Thank you to every single one of you that was in the live chat during the Premiere, I had a great time reading all your reactions to the video and learning more and more about what it is I’m listening to! Toxicity and BYOB have been repeats for me since this reaction a couple days ago!

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I always get so excited when people discover how poetic rock and metal actually is

He's Armenian, he's practiced in that middle eastern throat singing, Arabic maqam, so he sings his words with that yodeling or a hum. Thats the unique two-tone texture.

Going from "The most loneliest day of my LIIIIiiIIiIIiIIIiiiiiiIIiifeee" to "WHY'DYOUALWAYSENDTHEPOOOOOOR!" is wild lmao

So satisfying to watch non-metal listening individuals discover metal and like it. Sooooo satisfying. ❤️

The "sacred silence" is before you were born, the "sleep" is after you die, the "somewhere between" is life

Nu-metal is an interesting genre because it’s more or less protest music and each band has its own sound and set of ideas that they want to share with their audience.

For example the members of SOAD are extremely humanitarian, anti-war, and against governments having a lot of control over people (because the members are descendants of survivors from the Arminian genocide), which is reflected in their songs

While Slipknot tends to focus on stuff like mental health, freedom of artistic expression, and the issues of social isolation because they want to make a place for people who’ve been rejected

Korn often discusses the physical and psychological effects of abuse because the lead singer is a male survivor of csa and he wants to share his struggles so others don’t feel alone

Rage Against The Machine focuses on the Black American experience, the generational trauma of systemic and government supported racism, and how black people are allowed to be upset about it

All different, but all great bands that have important issues they are passionate about

"WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOUUU?!"
"I DONT KNOW😭😭"

that killed me 💀💀

It's not a broken guitar at the end of Aerials. That's an Indian sitar. It's a completely different instrument. It's the symbol of Indian music.

Im just sitting here sayim......"He's not ready for BYOB".......

I was in a theater class in high school (probably 2003) and we had an assignment to pick a song and act it out for the class without any words or props. Some kid picked a SOAD song and pretended he was at a concert, thrashing around at the heavy metal parts, pretending he had a lighter during the slow parts, etc. When he finished the whole class was completely silent and the teacher was sitting there with his jaw on the floor. The teacher (probably mid-40s at the time) said, “That…was insane.”

This band is unique, i'm from Argentina and I was lucky enough to see them live here, they played like 25 songs and it felt like 10 seconds, i was so lucky.. i remember, It was Shavo's birthday, we sing happy birthday to him and suddenly Daron said "look at the moon!" , the moon was completely full, it was the biggest moon I had ever seen in my life. That night was magic!

Dude...this was probably the single most entertaining reaction to SOAD, and you get the band so well. They are a prefect example of how good "so weird" can be.

28:26 "where the fuck are you?" "I don't know..."
"where the fuck are you ?" "I DON'T KNOW !!"
I laughed so hard XD

“This is one of the weirdest songs I’ve ever heard” (still vibing to it tho)

….yeah sounds about right for SOAD LOL

I never saw someone so hyped while listenning to B.Y.O.B. Given that it's my favorite band, seeing such pure excitement and joy about S.o.a.d just made my evening. You really convey your good vibes through your video and that's awesome bro. Thank you❤

22:53 To give more context to BYOB the meaning of the song is Bring your own Bombs to play on the acronym Bring your own bottle to a party.  The band made the song to protest the Iraq war which was in its second year at this point the & also the United States media's poor coverage of the ongoing war and rather talked about party and frat culture that was at its peak in the mid-2000s.


And of course, the actions of government sending the poor to die in wars that they caused or Wars that no person from a lower class family should be involved in

@12:48 "he's singing about being lonely but he's got this music to accompany him. i find solace in that" WINNER OF MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I'VE HEARD THIS YEAR AWESOME

Man I loved watching someone so happy to discover SOAD and how hard they slap.

In BYOB the hook is showing how we always get distracted from what’s really going on (the verses)