Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins

Vote for your least favourite album

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For 97-99:
Aerosmith - Nine Lives
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings

There were a couple of others I like but I know would get absolutely nowhere here ;) like Jugulator
 
Forostar said:
But metal has different and I'd even say more ingredients fitting to my taste that compensate for all that.

Even power metal. The lyrics might be absurd but the dynamics and melodies bring the music (at least the listening pleasure) in an entirely different zone. It depends on the band. There are lots of copycats but I can defend the genre itself and the best bands in it.
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I can appreciate some of the early power metal bands. Those who payed more tribute and were more in line with classic metal and NWOBHM. I also like some of the bands who emphasize the *power*, I believe the genre is called dark power metal or something similarly silly to that :p But some of these European power metal bands are just ridiculous, and to me the most stupid form of metal one can listen to. I can't even begin to name their names, Hammerfall, Power Quest, Magic Kingdom, Stratovarious, Rhapsody of Fire and whatever else their names are (there are like hundreds of them and they all do the same). Cringe worthy sing-a-long choruses, jovial and cheerful speedy guitars. THUNDEROUS drums and everything layered in too much keyboards...Sorry but it is just the most over-dramatic nonsense.
 
Well, naturally it is ;)Some bands might do something a little different than others. Some might emphasize a certain distinct sound more or whatever. Maybe they also sing about different thematic stuff, but generally that big wave of European power metal that started in the 90s all sound, not exactly the same, but very VERY similar to me.
 
Well with most of the better albums from pre-7o gone (what the fuck people, The Beatles?!), I can play the game a lot more carefree and haphazardly now :D
 
Fire of Unknown Origin
Physical Graffiti
Sabotage
5150
Last Command
Rage for Order
Reign in Blood
Sacred Heart
Slippery When Wet
Turbo
Walls of Jericho
Power Windows (forgot to click)

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Night of the Stormrider
 
O man I could mention quite some differences between at least three of these bands, but this is not the right thread to go further into that. But I do think that you are not listening well enough to discover the differences (probably not enough interest/patience or else: not the ability to hear the difference).
 
Like I just pointed out above your post I recognize that there is differences, they don't all sound like the same band and I am able to tell them apart. But they all play the power metal I can't stand. Cheesy nonsense. it is like with Manowar, you listen to this kind of stuff for a laugh, nothing more.
 
Oh yeah so like I said, some of them are more symphonic power metal, some of them are more traditional power metal, some of them are more progressive inclined, like I said in my above post. They are still all power metal.
 
Yes but these are all old albums.

I can be mistaken but I have the impression you are not much into post 1970s/80s metal. You're especially into classic (and softer) rock /metal. Being more carefree, doesn't that mean that you will care less about (most of) the remaining and future albums.

If you like something less, then that also means that you know it less.
 
I am glad I don't feel like that about death metal, progressive rock or any other subgenre in rock/metal. If I'd disqualify a whole (sub)genre, only because of a few occasionally reoccurring elements, I'd miss a hell of a lot of great music. Take Helloween. Not every album is happy metal. Take My Dying Bride. Not every album has violin or grunts. Take Rush, not every album sounds like what they did in the end of the seventies. Bands can change. So it depends on what a band does within the genre (or even outside).
 
Nope that's not true. But the metal that I think was most interesting in the 00s and this decade is from genres that I think it is doubtful many people here would be into. We're talking sludge metal, post metal, post hardcore and the likes. whereas the metal represented here is a lot more mainstream. What I meant with carefree is simply that now my favorites are out of the game I don't have to try and protect them anymore, doesn't mean that I won't find new darlings amongst those remaining...

And "if you like something less, then that also means that you know it less"

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. I can know two albums equally well and like one of them more than the other?
 
Well did you read my first post?

"I can appreciate some of the early power metal bands. Those who payed more tribute and were more in line with classic metal and NWOBHM. I also like some of the bands who emphasize the *power*, I believe the genre is called dark power metal or something similarly silly to that"

I'm saying that those bands I mentioned all have traits that I personally do not like in power metal. I also mentioned many of those traits. But like i said in my first post I do enjoy some bands, who would be classified within the genre, but usually that is because they have more to offer, again, than those mentioned.
 
For example; I don't see how anyone could claim to be seriously into music and think that this is good. This is like a euro vision song contest contender:


But then, take something like this. Now this is good. This I can respect:

 
@Sixes: I'll get back to this a.s.a.p.

Meanwhile:
@Mckindog: is this round open for a week? Well, I wouldn't mind because like this we have more time to learn new albums (nominated ones included).

1996-1999. That's 4 years! In 1996-1999 I was probably a bigger metalhead than these days. Lots of albums, lots of discoveries, lots of new subgenres I got into. I could mention 25 albums from this period that I would rate high among the current left-overs and others from this era. But the thing is: most of them are probably not that known here (metal was "dead" in the USA and other parts of the world) and besides: what on earth can beat the Bruce albums?

Still I am curious if anyone would be willing to support one or two of these (I nominate):

1999
Iron Savior - Unification
My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World
Soilwork - The Chainheart Machine
Domine - Dragonlord
Gamma Ray - Powerplant
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder

1998
Helloween - Better than Raw
Primal Fear - Primal Fear
Virgin Steele - Invictus
 
The (mostly metal, since I was also more of a metalhead in those years) albums I listened too and found interesting in those 3 years from 1997 - 1999 would be:



1997

Portishead - Portishead
Strapping Young Lad - City
Deftones - Around The Fur

1998

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Gorguts - Obscura
Queens of The Stone Age - Queen of The Stone Age
Meshuggah - Chaosphere

1999

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Botch - We Are The Romans
 
From Sixies I second:

Everything from Nevermore, Type O Negative, (very) Massive Attack, Dream Theater & Queens of the Stone Age
 
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