I'm also going to go out on a limb and say that Massacre The Promise and Judas Priest Ram it Down should be on the list.

Can't agree with "Domination," but MAN was "Back From the Dead" a steaming pile. No coincidence they shared a producer with Madball on that one. (Never mind the hilarious Win95-era 3d graphics on the super-necessary and relevant enhanced CD.)

Wolverine Blues is a good album.

how is Emperor's IX equilibrium on this list and not In Flames Clayman?

you sir are not metal in the slightest.

fixed

Divine Intervention had sub par song writing, and a lot of forgettable riffs. But goddamnit if it didn't have some of the heaviest guitar tone ever.

Domination had way way way over simplified riffs for Morbid Angel, and Dave Vincent's goofy nazi lyrics. But if you hang in there long enough there's some sweet guitar work.

XI Equilibrium SUCKED. Emperor was one of my favorite bands when that record came out, and it wrecked my life. It was like they took anthems, cut out everything black metal about it and patched it up with samples from Annie Lennox songs. Quintessential metal fail.

plus St. Anger and Diabolus In Musica are both far worse than the Black Album and Divine Intervention....and I didn't think Souls To Deny was bad at all

yeah but the black album was the first of many fails... st. anger just probably being the worst of them

i certainly wouldnt call Souls deathcore...

It can't be disputed that Emperor lost certain aesthetic attributes when they decided to start performing "Sophisticated Black Metal Art" (exclusively, no mind you). While their earlier exploits captured the "true" Emperor sound, their later albums were still competently written. However, a huge Metal fail should go to the track "Sworn", which I always skip over, due to that cheesy stop and go riff in it.

Ah, Clayman... how I hate you so. In Flames "black album" and their nosedive into nu-metalocrity. Are they truly the same band who produced quality melodic metal with Scandinavian folk influences; coupled with interesting lyrical themes? I'd like to think not, but I'd only be lying to myself.

I TOTALY LIKED SUGAR RAYS METAL ALBUMM. HE ROCJKED SO HARD

FWIW, at least Slayer was taking chances on Diabolus. Not that they all paid off, but they were at least trying. Divine was just tepid and uninspired. (The title track, in particular, should've just been called "Seasons pt 2".) It did have its moments, though.

I think this list can go into the 100s. Here's some notable ones:

bathory - octagon
hypocrisy - catch22
dimmu borgir - everything after Spiritual black dimensions (perhaps that album as well)
burzum -dauði baldrs
cryptopsy - The unspoken king
Sepultura - chaos ad / roots
soilwork - predators portrait
satyricon - volcano and beyond

I enjoy it as well.

Divine Intervention is a killer album.......vastly underated

Whoa, bad call.

I remember enjoying a song or two, but I think it's where they started to fall apart..

wimps and posers.. leave the hall.

Sepultura Roots album was great concept-like album......but for only one album....the tribal theme should not have continued into becoming the atrocious band known as Soulfly

Why is Domination on there? There are many Metal "fails" It takes a big fucking list to fit them all.

I strongly disagree with those...especially Chaos A.D., which is my personal favorite Sepultura record

everything after Roots for Sepultura and after Natural Born Chaos for Soilwork was shit, but those 3 albums you listed are very good IMO

i like IX Equilibrium, not all of it, but i don't think its horrible. Back From the Dead was atrocious, the only tolerable song was "Feed On the Weak". i'd like to add:

Deicide - Torment in Hell
Six Feet Under - Warpath and everything after
Old Man's Child - Slaves of the World
Gorgoroth - bringing Gaahl as the frontman

i strongly disagree with Spiritual Black Dimensions, that album is awesome. i like Puritanical but i can see why everyone hates it. Daudi Baldrs is worth listening to for comedic value alone.

I knew my short list would make people disagree haha.

How is Cold Lake not on there?

from the comments in the article:

"“Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk” I think was a bigger disappointment after hearing ItNE. Early Emperor is the combination of musicianship and artistry we don’t see in any musical genre very often — and so they fuck it up straight afterwards. Unbelievable."


are you fucking kidding me?

seriously, Anthems is one of the greatest pieces of music ever recorded.

Archaeon- Vanitas

The author does not consider In Flames to have ever been good. There's probably a separate list for FAIL BANDS.

Anthems is my least favorite album.

Anthems has been getting shit since it first came out. Some people love it and sone people hate it. The production (wall of sound) is the main reason why people shit on it, but also because of the change in direction emperor went to.
I like all emperor releases but can understand why they continually got shit.

PHUK YEW, Divine is sick.

In Flames is simplistic enough, just not good enough. See above.

Domination? Is that a joke?

Predator's Portrait? GTFO. <3

I think whoever wrote the list was aiming for where the fail may have started over where the fail was the most concentrated?

And am I the only person that thought Satyricon's Volcano was pretty awesome?

I think so.

Huh. I also liked Catch 22...although I understood why everyone hated that one. That should have been a Pain album, not Hypocrisy.

While Anus.com has always been opinionated, this metal/band fail list and it's "for whiners" statement, seems an awful lot like something I'd read on Teufelstomb.com, albeit without the toilet humor. I don't agree with everything on the list, but some of it I do. I definitely think it's sad, wait, let me reiterate, PATHETIC, if people get upset over someone elses opinions, over bands they happen to like. If you're not in the band, why care? If people genuinely like certain music, then a persons negative opinions shouldn't make them feel awkward or question why they happen to like it. Humans = LOL.

To tie into the "Faking it" thread, does anyone know people who stopped liking certain bands or music, when their friends or others with stronger personality types tell them that they don't approve? It's one of those,"Oh well, he APPEARS to know what he's talking about, so there must be something bad about this music I enjoy. I'm going to stop listening to it now". By my standards, those are ultimate fakers.