You’ve seen the world’s youngest Nile fan… now meet the world’s youngest Gävel fan. Baby gets noticeably less cranky and more willing to eat around the 2:00 minute mark when papa pops on a metal video on YouTube.

Will keep in mind for the inevitable time (but no time soon) when there’s a little Vince Neilstein Jr. running around the Mansion. With any luck he won’t grow up to be like this kid.

-VN

Thanks: Thahirah Taslimsdóttir

If you’re in a band and you’re looking to get our music out to as many would-be fans as possible, new data suggests that you should spend less time vamping up your MySpace page and more time uploading your tracks to YouTube. From Metal Insider‘s Bram Teitelman:

Media measurement company BigChampagne has released some data showing just how much the two have changed in the past year. In 2008, a typical track streaming on MySpace Music for one day was equal to a week’s spins on YouTube.  While it’s not metal, BigChampagne tracked the #4 song across both sites recently, Rihanna’s “Rude Boy,” and found that two years makes quite a difference.

MySpace Music (week ending 5/2): Rank: 4 (732,014 streams)
YouTube (week ending 5/2): Rank: 4 (4,282,376 video views)

Bram points out that while this speaks to MySpace’s decline, it’s got a lot more to do with YouTube’s rapid ascent; he backs up that claim with some nifty stats showing just how much YouTube has grown.

Of course, tons of people still visit MySpace to listen to music, but it seems like more and more people are searching for specific artists or songs on YouTube. So if you’re in a band — even if your band is signed — there’s no reason you shouldn’t post your songs on both MySpace and YouTube; include a link to your MySpace page and a link to your online store (if you’ve got one) in the video description so fans can find out more about you if they want to. May as well, right? You’ve got nothing to lose.

-VN

Not even in a Lambgoat funny haha / trying to cause a stir kind of way; in a really malicious, dispiriting what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-the-human-race kind of way. This coming from MetalSucks, where our comments are unfortunately so often filled with grade-A assholes.

Take the above video, sent in by MS Maniac Israel Dellinger. I see a girl covering a Necrophogist song and doing a damn fine (but not perfect, sure) job of it. Apparently her fellow YouTubers and likely aspiring guitarists see it differently:

It’s fairly obvious from the caliber of comments, choice of expressions and spelling that we’re dealing with either genuinely uneducated scum, young kids, or both. But still; this girl knows she’s up against a lot here, and she also must know she’s pretty good. Female guitarists are SO rare in metal, and by extension I’m sure that YouTube guitar covers played by females are also vastly out-numbered by those of their male counterparts. Still, she puts herself on the line for the world to see and makes a go at it, and not even with a more mainstream metal song that could be considered a) more girly, b) easier to play… but she chooses to tackle fucking Necrophagist! Props, girlfriend. You keep doing what you do. I’ll be the appalled guy at his keyboard that’s glad YouTube didn’t exist when he was a kid.

-VN

Vocal covers on YouTube are inherently funny… here you have literally hundreds of thousands of the world’s teenagers baring their voice for all the world to see, and for what? To be the next Tay Zonday? Or do people think they’ll actually be “discovered” and propelled to superstardom? As my good friend Axl said, “Why do people put this shit on the Internet? I sing poorly in my apartment all the time, but I don’t feel the need to share it with the world.”

An anonymous industry MS Maniac sent in this ace vocal cover of Cradle of Filth’s “Nemphetamine.” Pure gold. And then, after the jump, a pair of foxy, brunette twins we found in the “related videos” tab that actually do a decent job (but are no less hilarious).

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This YouTubian calls himself “JesusFarted.” It’s strangely appropriate.

Crustcake posted a tremendous video of this young lad shredding it up for the video camera. Yeah, the kid can play — but his technical chops pale in comparison to his face-making, winking, and bedroom theatrics. A+++++

-VN

Remember that YouTube clip we posted of aspiring singer / pro gum-chewer / YouTube star Jon Becker singing the high notes of “Cemetery Gates” a few weeks ago [via Metal Inquisition]? Here’s a clip of him singing some random insanely high notes, then another one of him singing Skid Row’s “The Threat” a cappella. The gum chewing gets me every single time. Even more than the fist-clenching and uber-serious facial expressions. But the gum-chewing… man oh man!

-VN

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