The Stinkers Thread - The Guardians Edition
The sad part about a taste in a genre changing is when a song you once enjoyed in the past you consider a weak stinker today. This was the case for this Johnny Cash cover that I now find the weakest point of the band's discography and probably the only DragonForce song to qualify in this thread:
As much as I enjoy most of the new Freedom Call live album, a few tracks were a bit too happy-joy-joy for me. While I have mixed feelings for a couple of those tracks, this one is a strange sh*tter, in both the title and the song itself:
This f***ing Sinatra-inspired lounge track is so awful that I would much rather listen to "More Than Words" than this sh*t any day:
I'm sorry, but this lousy psychedelic ballad doesn't belong in what's supposed to be heavy metal's ground zero album:
That's one of my favorite tracks from the album. It might not be metal, but it carries the darkness of War Pigs over beautifully.
Personally, "War Pigs" and "Electric Funeral" are my go-to tracks for the darkness and beauty of Paranoid.
You’ve clearly never pulled a cone to “Planet Caravan” Andi. That track is life-changing & one of the highlights for mine.
You’ve clearly never pulled a cone to “Planet Caravan” Andi. That track is life-changing & one of the highlights for mine.
I've never even done drugs before and I love it.
But now my secondary username is Conepullio. And I need TP (tea party) for my bonghole.
Uli Jon Roth is an amazing guitarist, and THAT'S THAT. His awful attempt at vocals ruin everything:
It boggles my mind how in the world this dull disappointing ballad became one of the band's most popular non-single songs:
Yeah, I’m not a fan of that song either.
I'm sorry, world, but the ballad that many of you know and love I think is just far too unnecessary and unfitting for this band:
Too much Thin Lizzy-infused hard rock for its own good, making this sh*t sound more miserable than epic:
I used to not like "Silent Lucidity" because of how popular it is for a non-metal song, but after listening to Extreme's "More Than Words" that was released in the same year, I've realized that the beauty of a song for me doesn't always come from metal. I find myself a little more accepting for non-metal songs from metal artists being popular singles. But this album's other ballad, I cannot accept, a weak-a** way to head out despite the cool electric chorus:
I find this one to be a really solid track to be honest.
Some nice moments, but too much of a cheesy love ballad, and why the f*** sneak it in as the second full song of this power metal album?!
Having to revisit this poor flow-damaging ballad almost made me wanna cry more than just a little in agony:
I'm fine with rapping in a few metal genres, but in symphonic metal?! Nope! I'm outta here!
Their attempt to turn an acoustic Native American ballad into an long epic ends up failing and sounding too draggy:
Attempting to sound like a Metallica song halfway through is an unfitting move for Sabaton. This is just plain bad. Please, don't listen.
Acheron would've been a perfect album if not for a couple pointless stinker interludes like this one that's more suitable as the soundtrack to a video game's main menu: