Worst 90s Albums By Established Metal Acts

normally i would take any chance to vote for pantera as worst of anything, but i might have to think about this one a bit more

I agree, but since I didn't like them I don't think I could honestly say I was disappointed BUT it did influence a lot of real shitty albums in its aftermath.

Stomp 442 is looking really good to me at the moment

if you were listening to new anthrax albums in 1998, you only have yourself to blame.

so true

normally i would take any chance to vote for pantera as worst of anything

This is precisely what I did.

Vol. 8: The Threat is Real is a pretty good album. Most of the 50 people who heard it back then (the label went bankrupt pretty much the week it came out) would probably agree. I like that Pantera album and Diabolus in Musica, too. I see me voting for one of the Danzig albums, or Jugulator.

uninspired slayer is still, you know, slayer. you won't die listening to those three albums. or cringe or whatever. they just pale mightily in comparison to what came before. still plenty of bands that only wish they could make an album like divine intervention.

i mean, was i bummed out when i bought all three of those albums and played them probably a total of five times in my life? after playing their previous albums, like, a million times? yes. i was bummed. but not as bummed as i was when i brought load home. that was a serious bummer. didn't even bother with re-load. made a good profit on my load vinyl on ebay. that was about the only upside.

man, this poll = WAY too much of a bad thing! i seriously doubt if you could pay me enough to listen to the lot of these even once. but then i r 1 serious poseur here.

You already own them, chuck probably has them all in his book! ;)

Worst 80s Albums By Established Metal Acts

^ chuck probably doesnt have those albums in his book.

I like the non-covers Slayer albums. Not as good as the 80s stuff OK but they're not bad. And I don't think Harmony Corruption is really the worst 90s ND album - I like it better than Diatribes for a start, I haven't heard that many of their albums from that era so I wouldn't be surprised if, for example, Fear, Emptiness, Despair is worse. Napalm Death have been on a roll since Order Of The Leech IMO.

It was aldo who nominated that by picking it in the metal club.
he said

Harmony Corruption is a good record produced badly, and I'm being unduly harsh on Barney. I guess my biggest complaint is that it's not Lee (which is nobody else's fault, I guess) but not far behind is that it marks the start of the change toward a more Death Metal sound which those of us who remember Arena: Napalm Death will also remember Bill and Mick claiming would be utterly ludicrous.

Teenage aldo would be disgusted?

gotta go with blackacidevil, the punchline to many jokes in my teenage years.

the blaze maiden, slayer, and testament records are all pretty decent.

you nominated them!

more for their reps than my unbridled hate

and they are pretty mediocre. but I don't hate em.

jesus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKXCPQ9m6c

you wanted the black album and sound of white noise nominated though, which was plain old ilm challops!

never said black album - that was my intro to metallica!

oh yeah, the 90s megadeth albums aren't up there. not that those are worse than blackacidevil.

damn forgot to add them, oh well

hmmmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jKXCPQ9m6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEdk8YhieSQ

Load was by far the biggest personal disappointment. I had to pretend to myself it was good for a while.

It doesn't even have proper crunchy guitars on it FFS.

it's still better than reload and st anger

as most music is

as most music is

Yeah, I've only heard the singles off those two.

And actually Fuel and the St A title track are both better than anything on Load.

no

honestly can't imagine anything being worse than those Metallica albums

So glad I didn't know aged 14 that I'd have to wait nearly 20 years for a worthwhile new Metallica album.

death magnetic was a pile of shit

I like it.

LOL HERMAN YOU ACTUALLY LISTENED TO DEATH MAGNETIC

Or rather I like about half of it.

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i listened to death magnetic

i will never not listen to a metallica album

"death magnetic" was pretty awesome...when it was called ".,,and justice for all"

st. anger finished off any attempts i might have made to listen to metallica albums

The last new Metallica I listened to was the Enter Sandman single. That convinced me that it was over.

http://www.themetsource.com/pictures/jamyzcut1.jpg

DEATH OF MOTHER EARTH
NEVER A REBIRTH
EVOLUTION'S END
NEVER WILL IT MEND
NEVER

http://www.gear-vault.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/james-hetfield.jpg

I CANNOT SLEEP WITH A HEAD LIKE THIS
I WANNA CRY, I WANNA SCREAM
I RAGE, I GLAZE, I HURT, I HATE
I WANNA HATE IT ALL AWAY!

Load and Reload are much better if you just pretend they are old classic rock records.

"Outlaw Torn" is one of Metallica's best songs -- lol @ ppl who think otherwise

i doubt many think 90s or 00s metallica songs are amongst their best

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i kinda dug the one with marianne faithful

Hetfield also peaked as a vocalist in 1999, by the way -- listen to S&M, dude's on fire

no that was a different tour

what

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the correct winner i guess

sez you. I can't believe more people voted divine intervention than blackacidevil.

full disclosure: have never even bothered to listen to reload or load. all exposure was secondhand.

I've never heard Load and/or Reload front to back, either. Even though I think Herman's addiction to polling is out of hand, this thread has inspired me to do so.

This wasn't Herman's poll, though, it was mine... :(

My mistake; his name was at the top.

Slayer - Divine Intervention (1994) 2

omfg gtfo with this shit. Harmony Corruption didn't belong here either.

Volume 8 is so damn horrible

Imma go with those Blaze era Maiden albums, because they don't even have comedy value. They weren't disappointing by virtue of clinging to some passing trend in a really out-of-touch way like Metallica, Priest, etc were doing; they were disappointing by virtue of just being a really, really shitty, flat version of Iron Maiden. Far more disenchanting.

Definitely no winners on this list. Slayer were running out of ideas by South of Heaven (go on, grab yer pitchforks), and that butcher Scott Burns turned that Napalm Death album into a pile of soft mush with popcorn drums, just like 90% of the death metal albums he's touched...

oh, it's not on the list, but Jag Panzer's Dissident Alliance has gotta be the worst 90s "sellout"/groove metal attempt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfUSERGqcKU
despair...

thing about Pantera's Trendkill is it's not really that great of an album, but it probably has highs that beat every other album on this list. namely "10s", "Floods", "13 Steps to Nowhere", and "Suicide Note Pt 1".

there's a lot of 'go nowhere' shit that kinda sinks the rest of it, but "Floods" is v left field for them and one of my favs.

Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption (1990)

this album's amazing and was generally acknowledged as such at the time and anyone who disagrees is a poser

Slayer were running out of ideas by South of Heaven after Seasons In The Abyss

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Yeah the real falloff ND album was Fear Emptiness Despair, there's absolutely nothing memorable on that album.