FORBES Top Metal Bands List is actually GOOD?!

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[@NikNocturnal]

What's your top Metal bands? Comment below to make sure everyone fights with eachother. Also, pickup the new limited Halloween "COREKID" merch here: corekid.ca/

[@ianmcpeck424]

Opeth, Mastodon, and Gojira. Opeth #1, Mastodon and Gojira flip from day to day. Too many great bands to give a definitive top 10, let alone top 5. To add: favorite metalcore/adjacent bands include Howard Jones era KSE (duh), Spiritbox, and Jinjer

[@Soniteq]

Korn, Slipknot, Tool, Deftones, Otep. I'm a millennial sellout. I can't stop editing. Too many good bands to name.

[@ArkaeaFCL3]

Gojira, slipknot, behemoth, Killswitch engage, Lamb of god, Otep, Tool, Cattle decapitation, Suicide silence, Whitechapel, Soulfly, Pantera, Tryptikon, and spiritbox.

[@TheMadMedek]

Metallica and pantera were my start in metal, but Slipknot came out 99 my freshman year of high school. What a time. I hardly skip a song when the shuffle hits

[@ianmcpeck424]

@@ArkaeaFCL3 Wasn't expecting a Tryptikon mention in the comments of a Nik vid. Great taste all the way down

[@Hun7er_TV]

Forbes more metal than loud wire is crazy

[@JediShoalinVigilante]

Loudwire is horrible

[@pigsfood27]

Not that crazy, Loudwire blows

[@digitalmortality2001]

im so happy people are starting to realize how full of shit loudwire really is

[@erickrodrigo40]

great profile pic....you like metal and berserk...i respect your taste

[@nietzscheente1271]

Better than 'Rolling Stones' magazine too.

[@earthscorcher]

We need Quentin to make the Spotify playlists.

[@RobSTFreak]

I just clicked on comments to post what you just said!!!! Quentin to make Spotify playlists!!!!

[@dropthehammer1360]

Wouldn’t it serve you better to make your own?

[@earthscorcher]

@@dropthehammer1360 wouldn't it serve you better to mind your own business? :)

[@dropthehammer1360]

@@earthscorcher my comment wasn’t meant to rile you up. If you like all the bands on that list, then surely you would enjoy his playlist.

[@samgiron9368]

Yes!

[@TheMadMedek]

What a chad writer. Forbes actually hired someone who knew what they are writing about. No click bait just for interaction numbers

[@rafadolny3551]

That's a real journalism

[@hhaste]

They usually do for most things.. really everything that I've read on there, so far. They post good gaming news from independent journalists that actually know what they're talking about, so it seems like they do that for everything.

[@NrkTwo]

Finally nik reacts to something else than loudwire

[@jackyboi8832]

But was does Corey Taylor think about this 😂

[@killerchristian567]

Doesn't he react to Spotify? Or do Loudwire own them? 😂

[@captaindavecaptain]

I didn’t realize there was other news outlets…

[@steviegreenthumb4720]

@@jackyboi8832 "forbes dont even play instruments or sing into live mics theyre all posers" lmao

[@Cakebong]

interview with Quentin when?

[@wabbit_07]

YEEEESSSS WE NEED THIS

[@MatthewA5393]

pls

[@FELTSZ]

Please interview with legendary Mikael Åkerfeldt from Opeth. Why he hates modern metal

[@thetej1098]

YES

[@thetej1098]

@@FELTSZ no

[@albertovaldivia6132]

Spotify has been real quiet after this video uploaded

[@UltimateGamerCC]

Spotify: ". . . .FUCK!!!"

[@elnombre91]

You love to see Converge/Jane Doe getting props in a mainstream media article. Big up Quentin.

[@sonictemple2925]

I’m so glad to see friends get the props they deserve. Legendary band and great humans.

[@goldenpie6]

First wave metalcore underrated as hell

[@elnombre91]

@@sonictemple2925 I met Jacob years ago. He was super nice, while I fanboyed and got tongue-tied. Classic.

[@sonictemple2925]

@@elnombre91 he is great. Kurt and Nate have helped my band so much over the years. I can talk gear with them for hours. It makes me happy when good people get the recognition they deserve.

[@FELTSZ]

Converge love Iron Maiden

[@WeWokeTheGiants]

Everyone knows that us financial guys like metal.

[@Werewolf914]

I'd imagine Financial people are into Mathcore and Prog Metal

[@liamcaswell2118]

Can confirm, throwing down to Knocked Loose to forget my marketing paper

[@SteveCastaneda93]

Oh, I definitely listen to some Metal when working on journal entries and spreadsheets for my accounting job.

[@ThatHurt3d]

It balances the chaos of accounting to make a perfectly tranquil state of mind

[@Rob-gx7rx]

yea i saw that wolf of wall street/meshuggah outtake and i get it now

[@thomasmatijas2775]

For real, you should reach out to Quentin for an interview and talk about metal in journalism/mainstream media or lack there of!

[@igorpodemski9596]

This is genuinely the greatest list i've seen in an article about metal. The diversity, knowledge about the OG's, no bullshit modern picks. Respect to Forbes. They did their research.

[@hhaste]

They use freelance journalists that do their research

[@MetalPersonJ]

plenty of bullshit modern picks. System, Slipknot, Korn, horrible horrible list.

[@cmorales2831]

@@MetalPersonJthe old fart crying early 90s isn’t old enough. These bands are passed or pushing 30 get over it

[@patch5217]

@@MetalPersonJ what a bullshit take. All three of those bands are one hundred percent metal OGs...

[@igorpodemski9596]

@@MetalPersonJ The youngest band on this list is Avenged if im not mistaken. And i wouldn't qualify them as modern metal. Especially not the new stuff.

[@NewMozart]

Nik not knowing Kyuss really surprised me. It's where Josh Homme got started. Their fuzzed out sound and usage of bass amps for guitar is an absolute staple of metal/rock today and was groundbreaking in the early/mid 90s.

[@cerealflute6705]

Kyuss is formative to my metal exploration early in the 90s

[@Les_Grossman80]

Dude. Nik is young. I'm 44 I was listening to Kyuss when I was 14. Plus, not many people go looking for desert / stoner rock these days.

[@Carnifex20]

Same. I feel like he should give them a listen just because of this list. Big Bike for maximum lmao.

[@chris_2714]

​@@Les_Grossman80agreed. Even for us old timers, Kyuss wasn't really on the radar until you delved a lot deeper into metal.

[@Les_Grossman80]

@@chris_2714 we had a program in Australia called rage that used to have guest programmers. Henry Rollins was on one night and picked Green Machine. I was hooked from that very moment. Sky Valley is still one of my most loved albums to this day.

[@thomasgriffin767]

You neeeeed to ask Singer to come onto your channel for a video, a hang out or something like wow

[@mosthatedminnesotan]

This list is actually REALLY well done! In terms of impact, they have the bands in a great order. Obviously you can argue a few spots here and there, but overall, incredibly thoughtful list. I'm very impressed by Forbes!

[@AnneAslaug]

Wrong: Lack of Deep Purple, lack of accuracy.

[@Kirb_Zilla]

Cattle Decap should be on the list

[@AgeofJP]

you can't have one person being an expert in and unbiasedly ranking EVERY subgenre and EVERY band...for example I summized that Quentin isn't really that into Melodic Deathmetal, he gave At The Gates probably a courtesy rank but while they're the pioneers of that genre, In Flames was the band that easily and by far exceeded the most in (and from) that genre while one country over Children Of Bodom birthed a counter genre to the swedish scene (that's very different but also most commonly called "Melodic Deathmetal") and they also became much more influential and famous than more than a few other bands in the ranking. Both imo should be somewhere between the 25-35 rank here, probably around rank 35-50 if we included every other band aswell...like Sabaton, Helloween, Linkin Park just from the top of my head (which makes me realize Power Metal might've gotten shafted even worse than melodeath). But I don't fault Quentin for that, he obviously enjoys other genres more and he still showed some respect and awareness to A LOT...even if I disagree with some of it, I respect a true metalhead's opinion and Quentin has more than proven himself to be that, an honest to satan metalhead \m/

[@AnneAslaug]

@@AgeofJP As a jouranlist in a magazine covering a specific area of topics, his personal tastes should be placed on the backburner and he should try to focus on the historcally most important bands from the given criteria he has set for the list. But from the profile description, it looks like this is a side gig, actual music is his main occupation. So I guess we can't expect him to go dig up analog music libraries from around the world to create The Imacculate list...

[@michaelmartinez7158]

It’s either Type O or Paradise Lost for Gothic Metal. But they definitely deserve to be talked about on a list like this.. very happy to see them there

[@wolokowoh0]

"Quentin Singer is a music journalist who covers news, reviews and interviews pertaining to rock & heavy music. He's covered new and groundbreaking artists in the metal and hardcore scenes, including Knocked Loose, Gatecreeper, and Power Trip, and has interviewed rock icons such as Heart's Nancy Wilson, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine, and Slipknot's Shawn Crahan. Graduating from Berklee College of Music with a focus in guitar and a major in audio mixing/engineering, Singer operates as a session guitarist, guitar teacher and audio engineer alongside being a music journalist. Follow Singer for news and interviews of the biggest names in rock and metal, and for reviews of the latest rock and heavy music releases. " Well I'd say maybe more than an interview. Maybe a collab.

[@ImFrantic]

Bro, Quentin's second name is "Thane". Like he's already goated in The Elder Scrolls.

[@vincentfalcone9218]

Pretty solid list. No Opeth, Emperor or Devin Townsend though.

[@mariocastillo8334]

Definitely agree regarding Opeth, had they not done anything except for Blackwater Park, they would have to be included in metal history forever, and they've done so much more!

[@ericforsyth]

Still Life is the perfect metal album

[@astrolopitekos]

Actual journalism. Weird this was so unexpected but it just feels so good. I want to print that and tell my grandkids about metal.

[@Janokins]

10:03 Lacuna Coil mentioned! 🇮🇹

[@Rob-gx7rx]

s'weird, cant believe there's anyone into heavy music who hasnt heard of kyuss! i was never that into em but was under the impression that they were very well known

[@ConnorHealeyProject]

Yo! I have had this thought, so many times and wondered why, but it’s just like this weird reality. I am a musicologist who specializes on popular music from 1960 forward, and I cannot tell you how many times I have spoke with folks, even some who are very familiar with QOTSA, that have never heard of them or any of the bands in that greater dessert rock/stoner scene.

[@humanmusiciansareredundant]

nope. i've heard of them only because of Otu, never listened to them otherwise

[@sonictemple2925]

Kyuss was sick.

[@Rob-gx7rx]

@@ConnorHealeyProject musicologist... cool! i've been trawling through a lot of stuff the past year. some tunes i found suggested at random for you: Machinedrum feat. Mono/Poly & Tanerélle - Star, Video Prick 2019 Demo, Grand Slam - Sister of Mercy (old Phil Lynott live versions obviously), Karp - Get No Toys, Kvazar - Off By One/Mutant Rhetorics, Romantic Gorilla - Blue, Goatsnake - Grandpa Jones, Banned From Utopia - Outside Now (Zappa cover live in Israel 1997), Jakub Zytecki full live performance 2020, Secret Chiefs 3 - Holy Vehm- Hypostasis of the Archons, Steve Von Till - To The Field, Bialystocks - 灯台 (Studio session), Dabbla - Devil You Know, Jon Gomm - Temporary, Eldergrey - Southern Star, Andain - Beautiful Things (Gabriel & Dresden Unplugged Mix)

[@MedTechMetal]

Been a fan since blues for the red sun

[@DMXIII]

Forbes understand more about metal than Spotify 😂

[@FELTSZ]

Spoti sucks

[@iFireRonin]

Roy Khan: Tell me everything down to the details. Forbes: Bet

[@theeviljames]

First the Olympics have a metal opener, now Forbes is getting in on the scene! Maybe this could really be the start a great metal uprising!

[@ishanpandita1012]

@@theeviljames It is definitely more relevant than it was like 5 years ago I believe. Nu Metal is also relevant again.

[@trippybruh1592]

Waiting on the Super Bowl to pick Slayer and the opening song will be Repentless.

[@AbstractEntityJ]

It would help if we had more top-tier new albums. The 2020s have been a subpar decade for metal thusfar.

[@xtrafe5953]

Not in video: Quentin's IG shows "Follow Back" = "One Of Us" confrmed.

[@darkphoenix2]

I didn't expect many of my favorite bands on this list, but I was really hoping for Opeth to get some respect

[@theonlylolking]

Opeth transcends mere Metal. You must have a very high IQ to understand Opeth. The music theory is incredibly complex and unless you have a solid understanding of chord progressions, an Opeth song will go over the typical metalhead's head.

[@squeezy8414]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@theonlylolkingOpeth’s my favourite band but you are literally the worst kind of fan, you don’t have to understand anything to like them and people have very valid reasons to not like their stuff, quit being so pretentious. It’s not like they’re some super underrated underground band either, Mikael literally made metal headlines just by growling again and they consistently headline festivals and sell out tours, not sure what you’re getting at here by them going over the “typical metalhead’s” head.

[@Caleb-hl9qo]

​​​@@squeezy8414 I am pretty sure that person was joking because their comment is similar to the you have to have a very high IQ to understand rick and morty copypasta

[@Draggo.]

@@theonlylolking I know this is a joke, but they're genuinely some of the most entry level death metal I've ever heard. Nothing about what they do is special, and pretty much every band before and after that blended metal with non-metal blows them out of the water.

[@FELTSZ]

​@@theonlylolking Opeth have always just ripped off 70's and 60's rock and jazz bands and added some cookie monster vocals with a Swedish herring flavor. That's not enough to be considered a genius musician.

[@imidesu]

Holy shit a mainstream media top 50 didn't disappoint????? Also with well written extras, Quentin is insane

[@KeanuChrist]

3:08 That’s crazy because every Sabaton fan I’ve ever met wastes no time to tell me which war that song is about.

[@BruhMomentPatrick]

Because war metal is an actual genre... It's a stupid black metal subgenre with almost inaudible songs but bands like Blasphemy are good ☻

[@CoffeeMonster12]

War metal is an inaudible genre of black metal so quite far from Sabaton

[@digitalmortality2001]

people who call sabaton war metal also believe pirate metal is a real genre

[@FELTSZ]

​​@@CoffeeMonster12 Nik should know that Canada has a huge war metal scene. Metalheads from this subgenre usually have overt or covert N-word views and political stances. Bands: Revenge, Profane Order, Morbosidad, Pig's Blood, Holocausto.

[@datenschutzification]

@@FELTSZweird euphemism for “they’re neo fascists mostly” but you do you

[@albertovaldivia6132]

Yo that corekid merch is fire af!

[@billyboostah6308]

No Opeth?

[@rickvince]

Thank you!

[@FlorpingAllOver]

Yea that's just fucked up

[@chinmay8954]

Yeah I was surprised too

[@FELTSZ]

​@@FlorpingAllOverI love Opeth. I love Opeth. But this band is just a bunch of 50 year old guys stealing ideas and a lot of riffs from obscure 20th century hard-rock, jazz fusion bands and adding a little growl. What they're doing

[@FELTSZ]

Mastodon seem more presentable to modern listeners, Opeth is like chatting at grandma's table with a plate of strawberry jam.

[@RedHoodFH]

'I gotta do way more drugs' Nik 2024

[@RyanBuote-ik8ny]

WOO LETS GO 27 seconds nik my boyyyuyy

[@domiissartier2774]

Quentin, we love u

[@zachhenderson7982]

I hope Quentin sees this! Who knows, maybe Nik could get an interview with Forbes. That'd be nuts

[@Frogmonkey095]

King Diamond are absolutely heavy metal and deserve to be on any top metal list. Also, it's October, the perfect month to listen to them. Quentin gets mad props for including them. You might be getting them confused with Alice Cooper who are definitely rock and have a similar aesthetic. Pretty good list, I think there were some odd choices in the ranking, but definitely a great starting point for metal newbies. Doing 38 seems strange though, probably a page or word limit that prevented doing a top 50 or so. If it did expand to 50, I'd expect some combination of these: Darkthrone/Mayhem Opeth Sodom/Kreator - they had all of the big 4, but none of the Teutonic Big 4: Sodom/Kreator/Tankard/Destruction (Sodom and Kreator I think are the two most influential among the old German thrash bands) Anthrax is the weakest of the big 4, so cut them for one of these X Japan - one of the first Japanese metal bands, and heavily influenced the visual kei scene Dismember/Entombed/Grave - any one of these to represent the old school Swedish death metal scene Blind Guardian/Helloween - German power metal gods Dir en Grey - one of Japan's greatest bands, with one of the greatest vocalists in all of metal Doro Bathory Venom Candlemass Paradise Lost/Katatonia

[@DinkyMax]

So Spopoofy should ask Forbes to make their goddamn playlist haha!! And I agree with you, of all the big OG bands...Iron Maiden is definitely my favorite. I mean 3 guitars, fingerpicked bass which you can hear, the riffs!!

[@SENORDRC]

You talked about KoRn, Gojira, and Spiritbox and I just saw all 3 live last night in Mountain View CA 🤘

[@Richard-d1y]

No you didn't.

[@YeshwantP]

So Early for a NIKNOC video is absolutely diabolical

[@blanana_m]

How did we lose on Spotify but win on Forbes

[@majimasmajimemes1156]

6:50 there's a band called Melted Bodies that have an extreme SOAD vibe to them

[@gobkin123]

Send the man a comlimentary Corekid t-shirt!

[@InsaneMonk89]

This is probably THE most accurate depiction of the Metal/Music culture. So awesome!

[@MamPuia321]

solid list kinda disappointed to not see Opeth in the list though

[@digitalnomad90]

This. It was going pretty good, but not having Opeth somewhere in there made the list "At least they tried" tier.

[@hard4texas]

Dude my local rock station was playing Wait & Bleed the other day. We are so fucking back.

[@cyberdan42]

Where is In Flames, Opeth or Arch Enemy? One of these bands should have made a list, Northern European Melo-Death, which is hugely influential. If we have all of the "Big Four", we should have one of these groundbreakers (frankly, I'd include all three, In Flames is foundational to Gothenburg Metal, Opeth are hugely influential, and Arch Enemy - Angela Gassow and the rise of modern female growler vocals, 'nuff said). I won't go into who I'd remove from the list, but looking at it, there are three spots I could switch out, and I think for those bands, you have to.

[@AnneAslaug]

Agreed, agreed and agreed except the "Gothenburg Metal" part... Norwegian here, ridiculous term. Then Burzum is Bergen Metal, Enslaved is Trøndelag metal, Mayhem is Norway metal, DarkThrone is Østfold Metal and so forth and so on.... There is the term "Swedish Death Metal" and/or just Scandinavian death/black metal, but making TOWN origin separate genres is plain stupid. One of my favourite bands of all time was Entombed of the first albums and EPs, I hate 99 % of black metal and having the tragi-comical travesties of the early 1990's black metal as part of my national history, but from what I have seen of movies and books, reality is being outridiculed. Christ. Not.

[@AnneAslaug]

I checked Forbes, there is a seperate "best black metal bands", but no death metal list which has always been bigger and much, much better musically on a general basis and is silly from a music history point of view, but I suspect this may be from a "having-an-impact-on-international,-general-and-scandalous,-and -therefore-potentially-profittable-history" point of view, this being Forbes...

[@AnneAslaug]

Eller mener vi LOK og Lillasyster når vi snakker om Gothenburg-metal...? Loving them!

[@poopsock7493]

Waaaaaaaah!!!! WAAAAAAHHH!

[@samuelsiltala119]

I think Children Of Bodom should have made the list as well potentially, but good shouts. I'd put those 3 suggestions and COB in a TOP10 honorary mentions for sure, since this list is already published.

[@alice__drummer]

For the first time ever, one of these top [insert subject] lists hasn’t given Nik depression XD

[@Talkimas]

Honearly a pretty solid list overall. obviously theres a lot of other bands that could have been included, but the only glaringly egregious omission is Fear Factory

[@AnneAslaug]

The entirety of all the Industrial legends are missing! Ministry! Godflesh! Scorn! The closest is Rammstein... And to me, leaving out FNM is just as bad, if not worse. Also, ignoring Deep Purple is ridicilous, but most Americans seem to be oblivious to their existence and actually believes Tony Iommi invented metal... Nothing new there.

[@laurisaarinen1126]

I was thinking of FF also! Very important and kick ass band. Also, was Killswitch Engage missing? That's kinda surprising. At least they can't be too new if Gojira qualifies.

[@Thierry74261]

Big respect Quentin ! Thank you !

[@arrebarre900]

Having no Bathory or Venom is actually absurd, basically all metal after them are influenced by them. I'd say both Running Wild and Manilla Road deserve a spot too. Incredibly consistent.

[@AnneAslaug]

Venom and Bathory are mentioned in the separate "Best black metal bands list".

[@UltimateGamerCC]

Bathory definitely came to mind, but giving it to Behemoth isnt a terrible pick either.

[@fullmetalguy8357]

Venom, Hellhammer / Celtic Frost and Bathory are so influential that without them, death and black metal might not have existed.

[@_TheUnforgiven_]

@@arrebarre900 Also Mayhem, Celtic Frost, Dark Throne, Mercyful Fate and etc. I’m glad, that you mentioned Venom and Bathory.

[@atvena]

I think carcass leads the extreme metal charge and then behemoth covers black metal but i agree mayhem was stiff

[@ritualsofthedarksun]

3:00 - YO NIK! Here's some info about Desert-Rock. So basically in the late 80s kids of small town in the desert of Joshua Tree, always grabbed geberators to ride out in the desert, to play concerts there, have parties, do drugs or have xxx far away from law or their parents, the most notable band from that scene emerging was Kyuss. Next to that at around the same time some Stoners did a similar style of music, their band was called "Sleep" and the sung about weed a lot. Both came up with names for their style Kyuss: Desert-Rock Sleep: Stoner-Rock. Both are really more or less the same genre. Sleep's name for the genre just became more popular. So if you like the music, but don't wanna scare boomers off with the name use of any drug consumption, say Desert-Rock 😅 Anyway, after Kyuss split in the late 90s, original Bassist "Nick Oliveri", guitarist "Josh Homme" and their latest drummer (forgot his name) started a new band combining the Desert-Rock - Roots with more commercially popular Alternative-Rock. The result of that recipe was the beginning of the band: Queens of the Stone Age

[@Kelly30stm]

Korn made me happy.

[@raulfigueroa588]

Should be ranked higher than 14. Hurt to see Rammstein, Deftones, and SoAD ranked ahead of them tbh

[@mikkohonkkila]

one of us ✊ EDIT: Had to go for the number three. Dance with dead is my jam. Whoa oh holy.

[@cavinbardi2375]

🤘😎🤘 hell yeah!!!!! Love it!!

[@InTheY2K]

Your excitement is contagious! 🙂

[@SnowboardWithYourGF]

It's so bizarre to me that they ranked Avenged Sevenfold, but completely left Bullet For My Valentine and Killswitch Engage off the list.

[@FELTSZ]

Killswitch much better than this lame Guns' N Roses rip-off band, called A7x

[@kokusho1]

@@FELTSZ You've never really listened to A7X if you think they're just a GnR ripoff.

[@DrTim0thyLeary]

Fear Factory literally pioneered the clean/scream vocal style of Metal. But they always get ignored.

[@ИванГорюнков]

Where is Venom, Sodom, Fear Factory, Testament, Bathory, Possessed?

[@orlock20]

I believe this is more about net worth since this is a financial magazine,

[@ericcalvert7499]

Nik, man, be careful with this storm coming through. Hope all fends well where you are and the storm lessens greatly before landfall. Best wishes from the Midwest!

[@jacobocamargo8743]

I love the list because it seems that is more about the influence in metal music each band created but the only band that i would change is Converge for Killswitch Engage for the metalcore era. Still this is the most accurate metal list i've seen in my metal journey.

[@nihilist1280]

No Opeth, Blind Guardian, Helloween, Trivium, Bathory, Mayhem, Mercyful Fate, Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Morbid Angel, Celtic Frost, Kreator, Sodom, Dissection. Should have been on there.

[@shortlivedglory3314]

2:53 Kyuss is a solid pick. Not everyone's cup of tea, but definitely legends in their own right. Josh Homme went on to be much more successful with Queens of the Stone Age and Eagles of Death Metal.

[@ResurrectedDarokun]

They did pretty good cover of Black Sabbath song called "Into the Void"

[@shortlivedglory3314]

@@ResurrectedDarokun indeed they did.

[@cyberdan42]

For the fans, most metal bands are legends in their own right; the question is, did the band transcend the fans and significantly impact the wider genre? Were they 'essential' to the community. For example, I think Metallica would be no higher than third on my list, behind Sabbath and Maiden, but honestly, because of the impact they have had on metal worldwide, I can't complain that Metallica is likely number one.

[@JoelER78]

@@cyberdan42 I think the first 3 spots are interchangeable...kind of as you say!

[@randywissler9923]

Other than switching a few of the positions, this list is spot on! Forbes is doing fun metal things there!! 🤘🤘🤘

[@skeletor68]

Opeth...

[@Holy_Frakula]

Gojira can only really be realized once heard live. I say that as someone who didn't really get it from listening to their recordings. It wasn't bad but it just didn't grab me. But live.....whole different experience. Now whenever i hear them thats the experience it invokes. Love Gojira.

[@bradharris1459]

No Opeth. :(

[@terrinpeterson9899]

Loud Wire & Rolling Stones just got beat at their own game and it's not even fucking close. 🤣👏 This is possibly the most accurate list I've ever seen for Metal, holy shit. 🤘

[@TheCrimsonOne508]

The only band on there I think deserves to be there is Opeth. Maybe Candlemass or Sleep, too. Type O Negative on there is rad af tho

[@dsVektor]

For real, Opeth was criminally robbed.

[@usukapal]

Forbes giving me the fine metal finances and the heavy metal musics

[@K_miel]

No bring me? Ill find them

[@Zinetha]

"One of us!! One of us!!!" Indeed.

[@eweng903]

Forbes has forgotten '80s hair metal along with the rest of us. Metallica at number 1 is a bit of stretch nowadays given that their studio albums after The Black Album have been so-so at best.

[@ishanpandita1012]

@@eweng903 I would put Maiden at first but Metallica is the biggest metal band, so Idk. Everyone knows their songs, unlike Maiden or the other bands. And 80s hair metal is basically hard rock, so I suppose it makes sense not to put them there. Don't know how bands like Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake ever qualified as metal.

[@MaxArch]

metallica name sake well known in metal community and non metal community, thats why it is no 1. not about personal or some section opinion, but overall from the mass opinion, can't deny that. im not even a big metallica fans though 😅

[@VollyFirefighterandEMT]

They made a billion dollars this year touring and they’ll make another billion next year. A magazine like Forbes is going to recognize the fiscal impact a band makes and no other metal band makes it in Forbes top 10 money making musicians except Metallica. So Metallica being number 1 makes perfect sense

[@eweng903]

​@@VollyFirefighterandEMT Metallica's WorldWired Tour grossed $430 million, that's a lot less than for example Coldplay's A Head Full of Dreams Tour grossed. There is also the case that playing sports stadia means that the band live has actually a worse sound than bands that play acoustically superior venues.

[@VollyFirefighterandEMT]

@@eweng903 you didn’t add in merch, sales and the fact the band owns its own catalog , management , touring crew and has zero out of pocket expenses that aren’t related to the band. So take the 430 million in ticket sales and add up the money in streaming, sales of merch and anything else I might be missing and according to Forbes they made a billion dollars in 2019. So as far as a Forbes article goes they are the biggest metal band on the planet income to profits in the world. Nothing costs them money everything is done in house without owing money to anyone. Christ they bought a record company to print only their vinyl lol. So I’m still going with biggest financial success in metal

[@heinrichlegend263]

Nightwish as biggest Symphonic Metal Band mentioned?! And Nick shows absolute taste to name my two favourite bands Epica and Kamelot ^^ Big win right there

[@matthewboik421]

Meshuggah and Gojira on this list is a massive, underrated W

[@blackfox1320]

Meshuggah is mid

[@matthewboik421]

ok

[@Richard-d1y]

Yeah but meshuggah should be higher

[@Richard-d1y]

​@@blackfox1320lol

[@mikesmoviemadness24]

Apparently Kyuss is from my hometown…and I just heard about them in this video.

[@MajorBucky]

6:32 I do actually know of a band that has a lot of SOAD influence. They're a russian-armenian band called Manapart that got started around 2020. Their vocalist also sounds a lot like Serj, so much so that the first song i heard from them, I thought it had a Serj feature or was one of his side projects

[@B3rtmann]

Sweet baby jesus, Kyuss being on this list is absolutely my favourite pick. Love that! Quentin, you deserve this Corekid merch!

[@Verethraghnah]

Machine Head being in there is such a W. Underrated as fuck.

[@vrant_19]

They are pretty massive in the metal scene.. not underrated imo

[@atvena]

They're pretty boring but massive runs on the board so I would hate to see any of the big 4 of groove metal miss out

[@kaomatic]

always makes me happy to see Pantera getting the respect they deserve for carrying metal on their backs thru the 90s

[@atvena]

Kings of groove metal

[@jcarman]

Deftones but no mention of Linkin Park? WTAF.

[@ishanpandita1012]

Linkin Park has mostly been a rock band, Hybrid Theory, Meteora and THP are near metal but rest of the albums are purely alternative rock, Deftones leans more towards metal.

[@jcarman]

@@ishanpandita1012 they literally pioneered the genre "nu metal", but ok.

[@snwcombat8716]

Deftones are GOAT

[@ishanpandita1012]

@@jcarman Korn pioneered Nu Metal. Literally 6 years before Hybrid Theory was a thing. Linkin Park was a part of the nu metal scene, and the most popular one, and but it was just two albums. From 2007 they were nowhere near metal except Hunting Party.

[@ishanpandita1012]

@@jcarman and if you are considering Linkin Park a metal band. Then bands like AC/DC, GNR, Kiss, Van Halen, which are even bigger and more metal than LP, can also be considered then it messes up the list.

[@domsmith3978]

Just saw Korn, Gojira, and Spiritbox last night! Phenomenal show!

[@npichora3023]

Send me a left hand guitar just because thanks love you….

[@SABOY89]

Super impressed with Forbes! Really enjoyed watching this bud!! Devil Horns from South Africa 🤘

[@laurisaarinen1126]

Kyuss in my opinion sounds more rock than metal, but i don't know what most people consider them. I really prefer Queens of the Stone Age, but they are definitely a rock band. I know Kyuss is heavier than QOTSA for sure. I'm very happy with the list being so diverse and accurate. Personally i would have been happy just to see Pantera and Slipknot but damn, we really got all the way solid list. From a site that is not even music focused? Rolling Stone and Loudwire gotta step up their game... 😅

[@EthanRadell]

BRO FUCKING CONVERGE BRO?!?! FUCK YESSSSS. Still goated to this day

[@chrismogensen6801]

Dude you hit the desert rock Vibe on the nail

[@charleslilly4213]

We need to start a petition for Quentin to make us metal Spotify playlists

[@syntezjaofficial4240]

Fun fact about desert rock is that in Poland we have metal festival with stage called Desert Stage and most stoner rock/metal bands are playing there

[@beccareichard6669]

Forbes and Quentin know what’s up. A+ journalist. Livewire should be quaking in their boots.

[@CPAdayz]

3:05 Josh Homme started Kyuss and their first albums are incredible, then he went on to form QOTSA. The man cannot make bad music

[@Wachumon]

Finally a list were the journalist actually did a research

[@BlueXiphoid]

I absolutely love Nik's enthusiasm

[@simonced]

Didn't expect Nick to read Forbes in the first place. So much unexpected in one video! Great content as usual ;)

[@EaZyGoiN12]

6:32 you should react to Enemy by Father of Peace, that particular song sounds like a SOAD song. Pls 🙏

[@Joiny07]

You don't know Kyuss ? Demon Cleaner? Here it comes: Queens of the stone age doesn't mean anything to you, just like Tool.

[@timmyisasleep]

You need to experience the Desert Sessions, its why we have bands like QOTSA today

[@davidlinnane1373]

Great video! It's a good article for sure but your review made it even better!

[@Don_of_the_Dad]

3:00 Desert rock is a psychedelic kind of Black Sabbath stuff from Palm Desert, CA A rich suburban area.

[@amirmorvaridforoosh24]

Hey Nik, just gotta add something real quick!! how wild is it with everything going on lately? I mean sh8t Gojira at the Olympics and Forbes diving into metal and its subgenres?! I think it’s safe to say metal is finally getting the spotlight it deserves, becoming the new cool mainstream thing. And it’s all thanks to awesome musicians, bands, and influencers like you, putting in the time to bring quality content to the media. You guys f**in rock, man! it's our time now 🔥🎸

[@evilbane2000]

Quentin's credentials are legit. Graduate from Berklee College of Music, session guitarist, audio engineer, and apparently a rock and metal journalist.

[@DepthsofMemory]

Hey man love your work.