WHY IS EUROPEAN MUSIC SO CRINGE?

[@LuciusGeronimo]

Finn and his hate for european music is hilarious as a European.

[@seanbrooks2583]

your icon is my xbox live logo

[@phantomwarrior0313]

I mean most of European music is trash, there’s no denying that.

[@SimfreakOlena]

TBH many europeans mock Americans even more so, so this is kinda fair play.

[@aleksandarfrick2656]

Because he is also European ...colonial one . hahaha

[@tildatriangle3018]

Finn you should rate Eurovision hah Poland has always the worst songs... i wish they would just stop that shit show

[@Trixiethegoldenwitch]

I can't play metal, but I think I've just been inspired to do a yaoi hip-hop concept album

[@Juliankb39]

Pls keep us updated on your progress

[@Mortuary_Gaming]

Good Kid, t.W.I.N.k City

[@NickyHC]

I'm sure Finn got bullied by a European when he younger lol. 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

[@EBMproductions1]

But he is right here tho...

[@bootdownthedoor]

Lmaooooo

[@spacepope87]

He's probably the one that bullied euro trash kids 😂

[@lakka1148]

Yeah, we have enough "normal" bands and singer songwriters. Did he ever been to europe?

[@saturationstation1446]

whats europe actually even do for the world tho? besides cause world wars every once in a while when they want to argue over who the master race is this time

[@alexm5554]

Finn: Europe is CRINGE Also Finn: Ya'll ever hear of gay porn?

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

This video is a wild ride

[@alexm5554]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA 🤣 love your vids dude

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

"Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

[@vladtheinhaler8940]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA this is definitely one of your funniest videos, you should do shitty bands from all around the world.

[@sawtooth808]

@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t Never mind the Turkish prison, their bathhouses are scary AF

[@MilitantMe]

I'll never forget going to a virgin records store in Berlin when I was 16. The rap and R&B section was labeled "black music" and they had a massive poster of...Eminem 😐

[@tombstonejones9581]

Eminem is black, it checks out.

[@Iyashikei-t4u]

I don't know if that's racist or just cringe but it's definitely not good

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Amazing lol

[@MilitantMe]

@@Iyashikei-t4u both I think. Racist and cringe lol

[@igormmx]

made me laugh, thanks

[@ultragamma2099]

"Who were the big european pop-punk bands? They dont exist" Millencolin: wtf dude

[@mike04574]

who

[@torstenscholz6243]

Donots and Beatsteaks would also like to object.

[@Marchelo1988]

Well Finn has stated that considers Millencolin a meh band, okay at most, so…

[@MortAuPat]

Also, No Fun at All !

[@jeffsims8270]

Snuff I think

[@Mister_Phafanapolis]

I try _really hard_ to spot the differences when Finn says something is "bad" versus when something sounds "good" but to me they sound almost identical.

[@Juliankb39]

Same, it's awesome

[@silentrevolver4600]

The ones that are good aren’t trying to be anything they are not.

[@Cicatrizs]

​@@silentrevolver4600 this is pretty superficial. I'm pretty sure, that the guys from fist of the north star are exactly hat they show in their vids, a french band, that plays hardcore and has a nack on japanese culture. I mean, they are definite.

[@bennymountain1]

Especially when it comes to graffiti, lol

[@xenos_n.]

It's quite apparent that Finn has terrible taste in music, but a broken clock is right twice a day. Of course he likes some good stuff but man, nine times out of ten, when he says a band is awesome I know I'm going to hate it 😂

[@Mortuary_Gaming]

Finn in 2021: *tries to be a force of positivity, even kind of apologizing for his black metal video* Finn in 2022 after a full year of viewer growth, and having to deal with internet assholes: “Fuck europeans” 😂

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

I just gave up. You can’t win with euros or metal fans

[@ElianaDAngelo]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA Unleash your inner chad.

[@prod.guntype]

Everyone sucks

[@h3llb3nt]

​@@FinnMckentyPRMBA Europeans🤝 metalheads = haters of Finn 😂

[@efyliphmusic]

As a European I can agree that some of these are actually really wack, just like I've seen so many American bands being equally cringe at this amateur/intermediate level. But if there is a genre where Europeans have always managed to stand out worldwide is Metal. Influential bands like Meshuggah, Rammstein, Opeth, Iron Maden, Gojira, Black Sabbath, etc made it as big as many Americans. There will always be good and bad stuff everywhere at the end of the day. But yeah, I understand the humoristic side of the video.

[@SquishyOfCinder]

European metal is better than American metal as a whole imo

[@Not_Sal]

I feel like British metal is more of its own thing and can’t be lumped in with all the other European metal. The UK has countless iconic bands that sold millions of records and have had shows in America and all around the world. It’s probably because they have an advantage being an English speaking country. The UK has cringe stuff too, but many bands sound similar to American bands.

[@salembeats1875]

Black Sabbath , nuff said. Also didn’t the new wave of British metal basically influence a ton of American bands?

[@efyliphmusic]

@@Not_Sal that is also true. let's not forget that it is exactly a british band called bring me the horizon who are the ones at the top of the modern metal scene these days. but there's still a huge space for non-British Europeans who play a huge role in some metal genres, like Black Metal, Symphonic, Melodic Death, Viking, etc.

[@efyliphmusic]

@SalemBeats187 Didn't The Beatles also start everything we listen to now? 😎🇬🇧

[@oliw9993]

Funny video, I think I - as a european - have a few things to add to this: The singers of Siberian Meat Grinder are wearing masks, because they're leftists in russia, that had to deal with a shitton of neo nazi violence and government repression (remember, Russia is a country where journalists critical of the government regularly just get shot in some back alley), so they do have a good reason to cover their faces. SMG is basically a side project of the political rapcore band Moscow Death Brigade, and they were guests in Hoya's (Madball) podcast a couple of months back. Wolf Down broke up a couple of years ago, because Larissa (the singer) accused some of the other bandmembers of seuxally assaulting her. She now has an industrial-metal something project, which is pretty interesting from a musical perspective. Since this probably already is the most european comment ever, I'll just shut up now.

[@jack321gogogo4]

Actually Wolfdown broke up, because one of the guitarist raped three of his Ex-Girlfriends. When this came up, Larissa also said, that they were misogynist assholes. And now i stop being so german.

[@chadhenry961]

Larissa’s now in Venom Prison, who do have some industrial elements on their new album, but otherwise lean more towards hardcore infused death metal (without being deathcore)

[@zlatkomladic5979]

What are you talking about , Russia is awesome, they are just cosplaying for fun.

[@jack_the_stripper]

As Russian, I'd like to comment on this. Nobody banned left here. War censorship affects mass media like news portals only. Many people of art and journalists do criticize actions taken by the government in their social media. MDB wearing masks because of their style or maybe excessive paranoia. If government would really want to take left down, they would start with someone bigger than underground rapcore band Moscow Death Brigade music is pretty awesome though

[@needfoolthings]

I love that I can read your accent because you left out any and all "a"s and "the"s.

[@Eclecticompany]

I remember walking thru Baltimore with my family about 20 years ago, and as we approached a group of people listening to some sort of street comedian, I overheard him saying "how you can you tell the difference between Americans and Europeans? The Europeans smoke". Annoyingly, me, my mother, stepfather, were all smoking cigarettes.

[@ran_d_d]

Weirdest stuff in the harbor people get permits for. One day it’s drumming, next day it’s someone riding on a unicycle while juggling, apparently comedians too. I have only Americans ask me for cigarettes in Bmore though. That comedian didn’t take into account that most Americans can’t even find Maryland on the map.. so it’s not super often I run into any European tourists.

[@Eclecticompany]

My mother and stepfather hold joint US/UK nationality, and I was staying with them in Alexandria, VA, where they were living at the time, so it was a day trip. Maybe it's due to not living in a large city, or not going to bars much, but I see far more people vaping than smoking cigarettes now. I had forgotten how often I lied about smoking my last cigarette.

[@user-yi7td2sq9b]

I'm surprised you made it through Baltimore without getting mugged

[@sawtooth808]

Not totally wrong, In Italy they have ash trays in the school desks, and their cigarettes (aka coffin nails) have no filter. I had a few friends and extended relatives that are Italian.

[@sawtooth808]

@@Eclecticompany there are some “nice” parts of Baltimore (Washington DC which is neither in Maryland, or Virginia)

[@val.ligator]

I mean... It's not like us europeans haven't roasted every part of US culture and politics and whatever yall do over there for years so I think we need to suck it up, these are some well deserved roasts!

[@bamafencer12]

They roast us any chance they can get.

[@sinta_bique]

@@bamafencer12 and rightfully so

[@NikkLiberos]

Dude! After living 9 years in the states, the only thing the US has a leg up on Europe is music and movies. We can take rightful criticism to our cringe music.

[@what.if.god.doesnt.care.]

America braught us Mumblerap So...I guess it is a draw. Greetings from Germany.

[@phantomwarrior0313]

Ich sag mal so, die Zeit von mumble rap ist auch wieder fast vorbei und Deutschland ist immer noch komplett drin. Aber Deutschland hat auch seinen eigenen schrecklichen assi rap style dass sich so anhört wie als ob jemand seine Stimme 12 Oktaven stellt. Nur um später zu sagen “ich ficke deine mutter diggah” lmao

[@brettkihlmire573]

On behalf of all Americans, I apologize for mumblerap. Remember, we gave the world Trivium and Manowar lol.

[@what.if.god.doesnt.care.]

@@brettkihlmire573 and Slipknot. Remember, we gave you Rammstein, Eskimo/Electric Callboy, Scorpions, ....Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi... And of course some for you crazy written and sounding stuff. Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister.

[@brettkihlmire573]

@@what.if.god.doesnt.care. thanks for all the metal and the great beer.

[@what.if.god.doesnt.care.]

@@brettkihlmire573 You're welcome.

[@fpavic2885]

Finn hates Europe because he can't find that "country" on the map.

[@torstenscholz6243]

He is just the perfect stereotype of the arrogant American that still thinks the US is really better than other countries and everything coming from old Europe can't be good. Any European could make a video the other way round - showing some wacky US bands and comparing it to much better bands from Europe (yes, there are plenty of good pop and rock bands in Europe).

[@VampireJack10]

@@torstenscholz6243 Indeed, England alone gave the world The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Bowie, Queen, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and tons more. You know, the BIG BOYS.

[@F28aj]

@@torstenscholz6243When you create the genre you can do that until then you all just copy everything we do from punk to rap.

[@Owlr4ider]

@@F28aj Excuse me? Europeans literally created most musical genres, from classical music to rock and metal and so many others in between.

[@demsocialistboi]

@@Owlr4iderrock and metal are american and based on blues which is from america. we created most of the genres that you euros are influenced by and deliberately steal and rip off like led zeppelin. sorry to hurt your feelings.

[@roflc0re]

As an cringy European i agree on everything Finn says. We are cringy, and we love it

[@ShatteredAutomaton]

I mean the American elections are pretty much our Eurovision Song Contest so our cringe levels are comparable. Lol

[@LinkWrayisGod]

As european, this video was hilarious, congrats. Remember: as USA citizen, you can't feel offended about your culture because you don't have any!

[@wozaow]

​@@scsherman207Really? What culture does America have? Give some examples.

[@Prod.STAR.]

Just recycled european culture

[@dantredogborsa7048]

​@@scsherman207😂😂😂 great joke, you're funny

[@dantredogborsa7048]

@@scsherman207 U mad? 😂

[@Swagonslayuh]

What culture? There's a reason brits and other European actors and even regular blokes can all put on a clean American accent at will and not the other way around. 💀💀💀

[@JCavLP]

Some dude: Wears a backwards hat Finn: "lmao he's literally cosplaying as an american"

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

By the authority granted to me, I declare that only Americans can wear hats.

[@brettkihlmire573]

Hear! hear!

[@JCavLP]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA the court has spoken lol

[@KarlOsuchowski]

Canada would like to veto, deeply sorry.🙋🏻‍♂️

[@Scrinwaipwr]

Only Americans have backwards heads, maybe.

[@bastiaan4129]

That German "psychobilly" band is part of a huge subculture here in Europe where people cosplay as "rednecks", we have a few of those types of bands here in the Netherlands but Germany absolutely takes the crown. It's always so cringy to see those kinds of people.

[@bennymountain1]

Aren't Volbeat from that scene?

[@nurgle333]

@@bennymountain1 there's a little bit in some of their songs

[@matthewackermanaski9687]

I know in Scandinavia and to some extent Finland they copy american greaser culture, they're usually called "raggare", like greasers but way more trashy.

[@tbw666]

ROTNS actually has a close relationship with Japan in their own way. they even raised money for the crisis after the recent tsunami. they are also very heavy into japanese pop culture and anime etc. they grew up watching the french dubbed imports of popular anime tv series. over all they are not bad guys at all. pretty stand up.

[@oxideking3011]

No Shit ?

[@zzztefanos]

Why do americans treat europe like its a single country?

[@joshabreu1156]

Because we have states larger than countries over there

[@Norokusaki]

So many people don't understand that America is very culturally different across it's (roughly the same size as continental Europe) area. Especially most Americans.

[@WillAlleymouth]

America is roughly three times larger than Europe, but yeah.

[@FairyCRat]

@@WillAlleymouth a little bit smaller in population though, because Europe has practically no desert.

[@Cicatrizs]

So many people don't understand that Europe is very culturally different across it's area. Especially most Americans

[@ZackRobinMusic]

Finn is on a mission to collect as much salt from europe as humanly possible 😂😂😂

[@SlashpLOder]

if that was his goal, then he did a pretty bad job, he should go full on racist like on his video about japanese metal where he got a big backlash and had more thumbs down than thumbs up

[@dantredogborsa7048]

​@@SlashpLOderU mad?

[@johanthompson1463]

A lot of great metal bands up here in Canada are heavily influenced American bands. Which, of course, makes a lot of sense. You should definitely make a video on Canada’s Metalcore/Deathcore scene and react to bands like Threat Signal, Comeback Kid, Ion Dissonance, and Despised Icon.

[@petrinafilip96]

Love Comeback Kid. Saw them in a 200-300 person venue when they came to Europe. Awesome show.

[@Warvinc]

Don't forget Counterparts!

[@johanthompson1463]

@@Warvinc Love Counterparts. They’re another really good one 😁🤘🏼

[@jedibane]

Canada is in Europe.

[@johanthompson1463]

@@jedibane I really hope you’re just trolling with this comment 😂

[@thevale2456]

Speaking about Europeans like there one huge monolith, dying of cringe.

[@AndyKazama2]

Man do I love European music: Powerwolf, Alestorm, Insomnium, Amaranthe, feuerschwanz, Rammstein and so on (from the top of my head and at work.) It's okay to not like that kind of music (obviously.)

[@theinfant]

That stuff got me into heavy music in general. I look at it now and can't do anything but laugh, but it'll always hold a place in my heart.

[@AndyKazama2]

@@theinfant yeah, some stuff now I can only laugh at.

[@nurgle333]

Insomnium's last album was great

[@andrewhunt7328]

Sabaton as well 🤘🤘

[@torstenscholz6243]

European metal, metalcore and hardcore scene is very active and absolutely on par with the American scenes, if not even way bigger and better. Yes, true, in terms of rock there are only few bands that can compete with American ones and many tend to be wacky and cringey, but it's not like US band cannot be very cringey and wacky as well.

[@michaeltrommler9144]

I fucking lost it at the moment the german disclaimer popped up xD Great job as always Finn! Edit: I think the fact that a lot of the cliches that finn brings up are same stereotypes we use in europe to shit on our neighbours just underlines his credebility in this subject xD

[@deadSalesman_GD]

Someone in the chat said the England isn’t European anymore and I have news for that person: leaving the EU doesn’t change the continents.

[@hevmolina]

"Southern Europeans playing checkers 17 hours a day" what an ignorant thing to say... It's cards, and it's 18 hours

[@Swamileoni]

Is Millencolin skate punk or pop-punk? Either way, I know Finns not a fan but they had a huge impact here in Southern CA across more than one scene.

[@nurgle333]

I'd say pop

[@andydufresne1602]

Finn is a low key better comedian than most pro comedians

[@dedg0st]

definitely agree. I haven't laughed like this in awhile.

[@PolarityMetal]

I couldn't help but laugh at the warnings because just like pretty much EVERY european tour, it doesn't contain spanish HAHHA

[@AvB.83]

Nasty are hilarious, and I totally agree, one reason why this works is that they are fully aware that what they do is inherently ridiculous and they go all in on it (Nanowar of Steel are another example, terribly european, but so over the top...). Best example is probably the end of the "At war with love" video, the singer spinning the basketball on his finger, menacing stare to the camera, the ball drops to the floor, and he just stands there, finger raised, staring at the camera, doesn't even blink, like nothing happened... 😅 though from what I heard (primarily on this & the punkrock mba channel), it's probably a bit tougher for european bands to pull of this "tough guy" image when neither they nor their audience have any background in that. I don't think I ever met a single aggressive person at a concert. Especially the hardcore/beatdown shows. There is blood, not everyone leaves with the same amount of teeth that they come with, but everybody is happy... I got so confused when I heard you talk about people starting fights at shows on purpose, that is something I'd never ever expect to happen. EDIT: Being German, I think the most European thing to do now is to totally overdo it and make part 2 :D

[@georgigeorgiev1576]

I faking love Nasty, what a great band. And ye, I'm European, rofl.

[@simon8r10]

The wolf down vocalist actually left the band and founded venom prison who are one of the best Death metal bands around at the moment

[@CamillaVikaHgemark]

i'm norwegian and this is hilarious, i don't understand why people get so triggered! it's just lighthearted fun, based on cultural stereotypes. we make fun of ourselves all the time 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

[@joakimholst2989]

As a Norwegian. I would love for you to do a segment on Scandi-Rock, Kvelertak, The good the bad and the zugly, The Hellacopters, Combos, Lut, Death by Unga Bunga, Blood Comand, The Dogs, Turbonegro. Just to name a few

[@plasmaticnoises3523]

The whole German Mexican-influenced cholo style is not far off considering the ridiculous amount of cringe-worthy, Mexican Rammstein tribute bands. It all comes around

[@jaredmendez12]

That cringy Rammstein tributes all are over the mexican scene, I mean, every fucking bar in this country have a Rammstein tribute with bad accents and bad impression of Till Lindemann, lmao.

[@plasmaticnoises3523]

@@jaredmendez12 this post deserves a warm caguama vro

[@Twi66e]

One of my pet peeves is hearing American’s say “I’m going on vacation to Europe” *So where tf are you actually going?!*

[@rileyhughes5613]

lmao it's not worth the flight if you don't hit at least seven countries. It is quicker to say "I'm going to Europe" than "I'm flying into Paris with a layover in Dublin, then I'm heading up to through Belgium to Amsterdam. Then we'll migrate southwest towards Berlin, where we'll rent a car to experience the Autobahn and drive through all the weird little mountain countries between here and the Italian border." It usually starts in North Western Europe and ends in Greece. So yeah, we aren't really exaggerating when we say "going to Europe", pretty much everything but Eastern Bloc countries are on every tourists agenda.

[@OTB2002]

@@rileyhughes5613 no one does that

[@rileyhughes5613]

@@OTB2002 Thanks Mr. European!! I can finally sleep soundly at night, knowing you know more about my vacation plans than I myself do.

[@OTB2002]

@@rileyhughes5613 by the looks of you, I can tell you never left your bedroom

[@yagos.7120]

Jokes aside, it is funny how two European bands like At the Gates and Meshuggah saved contemporary metal influencing watered down US trends like metal-core and djent. The US had their chance with Mastodon but guess what? They ended up not taking themselves very seriously.

[@ronaldjansky9671]

dude we are cringy in music for you as you to us. for us Americans are like you are trying to overdoing everything, oversize in food, in ideas, too much explosions in movies, too much humor, everything that is put in something doesnt seems natural but done by force. too proud of america like nothing else exixst in this world, thinking you are superior. Thats how you americans seems to us. and yes you are right in something but that is stupid mentality of this world that says only america is cool nothing is better, so as you would expect we try to put ourselves up. like music or movies if you didnt came from west noone would care about you. It is stupid nonsense but its true. Anyway will you do video about the good music from europe?

[@ryannachtrab]

As an American, I can %100 confirm pretty much everything you just said lol. I'm just here to talk shit and I'm sure Finn is too, you Europeans are pretty cool 👍

[@THIRSTYGUMS]

Dude...

[@petrinafilip96]

Bruh you are taking this joke as a dick...hard. 90% of the culture we consume in Europe is American

[@jack321gogogo4]

You clearly missed the disclaimer in the beginning of the video.

[@doomergloomer8588]

This video is honestly a contender for the best video on this channel right next to the black metal video. Would love to see you do more of these, genuinely hilarious highlights.

[@hulluporo9067]

I'm from Germany and all I have to say is: Thank you for another entertaining video. You've picked some real awful bands for this. Anyway, there are countless awful american bands and one could easily make countless videos about them. So what? There is one big misunderstanding here: European hardcore bands are not cosplaying as american bands. American hardcore is as cringy as Manowar. European hardcore bands are just parodising american bands. That's all! To my fellow Europeans: Just relax if Finn is making fun about us. We are making fun of Americans as well, aren't we? About their "We are the center of the universe" attitude, about their system of measuring lenghts and weights (no logic at all), about the way they elect their president (again no logic) and about the horse piss they call beer... But who knows? Maybe Finn is just pissed because rock is only dying in America while it's doing very well in Europe? Cheers, Finn!!!

[@florianstumpf4349]

Schön geschrieben. Ich sag nur der Vergleich zwischen Amiland und Joghurt 😅

[@ahfkajhfk]

yo about the beer.. you must have your head in the sand. the craft beer industry in america is mirroring the marijuana industry in the revolutionary varieties being created. and europe has been copying their craft brews for years now.

[@Goryptor]

@@ahfkajhfk Lol, stuff your craft beer, it's in most cases awful :D There is a reason why words like Budweiser or Pilsner represent beer worldwide, they originated in the Czech Republic, the kingdom of beer, Europe for the win mate...defo beer-wise :D

[@Misantronic]

@@ahfkajhfk I remember that fat mike and fatwreck are doing this punk in drublic festival with craftbeer-piss here in germany. this shit is just the worst, we sneaked our own normal beer inside, can‘t drink this stuff.

[@marcelmathes]

@@ahfkajhfk a can assure you, no average Joe or "normal" guy in Europe takes craftbeer seriously.

[@fetterunkeracing6624]

As a German, i sincerely apologize for "die Dorks". Didnt know them but omfg its hilarious

[@MauricioMirapalhetaSound]

Brother, I'm a Brazilian dude that has been living in FInland for the past 7 years, I laughed out loud at many things you pointed out there as they are extremely accurate, and specially Finland of all countries gets to be even more extreme with their Europeaness (nordic countries in general are more like that), and music wise, damn, that's something else. I was watching Euro-fucking-Vision with my wife yesterday and for sure the existence of that show as it is proves all the points you make in this video haha. And I 100% agree that if they would embrace their dorkyness and cringe worth vibes that it would make everything better already haha.

[@slavepusher]

May I direct you to Electric Callboy? They are german, they are dorkey and cringey, and they embrace and celebrate it.

[@johnnydollar007]

The joke is: After WW2 Germany was split between USA (West Germany) and Russia (East Germany). So West Germany was heavy influenced by the US. But the only german band the Americans like are Rammstein from East Germany.

[@Nestorglass]

Glad you can appreciate how us southern europeans are the least cringe of the bunch. Just don't look up spanish power metal bands.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

When I want a laugh I just look up Spanish unemployment stats!

[@ManuSDP]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA oh man you haven’t seen italian ones. Our constitution literally says “founded on work” and yet there’s no job availability for anyone under 25 lol

[@Nestorglass]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA That hit too close to home, as our filthy neighbours say, touche

[@ganjalfilv3rde508]

@@ManuSDP Despite that we still have better standards of living than the average American tho

[@ishrendon6435]

​@@ganjalfilv3rde508 eh we're more badass

[@mathewyerry2072]

As far as metal, Europe has us destroyed

[@PM-vv3uc]

There's so much good stuff from Europe you can easily find.

[@highpriestess212]

The vocalist from the last reviewed band (Wolf Down) is Larissa Stupar. She does vocals for the british band Venom Prison now.

[@samanthaestrada6772]

Also, the lead singer from the last band Wolf Down is the current singer of Venom Prison, which is definitely a huge step up😂

[@violencefight9557]

You should do an episode on Turbonegro. They had all the problems you highlighted in this video but somehow transcended their Euro-ness.

[@nickboxer7147]

Finn, lol, your music taste is some of the most cringe stuff I've ever heard

[@conbitches]

Dude is constantly hyping anyone with face-tats and died hair as the “new emo” 😂 😂

[@worksofein6449]

I didn't realise that Americans invented hats *and* wearing them backwards. This channel is always so educational. Listening to these bands reminded me of listening to the century media comp from '98 that had loads of euro hardcore bands. It was a simpler time.

[@barnabusjones943]

they call 'em baseball caps for a reason bub.

[@Areez]

@@barnabusjones943 Your comment just proves the american mentality xd thinking that rest of the world also calls these hats "baseball hats"

[@DeathcoreManiac]

Americans think they invented everything, isn't it cringe? 😂

[@nurgle333]

Ken Griffey Jr a baseball player started it, then hip hop artists in the 80s further popularized it

[@billycoo7916]

Americans created a baseball, American created baseball caps and wore them backwards

[@Illegallycopyrighted]

Dude I haven’t spit out my drink laughing so much in a long time. I didn’t expect that to be near as hilarious as it was. Great job Finn!

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Thank you!

[@rskityaev]

Well, no wonder Purgen got 1.5m views. They're like one of the oldest functioning punk bands in Russia. They got a lot of respect from the scene. And a few laughs along the way. Purgen is pronounced like "poor-ghen". Purgen is also was a pretty common laxative back in the soviet days.

[@marcstromberg]

HAHAHAHA. As an uptight Scandinavian, I want this video series to go on FOREVER. Keep 'em coming!

[@MSHNKTRL]

Style-wise, Europeans are 10-15 years behind us, and it takes about 10-15 years for Americans to adopt European style, and neither gets it right; it kind of evens out.

[@piramaniak]

Although I hated the Brexit result, does that mean us in the UK are now exempt from the Euro cringe label? 😂

[@leopoldmehers1869]

Every cloud has a silver lining

[@WillAlleymouth]

@@leopoldmehers1869 Nah. You are still part of Europe and all of these bands are your fault.

[@piramaniak]

@@WillAlleymouth It was all me, not even sorry haha

[@huntersearles7753]

@@piramaniak it's a lot less fun when you own up to it, defend your cringe!!!

[@F28aj]

Always have been….

[@luridtraversal94]

As an American who has been living in Poland for almost 20 years, this has completely destroyed me! I damn near pissed myself laughing! Although, I DO actually like Siberian Meat Grinder, especially seeing them live, but that's another thing. Keep it up!

[@hanszimmer4327]

You should definitely react to some german medieval rock. Guys who do medieval-themed LARP and play some kind of cringy folk rock. You're gonna love it

[@Djfmdotcom]

30:27 Alea Jacta Est = Latin for “The Die is Cast”

[@HelixNebuIa]

This should be a series, do one for each continent! 😂

[@FunkyPunk1995]

How the hell did finn not bring up the assault rifle guitar during the purgen band at like the 32 minute area LMFAO

[@megmcguigan3857]

Pop punk sucks. I'd rather listen to a Viking themed metal band than Green Day. EDIT: My husband is a European nerdy metal fan and I love him to death! At least Europeans have free healthcare.

[@swobesswobes681]

Someone is mad

[@EBMproductions1]

Amon amarth rules

[@megmcguigan3857]

@@swobesswobes681 Nah, not mad. Just meh.

[@megmcguigan3857]

@@EBMproductions1 Yep!

[@rebralhunter6069]

As a central European living in america I absolutely love how on point this is. Especially with how much shit so many Europeans talk, they never seem to be able to take it.

[@johnstyle1000]

Funfact: After Larissa (singer of the last band shown here, now in Venom Prison) left band, they portrayed themselves as some kind of social justice warriors which was pretty successful for them until they turned out to be a bunch of rapists. Was a huge thing in the german hc scene.

[@TheShmrsh]

Like everyone in Germany lol

[@xyoungwx]

If you wanna avoid cringe European music, two things you gonna do: 1. avoid all those America influenced music genres, 2. do not listen to eurodance by all means necessary.

[@lowandodor1150]

I love that you have not mentioned Austria at all. You would not believe the insane amount of cringe that this tiny country was able to bring into this world up until now and i really mean that. Besides that, the main problem with European bands, as we all just witnessed here for the past 20 minutes, they REALLY WANT TO BE AS COOL AS THEIR U.S.AMERICAN IDOLS! So very few even dare to sing in their native language. And it is somewhat okay when the singer's English is above average but man, when it is not then it is ear bleeding time. Now say that with the heaviest Austrian accent you can and you're getting close. The difference between U.S. and EU bands is so big, sports and art, when i was living in the U.S. for a year in 1990/91 i met some cool people and they would practice every single day after school, just like the athletes, over here, when we started to get serious, in my case with my 2nd band when we were 19, 20 years old, and we would rehearse 2 to 4 times a week, we got the "uhhh, you guys really mean business, hu?" comments from our friends and families..... I have been working as a live sound guy in 2 small venues in Vienna for really interesting, niche, extreme or just off label music, and let me tell you, when there is a bill of one band from the U.S. and a local band opening for them, even if they make basically the same music, just the attitude is miles apart, like the Austrian band would almost be asking if it would be okay, if they were to play one more song, you know? That would never, ever happen with a band from the USA. Having said all that, there are some incredible musicians here and all over Europe obviously, but due to the lacking support system, which for sure got better thanks to the internet over the past 2 decades, but still, it is just not the same and you have to be so lucky to get some publicity when you are not trodding along in the same old boring major label garbage cringe crap they can put out to the drunk masses and rake in the cash, small labels are usually "you have to pay for the record yourself"....and i am now getting off track and this is way too long already..... you said to not send you good European music, so i won't, but i sure would like to see you make a video with some real bands, musicians instead of this copycat garbage but thanks for the laughs, i nearly lost it at "Stinky", haha...."'ello...vee arree Stinky, frommm Toulouse and WE GOT NOTHING TO LOSE!" yeahhhhhhhh!!!!

[@torstenscholz6243]

Austria has contributed some great music to the world though - just think of Falco, and today there are some Austro-pop and rock bands that are pretty great as well, like Ja, Panik, also some good metal bands like Visions of Atlantis.

[@lowandodor1150]

@@torstenscholz6243 I am a musician and live sound guy myself, so i am quite aware of what Austria has to offer to the world of music and there are some brilliant musicians and bands here, i also know the guys in Ja, Panik. Another awesome band is Radian for instance, myself of course.... ˘J˘ And yes, Falco and probably Georg Danzer in his formative years, Ludwig Hirsch, but those are a handful of individuals, compared to other countries, we have so much cringe and truly awful music here, a large majority just trying to be like some of their musical heroes, without any identity what so ever. Just copying what is already out there and top it of with a singer who is not fluent in the English language.... and the attitude on stage...the difference between a band from the states and from Austria, it is so vast, so immense, even going so far as the Austrian band would ask if it's okay, if they were to play one more song, i have done hundreds and hundreds of concerts, but i never once heard that from a band from the U.S. Although things have gotten better here through the internet, pre internet it was so hard to even get a good gig here, no infrastructure at all for small bands, nothing, so now that all that has changed, more and more bands get a chance to even get an audience, all this of course plays a huge part in this dilemma.

[@flowkovicwittl5350]

What are some of those cringe Austrian bands you mentioned?

[@Trizvdl]

What is the difference between America and yoghurt? After a few hundred years, yoghurt develops culture and it comes in fat free.

[@letsroamaround2189]

Ah yes Americans, the only one's wearing backward caps lmao

[@letsroamaround2189]

Also, as a Belgian guy, I was hyped to see nasty and you liking them

[@denjelsan8950]

I have to admit, I was a bit butthurt at first. But then you showed Die Dorks... Now I understand everything. I'm sorry we released this into the world...

[@RudolfHorvath]

I get this is a joke but I found this video overly negative for no reason. I've been watching this and waiting for you to talk about some actual good music. I mean, yeah... I laughed at some jokes but it became quite repetitive after a while, definitely not worth the running time of 34 minutes. At least in my opinion, sorry.

[@forthelulz5411]

👍

[@ELLHNIKA]

Wah waaaah 🚑💦

[@Locally.h8ted_punk]

This probably won't be seen but what's ur opinion on rammstine

[@pavlomelnikov3549]

Now, we are waiting for you Finn to make a video about Eastern-European (Baltic Countries, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria) Metal Bands. There is also good amount of cringe, I can confirm

[@Donax695]

or rather not man, I don=t like to be shamed for my shitty music taste :D

[@fpavic2885]

If he can find them on the map.

[@pavlomelnikov3549]

@@fpavic2885 I don't think Finn is dumb :)

[@fpavic2885]

@@pavlomelnikov3549 He does not know the difference between WW1, WW2, watch his video on Power metal. It is hilarious.

[@Shalalalala_666]

This is completely unrelated butI just realized that you look like Chris, the frontman of Motionless in white without makeup.

[@thommysguitarcorner4687]

Youre right about the cringe 😂 however I'd also love to see your opinion on the biggest EU metalcore bands (e.g. Architects, While She Sleeps, Caliban, Heaven Shall Burn, Bury tomorrow etc)

[@sebastienmorel2950]

It's interesting that you mentioned Toulouse, because I lived in this town at the end of the 90s and there was a local radio station named "Radio Mon Païs" that had a program every week about hardcore and skacore, which made me discover tons of bands (No Use For a Name, Satanic Surfers, Bad Religion, Skankin' Pickle, Mu330, Reel Big Fish,...), never played on national radio stations in France. At that time, a good hardcore/surf-punk band from Toulouse was Greedy-Guts (two guys and a girl playing a bit in the style of the aussie band The Hard-Ons).

[@MrAnimalmother1984]

“The British are ok” - I’m glad at least someone thinks so. I can sleep easy tonight.

[@Devintaylor2099]

A lot of my favorite singers are English so they are the best musically of the European countries imo

[@ishrendon6435]

As a mexican we love Morrissey and the cure and brit pop groups definitely as opposed to other European artits are not known here .We love american music obviously we're close and mexican music is inspired by many other. We just love music We don't care where it came from or who Invented music is for eveyone ❤❤❤

[@CoCo3879]

I also love British music and people! ❤🇬🇧❤️

[@aarondwood6628]

Something Americans have that we don't in the UK ... school shootings

[@midionkeys]

you know what genre they absolutely kill at? DNB. UK drum and bass is so damn good, even UK rappers sound dope on top of it.

[@MyHeartsBeat]

The Pott in Pottboiz actually refers to the Ruhrpott (short Pott) an area of severeal cities that are border to border (like Essen, Bochum, Gelsenkirchen), which used to be a big part in mining coal. So no weed for anyone there. Never heard of most of these bands though lol and I'm not mad at Finn showing "us" the mirror. Oi! is way to relevant in europe (germany). i always hated this but everyone seemed to love it.

[@TheDefton87]

Finn haha, Rise of the Northstar is f-cking good! I can understand the reasons why you hate this type of style, but maaannnn, ROTNS is such an amazing band. The concept and the music itself is pure power. I´ve known their music since, I don't know... 2014 or so, and it was love at first sight. Actually ROTNS is one of those bands that I'm always looking forward waiting for new music. Europeans have pretty good bands. I also have amassive love and respect for Poets of the Fall... oh, and I must thank you, because thanks to you I found Astroid Boys, a Welsh rapcore band that you also say is terrible haha, love you man

[@kezweedo]

ROTN is just making better hardcore than the muricans and this guy is just butt hurt about it.

[@PulmaFingoPees]

This channel should be called "The condescending MBA of american punk music"

[@brennuvargr4638]

Imagine being American yet dissing European music for being cringe.

[@EBMproductions1]

He is right tho...

[@8bitdiedie]

This is the same guy that tried to defend butt-metal

[@brennuvargr4638]

@@EBMproductions1 America has Manowar, though, as well as cringe bands like Velvet Cacoon and Ghostbath (who completely made shit up), not to mention the nu metal scene...

[@TheHellish]

Imagine being European

[@brennuvargr4638]

@@TheHellish It's a lot better than being a damn Y@nk. :D

[@LennartIbanez]

Could you make a video about good and influencual European music? Cause I think that there are a lot of great European bands and lot of American punkrock is based on English punk. The blink 182 accent for instance is based on English. And most successful American musicians are from European origin. (Max martin, and all House DJs) and I know that a lot of American bands have European band members cause a lot of European musicians move to LA for they're music career. To me it just seems that most people just don't know that a band is European when they're not cringe, and cringy bands are also just very low budget, American low budget bands are cringy too. couple of examples for great European bands: bring me the horizon, messuggah, unprocessed, normandie, Chunk no captain chunk, landmvrks, etc you probably know these and they're all great!

[@rebel107]

Doesn't get more western European than the islands of the United Kingdom.

[@teambrownie1]

finn outing himself as a poser once again could've sworn i had youtube blacklist this guy from my recommendations round 2 here we go

[@davidecavaioli2363]

No Italian in the disclaimer. I'll gaslight myself with the thought that we are excluded for good reasons and not because we don't have any relevance in the whole metal music industry Btw. I feel like there's no scene with more cosplay-bands than the European one and that's because every "alt sub-culture" related to rock and metal in the last 20 years has been imported either from UK or USA through the internet and few scenes started from real communities sharing values and real life stuff, they mostly came from wannabes and it's hard to create something you can share with an audience if the focus it's largely feeding your ego

[@binnybros]

Linea77 were a cool Italian band

[@davidecavaioli2363]

@@binnybros very well known here! I'm not a huge fan of them but it's cool that someone knows them. They where one of the few metal/crossover bands getting some national resonance and that's also because they sang in Italian, which unfortunately means it can't be exported nearly as much as music sung in english but they surely wanted to import the nu/alternative style here and probably they where the first Italians doing it

[@binnybros]

@@davidecavaioli2363 I saw them a few times on tour, I have an old vhs of a show I recorded in the attic somewhere, still listen to them every now and then

[@davidecavaioli2363]

@@binnybros Cool! Where did you see them playing?

[@binnybros]

@@davidecavaioli2363 a few venues around the south west of England

[@balaramarust2243]

Der Pott is a german term for "der Topf" (engl.: the pot) a region in the biggest german state Nordrhein-Westfalen and includes cities like Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen or Bochum. The Pott is known for their coalmines and their workers mentality. The region got great social issues because we close all the mines. I think that's one of the reason why they try so hard to look tough like in the gangsterrap videos we grew up in the 90's.

[@justsomedude5727]

The three kinds of european metal Im a motorcycle maannnn I am a viiikiiinng I am darkness and evillee Sometimes a mix of those

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Lol

[@donpedro8461]

Well there is one european pop-punk band, Millencolin, which I think was really big, they had a song on Tony Hawk 2 and Pennybridge Pioneers is a an awsome album

[@Goryptor]

I wonder if I ever live to the day that Finn releases a video on good European music, don't worry Finn, you'd get views too.

[@ogfrescobeats]

the singer of Wolf Down is now front woman for Venom Prison, check em out!

[@CleanyAUT]

Luki du hier? 😂

[@GoudVis56667]

I see you Finn, this was hillarious even for a serious Dutch person.

[@Bzzuco1430]

BTW i think in europe was legit HC/Metal scene around Belgium called H8000 early 2000 i guess? anyone?

[@xsteox770]

Correct. Liar, Congress, Arkangel, ect

[@nicop5306]

I'm european and i laughed a lot with this video. I agree with you about Eurocore, but Europe has better Drum & Bass and Black Metal !

[@Devintaylor2099]

Recommend me some drum n bass please!

[@nicop5306]

@@Devintaylor2099 Yeah sure ! By subgenres : NEUROFUNK : Burr Oak, Gydra, Disphonia, Mizo, Teddy killerz, Mefjus, Noisia DANCEFLOOR : Tantrum desire, Dimension, Sub focus Deep / Tech : Klinical, Skylark, The caracal Project, Monty, Break LIQUIDFUNK : Nelver, Hiraeth, Monrroe, Dawn wall

[@niemand7811]

Interesting. Most great metal bands are from European and Scandinavian areas. Good trance and synth wave music comes from those areas too. Most classical music - Europe. Whatever. Let's see how deep we dive into hilarious shit here.

[@AnnInWonderland.]

TIL that I'm cosplaying Americans. I thought I was literally just wearing clothes but apparently, I'm trying to look like an American and failing. Thank you for opening my eyes to this, Finn :D

[@huntersearles7753]

The Brits and Germans are ripping off our obesity too

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

In American highschool, my buddy made a black metal band (with only one member, as one does occasionally) and he was trying soooo hard, like using "ov" instead of "of" in really long song titles in broken English even though he's a fluent native English speaker 😐

[@chesterfield9682]

"The upside down cross... They got that wrong" had me laughing out loud. I am from Sweden, so I guess I'll just say "ve vill not do this".

[@DeathcoreManiac]

Cosplaying as americans, yeah sure dude americans invented everything This dude: all europeans are cringe America: the laughing stock of the world