Controversial opinions on metal

[Satanstoenail]

The last 4 songs on PoM are crap, but The Trooper is the best Iron Maiden song by far

Still Life and To Tame a Land are good songs, just not classics.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

LISTEN NOW

and to these songs also:

Conquistadores
Riding the Storm
Masquerade
Rebel At Heart
Timeriders
Blazon Stone
Black Hand Inn
When Time Runs Out
Bad To The Bone
Pile of Skulls

 

[Dak]

Bad To The Bone

Really?

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

not that song





and another I mentioned just because:

 

[zabu of nΩd]

B-b-b-b-b-b-b-bad...
B-b-b-b-b-b-b...bad.
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-bad...
Baaaaaad to the bone!

 

[Death Aflame]

Krallice's debut is fucking awesome. This could be controversial if metal enthusiasts are worried about hipsters assimilating black metal into the indie scene.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

B-b-b-b-b-b-b-bad...
B-b-b-b-b-b-b...bad.
B-b-b-b-b-b-b-bad...
Baaaaaad to the bone!

I actually gave Rvnning Wild a first listen under the impression that they wrote the Bad to the Bone you quoted, and were a really badass retro blues rock/metal band.

Disappointment.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

 

[Doomguy]

The old Children of Bodom albums are better than the new ones.
Cannibal Corpse is getting less raw and hardcore as the years go on.
Slayer are the gods of thrash metal.
Scandinavia is the home of black metal.
In Flames needs a better vocalist.
DragonForce have shitty vocals but awesome guitars.
Death Magnetic (Metallica) is the worst metal album ever released.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Death Magnetic (Metallica) is the worst metal album ever released.

Listen to Anthrax's State of Euphoria, and that's just keeping it in the Big 4.

 

[S<issors]

The old Children of Bodom albums are better than the new ones.
Cannibal Corpse is getting less raw and hardcore as the years go on.
Slayer are the gods of thrash metal.
Scandinavia is the home of black metal.
In Flames needs a better vocalist.
DragonForce have shitty vocals but awesome guitars.
Death Magnetic (Metallica) is the worst metal album ever released.

-Not controversial at all (although I find all CoB to be pretty shit)
-I don't think I would have ever called them "raw and hardcore", but regardless, CC are pretty much identical to how they've always been. Their biggest shift was changing vocalists. EP was actually their best CD in a while IMO
-Slayer are incredibly bad now, and have been since somewhere around Seasons, depending on who you ask
-No shit.
-They're just thoroughly goofy. Good as a joke, boring as a band.
-It was boring. It's not even close to the worst metal album ever released.

 

[Doomguy]

Thanks for the feedback S<issors. I agree; slayer were much better in the late 80's; Reign In Blood is an awesome album.

 

[S<issors]

It is indeed. I personally like Hell Awaits a little more, but really all of their early stuff is classic

 

[AchrisK]

I didn't remember how lame Screaming For Vengeance was. There are some killer tunes, but also a lot of meh.

 

[Doomguy]

God Hates Us All is what got me into Slayer in the first place.

I have another controversial opinion:
Dethklok will be better as a real band, not an animated one.

 

[Ross]

No, chorus of 'Invaders' is worse. I've never understood why everybody loves that song so much. The instrumentation is completely faceless, beyond typical NWOBHM and the chorus melody makes no sense at all and sounds terrible.

InVAAYYders

duh duh duh dum

InVAAAYders



ugh, shouldn't have even been on the album.

.

 

[youdontknowme]

Slayer are the gods of thrash metal.

no, that honour belongs to Kreator.

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

DF vocals are pretty poor, but I still listen to 'Valley of the Damned' out of their albums. It's not because it was 'teh b4 they got popular arghuguguhg' although that is true. It just sounds like a real band making real metal and it has some really good songs on it. The whole band is not yet defined by a 'look how goofy/ironic and monotonous we can be!' gimmick.

 

[Slayed Necros]

All this talk of Running Wild and not even a single mention of Gates to Purgatory?

 

[Orion Crystal Ice]

Only because I didn't want to spur elitist people who don't honestly like much classic or power metal but pimp that album based on image and 'rawness'. I would have picked 'Marching To Die' off of 'Branded and Exiled' but that song is good too. Or, if you want to go even further back, 'Bones to Ashes' off that old 'Death Metal' compilation (it's not death metal).