I don't want to widely justify why
these albums were a disappointment for me, that's why there will be
the list only. Of course, I included albums from bands that I had
hopes of something good and received a washed out, lame record, not
just any bad album I came across this year. I'm usually polite with
my negative points but some albums this year hit me hard and got on
my nerves, so I present the hate.
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10. Ghost B.C. -
Infestissumam
Loma Vista Recordings
Stop worshiping this band like they're
the inventors of music because it's really nothing more than fancy
dark cloaks and pseudo satanic imagery. I would stand this album if
it was not so shallow and annoying. While Opus Eponymous almost had a
couple of nice rhythms, this fails everywhere.
9. Nocturnal Poisoning - A
Misleading Reality
Self-released
I do not want Xasthur back either and
that's not the reason why I put this in the list. I was actually
interested to listen what would this acoustic project would be, but
it shares little emotion after all. I was not touched by it at all
and the repetitive mellow melodies made me sick. It's not atmospheric
or melancholic as it was supposed. Keep going if you feel it guys,
but I'm not going to follow.
8. Glorior Belli - Gators
Rumble, Chaos Unfurls
Agonia Records
Did Glorior Belli always have so many
stoner elements in their music? If these guys tried to mix black with
stoner here, they totally failed, apparently they're not good at
experimentation. Most of the songs are way too boring to even review
this at all, spare your time with something better.
7. Alice in Chains - The
Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Capitol Records
The only thing that reminds of Alice In
Chains with this band of today, is Jerry. All is fragile and
mediocre, apart from Jerry, who is like the Iommi of grunge. This
album will break the hearts of all grungeheads out there, because the
once huge AiC are now mainstream, MTV rock. Fetch me!
6. Rotting Christ - Κατά
το δαίμονα εαυτού
Season of Mist
I respect this band very much, but this
is one of their worst albums I have listened, if not the worst.
Incomprehensible subject, too many studio effects, hardly any solid
guitar work. The whole album is like an introduction to a main part
that never came after all. No.
5. Burzum - Sol Austan,
Mani Vestan
Byelobog Productions
Ideal for sleeping! As much as I like
his past albums up until Fallen (yes, all the way until Fallen) this
one is average, spiritless ambient that bores me to death. Read more
here.
4. Gehenna - Unravel
Indie Recordings
This is really bad, for something to
come out after eight years of waiting. I don't expect Gehenna to
return to the glorious times of their first four albums, but I didn't
expect a snail paced, weak and monotonous album like this either. The
production is horrible (are there any drums? Or is that a pumping
noise behind the harsh guitar moaning) and the tracks are juvenile. I
asked myself more than once during my first listen, are these the
same Gehenna I knew?
3. Sepultura - The
Mediator Between the Head and Hands Should Be the Heart
Nuclear Blast
Not a single good guitar riff was
produced that day. Did you laugh with the title too? Wait to hear the
music. Anyhow, Sepultura are long gone, the guys should stop raping
the band's corpse and leave it at peace at once.
2. Satyricon - Satyricon
Roadrunner Records
Definitely one of the hardest punches
in the face I got this year, from a band I adore(d) that decided to
go, who knows what. The modern Satyricon play thin rock that even the
last rebel laughs at. Again, do not get fooled by various music sources that
call it a masterpiece and an album that will mark the future, the
band's highest peak so far and other stupid statements like these.
It's by all means bad. A bad album. Check my review here.
1. Megadeth - Super
Collider
Tradecraft
I can't get into Mustaine's mind, what
the heck is he thinking? Is he jealous of the wonderful carreer of
Metallica and wants to be like them? Did he aim for another classy
album like Risk? Did he forget how to write solid lyrics? He found
God again and finally got educated about this scientific thingy
called super collider that got him so impressed that he wrote an
album that's close to the worst in his carreer. I don't put 0 in a
rating easily, but this would get it. By far the worst album of the
year and now my image of Megadeth is further damaged, for life.
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