METAL VIRGIN REACTS TO SYSTEM OF A DOWNS BIGGEST SONGS 🤯 | UK RAP FANS REACTION

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! If you didn’t manage to catch the live, make sure you are subscribed and you will receive a notification when we next go live! If you are new to the channel then you can find my journey through Metal (so far) playlist using the link below, I don’t force anyone to subscribe, but if you find yourself watching more than one of my videos, you may as well 😆 youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZjk4aZ2IbGW5hIibnlT2xW… Have a great day everyone, I’ll see you all real soon with another step in the journey!

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!

@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

It’s very cool that you try to understand the composition, look for meaning in the music, in the words, in the picture, and do it with your soul. Huge like.

I'm listening to their music for almost 20 years now and I still get goosebumps everytime^^ there's just something powerful about the combination of their characteristic sound, Serj's voice and those deep, meaningful lyrics

Aerials has some great lines in it, the song title refers to aerialists (acrobats, part of the circus motif in the video) and the freedom they have, "life is a waterfall, we're one in the river and one again after the fall" can be taken as essentially saying that we're all made of the same stuff, we all come from the same place, we get this brief life as individuals like water forming droplets as it falls, but we all ultimately go back to the same place in the end, "we drink from the river then we turn around and put up our walls" could be taken as either the greedy partitioning of natural resources (we drink from the river then put up a wall to keep others from it even though we didn't make the river so shouldn't really belong to anyone) or of the needless divisions we put up between ourselves, and "when you lose small mind you free your life" is probably a call to live honestly and opening, when you remain small-minded you miss out on so much that the world has to offer. Overall the video seems to be about a child who was part of a circus, is discovered and made famous, but is ultimately unhappy with the fame and fortune and wishes to return to their old life, chasing money and fame has brought them stress, chaos, and expectations, it is the aerialists who are truly free still doing what the enjoy. Also you were spot on with the sacred silence.

brother your genuine reaction to BYOB being so manic and hype is so awesome. Ariels came out when i was 10 and BYOB came out when i was 16. These songs obviously still go hard today, but the effect they have on teenage hormones is absolutely insane. Absolute rager energy lmao.

I'm watching this right now...I'm on B.Y.O.B and I'm dying.😅 I love your reactions and that you genuinely feel this shit. Rock & metal combines so much & tugs at every emotion. Definitely go to a show. It makes it even better.

NOW, somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep. You are spot on mate, it's life, it's now. It's the gap between void and more void, it is all our waking hours. You? what do you own the world? how do you own disorder? - how can any of us claim ownership of this brief flash of cohabited chaos? The whole Toxicity album deserves to always be listened to in full in sequence. It's a masterpiece. Also, these songs are among the LEAST unhinged of theirs. SOAD lyrics tend towards absurdity and the abstract. They don't tell you a story as much as the evoke it.

The lyrics definitely have a specific meaning, but the band has always encouraged people to interpret the songs in their own way

Seeing your reaction to BYOB is exactly why i watch reaction videos. Your mind getting blown with every tempo and phrase change is exactly how i felt hearing it for the first time, and i love seeing other people go through that emotional and mental rollercoaster. These guys are masters at it. With your love of rap you ought to check out Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade.

Grew up with them and they truly speak to the soul. Listen to Sugar, Pogo Stick, Chop Suey, Prison Song… so many and a great rabbit hole to fall in