Controversial opinions on metal

[CiG]

Nah it's goregrind still, it's not even as death metal as something like Ultimo Mondo Cannibale and that's goregrind or maybe deathgrind.

It is a masterpiece though, that's the important thing.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

I've actually been listening to more Pantera lately and they're growing on me. Rifftastic.

 

[EspaDa]

WALK ON HOME BOY. I despise that song tho.

 

[EspaDa]

Boring as fuck imo, and I like all their other 2000s albums.

I have listened only to the single that came out last summer. It was called Speed of Light and it really put me off, I didn't like the production and the song sounded pretty generic.

 

[Carpe Mortem]

WALK ON HOME BOY. I despise that song tho.

Haven't met a single person who doesn't.

I've always dug their big hits like Broken and Cemetery Gates, but throwing on some 'best of' album they actually have a lot of groovy stuff.

 

[alex76]

Cowboys from Hell (great album), some of Vulgar Display of Power, and even less of Far Beyond Driven.

 

[The Ozzman]

Cowboys From Hell is amazing. I never get tired of listening to that record.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Louie Clemente was worse.

put down that crack pipe son.


All of the Pantera albums from the 90's are listenable. I have it Far Beyond Driven > The Great Southern Trendkill > Vulgar Display of Power > Cowboys From Hell

 

[EspaDa]

I generally agree with your statements, @TechnicalBarbarity but saying Vulgar Display of Power is superior to Cowboys is a blasphemy.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Trust me, i dont think anyone here has listened to Cowboys From Hell as much as i have, i still have my original played out tape copy. But as the years passed, i have come to accept that it's an almost meritless, completely pedestrian album and doesn't even know what it wants to be. While not a bad album, its definitely not a good one ... and the same can be said for Vulgar, but at least they had found their sound by that time.

Cemetery Gates, Cowboys From Hell and The Sleep are the best songs on the album. Message in Blood is okay, the rest of the album is garbage. It's the last Pantera album i would currently reach for. I can confidently say that Vulgar is MUCH better.

 

[ProphetofHatred]

I can't stand the vocals in Pantera, I used to like them when I was a kid but now it's like listening to rap, makes my head hurt.

 

[EspaDa]

I also like Psycho Holiday from that album, I don't remember the rest clearly.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Children of the damned is a poor mans Beyond the realms of death.

They aren't that similar imo. Worst case I'd say it's a rehash of Remember Tomorrow, but the presence of Dickinson plus that amazing bridge is more than enough to make it stand out as one of their greatest songs. Beyond the Realms of Death is a ripoff of some Styx song or something anyways (even if it's still a 10/10 ballad).

Even on Kill Em All?

I love Ulrich's drumming on Kill Em All. Not the fanciest but tons of energy, infinitely better than the stilted, ugly drumming on Show No Mercy.

 

[MrTagoMago]

Heres a really controversial opinion. The best album by Iron Maiden is Maiden voyage.

 

[H.P. Lovecraft]

Har-har, get it, because both bands are named Iron Maiden? Harharharharhar.

 

[MrTagoMago]

Har-har, get it, because both bands are named Iron Maiden? Harharharharhar.

This guy gets it!

 

[The Butt]

SBS is the best of the four, V4 is half great half garbage... I've never had much opinion about Sabotage. and the other two are overrated because of just how bad they actually are compared to what people pretend.

I get a kick out of people pretending like Sabbath wrote ten of the best metal albums ever.

Heaven and Hell, Headloss Cross, and even Cross Purposes demolish them all except for Paranoid and Master of Reality but since they dont contain the original lineup, people dont give a shit.

Headless Cross is awful. The aural equivalent of malaria.

Also Heaven and Hell is great but the first six are still better.

 

[The Ozzman]

I agree with @Krow to an extent. I have Headless Cross on order, but Cross Purposes is better than any of the first six Sabbath albums by a wide margin

 

[The Butt]

I agree with @Krow to an extent. I have Headless Cross on order, but Cross Purposes is better than any of the first six Sabbath albums by a wide margin

 

[MrTagoMago]

Is it controversial here to say Guns N Roses sucks balls?