTB was an October release that half of the community forgot about before the year was done, versus this album dropped in January and was still being talked about in December. It's in the same vein as Sun Eater getting massive press because people were still buzzing, 11 months after To The Hellfire. If it were just a technical death core album, I probably would have given a shit, just like Pain Remains isn't the breakthrough hit it turned out to be without the Trilogy. And while criticisms could be levied against them, saying that SOI had a trilogy on their album, I'd argue those are still just 3 songs written in a similar vein, nothing like what Lorna did, basically writing a 3 part, 20 minute epic. For a fan of albums like Natasha and Mirror Reaper, I might be in the miniscule minority with an attention span to sit through an album like these and see mass differences and appreciate them, versus other listener who might get fatigued by supposedly similar concepts. Then again, wasn't it a wise man who once said 'If you know it's one of our songs in the first 30 seconds, it's goin' on the fuckin' album'? And that's the key. I don't need 2023 Fit For An Autopsy to sound like 1992 Slayer just as much as you don't want 2023 Vildhjarta to sound like 1997 Pearl Jam.

[@itsonlyhugs9486]

I didn't hear anyone say Asleep At The Helm :(

[@sweetgregt]

AVOID record is so catchy and so fun. So many hooks. Go check it out BIRB!

[@AaronGravy]

Man I have watched so many reviews and read them and only ONE has given Becoming The Archetype any love this year....🙃

[@jacee8094]

I 100% agree on TDOPOM. There’s so many songs that are borderline perfect for me. Title track, concrete jungle, nowhere to go, Like a villian (even better with What It Cost), Artificial Suicide, what do you want from me?, miracle etc. but there’s a stretch of songs that are a shrug after like a villian that just kinda take the flow down.

[@hithere-haveagreatday7609]

@AUGUSTBURNSDOOM To each their own, but thats a wierd take imo lol

[@omegazx7236]

@MyBeautifulDarkTwistedSilentPlanet 100% agree with you, the weird vibey tracks are the best (even though I do like Concrete Jungle)

[@omegazx7236]

@MyBeautifulDarkTwistedSilentPlanet it does feel a bit out of place, but the chorus is too good for me to not like the song

[@HellSpartanZ]

You know my album of the year was Nothing more Spirits

[@L33ch97]

What, the sea of tragic bees? SEA OF TRAGIC BEES. 🐝🐝

[@MrWiggnuts]

Darko us!!!!

[@davidvillabass]

I only saw Nick put Motionless in White on one list, I really forgot about that album, I only have slautherhouse on my playlist but since sleep token released two singles I forgot about the existence of any existing band.... but tomorrow there is a new periphery so I'm going to give the worship a break.

[@yannickjungling6750]

Nobody is talking about veinfm :(

[@Spacenugget9]

Funnily enough TDWP was a disappointment to me; after the first two singles everything else became repetitive and (dare I say it) soft.

[@humanthenarrator]

Basically "Counterparts is amazing, but I don't like them" lol Nothing is objectively good. If you don't like them, you don't.

[@METALBIRB]

No you can objectively see the talent. Every band member brings a lot to the table. It’s good music, just not for me as much as others

[@humanthenarrator]

@@METALBIRB I just thought it's thr music's goal to entertain you. If it doesn't achieve that, it's not good. At least for you.

[@humanthenarrator]

@@METALBIRB If something is "objectively good" and doesn't entertain people, that means it isn't good

[@wtf1992alex]

Nik is the most poser/comercial dude in the scene and bruh... It's the most popular ._.

[@cookieeaturface]

C'mon, Nik's been covering metal for years before any of these channels started, no surprise it's the most popular. Let's not do the weird gatekeeping thing.

[@kevinkenobipius1557]

I'm sure he listens to more metal than you Sanchez

[@codywebb2768]

Define poser

[@METALBIRB]

@@cookieeaturface fun fact I actually used to do metal guitar covers 13 years ago under a different channel but yeah Nik is the man and a grinding machine

[@omegazx7236]

Let him enjoy whatever he wants lol