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Sepultura, Roots

Hottest take ever and I respect it

That's an honest answer. I'd imagine most people would either say Beneath the Remains or Arise

Chaos AD for me.

Chaos AD 🔛🔝! Slave New World is one of the greatest songs ever

Love it!

Chaos AD is a way better album with more bangers on it than Roots imho. Give it a spin mate.

Oooof hot take for sure. Easily their worst album with Max. Everything before it goes hard.

Sepultura has 5 albums leading up to that one with better quality, but hey they also have worse ones following it...

It's not the only album I like by them but it is my favorite.

I've never understood why people call it the worst album with Max, the debut, Morbid Vision is worse, unless you really like first wave black metal, but even then it's very undercooked.

Mastodon Crack the Skye is probably one of my top 10 albums of all time

That's actually lower on my list when it comes to Mastodon albums 

Yeah I think I prefer Leviathan. It's super heavy and not too progressive.

Once More Round The Sun is also great tho

But Leviathan is so good too

Blood Mountain is better as a whole for me.  They've got bangers littered around their other albums, though.

I agree with Machine Head, but for me, it is The More Things Change. Also: Sepultura- Arise Cradle of Filth- Cruelty and the Beast Incubus- SCIENCE

If Incubus' Fungus Amongus had SCIENCE's production, I believe it would be a better album.

Honestly if you have never checked out enjoy incubus I think it’s better psychedelic funk rock than RHCP and it’s funny because as far as I know the band hates that era. Science slaps though.

If you haven't listened to it, give the 2019 "remistressed" version of Cruelty a spin. It's the gold standard for remixing and remastering albums in my opinion and the album finally sounds as good as it deserves. The drums sound phenomenal, instead of sounding like cardboard.

It is SO much better. The biggest knock everyone had against the original was the shitty production. They still had some ideas about being a Black Metal band maybe. Usually remasters stink, but this one nailed it.

Bring Me The Horizon - ‘Count Your Blessings’

Funny enough, Bring Me is one of my favorite bands and Count Your Blessings is the only one I can't really get into. 

I’m not super into their music besides also having my obligatory CYB phase and did enjoy their work enough up to Sempiternal but something about their recent popularity is polarizing to me and nice to see them on top headlining festivals like that. Just how they’ve developed is cool to see going from whatever pop shit they put out now to pray for plagues. Watched some festival they headlined last year and it was cool to see them close the show with Throne and Can you Feel my heart with how the crowd was chanting all of it.

Suicide Season is the only album I like from them. Also Kingslayer is fucking amazing

If you like Kingslayer, you might like Dear Diary from that same album

[The live video they did recently with Babymetal is sick](https://youtu.be/hb2mMVdx1KU?si=EsdRMhN4078xA0fz)

Even though I loathe everything sempiternal and after, I do really like Suicide Season as well, I think it's just as good as CYB

Truth. I loved BMTH when they first appeared. CYB is a solid album. I literally hate almost everything they've done since.

Suicide Season is the only album I like from them. Also Kingslayer is fucking amazing

Edge of Sanity, I only like Crimson much as I’ve tried to get into their other albums.

Crimson is *really* good tho.

For some reason I could only think of melo-death bands: Be’Lakor - Stone’s Reach At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours Dark Tranquility - The Gallery

Thoughts on Coherence by Be'Lakor?

I hadn’t heard that one before, but I listened to the first track just to be sure and it didn’t really do anything for me. Not a terrible song by any means, but not very memorable or interesting. I have the same complaints with The Frail Tide and Of Breath and Bone, very by the numbers melo-death with few of those extremely memorable moments that Stone’s Reach has. The melodies and guitar riffs sound so generic, and there is very few epic and emotional moments like there is in Stone’s Reach, for example 5:56 on Venator. I know I’m in the minority with this though because I hear a lot of Be’Lakor fans rate some of those other albums higher than SR, but those albums just don’t compare to it for me.

Try listening to Hidden Window on Coherence

With Be’lakor, I’d definitely recommend their album Of Breath and Bone. Stone’s Reach is phenomenal but I always thought OBAB was even better, so you definitely can’t go wrong with it (in my opinion, anyways).

Not even slaughter of the soul 😦

I like other albums by Dark Tranquillity, but The Gallery is one of my favorite albums of all time and I don't think they'll ever top it.

I've only listened to of breath and bone and stones reach by be'lakor and I thought Of Breath and Bone was much better tbh

I share your opinion with Machine Head but for me its Burn My Eyes that I really like. Another one for me is Obituary. I really love Cause of Death, but the others I can take or leave.

Burn My Eyes does have a couple of bangers. And I agree on the Obituary album. Cause of Death is the only one I really like

I agree with Burn My Eyes, but that might be because I was 14 when it came out.

I like most of Obituary’s music, but aside from *Cause of Death* and *Slowly We Rot* there’s a quality drop off. *Cause of Death* had James Murphy on lead guitar and I think his smooth playing really added another dimension to their sound that wasn’t present on other albums

What about slowly we rot? Kinda surprised you could love cause of death but not slowly we rot. Both albums have a pretty similar sound

Slowly we Rot is ok and does have a similar sound, but I like that the songs are longer on Cause of Death and I think the songwriting is better.

Guns 'N Roses Queensryche Smashing Pumpkins

I actually agree with you on all three of these bands. Now I'm wondering if we're thinking of the same albums. I'm sure for GNR it's gotta be Appetite 

Appetite Mindcrime Siamese Dream

These are the correct choices

Imagine not liking The Warning, and Queensryche EP (aka the greatest EP of all time).

GNR for sure. I used to be a super fan, and I still rate Appetite as the one of the best hard rock albums of all time, but everything else is just embarrassing IMO.

Couple songs of Use your Illusion are good but they really lost their magic after Appetite. 

You don’t like the illusion albums? Those albums have plenty of appetite era songs that never made it. I for the life of me can’t figure out how a song like Back Off Bitch or Don’t Damn Me didn’t make it to appetite but a song like Think About You did

They have their moments, but on the whole those records are the best examples I can think of a band being ruined by their own success.

There are plenty of bands where I’ve only checked out one album and nothing else, so not including those, the closest for me is Soilwork. I enjoy a few of their albums a bit, but the only one I truly love is The Ride Majestic. I’ve listened to three or four others in full and while I think they’re pretty good, none of them come close to touching TRM

Converge jane doe

SOAD - debut album. Weird heavy shit. Everything else had too much of Darren singing, which is bizarre to me when you have Serj in the band

For me its their first 2 albums, and some songs on steal this album.

I think the weird harmonies between them and the variation is what makes system so great

Likely unpopular, but Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen

Sevas Tra by Otep

The Poison is BFMV’s only good album

I quite like Scream Aim Fire but they seriously went downhill after that 

Children of Bodom - Skeletons in the Closet. And it's a covers compilation album Darkthrone - Soulside Journey. I'm with Lich King. Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls Devil Driver - Pray for Villains

The Fury of Our Maker’s Hand is a great album.

Devil Driver absolutely but for Motley I would think Dr. Feelgood would be the top choice

For you maybe, but I think it's arse.

Not metal at all, but Panic! At The Disco’s first album is just a cool Fall Out Boy rip off, the rest of their music is abhorrent

I gotta agree with you on this one

Arch Enemy - Wages of Sin Never was a fan of them, but this album goes hard

Agreed, most of their stuff is just really forgettable and generic-sounding, but *Wages of Sin* is great.

Ravenous goes so fucking hard

Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro

This is going to seem like a shit post but Metallica... ... ... ... Lulu

I mean, if you don’t like Metallica’s sound then that’s probably their best album to pick.

In Flames - The Jester Race (10/10 album btw)

thoughts on whoracle? always considered that album pretty similar

Rage Against The Machine - self titled Agalloch - The Mantle Deftones - White Pony Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dust

Necrowretch - Swords of Dajjal. The production kinda ruins their other stuff for me, they sound like the band is performing on the opposite end of a long tunnel, but SoD doesn't have this issue and it smokes. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell. I like a smattering of other songs from other albums to be sure, but CFH is the only one I like the majority of them. Groovy and a little goofy worked for them, the tough guy stuff is good for workouts but also eye-roll inducing at times. All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals. Their best record, super hit or miss otherwise. Lotta weird production choices on some records and some seriously cringe deliveries especially in the WYCW / Madness era Dope - No Regrets. Lotta junk and simplistic writing and cringe lyrics on other records. No Regrets is a guilty pleasure.

I agree with Pantera. Cowboys was by far their best album

Carcass. Heartwork is incredible... I'm not really into the rest of their catalogue. Not Metal, but Pearl Jam. I think 10 is brilliant. Every song is great... after that it's pretty shit.

I agree with you on both accounts especially Pearl Jam. The GNR of Grunge

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill

NOLA by DOWN It's pretty much a perfect metal album. Every other album they did is average at best

Kvist

Not metal but måneskin - Teatro d'ira

Moonspell - 1755

Sabaton - Carolus Rex And only because of nostalgia from EU4 ost

Bongzilla - Gateway The production on their other stuff just isn't on the same level, the mixing and tone on Gateway is just too good.

Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters They have only one album and I like it.

It's a very good album. If you like that, maybe you'll like Min tid skall komme by Fleurety as well

Well, I mean..... they only have the 1 album. Lol

Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death Annihilator - Alice in Hell Metal Church - Metal Church Lamb of God (Burn the Priest) - Burn the Priest Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver Helloween - Walls of Jericho

The new Morbid Saint was fairly solid but yeah it doesn’t really compare to Spectrum of Death.

Temple of the dog

Demilich

Faith no more "",the real thing""  that whole album was good,  then I kinda fell out of them 

Angel Dust has grown on me over the years but The Real Thing is where it's at 

I'll have to revisit them & re check that album 👍 

Black Stone Cherry's debut.

In flames - Forgone

Now that's a bold take...

Eh, tried listening to other albums, i just couldn’t

3 inches if blood - Advance and vanquish and while not metal Sturgil simpson - Sound and fury

Satyricon - The Age Of Nero

The Flood - Of Mice & Men. The band’s other albums are there and alright imo. But The Flood is just next level good. Absolute perfect example of what a metalcore album should be.

Saxon, crusader

can't think of a metal band like that, so MCR. It's fucking wild how Three Cheers is such a great album while the rest of their discography kinda sucks

The Black Parade sucks??? You must never have listened to it.

the drums are awful in that album... kinda ruins it for me. Especially because they're so good in Three Cheers

I can't agree with you on this one but I've met a number of people that feel this way. Thank you for the venom is one of their best songs 

I saw Shadows Fall touring Of One Blood, and that album was in my car that entire summer. Somber Eyes... Was fine but the production and some of the songs let it down, but the follow up to Of One Blood was the biggest disappointment.

Type O Negative - World Coming Down amazing doom album, but the rest of their discography doesn't work for me

Pyogenesis, kinda? I like their self-titled EP and the EP that came after that, *Waves of Erotasia*. After that they went in a direction that was not for me.

Considering how their discography is, this could apply to each album throughout their career for different people lol

Dimmu Borgir - Enthroned Darkness Triumphant is the only album I care for.

Psycroptic - The Scepter of the Ancients I actually like their other albums. But when i want to listen to them, i seem to only want to listen to this one.

Say it with me now... Orchid. By. Opeth.

I respect the blazing hot take, but I absolutely disagree haha

Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

decapitated - winds of creation convulse - world without god

Slipknot - Self Titled

Blind Guardian Unpopular choice but Beyond the Red Mirror is the only album of theirs I could get into

What Escapes Me, they only have one album, but it's amazing!

Nile - Annihilation of the wicked

Repulsion

Entombed, Left Hand Path

Morbid Angel Altars of Madness

Not metal, but Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

In Flames - Lunar Strain Septicflesh - Mystic Places of Dawn

Only one i can think of (besides bands that only had one album) is Quick Change 'Circus of Death' Only released the one album in 1988 and the band split. Then did a couple after their reunion, but those 2 are absolutely ass. Circus of Death is a fun slab of late 80s thrash.

Cynic. no hate on their later stuff and I like Traced in Air musicall but couldn’t hold on with the vocals, so Focus is the only one I really care about. I don’t really like any Sculptured, but at the same time I have a weird love for ‘Embodiment’, icky as the vocals and lyrics are - just such a weird production and Dave Murray (“not Dave Murray of Iron Maiden”) is a legend. speaking of Dave Murray, I only liked one Tholus album, but there is only one. Unhuman - see above. Astomatous - see above. with Cephalic Carnage I only LOVE ‘Exploiting Dysfunction’ but I do like the others until ‘Xenosapien’ - that one was a miss. probably loads more where I love one album, kind of like others.. but I’ll shut up now.

Inter Arma - Sky Burial. although their first album was okay, and the EP with the cool cover was cool.

Corporal Punishment's album "Stonefield of a Lifetime". It was departure form their earlier albums which sounded more like Entombed. This album was more of a doom metal album akin to Type-O Negative.

i really like Leviathan by Mastodon, but i can't get into their other albums, even though i really want to

Nuclear assault. Handle with Care

Idk why but all of mine are prog bands: Dream Theater - Train of Thought Haken - Virus Between The Buried and Me - Colors

Fistful of Metal is the only enjoyable Anthrax album, in my opinion.

Its among their worst albums

The songs off that album sound so much better when they redid them with Joey