My Top 10 METAL Songs Of 2023!

[@DanielTompkins]

What an honour! Thank you and all the best this year.🤘

[@DrewFortune97]

Well deserved Dan!🙏🏻 Thank you for all of the amazing music. Happy New Year🍻

[@METALBIRB]

COMMENT FOR THE ALGORITHM

[@zacharyferguson6526]

Done! You're so good to fellow reactors, glad most of y'all uplift each other. It's needed with how draining it can be being a content creator

[@DrewFortune97]

Ly xx

[@TSArtwork]

Brother stop belittling your content or calling it "low effort", you're so fun to listen to, just speak your mind about all of our favourite music and we'll be here watching! Amazing year for metal music, amazing content creating, just a lovely channel all around! Keep slaying it!

[@DrewFortune97]

Needed this, thank you so much❤️❤️

[@TSArtwork]

@@DrewFortune97 DW Drew it's just the truth! Also your SOTY list was almost bang-on to mine, I only would've changed Legion with TMBTE. Other than that it's exactly the same. Great list man, a man of culture! Can't wait to see what amazing music 2024 has in store for us 😍

[@DrewFortune97]

@@TSArtworkmy man❤️🙏🏻

[@ghosttonesg]

Speaking for all of us 🙏

[@DrewFortune97]

@@ghosttonesg💕💕

[@DrewFortune97]

Smash like to prevent further Mental Breakdowns in 2024🥂

[@ghosttonesg]

How do we get more mental breakdowns?

[@DrewFortune97]

@@ghosttonesgblast beats

[@ghosttonesg]

@@DrewFortune97 😈

[@EarthsideBand]

LET THE DREWTH SPEAK!

[@DrewFortune97]

YES FELLAS❤️

[@coreyclip1]

Metal breakdowns 🚫 Mental breakdowns ✅

[@DrewFortune97]

🦗🦟🦗🦟🦗🦟🦗

[@zacharyferguson6526]

Such a great list! Tesseract has a huge year asking with most of these bands. Can't wait for your content in 2024

[@DrewFortune97]

Thank you sir❤️

[@d.hodgsky]

I loved the top 50 choruses video! Paused your spotify playlist for it to watch this video.

[@DrewFortune97]

And I love you for this❤️

[@d.hodgsky]

​@DrewFortune97 I missed the end of your stream today and now I don't know how that game ends 😭😅 Worst cliffhanger ever.

[@DrewFortune97]

@@d.hodgskyoh god no way😂😂 apologies I don’t really pay too much attention to the KZbin chat as it’s really just a means for me to filter people over to Twitch🙏🏻 But the VOD is available on Twitch for Twitch subscribers if you really want to see the end of it! It got emotional towards the end, not how I expected things to turn out😂

[@Live.Music.Moments]

Glad you mentioned Harbinger - such a underrated song on the album! One hell of a opener ❤

[@alexthefossilguy2754]

I watched the whole video of both your top 50 choruses and breakdowns! Discovered a couple new bands and tracks from that 🤙🏻. Your efforts were not all in vain! Great job putting those together

[@DrewFortune97]

Thank you for this❤️❤️

[@LilasTools]

Same from me, those videos were incredibly well put together!

[@DrewFortune97]

@@LilasTools❤️❤️❤️

[@alexthefossilguy2754]

@DrewFortune97 No problem! Was glad to see so many Invent Animate tracks in your best choruses list. Picking a favorite IA chorus from that album was like asking me to pick my favorite child…..so many great choruses. Hearing them next to the competition just helped further solidify in my mind how great they were.

[@kaspa791]

The editing in this one is absolutely hilarious, love it 😂

[@DrewFortune97]

😂😂 Thank you🤞🏼❤️

[@WishMount]

Drew don’t stop with those “investment” videos- the ones you throw your heart and soul into. I see the effort at least, so idk man just do what you love to create and i’ll fookin be there ❤️

[@DrewFortune97]

Love you brother❤️❤️

[@braydenpresley1437]

For those of us that loved your year end vids, thank you for always putting forth a ton of effort, Drew. We love you man.

[@DrewFortune97]

Thank you so much bro❤️

[@tylerdurden5593]

Can't agree more! Was a great year with you, thanks for all your effort and all your honest reactions Drew.

[@Irmelinis]

😂😂😂Calm down, lol... your content is awesome, and this frustrated/sarcastic Drew was hilarious! I do prefer the effort with the suit and everything in the other vids but you're also a funny dude and I really like how this video turned out.

[@DrewFortune97]

Ly❤️

[@Embersword281]

Honestly shocked to hear the other videos didn't do well, even me who hadn't even been subscribed until today and had barely watched many of your videos still watched em through ahaha

[@DrewFortune97]

loool, yeah weird one tbh! I guess because of it being less personal and more of a compilation, people just don’t resonate as much!

[@Embersword281]

@@DrewFortune97 I guess, personally I find lists like these quite engaging, especially when it comes to music. It's always a pleasant surprise to find a new band or see a favourite hidden gem on someone elses lists

[@davidvanderkaap1594]

I was so suprised to see you mention steven wilson, i love how we like a lot of the same artists!!! Porcupine Tree is just absolutely amazing as well.

[@FragileFlame82]

Your number 1 is my number 1 as well! Great tracks in your top 10 and honorable mentions!

[@DrewFortune97]

Appreciate ya🤞🏼❤️

[@OddsNEndsMedia]

Love your lists drew, high or low effort.

[@DrewFortune97]

❤️❤️

[@Lodgiefitness]

Havn't goosebumped to a song all year like Legion, good shout.

[@DrewFortune97]

Insane track!

[@nurplepain3636]

Fantastic video, fantastic year 🍻 cheers to another one in 2024 dude

[@DrewFortune97]

Cheers bro, appreciate all your support always❤️❤️

[@Marli99716]

Just as Feedback to the top 50 videos: I did start the top 50 choruses and quickly realised I wanted to listen to them in full and swapped to the Spotify playlist, because I didn’t know a lot of the songs yet and just listening to the short parts on KZbin and then switching to Spotify for just one song and then back to the KZbin video for the next snippet was too annoying. However I really liked the playlist and discovered a lot of new songs! With that many songs and only short snippets the video unfortunately didn’t work for me for that reason, but like I said the playlist was amazing, thank you for always introducing me to so much great music ☺️

[@DrewFortune97]

❤️❤️ thank you for this very valuable feedback🤞🏼❤️

[@nafavola]

Drew unfiltered and low effort. You chatting about music is more than good enough for me. Create what you enjoy and the views will come!

[@DrewFortune97]

Thank you sir❤️

[@christophersanguino8135]

I love the content big man, I’m so glad to see you as a full time content creator!! Legion was my fav song this year for sure

[@DrewFortune97]

❤️❤️

[@Wetsnail95]

Great year

[@jrayne93]

This was salty and I love it. I watched the year awards videos drew don't feel bad

[@DrewFortune97]

Hahaha hope the sarcasm was felt in the salt 😂😂 Appreciate ya💚

[@jrayne93]

@@DrewFortune97 it was 🙂

[@januszo.2180]

thanks for doing this. Tesseract is big this year (completely agree here), same as Sleep Token (and here). Im going to listen to all the songs I did not know. funny part of the Summoning you choose. I thought that youd do Dante in top 10 (remembering your reaction)

[@DrewFortune97]

Dante definitely fantastic man, but this year was just so strong - that’s it’s only downfall I guess🥲

[@noahjohnston9174]

Discovered Tesseract due to this - holy shit man

[@DrewFortune97]

God damn dude, you been sleepin!

[@GuilhermeOliveira-pc5ge]

I loved the Top 50 chorus video, gave me so much to listen to :)

[@DrewFortune97]

Glad ❤️

[@kylereece1979]

Athblian faoi mhaiste duit, m'chara. After some listens and growing on me, MetallcA get the nod from me. Some really strong songs in there, and its just bloody brilliant having the lads back again. The old school rages on this year, with the upcoming Judas Priest album dropping inna few weeks.

[@jvann244]

Could not agree more with #1. Daniel Tompkins delivered one of the most powerful and incredible metal vocal performances of all time with Legion

[@Motherswishes]

i watched them good sir and will continue to!

[@DrewFortune97]

Ly🥰

[@RthereNEusernames]

Outro to War of Being is so unbelievably good

[@DrewFortune97]

The 🐐 chills every time dude

[@RthereNEusernames]

@@DrewFortune97 Easily one of the best albums of 2023. Hope you had a nice holiday! 2024 is gonna be good to us!

[@Al3xWZ]

really looooove TesseracT Amazing content 💛 and drew, if you come to mexico can i give you a hug? HAAHAHAHHAHA XD

[@Aya84524]

If it makes you feel better Drew, I haven't watched *anyone's* end of year summary videos, they're just not my kind of thing lol. I do appreciate the effort you put in though 😅 At least now you know where people's interests don't lie haha, and next time if you want to make end of year summary videos you know not to spend so much time on them :P Happy new year, you petty bastard! xD 😘

[@mathewlambright8698]

Thanks for sharing. You officially got me hooked on TesseracT tonight.

[@DawnsHhcg]

Commenting for the algorithm!

[@DrewFortune97]

Appreciate ya💚

[@d.o.9808]

Every single song is a subjective fact for one of us, you have done a great work here, I am with you in several songs, not so in others, that's the magic of music.

[@sumoshepe]

Watched waiting for some heavy hitting metal bangers from 2023 that I may have missed only to be greeted with rnb, trap hi-hats, and mainstream alternative singing ballads lmao Great video none the less. Big fan... coming from the Meshuggah videos Cheers

[@DrewFortune97]

lol, appreciate ya dude❤️

[@ahmedshishir3223]

I thought you would mention 'Natural Disaster' from Tesseract. By the way that was a great list !

[@Marius_ae]

What an amazing year it was for prog. Also, great list even though i personally would have at least two songs from Night Verses in my top 10. Arrival and Bound To You are just too good

[@DrewFortune97]

Holding my tongue until AOTY video is out🫡

[@Henkatron]

honestly a bit surprised to not see any of the Vildhjarta singles on the list :O anyhow, solid list :)

[@DrewFortune97]

Not been my favourite releases by them by any stretch🥲

[@xRhychux]

😥 all the get better the more you listen

[@Saschabear95]

Slightly jarring start to the year 😂

[@CO6883-o3c]

Top 10 Mental Breakdowns of the Year. #1 bar none. 🤘

[@DrewFortune97]

I’ll take it 🏆 🤝🏻

[@MatthewA5393]

So, i totally agree with everyone else. Ive loved your other year end content. But i have to say, this IDGAF, low effort content is f*cking hilarious. The first few mins of the video had me dying.

[@kylereece1979]

Oh, and the footage of yer man keening and crying thatya slotted in at the 40 second mark? Didya see the video of that inserted into Slayer's "Angel of Death"? Feckin' quare funny, lad. Type in "Best cry ever Slayer Version" to see it. 😀😀👍👍

[@DrewFortune97]

Will check it out man😂😂 Happy new year to you, appreciate all of your support over the years mo chara ❤️🍻

[@victorh.56]

YEAAAAAAAHH

[@joshi5944]

My list. Noone asked for it but I´ll do it anyway. Of corse with low effort. And I hope I didn´t forget something. Enjoy :) Honorable mentions: Gone Astray, Remember me, Unfamiliar, Preboreal, Doomswitch, Herritage, Vore, Everytime We touch, Drones, Seeing Red, and one or two german non-metal tracks, noone would know. I don´t care, I´ll also do a number 11.: Sempiternal Beeings - Haken 10. Deep in the Willow - Knocked Loose 9. Music Stuff - VCV (only non metal song on my top 10) 8. Match my Misery - Advents, Afterglow 7. The Summoning - Sleep Token 6. Death Keeps Us From Living - After The Burial 5. Unconformities - The Ocean, Karin Park 4. Everything is Queit Now - Knocked Loose 3. Dante - Northlane 2. War of Being - Tesseract 1. Take Me back To Eden - Sleep Token

[@ashleighjandrasec2926]

Tesseract’s “Legion” was my number 1 song of the year. Dan absolutely obliterated that song. You should watch Chris Liepe’s reaction with Dan himself, and breaking the whole track down was really interesting to see how he attacked the song dynamic. Loved it.

[@Patterner]

any effort that ends in a good result is enough. personally i like to get to the desired result on the easiest (not necessarily easy) way (hopefully with fun along it). very good result. i was surprised that i knew nearly all artists on the list and liked a lot of the songs. (not really a metal person)

[@JamesLinehan1]

Let the Drewth speak 🤣🤣🤣

[@DrewFortune97]

😂😂😂 Hi Dad

[@JamesLinehan1]

@@DrewFortune97 hello san

[@stephenthomson6230]

Happy New Year Drew!

[@DrewFortune97]

And to you sir!🍻

[@Drivingmemacy8917]

ShyBeast/ I See Stars came out with an awesome song (Anomaly). I guess I would consider it Rock/Metal because it’s part of the Sumerian Records family

[@Drivingmemacy8917]

Another most honorable mention would be Earthside - The Lesser Evil which is by far the best song on that album. Larry Braggs has got it going on.

[@CommoditiesTrader]

Top 0.1% listener of Sleep Token last year (according to YT Music) so your list sits well with me. Including the DYWTYLM comment. 🤘

[@Spaceycasey1414]

Great list....not sure i got notified for the others but I'll check them out.

[@DrewFortune97]

Appreciate ya❤️

[@mattforthelikes]

I don't get Sleep Token but then again I'm the most pickiest metalhead of all time.

[@DrewFortune97]

That is absolutely allowed sir!

[@stikks]

Will you be doing a tier list of the records you heard this year? Loved that one last year!

[@DrewFortune97]

I’ll do it on stream shortly! I’ll need some time to download the 120+ album artworks I listened to this year though…😂

[@christophersanguino8135]

Yo you need to check out Andy Cizek’s one take of Soulstealer from Makari. i know you know of him but this one take is insane.

[@Loser10004]

Great list

[@tannerqualls5102]

I watch and love the videos 🙋‍♂️

[@DrewFortune97]

Ly xx

[@zeal0tseven57]

I can't seem to find your reaction to Earthside's new album... Have you not uploaded it?

[@fishygodni3037]

Finally a list I can somewhat relate to! ❤

[@davewetering7554]

Nothing beats imminence for me. Tgod it is in galactic criminal his top 10❤

[@williamdixon2026]

Everyone's missing out on august burns red-death below! Every song is a banger!

[@d.o.9808]

Am I the only person who Legion Video reminds me No Surprises from Radiohead?

[@BayernFan84]

Invent Animate is my No.1💪💪💪

[@intentions2730]

Invent animate-emberglow takes it for me

[@nighk1694]

Ahhhhh

[@Ken24383]

Personally Acensionism from sleep token would be my favourite song of the year. Without a whisper from invent animate in second and Heaven shall burn from imminence in 3rd. Vocal performance in legion is amazing but prefer war of being as a song that would be in 4th (would have never discovered them if it wasnt for this channel) and probably Antimatter by Silent Planet in 5th.

[@DrewFortune97]

Unreal, glad to hear❤️❤️

[@justinsnow1269]

Same top 2 songs for me. Tesseract at 1 and Token at 2. Same band different song for me at 3 with False Meridian.

[@Bruno-vb1qz]

I miss Polaris on this list, but is a great list too.

[@nikitalila]

🤘🤘🤘

[@980Logan]

Algorithhhh

[@DrewFortune97]

Legend❤️❤️

[@firefurby9509]

I comment to praise lord algorithmia.

[@vincenttrunfio3348]

Could've just said Sleep Token Take me back to Eden album We all be happy with that Lol

[@lowspec42]

needed more Sleep Token

[@ClaineFurqon]

Master of Puppets by Taylor Swift is the best metal song

[@Cornchps827]

Drew petty Fortune

[@DrewFortune97]

Guilty 😢

[@captaincurian]

Where the poetic edda?

[@davidgood1205]

Algorithm nation

[@sayok575]

What happen with Currents? They drop their best album and no one recognizes it... I love all of the songs you choose but man.. So Alone, The Dead We Seek or Remember Me are huge songs too.

[@DrewFortune97]

WATCH MY OTHER VIDEOS😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@sayok575]

@@DrewFortune97 Yeah Yeah I know you put some Currents songs in "Chorus of the year" but I think they deserve more than that

[@gar.es.bar_]

IFKR!!! TDWS is definetely my AOTY, Heavener being a close 2nd. It's just that some ppl went with way too different expectations and after listening to it, they felt that they came short but, once u understand the album n go with it, u just roll with it from start to finish ❤️‍🔥🤌🏻

[@Cornchps827]

🎉

[@GMCsaint2014]

Where is Fit For An Autopsy “A Higher Level Of Hate”? Thought that was going to be in this list.

[@DrewFortune97]

Exclusively 2023 releases this year

[@GMCsaint2014]

@@DrewFortune97ahhhh ok my bad bro

[@zackbrowne1147]

I think the less effort style for these videos is better because it feels a little more personable.

[@DrewFortune97]

Think I agree with you after watching so many end of year videos!

[@rowschank]

More music playing content in 2024? 😉

[@DrewFortune97]

Need to pick the guitar up again in 2024…. Was on a crazy streak at the start of the year but let myself down the past 2 months or so 😢

[@mahockey3]

Something makes me think you like TesseracT 🤔

[@Typerhaze]

Tesseract didn't hit for me at all :/ it came across as "try hard" but thats just me.

[@TheDemocultis]

Not a bad list. Shocked there weren't any heavy songs but hey, it's YOUR list bub! Enjoy the year!

[@DrewFortune97]

Heavy….but in the feelz department 🫣

[@mustbewasabi]

thalln't

[@willmellare4368]

polaris not in top 10?? disappointed to see that every metal youtuber has almost completely forgotten the album and the importance of it. i see they are in the honourable mentions but they deserve top 10 easy

[@DrewFortune97]

Was my number 5 AOTY

[@catsclawband]

Low effort comment

[@DrewFortune97]

Low effort response

[@catsclawband]

@@DrewFortune97 low effort pick up line

[@reubenjw24]

Hey now I watched all of em 😂 how dare you disrespect your own content like that, we all love it and those who don't aren't real. Some npc type shit

[@margidda]

7:08 you went back in the editing and found the song? too high effort, i'm removing the like

[@DrewFortune97]

😂😂😂 That’s absolutely fair, deserved like retraction 🫡

[@vsevolotti]

Couldn't make it to the end, all garbage transitions, no fancy editing found.

[@DrewFortune97]

😂😂😂 Why I oughta

[@IonutTudorica]

Talk less. Say/play more