Most Popular Metal Bands According to SCIENCE!!! | Mike The Music Snob

Metallica, Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Tool, Linkin Park.....where do they all rank in popularity in the metal community? Google Trends fills us in.
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[@funneneym9965]

Technically Slipknot is the biggest, it has like 9 people in it

[@conormurphy4328]

👏👏

[@Tmh21791]

Well played.

[@gaborkrausz5402]

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie!

[@harmzyz0682]

*Bang Camaro has entered the chat* I know. I know. Not metal though

[@HALberdier17]

Ye Banished Privateers I know not metal even though they're on a metal label. Are the biggest they currently have 29 people in the band.

[@dirtydan5326]

Well, the best is TRAPT, as i've learned from their own twitter account

[@danielblake7200]

9ppp]]

[@Elchinodiabolero]

hahahahahahaaha

[@realspartan5206]

the beef they have with optimus is hilarious

[@adrianvelante8014]

Of course. They have 2M Spotify and 2.6M Pandora streams.

[@timd2789]

Dude I fucking love Train their moshpits are the definition of sheer brutality

[@natepeters6539]

Tool in the thumbnail and the first statement is about metal elitists. Sounds about right. ...But also I freaking love Tool.

[@dantee1138]

He is an octopus

[@natepeters6539]

Dante Estevez he’s an octopus god

[@Hevvvyyy]

Adam jones is cool

[@BecomeTheKnight]

So you're saying he's Cthulu?

[@dantee1138]

@@Hevvvyyy Hey i haven't seen you in years

[@benwasson7]

I don’t really consider Guns N’ Roses metal

[@animusora]

Ben Wasson thank you!!!

[@damian.739]

I agree with you but for the time it was more aggressive and heavy then some others

[@Ifheavenwashell]

Yeah lmao, idk how he thinks it's metal, they sound nothing like Metallica or Iron Maiden, considering they all debuted in the 80s

[@raulperez2308]

@@damian.739 i mean rush was always heavier than culture club but you wouldn't call them metal either

[@grathapilot]

i immediately scrolled down to the comments expecting to see them full of genre autists whining about this, was not disappointed ;)

[@brunopeixe7949]

RIP Lemmy

[@saturnine3726]

RIP chuck schuldiner and cliff butron

[@Dyadactic]

CommunistEmu _ Hey, common, Edit Burton.

[@matthewpunk2012]

Also RIP x

[@cartoonchaos2594]

Also R.I.P Paul Gray

[@RichardsLPStreetSoldier]

Rip Dio

[@BungCentra]

Tool is obviously the most popular Metal band...google trends says so.

[@Gotham_Media]

They deserve it.

[@spriestplayer2329]

And the most overrated.

[@kotanovakota]

I thought they were prog rock

[@omkarbharambe8673]

@@kotanovakota they are

[@sunshinesweetlove..8066]

Tool? They're terrible though lol

[@fenkoken6573]

Metallica isn't even just the biggest metal band, they're one of the biggest music artists of all time.

[@fatimapalacios2292]

@@octavius8562 just like guns and roses is considered a great band on behalf of one album

[@leerobbo92]

@@octavius8562 They've had 6 number 1 debuts or something haven't they? Doesn't even consider their first four, either.

[@chrismeadows4216]

​@@fatimapalacios2292, the narrative that Guns N' Roses are considered a great band on behalf of one album is inaccurate. While Appetite for Destruction is the best-selling debut album of all time, one of the best-selling albums of all time, and most notably, one of the most loved albums of all time, it isn't their only international hit iconic album. Their Use Your Illusion albums had contemporaneously debuted on many charts in first and second positions and maintained them for long periods of time, bumping down Michael Jackson's albums, and the Use Your Illusion Tour is one of the most extensive stadium tours in history. It had drastically elevated Metallica's sales of Metallica, The Black Album, and established Metallica as one of the most successful bands in the world, and after it, Appetite for Destruction has still long sold more copies than Metallica has, and the Use Your Illusions have sold more copies each than all other Metallica albums have, including Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice for All. Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II have eight singles between them which are played daily all over the world, November Rain, Don't Cry, Knockin' on Heaven's Door, You Could Be Mine, Live and Let Die, Civil War, and Estranged, which are massive fan favorites, and Yesterdays, and there are at least a dozen other songs on them which are generally well-loved, as many generally well-loved songs as are on Appetite for Destruction. Appetite for Destruction is exceptional, but for anyone who's listened to Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II beyond skimming them, they're as important in Guns N' Roses' discography as Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and ...And Justice for All are in Metallica's discography, if not much more important for diversity which they provide musically. Guns N' Roses are considered a great band for three albums, and most listeners who haven't heard two of them in the past thirty years should hear them. This isn't to mention how excellent of an EP GN'R Lies is, and everything which Guns N' Roses have released after 1993 is also worth hearing, even if it won't be impressive to everyone. These artists earn their success.

[@chrismeadows4216]

​@@leerobbo92, Metallica will always be immensely successful, because their legacy had been fully cemented by their first five albums, especially Metallica. Fans love them for their overall sounds, it doesn't matter that many prefer their first four albums as more of their albums are released, many want to hear more songs of theirs, and these won't change. Their debuts at #1 will increase until they're very long gone. They'll never stop, they'll never quit, 'cause they're Metallica!!! 🤟🏼

[@fatimapalacios2292]

@@chrismeadows4216 those use your illusion songs were written at the same time as the others in appetite. If anything use your illusion is an album with outtakes. Not denying the success, I love guns and roses but seems like the inspiration was really there just on the 80s

[@Gravechylde]

The Black Sabbath bump in 2016 was for their "The End" tour

[@LukeIsGod]

I cant wait for 2050 to come around and we get to see Ozzys "No More Tours 17"

[@CraigKeidel]

@@LukeIsGod Ozzy can't wait, either.

[@nathanerrington7983]

"aka a soccer player or challenged person," says someone from a country who plays "football" with their hands

[@MrRadiantMan]

Football>>>>>>>>>handegg.

[@pavelm.gonzalez8608]

@Seven V Footbal = ⚽ Rugby = 🏈

[@scottypittman1]

@@MrRadiantMan STOP

[@MrRadiantMan]

@@scottypittman1 Handegg is garbage.

[@AlphaStormMusic]

The name of the media outlet being "MetalSucks" has always baffled me, I'm not even going to lie.

[@SunFlower-oc3se]

Perhaps to attract both metalheads and people who actually think that metal sucks.

[@benfrizzell1244]

@@SunFlower-oc3se "I'm playing both sides, so that I always come out on top"

[@bigwoop8151]

I imagine its probably a callback to when Primus did the same thing.

[@mfree80286]

@@bigwoop8151 Primus Sucks came to mind first here as well.

[@christyler5409]

Just sarcasm

[@bleachmaster1545]

Nobody looks up "Ronnie James Dio" they just look up "Dio"

[@putridabomination]

True

[@mingw2342]

the jojo reference comes up

[@BecomeTheKnight]

It doesn't make the results much better, if better at all.

[@morisco56]

Because they only now that terrible anine caracter

[@bleachmaster1545]

@@BecomeTheKnight I looked up just dio but it's one of the general searches so it's way higher no way to know for sure 🤷‍♂️

[@conormurphy4328]

Day 36: Today Mike has to deal with the rising popularity of Manga

[@CanisLupus1987]

Lol

[@El__Leche]

We won Conor, we won against Mike

[@morisco56]

@@nemesiszer0708 best profile pic ever

[@morisco56]

@@El__Leche virgin weeb

[@jacksonricebreadman240]

Camilo florez but we’re all virgin metal heads

[@corbinm5237]

It really surprises me that Avenged Sevenfold is so low in google popularity. They have one of the most homer filled fan bases ever and they’re extremely accessible to non metalheads. While I agree that their popularity is waning,I figured they’d still be one of the more popular metal bands.

[@blitzy7961]

As a A7X fan, the past 2 years have been pretty quiet in terms of news. But I think the major reason could be that A7X fans are a very vocal minority? Not sure honestly.

[@GremlinZ420]

At one point they would have been on the biggest, but since we lost the Rev, the popularity feel

[@leerobbo92]

They're high by modern metal band standards, but IIRC their album's debut weekly sales are usually not that much higher than Metallica's Black Album sales are every single week, 30 years after its release. They're not even in the same stratosphere.

[@Yenneffer]

TFW Dream Theater sold out more than Killswitch Engage :p

[@gaseredtune5284]

They are pretty much taylor swift in 13/8

[@krunchhead]

@@gaseredtune5284 that's friggin hilarious! DT rules, in case anyone had any doubts.

[@xdman20005]

@paula found the music NOOB

[@matthewroberts3125]

What blows my mind is when you look at Facebook page likes, Linkin Park blows every band away with 59+ million likes. Even the Beatles (39+ million) and Metallica (35+ million) don't have quite that many likes on their official band page. Not that it's really important but I always found that kind of odd/interesting.

[@blitzy7961]

I'm gonna guess it's because Linkin Park is younger and has huge following in Asia.

[@creepy_assassin6234]

I'll tell you why, its the Indian/Asian teenagers. I don't listen to their stuff anymore that much (not that i don't like it or think it's cringe or anything, I've discovered other bands that i like more), but they did introduce me to metal. And I'm sure a lot of other young Indians are/were into those nu metal bands as their music is more friendly(?) to someone who's just discovering metal.

[@wandabhala933]

Linkin Park has a lot of rap fans and pop fans

[@creepy_assassin6234]

@Cyberdemon Mike that one's my fav tbh, followed by their old stuff like ht and meteora

[@crackmonkey2181]

I mean Linkin Park was always really popular because their music was a mix of genres and was played on like every kind of radio station. And Everyone liked it, I dont think I ever heard anyone say they dont like LP. That being said, I'm not crazy about their stuff after the first 2 albums, but it sells.

[@Zenophage]

No Rammstein? They average 13, 2 more than Maiden for the past 5 years.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Can't believe I missed them!!! I was going off of the Metal Sucks list and completely forgot about em. They definitely should have been included.

[@Zenophage]

Also Nirvana (i know they're not metal) slots in behind Metallica but above GnR. And Foo fighters are much lower than i expected

[@Zenophage]

@@BecomeTheKnight I enjoyed the video though, Doing my own digging now. Interestingly enough The Beatles are lower than Metallica and Gn'R which is surprising despite their age.

[@Dyadactic]

Ryan Williams Nirvana are more metal than GNR. Bleach and In Utero are pretty metal/hardcore

[@kotanovakota]

@@Dyadactic Nope nIrvana is never metal they are punk

[@lukedebiase8212]

"No one says 'KERRY KING!!!!!!!!' In the comments" until now

[@randomdudeontheinternet4389]

"Nocny Kochanek", the musical group that came up, when you searched for Avenged Sevenfold, is a Polish heavy metal parody band. Their lyrics are hilarious, but the music is nothing special, unless you actually understand what they are singing about.

[@filip100000]

['nɒcnɪ kɒxanək] if anybody is interested in the pronunciation

[@brombusz6441]

Understanding their lyrics makes it much worse though. It's like Amy Schumer level of humour but somehow even less funny.

[@randomdudeontheinternet4389]

@@brombusz6441 yeah, that's kinda true. It's funny for one song and then it's just trashy and boring.

[@brombusz6441]

@@randomdudeontheinternet4389 They are generally a laughing-stock in metal community here and most of their audience wouldn't even be able to name a single Judas Priest or Iron Maiden song if you asked them.

[@filip100000]

@@brombusz6441 Yeah, their lyrics are funny if you're like 10.

[@deefinch464]

Yes.....Slipknot is very popular band in the Metal community but....at least metal is still being noticed! Usually Pop music listeners say " Metal is dead! " but when they see Slipknot's new album...they will know that metal still exist!

[@irockmajorly]

Slipknot doesnt make relevent music anymore.

[@harryevans4994]

@@irockmajorly facts bro, i'd rather listen to basically anything else

[@ingsve]

Surprised that Nightwish wasn't on the list. Doing a google trends search they are bigger than 30-35 band on that list.

[@mattyp0870]

Great video Mike! I would love to see the comparison between some popular rock and metal bands vs. pop artists! That could be an interesting topic.

[@npinjest7779]

if you do "The Tool" you get Tool the band as option. They are up there with Slpknot and sizable spike around album release.

[@Tun-Dar]

Super fun little diversion thanks Mike

[@fromthethicket4370]

Be cool to see this concept in another vid comparing metal guitarists!

[@Nui7hari]

They missed Rammstein though. pretty on par with Maiden and slipknot most of the time. Spikes over Metallica as well ;)

[@88fanforlife]

1983: Dave Mustaine creates Megadeth to get revenge on Metallica 21st century: gets out searched by Ghost *mission failed we’ll get em next time*

[@petegrusky2715]

What is Ghost, I know it's a fine movie... ;)

[@petegrusky2715]

@Will G1986 Actually I don't mind Ghost or Megadeth... Ghost however, have brand new crispy sound... Not really original though. This is music kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6O4Zn2JaaqVY80 , kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHbYfnSnm9p2qKs , kzbin.info/www/bejne/rISaiWikqtudftE , kzbin.info/www/bejne/j3TUeGx4bc9gmas

[@joeyhammer6702]

Will G1986 how is megadeth bad

[@CraigKeidel]

@@petegrusky2715 I wanted to like Ghost, I really did. I couldn't like Ghost.

[@michaelsuder486]

No. He didn't fail. Kirk Hammett could only dream of playing as well as Marty Friedman or even Dave

[@dyingpharaohs]

Great video! Dope Schecter guitar bro!!!

[@XXforeveramylouiseXX]

this was interesting to watch. thanks

[@lightningmchick8948]

Ghost makes Scooby-Doo metal....

[@98Dreadboy]

LMAO

[@ZaveAres]

Yeah they're trash

[@gamesgearnthrash5338]

Poor Ronnie James. He invented the metal horns, he is a huge influence on how I sing vibrato, and he essentially invented power metal in Rainbow. RIP

[@JacobTheMusicMan]

Dio is rock Dio ain't heavy metal

[@dvir12345]

More people know the horns than they know about metal... Dio is a legend and he need SO much respect

[@ajfanotreally2523]

@@JacobTheMusicMan he didn’t say heavy metal, DIO and Sabbarh were and still are metal

[@buek14]

It's probably the most interesting stuff I have ever seen on the internet about metal bands altogether. Good job Mike.

[@lakejizzio7777]

I love this video style. Pls do more of this.

[@theheadbangguy5985]

10:23 - Mike triggers most of the worlds population including me

[@conormurphy4328]

American football is just easy rugby

[@BecomeTheKnight]

😂😂😂 😝

[@ynsimha7663]

Agreed. American Handegg sure is an interesting sport I believe. LOL

[@user-ys4zc6ru8r]

"- What are you talkin' about, baseball is a girl's game? The Red Sox has a guy that pitches the ball over 90 miles per hour! - Who cares? All that means is that he can have a wank faster than you".

[@conormurphy4328]

Андрей Иванов don’t challenge me

[@bl8413]

I didn’t think anyone else liked (or had heard of) Fair to Midland... neat!

[@wolfiewylde5143]

One of the greatest ever. Inter Funda, Fables, Anchors... omg. Darrohs lyrics and the bands unique playing style... this band is legendary in my eyes.

[@chadwilliams7119]

@@wolfiewylde5143 Love Fair to Midland. Saw them here in Michigan at the Intersection 10+ years ago. Darroh was nuts. He was climbing in the rafters...while singing his ass off. Good band...wish they were still around.

[@wolfiewylde5143]

@@chadwilliams7119 The world needs Darroh Sudderth. Like, now.

[@joshwmusic6838]

This is an awesome video. Always love your videos Mike! Great job mate, much love from Liverpool, England

[@dillonwong3646]

This is great video man

[@CanisLupus1987]

Most amazing expérience as a Portuguese was hearing Moonspell in a small Nara Mall in Japan

[@dantee1138]

Future Mike is teasing the Become The Knight Universe just like Thanos

[@zacharymiraziz4585]

Thank you for reminding me to listen to Fair to Midland every once in a while. What a band. Saw them here in Australia with Twelve Foot Ninja a few years back! Damn, what a show!

[@wolfiewylde5143]

That would have been amazing. 2 of my favorite bands of all time.

[@fullmetalomar3811]

love you man

[@TryppiDnB]

This hurt to watch, I fucking adore megadeth

[@angle.0255]

Just because they aren't popular doesn't mean they arent good. Personally I think they are better than metallica

[@mickey6696]

I’m glad they were taken off so early, means my favorite band isn’t a poser band

[@raxim42]

@@mickey6696 nobody liking your favorite band just means you have bad taste (said the guy who likes black metal 😂)

[@Xxrocknrollgod]

Yes

[@Xxrocknrollgod]

Your_local_metal-head I love megadeth but I’m not sure they’re better ... ride the lightning and justice

[@ogbrycaryca4143]

As much as I love Linkin Park, and they are probably my biggest musical influence, I do consider them mainly an alternate rock band. They do have some metal tracks though, however they also have released many albums that aren't quite nearly as close to metal as others. (One More Light is the prime example). One thing is that Linkin Park did become less popular around 2006-7 from switching their music and experimenting with it in Minutes To Midnight, but you can't compare them to the other bands earlier due to there being no google trends. But the same could be said for many bands, especially Metallica and Black Sabbath being as old of bands as they are, I'm sure their search trends if it was around say in the 80's would be marginally larger. But in my own opinion, you can't really compare bands based on these trends, but more on their influence to people, because they are all from different times and had different peaks.

[@jeremycarnes1656]

There's so little metal in Linkin Park that TSA just waves them through to their flight.

[@MrOasis316]

@@jeremycarnes1656 their first 2 albums were nu metal then they kind of evolved into an alternative band

[@jeremycarnes1656]

They were always a pop rock band.

[@Sharper_Than_Most]

Killer video!

[@DemonArshan]

Mike brings the top tier content.

[@El__Leche]

Okay, was not expecting Fair to Midland hahaha, great band btw

[@wolfiewylde5143]

Most underated band that should have never broken up.

[@wilkuhxc8708]

Hi Mike at 18:50 Nocny Kochanek is a Polish heavy metal band that satirize the stereotypical behavior of the metalheads subculture in Poland and laughs at the mentality of Janusz and Grazyna (in Polish culture of memes is an archetype of man and woman with mentality of boomer) definitely worth listening to for the music itself. The influences on their music have bands like: Iron Maiden Blind Guardian Dragon Force Manowar Black sabbath Kat(in Polish it means executioner) A7X etc.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Thank you for the insight!!!

[@spriestplayer2329]

Stop recommending this trash already geez.

[@MJ-hh3dn]

Hi mike ! Kat is an absolute killer! I recommended to you some tracks: Odi profanum vulgus, głos z ciemności, zawieszony sznur. They’re heavy metal pioniers and number 1 in the genere in my country in my opinion. Enjoy this stuff \m/

[@wilkuhxc8708]

@@MJ-hh3dn I Prayed to satan that he did not see new Kat's music because Luczyk sucks nowadays. I Prefer Kat & Roman Kostrzewski. Because Kat is Roman. Tak w ogole to dobre rekomendacje :)

[@faridfeyzi1815]

We love your videos here in Iran Mike, wish you good luck and bring back your glass pls

[@Laros82]

Just found out a few years ago that I'm kind of a Stats Nerd so this was super interesting to me Thanks Mike! Even if the Video dosnt end up doing well I think it was a nice Vid! See ya on the next Stream Take care

[@isahamilton01]

I choose to disregard your disregarding of Tool’s results, and see that insanely high graph as an absolute win. Tool is on another level.

[@corbinm5237]

Did anyone else catch that Mike had the meme lord Kmac2021 in his search history???

[@riyas1053]

why did i enjoy this so much

[@KingofAir9696]

That fucking comment about real football... You have so much to learn young one. Greetings from Germany Love your Content

[@stonks5174]

I’m just glad I come from a time when listening to metal isn’t REALLY frowned upon

[@wolfiewylde5143]

Seeing Fair to Midland pop up was pretty amazing. One of the most under rated bands of all time. I can only imagine the impact they would have made if they never broke up.

[@dehasim]

Yes, i love their music, its so unique

[@Schellnino1994]

thanks for introducing me to Fair to Midland, they kick ASS!

[@anamuresan7912]

You should really have a podcast it'd be soooo fire 🤘🏻

[@raidbenachoure1330]

really surprised how low A7x are on the list, always though of them having more of a mainstream appeal compared to other hardcore metal bands, and that they have a very vocal (toxic sometimes) fan base, guess it's not :P

[@holy_braille]

Dang, I thought my beloved Deicide would make the cut. Just before I turned 14, I wrote them a letter and asked them to play at my birthday party. They wrote back and said "only if we can sacrifice your friends to goat lord when it's over. Happy Birthday, killer." They sent me 3 t-shirts and some guitar picks. Apparently they don't play children's parties.

[@rhiannonrecommends]

I'm high and this is exactly what I needed thank you

[@tylerhenderson2336]

Kinda interested to see the comparison of the tops from all genres

[@funkytotoro6149]

Id be curious to see a weighting of these google trends (new fans/outsiders) alongside something like spotify listens (established listeners) for a more complete image. I love Dio and listen to him regularly, but i don't know the last time I searched his name, the best chance of him coming up in google would be someone covering him which I havent heard since Killswitch Engage in 2006. Same with GWAR after Brockie died, theres not a whole lot that can bump them out of their more niche fandom.

[@BecomeTheKnight]

For sure! I'm not sure how I'd weight it, and I'm not sure where to find stream data for bands other than monthly listeners, but that would paint a very different picture!

[@funkytotoro6149]

@@BecomeTheKnight Im not sure if the data exists, but if you could overlay google searches with monthly listeners over the same time period, you might get a sense of a group's potential market penetration with their popular appeal/accessibility. A huge spike like Lemmy's passing probably brought a bunch of people to Motorheads music for the first time, but since as you mention they are a metalheads metal band their monthly listeners probably eventually reverted back to the equilibrium. Something like a new album from Slipknot probably gave them an appreciable bump in listenership after the google search spike. Trapt is probably having a huge search term spike the past few weeks, then as people take Headstrong off their workout playlists the listener number might go down. From that jump, rate of decline, and any resulting equilibrium change youd see: - Possible market impact and mass media relevance by relating a search spike to a listening spike - The half life of the listener number decay gives you the popular accessibility of the band as people hearing it for the first time drop off - Any statistically significant permanent change in listenership indicates new fans of the music who discovered it/changed their listening as a result of their google search. Youve combined two of my favorite things here, metal music and statistics...

[@flzrian3623]

This is such a weird way to determine the most popular bands (what the website used).. I would have just gone for either total sales or to determine which are currently the most popular maybe streaming numbers

[@spudmagnum7394]

Im very much down for a metal vs other popular artists video! I wonder how big the gap is

[@mekorn29]

Surprised that Amon Amarth or Sepultura weren't on the list. Lovin the content. 🤘

[@brontsmoth671]

Most searched =/= Most popular. I mean, wouldn't album sales/ticket sales be the proper metric for judging that? This was super interesting either way though.

[@an_38kitkashyap]

Next time: Mike sitting with a glass of Korn

[@JesseJames-wh9sp]

The quick borat reference😂😂😂🤘🏻

[@malcolmmazet8238]

Would have been interesting to see Rammstein on here

[@nemesiszer0708]

RIP Cliff

[@ali_ofsacrafice]

RIP chester

[@tigerlilylexxi]

I’d love to see you react to drum corps

[@dbreen1012]

When I started watching your videos I was annoyed about how cynical you were about alot of bands/ songs etc but your content over the last month has been heaps more fun and light hearted to me and I just wanted to say big thumbs up brother!

[@cadenconley3153]

Don’t mind me. Just your casual Ghost fan watching everything go to hell

[@conormurphy4328]

KERRY KING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@putridabomination]

GUITAAAAAAAAR!!!!!!!!!

[@OtisDeLarge]

Your face is covering the legend... great job.

[@nopenotthatguy8678]

I love each bands as their own and not try to compare

[@SqueakSqueakleton]

You should compare Metallica to Post Malone and some mega pop stars like Taylor Swift? Also, look at monthly listeners on Spotify. I feel that would be a better depiction of popularity.

[@TheBlackKnight1o1]

17:17 Yeah I think when we see the spikes for Guns N Roses ans Motörhead it's less of an indicator of how many people like those bands and more of an indicator of their cultural significance. If someone is a fan if Motörhead they aren't gonna be Googling it every day, because they already know the band and probably have the CDs and records already. But something significant happens, their impact is gonna show as everyone flocks to see if the news is true, and then people who are unaware of what's going on will want to find out.

[@gabetaylor6087]

i really liked this video. really interesting stuff even if its not exact

[@BecomeTheKnight]

Pretty much my thoughts on it. The stats aren't a perfect representation of "popularity" but they do indicate something. Probably easier to get a better picture with more data.

[@ShineshRamballi]

You should do one of these with guitarists

[@emiliosgregoriou8943]

FACT: Metallica would be nowhere today without Lou Reed. Completely carried them all throughout the 50's until today.

[@spriestplayer2329]

@@JamezP they're pathetic. Stop insulting metal and music in general by spreading word about this trash.

[@Ryo7_7]

Between the buried and me 🤘🏾

[@johnmclaughlin9823]

At least he included veil of maya

[@SoretXIII]

Nocny Kochanek is a polish band, heavy metal in style of Iron Maiden with funny lyrics. They played under english name Night Mistress aswell.

[@rebeccassweetmusic4632]

Great video, Mike! I thought you were very insightful. I'm honestly kinda shocked that Megadeth, Guns n Roses, Ronnie James Dio, Black Sabbath, and IRON MAIDEN!!! Of all people are below Metallica granted, we shouldn't really be surprised either. Still, I would think that legends like Dio, Maiden, Sabbath, and Lemmy would be higher than Metallica considering their impact on metal music before Metallica burst into the thrash metal scene. I apologize if this makes me sound like an annoying grandma preaching about good music from the good ole' days. It's just that I would've never thought that Maiden, Dio, Sabbath, and Lemmy would be below Metallica. I understand that this is just a joke and it's only for fun:)

[@JoshDangIt]

You should have used trends for KZbin searches instead of web searches since that's where people are more likely to search for music.

[@corbinm5237]

I would not consider Linkin Park a metal band. I’ve listened to every single song from them except maybe some obscure B-side I haven’t heard yet. The majority of the music they’ve made is in non metal genres. Mainly in the broad genre of rock (subgenres such as electronic rock,punk rock,alternative rock,and hard rock). You could argue for it because their most popular music is their nu metal stuff,but still they’re not a metal band by the actual numbers in their discography.

[@abhirupb316]

I would save Given Up, QWERTY and others were more Alternative Metal. Still fun to see that Chester's last song was full on metal with Mark Morton (Lamb of God guitarist) with Trivium bassist Paolo Gregoletto and drummer Alex Bent.

[@El__Leche]

I like Future Mike's voice, can we get it tomorrow on SSF?

[@_ur_local_shortie]

watching become the knight videos because I didn't go to school because I'm sick

[@JacobStoneFilms]

I wonder if Dio search terms popped up for a certain parody video. ;)

[@michaelpachuau3885]

How did Nightwish not get mentioned? Feel like they should definitely be there on popularity grounds

[@Nuron666]

Become The Knight - I am surprised you have not mentioned RUSH. One of the most creative metal bands of all times.

[@zebruh7490]

I just found out that you could type out "band" after a band name to maybe get the result to pop in the Google trend search. There still wasn't anything for Slayer or Tool unfortunately, but it does pop the result for Pantera. Funny thing is even Queen doesn't initially pop because it's such a vague word, but once you but "Queen band" it's definitely there.

[@jakobthonen9411]

Not necessarily metal but Soundgarden would've been an interesting inclusion too with the loss of Chris Cornell

[@mikeandmike6169]

Gives me depression that system of a Down is not as popular as all these other metal bands since they are my favorite band of all time.

[@aaronstrain2483]

Megadeth is releasing a new album this year. I’m so excited!

[@tnightwolf]

Science?! PogChamp! Great Success!!!

[@ponasenkoepifantsev377]

No Judas Priest? Really?

[@benwasson7]

I still love A7x

[@karollisowski1066]

Check out Nocny Kochanek from 18:54 it's a polish heavy (I'd say more kind of comedy...) metal band. They've also a more "serious" english project called Night Mistress and in polish it means Nocny Kochanek ;)

[@Paool]

10:35 Autofill knows what you're lookin for, Mike.