The Stinkers Thread - The Pit Edition

Share your musical abortions here.

I'm not in The Pit, but Lamb of God released a cover album with their original controversial name Burn the Priest. Boy am I glad this earlier name is just for this album. Lamb of God is their real identity!

Some of you may disagree with me but I find this cheesy progressive wank-fest to be incredibly cringe-worthy & tedious. In fact, it single-handedly caused me to drop my overall score for "Terminal Redux" from a 4/5 to a 3.5/5 as it kinda ruins an otherwise pretty consistent tracklisting.

To be honest I struggle with all but the climax. The initial heavy bits are by far & away the simplest & weakest on the album. And God damn how bad is the part with clean & growly vocals doing a duet. Not to mention the cheesy jazz section. Utterly atrocious!

Continuing the theme of the horrible cover songs thread that was begun elsewhere, much as I like Sepultura's Chaos A.D. (it's actually my favourite Sepultura album and one of the first I ever bought on CD), Max Cavalera's mangling of the vocals on their version of New Model Army's classic The Hunt from their excellent 1986 album, The Ghost of Cain, is just unforgivable. I also agree with Ben about the Megadeth covers - Anarchy in the UK particularly pisses me off and I Ain't Superstitious is so jarring it almost spoils Mustaine's best album.

I totally agree with your call on the those Megadeth tracks. They out like sore thumbs & substantially interrupt the flow of the albums. And don't even get me started on "These Boots" from the debut either.

Day 2 (The Daily Sh*t)

This is too much of a psychedelic metal ballad-like track that doesn't help the original controversial album production by Kelly Gray. The lyrics, melodies, and atmosphere are still good, but the style and production is what makes it a real flip-off.

An absolute shocker taken from the 1987 debut album from these Texan thrashers.

Vektor's first 1-minute interlude in a decade (and likely last because David DiSanto is the only member left and he's facing legal troubles involving domestic abuse), but sadly "Mountains Above the Sun" just doesn't fit so well with the rest of the album. The acoustic first minute is kinda bland, and the 15-second heavy ending sounds too bluesy. I think this interlude and the ballad/jazzy-prog first half of "Collapse" are what make Terminal Redux not reach the awesomeness of the other two Vektor albums.

I actually don't mind "Mountains Above The Sun" although it's far from an album highlight. "Collapse" is the only dud on that record in my opinion.

Just what does this track hope to accomplish on an already disappointing record.

A real stinker from these Brazilian thrash metallers 1987 debut album.

I find it very difficult to tolerate this Middle Eastern influenced intro track to be honest:

A terrible acoustic joke track featuring Anthrax/S.O.D. guitarist Scott Ian.

Need I say anything here?

Need I say anything here?

I'll say that I agree with you Daniel. "Blackened" is one of those heavier songs that just doesn't fit right when making an acoustic version. However, Between the Buried and Me's tech-death cover of "Blackened" is totally kick-A and guaranteed to grind this acoustic re-recording to dust.

An absolute shocker of a vocal performance from this Teutonic thrash front man. Ben, you'll want to stay well away from this record because it's just the type of vocal style that you hate.

I would think you are Andi. "Divine Step (Conspectu Mortis)" is not only one of the best couple of tracks on Coroner's best album but it's also one of the greatest pieces of progressive metal I've ever heard to be honest.

P.S. 90's Coroner > 80's Coroner are far as I'm concerned.

Did the tape get chewed up or dropped in the toilet?

Part of the problem I had with Machine Head's The Blackening is the lyrics in a few songs here, like in this f***ing slanderous stinker:

I was always surprised that Machine Head was so popular, I really didn't care for The Blackening even though it was hyped up for me pretty hard. Catharsis, their 2018 album, was on another level of awful. If you wanna see how terrible Machine Head's style can really get if you think these lyrics are slanderous, test out that one to even out your rating curve. 

Catharsis, their 2018 album, was on another level of awful. If you wanna see how terrible Machine Head's style can really get if you think these lyrics are slanderous, test out that one to even out your rating curve. 

Challenge accepted, Xephyr! Bring it on, Catharsis!!

Thanks, Xephyr! You really allowed me to realize how low Machine Head can get, especially in their own awful Dropkick Murphys knockoff: