Your greatest musical "let-downs".
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Metallica's Death Magnetic was a piece of shit. Not St. Anger, just Death.
As much as it pains me to say this, I used to be a huge Nickelback fan, until they released All The Right Reasons. Then it just got bad.
As much as it pains me to say this, I used to be a huge Nickelback fan, until they released All The Right Reasons. Then it just got bad.
Funny, I thought that was an improvement, and I loved Hold Your Colour.Frequen-Z said:
Probably any albums from Disarmonia Mundi bar Fragments of D-Generation, that album I love, the others bore me.
In Flame's last album wasn't as good as any of their other's. Not that it was terrible, just that it was mediocre and didn't match the awesomeness of Clayman, Colony or Come Clarity.
Metallica's Black Album.
I was a 17-year old metalhead when that album came out and boy, me and my even more metalhead friends at the time were excited. How could the new Metallica album be bad, after their first four albums? We huddled excitedly around the school stereo system before Home Group class (the generic "I'm here, miss" class you go to before you get farmed out to the other classes during the day) as one of us held a cassette of The Black Album in his excited hand, we thought "when the bell rings for class - fuck that shit, Metallica comes first". We listened to the first song... hmmm good opening riff, nice and heavy... one minute later, the same riff is still playing. That's a bit weird. None of the band's usual twists and turns, and yes, while it was still heavy there's a definite pop feel happening as well. We start looking at each other in dismay as the song moves in the predictable pop music verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus-fade fashion that we all liked to listen to Metallica to get away from. "Well, it IS the single, let's give them a chance, maybe the next song will be good", we said to each other. The next song comes on. Another bone-crushingly heavy riff... married to a pop song structure. We start sighing. Third song came on, same story. And on and on it went. I swear I saw tears in the eyes of my metal comrades. When the bell rung, nobody was late.
I also agree completely with the OP about Nas. Other honourable mentions in that genre: Mobb Deep's "Murda Muzik" was also quite a crappy turn after the gobsmackingly brilliant "Hell On Earth" (and subsequent albums were even worse), Public Enemy's "Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age" was so bad it basically killed the band's career off, Ice Cube's "Lethal Injection" saw him softening up and embracing lame trendy P-Funk, a move from which he never recovered, Wu-Tang can't make a decent record anymore, the list of rap artists who fell off goes on and on...
I was a 17-year old metalhead when that album came out and boy, me and my even more metalhead friends at the time were excited. How could the new Metallica album be bad, after their first four albums? We huddled excitedly around the school stereo system before Home Group class (the generic "I'm here, miss" class you go to before you get farmed out to the other classes during the day) as one of us held a cassette of The Black Album in his excited hand, we thought "when the bell rings for class - fuck that shit, Metallica comes first". We listened to the first song... hmmm good opening riff, nice and heavy... one minute later, the same riff is still playing. That's a bit weird. None of the band's usual twists and turns, and yes, while it was still heavy there's a definite pop feel happening as well. We start looking at each other in dismay as the song moves in the predictable pop music verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus-fade fashion that we all liked to listen to Metallica to get away from. "Well, it IS the single, let's give them a chance, maybe the next song will be good", we said to each other. The next song comes on. Another bone-crushingly heavy riff... married to a pop song structure. We start sighing. Third song came on, same story. And on and on it went. I swear I saw tears in the eyes of my metal comrades. When the bell rung, nobody was late.
I also agree completely with the OP about Nas. Other honourable mentions in that genre: Mobb Deep's "Murda Muzik" was also quite a crappy turn after the gobsmackingly brilliant "Hell On Earth" (and subsequent albums were even worse), Public Enemy's "Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age" was so bad it basically killed the band's career off, Ice Cube's "Lethal Injection" saw him softening up and embracing lame trendy P-Funk, a move from which he never recovered, Wu-Tang can't make a decent record anymore, the list of rap artists who fell off goes on and on...
hmm, I don't know. I haven't really felt "let down" by any albums I've got recently. I was only a little dissapointed by Pendulum's Immersion because I feel it doesn't have as many memorable tracks as In Silico and Hold Your Colour but I still think it's a great album and I'm still glad I bought it nonetheless.
I'm holding out for a Japanese album called P Rhythmatiq Re:act but I can't find it anywhere (legal or otherwise) It's got 13 remixes of P Rhythmatiq's and others' songs with Hatsune Miku. Needless to say I'm going to be very annoyed if it turns out to suck ass (not likely because their music is awesome but still...).
I'm holding out for a Japanese album called P Rhythmatiq Re:act but I can't find it anywhere (legal or otherwise) It's got 13 remixes of P Rhythmatiq's and others' songs with Hatsune Miku. Needless to say I'm going to be very annoyed if it turns out to suck ass (not likely because their music is awesome but still...).
I would have to say either new A Day to Remember, it was alright, and it stayed true to form, but For Those Who Have Heart was sooooo good compared to Homesick... I was sad.
I guess another would be Underoath, idk, none of the tracks were sticky enough, none of them got in my head :/
the new Alexisonfire was also pretty disappointing, especially with georges vocal changes... it is just weird....
I guess another would be Underoath, idk, none of the tracks were sticky enough, none of them got in my head :/
the new Alexisonfire was also pretty disappointing, especially with georges vocal changes... it is just weird....
Year of the Black Rainbow by Coheed and Cambria. It doesn't even feel like a Coheed album, and in a bad way. At least Guns of Summer and World of lines are good.
trivium's crusade album I mean it sounded good (I liked anthem, becoming the dragon, to the rats, and unrepentant) it was good but it just didn't do it for me I know it did help out their clean vocals and I loved shogun (hell I think their best song ever was Kirisute Gomen)
Definatly Bullet For My Valentines new album
The Poison was awesome, so many songs that just kicked arse and had memorable tunes and inspired me to go see them live
Scream, Aim, Fire! Had some brilliant songs such as Waking the Demon but had Heart Burst nto Fire too so it balanced it up more. Overall it wasn't as good as The Poison but where it was good it was better than The Poison
However Fever has no memorable tracks on it at all and is just boring which is pretty hard for a metal band
Overall massive let down and I will not be going to see them if they tour this year
The Poison was awesome, so many songs that just kicked arse and had memorable tunes and inspired me to go see them live
Scream, Aim, Fire! Had some brilliant songs such as Waking the Demon but had Heart Burst nto Fire too so it balanced it up more. Overall it wasn't as good as The Poison but where it was good it was better than The Poison
However Fever has no memorable tracks on it at all and is just boring which is pretty hard for a metal band
Overall massive let down and I will not be going to see them if they tour this year
Yes, someone who understands. Back when they had Layne they stood out, now with the new vocalist they sound like shitty and generic metal.jehuty_zero69 said:
I would have to say Mclusky breaking up for a musical let-down, they were a brilliant and damn fun band.
Weezer's self-titled Green Album and every Weezer album since. Their Blue Album and Pinkerton were both overwhelmingly brilliant and remain mainstays on my listening rotation, but all five albums they've released in the 21st century has been absolutely terrible.
Not a disappointment in music itself, but I'm rather disappointed in Anthrax for continuously dicking about with their vocalists since We've Come For You All. I mean Worship Music for finished and they fired Dan Nelson for no discernible reason, got John Bush to re-record the vocals then replaced him with Joey Belladonna again. The fuck?
Audioslave. Chris Cornell. 'Nuff said. Yes, I realize what I have set as my avatar, shut up.
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