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22 minutes ago, MattCantina said:

The entirety of Six feet Under's discography, especially the supposed "covers" of metal and rock classics

They're just not a good band, are they? I was a big Obituary and Cannibal Corpse fan and I remember being so psyched when I heard Barnes was teaming up with Allen West, and how limp "Haunted" wound up being. 

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They're just not a good band, are they? I was a big Obituary and Cannibal Corpse fan and I remember being so psyched when I heard Barnes was teaming up with Allen West, and how limp "Haunted" wound up being. 
That one is limp for sure, but they only got worse over time. Seriously, pull up Graveyard Classics Volume 2 on YouTube if you need a laugh, I got a lot of mileage out of the free copy I received when working at the record store.

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4 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

That one is limp for sure, but they only got worse over time. Seriously, pull up Graveyard Classics Volume 2 on YouTube if you need a laugh, I got a lot of mileage out of the free copy I received when working at the record store.

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I'm sure I'd enjoy a laugh at their expense. I checked in with them a couple of times over the years to see if I'd like them any better, and the answer was always no.

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I'm sure I'd enjoy a laugh at their expense. I checked in with them a couple of times over the years to see if I'd like them any better, and the answer was always no.
It's almost is if they're trying to get worse, because they can't just accidentally suck more and more every time. That cover album is comedy gold though, and while I can't imagine you'll make it far into it, you don't need to hear much to get the idea and have a good chuckle.

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5 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

It's almost is if they're trying to get worse, because they can't just accidentally suck more and more every time. That cover album is comedy gold though, and while I can't imagine you'll make it far into it, you don't need to hear much to get the idea and have a good chuckle.

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Three minutes and twenty-one seconds is all I could take. Low energy death metal karaoke.

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4 minutes ago, BlutAusNerd said:

It's almost is if they're trying to get worse, because they can't just accidentally suck more and more every time. That cover album is comedy gold though, and while I can't imagine you'll make it far into it, you don't need to hear much to get the idea and have a good chuckle.

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I usually browse Metal Archives only to gather infos about a band's lineup or discography, but reading their reviews for each SFU release is a true mood booster

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Three minutes and twenty-one seconds is all I could take. Low energy death metal karaoke.
That's all the time it takes, and yet somehow they never got that impression themselves throughout recording that whole steaming turd. How did none of them come to the same conclusion, or did they realize and decide to make a comedy album?

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Korn-Life Is Peachy

I used to be a fan of the band and today can respect some of their albums and songs but even when i was younger I really found this album disturbing and atrocious. I don't think of many albums as absolutely atrocious but there is nothing redeeming about this pile of shit.

Path of Totality used to be my shit but now it's pathetic. Equally as bad as LiP.

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On 1/24/2012 at 8:02 AM, BlutAusNerd said:

Re: Albums you wish you could unhear. I heard a portion of one Lulu track, and it didn't sound as bad as St. Anger. That album is a piece of shit, the one by which many other pieces of shit are measured.

Here Here! The shit scale to end all shit scales. I know this is unpopular but pretty much all of Metallica's discography. I understand that a lot of people love them but I personally don't see anything special about them.  You can say what ever you want about Puppets or Lightning but I've got two words for ya LOAD, RELOAD  lol. Also anything Anthrax released after Persistence of Time.

On 5/8/2018 at 10:05 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

They're just not a good band, are they? I was a big Obituary and Cannibal Corpse fan and I remember being so psyched when I heard Barnes was teaming up with Allen West, and how limp "Haunted" wound up being. 

Yeah I feel like Chris is always making the same album to me Haunted and Maximum Violence sound too similar. I also don't like his "nu metal" Like death growls he sounds like he's trying to rap and it's not very good. Example Feeding off the Blood of the Insane (terrible vocals/Lame song overall) Plus the cover art for warpath is unforgivable.

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I just listened to the God awful St. Anger (well the first track) and fuck me that was painful, drums sound like biscuit tins, James’s vocals sound terrible idk how the fuck they thought it sounded good, and nothing flows well at all, expected it to be bad but bloody hell, first song in a long time that physically made me cringe.

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35 minutes ago, H34VYM3T4LD4V3 said:

I just listened to the God awful St. Anger (well the first track) and fuck me that was painful, drums sound like biscuit tins, James’s vocals sound terrible idk how the fuck they thought it sounded good, and nothing flows well at all, expected it to be bad but bloody hell, first song in a long time that physically made me cringe.

I'd sooner say that St. Anger is worth a million listens than say that any one of Lars' juvenile doodles is worth a million dollars when painted.  

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On 9/23/2019 at 12:09 PM, Vampyrique said:

I'd sooner say that St. Anger is worth a million listens than say that any one of Lars' juvenile doodles is worth a million dollars when painted.  

Metallica were a great band who, like Paradise Lost, were really good at a certain type of music, then they think they're great at everything, try it, fail hard, and retreat to what they're actually good at. Although obviously neither band is back to their best; certainly not Metallica.

It amazes me that Metallica refuse to make another album in the style of 'Ride the Lightning' or 'Master of Puppets', with big epic metal anthems without the punk shit infusion nonsense. Those albums came out 35 and 37 years ago and they only made two of them (three if you count 'Kill') - but since then they've made the black album, 'Load', 'Reload', 'St Anger', 'Lulu' and all sorts of crap.

SO WHY IS IT OK TO PRODUCE TONNES OF SHITE ACROSS DECADES BUT NOT TRY TO REDO A CLASSIC STYLE THAT CHANGED MUSIC FOREVER? 

Fucking Metallica. What a frustration. 

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8 hours ago, Requiem said:

Metallica were a great band who, like Paradise Lost, were really good at a certain type of music, then they think they're great at everything, try it, fail hard, and retreat to what they're actually good at. Although obviously neither band is back to their best; certainly not Metallica.

It amazes me that Metallica refuse to make another album in the style of 'Ride the Lightning' or 'Master of Puppets', with big epic metal anthems without the punk shit infusion nonsense. Those albums came out 35 and 37 years ago and they only made two of them (three if you count 'Kill') - but since then they've made the black album, 'Load', 'Reload', 'St Anger', 'Lulu' and all sorts of crap.

SO WHY IS IT OK TO PRODUCE TONNES OF SHITE ACROSS DECADES BUT NOT TRY TO REDO A CLASSIC STYLE THAT CHANGED MUSIC FOREVER? 

Fucking Metallica. What a frustration. 

The best thing that Metallica has released recently was probably the bonus disc on the special edition of their most recent album.  It has a few interesting cover songs, but also contains a full concert that they played a few years back inside of a record store.  It has some of their best songs from their heyday, all in a great live recording.

Interestingly, I actually liked what I heard off of St. Anger (specifically the title track from what I remember).  I also enjoyed Garage Inc. quite a bit as well.  I never checked out Lulu, but I probably missed nothing for not doing that.

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