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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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..
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
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 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 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. :)
+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
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
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
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
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 )
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!
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." :-)
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.
At this point ,I'm my personal opinion, Metallica are irrelevant in the thrash genre. For whatever reason, I just can't buy into them anymore. BUT, the first 4 albums are iconic thrash perfection.
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.
I like how he skips straight to Siren Charms from A Sense of Purpose, because even if he doesn’t say it, it’s there, unstated: Sounds of a Playground Fading ain’t that bad. It really isn’t.
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?
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 Illud Divinum Insanus by Morbid Angel is good. It actually made my top 10 best albums of 2011. Though I'm not a fan of them, or death metal. But there is some death metal songs that I like. But very few albums keep me interested throughout. This one did.
I was expecting St. Anger, Lulu and Illud Divinum Insanus (then again, who wasn't?). St. Anger was bad though I liked Shoot Me Again and Purify (and a small bit of the instrumentation from the first track of the album). Lulu deserves every bit of crap it gets (that was just a huge yawner. I was literally getting pissed off around the later half of the album wanting it to end). I truly don't think Illud Divinum Insanus is as bad as most people think it is (I thought the guitar solo from Beauty Meets Beast was okay and I thought that 10 More Dead was an alright song. Though the rest of the album sucked for me. Destructos Vs. The Earth/Attack is catchy in the worst way ever). But it still sucked. I was surprised Diabolus in Musica from Slayer wasn't on here honestly. Truly, I don't care what anyone says but I actually liked Diabolus in Musica (and no, I am not that kind of person that if I like a band, I worship everything they do just because it's that band. Even if I like a band, I am every bit willing to admit if I don't like something from them. I just happened to enjoy the album. Though I prefer Seasons in the Abyss and God Hates Us All).
Top 10 Most Wrinkled T-Shirts.
Top Ten Good Albums by Bad bands
Yousef Alamer YES
Human Clay by Creed?
Yousef Alamer "Wreched and divine:The Story about wild ones" by Black Veil Brides has to be on that list
Dark Horse by Nickelback was actually pretty good and deserves to be on that list.
Nickelback - Dark Horse
Just from reading the title I can tell this will be Illud Divinium Insanus revisited
Risk was released in 1999, not exactly what I would call the "middle" part of the 1990's.
I thought it was 98
A Top 10 Instrumentals would be really cool
Romulan Rancor A lot of Joe Satriani and Steve Vai perhaps?
Romulan Rancor The Ultraviolence ~ Death Angel
Romulan Rancor Orion
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.
Agreed, ASOP is a very good album and generally has way better reviews than say, Soundtrack to your escape. No idea what CKN was smoking here....
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.
Risk released in the middle part of the 1990's? It was released in 1999, so the END of the 1990's :)
St Anger should be re-recorded with real drums and guitar solos album. It would still be simple, but it would be good. It's got some heavy parts.
***** 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 . . .
With better vocals and good snare it would have been enough to be at least decent
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?
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.
For some reason music shops put Lulu under the Metallica section
iron your t shirt man!
Lol I was thinking that lol
Who cares
Horizon31 iron...maiden fans ;).
Who irons their t-shirts? Lol just fold the damn thing after you wash it.
I actually like Cold Lake,, but it was doomed from the start the follow up to the masterpiece Into The Pandomonium
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.
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.
What? Soundtrack was good. Siren charms, sounds of a playground fading and shit along those lines is where in flames fell apart.
celtic frost - cold lake ??? ?
How about Top 10 Good Albums By Bad Bands?
The Long Road by Nickelback and Human Clay by Creed.
Nickelback - Dark Horse
LeatherRebel75 maroon 5: songs about Jane
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.
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.
Hey Shades \m/ you're awesome
RanterInShades Its the black eye on their otherwise sterling discography. Its a shame. Tom I don't think even likes talking about it. lol
coverkillernation I think I've read somewhere that they even intentionally have it not included in box sets or something.
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.
Dat intro doeee xp but you need to get a new mic, you're sound is very low while the intro audio was louder than your voice.
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
coverkillernation The production value is awesome though, man. The intro, music, and video quality is finally great.
coverkillernation you don't need editing \m/ \m/!
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
CKN, you're thinking about Cryptic Writings as the last "classic lineup" Megadeth album.
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)
Hm nah, I'm going to have to strongly disagree with what you had to say about a sense of purpose, I love that album however siren charms is horrible
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.
How is Heritage bad?
Harry Hall
a lot of people hate that album for reasons I have no idea
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.
Top 10 Creatively Used Instruments, or even a Top 10 Signature Instruments.
awesome video as always bud
Finally you made an intro and outro for this channel...it needed it so bad man and it deserves it :)
I don’t understand all the hate on St. Anger. It had some of the best solos ever.
I've spent years trying to replicate Lars' amazing snare drum sound too.
How can you not list Danzig's Blackacidevil?
3 albums from this list I actually loved. Morbid Angel. Cryptospy the Unspoken King. And Celtic Frost Cold Lake
Sense of Purpose does not belong on this list.
I totally agree. That's in fact one of my favorite albums.
does anyone know what's the song in the intro? pleaseee
This is the first CKN vid I've watched in a few months and I gotta say I LOVE the new format.
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.
After 5 ... yes 5 EPIC EPIC albums... and influencing EVERYBODY KING'S X released "ear candy". What a massive disapointment it was.
What's the name of the song that played at the beginning of the video?
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.
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.
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!
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!
Except he can because that's his opinion you fuckwit.
well, my comment was my opinion you shithead!
kazi riasat
telling someone they can't call an album bad is not your opinion, that's you telling other people how to feel and what to do.
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..
I don't know why, but i really like the idea of bad things by good artists, nice list.
I was almost expecting diabolus in musica by slayer to be on this list. I've always thought that was the weakest slayer album.
There is no Skid Row without Sebastian Bach...the 3 albums with him were great
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
Actually singer from band osvajaci was asked to be in maiden not divlje jagode.
also divlje jagode i have seen it just recently
Link?
sadly thats was 4 months ago ?
Which singer? Alen or Zak or someone else?
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 is metal.
CaptainParsons I'd say they're hard rock. And good hard rock at that.
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.
CaptainParsons That's the fun part of music, it's all subjective. Because of Atomik Tommy M, Misdemeanor had that element of shred metal for sure.
Yeah, it's a different kind of metal, but it's metal nonetheless.
Love the new format
Megadeth's Supercollider was up there with risk in terms of shit albums
Here's to hoping dystopia is good
Yup Dystopia was fucking awesome. Now we can pretend that SC didn't happen.
Forbidden by Black Sabbath? Worst album by the greatest ever band.
Great list. how bout Top 10: sub genre defining albums, album opening tracks, live artists, guitar solos, in/famous moments in metal...
Dude, you remind me of Jack Nicholson, even your voice!
Great video :)
Nt Torres I didn't loose my metal credibilty I just spoke the truth.
Slayer belongs on this list. probably missing some bands too.
Everything by SLAYER since "Divine Intervention".
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.
Any Slayer? Lol you just lost your Metal credibility card.
+NTorres321 Well, if we're honest; Slayer hasn't really done anything revolutionising past Raining Blood
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.
+Jonas Halvari Hansen aight then
I was expecting for you to mention Black Sabbbath - Forbidden... But the list is pretty damn accurate imo.
Why is Fear of the Dark considered one of their worst albums?
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. :)
I'd love to see a really ranty video about bad artists or songs or albums again
They're not really a metal band but Wretch by Kyuss shows little potential of future greatness. Goes to show the importance of a great producer.
+Osama Bin Wheelie Kyuss can be categorised as "stoner metal".
+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.
+Osama Bin Wheelie Is that the album with the really crappy cymbals? I think that was the album where the crashing rhythmless cymbals drove me nuts
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
just discovered ur channel and I'm hooked on ur vids now
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
Not Roth nor Hagar
guns n roses Chinese democracy
I KNEW cold lake would make the list
Virtual XI is not that bad if you ask me
zombie kids it's ok but not or good
Lighting strikes Twice
Calasman
don't look to the Eyes os the stranger
and Futurial are great songs, in my opinion At least Half of the album is good.
zombie kids what didn't help was Bruce Dickinson releasing Chemical Wedding that same year
Interesting video.
Keep up the good work!
I like the Ripper albums. I never understood all the hate for them. Honestly, I prefer them over stuff like British Steel.
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
+Matt Kenney Point of Entry is pretty lame too, maybe a tie for worst.
Top 10 good albums by bad bands.
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
What's the introduction song????
Whats the intro music?
Christian McGuire Sounded like "Stranger In A Strange Land" by Iron Maiden.
Christian McGuire "Stranger In a Strange Land" by Iron Maiden man!
Responding to the Ripper Owens Judas Priest albums. Yes, Jugulator was awful. HOWEVER, Demolition kicked ass. Give that one another listen.
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 )
Dude In Waves is one of the best Trivium albums.
LordTatters I agree it might be pretty good
CKN's Top 10 Favorite Doom Metal Albums.
I feel like I'm the only person who honestly likes 'Illud Divinum Insanus' and 'A Sense Of Purpose'.
That's something I've never heard before, to be honest. Everyone I know hates Illud Divinum Insanus.
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!
March to the shore (wich was on a sense of purpose) is one of my favorite in flames song...
I'm pretty surprised Judas Priest's "Turbo" wasn't on the list. That was actually the first album that came to my mind when I saw the topic.
And this is very much your list by the way. Cold Lake, Ill dividum and Lulu should be battling for the nr. 1 spot......
I really liked your best unknown 90's alt rock band, been jammin to pushmonkey nonstop
I wouldn't necessary agree regarding In Flames. "A sense of purpose" wasn't that bad. Much better than it's two successors
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." :-)
10:38 lol a sense of purpose is the 1st in flames album I heard, I enjoyed it , that was YEARS ago, don't mind me just on a CKN binge at work today (:
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.
At this point ,I'm my personal opinion, Metallica are irrelevant in the thrash genre. For whatever reason, I just can't buy into them anymore. BUT, the first 4 albums are iconic thrash perfection.
Blood In, Blood Out should at least get an honourable mention.
I'm surprised same difference by entombed isn't here
How about a Top 10 Grunge vocalist list?
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.
I can already see St Anger being on this list.
Same.
I actually liked it and i'll take any backlash given to me.
+Demon Rantz That's your opinion, but a crap one. But however I respect it
+Connor Murphy Whatever mate. It's certainly not one of their best albums but I liked the actual St Anger song.
The song itself sounds decent live, but the studio mix is shit. also the lack of a guitar solo is just unacceptable
I like how he skips straight to Siren Charms from A Sense of Purpose, because even if he doesn’t say it, it’s there, unstated: Sounds of a Playground Fading ain’t that bad. It really isn’t.
I'm only gonna buy Risk remastered so I can complete the Vic picture on the spines
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
The World Needs A Hero makes Risk look like the greatest album of all time
+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?
TWNAH is definitely better than Risk. It's kinda boring, but it's still much better.
Reinkaos.
metalmichew2 C'mon man, Rainkaos was awesome (though of course nothing as great as storm of the light's bane or somberlain)
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
CKN, nice intro.
I think Illud Divinum Insanus by Morbid Angel is good. It actually made my top 10 best albums of 2011. Though I'm not a fan of them, or death metal. But there is some death metal songs that I like. But very few albums keep me interested throughout. This one did.
Astillion illud sucks for eternity
I was expecting St. Anger, Lulu and Illud Divinum Insanus (then again, who wasn't?). St. Anger was bad though I liked Shoot Me Again and Purify (and a small bit of the instrumentation from the first track of the album). Lulu deserves every bit of crap it gets (that was just a huge yawner. I was literally getting pissed off around the later half of the album wanting it to end). I truly don't think Illud Divinum Insanus is as bad as most people think it is (I thought the guitar solo from Beauty Meets Beast was okay and I thought that 10 More Dead was an alright song. Though the rest of the album sucked for me. Destructos Vs. The Earth/Attack is catchy in the worst way ever). But it still sucked. I was surprised Diabolus in Musica from Slayer wasn't on here honestly. Truly, I don't care what anyone says but I actually liked Diabolus in Musica (and no, I am not that kind of person that if I like a band, I worship everything they do just because it's that band. Even if I like a band, I am every bit willing to admit if I don't like something from them. I just happened to enjoy the album. Though I prefer Seasons in the Abyss and God Hates Us All).
How about a top 10 list of GOOD albums by BAD bands?
A sense of purpose was not bad
you look a lot like joe bonamassa, especially with the shades
Super Colider Megadeth