Metal bands with really cheesy lyrics ?

CF87

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What bands lyrics make you embarrased, cringe or laugh. This thread could be interesting indeed.

I bet someone will say Manowar. I've never actually read lyrics from manowar but bet it's cheesy as hell.
 
WASP (I hate cheesy lyrics about girls/relationships/sex)
Opeth
Dream Theatre
As I Lay Dying (I have cheesy lyrics about relationships)
Cannibal Corpse (cheesy in the corny gore sense)
Avulsed (see above)
Devourment (see above)
Helloween
Rhapsody
Fairyland
Lykathea Aflame
Acheron
Unleashed

and more
 
Life Sucks said:
WASP (I hate cheesy lyrics about girls/relationships/sex)
Opeth
Dream Theatre
As I Lay Dying (I have cheesy lyrics about relationships)
Cannibal Corpse (cheesy in the corny gore sense)
Avulsed (see above)
Devourment (see above)
Helloween
Rhapsody
Fairyland
Lykathea Aflame
Acheron
Unleashed

and more

Unleashed does have a good ammount of cheesy or cliche lyrics, their first album is still classic death metal in my opinion.

I think Avulsed's lyrics are intentionally funny and cheesy. Though you can't take cannibal corpse lyrics serious it's still enjoyable to read.
 
Lykathea Aflame, cheesy? Are you kidding me? Notice the conviction in Ptoe's voice, the utter passion with which the lines are delivered! Anything but cheesy.

LOST HORIZON man...now THAT'S cheese. Read on:

Lost Horizon - Sworn In The Metal Wind

Walking in the shadow of life's dreary side
Fallen down memory lane
Winds whip the world, just like the woes whip my mind
Where is that time when "right now" was The words
When the heart burned with will like a flare
All I now keep is just damned commonplace misery

Hey man! What is this?!
Sounds like wail of a wimp
Did you let loser side take command?!
Where's the warrior in you
And the spirit he got
You say - "lost"
No! It's somewhere inside
And you know there's a force that unites all of us
Leave the wasteland we together will!
If you're broken, remember, you got faith within us!
Take now your next deep breath and revive
your old strength

Facing the abyss of heart's lonely grief
The b*tch has polluted my soul
Rains flood the earth, just like the tears flood my eyes
Never again will my life be the same
Nothing can heal up my wounds
Guile and disgrace shall now follow me into the end

I just can not believe it
It's too weak to be true
Have you really forgotten your worth?!
Can't you see victory!?
You are now free again!
Look at me!
Yeah! I live my own life
If you once tasted treason from a female - leave that!
Every warrior has a gash on his sword
Don't forget you are metal, not some ass-kissing wh*re
Take some under your wings, but she must kiss the ring!

Winds of metal, make me once again
feel clear air's breath blowing in my wings!

I possess magic force
I am free in my words
Whole the world lays right below my feet
Life of duties and dogmas are just frames formed by rats
How'd I know?
Hey! I'm a guardian of truth
Now! Is really the time to wake up you old jade
Such as Phoenix spreads his firewings
I will help you remember by kicking your ass

And the will shall return
And again hearts shall burn
All the horns now will sing
Leading you back to the metal winds
 
A lot of power metal has cheesy lyrics.

Lost Horizon really stands out when I think of their music, get up and lyrics.

Hammerfall has some iffy stuff as well. Like Hammer of Justice. I laugh at some parts of that song.
 
Powermetal in general.
All those 80's early 90's glam bands.
Nu-metal bands I don't know if it's cheesy or just plain dumb.
Mortician-Highly overated sorry.
All that stupid Emo/Screamo wanabee metal shit like I saw on headbangers
ball last weekthere was some gayass band doing a Depeche Mode cover.
Hatebreed-easily some of the dumbest songs in terms of lyrics I ever listened
too plus there music is very repetitive.
Most Straight Edge hardcore I mean how many times are they going to talk
about veganism.
Nazi Metal-Dumb as hell period.
 
How the fuck is Mortician overrated? I mean, yeah they are fucking stupid, but I haven't heard very many people go apeshit over them really...

And Nazi metal should only offend you if you are of the breed that is meant to be offended, or if you let it offend you. Otherwise, can we just listen to the music? Art transcends words.
 
V.V.V.V.V. said:
"I will help you remember by kicking your ass"

"Don't forget you are metal, not some ass-kissing wh*re
Take some under your wings, but she must kiss the ring!"

:lol:

On hammerfall. The first time I heard the chorus in 'hearts on fire' laughed. I almost turned into a homosexual.
 
V.V.V.V.V. said:
How the fuck is Mortician overrated? I mean, yeah they are fucking stupid, but I haven't heard very many people go apeshit over them really...


AOL metal chats would swoon over mortician and Six Feet under.. so I agree with the dude.. Mortician blows and is overrated.. ask any NYDMer.. theyalways talk about Mortician or Malab[m]ore.

Vehemence has cheesy lyrics.. I agree with the Opeth cheesiness too.
 
Drum machines and horror movie samples don't make a good death metal
band plus his vocals suck. Im just saying some of those NSBM bands just
have really stupid lyrics hell they make Skrewdriver look like Rhode's Scholars.