List your most disappointing albums of 2014. I realize some may not have 10 so list what you have.
mine:
Exodus - Blood In Blood Out. Big fanfare comeback for Zetro but the album is boring and Zetro sounds amazingly annoying. I actually far prefer his own band Hatriot's album.
Overkill - White Devil Armory. So overrated by the thrash fans it's untrue. Not saying it's bad but it has nothing special about it either. Ironbound remains my fave Overkill album ever. Can you sense I've never actually been a fan of the band lol?
Falconer - Black Moon Rising. I am a huge Falconer fan but this album is disappointing IMO. The songs were just mediocre. It was good but that's not enough for Falconer.
Brainstorm - Firesoul. Another band that I liked a lot a few years ago but since Downburst the albums have been beyond average.
Judas Priest - Some decent tunes but half the album is super boring and the production is unexcusable. Are they all deaf?
Axel Rudi Pell - Into The Storm. By his own very high standards this album is average to say the least. One of the least good recent ARP albums.
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun. They lost me with this album. I liked The Hunter and this was supposed to be more melodic but the songs were far less interesting to me with no big melodies to speak of.
Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals - Netherworld (Path 1). Ok this will upset a few but I am by no means a VP fan but I'm open minded and ready to be impressed by a class band like VP. But this album is just too much. Too much theater and drama and not enough actual songs. Great band but just boring song writing IMO of course.
Kenziner - The Lost Horizon. I was expecting so much being a huge fan of their two albums and this comeback had me excited for a while but the lead single was boring and had my alarm bells ringing. The album as a whole whilst competent and well produced didn't have a single song worthy of being on the first two albums and the singer was average as well.
At The Gates - At War With Reality. The first song on the internet was quite good and had me hoping and then I heard the rest. No Slaughter II. Mind you I wasn't expecting it either but this kind of over atmospheric melodic death tends to bore me to tears.
That's ten but while I'm at it here's a few more.
Sonata Arctica - Pariah's Child
Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
Eldritch - Tasting the Tears
Lordi - Scare Force One
mine:
Exodus - Blood In Blood Out. Big fanfare comeback for Zetro but the album is boring and Zetro sounds amazingly annoying. I actually far prefer his own band Hatriot's album.
Overkill - White Devil Armory. So overrated by the thrash fans it's untrue. Not saying it's bad but it has nothing special about it either. Ironbound remains my fave Overkill album ever. Can you sense I've never actually been a fan of the band lol?
Falconer - Black Moon Rising. I am a huge Falconer fan but this album is disappointing IMO. The songs were just mediocre. It was good but that's not enough for Falconer.
Brainstorm - Firesoul. Another band that I liked a lot a few years ago but since Downburst the albums have been beyond average.
Judas Priest - Some decent tunes but half the album is super boring and the production is unexcusable. Are they all deaf?
Axel Rudi Pell - Into The Storm. By his own very high standards this album is average to say the least. One of the least good recent ARP albums.
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun. They lost me with this album. I liked The Hunter and this was supposed to be more melodic but the songs were far less interesting to me with no big melodies to speak of.
Vanden Plas - Chronicles of the Immortals - Netherworld (Path 1). Ok this will upset a few but I am by no means a VP fan but I'm open minded and ready to be impressed by a class band like VP. But this album is just too much. Too much theater and drama and not enough actual songs. Great band but just boring song writing IMO of course.
Kenziner - The Lost Horizon. I was expecting so much being a huge fan of their two albums and this comeback had me excited for a while but the lead single was boring and had my alarm bells ringing. The album as a whole whilst competent and well produced didn't have a single song worthy of being on the first two albums and the singer was average as well.
At The Gates - At War With Reality. The first song on the internet was quite good and had me hoping and then I heard the rest. No Slaughter II. Mind you I wasn't expecting it either but this kind of over atmospheric melodic death tends to bore me to tears.
That's ten but while I'm at it here's a few more.
Sonata Arctica - Pariah's Child
Cavalera Conspiracy - Pandemonium
Eldritch - Tasting the Tears
Lordi - Scare Force One