Comeback/Reunion Albums

[MetalAges]

Good ones:

Sanctuary - The Year the Sun Died
Riot/Riot V - Immortal Soul/Unleash the Fire
Winger - Karma (Go ahead, laugh...you shall not sway me!)
Queensryche - S/T / Condition Human (never thought I could envision a Tate-less Queensryche)


Bad:

Currently erased from memory...

 

[The Ozzman]

Ohhh

Armored Saint - Symbol of Salvation

 

[AllShallFall]

Shit, I almost forgot:

Exodus - Tempo of the Damned

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... the highest rated metal album of 2013 on RYM.

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Heathen - Evolution of Chaos
Exhumed - All Guts, No Glory
Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
Obituary - Frozen in Time

Last years Rigor Mortis album is pretty solid too.

 

[The Butt]

Shit, I almost forgot:

Exodus - Tempo of the Damned

I actually hated Tempo. And everything Zetro sang on tbh. The album after Tempo though... Shovel Headed Kill Machine. It was okay though.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i kind of sort of almost really like the latest riot album. idk if they ever actually broke up at any point though

 

[J.]

Bolt thrower
Solstice

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Mekong Delta's Wanderer on the Edge of Time is excellent, my favorite and pretty different for them too.

 

[Omni]

i kind of sort of almost really like the latest riot album. idk if they ever actually broke up at any point though

They broke up for a few years between Born in America and Thundersteel. You could actually say that Thundersteel is a comeback album.

 

[Omni]

If you think about the time gap of releases containing new material, Release by Revelation qualifies as an excellent comback album.

 

[Slayed Necros]

I guess Mortuary Drape's Spiritual Independence counts as a comeback. Definitely one of my favourites in recent years. Dream Death - Somnium Excessum is quite good too.

 

[rms]

If you think about the time gap of releases containing new material, Release by Revelation qualifies as an excellent comback album.

Forgot about that one, definitely counts. Brenner didn't even sing on their previous album!

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Yes to Release and Blood Farmers. Holy fuck, that Revelation album is a masterpiece.

And the new Gorguts album was a turd.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

And the new Gorguts album is a fucking masterpiece

agreed.

 

[The Butt]

Only Gorguts I've ever enjoyed is Obscura tbh.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Only Gorguts I've ever enjoyed is Obscura tbh.

"I'm monogamously homosexual for DSBM, but I pretend to enjoy certain critically-acclaimed albums from other sub-genres to maintain a good image"

 

[The Butt]

It has nothing to do with image, shitlord. I found the albums before and after boring. Obscura is so radically different in songwriting and arrangement that its the only one that really connected.

Save your butthurt posturing for another thread.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The Erosion of Sanity is clearly superior for anyone that cares about riffs.

 

[The Butt]

As I said in the controversial opinions thread, I don't view metal as solely a vehicle for riffs, so:

 

[Baroque]

I liked Cynic's recent comeback album even though it was an entirely different style and it caused them to break up again. Hope they do another comeback album sometime.

Also, black sabbath - 13 was great.