- (React) Today, we dive deep
into the wonderful world of Shock Rock.
Do you know what Shock Rock is? (thunder crashes)
- What?
- I'm shocked!
- Are you talking like Shock Rock?
- (React) Like Shock Rock?
- Shock Rock! - Shock Rock, are you talking, like...
- Something shock factor,
you get shocked by it, 'cause it's so amazing.
- (React) I am talking about the world of Marilyn Manson,
Rob Zombie, GWAR, KISS, and more!
- Oh, I'm gonna eat this up! - (gasps) Ooh!
Is there like surprise factors?
- ♪ Dead I am the rat ♪
- Woah. - Is this a bomb in the back?
- That's trippy.
- ♪ Dying as you purr ♪
- It looks like shrooms.
- I'm trying to see who it is.
- I like the song.
- Burn through the witches. The witches are burning.
- Right? It's cool though.
Like, that's so cool.
- Oh my God, I'm scared! - I like the makeup.
- Ooh, that was PCH!
- I can smell the music video, and it's a lot.
- (Paulina) Yeah.
- ♪ Burn through the witches ♪ ♪ I slam in the back of my ♪
- (both) Oh!
- Oh my God, that was awfully close!
- Not her smiling, unfazed.
- That part. - This sounds more like metal to me.
- The visuals were really cool. - (React) Okay.
- Very cool, unexpected. The song was good!
- (React) Yeah. - It was just like there.
- It made me feel like I wanted to burn witches.
(React laughs)
- They just literally put the most shocking things
you could ever think of, like the throwing knives.
- Yeah, for real. - (React) Uh-huh.
- Screaming.
- (React) Okay, well that is Rob Zombie.
- Uh-huh. - (React) And the song is Dragula.
- Yes! Rob Zombie!
- (React) There you go!
He utilizes horror and sci-fi clips in his music, in samples,
but also in the music videos, as you see.
He was a big B movie, horror lover,
from like old school B movies.
So it's been described as phantasmagoric.
- Phantasmagoric.
- That's the gayest thing I've ever heard you say.
(React laughs)
- Again, for me, it's not completely over the top,
but it's showing off an art style.
- He started his career in a band
before being Rob Zombie, the solo artist.
- Oh.
- (React) When he was in White Zombie,
a little bit earlier in the '90s,
and we're gonna watch that right now!
- ♪ Yeah, I am the jigsaw man ♪
- Creature from the Black Lagoon. - Hey, hey.
- ♪ Boom chicka ♪ - I love this.
I love this one.
- Skeleton handstand, you hear all his monsters.
- It's always the x-ray colors.
- Oh my God! ♪ Boom boom boom ♪
♪ (Jaxon beatboxes) ♪
- Oh my God!
- ♪ Nah-nah, nah-nah ♪ - And the flashes!
- Oh, not the clown!
- Right, Halloween.
- It's very alternative.
Very, let's go to my garage and play right now.
- Oh my God, this is my favorite one so far!
(React laughs) Oh! (laughs)
- Bro, this is hard.
- They definitely smoked before this.
- (React) So are we fans?
- (both) Yes. (React laughs)
- I think his solo work definitely outdid the band here.
- (React) Okay.
- However, I think I liked the melodic progressions
that this one had versus the repetitiveness of the first one.
- ♪ Ah ♪
- Okay, that's different.
Ooh. - Ooh, the switch.
- Rawr. - [Censored].
- Looks like the mummy.
- There he is!
- Yeah, this mother[censored] was disturbed.
- Oh, that's a look.
- I'm more intrigued, if anything, you know?
It's very hard to like pinpoint how I feel about the song.
- Yeah, it's more like rawr,
like creepy, sinister. - Ooh!
(knocks table) - Woo, woo, woo!
- I can't understand what he's saying!
And if he's putting a curse on me,
I can't be a part of it.
- Yeah, you wanna vibe out too.
- This feels like American Horror Story.
- It does. - (React) Oh!
- 'Cause this is giving asylum vibes, it's scary as [censored].
- Ooh! - (Paulina) Right, mm-hmm, I like it.
- What is that bell in the back? Hold on!
- It's like Halloween music with a groove.
(both laugh)
- It's super shocking.
- God, he's a funny looking guy.
(Angel laughs)
- Ah, that one was good! - (React) Oh yeah!
- That was cool.
It gives me very much like experimenting on people.
- Yes! - Which is like so scary!
- It was creepy!
- He wants to scare you. - It's disturbed, it's disturbed.
- (React) Yep. - He wants to scare you,
more with like uncomfortable imagery. - It's disturbed.
Yeah.
- (React) That was Marilyn Manson.
- Oh! - Oh wow.
- (React) Alright, well this is one of the biggest music artists
of the '90s and early 2000s,
said to have five different tones and registers in his voice,
and a sound engineer once claimed
that once he ingested it into the system,
the five different wavelengths created a pentagram.
- Oh my God. (React laughs)
That's metal as [censored].
- That's frightening, but I love that.
- (React) Yep.
- He's like Nicki Minaj of like rock.
- When you get into this kind of music.
(Dani growls) - (React) Mm-hmm.
- It's some other [censored].
- ♪ Make amends ♪
- Oh, so, oh, this is Slipknot, yeah. - All of this feels like people going-
Huh, really, this is Slipknot?
- ♪ Step inside ♪
- Slipknot's crazy, okay?
- ♪ Too many times ♪
- My favorite is spike boy. (React laughs)
He has spikes out of his face. - (Paulina) Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- We'll see him again.
- Okay.
- They look like the coolest people ever, like woah!
- Oh my...
- The guitarist is doing it for me.
Like, he, oh my, yeah!
Ooh, wow! - See, okay.
- See, once they start talking about the Devil inside and [censored],
that's where I leave the chat. (React laughs)
- I was in the Slipknot video. - (React) Uh-huh.
- Talking about Slipknot.
Although some of their songs aren't my favorite,
they have some bangers, oh my God.
- (React) Mm-hmm. (Angel laughs)
So you know, were you in the Slipknot video?
- I was, I had a lot of the comments coming for me,
but y'all need to understand,
I had never seen anything like Slipknot before, okay?
- (React) But now you have!
- I have, so now I understand the beauty,
but I was scared, I was frightened.
(React laughs)
- Link in the description for us watching Slipknot.
- I liked it, I feel like in the beginning,
with the black coming out of their nose,
it kinda reminded me of Billie Eilish in that one music video of hers.
- Oh my God, yeah!
- It was definitely... - I couldn't get past Devil in I,
but you know... - I didn't understand the words.
- I think that was a little too dark for me,
which is weird, 'cause I'll take Marilyn Manson.
Slipknot just went a little too direct for me.
- (React) Shock Rock started way earlier, way earlier,
and probably way earlier than you would imagine.
So trivia question time!
- Hmm. - I'm gonna fail.
- (React) That is Screamin' Jay Hawkins,
and he's often credited as one of the first pioneers of Shock Rock,
the way he performed one specific song helped birth the genre,
which song was it?
A, Monkberry Moon Delight, B, I Put A Spell On You,
C, Heart Attack and Vine, or D, Little Demon.
- The only one I think I know is ♪ I put a spell on you ♪
- Yeah. - ♪ Because you're mine ♪
- I want it to be I Put A Spell On You.
- (React) Okay.
- 'Cause I would love to hear it
in a rock, villainous, like rage. - (React) Okay.
- I'm gonna say C.
I wanna say B, but I'm saying C.
- I'm going with B.
- (React) You're going with B?
- I'm going with B, I Put A Spell On You.
- So I'm gonna go with Monkberry Moon Delight.
- (React) Monkberry Moon Delight? - Yes.
- No. - Heart Attack and Vine.
- (React) Okay. - Helped birth a genre.
Yeah, I'm gonna go Monkberry Moon Delight.
- (React) Should've went with your guts!
It was I Put A Spell On You! (buzzer)
- Damn. - Oh, for real?
- We got nervous.
- No, I just said I wanted to say B! (growls)
- Oh my God! It's an iconic song,
so I'm excited to see. - I couldn't copy him.
I was like I have to choose either A, C, or D.
- ♪ Boom, boom ♪ - ♪ Doom, doom, doom, doom ♪
- ♪ I put a spell on you ♪
- ♪ I put a spell on you ♪ - Woo!
Woo! - (React) Yeah!
- Jaxon! - ♪ Oh ♪
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ Because you're mine ♪
- ♪ Because ♪
- Considering it birthed a genre,
you can definitely see where it comes from.
You can definitely see how something that can be construed as controversial
can be made into art,
and people, overall, not being okay with it,
but still wanting to put out that art anyway.
- To be honest, because when I think of rock,
I immediately go white guy,
I immediately go screaming white punk,
like, that's what comes for imagery.
So to hear this history of a black person
birthing this genre that is now controlled/dominated by white men
is insane.
- (React) So, he was considered the first one,
but now, we are gonna talk about
the Godfather of Shock Rock. - Wow.
- ♪ The Reverend Smith ♪ ♪ He, he recognized me ♪
♪ And punched me in the nose ♪ ♪ He said ♪
- I know this song. - ♪ No more Mr. Nice Guy ♪
- ♪ No more Mr. Clean ♪ - I don't know it.
- Is that, oh, hell no. - I'm terrified of snakes.
I'm terrified, I couldn't.
- I don't know how people could do that,
like voluntarily have a snake?
- Wow!
- Okay, that's cool. - Oh, that's a look!
- I don't know his name, but I know the face.
- I recognize him older.
- No, that would be fun to watch that one right there.
That performance. - That's crazy.
- Okay! That outfit was giving.
- I feel like I might hear, or like, remember the name.
- (React) Alright, so Alice Cooper is like the Godfather of Shock Rock.
- Alice Cooper! - (React) Boom! (laughs)
- Bro! My brain is like do-do-do-do!
- I don't even know how to describe it.
I was just a big fan of the song.
- I like it when they sing it more than scream it.
- Yes!
- When it's like scream sing, not just scream.
- I don't know, I think the thing I liked the most about it
was his confidence, I don't know how he did the snake,
I will never, ever, ever get a snake near me.
- You're a fan of snakes?
- ♪ You say you wanna ♪ ♪ Go for a spin ♪
- That's a fun one.
- KISS, iconic. (laughs) - KISS, yes!
- Oh, KISS! - Oh!
- They were doing this in platform heels, baby!
- Yeah! - ♪ You keep on shoutin' ♪
- Woo!
- ♪ Come on ♪ - Oh.
- ♪ I wanna rock and roll all night ♪
- ♪ And party every day ♪
♪ I wanna rock and roll all night ♪ - So much is going on, I love it!
- Oh, I can't do the tongue. (React laughs)
- I love the contrast of them like in the pool,
and then blood. - ♪ And party every day ♪
- This era though, is crazy. The mullets.
- Oh my God!
I feel like it would be so fun going to a...
- A KISS concert. (Anthony screams)
- It's overstimulating.
- I feel like there's more glamor elements almost than shock.
- Yeah.
- (React) Their names are Starchild, The Demon,
The Spaceman, and The Catman.
- I'm Starchild every day. (React laughs)
I know, as soon as you said all of them,
I can picture the makeup that they all had,
and it like adds up, that's so cute.
Starchild, you have my heart. - You have the star.
(both laugh)
- I've always been a fan. - Absolutely.
Mmm, they are amazing. - Always.
- I love KISS. - Always.
- (React) Yeah? - Uh-huh.
- (React) Their live shows, like you saw, fire breathing,
blood puking, pyrotechnics, levitating drum kits!
This is Gene Simmons showcasing his legendary tongue.
- (Gene) Come closer. - (host) Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh.
- (Gene) Alright, close your eyes, you don't want to see this.
- No... - Don't lick her.
- Oh, he looks like a rock star.
(crowd screams) (Dani gasps)
(both gasp) - Oh my God!
- (Loni) I can feel it!
- I legit thought his tongue was like so big
that it was gonna touch her, from there.
- That's magic.
- (React) Trivia time. Who is this man?
- I don't know. I don't know his name.
- I feel like I've seen him, but I don't know.
- I know his face looks so familiar.
That mole is iconic.
- (React) Do you guys know the song We're Not Gonna Take It?
- ♪ We're not gonna take it ♪ ♪ Anymore ♪
- (React) You know it!
That's Dee Snider,
and that is the lead singer of Twisted Sister.
- No way! - Twisted Sister.
- Twisted Sister, I've heard of them!
Okay, okay, okay.
- The only thing though, that I can only see changing
is maybe like a softer makeup look.
- Yeah. (React laughs)
- I wouldn't do like the blue eye shadow for him.
- (React) When it comes to Shock Rock, maybe a little tamer,
but in the '80s, these guys were dressing up like women,
they were anti-authority, they were anti-teachers and parents,
so again... - I know that's right.
- (React) Conservative watch groups were coming after 'em,
and trying to shut 'em down.
- You could tell they were the bad kids in school.
- (React) Or the cool kids. - Yeah, [censored] you, mom!
- ♪ Your socks, they smell ♪ ♪ Your feet, they stink ♪
♪ You never take a bath ♪
- No, I don't like that.
- ♪ You always finish last ♪
- Oh, GWAR, baby, you gotta go.
- I'm not looking at it, I don't wanna look at that, Joe.
(laughs)
- This might be the first one I don't like.
- Ooh, it's like flesh.
- That special effects artist got that check that day, okay?
- Right?
- He just said I'm sick of me, like seven times in a different way.
- There's just a bunch of slangin' wangin'.
- The song brought really nothing new to me.
- (React) Okay.
- I feel like everyone else outperformed.
- It looks like you want... - Comic Con's going on.
- (laughs) Like an alien orgy.
- (React) They are described as interplanetary space barbarians.
- That's... (React laughs)
- That's what that guppy brain guy gave me.
- (React) What made GWAR big, and makes GWAR big,
is their live shows,
where they cover their audiences in fake blood, semen, guts.
- That's nasty!
- I don't mind the getting covered in fake blood in the crowd.
- I'd wanna do that. - You lost me at semen.
♪ (rock music) ♪
- What'd they cut off? - (React) His head.
- Oh my God!
- That's bad ass! - Wow!
- You know, a whole production is really impressive.
- I feel like it should be giving more than it is.
- It's like the type of fake visuals that belong on the side
of like an arcade game.
- That's dope! That's exactly what it looks like.
- Imagine there's a splash zone too.
- Like, I wouldn't wanna scream the lyrics to my favorite part,
'cause I'm gonna get some [censored] in my mouth!
- Right, just get blood, ah!
- They are one of a kind. - Wow.
- They are definitely one of a kind,
and I respect the hell out of them for it.
♪ (rock music) ♪
- What is this?
What are they?
- Ooh, I love a storyline music video. - Yeah.
- I like this.
- Now I wanna see what the shock factor will be.
- They're gonna die!
- Woah!
- ♪ Du hast ♪ - ♪ Du hast ♪
- ♪ Du hast mich ♪
- (React) Yeah, you know!
- I'm getting it. I'm getting into it.
- ♪ Du ♪ ♪ Du hast ♪
- Are they German? - (React) Yes!
- ♪ Du hast mich ♪
- Are they kidnapping this girl?
- Woah, who are they injecting? - Du hast.
- He has great cheekbones. - (Paulina) Oh.
- German? - Oh wow!
- Woah, that's kind of cool.
- Wait, that little noise in the back is doing something.
- I like it though.
- I was like what's going on?
I was like they're all surrounding this person
who looks like they just got drugged and like...
- 10 out of 10! (laughs) - (React) Yeah!
- Right, to the main dude. Ich liebe dich.
- (React) Woah!
What did you guys think? - They're all looking over.
- That's the German band. - (React) That is Rammstein.
- Oh, I've heard of Rammstein.
- (React) One of the world's biggest industrial metal bands,
incorporating electronica and heavy metal, this German band,
their shock monitor was from like live pyrotechnics.
Just, they would go nuts, as well as elaborate costumes,
like lederhosen, military garb, and corsets.
- I liked it, this one was cool.
- I like when it built up.
- It was different. I didn't like it at first,
and then it grew on me, and I'm like ooh, ah.
- (React) Huge band. - Shout out East Germany.
You all ate that one.
- ♪ Now this is what it's like ♪ ♪ When worlds collide ♪
- Oh, he's fun.
- Ooh. - Oh, I like him.
- Oh, he's cool as hell.
- Okay, that's kinda like cool creepy.
Like when they have the choreograph planned.
- I like him, like he looks all scary, but he's just like...
- Wow!
- ♪ Are you ready to go ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm ready to go ♪
- Ooh, wow, he's powerful!
- ♪ Are you going with me ♪
- Woah! - Super powers!
I was not expecting that!
- Bro, I know what I'm listening to for leg day!
- Oh my God!
- Again, it like, a lot of metal bands have that medieval sci-fi mix.
Why is it so specific?
- Actual footage of Harry killing Voldemort. (laughs)
- ♪ Are you ready ♪ ♪ 'Cause I'm ready ♪
- He's fighting a super evil guy.
- I like his colorful hair.
I just think colorful hair is just so fun and awesome.
- Whole vibe!
- This is so vibey!
- For me, I'd have to be in such a specific mood to want to listen to it.
- That takes you to another world!
- He did his brother justice.
- That was my favorite screaming one.
- Yeah, I agree. - (React) Yeah?
- It had like a melody.
- (React) Powerman 5000, and that was When Worlds Collide,
what did we think of that song and music video?
- That was my favorite out of all of them.
- (React) Really? - Yes.
- That [censored] lit. - Powerman 5000, that went hard.
- That shit was lit.
- (React) Jaxon. - I loved it.
Personally, I loved it, but also, I had this feeling of,
I have to really be in a specific mood to want to listen to this.
- It was cool, it was fun. - Yeah, I...
- It was unexpected when the super powers came in.
- I don't know what he did to piss off that dude,
but she should've never tried to take my boy custody.
- (React) Powerman 5000 leaned into the atomic age,
sci-fi theme of the past.
- It's so weird how a lot of these have to do with sci-fi, medieval,
just like, it's such a specific niche,
yet so many metal bands seem to do it.
- That was very shocking in a good way.
- (laughs) Ah.
- You know, it might be all one category,
but they definitely had their unique parts.
- I thoroughly enjoyed it, like I feel loud.
My head is like going back and forth, but in a great way.
- Dude, I love all of this.
I think I learned today don't judge a book by its cover.
- (React) Hell yeah. - That goes both ways.
Somebody may think somebody like me doesn't listen to this kind of music,
and I may think somebody listens to this kind of music.
- You listen to this type of music? - I'm shook!
- Metal is bad ass. Metal is awesome.
- ♪ And party every day ♪
♪ I wanna rock and roll all night ♪ - So much is going on, I love it!
- ♪ And party every day ♪ - Woo!
- ♪ I wanna rock and roll all night ♪
- Like where are the girls just randomly coming from,
and then there's blood coming out of their mouths.
- ♪ And party every day ♪
- Then there's a bunch of guys, just naked, and just like wow.