Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 21 minutes ago

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~Disclaimer: My sampling of outside media in this video constitutes as Fair Use under section 107 of the US Copyright Law, for the purpose of criticism and commentary, which thus invalidates my usage as copyright infringement.~

In 2006, Hit Parader published a list of the top 100 metal vocalists that I felt for years since first discovering it would make for great reaction material because of how dated, pandering and inaccurate a lot of the list is. And while I was visiting Atticus during a trip I made to Florida, I had him react to the list with me while I read what was written in the magazine for the first time.

This is part 1 of a 4 part series. Watch the other parts: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmsqSIz7VuJx_T632DU5Fh0hOnc0Xc1ZY

By no means do we think most of the people or the bands they are from that are featured here are bad, but these problems become extremely apparent the further you get into it. I’ve never been someone that likes categorizing hard rock as being a metal genre, and maybe if Hit Parader called this the “Top 100 Greatest Hard Rock Vocalists”, there wouldn’t be as much problems, but the list being dated and pandering would still be valid criticisms to have. We are admittedly looking at this from a 2024 perspective, but we try to put ourselves in a 2006 perspective when analyzing the list.

Atticus’s channel: youtube.com/@AtticusTheDeathMetaller
Special thanks to Naveed on Fiverr for fixing the audio: fiverr.com/naveed272

[Videos referenced]
“Top 15 Glam Metal Bands You’ve Never Heard Of”: tinyurl.com/mv26yx43
“Wes Scantlin’s Forever Plummeting Spiral of Misery” by ATDM: tinyurl.com/42a22rez
“Saxons and Vikings” by Amon Amarth: tinyurl.com/yj4cfa8f
WWW on 89: tinyurl.com/3rnhu76s
“Chris Boxes Himself Into a Barn” by ATDM: tinyurl.com/4et8u2k2
“Top 15 Bands I Would LOVE to See Reunite”: tinyurl.com/5bka23j8
“I solved the mystery of Dance Gavin Dance” by The Punk Rock MBA: tinyurl.com/6z896wh8

[Articles]
“Judas Priest: The Subliminal Message Trial”: tinyurl.com/2tn2pbe2

[Select clips sampled (not including MV’s from entries)]
“A Dramatic Reading of Metal Elitist Comments”: tinyurl.com/mw39ntz8
Clip from Seinfeld: tinyurl.com/ydcvpvmn
Clip #1 from Toy Story: tinyurl.com/26kfuksp
Clip from Metalocalypse: tinyurl.com/2bma5py2
Clip from Rock Star: tinyurl.com/3bvnw6x3
96’s cringey cover: tinyurl.com/42fhetzm
“Tiptoe Through the Tulips” by Tiny Tim: tinyurl.com/2zysma6x
“Livin’ in the Sunlight, Lovin’ in the Moonlight” by Tiny Tim: tinyurl.com/5xrh8bxj
Spooky: tinyurl.com/2pnc8fzn
83’s senate hearing: tinyurl.com/mudybykz
Hairy legs: tinyurl.com/3zrs3bnw
Clip from the Simpsons: tinyurl.com/4ese8wws
#82 at Wrestlemania: tinyurl.com/43tkmkrj
#81 on Jerry Springer: tinyurl.com/mvaeue8z
Mario Says No: tinyurl.com/5n6aczfy
Clip from The Office: tinyurl.com/3ujdm2sk
Clip #2 from Toy Story: tinyurl.com/yuawww7x
Clip #1 from Joker: tinyurl.com/4nbzbpuk
Clip #2 from Joker: tinyurl.com/5hcsh3wx

[Timestamps]
0:00 - Intro
4:04 - 100
5:12 - 99
6:13 - 98
7:10 - 97
8:12 - 96
9:16 - 95
10:31 - 94
11:22 - 93
12:49 - 92
13:47 - 91
14:35 - 90
15:18 - 89
16:21 - 88
17:37 - 87
18:49 - 86
19:51 - 85
21:03 - 84
22:02 - 83
23:13 - 82
24:41 - 81
25:50 - 80
26:47 - 79
28:13 - 78
29:05 - 77
29:52 - 76
31:14 - Outro

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