Metal Reviews

1.Metallica-St Anger
2.Scorpions-Eye II Eye
3.Europe-Prisoners In Paradise
4.Europe-Start From The Dark
5.Europe-Secret Society
6.Stratovarius-S/T
7.Metallica-Load
8.Metallica-Reload
9.Dokken-Dysfunctional
10.Queensryche-Q2K

Here it goes:

1. Eternal Combustion - s/t demo
2. Megadeth - Risk
3. Metallica - St. Anger
4. Sepultura - Nation
5. Slipknot - Volume 3
6. Testament - Souls Of Black
7. Pretty much any generic death metal band.
8. Machine Head - Supercharger
9. Ozzy Osbourne - Down To Earth
10. System of A Down - Mesmerize

Slipknot Vol.3? I have no love for Slipknot by any stretch of the imagination, but compared to the first album, Vo.3 is not too shabby. At least they diluted the need to make 8-year olds think they were cool. Didn't get rid of it, mind you, but diluted it.

I can't come up with a list to be honest. I buy albums that have almost universally been recognized as quality, so I don't tend to listen to real atrocities, and I don't want to make knee-jerk entries like "St Anger" without hearing the album in it's entirety. Slipknot's first has to be up there though, as does what I've heard off Machine Head's Supercharger

1. Manowar - Gods of War
2. Manowar - Warriors of the World
3. Anything even remotely emo
4. ZZ Top - Best Of
5. Fear Factory - Digimortal
6. Poison - Open Up and Say Ahh!
7. Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children
8. Rage Against the Machine - the one with the suicidal monk on fire
9. Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
10. Any death metal-by-numbers

To be honest, I've never seriously heard Slipknot's first two albums. But after hearing the rave reviews Volume 3 was getting, I listened to it a little over a year ago and was bored to tears by it.

*insert 10 generic post-grunge bands' albums here*

Trust me, it's nothing compared to the Krakatoa of shit that is the self-titled. Of course you could argue that an album that bored you to tears is even worse as you don't even remember it.

What I remember of it is that it had a very weak guitar sound.

It's that Roadrunner production I mentioned in another thread.

Angra - Aurora Consurgens

Compared to their other stuff this is garbage

Dude let me save you the time it's like wiping your ass with sandpaper it's not worth it just trust us we know what we are talking about that album sucks so bad it makes a shit stained piece of toilet paper look like a work of art.

Is it really as bad as people say? of what I've heard (frantic, title track, some kind of monster) I'd give about 30%, because SKOM had one good riff.

The worst one I've listened to in its entirety, by far, is Joey Belladonna's second solo album, Spells of Fear.

There are some good riffs on St. Anger, the problem is every song on the album repeats the same few riffs over and over again for 7-8 minutes each. There's also no solos to break up the monotony, Bob Rock is playing Bass(badly) for some reason, Lars sounds like he's banging on a Trash Can and Water Jugs, and Hetfield is wailing like a wounded cat through the whole thing. For such an accomplished band like Metallica, it truly is an embarrassment.

No way. Clean up the production, give Jaymz singing lessons and reduce the song lengths a bit and we're talking a solid 20-25% raise in overall score. I mean, it would still kind of suck, but there are some truly great and memorable parts on there that prevent it from being the worst thing ever created or whatever. "And the unnamed feeling...that cooooomes alive..." - fucking great chorus for one and all of Sweet Amber is pretty damn solid overall too...there are other examples as well.

The title track is so repetitive, it borders on the manic. After hearing "Feeeeeeeeeeel my world shake/ liiiiiiiiiiiiike an earthquake" for the billionth time, I resist the urge to take hostages. My friend who's a die hard Metallica fan (he even likes Reload!) even complains about the repetetion. Everyone complains about the drumming, but in my opinion, the drumming is the least of this albums problems, at least of what I heard

The unnamed feeling is probably the only track on ST. Anger i can listen to.

Sorry, but I've said it before and I'll say it again: Judging an album based on what it "could have been" is a complete load of shit. The album is what it is, flaws and all. ... If you want to talk about how it might have been better or how the band could build from it to make something new that's better, that's one thing. But that wasn't the original question.

For the record, I do think the song lengths were one of the most obvious drawbacks to the album. However, it is also those very song lengths that destroy a certain kind of raw, impromptu merit the album could have had were it conceived differently. No, don't just say, "the songs could have been shorter and it would have helped," because this record was very calculated on their parts, and for that, the album crashes and burns even more horribly.

As bad as everyone says it is? Well not everyone agrees, so I guess the answer is "no". ...but it's still pretty fucking bad.

-Tyrion

What Tyrion said. Might as well have said: "No fucking way! Replace all the tracks with those on Ride the Lightning and we're talking about a classic and amazing album!"

So yes, it is shit. The production is shit. The riffs are shit. There is no lead guitar. The drums sound like trash cans. James is off key and shitty. And most damningly, each song is fucking nine minutes long, with the same horrible riffs played over and over again. Thats what makes this album worse than Linkin Park or Limp Bizkit or your other horrible mallcore bands- at least they stop!