Albums that have few good songs (the first few, usually) and the rest sucks

[Onder]

Discuss.

Townsend’s Ziltoid comes to mind. The first three songs are cool as fuck. Then you have like 40 minutes of "eh?"

 

[GrayRain]

Chopping Off The head by Carnal Decay fits the description you gave to Ziltoid verbatim.

 

[ahjteam]

All that are considered these, and usually even the song in question sucks cock too.

 

[Der Morgenstern]

A lot of thrash albums come to mind instantly.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Virtually every Dream Theater album after Awake. Actually, it seems like most of the big names of metal past their prime can still manage a few good songs amidst a lot of uninspired crap.

 

[Draehl]

Everything done by Opeth after Deliverance/Damnation.

 

[Ryuuzaki]

Amon Amarth

 

[Bitencourt29]

A lot of thrash albums come to mind instantly.

Yeah, true. Fabulous Disaster comes to mind. Two first songs are fucking epic, a few decent songs (Like Father, Like Son; the Overdose cover) and the rest sucks.

 

[Necroraven]

Dechristianize
No Prayer for the Dying
Bondage Goat Zombie
Postmortem Tales
Dreamspace

 

[Cronopio]

Your mother.

 

[Onder]

Seamount - ntodrm

And old obscure heavy metal bands suffer from this too. I.E. Tygers of Pan Tang and those alike. Even Loudness imo.

EDIT: Generally, black and death metal bands do this less than heavy and doom bands for instance.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power. And if you think the whole album/band sucks, then you just don't like groove metal and are not allowed to comment.

 

[CF87]

Amon Amarth

^

 

[Cronopio]

Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power. And if you think the whole album/band sucks, then you just don't like groove metal and are not allowed to comment.

I agree (sort of), with the addition that at least the good tracks are spread evenly throughout the album.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Nah, the good tracks are basically "Mouth For War", "Fucking Hostile", and "A New Level". Those are all up front, and the rest of the album blows. "By Demons Be Driven", "Walk", "This Love", and "Hollow" are OK, but pale in comparison to the formerly mentioned tracks.

 

[The Butt]

I love of all of Vulgar Display, tbh. :/

 

[CF87]

Sepultura -arise and beneath the remains.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

^Agreed. I'd also add Judas Priest's Sin After Sin and (to a lesser extent) Screaming For Vengeance to the list.

 

[SentinelSlain]

Dissident Aggressor is the best and heaviest song on that album so no way.

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

This thread is about albums that have only a few good songs, not albums that suck completely, btw.