Every Era of Metal UNDER 5 MINUTES (with Guitar Riffs)

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A little history lesson of the most important eras of Heavy Metal done with guitar riffs written by me. From very early Metal like Black Sabbath, to the most modern style of it like Sleep Token and Bad Omens.
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[@jojoplaysmusic]

So what is YOUR favorite era of Metal? And your favorite bands from that era.

[@metalkidleo]

Now, lorna shore sleep token and uh old motionless, and attack attack

[@the-real-mysticx67]

Probably early 2000s

[@Rowanexen]

I love the 2000s metalcore. Trivium, BFMV, After the Burial, etc! I love them all though! Except the Black Metal and most of the mid 2010s stuff 😅

[@Tribal_records]

2000's Brutal Death Metal

[@jojoplaysmusic]

@@metalkidleoold Motionless has some bangers

[@SSPGwemlin]

Something I don’t hear that many people talk about is the doom/sludge metal influence that was brought into Thall. Might be a bit subtle at first, but trust me, bands like Black Tongue, Vildhjarta, Humanity’s Last Breath, etc, didn’t get their slow, atmospheric, moody, and heavy breakdown parts from nothing.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Oh definitely! Vildhjarta is a great example. They sound VERY sludgey.

[@ShephrdWieb]

Im not at all a fan of Sludge/Doom but you have an amazing point.

[@donnienarco144]

Even bands like Full Blown AIDS (AxCx Seth Putnam side project) were kinda ahead of their time playing downtuned riffs all the way in like G tuning in 1997-2006

[@dinonuggies2276]

Ya i know a couple of people who started dusting off their beta leads because of thall lol

[@MeanBeanComedy]

That's the first thing I noticed. Didn't really like it for that reason.

[@cryptidproductions3160]

There's A LOT more metal than just Sabbath from the 70s. Early Motorhead, Judas Priest, Rainbow, Hawkwind, and tons of hard rock rock groups that were heavy enough they towed the line between the genres like KISS.

[@gx1tar1er]

Detroit Rock City by KISS is pretty much proto-metal or 70s metal.

[@cryptidproductions3160]

@@gx1tar1er So is God of Thunder

[@chronicthingz]

90's were peak metal, alot of great subgenres and stuff

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Most definitely!

[@sakidickerson]

Peak album art

[@circuz4167]

Tbh I think the 90's were the peak of music in general, next to 70's

[@8tonystark8]

Running Wild and Gamma Ray had their best albums in that time period

[@Voldrani]

Nevermore and Iced Earth. My two fave 90s, (and later,) bands.

[@TheSuffocater]

Holy shit ! Amazing you did this with your own riffs !

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Thank you so much man! It’s definitely a fun experiment to practice your songwriting skills!

[@dbarrett747]

Myspace deathcore was so much fun!! So many nights just sat finding weirder and weirder bands with breakdowns that got more and more ridiculous.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Me at 15

[@masterroshi2779]

Sabbath had and still has one of the heaviest riffs ever created

[@chiralsymmetry6997]

Big props for tagging Believer in the thrash mentions. A forgotten band that deserves more credit.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Oh yeah! Believer is some of the best Thrash I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.

[@DimaNSK-vy4br]

​@@jojoplaysmusicYou don't know what metalcore is. Poseur

[@christianmetalchannel5231]

Nice to see Believer get mentioned. As a Christian who has listened to a lot of Christian thrash I think Believer is the only Christian band that can hold their own against more well-known secular thrash bands.

[@dngrouscrgo]

Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin were also pertinent to the creation of metal in the 70s

[@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

"Churches were burned". 😂

[@apoplexiamusic]

Chvrches vere bvrned

[@Gett.Rightt900]

Nothing is funny about that

[@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

@@Gett.Rightt900 If there was death, it really wouldn't be funny. But, as far as I know, only the buildings were lost. Given what churches represent, I still think it's funny, even though I reckon that some of the buildings could be a form of art that was lost to the fire.

[@Gett.Rightt900]

@@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs blasphemy

[@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs]

@@Gett.Rightt900 Oh, yeah! I love it! 😈

[@user-en5mk4nv6v]

Dont forget mid late 90s to mid 2000's the scandinavian surge of amazing bands and talent. Children of bodom, wintersun etc

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Trueee

[@whyisyes3957]

There is a ton of overlap between the Melodeath and Metalcore eras

[@KatonRyu]

I love the more 'poppy' metal. I'm a simple man who likes clean vocals and clear melodies, and the closer metal gets to pop, the more those things seem to appear. Both Architects and I Prevail are bands I really like, from the ones mentioned in the video.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

That’s fair. I’m glad it exists for the people who enjoy it. Just not my thing personally.

[@mrmoose7500]

STRYPER MENTIONED🔥🗣️

[@cgoodiefunk]

cool vid. metal has such an interesting and amazing history

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Definitely some of the wildest changes out of any genre.

[@judaspriestfan]

0:19, notable bands where judas priest(judas priest realesed their debut album in 74), ufo, hawkwind just to name a few

[@ilikevideos4868]

Ufo is pretty metal for the 70's. In the album Phenomenon you really hear where Steve Harris got his inspiration from

[@gx1tar1er]

​​@@ilikevideos4868UFO is one of the most influential bands to metal than most realise. Even influenced Kirk Hammett. I can say the same with Uriah Heep.

[@gx1tar1er]

I'll list all 70s metal bands and all that i considered proto-metal (or influential and contributed to the creation of metal): Black Sabbath Judas Priest Scorpions (they released some metal in the late 70s) Led Zeppelin Thin Lizzy (they later made heavy metal albums in the 80s) Deep Purple Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore from Deep Purple and Ronnie James Dio on the vocal) Hawkwind Budgie Sir Lord Baltimore Buffalo Uriah Heep UFO King Crimson Rush Blue Oyster Cult Blue Cheer High Tide Bloodrock Jimi Hendrix Kiss Alice Cooper (his costume) The Beatles (Heather Skater) Iron Butterfly (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida) Stepphenwolf (Born to Be Wild) Mountain (Mississippi Queen) Queen (they had some metal songs like Stone Cold Crazy and most from Queen II)

[@davidfrischknecht8261]

You completely skipped over European Power Metal! Helloween, Gamma Ray, Stratovarius, Blind Guardian.

[@Raveman846]

Most of metalheads don't like power metal:) Even if it had roots in USA . Its close to same thing as Hair Metal.Too cheesy and bla, bla, bla 😂

[@nabodabo1235]

@@Raveman846 and then there is sabaton who sings about war

[@uniservicemann3186]

For 90s black metal, was that a specific riff from a song? cause holy fuck i need that. Quality as always Jojo.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Thank you so much! I did write all the riff, for that one I was kinda ripping off Sargeist.

[@uniservicemann3186]

​@jojoplaysmusic hence why I love the sound of it, Sargeist one of my top 10 bm bands. Such a good riff man, beautifully made.

[@mrthrashmaster9]

Loved it!!!!🫶✨️🔥

[@apoplexiamusic]

It’s really cool that you shouted out Nemertines

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Oh yeah I randomly discovered them recently and really enjoyed their stuff, so I thought it would be a cool recommendation.

[@nikolakrastev8880]

Spot on video

[@noelmathur8967]

Bro really threw Believer in there! You have my respect! 🫡

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Well yeah, they’re fkn sick! 😼

[@ReynWeird]

It feels like prog metal has a history of it's own. From King Crimson to Animals as Leaders and beyond

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Yeah, I feel like progressive music exists on an entirely separate timeline.

[@anonymouslyunknown4811]

Love this

[@Wheresthepepsibismol]

Man the late 80s brought us great bands like Death, Bolt Thrower and Morbid Angel

[@RoseRamblesYT]

Your facial expressions really show how you feel about each era haha. I stepped away from metal for along time, but very recently got back into it. Based on this video, yeah I’d still gravitate towards 90s and early 2000s metal the most.

[@GregKhar-NU-Metalhead2000]

Thats the NU Metal power!

[@aninfinitemindofmusicandreams]

Love how you got a guitar to match each era. I absolutely associate Jacksons with 80s hair metal and ESP/LTDs with the 90s death metal boom Ibanez 7 strings and PRS 6 strings with nu metal Then LTDs and Ibanez again for metalcore

[@jojoplaysmusic]

If I had more guitars, I would’ve definitely have had use one that represented each era too.

[@GnildnewOfficial]

TECH DEATH?! JFAC, Beyond Creation, Virvum, Necrophagist, old school Fallujah, old school Rivers of Nihil, Obscura 🔥

[@jojoplaysmusic]

VIRVUM MENTIONED 🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥

[@GnildnewOfficial]

@@jojoplaysmusic YESS

[@uraz8236]

Can you make a video or like a description to how you made those tones in the helix stomp?

[@FlareFox9002]

The djent ages were not the dark ages imo, the metal dark ages is modern metalcore (Ie. trying to be djent, and Linkin Park/Deftones in chorus)

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Fair point

[@1cyyy]

I rarely see people mention stoort neer honestly, but I think it's genuinely one of my favourite projects in metal^^

[@jojoplaysmusic]

It’s so gooood

[@heartyxpunk]

I'm surprised Lamb of God wasn't mentioned in groove era

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Well it’s mostly about the era in which they got big, which for Lamb of God is in the 2000s.

[@user-ti5jm9pj3u]

fkn Suffocation has dropped the sickest Death Metal EP ever recorded the Despise the Sun is a masterpiece

[@cctkid86]

As a mid 80s baby, this video just reminded me why 90% of the bands i listen to are from the 80s/early 90s. 80s still reign supreme, Fear Factory was the best band to come out of the 90s, and church burnings and homicides aside love some 90s black metal.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Can’t go wrong with some Fear Factory

[@danielm.3511]

And then? Give us the Prophecy! All hail Jojo the prophet! Or not! Just give us morrrre.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

All in do time, my child.

[@orangejews150]

Stoort neer love ❤

[@maxr.k.pravus9518]

my favorite riffs you put here were thrash, death, nu metal and deathcore for some reason (i love other genres too, especially trad heavy, doom, groove and djent/thall (and many other subgenres of heavy music), not so much into glam and this new metal pop (but there are really fun bands in both tho)

[@automachinehead]

lmao this is in fact so true and because of this i subscribe

[@GregKhar-NU-Metalhead2000]

Late 90s-early 00s!!!

[@WhatTheHellHaveIdone]

We can also mention the Sludge Metal during the late 90's and early 2000's with bands like Mastodon, Isis, Cult of Luna, Neurosis, Kylesa, The Ocean. And maybe the Blackgaze movement led by Deafheaven and Alcest around the 2010's also deserved to be mentioned. We had other bands like Oathbreaker, Lantlôs, Ghost Bath.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

LANTLÔS AND OATHBREAKER MENTIONED 🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🔥🔥🗣️🔥

[@amrindersingh5952]

Notable black metal bands: Misses the most influential band! BURZUM

[@malicusmaximus5182]

Fr burzum inspired so much atmospheric bm

[@Stefan979-]

Gorgoroth mentioned - I can die a happy man now. I'd also argue that WASP are more than just another Hair band. But the first few albums certainly fit the bill.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Oh yeah definitely, but at the era I included them they were totally part of that wave of bands.

[@Stefan979-]

@@jojoplaysmusic Absolutely,'89 was when the Glam began to disappear. Didn't mean to detract from your video's accuracy in the first place - been getting into them lately and felt like pointing that out in case people still put them into the box of cheesy Hair bands.

[@jasongraham4425]

It’s funny I’ve been thinking about getting a pitch shifter lately

[@jojoplaysmusic]

You probably should

[@INIGO7]

2:44 metalcore had a rise since the late 90s and had a style closer to hardcore then metal both musically and energy wise with the crowd (before it got gentreified n cattered to battlevest mayhem fest bros) ...bands like Prayer for cleansing, REPRISAL ,JANE, from the dying sky, Arkangel, and martyr AD

[@DonBozzi]

Ronnie James Dio not mentioned… shame 😢 Also cathedral weren’t mentioned and the djent genre is definitely a return to doom metal. Nice vid, very good guitar player. Cheers 🤘🏿

[@Danny-ce4xd]

Melodic death metal with metalcore tone02:43

[@hawkxrussianx8601]

One more you could I guess throw into 70s was Rainbow… if they count

[@GnildnewOfficial]

Thanks for mentioning Doom EP as the only JFAC deathcore work. For some god forsaken reason, people seem to think theyre still deathcore 😭

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Well it's only the facts, you know.

[@GnildnewOfficial]

@jojoplaysmusic of course, its common knowledge as long as you don't live under a rock! New album was perfection

[@ukaszporebny9908]

80 and 90 still best

[@BObbert179]

Mentions Djent but not Meshuggah? 0/10. Just playin lmao, great video

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Lmao thanks. To clarify, the bands I mention are respective to the era and not necessarily to the genre.

[@BObbert179]

@@jojoplaysmusic oh okay. That makes a lot more sense lol

[@icegold3398]

What was the name of the metalcore song?

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Technically I made it but it’s very similar to “Through Struggle” by As I Lay Dying.

[@icegold3398]

@@jojoplaysmusic my dude, drop a song its was frecking fire

[@barbaricexcruciation]

i mean, there was really early black metal in the 80s too!

[@nettlecider]

I assume Industrial was excluded and will be in the EDM evolution video 😂

[@andrewsharpe7630]

haha, I'd defend djent but I don't listen to a wide enough variety of djent bands to have an informed opinion. Periphery and Monuments made the "good" list; that's fair enough. I have a narrow list of bands (Spiritbox, DGD, Erra, Northlane, Unprocessed, etc.) that I like; that's enough for me to call modern metal "good". If there's new tunes out there I don't like I just don't think about them.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

I feel like DGD and Unprocessed are more Mathrock really. But yeah, all of those are very good bands, I mostly mentioned bands from those particular eras.

[@ghost_java35]

calls black sabbath 'barely metal' then proceeds to include 80s rock smdh

[@gx1tar1er]

some hair metal bands are more heavy metal than others. Bands like Whitesnake, Cinderella, Poison are more toward hard rock while early Mötley Crüe, Dokken, Twisted Sister, W.A.S.P. are pretty much heavy metal with glam metal influence.

[@romanlegin3762]

crimson vow bundle mm

[@insignia9028]

how did you mention good djent bands and not have meshuggah. they are the og's, the big bois, and imo they did it the best

[@jojoplaysmusic]

I mostly named bands that were appropriate for each decade, and Meshuggah came way before them.

[@insignia9028]

true@@jojoplaysmusic

[@cjay91_]

yea buddy

[@jojoplaysmusic]

;)

[@Laveritenestpasdecemonde]

death is life life is death (metal)

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Yeah

[@Tragic_TV]

Im am big staright edge and powerviolence fan personally, bands like knocked loose and fluoride are amazing

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Knocked Loose let's goooo. One of the best bands to work out to.

[@Tragic_TV]

@@jojoplaysmusic They are! I'm trying to see them in St. Petersburg in June. That would actually be my first concert which is crazy

[@YeshuaChristos1]

@@Tragic_TVwear a helmet

[@Tragic_TV]

@@YeshuaChristos1 Yeah I've seen the live shows 💀

[@notlilpcupp6724]

Caveman Death

[@sangramos]

“Churches were burned” 🤣

[@user-gk1gu2fs4p]

An extremely US centric perspective. There were no dark ages in Europe where metal is much more popular than in the USA. Finland has about 10 times as many metal bands per capita than the states and when it comes to metal festivals Americans can only dream of the European circuit with its massive festivals like Wacken, Hellfest, Downlaoad .... There is nothing remotely comparable in North America.

[@yamiimax]

I like melodic metal it's mostly Power metal and it came from speed metal Extreme metal come from thrash What do you think about power metal?

[@jojoplaysmusic]

I like a lot of Power Metal. Especially Japanese bands like Versailles, Galneryus, and Matenrou Opera.

[@yamiimax]

@@jojoplaysmusic cool

[@Nestorglass]

Its like the scene got taken over by the moronic sentiment of "DO YOU EVEN DJENT BRO XD" during the 2010s so hard even the mainstream forgot what good metal is supposed to sound like at this point

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Yeah lol. I mean the good bands that everyone copied are good for a reason (love me some After the Burial and Periphery), but that style just got ran into the ground too hard.

[@EliaszPimpicki]

what about the current era??

[@andrewsharpe7630]

the current era is basically still the last two or three he mentioned: a dark age of pitch-shifting and pop songwriting.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

I do like the pitch-shifty bands. Specially if they’re Thall like Vildhjarta.

[@jaredt3985]

There are many things going on in the current era of metal, other than the big popular bands. Old school death and thrash metal are having a killer revival as of late. Check out bands like Frozen Soul, Maul, Creeping Death, Worm, Enforced, Bloodletter, Inculter. It’s nothing new or groundbreaking, but this deep in to the metal game, what’s actually original anymore, that isn’t taking influence from popular genres you know?

[@EliaszPimpicki]

guys there was always radio metal around, now it's just more modern souding. you guys sound like youre biass in favor of old metal. if u haven't lived under a rock for the past couple of years you'd know metal is in a great place now. eclectic/mixed genre metal is the current leading style, and people are all in for it! a lot of genre revivals like modern nu metal too! get with the times lol

[@gx1tar1er]

nu-metalcore

[@sangramos]

3:49 ironically enough this could easily be some hypocrisy riffs haha. Different approach tho

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Truee

[@mudafukrjonez4262]

How you go through all that and not mention the goat pantera

[@jojoplaysmusic]

1:51 go

[@ladislavvojtun9957]

no shuggah? meh :(

[@user-tk9gb5zd9o]

No mentioning avenged sevenfold after they actually blew up mtv in '06 and won grammy in 2012

[@user-tk9gb5zd9o]

Good video tho. You're skilled player

[@jojoplaysmusic]

You’re right 😤

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Thank you :)

[@FlareFox9002]

NGL but the 70s riff goes the extra mile.

[@etzenhammer]

Meshuggah????

[@IliasWonch]

It's cool to see a Christian metal band get in there. (stryper) too bad the black metalers burned the churches

[@jojoplaysmusic]

And Stryper also evolved their sound beyond hair metal too

[@piusaditya5206]

Men melodic metalcore is melodeath with metalcore

[@rob0nemusic369]

You completely missed the djent era. It's closer to a Steve T parody than how actual bands played djent ( Periphery, Animals as Leaders, Meshuggah, Wide Eyes, ERRA ). Your opinion is like a boomer take imo

[@8tonystark8]

Mid 2020s AI takes over No need for musicians, youtubers, artists

[@CensoredNorsk]

I really wanted to stop the video when you didn't list exodus and Megadeth to thrash metal

[@wallacemcjigglemeister7729]

No bmth in the MySpace metal either

[@lebarak69]

Early 10s>>>20s

[@megaloth1955]

I loved the late 80's and 90's. Very early 2000's were passable, too. But even in those years I never liked any of this "Doom, Death, Black" metal, always felt like a watching very immature attention seeking goth chick in music form to me. I like riffs, growls and rhythm, not senseless screams and cacophony of sounds. Maybe I'm just old and grumpy.

[@SdMbL1]

Black Sabbath, Metallica, Pantera… in that order… then some Nu Metal bands. Everything is not my cup of tea.

[@beskar_]

I would not define Architects as 'pop with heavy guitars'

[@blackspell1402]

I mean he added "current" in brackets, but I'm not sure if he's serious or just trying to piss some people off 😂

[@ryandicksen8377]

Finn McKenty was right. Djent/thall killed metal.

[@jerzmercer2657]

Still the 80s era supremacy

[@jungleblobs5225]

not enough death metal in the 80s

[@dagondraven]

from 2010 all this djent and thall stuff is really boring to me (but nothing beat the popcore bands like Bad Omens), i have faith just in old bands or Avant Garde Metal

[@nndans]

Metalcore is peak

[@xerxes2568]

Bro called after the burial boring

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Nah, the bands mentioned there were bands I think are undeniably good.

[@JeyKey-bc3yo]

Is it just me or is every riff a bit too heavy, like the Sabbath one already almost sounds like Thrash

[@andrewsharpe7630]

that Sabbath riff didn't sound heavy enough to me; it was no Under the Sun or Into the Void.

[@Adam1349]

Your 70s section is severely lacking. Judas priest, rainbow, riot, Motorhead?!? etc. Not to mention countless hard rock bands that I'd consider canon like deep purple, Uriah heep, scorpions, van Halen, hawk wind. The 70s were fucking amazing and you're missing out if you think it could be summed up with: "everything has to start somewhere"

[@wallacemcjigglemeister7729]

Poopy

[@Le_epic_eclipse]

Epic

[@bingosthad]

ayyy lmao periphery was never good

[@gx1tar1er]

Your late 70s/early 80s [NWOBHM, 2nd wave heavy metal] is too thrash metal. Your thrash metal is too death metal.

[@joshbaldwin42]

Oh yeah, put in the boring trash known as nu "metal" and PLENTY LEAVE OUT THE GODS OF POWER METAL!!

[@Nestorglass]

Power metal is barely influential in comparison (even though its also good music). Still,we should grow past it 😅

[@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125]

Nu metal is still metal, bruh. The distortion and the riffs in that genre can be paired with any genre of metal, honestly.

[@ilikevideos4868]

Power metal wasn't in this because it lasted through multiple decades

[@michaelstewart4461]

My guy, your earliest era was too thrash, your thrash was too death metal, and your djent was way too nu metal.

[@kodaavkin_music]

hating on things while mildly advertising a product aint that smart pal

[@Le_epic_eclipse]

I like thall deathcore and metalcore