Classic albums and famous bands you don't like

PieceofMind89 said:
All the songs in those albums have great solos by Glenn Tipton and KK Downing and they're all certified classics.
They have influenced countless of metal musicians including the guys in Maiden.
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Don't get me wrong, I definitely acknowledge the importance of these albums, but your reasoning here is beyond me.
They are "certified classics" so they must be good... This is exactly why bands like Beatles and Led Zep are so overblown. They are certified, so they MUST be good/special/genius, and thus people repeat it over and over. It's the same with record sales: "oh they sold 30 million albums, so they are awesome". No, it just proves they appeal to lowest common denominator.

And Solos... Well, I don't listen to music for solos. I sure can enjoy some great leads, but if a song sucks, it sucks. No brilliant solo can turn it into a good song.
 
Eddie's Uncle said:
Opeth is insanely overrated, no matter what era we are talking about.
They do have some cool songs on My Arms Your Hearse and Blackwater Park, but not remotely enough to justify their status.
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MAYH is in my bottom 3-4 Opeth albums. They have at least 10 better albums.

I actually think they are perfectly rated. They built their own sound out of death metal and prog and inspired hundreds of other bands. They’re the most important band in all of progressive death metal.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
MAYH is in my bottom 3-4 Opeth albums. They have at least 10 better albums.

I actually think they are perfectly rated. They built their own sound out of death metal and prog and inspired hundreds of other bands. They’re the most important band in all of progressive death metal.
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Did I already have that controversial hot take that Opeth are not that much death-related at all or did I never even try?

I mean, their first two albums are much closer to black, mood- and sound-wise (including the vocals) and in their golden era, the riffs are more of a mixture of prog and groove than anything exactly death related (then again, the type of growl is enough to classify the subgenre of death/doom as such, so I guess that's a moot point anyway)...
 
JudasMyGuide said:
Did I already have that controversial hot take that Opeth are not that much death-related at all or did I never even try?

I mean, their first two albums are much closer to black, mood- and sound-wise (including the vocals) and in their golden era, the riffs are more of a mixture of prog and groove than anything exactly death related (then again, the type of growl is enough to classify the subgenre of death/doom as such, so I guess that's a moot point anyway)...
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Which is why it’s progressive. It’s all more to the point that they completely invented their own sound. I don’t think any one is claiming they are straight death metal.

I do agree that the first two albums are more black metal, though.
 
DJMayes said:
Stained Class gets a pass thanks to BTROD, but the rest of the 70s Priest albums are flat out boring.
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I agree with you about 70s Priest, Sad Wings and Stained Class are incredibly overrated. I think it’s mostly because Rob’s voice sounds thinner in that era. However, I do enjoy Hell Bent and Sin After Sin much more than I used to.

80s Priest is my Priest. The metallic sounding Priest.
 
JudasMyGuide said:
Did I already have that controversial hot take that Opeth are not that much death-related at all or did I never even try?
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This was my takeaway throughout their discography. “Blackwater Park” is heavy as shit but beyond that it really feels like people throw them in as a ‘death metal’ act because of the vocals.
 
Whatever you subgenre Opeth as, I’d take them over “traditional” death metal (e.g. regular metal with growls) any day. I need that prog shot in my veins!

The only tr00 death metal band that I actually like is Amon Amarth, although I’m sure someone will correct me and label them melodic Swedish Viking folk metal with hints of Valhalladoom or something.
 
MrKnickerbocker said:
They’re the most important band in all of progressive death metal.
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Lol, what?! This is factually wrong on every level.
Opeth can't be even called progressive death metal. They were melo death in the early days, then turned into progressive rock gradually.
Progressive death is bands like Atheist, Cynic, mid-era Pestilence, later Death, Gorguts, Edge of Sanity and such. Maybe Nocturnus, too. And Opeth wouldn't even exist without those.
 
Detective Beauregard said:
The only tr00 death metal band that I actually like is Amon Amarth, although I’m sure someone will correct me and label them melodic Swedish Viking folk metal with hints of Valhalladoom or something.
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Whatever they are, they are far from "true death Metal".
It's basically for people who usually don't listen to death Metal. I don't know a single death Metal maniac who listens to that band.
It's mostly people who don't listen to extreme stuff at all.
No offense, if you like them it's cool. But Amon Amarth is literally the Bon Jovi of death Metal.
 
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MrKnickerbocker said:
People call them Viking Metal because of the subject matter, but that’s not a thing. They’re a melodic death metal band, they just sing about vikings.
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Viking Metal IS a thing, it's a subgenre of Black Metal. It's not simply a question of lyrics.
Thyrfing, Falkenbach, Einherjer, Turisas, Enslaved, several Bathory albums....
 
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