Little things in albums that annoy the fuck out of you.

[waif]

when a band includes a cover but they don't make it clear it's a cover so if you aren't familiar with the original you might miss it.
Hammerfall did this with Chastain's Angel Of Mercy on Crimson Thunder. AA did the same with Eyes Of Horror on The Crusher.

 

[The Ozzman]

In Flames did it on Whoracle with Everything Counts

 

[Zephyrus]

Nokturnal Mortum did with with "Sorrows of the Moon", which I thought was their song before I got my hands on Into the Pandemonium.

 

[sevag00]

An album longer than 45 minutes bothers me. Also, songs that are greater than 10 minutes, in some cases, i don't mind if a song is 20 minutes, as long as it is a very good song and deserves to be 20 minutes, but some songs don't deserve to be more than 5 minutes.

 

[cookiecutter]

20 minutes of silence before a secret track at the end of an album

I'm looking at you, Acid Bath

Yes!

Also, I don't like extreme vocals that just sound like someone whispering or vocals where the singer goes "uh" after every line (Immolation).

 

[Mort Divine]

Haha, Mats Levins has that problem and because of that I can't listen to Krux without wanting to beat him upside the head.

 

[Jreg]

When you put the jewel case into your CD tower the normal way, and the text on the spine is upside down.

Haha, this is one of those small things that annoys me too. I only have a handful like that, but they happen to be on the racks that stack vertically. If they were on the bigger horizontally-arranged one it at least wouldn't literally be upside-down. I guess I could re-file everything so that those parts of the alphabet went on a different shelf, but I'm not that bugged by it.

 

[waif]

In Flames did it on Whoracle with Everything Counts

Yeah, that too. Although that one is more obviously a cover. It would have annoyed me but I knew there was a cover on there going in because I read a review online.

An album longer than 45 minutes bothers me. Also, songs that are greater than 10 minutes, in some cases, i don't mind if a song is 20 minutes, as long as it is a very good song and deserves to be 20 minutes, but some songs don't deserve to be more than 5 minutes.

I think you're a little uptight.

 

[IWP]

The production on both Bonded By Blood and Fabulous Disaster from Exodus. Both albums have nice ass riffs and solos, and are both very thrashy, yet you have to turn the volume all the way up just to hear the albums well enough. That pisses me off.

 

[Vossyrus]

I agree with a lot of points mentioned.


I usually like intros/instrumentals BUT only if they are suited for the album, and aren't irrelevant or pointless. So some intro-related things that annoy me:

A beautiful atmospheric intro that is completely useless on a death metal album.

And now, obviously most black metal albums have below-average or terrible production values. So when a beautiful intro is used with clean and clear production values only to be followed up by a track that is at half the volume, with a terrible and highly noticeable difference in production. This annoys me to no end.

 

[The Ozzman]

The production on both Bonded By Blood and Fabulous Disaster from Exodus. Both albums have nice ass riffs and solos, and are both very thrashy, yet you have to turn the volume all the way up just to hear the albums well enough. That pisses me off.

Yes!

Bonded by Blood isn't that bad, but Fabulous Disaster is awful. If that was remastered with a higher volume, I would buy it since that album is great.

 

[waif]

Same with Anthrax - Fistful of Metal and Spreading the Disease. In-fucking-audible. Good stuff, but I have to turn the volume up to listen to it, and then the next thing comes on way to loud, so I never do, cuz I'm lazy.

 

[cookiecutter]

I think Bonded By Blood sounds fine

 

[Vamos]

The incredibly loud a long feeback noise that Monarch includes in some of their songs (Some other bands do the same). Really annoying and quite a stupid thing to do imo, as it makes the part of the track impossible to listen to.

 

[Qoppa]

The fucking crying baby during Slit Livets Baand and Efterbyrden on Ásmegin's Hin Vordende Sod & Sø.

 

[Jimm O)))]

The way some songs end. It either sounds like it's unfinished or it's been dragged on too long.

Basically what I was going to say. Opeth does that in a couple of their songs (Serenty Painted Death, for one). First time I heard Serenity..., I had to go download a version of the song because I was convinced it was a fuck up on the CD.

 

[The Ozzman]

It seems as though the majority of Still Life drags for too long. Same goes for Deliverance.

 

[Jimm O)))]

It seems as though the majority of Still Life drags for too long. Same goes for Deliverance.

As much as I like Opeth, Still Life has always seemed rather mediocre to me. I never saw it as their masterpeice album like so many fans seem to think it is.

 

[SentinelSlain]

When you put the jewel case into your CD tower the normal way, and the text on the spine is upside down.

Hell that's annying!

 

[Zephyrus]

It seems as though the majority of Still Life drags for too long. Same goes for Deliverance.

That title track could have been half as long if it weren't for the ending section.