Skeletons - The anarchist radicalization of Nothingface | This Review Kills Fascists
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- Nothingface was an extremely unlucky band that was around from day 1 of nu-metal all the way to the bitter end and never quite made it. In many ways, the world wasn't ready for them, and is only catching up now.
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Nothingface was by far such an underrated band. RIP Matt. An S tier singer. Violence is still one of my top 10 favorite albums. Walking on bodies is my ringtone.
Got to talk to Matt personally at Tattoo the Earth in San Antonio. He didn't care for the Deftones and was definitely a brooding type of guy at the time. Yet, cool as shit, down to earth and chill. He spoke with honesty and conviction. RIP Matt, you'll forever be missed.
Nice video. Nothingface is one of the most crimminaly underated metal bands of all time. They should have had the same success of bands like Slipknot. Great job with the video, I wish more ppl would talk about nothingface.
100% - insane riffs and intense vocals balanced with interesting harmonies.
I have this album, Sickles autographed my copy in 2003. Nothingface were a cut above its peers, but never attained mainstream success, which is a shame. Skeletons is the band's swan song and aged well. It makes me wonder what the band's subsequent albums would sound like. RIP Matt.
How the hell is this not more popular?!
When Matt sang or screamed, his passion DRIPS from the speakers❤🤟
You can't fake that, it can't be taught. You can learn how to sing you can learn death vocals but you can't learn or accurately imitate having fiery hot convictions. That's what makes a frontman or frontwoman irreplaceable.
Chris Houck is one of my favorite 1990s metal drummers. He adds jazz like drumming to metal. Seriously, really listen to his drum parts. They're not typical nu metal or typical rock&roll drum patterns. His drumming in Everlasting Godstopper is a prime example.
Has anyone else noticed Tom's guitar parts often have a slight country twang ?? He's such a unique guitarist especially for this era. His guitar parts are heavy A.F. but almost always have a memorable melody. Which is something many metal guitarists forget: the average human brain loves melody.
I've been a fan of this band since 2002. R.I.P. Matt. Their music lives on..
Sadly to this day, qualities that are still not noticed or appreciated, but at least here we are, on a comment on a CZcams video, making notice of a video from a creator that still misses the entire point of the band, lyrics & riffs included. Stoked he made this video, bringing some highlights to the band, but sadly missing the point of it all, as he even admits during this video. Not surprising, as summary videos like this, of bands that have died off, tend to be halfass summaries such as this. But still, I thank you for bringing light to a band/albums that deserved everything more than what they got.
Most people sing death metal because they have no life experience to sing about. It’s like trying to be a novelist when you’re 19
Skeletons was the only album I ever heard of theirs, until yesterday, when I looked on Spotify and got plenty of surprise when I love their old shit too.
But Skeletons is special to me.
Love how Nothingface mature with each album in both sound & lyrics.
Every couple months I come back to this video and rewatch it, I really wish more people did deep-dives on their favorite Nu metal bands. This was very well made.
Nu Metal is one of my favourite genres of all time I don't give af if anyone judges me!
There were plenty of gems in there. Honestly most of the dreck was label-driven.
@@danielhenderson3753 Like Trapt for example
After discovering Nothingface from a Guitar Magazine compilation disc, my cousin and I went and got everything we could find by them and they are still one of my all time favorite bands. In our minds, they were the biggest band ever and we had no idea they were not very successful financially. Rest well among the stars, Matt Holt.
such a underrated album. Still holds up today.
The best music will always be underground
Absolutely. Just spun it earlier this year and it still crushes.
First heard Nothingface in 98 and I was instantly hooked..I thought Matt's vocals were some of the most unique I've ever heard. Awesome video hopefully you can do some more like this
Great video! Love Nothingface to this day, saw them live numerous times. The last time I saw them live was February 23rd, 2006 at the IRock in Detroit. They headlined ahead of Crossbreed and Silent Civilian. Matt had a fever that night of 101 and asked his Nothingface-loving crowd to help him with the screaming sections, which we obliged; us, the adoring fans leaned forward and screamed those lyrics louder every time he turned the mic towards us. We were like a multi-headed Nothingface hydra. They played a great set that night. Very memorable. Miss NF. \,,/
I saw them on that same tour! The Baltimore show that kicked it off, which was also their first show since their 2004 break up. Only time I ever got to see them, but I'm glad I got the chance. I was also at the Knives Out show where Tom, Bill, and Tommy played For All The Sin in remembrance of Matt. Spectacular performers all around.
I have now rewatched this video like 10 times because you enabled my hyperfixation on Nothingface
I really appreciate you taking the time to make this video. Nothingface was so ahead of the curve. These songs have stuck with me for years, and it's nice to see somebody shine some light on then
Violence is one of the best metal albums of the early 2000s! Right there with slipknot, mudvayne, s.o.a.d. and disturbed 1st releases!!
Shame they never got their big break!!!
My friends and I smoked a bowl with Matt at Tattoo the Earth in 2000 in Pontiac, MI. I remember Matt telling us how he screams from the gut and doesn't cup the mic like some pussy. lol It was a great show. Tons of awesome bands that day. Slipknot headlined, with Slayer, Sepultura, Hatebreed, Mudvayne, Sevendust, and a bunch more. Good times. \,,/
Nothingface was one of my favorite bands. I got one of my rapper friends to get into them. It became his favorite band.
In 2000, I always tried to get friends into new bands. That Christmas someone got violence for me, taking a chance on if I would like it. I never got to see them live sadly.
I was beyond thrilled when they got back together and were going to have new music. Had my fingers crossed they would prevail. It would be nice if some more b-sides/demos surfaced or got released, but I would guess that ship sailed. As I got older my taste of music changed, and some music I loved became stuff I don't know why I liked.
At first, I liked very few songs off skeletons but now I like it as much as violence and think it was an amazing follow up. Appreciate the video, sorry for the wall of text.
Thank you thank you thank you for this video. I discovered Nothingface on a comp that had Breathe Out and I just fell down the rabbit hole with them. Violence was a challenging listening for a dumb numetal kid like me but now it’s one of my favorites from that whole era.
I found this video while "curating" a big list of my favorite nu-metal bands that i used to listen back in the day. I found my love for Nothingface once more and then this video. Im happy :)
Tom Maxwell teamed up with my sauce company to create a limited run of Black Goat Everything Hot Sauce. I believe it is sold out now. They took the website down. It was the highest quality possible wild berry Chipotle style sauce. It is amazing. We may produce more in the future.
Honestly, that sounds amazing, I'd be sure to pick some up if it's ever available again.
@@ThisReviewKillsFascists it's up to Tom but I am hoping he does! I spent an entire year yweaking the recipe with Tom. It's intense like his music!
I am him is not even close to a bad song. Have no clue what youre talking about there, good video otherwise though.
It's actually really weird to me to pull that aside from this album and say it's unusual. It's pretty typical of their blend of alt rock and alt metal.
Matt Holt is a fucking legend. I fully respect this man and his music. Its very sad his life was cut so short. Audio Guide to Everday Atrocity is legendary and to be honest, i think the dude making this video doesnt give their earlier works enough justice. Very pessimistic approach to this band.
I think his contention was more lyrically inclined as Skeletons has a strong base in a lot of anti-establishment and anarchistic themes. Don't get me wrong though as Atrocity is a solid album that shed a lot of light on interpersonal issues for me in high school.
I personally think I, Diablo is the best constructed song that they ever wrote.. though admittedly I don't know the Violence album.
2022 still blasting the shit outta nothingface Matt Holt was a beast. Easy in my top ten favorite bands
Holt was actually working on a new band called Kingdom of snakes
Nice video-essay man! Nothingface was one of my favorite bands when I was in high school. And I remember having to special order Violence from the local FYE. So underated
Most late vocalists left quite prophetic lyrics that were describing all the bad that was to come along the way and is still getting worse all these years later!
Yes that’s true
I am him has one of the best choruses i've ever heard
I love this band and they are so crimminaly underated in the nu metal scene, and It's sad to know they'll never play again. My favorite album is An Audio Guide For Everyday Atrocity. Nice video.
I love this album so fucking much. The songs you pointed out blew my mind. In Avernus was a masterpiece. I Am Him had a direct delivery that made it profound, particularly with the amazing chorus melody. My band released a final album in 2004 and this album definitely amped up our vocal content. I love and miss this band. Huge inspirations, from the technical prowess of Pacifier, to looping the apparently perfectly written song I, Diablo while riding to gigs (my favorite of theirs), to this whole album when we were also branching out and diversifying our songs. I have a poster of the Violence album up in the wall.
This is fantastic! No more Nothingface is a big void in all our lives.
I discovered Nothingface from an AOL friend back when Violence was released. Instantly became my favorite band, and still is. Was lucky enough to see them live in Nashville during their Skeletons tour and got the whole bands autographs and smoked a bowl with Tom Maxwell. The next two shows of theirs I tried to see were both canceled. Years later, I discovered Matt Holt on Facebook, and we occasionally chatted on Messenger. He explained his complete disdain for the music industry and why he would never be in another band. Cool fucking guy. Sadly, he died not too long after. RIP brother
thank you for great video.
sadly Nothingface was lost among other bands and there's not many people who can understand them.
Kinda passed over some of the songs that didn't seem to have a topic being because some of them were fans of old horror movies, hence the black and white horror movie samples. Good ass bunch of dudes and still my favorite band. And seeing them live with Pantera, Soulfly, and Morbid Angel is still the best show I've been to. \m/
Opening your video with Same Solution? You got my forever sub!!! Kickass content. Stupid underrated band that belongs at the top
Love the video essays. I hope there are more to come 😇😇
Thanks for the video bro. Not many speak about NothingFace and you did it the right way. Keep up the good videos, will be following your channel from now on.
I’m glad Tom at least got to be in Hell Yeah, I was like “hey! That’s the guy from nothingface!” Knowing that no one knew who nothingface was
i'd like to add that Chris Houck has defended Matt against Tom's bullshit over the years, both right after the final break-up and after Matt's death ("Tom's statement is only one side of the story and is his personal opinion," Chris said. "There were a lot of other factors involved in all of this beyond anything with Matt."). IMO, Maxwell is a total tool. he just wanted to go play cowboy party-metal bullshit and make money. whatever.
Bingo and I love Nf to death. It is his band but at the end of the day Tom killed Nf
I imagine the chapped ass of putting all the effort into NF only to fail over and over must have been so frustrating to Maxwell that he just wanted to succeed. I was there in a band in the early 00s. There was such a struggle to break through that we were constantly struggling with how commercial to go. What not many artists talk about is that, even if you do stay true to yourself, that ideal can still bend towards commerciality subconsciously. Bands only keep material that they "like," and that is where the bias comes in. What I like about Skeletons is that it was catchy/hooky, but also incredibly honest and meaningful. That's how you get a masterwork.
You should do a video analyzing the band Snot next. Another nu metal gem a lotta people don't remember. They had a song called "Stoopid" that satirizes the bigoted mindsets of many Americans and encourages people to be less close-minded.
Absolutely gonna do Snot eventually, I'm a big fan and Lynn's political takes are extremely underrated. They won't be next, but I'm looking forward to covering them
A video exists for bleeder, its just never been released unfortunately
NothingFace was nu metal for like, 1 album though. After Pacifier they changed drastically.
7:43 the guy you cut out of the picture was Bill, not Chris lol. Thanks for making this! Nothingface was one of my favorite bands growing up and its hard to find any info on their story online. RIP Matt Holt.
I’ve kept Nothingface in my main listening collection for years. I always thought all of their songs sounded like I’d heard them somewhere before. A sort of audio deja vu.
Maybe you used to listen to them in a past life somehow?
Love nothingface! Still my fav metal band of all time honestly. Wish they never broke up and had label troubles makes me wonder what any future albums would have sounded like. Especially since they 2002-2009 demos sounded so good
The Pacifier album is definitely too close to Korn making it not to great but at least Matt’s vocals showed potential which later came in the rest of the later albums.
I love nothingface. I am belgian and i AM a fan from fews years. Love them !
Bravo! Effin Bravo my good man! Thank you for teaching us more about a band that doesn't get enough flowers.
FKN NOTHINGFACE! My fav band ever!
RIP MATT HOLT
Everyday Atrocity is when I found them. Top 5 for me too.
No, Pacifier is NOT a frigkin' KORN album, it is an amazing album that had all the seeds for what was to come. I put it in at least once a month.
So crazy that bands used to form by placing ads in classifieds. Lol
I had entered a contest that was part of a promotion for the Skeletons album release and won tickets to Ozzfest.. then they dropped from the tour.
I absolutely loved Nothingface. An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity and Violence were amazing. Funny thing about Skeletons, I listened to is soooo much on my first Iraq deployment. Ironic.
Did‘Violence’ have any influence on you while you were in Iraq?
@@sarcasticallyrearranged no. It’s just music.
Nothingface is still one of my favorite bands.
NF will forever be my favorite band. I had been a fan since Pacifier. RIP Matt. I got to talk to all of them after a small show in TN right before it all fell apart for them. All awrsome guys
Referring to Nothingface as Nu-metal is definitely inaccurate
Plenty of n u metal is crap. But a lot of it is an iconic cornerstone of metal as it stands today. RIP Matt Holt
An Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity is still to this day one of my favourite albums. Every song rules.
Violence is my favourite by far. I listen to it weekly
Can't believe it's been already over 20 years since Skeletons came out! My brother n I were highly influenced by them back them as me a drummer n my brother a guitarist. We never felt like we never belonged to the nu metal scene because we were more Metalcore before we knew we were.. And all our old band's followers were Metalcore n metallic hardcore fans. But Matt always wrote catchy hooks and vocal arrangements! RIP Matt Holt n NothingFace!
I loved this band back in the day and living in Baltimore, I saw them everytime they came around. They unfortunately lost me when they put out Skeletons though. There were a handful of tracks that were decent, but as a whole album, it felt very disjointed. Always hoped they'd get it together but sadly, that never happened.
~so I suddenly wanted to hear a couple of songs just to reminisce and came across this...seriously, thank you-well done
Thank you for making this video on these guys
Truly an extremely underrated band still, and they still aren't getting the recognition their work deserves now.
I'll never forget the first time I saw/heard of Nothingface. 1998 in Raleigh NC opening for Soulfly, and another unheard of band at the time..... System of a down. I knew almost instantly that Nothingface was going to be huge. They were amazing live, but huge never came. Instead they have the much better position of being loved by the few that really appreciated what they were doing. Time has only made their work much more appreciated to us few that knew who they were!
Really really enjoyed this! You pretty much nailed everything I know about this band on one video and more. The beauty of Nothingface to me is that its something special that many people won't hear and tbh probably wouldn't understand. Since they never got that popular I feel they never got comfortable and were always trying to push the limit of their creations. Although they didn't reach the success they deserved I feel like anyone who knows the band can honestly say they never sold out and never did anything because the label or someone told them to. Nothingface is the musical equivalent of the middle finger. They didn't give a fuck and it was always about the music and fans from day one
Refusing to compromise their vision for a shot at success was one of their greatest strengths, but was also a major factor in ending them. Tom and Bill had families to feed, driving Tom to focus on the reliable paycheck that is Hellyeah. Meanwhile Matt was crushed when Violence flopped and seemed to have lost his passion in the face of all those setbacks. By the time he got it back, it was tragically too late.
If you really want to bum yourself out, you can read the post Chris Houck made after Matt's death about the new music they started working on in 2015 that they never got the chance to finish, it should still be up on Chris' Facebook
@@ThisReviewKillsFascists yeah man I've read everything on Chris's and Matt's page as well as his brother Chris. Also I'm in Nothingface group on Facebook. This segment though is amazing man you really outdid yourself, as a huge fan of them it makes me extremely happy to see someone praising this band with facts no opinionated bullshit. Especially in 2020! Thank you good sir, educating the kids.
@@ThisReviewKillsFascists the part that really kills me about the whole thing is that Tom and Jerry (pun intended) both claim Matt was giving up and relying on drugs heavy more so than music. That isn't the case the man was sick as all fuck literally breaking bones daily in wheelchair by the end of it. Like is this enough proof that obviously Matt had something going on and it wasn't an addiction. Lost a lot of respect for both of those guys after the way they spoke of Matt.
I got into nothingface this year really Great and underrated band
R.I.P. Matt Holt
I actually really like the composition of "I am Him". His spoken word with the sparce instrumental really lends to the emotion in the vocals!
thank u so much for this video nf got me thru my late teens and young adulthood without too much damage to the world around me. a member of 7th rail crew tom g put me on to them and i never looked back. i found matt on fb and reading the comments he was very displeased with some trolls. i sent him a heartfelt msg telling him not to sweat the trolls and asked some questions about what he felt his responsibilities were if any when it comes to fans and. music. upon news of his death i went back to see if he read the msg and it remains unread. i dont blame him one bit. he gave all he was willing to give to the world and u cant ask anything more from anyone. we are all lucky af that his legacy is there for us we just have to press play.
The 90's early 2000's was an amazing time for rock/metal music.
It was kind of hard to follow your words because the background music was sort of competing for attention and wasn't ducking under your commentary, but overall great review! I'm a huge nothingface fan as well and it's cool to see a good review of a timeless band.
RIP Matt.
Long time NF fan since the skeletons era and I really enjoyed this retrospective on the band and album. I also really enjoyed your recent video for LP so keep up the good work. I was curious about what song off of Violence was about cannabis?
Thanks for watching, glad these were worth your time! It's Blue Skin off of Violence that's about weed smoking
Longtime fan since their last album?
RIP Matt Holt
I fucking love nothingface! Definitely one of the main reasons I went to ozzfest 03. Got the cd to get signed. Go to the FYE booth to find out that they were kicked off the tour and label because of anti government views. I was so pissed.
I still listen to skeletons. Damn is it good
AAGTEDA is a god damn masterpiece
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Violence and skeletons are my absolute 2 favorite CDs.... just Perfect
Thank you for this video. There’s a certain mystique surrounding this band for me. They weren’t the first band I listened to or anything but they were that one band I could never get enough of. I think the saddest band art of all is that their sound just got better every album.
Mostly kidding with this statement but shame on you for putting down I am him. That’s one of my all time favorites. There is no bad song on Skeletons. It’ll go down in my book at the best metal album of all time
nothingface save my life
Ditto bro. Shit seems hopeless now we're less meaningful now but wtf to do?
I remember my pal Joseph gave me a promotional disc with "Bleeder" on it. I ended up buying the censored version of "Violence" and I know every single edit on that album. Love it. The drums, the heaviness, it's like a monstrous heartbeat.
This band was SO talented and underrated. Amazing video, my guy.
7:43 You cut Bill Gaal out instead of Chris Houck
10/10 album, still listen to it amongst my gojira, messugah, and devin townsend
Holy shit dude. I was just falling in love with their Violence album all over again, when this video was recommended. I don’t really know much about this band other than I know I love them. I stopped everything and needed to know band details when I first heard one of their songs almost 7(?) years ago. I just tonight saw the Ether music video. I’ve never even seen these dudes before. It’s kind of crazy. I’m really stoked to learn more about them. And if we can all just punch Nazis for fun then the world will be a better place.
Favorite band ever.
Great review skeletons and atrocity was my fav albums by them though I do love violence and pacifier too
My friend recon cars years ago he found nothing face violence cd in it he like check these guys out feel in love right away been listening to em since
There are good bands that were never really nu metal but often get mistaken for it (soad, ratm, helmet) good bands that are legitimately part new metal but do something different too like punk or thrash elements (snot, deftones, soulfly). But there are very few good pure nu metal bands. I'm going to throw up sevendust.
Nothingface is and was a great band. From Pacifier all the way thru Skeletons. So dope.....
this was a great video, thank you so much. Nothingface is one of my favorite bands and as a leftist i always appreciated the political commentary i clocked from them but i didnt know the exact extent of it, and hearin matt was an anarchist is very inspirin as someone who wants to make nu metal myself. im also glad to get them bein named after the Voivod album confirmed after assumin so for a long time lol
Yep criminally underrated
If you're into the heavier stuff and want some leftist/anarchist themes, check out Misery Index. Especially the Traitors and Heirs to Thievery albums.
I will certainly do so, thanks for the tip!
Everyone around Jerry Montano seems to die. Duke, Matt, Vinnie, there are others. Look into him for real.
Jerry hadn't been in a band with literally any of those mfs in over 10 years each. Duke and Matt were into drugs, Vinnie was old and fat. Don't act surprised when these people die.
Mmm weird
It’s one of the great disappointments in Metal that two amazing bands like Mudvayne and Nothingface produced something so gingoistic and vapid as Hellyeah. Great video btw, learned a lot!
Hellyeah did put out one good song on their final album at least. Black Flag Army rules, Tom Maxwell just can't stop accidentally playing in bands with anarchist singers.
it got me through some potential discomfort of religious imposings when i got my own apartment. binaural beats screwed me.
my childhood was religiously screwed, it would have been a shame.
I love Nothingface, I even got to see them open for Pantera on their last tour before breaking up back in 2001. That said, I'm glad to see another big Nothingface fan publicly say that Pacifier is not really that good or indicative of the band's trademark sound. In fact, I'm pretty tired of hearing "fans" say that was their best album and 'after that one, they sold out, man'. /eyeroll
Dig it man, I became aware of Nothingface a few years back. i also for some reason did nit come across them back in the nu metal heyday but fucking love the now!1 listen to them often. Gonna go grab a coffee, roll a bone and check this out , thank for the information man, this comment kills fascists'
why didnt you mentioned their last album? their self titled album that came out in 2010?
That was a remaster and reissue on their 1995 debut, which I talk about before Pacifier
This album was on constant rotation during high school