Comments | clappamungus: The metal albums of 2011 - the good, the meh, the bad and the WHAT THE FUCK?

clappamungus

The metal albums of 2011 - the good, the meh, the bad and the WHAT THE FUCK?

Jan 06, 2012 01:03

I already did this in Faecesbook because, well, I'm lazy, and it was easier. But damn it, I keep saying I'm going to stay off that shitty enabling social network of doom, and I'll be damned if I don't at least half get that right. So here we are, with album art and a youtube clip for each (well, if I can find one - I'm not going through all the ( Read more... )

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hibernaldream January 9 2012, 21:20:31 UTC

That's exactly how I felt about YOB. I don't even listen to the album anymore -- I've stopped trying to give it extra chances -- but each time I see it in my music library I get excited thinking MAYBE it's good and I just haven't noticed yet. Until I remember how boring it is, and it makes me kind of sad.

Also, I hate Opeth as well. I liked Still Life, mostly because the story is awesome, but everything else is just shitty. Heritage was probably the worst album of the year, IMO, mostly because they went off the deep end and didn't even try to write a metal album.

clappamungus January 9 2012, 22:45:36 UTC

It's a good yardstick of how boring a doom album is if a fan of doom can't get into it. And that was me with Atma. It's a real shame.

It wasn't the fact that Opeth didn't try to write a metal album that shat me. It's that they wrote a crappy prog rock album. If they'd done it well, I would have loved it regardless of the genre. The fact is that it was a fractured, stumbling, boring mess.