CKN on Facebook! - / 102313519812201 CKN on Twitter: @thecoverkiller Sometimes great bands will lay a huge dud of an album, leaving fans to question what exactly they were thinking. Here are 10 classic examples of this principle.
10. Tender Surrender- Steve Vai 9. Glasgow Kiss- John Petrucci 8. Into the Lungs of Hell- Megadeth 7. The Ultra Violence- Death Angel 6. For The Love Of God- Steve Vai 5. Switch 625- Def Leppard 4. Orion- Metallica 3. Transylvania- Iron Maiden 2. To Live Is To Die- Metallica 1. Voice of the Soul- Death
10. Stream Of Consciousness 9. Stream Of Consciousness 8. Stream Of Consciousness 7. Stream Of Consciousness 6. Stream Of Consciousness 5. Stream Of Consciousness 4. Stream Of Consciousness 3. Stream Of Consciousness 2. Stream Of Consciousness 1. Stream Of Consciousness
I really like that In Flames album because it was my introduction to the band. I was like 16. I like every song. Personally, 'The Chosen Pessimist' makes me pretty emotional. It's a powerful song, if you read the lyrics. Anders delivery in the song is just super emotive.
I would've added Forbidden by Black Sabbath, Supercharger by Machine Head, Nation by Sepultura and Relentless Reckless Forever by Children of Bodom on that list.
Bathory - Requiem. One of my favorite bands of all time, but Requiem was not a good album. But it has one saving grace: the six first albums that came before it, and they are among the best metal albums ever.
***** I saw a video of a guy who did it, and he was a guitar player playing bass, and he played the bass wrong, and it sucked. Aside from that, I'm saying METALLICA should re-record it, not a cover band.
***** Metallica has had generic songwriting since the day after AJFA came out. Don't get me wrong. Death Magnetic had some good ideas on guitar, but the lyrics were generic and uninspired. If we're going to pick albums apart based on single, uninspired instruments, then we could pick apart every one of them.
lol, St. Anger should be re-released after song writers working for the record companies re-do the songs. I guess the record companies no longer offer Metallica this service. Let's be honest, song writers working for the record companies no longer write their songs . . .
Why would they add solos to an album that was already released a decade and a half ago, that’s stupid and it wouldn’t even be the same album. Why would you continue to write an album that is buried in the past when you could spend your time writing new music for a new album rather than an old one?
Oh god, fucking Cold Lake! I was expecting this album on here from the get go. I'm a glam nut, so I was curious as to what that album sounded like, so I torrented it and was bored shitless.
I do not think a sense of purpose was that bad to be honest. If you want to talk about an album by In Flames that was too experimental, then I would choose Soundtrack to Your Escape. This is a not a bad album either, but the whole industrial vibe does not suit the band that well.
The editing feels so foreign to this channel, I can become accustomed to it but I'll sure miss the rawness. I also remember sending you some fanmail with the parody title "Illud Divinum Shitsanus" but I've had a change of heart about that album honestly, my only problem with it is that it's entirely inconsistent. Pretty much everything else here is on point for me
I don't really think of Lulu as a Metallica album. I think of it as basically a Lou Reed album with the guys from Metallica backing him, like Pearl Jam backing Neil Young on Mirror Ball.
Never got into In Flames or The Haunting but I agree with the rest of the list! When Cold Lake came out I rushed to the record store to get it and my heart dropped as soon as I looked at the back cover and saw the band in glam clothes. I bought it anyway and was very disappointed. The followup Vanity/Nemises was good though.
Lulu was a side project, and NOT a Metallica album. It doesn't even say Metallica on the album cover. Saying Lulu was a bad Metallica album is like saying Defecation was a bad Napalm Death album, simply because it has two members of Napalm Death in it. Or Tardy Bros was a bad Obituary album. It's not a Metallica album, or they would have called it Metallica - Lulu. But St. Anger is a bad Metallica album.
Hey where's the guy I was fighting with about Blaze vs. Axel Rose? I wasn't done and now I cant find him on here any more. It was just about to get real good.
Am I the only one who thinks Falling Into Infinity is an amazing album? I mean yes, it's not their best in terms of songwriting and it's somewhat inconsistent, but the raw emotion coming from all the members is just mind-blowing. Songs like Hell's Kitchen, Trial Of Tears, Lines In The Sand, New Millenium etc. are undeniably awesome. (Although I have to admit You Not Me is fucking terrible)
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does anyone know what's the song in the intro? pleaseee
10. Nightwish - Angels Fall First. This album appears on the list because it's technically their worst album. Even so, I do like most of the songs on there, besides The Carpenter. That song can burn. 9. Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity. Like Angels Fall First, I actually like this album. It actually wasn't tampered with as much as people think it is. Petrucci actually said that they made the album they wanted to make. I'm guessing that Portnoy was the only one dissatisfied with the final product, as he was the only member of the band who I know of who complained about it. Even if it's Dream Theater's weakest album though, I still enjoy every second of it. 8. Megadeth - Risk. Much like with the previous two, this album wasn't completely terrible, but it is Megadeth's worst album in my opinion. 7. Metallica - St. Anger. The reason why Lulu isn't on this list is because I see that as a different project altogether, and was mostly Lou Reed's idea. Anyways, St. Anger does deserve a bit of the hate that it gets, but there are quite a few songs from that album that I like. 6. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music. It's just noise. That's all I have to say about it. Even Lulu was better than this, because at least that album actually had something going on. This album just hurts my ears. 5. Stone Sour - Stone Sour. Okay, maybe this list isn't in chronological order, because this disc is still decent. There are just some parts that feel like they were recycled from unused Slipknot material. The band improved their sound more and more after this disc. Every album that followed was better than the one before it, and House of Gold & Bones is my favorite album that Corey Taylor is on. 4. Morbid Angel - Illuid Divinium Insanus. Even if there were more good songs on this disc, Radikult is still enough to put it on this list. I'm not even that big a fan of death metal, but I listened to God of Emptiness to compare their older sound with Radikult, and the difference is night and day. Radikult is the worst death metal song I've heard in my life. 3. Black Sabbath - Forbidden. Two words; Rap Sabbath. Not a good combination 2. Guns and Roses - Chinese Democracy. Do I even need to say anything? Whether or not you consider this a metal album, it still has nothing of value. I'd rather listen to Frequency Unknown (PLUS the cover tracks) and Lulu back-to-back for all eternity. 1. Queensryche - Dedicated to Chaos. I actually enjoy all of their albums up to Tribe. Mindcrime 2 was okay, but I can tell that this is where Tate was starting to seize control (All the Promises is one of my least favorite QR tracks). American Soldier just continued down that road (I just didn't like that album at all), and that led to the monstrosity that was Dedicated to Chaos.
Nightwish's worst material was with Anette Olzon. Dark Passion Play and Imaginaerum were absolutely cringeworthy with the exception of 'Amaranthe'. Iunno, I never thought she was a good fit.
I understand why people think that, but I still enjoy those albums. Anette performing the older songs though, not so much. But hey, we're all entitled to our own opinion, and I respect yours'. Angels Fall First is just the album by them that I like the least. Tuomas isn't that great of a singer, and there's not really that much on the album that stands out, besides Elvenpath. Floor is awesome. So looking forward to Endless Forms Most Beautiful.
I stopped listening to Nightwish after Once because of Tuomas actually. He's a narcissistic and callous prick. Both Anette and Tarja feel as I do and have expressed in interviews that he's a complete and utter asshole. I saw the band a few years ago in Toronto, where I'm from, and tried talking to him at the bar at the venue after they played. What I took away from the brief conversation is that the band has always been little more than a mattress for his ego. He IS Nightwish and doesn't care who else is in the band.
i need to play with some levels now that i've started editing more than 50% of my videos. Audio was toyed with but is imbalanced as fuck. i'll get there. haha
My top 10 bad albums by good metal bands (meaning top 10 bad albums that I like? Like, I'm confused). I like these bad albums: 1)Load metallica Best bad album imo. I cannot wrap my head around why this album gets a lot of hate 2) Dream Theater Falling Into Infinity 3) Megadeth Risk 4) Iron Maiden X Factor 5) The Haunted "Unseen" 6) Sonata Arctica "Unia" 7) Morbid Angel Ilud Divinium Insanus 8) Metallca St. Anger 9) Opeth Heritage 10) Black sabbath Forbidden There you go. Ten bad albums I like :)
Golden Epochofmetal Yeah, Agree with you. I'm a HUGE Dream Theater fan, and I think FII is definitely a bad album by them. I also think Systematic Chaos isn't all that great, but that's just me nit-picking. Definitely Megadeth too.... they have a few bad albums.
Systematic Chaos... I have a love hate relationship with that album. Side B is incredibly weak, but occasionally I'll listen to Ministry of lost souls and prophets of war even (Labrie's vocals sound like Muse; and so did he on many of octavarium's songs as he had to adjust to new vocal techniques when he hurt it). In the Presence of Enemies has one of the, if not, the greatest intro in heavy metal. It's also a kick ass song. I think Side A is quite strong. On occasion, I'll skip Forsaken, as the song is incredibly linear; dark eternal knight has a kick-ass drum beat to it. Dream Theater is one of my favorite bands. I need to do a review of their discography. On Falling into Infinity, it contains one of the most underrated dream theater songs in my opinion cuz it has a lot of funk and groove: Line in the Sands. I love that song. The finale of Falling into Infinity is a let down, and the production is probably the worst on any dream theater album. I'd put it in the class of Black Sabbath's Dehumanizer production catastrophe. They really disguised Labrie's voice, and it seems like he is standing like 50 feet back from the rest of the band mates. I also Like the cheesy anna lee! There's nothing wrong with that album, but I really only listen to Line in the Sands, New Millennium, Hollow Years, Peruvian Skies and Hell's Kitchen (Gordon Ramsay must have plagiarized the title!) It's also worth mentioning that the first Dream Theater album (with the carbon copy Getti Lee vocalist) deserves a footnotes somewhere on good bad albums. It's not a bad album, just a tad too close to Rush for my taste. I still maintain their newest self-title album is probably the most forgettable dream theater album. It's definitely the weakest 2000's album. I initially gave A Dramatic Turn of events a bad review, but that album has grown on me quite a bit. The obnoxious length of each song without any justification is what gets me.
Golden Epochofmetal I think its because of the divide between the fanbase of that band. Some people are attracted to death metal side of things, for others the prog side. And then there are those who don't give a fuck. Heritage is very much a homage to 70s prog. Death metal elitists didn't like this.
This list is right on, especially with DTC by Queensryche being Number 1. That album had Tate written all over it, and to top it off had little to no metal tendencies. Anyway, great video, great list!
could you talk about the divlje jagode album wild strawberries? The singer was asked to be in Iron Maiden and the guitarist was asked to be in White Snakes but both of these things didnt happen and the band is still iconic in the south introducing to heavy metal and also having an concert with Iron Maiden :D
I think that Lulu should be considered as a (experimental, excessive, flawed) Lou Reed's album, with Metallica just backing him. For some reason - maybe combined with a matter of opportunity, acquaintance with the band, mutual liking, or whatever - he thought Metallica would fit for the project he had in mind. I read somewhere (and I agree) that a noise-rock / atmospheric / experimental band - also used to improvise emotional soundscapes - like The Jesus Lizard, Neurosis or Swans could've been the ideal partners.
+Osama Bin Wheelie Kyuss can be categorised as "stoner metal". And at least they're heavier than the more famous band they helped spawn: Queens Of The Stone Age.
foundingMUTHER Yeah that's extremely probable. I haven't heard it in ages but everything on that album sounds pretty shite. They got wayyy better but they've always been pretty loose. And yeah DW'89Music people always said they were "Stoner Rock" so I didn't think it counted. I'm a bit more well-versed nowadays
From a neutral standpoint (meaning I actually really like these albums, but they are considered the worst by the band), here's my list: 1. Chameleon by Helloween 2. Eat The Heat by Accept 3. Turbo by Judas Priest 4. Heavy Metal Hippies by Loudness 5. Destiny by Saxon 6. Born Again by Black Sabbath ... And everything else I can come up with is merely hard rock (Misdemeanor by UFO, Fly On The Wall by AC/DC, etc.)
UFO was in the 80s hair metal movement. That means they're metal. By today's standards, they aren't metal. But by my standards they are very much metal.
I thought Lulu was the worse of the two, St. Anger obviously had its problems but there were some good grooves and some dark subject matter that were at least somewhat stimulating. Also let's never forget the epic crapfest of Van Halen 3
A few more I have in mind Nile "At the Gate of Sethu" ( Generic Riffs, Terrible Production, ) Mayhem "Grand Declaration of War" ( I like it, but most didn't, But it was massively different fro the Mayhem sound on "Deathcrush" and "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" that many know and love today ) Deicide - "Insineratehymn" ( Typical Post Legion bad Deicide Album ) Suffocation - "Breeding the Spawn" ( Bad Production, but otherwise good stuff ) Whitechapel - "Whitechapel" ( Strange alteration from the sound that they were doing realy well ) Burzum - "Umpskiptar" ( Generic and Boring ) Trivium -"In Waves" and "Vengeance Falls" ( They seem to have chosen to not be good on these albums )
3:50 I think Jugulator was a decent album, yes, it was way different, but it has some masterpieces like Burn In Hell, Blood Stained and of course Cathedral Spires, which is one of the best Judas Priest songs But with Demolition I agree Only Machine Man and Bloodsuckers are good, the rest is pretty generic to say the least
how do u say Virtual Xi is a bad album?! great songs like Futureal, The Clansman; When Two Worlds Collide; The Educated Fool; Don't Look to the Eyes of a Stranger are there! no maiden album is actually bad, u can just say that virtual XI wasn't like other maiden albums but not necessarily that was a bad release!
IMHO, Virtual XI is the weakest album Iron Maiden ever had, BUT at least half of that album is really good. The Clansman, Como Estais Amigos, Lightning Strikes Twice, When Two Worlds Collide are the great songs, others are meh..
Lulu is still the worst thing I may have ever heard. Generic riffs with Lou Reed talking over it. For shame Metallica. They should have known better by now.
Tbh I love St Anger and Lulu, you can say what ye want about them but they definitely don't sound the same as any other album, and some people probably don't like that sound but I love it.
Wow I can't believe people are still bashing Morbid Angel for releasing the Illud album yet they don't remember Deicide's two EPIC fails in a row which are Incineratehymns and In torment in hell. Leave Morbid Angel alone!
yeah it was great, wouldnt consider it to be a metalalbum more of a hardrock attempt to spread the message better I think, make more people liking it. so for a metal album id say its not that good
I think it is their worst. It's okay. I really don't like from here to eternity. It sounds raunchy instead of awesome. Not a good use of that siren wail. The album sounds like they all wanted to be doing something else.
Imo it's one of their weakest in terms of lyrics (together with Virtual XI and No Prayer For The Dying). + There is a lot of filler in it. Not bad songs, just really forgettable. Weekend Warrior, Chains Of Misery, The Fugitive, The Apparition are not the fantastic songs you would expect from Maiden. And it's not considered their worst by that many people. Although I think that's mostly because of the fact that No Prayer For The Dying was the previous album and because the Blaze era was right after it (and since many people didn't like Blaze...). It was basically the only album in the 90s that the fans who didn't like Blaze could stand behind. On top of that you could say that it also gets a pass for many people because of the title track. Which is a very good song imo and it's one of the only songs from the 90s that is still played live so there is that as well. :) Anyway I've heard a lot of people say that it's actually their favourite album so... opinions tend to differ on Fear Of The Dark. :)
Totally agreed on A Sense of Purpose. I loved Come Clarity, but A Sense Of Purpose killed my interest in In Flames entirely. Haven't even listened to next two, I now just usually come back to Whoracle.
I would say Ac/dc - Flick of the switch, Fly on the wall, ball breaker, stiff uper lip Judas Priest- Ram it down, Nostrodomis, Iron Maiden - No prayer for the dying, fear of the dark, x factor, brave new world, Final frontier Ozzy Osbourne has to have some albums Def Leppard Andrelnalize Def Leppard Euphoria any slayer all albums Kiss - Lick it up, creatures of the night, Hot in the shade, animialaze , Van Halen - For unlawful carnal knowledge, 0u8120 , Balance, Van Halen 3 Dio - Sacred heart Led Zeppelin - Coda something by Black Sabbath - headless cross some others.
Jonas Halvari Hansen So by your logic, every underground band that hasn't done anything revolutionary isn't good, right? Also Reign in Blood basically influenced/invented Death Metal, so...
NTorres321 Not really. Slayer has been extremely influential. But I think they had more influence over second-wave black metal than death metal. And don't forget that not everyone likes Slayer, and no one should lose any credibility because they don't like a certain band.
I like the ripper albums way better than British steel. Especially demolition. My favorite ripper songs are hell is home and in between. Ripper has an awesome voice. So does halford.
+foundingMUTHER I always thought British Steel sounded boring, and its actually my least favorite Priest album overall. As for Ripper songs, I'd say Cathedral Spires and Metal Messiah are on my top 5 or 10 Priest songs
I realy like Unseen by The Haunted, but funnily nothing else of there material. Peter Dolving and the rest of the band at this time did a great job and came up with, what i consider to be, one of the best releases in 2011. As Dolving said: "Epic. Danceable. Groovy. And very very arty farty metal." :-)
Relentless Reckless Forever by Children Of Bodom Siren Charms by In Flames Shallow Life by Lacuna Coil Korn's Untitled 2007 album When Legends Rise by Godsmack Temper Temper by Bullet For My Valentine A Thousand Suns by Linkin Park Educated Horses by Rob Zombie Start A War by Static-X
+MyPenguinsFly The World Needs a Hero is fine. What are you talking aboot? I like when he puts pennies on her eyes, and the sequel to Hangar 18? with the cool intro with, like, a trumpet or a trombone?
