I still remember the day St Anger came out. The mp3s leaked early in the morning and most people on various metal forums were like "who ripped this? I can't wait to buy the physical copy so I can listen to it properly" followed a few hours later with "Holy shit, it really does sound that bad!"
Nostradamus is a Rock Opera, the band couldn’t stress enough before its release that it was not a traditional Priest album and that fans shouldn’t expect one from it. The worst way to approach it is comparing it to Priest’s other albums because it’s really not the same thing. I personally love it, that riff on Prophecy is infectious and the Four Horsemen songs are epic af (War is my fav). I would’ve paid to see it brought to the stage in some form or maybe as a laser show. Admittedly, though, the first disc is considerably more memorable than the second.
Hey I enjoyed the "reacting to negative online reviews" of Master of Puppets, but I can't find more for other albums. Did you only make the one? Great channel btw
Interesting video man. I honestly don't think St Anger is as bad as some people say, but it is their worst. Same could be said about Virtual XI, Futureal and The Clansman are good songs. Risk I don't think is that bad either, but still one of their worst. IMO it isn't as bad as Super Collider.
Guess I'm in the minority here... I love Super Collider. Megadeth with banjo! I don't think there's a bad song on it! Again, it's just... different... from the rest of the Megadeth discography.
Funny story. Back in the late 80s I had heard of Celtic Frost by reputation in the music magazines, but the first time I found any of their albums in a store, it was Cold Lake. So I bought it. To be honest, I don't hate this album, but once I had gotten ahold of the other releases (in particular Into the Pandemonium), I was flabbergasted they took that direction.
While I can't make a proper list (haven't really heard three of the albums mentioned) I absolutely agree on best one and the worst one. Virtual XI hate always seemed weird to me,cause despite big issues it has, it still has some great songs to make up for it. Illud Divinum Insanus is just baffling on so many levels,even more than St Anger,I would argue. With St Anger under all the shitty mixing and trash can snare and numbingly long songs you can still hear lingering soul of Metallica. Illud sounds like a batshit crazy side project that somehow got released as Morbid Angel album. So in a way, it's a mix of St Anger and Risk. After making that conclusion,I think I respect those albums a bit more now,at least they weren't Illud
lmao that’s one of the worst on there. Nevermore and 10 More Dead are actually really good. I kinda like the album tbh even though a few tracks are hilariously bad.
Honestly Demolition, Forbidden and Diabolis are really good albums. Demolition has insane guitar work from glenn and kk but it does have some fillers, but how can you not like Machine Man, One on One and Feed on Me? Forbidden has illusion of power which sucks but every other song is still great. And Diabolis in Musica is honestly one of slayer's creepiest albums, since most of it was written by jeff aka the superior slayer songwriter
I've only listened to Saint Anger once, and hopefully never again. All Within My Hands is easily the worst song I've ever heard; I despise that "kill, kill, kill, kill" part so much, it's still ingrained in my mind many years later even though I've only heard it once! Risk used to be one of my favorite Megadeth albums as a kid, for some reason. Nowadays it's quite boring, but I can still find some enjoyment out of it.
Yo questie I know this is completely the opposite of the video but you gotta check out Forhist and their self titled album it's actually a masterful black metal album really amazing melodies especially track V
How come nobody talk about Destruction's The Least Successful Human Cannonbal or In Flames' Battles, both among the most insulting and irritating albums I've ever listened to. Also The Burning Red in my opinion is even worse than Supercharger. Absolutely fucking worthless.
I haven't heard all of them but I can at least rank those that I have heard: 1. Risk: one of the worst albums in the history of music. Easily gets my nr 1 spot. Even if I'm grasping for straws I struggle to find anything remotely decent on this album. Just an unlistenable mess IMO 2. Demolition: almost as awful as Risk but is saved by Machine Man and Bloodsucker which are alright songs. 3. St Anger: Change the production and it's still awful. Just not as much. I like the first 3 songs, the rest can get in the bin. 4. Virtual XI: This is not even the worst album by Maiden IMO (No Prayer For The Dying holds that title). Sure, some of the songs are way too long for their own good but as a whole I don't mind Virtual XI. It's OK. I have planned to check out Forbidden and Diabolus soon though. Wish me luck! Update: Forbidden is absolute trash. I really like the title track. The rest can get in the trash can that Lars Ulrich uses on St Anger 😅 probably nr 2 on my list after Risk
@@realenglishman580 That's cool if you think so. I disagree. I listened to Virtual XI recently and it was worse than I remembered. I still prefer if over No Prayer For The Dying though. That album for me is an abomination beyond rescue. Very unprofessional and unserious album by the mighty Maiden
I can't rank them all because those albums are equally crap. The only album I'd remove is Slayer's Diabolus in Musica; is quite good... it's different from all the Slayer's albums but quite good.
Have you noticed ? Most of the worst metal albums/disillusions came out during the 90's and the 00's. The same thing could be said for Hard Rock and Classic-Rock (we can mention Aerosmith, Kiss, ZZ Top, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Deep Purple, Scorpions...).
10 Being The Best 1 Being The Worst My List 10. Machine Head-Supercharger (I Love This Album) 9. Slayer-Diabolos In Musica (This Albums OK) 8. Korn-The Path Of Totality (It’s OK) 7. Metallica-ST Anger (Ranges Between OKay And Bad I Like Some Of The Songs On It) 6. Judas Priest-Demolition (Don’t Like It) 5. Iron Maiden-Virtual XI (Don’t Like It) 4. Black Sabbath-Forbidden (Strongly Dislike It) 3. Celtic Frost-Cold Lake (Strongly Dislike It) 2. Megadeth-Risk (Hate It) 1. Morbid Angel-Illud Devinum Insanus (Hate It)
I actually really like St Anger, both ironically (so bad it’s good) and unironically. It isn’t executed very well but I really love some of the riffs and the ideas. Sweet Amber is underrated despite the horrible production.
Here's my ranking from best to worst 10. Demolition (yeah this one is Priest jumping into the nu metal bandwagon but it has some songs i like and overall i'd guess is the least bad from all these) 9. Virtual XI (honestly i prefer it more than the X Factor, at least this one has a better production and more energy to it) 8. Supercharger (pretty mediocre and too long but not that bad, there are some riffs in it that are decent) 7. Risk (Pretty mellow and mostly boring but other than that it's okay, just one i don't comeback too often) 6. Diabolous in Musica (pretty boring) 5. Cold Lake (extremely boring and the production is not good) 4. The Path of Totality (only like 2 songs that i like and the rest is just weird, not a fan of dubstep having a pop song structure) 3. St. Anger (awfully produced, but the Unnamed Feeling steals the album) 2. Illud Divinum Insanus (st anger on steroids) 1. Forbidden (the sound in this one it's so badly and lazily produced it's borderline unlistenable)
I just listened to Illud a few hours again going through the Morbid Angel Discography. Gateways and Formulas grew on me those are really good death Metal but Illud I hate even more. It’s easily my worst worst Catharsis is close 2nd. Virtual XI is good tbh. I also like Risk.
Yeah fortunately I haven’t heard the Cold Lake album....and don’t plan to. Saint Anger is a train wreck of production. I can’t believe someone listened to that during mixing and said that was the sound they were trying to capture. Re-Load is their worst album still. Saint Anger with better production would be like third worst.
I genuinely love Virtual XI. Angel and the Gambler is the only song I don't like on it and it's only because it's 5 minutes too long and far too repetitive. I'm also a defender of Nostradamus. I cannot defend Demolition, although, I do think Jugulator is under-rated.
St Anger comes with a bonus DVD with all the songs played live in the studio. I always just chuck this on coz some of the songs are great. In saying that, there are some plain stinkers too of course like Purify.
Oh, Forbidden. I like Forbidden. It's less than 30 seconds of rap, and it was actually more spoken word than rap. No, it's not their finest hour. But with 20 studio albums, one 30 second snippet ain't a big deal. I like the Martin records. I like Forbidden more than Headless Cross, which has those horrible 80's synths. And for a seemingly dark record, some of those tunes seem 'happy'. I wish they'd remix it, cutting the synths down by 50% or more.
I can't believe the snare bothers people that much. If I could remix/master it. Since everyone bitches, yes, I'd tune the snare better. Some live takes added in some solos and fills, I'd include all that, cuz they work just fine. Delete Invisivle Kid and Shoot Me Again. Edit DOWN the length of a couple of them. You don't need to repeat verses, either come up with more lyrics, or just edit the song to be shorter. The mix from the live in studio performance dvd that originally came with it, sounded better. Although I've gotta say, for a band that made a record sound as amazing as the Black album sounded(whether or not you like the tunes), with the means to do whatever they want..... why does there have to be a sound issue with almost every record now. St Anger's snare. The clipping complaints and 'loudness' issues with Death Magnetic? I care about the songs way more than any of that. But fuck, just make it sound right so I don't hear people bitching anymore.
"Machine Head" is one of the hated bands of mine, but "Supercharger" is just average new/alternative metal album. Not that bad. I like "Cold Lake". It is definitely worst album of CF, but itself it's nice hair metal.
St.Anger is one of the most underrated albums. It's nowhere near their best material, but it's not bad at all. The title track is one of the best Metallica tracks imo. Yeah its a change in sound and ngl it kinda reminds me of slipknot in the way that they were delivering the vocals, but other than that, its really not that bad. The whole snare thing, yeah its a snare. But to me, its just something that kinda is there. Virtual XI, the whole thing about how blaze isn't maiden gets on my nerves. A band is a band, I don't care what kind of music it is, as long as it's good, it's good. Carcass went from Goregrind to Melodic Death Metal. Blaze Bayley is extremely underrated, and people seem to just dog on the albums cause it isn't bruce. I know there are a lot more reasons other than "its not bruce" but what I hear is most often is that its either "its not maiden" or "his vocals are boring" its ok to not like his vocals, but hearing someone say that it isn't maiden gets on my nerves after a while Risk isn't that bad either. Load and Reload from Metallica are also some killer albums Forbidden is one of Black Sabbath's best albums. Angry Machines is also a great album from Dio. It's much better than Lock up the Wolves or Magica Slayer's Diabolus in Musica is also a good album
For me, the biggest problem with St. Anger isn't the snare, the lack of solos, or even the vocals. The songs themselves, for the most part, just feel hastily put together and drag on WAY too long at times. I actually really like Sweet Amber and Unnamed Feeling, and even Frantic I have a lot of fun with. But Some Kind of Monster, Invisible Kid, and All Within my Hands just feel like they drag on way longer than they needed to and they just feel awkwardly put together. I don't find it to be as bad as some people make it out to be, but I definitely can't say I find it to be a good album. Other albums I can't really speak on, but I can say that The Educated Fool is a really underrated song from Virtual XI, and it kind of upsets me that more people don't talk about it. Also Angel and The Gambler wouldn't be as bad if the second half wasn't there, because the first half is actually really fun to listen to.
@@keafoleafo8368 Thats a fair perspective to have with St.Anger, I can get what ur saying with that, and The Educated Fool is a killer track. I feel like TAATG is an ok song, but it would be better if it wasn't so repetitive.
St. Anger is great album, it's hated cuz it's Metallica album that is different. Morbid Angel's one is also not that bad, but it's sound effects are really distracting and even making me anxious, but Existo Vulgoré is the best song by them
Personally, I can enjoy listen to St.anger, but when I listened to Illud in comparison to literally every other album they've made even their most recent one. I don't think I've ever heard a Metal song so bad as Mea Culpa before it was just simply the most terrible and disgusting piece of music I have heard and hopefully will ever hear. However, it wasn't the band's fault, it was the vocalist David Vincent who joined back when they made this album, he was the one who insisted on making a industrial album when it seems like from what I've heard Trey didn't really like the idea, understandably so, and it's no surprise it's around the same time this album that their best drummer left the fucking band.
I have always liked Cold Lake, and I enjoy DubKorn. St anger is difficult, though I like frantic and some kind of monster somewhat 😊Also Diabolus is not Nu metal, it’s exactly Slayer just tuned differently with some slight amounts of dated production. Forbidden is BAD, and I’m convinced Morbid Angel’s album was a joke.
I don't mind any of these albums except for Machine head. I hate Machine Head. They are booorrriing as hell. They're very long winded, all the songs sound the same and so slow.. Rob Flynn has this amazing powerful voice but the fact that the music is repetitive doesn't do him justice. You know that episode in Family guy where Stewie and Brian destroy Peter's record. That's what I want to do with the Machine head albums.
Man, I love you, but come on... You CAN'T say St Anger is un listenable because of the production when you love so much black metal... It's just incoherent (just to be clear, I like black metal, but it's an objective fact that has the worst production out there)
Give me black metal production any day over this. Its like that edgar allan poe poem "The Tell-Tale Heart" with every hit of the snare you start to slowly go insane
@@Questformetal I understand your point, though I don't fully share it. Still, I think it's not that hard to get used to the annoying snare of St Anger and enjoy the songs (some of them are pretty good!)
Virtual XI is unfairly trashed, I don't particularly care for it but it's still a fun listen once in a while. I'd give it like a 6.5/10, and I enjoy it a bit more than X Factor. Illud Divinum is... weird. Experimental, but in parts it's somewhat listenable. The more nu-metal parts are utter cringe. 3.5/10. Risk is better than St-Anger, as it has some redeeming features, unlike its famous Metallica counterpart. Black Sabbath's Forbidden is just bad.
I love Machine head but for some reason I find a huge gap between their good and bad albums. I absolutely love some, I find the others extremely fucking boring lol Also there's a remixed version of St Anger on UA-cam with the fixed snare, if you wanna check it out. It sounds so much better!
Ok lemme defend some albums: Demolition has some good tracks like Machine Man, Bloodsuckers and Feed on Me. Forbidden has some ok stuff but man it's so forgettable. Virtual XI is not the worst Maiden Album in my opinion. Worst is Matter of Life and Death for me but anyways Virtual XI has The Clansman and Futureal. St. Anger I understand the hate. Production is Octagon by Bathory levels of shit but the title track, Frantic, Unnamed Feeling, Some Kind Of Monster, Dirty Window and Invisible Kid are great tracks but the second half god awful. Diabolus, Risk, Path of Totality, Illud, Cold Lake and Supercharger I've not heard of. Except I have listened to Radikult and I'm questioning my life decisions
@@bossantelope8658 I like long prog a lot so I'm into it. Powerslave is my 5th favourite because Losfer words and The duelists dont do anything for me, but the rest slays. Favourite is Somewhere in time though
There is nothing wrong with Cold Lake aside from the fact that it's a "Celtic Frost" album, and there's nothing wrong with Diabolus in Musica whatsoever
I'm not ranking them per se, but I'll give my center Opinion. I've never heard the CF or Morbid Angel ones. I don't like either Blaze record with Maiden. I like a fair bit of Jugulator, but only like 2-3 songs on demolition, JP's worst record. I like Diabolus and St. Anger. Oh, god forbid slayer had a touch of groove. Risk is a fucking Pop record. It's not different, it's Megadeth doing pop. Supercharger is Rob Flynn's attempt at creating radio friendly metal. I like a lot of the Burning red, but this went too far. Not interested in that Korn record.
Three quarters of Iron Maiden and Sepultura's bland, boring, torture inducing albums are missing. Big respect for artists trying something different as opposed to staying bland. And as described before do more videos where no you don't do quest for metal but instead are trying to stay the fuck away from it. Morbid Angel were clearly smoking with Behemoth before making Illud. No one ever see it as bad that it's good?
Slayer Diabolus is pretty good. Definitely doesn’t suck in my opinion. Iron Maiden Virtual 11 isn’t that great….BUT I do like some of it when Bruce sings them. Never liked Blaze in the band. Lastly, St Anger also isn’t that great. A couple of the songs are ok live but as far as the album versions it sucks!!
Least worst to worst Cold lake, if it was released by a glam band it would be a classic, great riffs. Virtual IX Forbidden St anger Risk Demolition Diabolous in musica Dont care much for korn or machine head Illud dinvinum insanus
The fact that you didn't dig the forbidden album does not say it's a bad album, the problem is you, the part of ice t is realy cool regardless the fact that it is rap or hip hop, there are some great songs on the album like sick and tired, the title song and in short, more than half the album, tony iommi delivered some fine and great guitar solos, the only bad thing i can say about the album is that the production could be better, slayer did only one bad album and that was the covers album from 1996 where they cover punk bands, , the only bad album in your list is st anger, all the albums in your list are better than st anger.
Most of these albums are irredeemably bad. I don't think re-recording would fix anything about Saint Anger. I understand focusing on the production but, to me, taht's not really the problem -- it's 100% the songs. Forbidden is sure not great -- but I'd rather listen to it than to the album 13. yes, I said it. That is a shit album made by a tired band. Who wants to listen to a much worse copy of the first three Sab albums with really shitty drums and a vocalist who past his prime over twenty years ago? Not me! Also I feel it's overstated by some that people just "don't like things because they're different". Sure, the bands would say that, but give actual music fans more credit -- if we like bands, we are open to the idea of them experimenting, but a lot of us are going to call a failed attempt exactly what it is...a failure. Granted that's somewhat subjective and people do look for different things in music.
No mention of 3.4788% Complete (My Dying Bride) or Revelations Of The Black Flame (1349)? Iliud, St Anger, Supercharger, and Cold Lake are easily the worst of the worst on that last. Those four are all just objectively bad albums. The others are all varying shades of shit, but are subjectively listenable at least. Those other four though have zero redeeming features, and were so bad they negatively impacted the legacy of each of their respective artists (though Celtic Frost certainly redeemed themselves, and Machine Head have been through multiple redemption/shit start cycles since too).
Thanks, as usual, man :) & I agree with the order, fo sho *BUT* Come on though, mate; you can't admit that there are a few (very few) good songs on St Anger, & still say "0/10" ... 0/10 should be reserved for bilge like Sheeran & Cotten Eye Joe; the very worst crimes against music!
I suffered through St Anger when it was released and apart from the terrible production I feel the songs are equally as terrible. Their too long and go nowhere the worst offender no solos and there are a few instances of James Hetfield’s singing is shot to shit. It’s like a shit sandwich that was shit out they polished it with extra shit packed and in an air tight container to preserve the fresh shit smell.
@@sirspookybones1118 Honestly most of the people that thinks that is because they follow others opinions or is people that have just listened. Few songs from them like they check every album and listen to one song and they just say they are shitty, i dont think that, its obvious that many people hate Death 'n roll and barnes voice makes it even worse but i have listened to all of their shit and they have really catchy songs among the entire discography, not so much songs buy yeah, its just that their music its not for everyone you know, Death'n roll was always a hated genre for diehard fans of Classic death metal or BDM. But you have reason in one thing , nightmares is pretty basic instrumentally but they have albums with such great playing bro and again , is the freaking barnes who ruins it xD i dont hate him by the way
St Anger is my pick for the worst album in the history of music... Illud Divinum Insanus was rough and stupid, but most of it was listenable to me. Risk is OK, Super Collider is worse imo. Virtual XI isn’t bad per se, but there are real stinkers on it like The Angel And The Gambler and Lightning Strikes Twice has a fucking annoying chorus. Don’t know about the other ones, BUT about bands turning glam: Crust punkers Discharge made their second album Grave New World in that style with a shitty piercingly falsetto vocal delivery lol xD
I still remember the day St Anger came out. The mp3s leaked early in the morning and most people on various metal forums were like "who ripped this? I can't wait to buy the physical copy so I can listen to it properly" followed a few hours later with "Holy shit, it really does sound that bad!"
Chronicles Of Chaos certainly had a field day with it.
Do more "worst of" lists please. I love seeing you go off!
Nostradamus is a Rock Opera, the band couldn’t stress enough before its release that it was not a traditional Priest album and that fans shouldn’t expect one from it. The worst way to approach it is comparing it to Priest’s other albums because it’s really not the same thing.
I personally love it, that riff on Prophecy is infectious and the Four Horsemen songs are epic af (War is my fav). I would’ve paid to see it brought to the stage in some form or maybe as a laser show.
Admittedly, though, the first disc is considerably more memorable than the second.
I really like Virtual XI (X Factor is better though) and I like St. Anger... in a weird way
If the drumming was changed, I would actually really like the album
@@jacobmckenney9987 And add guitar solos
If it wasn’t for Blaze Bayley it would be a great album.
I like Virtual XI better than The X Factor, and I think it's better than some albums with Dickonson. Really love it (I'm the only one)
Hey I enjoyed the "reacting to negative online reviews" of Master of Puppets, but I can't find more for other albums. Did you only make the one?
Great channel btw
He also did that for blackwater park by opeth
Day 7 of asking Quest to do a Led Zeppelin ranking
They aren't metal? Why would he rank a non-metal band? Give up.
@@sumdude116 ua-cam.com/video/RzgnPRsxlgA/v-deo.html sorry Mike my persistence paid off and he talks about me in the video around the 29 second mark
I have so much nostalgia for that Korn album. I remember listening to it with friends on schooltrips in 2012. It was a great time.
Evil Glam Metal?? I'm in!!
I actually love Forbidden! By the way, it doesn’t contain “rap.” It contains some spoken word. There’s a difference.
Just in the first track and just for 12 seconds.
Interesting video man. I honestly don't think St Anger is as bad as some people say, but it is their worst. Same could be said about Virtual XI, Futureal and The Clansman are good songs. Risk I don't think is that bad either, but still one of their worst. IMO it isn't as bad as Super Collider.
Yes Super Collider Sucks
Guess I'm in the minority here... I love Super Collider. Megadeth with banjo! I don't think there's a bad song on it! Again, it's just... different... from the rest of the Megadeth discography.
Even Iommi said that Forbidden should be forbidden, it's just awful.
From what I’ve seen he only doesn’t like the production and is trying to get it remastered in a Tony Martin era box set which I’m FUCKING EXCITED FOR!
Diabolus in musica is a great album..
Funny story. Back in the late 80s I had heard of Celtic Frost by reputation in the music magazines, but the first time I found any of their albums in a store, it was Cold Lake. So I bought it. To be honest, I don't hate this album, but once I had gotten ahold of the other releases (in particular Into the Pandemonium), I was flabbergasted they took that direction.
I prefer Cold Lake than Into The Pandemonium, allways
While I can't make a proper list (haven't really heard three of the albums mentioned) I absolutely agree on best one and the worst one. Virtual XI hate always seemed weird to me,cause despite big issues it has, it still has some great songs to make up for it.
Illud Divinum Insanus is just baffling on so many levels,even more than St Anger,I would argue. With St Anger under all the shitty mixing and trash can snare and numbingly long songs you can still hear lingering soul of Metallica. Illud sounds like a batshit crazy side project that somehow got released as Morbid Angel album. So in a way, it's a mix of St Anger and Risk.
After making that conclusion,I think I respect those albums a bit more now,at least they weren't Illud
I can see that catching on when a new band releases a bad album "Well at least it isn't Illud 🤷♂️"
Just the thought of listening to Supercharger again makes me vomit.
Illud definitely deserves it's hate, but I Am Morbid is a very solid track.
lmao that’s one of the worst on there. Nevermore and 10 More Dead are actually really good. I kinda like the album tbh even though a few tracks are hilariously bad.
Honestly Demolition, Forbidden and Diabolis are really good albums. Demolition has insane guitar work from glenn and kk but it does have some fillers, but how can you not like Machine Man, One on One and Feed on Me? Forbidden has illusion of power which sucks but every other song is still great. And Diabolis in Musica is honestly one of slayer's creepiest albums, since most of it was written by jeff aka the superior slayer songwriter
Totally agree about Forbidden. It's a solid 7/10 for me.
I 100 percent agree. Forbidden is a actually a really good album.
I like Morbid Angels Insanus its a good one =)
I totally agree on Virtual XI… I don’t even think it’s the worst Iron Maiden album, as that would be No Prayer for the Dying for me.
No Prayer for the Dying is a 5/5 album, I dont hate Virtual XI maybe 3/5 and the worst Iron Maiden album, but Maiden has no bad albums!
Angry Machines by Dio. Even Ronnie said it was experimental and didn't work/was a mistake.
I've only listened to Saint Anger once, and hopefully never again. All Within My Hands is easily the worst song I've ever heard; I despise that "kill, kill, kill, kill" part so much, it's still ingrained in my mind many years later even though I've only heard it once!
Risk used to be one of my favorite Megadeth albums as a kid, for some reason. Nowadays it's quite boring, but I can still find some enjoyment out of it.
Yo questie I know this is completely the opposite of the video but you gotta check out Forhist and their self titled album it's actually a masterful black metal album really amazing melodies especially track V
I will need to revisit it only heard it once been caught up in the latest mare cog/spectral lore albums
@@Questformetal definitely man i'm sure it would make your top black metal for this year
I love The Path Of Totality
Lesssssssgoooooooo
How come nobody talk about Destruction's The Least Successful Human Cannonbal or In Flames' Battles, both among the most insulting and irritating albums I've ever listened to. Also The Burning Red in my opinion is even worse than Supercharger. Absolutely fucking worthless.
Nostradamus is much worse than Demolition.
Demolition was better then Nostradamus. I love Ripper Owens-era Judas Priest & looking forward to KK's Priest.
Agreed, such an over-produced piece of dribble
Agreed it makes The ASStonishing sound good in comparison
I dont know about that one
It grows on you. It took me years to get into it.
I haven't heard all of them but I can at least rank those that I have heard:
1. Risk: one of the worst albums in the history of music. Easily gets my nr 1 spot. Even if I'm grasping for straws I struggle to find anything remotely decent on this album. Just an unlistenable mess IMO
2. Demolition: almost as awful as Risk but is saved by Machine Man and Bloodsucker which are alright songs.
3. St Anger: Change the production and it's still awful. Just not as much. I like the first 3 songs, the rest can get in the bin.
4. Virtual XI: This is not even the worst album by Maiden IMO (No Prayer For The Dying holds that title). Sure, some of the songs are way too long for their own good but as a whole I don't mind Virtual XI. It's OK.
I have planned to check out Forbidden and Diabolus soon though. Wish me luck!
Update: Forbidden is absolute trash. I really like the title track. The rest can get in the trash can that Lars Ulrich uses on St Anger 😅 probably nr 2 on my list after Risk
Virtual XI is easily their worst album. No Prayer For Dying is a good album! No Prayer For Dying destroys Virtual XI in every single way.
@@realenglishman580 That's cool if you think so. I disagree. I listened to Virtual XI recently and it was worse than I remembered. I still prefer if over No Prayer For The Dying though. That album for me is an abomination beyond rescue. Very unprofessional and unserious album by the mighty Maiden
Celtic frost guys must have gotten the wrong drugs on the studio when they wrote and recorded that damn cold lard album!!! :P
I can't rank them all because those albums are equally crap. The only album I'd remove is Slayer's Diabolus in Musica; is quite good... it's different from all the Slayer's albums but quite good.
Have you noticed ? Most of the worst metal albums/disillusions came out during the 90's and the 00's. The same thing could be said for Hard Rock and Classic-Rock (we can mention Aerosmith, Kiss, ZZ Top, Van Halen, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Deep Purple, Scorpions...).
10 Being The Best 1 Being The Worst
My List
10. Machine Head-Supercharger (I Love This Album)
9. Slayer-Diabolos In Musica (This Albums OK)
8. Korn-The Path Of Totality (It’s OK)
7. Metallica-ST Anger (Ranges Between OKay And Bad I Like Some Of The Songs On It)
6. Judas Priest-Demolition (Don’t Like It)
5. Iron Maiden-Virtual XI (Don’t Like It)
4. Black Sabbath-Forbidden (Strongly Dislike It)
3. Celtic Frost-Cold Lake (Strongly Dislike It)
2. Megadeth-Risk (Hate It)
1. Morbid Angel-Illud Devinum Insanus (Hate It)
Out of all these albums St Anger is the only one I’d listen to front to back. I actually really enjoy the album
I actually really like St Anger, both ironically (so bad it’s good) and unironically. It isn’t executed very well but I really love some of the riffs and the ideas. Sweet Amber is underrated despite the horrible production.
Surprised that suicide silence self titled wasn't on hear, pretty sure that album is despised haha
Dubstep almost ruined KoRn for me. It took a while for me to get into their music again
Here's my ranking from best to worst
10. Demolition (yeah this one is Priest jumping into the nu metal bandwagon but it has some songs i like and overall i'd guess is the least bad from all these)
9. Virtual XI (honestly i prefer it more than the X Factor, at least this one has a better production and more energy to it)
8. Supercharger (pretty mediocre and too long but not that bad, there are some riffs in it that are decent)
7. Risk (Pretty mellow and mostly boring but other than that it's okay, just one i don't comeback too often)
6. Diabolous in Musica (pretty boring)
5. Cold Lake (extremely boring and the production is not good)
4. The Path of Totality (only like 2 songs that i like and the rest is just weird, not a fan of dubstep having a pop song structure)
3. St. Anger (awfully produced, but the Unnamed Feeling steals the album)
2. Illud Divinum Insanus (st anger on steroids)
1. Forbidden (the sound in this one it's so badly and lazily produced it's borderline unlistenable)
Eye to Eye by Scorpions deserves a spot in this ranking...
I just listened to Illud a few hours again going through the Morbid Angel Discography. Gateways and Formulas grew on me those are really good death Metal but Illud I hate even more. It’s easily my worst worst Catharsis is close 2nd. Virtual XI is good tbh. I also like Risk.
If catharsis was on here it would be in the second place so I agree
The only reason people shit on Virtual XI is because it has just a different vocalist
Yeah fortunately I haven’t heard the Cold Lake album....and don’t plan to. Saint Anger is a train wreck of production. I can’t believe someone listened to that during mixing and said that was the sound they were trying to capture. Re-Load is their worst album still. Saint Anger with better production would be like third worst.
Diabolus in Musica contains Bitter Peace & In The Name of God.. two of my favorite slayer songs
Lol nice and Funny Idea
I genuinely love Virtual XI. Angel and the Gambler is the only song I don't like on it and it's only because it's 5 minutes too long and far too repetitive.
I'm also a defender of Nostradamus. I cannot defend Demolition, although, I do think Jugulator is under-rated.
Demolition for me is the worst. Thats not Judas Priest at all. Although I have not heard Forbidden or the Korn album.
Well, I love I am morbid. Its a total banger and MAs best song:)
Woah, woah, hold up. Good song? Yes, definitely. But the best Morbid Angel song?
Forbidden is a fantastic album.
St Anger comes with a bonus DVD with all the songs played live in the studio. I always just chuck this on coz some of the songs are great.
In saying that, there are some plain stinkers too of course like Purify.
Oh, Forbidden. I like Forbidden. It's less than 30 seconds of rap, and it was actually more spoken word than rap. No, it's not their finest hour. But with 20 studio albums, one 30 second snippet ain't a big deal. I like the Martin records. I like Forbidden more than Headless Cross, which has those horrible 80's synths. And for a seemingly dark record, some of those tunes seem 'happy'. I wish they'd remix it, cutting the synths down by 50% or more.
St anger is amazing Idc what anyone thinks 🤷♂️ the unnamed feeling and dirty window are two of the best Metallica songs IMO
I can't believe the snare bothers people that much.
If I could remix/master it.
Since everyone bitches, yes, I'd tune the snare better.
Some live takes added in some solos and fills, I'd include all that, cuz they work just fine.
Delete Invisivle Kid and Shoot Me Again.
Edit DOWN the length of a couple of them. You don't need to repeat verses, either come up with more lyrics, or just edit the song to be shorter.
The mix from the live in studio performance dvd that originally came with it, sounded better.
Although I've gotta say, for a band that made a record sound as amazing as the Black album sounded(whether or not you like the tunes), with the means to do whatever they want..... why does there have to be a sound issue with almost every record now.
St Anger's snare.
The clipping complaints and 'loudness' issues with Death Magnetic?
I care about the songs way more than any of that. But fuck, just make it sound right so I don't hear people bitching anymore.
I actually think Dance Of Death is worse than Virtual XI.
Dance of Death sounded like a lot of rejected songs from the Blaze era.
"Machine Head" is one of the hated bands of mine, but "Supercharger" is just average new/alternative metal album. Not that bad.
I like "Cold Lake". It is definitely worst album of CF, but itself it's nice hair metal.
St.Anger is one of the most underrated albums. It's nowhere near their best material, but it's not bad at all. The title track is one of the best Metallica tracks imo. Yeah its a change in sound and ngl it kinda reminds me of slipknot in the way that they were delivering the vocals, but other than that, its really not that bad. The whole snare thing, yeah its a snare. But to me, its just something that kinda is there.
Virtual XI, the whole thing about how blaze isn't maiden gets on my nerves. A band is a band, I don't care what kind of music it is, as long as it's good, it's good. Carcass went from Goregrind to Melodic Death Metal. Blaze Bayley is extremely underrated, and people seem to just dog on the albums cause it isn't bruce. I know there are a lot more reasons other than "its not bruce" but what I hear is most often is that its either "its not maiden" or "his vocals are boring" its ok to not like his vocals, but hearing someone say that it isn't maiden gets on my nerves after a while
Risk isn't that bad either.
Load and Reload from Metallica are also some killer albums
Forbidden is one of Black Sabbath's best albums.
Angry Machines is also a great album from Dio. It's much better than Lock up the Wolves or Magica
Slayer's Diabolus in Musica is also a good album
Your bar for a good album is exceedingly low
@@costanicholas lfmao
For me, the biggest problem with St. Anger isn't the snare, the lack of solos, or even the vocals. The songs themselves, for the most part, just feel hastily put together and drag on WAY too long at times. I actually really like Sweet Amber and Unnamed Feeling, and even Frantic I have a lot of fun with. But Some Kind of Monster, Invisible Kid, and All Within my Hands just feel like they drag on way longer than they needed to and they just feel awkwardly put together. I don't find it to be as bad as some people make it out to be, but I definitely can't say I find it to be a good album.
Other albums I can't really speak on, but I can say that The Educated Fool is a really underrated song from Virtual XI, and it kind of upsets me that more people don't talk about it. Also Angel and The Gambler wouldn't be as bad if the second half wasn't there, because the first half is actually really fun to listen to.
@@keafoleafo8368 Thats a fair perspective to have with St.Anger, I can get what ur saying with that, and The Educated Fool is a killer track. I feel like TAATG is an ok song, but it would be better if it wasn't so repetitive.
'The Path of Totality' is a fucking great album. Korn have done far, far worse.
St. Anger is great album, it's hated cuz it's Metallica album that is different. Morbid Angel's one is also not that bad, but it's sound effects are really distracting and even making me anxious, but Existo Vulgoré is the best song by them
Personally, I can enjoy listen to St.anger, but when I listened to Illud in comparison to literally every other album they've made even their most recent one. I don't think I've ever heard a Metal song so bad as Mea Culpa before it was just simply the most terrible and disgusting piece of music I have heard and hopefully will ever hear. However, it wasn't the band's fault, it was the vocalist David Vincent who joined back when they made this album, he was the one who insisted on making a industrial album when it seems like from what I've heard Trey didn't really like the idea, understandably so, and it's no surprise it's around the same time this album that their best drummer left the fucking band.
I like Virtual XI
FUCK THAT METALLICA ALBUM! THE SNARE SOUNDS LIKE A TRASH CAN! *PANG PANG PANG PANG PANG PANG PANG PANG*
Now believe it or not I actually like risk from Megadeth. Now whether you consider Def Leppard metal the album slang junk
I have always liked Cold Lake, and I enjoy DubKorn. St anger is difficult, though I like frantic and some kind of monster somewhat 😊Also Diabolus is not Nu metal, it’s exactly Slayer just tuned differently with some slight amounts of dated production. Forbidden is BAD, and I’m convinced Morbid Angel’s album was a joke.
I don't mind any of these albums except for Machine head. I hate Machine Head. They are booorrriing as hell. They're very long winded, all the songs sound the same and so slow.. Rob Flynn has this amazing powerful voice but the fact that the music is repetitive doesn't do him justice. You know that episode in Family guy where Stewie and Brian destroy Peter's record. That's what I want to do with the Machine head albums.
Man, I love you, but come on... You CAN'T say St Anger is un listenable because of the production when you love so much black metal... It's just incoherent (just to be clear, I like black metal, but it's an objective fact that has the worst production out there)
Give me black metal production any day over this. Its like that edgar allan poe poem "The Tell-Tale Heart" with every hit of the snare you start to slowly go insane
@@Questformetal I understand your point, though I don't fully share it. Still, I think it's not that hard to get used to the annoying snare of St Anger and enjoy the songs (some of them are pretty good!)
Virtual XI is unfairly trashed, I don't particularly care for it but it's still a fun listen once in a while. I'd give it like a 6.5/10, and I enjoy it a bit more than X Factor.
Illud Divinum is... weird. Experimental, but in parts it's somewhat listenable. The more nu-metal parts are utter cringe. 3.5/10.
Risk is better than St-Anger, as it has some redeeming features, unlike its famous Metallica counterpart. Black Sabbath's Forbidden is just bad.
I love Machine head but for some reason I find a huge gap between their good and bad albums. I absolutely love some, I find the others extremely fucking boring lol
Also there's a remixed version of St Anger on UA-cam with the fixed snare, if you wanna check it out. It sounds so much better!
Ok lemme defend some albums: Demolition has some good tracks like Machine Man, Bloodsuckers and Feed on Me. Forbidden has some ok stuff but man it's so forgettable. Virtual XI is not the worst Maiden Album in my opinion. Worst is Matter of Life and Death for me but anyways Virtual XI has The Clansman and Futureal. St. Anger I understand the hate. Production is Octagon by Bathory levels of shit but the title track, Frantic, Unnamed Feeling, Some Kind Of Monster, Dirty Window and Invisible Kid are great tracks but the second half god awful. Diabolus, Risk, Path of Totality, Illud, Cold Lake and Supercharger I've not heard of. Except I have listened to Radikult and I'm questioning my life decisions
Matter of life and death is my 2nd favourite lmao, my least favourite is X factor
@@sirspookybones1118 Matter Of Life And Death is so long and boring prog metal I couldn't get into it. My favorite is probably Powerslave
@@bossantelope8658 I like long prog a lot so I'm into it. Powerslave is my 5th favourite because Losfer words and The duelists dont do anything for me, but the rest slays. Favourite is Somewhere in time though
@@sirspookybones1118 Somewhere In Time is great. Deja Vu yes please
There is nothing wrong with Cold Lake aside from the fact that it's a "Celtic Frost" album, and there's nothing wrong with Diabolus in Musica whatsoever
I'm not ranking them per se, but I'll give my center Opinion.
I've never heard the CF or Morbid Angel ones.
I don't like either Blaze record with Maiden.
I like a fair bit of Jugulator, but only like 2-3 songs on demolition, JP's worst record.
I like Diabolus and St. Anger. Oh, god forbid slayer had a touch of groove.
Risk is a fucking Pop record. It's not different, it's Megadeth doing pop.
Supercharger is Rob Flynn's attempt at creating radio friendly metal. I like a lot of the Burning red, but this went too far.
Not interested in that Korn record.
Three quarters of Iron Maiden and Sepultura's bland, boring, torture inducing albums are missing.
Big respect for artists trying something different as opposed to staying bland.
And as described before do more videos where no you don't do quest for metal but instead are trying to stay the fuck away from it.
Morbid Angel were clearly smoking with Behemoth before making Illud. No one ever see it as bad that it's good?
Where do you put Octagon? I think it’s worse than st. Anger
Six Feet Under - Nightmares of the Decomposed is hot hot fucking garbage!
I dont even mind illud divinum but I find no reason to listen to it ever. Kind of a one and done album
Please do 10 unmetal shit albums and put all korn and limp bizkit albums. Thanks mate.
Slayer Diabolus is pretty good. Definitely doesn’t suck in my opinion. Iron Maiden Virtual 11 isn’t that great….BUT I do like some of it when Bruce sings them. Never liked Blaze in the band. Lastly, St Anger also isn’t that great. A couple of the songs are ok live but as far as the album versions it sucks!!
Least worst to worst
Cold lake, if it was released by a glam band it would be a classic, great riffs.
Virtual IX
Forbidden
St anger
Risk
Demolition
Diabolous in musica
Dont care much for korn or machine head
Illud dinvinum insanus
The fact that you didn't dig the forbidden album does not say it's a bad album, the problem is you, the part of ice t is realy cool regardless the fact that it is rap or hip hop, there are some great songs on the album like sick and tired, the title song and in short, more than half the album, tony iommi delivered some fine and great guitar solos, the only bad thing i can say about the album is that the production could be better, slayer did only one bad album and that was the covers album from 1996 where they cover punk bands, , the only bad album in your list is st anger, all the albums in your list are better than st anger.
How the fuck in the world back sabbath's forbidden is a bad album?
always loved st anger haters have no clue
The only way Demolition beats Nostradamus is because it's shorter
Most of these albums are irredeemably bad. I don't think re-recording would fix anything about Saint Anger. I understand focusing on the production but, to me, taht's not really the problem -- it's 100% the songs.
Forbidden is sure not great -- but I'd rather listen to it than to the album 13. yes, I said it. That is a shit album made by a tired band. Who wants to listen to a much worse copy of the first three Sab albums with really shitty drums and a vocalist who past his prime over twenty years ago? Not me!
Also I feel it's overstated by some that people just "don't like things because they're different". Sure, the bands would say that, but give actual music fans more credit -- if we like bands, we are open to the idea of them experimenting, but a lot of us are going to call a failed attempt exactly what it is...a failure. Granted that's somewhat subjective and people do look for different things in music.
No Prayer for the Dying was a really bad Iron Maiden album
No mention of 3.4788% Complete (My Dying Bride) or Revelations Of The Black Flame (1349)?
Iliud, St Anger, Supercharger, and Cold Lake are easily the worst of the worst on that last. Those four are all just objectively bad albums. The others are all varying shades of shit, but are subjectively listenable at least. Those other four though have zero redeeming features, and were so bad they negatively impacted the legacy of each of their respective artists (though Celtic Frost certainly redeemed themselves, and Machine Head have been through multiple redemption/shit start cycles since too).
, 3,47,,, Complete" is a great album, if compared others modern rock albums.
I Love Supercharger
Listen to the 2002 Celtic Frost Prototype Demo and you may forgive Cold Lake. Celtic Frost doing NuMetal = crap.
Thanks, as usual, man :)
& I agree with the order, fo sho
*BUT*
Come on though, mate; you can't admit that there are a few (very few) good songs on St Anger, & still say "0/10"
... 0/10 should be reserved for bilge like Sheeran & Cotten Eye Joe; the very worst crimes against music!
Cold Lake is an ok album. I wouldn't buy it though. And it definitely shouldn't be called Celtic Frost
Quest if you hate Nostradamus listen to Pestilence and Plague
As a italian i hate that song lmao, Halfold pronounces those italian words in the chorus in a very awful way, it's cringe.
@@darkmarv8045 badabing badaboom gabagool
Cold Lake is actually my favorite Celtic Frost album.
Queensryches Dedicated to Chaos is most terrible. Listen to the song Wot We Do.
I suffered through St Anger when it was released and apart from the terrible production I feel the songs are equally as terrible. Their too long and go nowhere the worst offender no solos and there are a few instances of James Hetfield’s singing is shot to shit. It’s like a shit sandwich that was shit out they polished it with extra shit packed and in an air tight container to preserve the fresh shit smell.
I’d say monumesnion by enslaved, it just doesn’t sound anything like them and is far from good
Probably the first psychedelic black metal album so as far from this shithole as you could get. Much like how Norway is to the rest of the world irl.
Every Metallica is unlistenable after the black album
Iron maiden XI is just terrible then everything after that
In my opinion St Anger is better than load and reload , but i love all Metallica Albums
Cold Lake is a good album
Hey you forgot Nightmares of the decomposed xD ok no instrumentaly nightmares is good only barnes voice ruins it
The instrumentation is very standard and meh
@@sirspookybones1118 but its actually more listenable than things such illud divinum in sanus or st anger tbh
@@felipegiraldo8100 maybe but SFU is known for being consistently mediocre
@@sirspookybones1118 Honestly most of the people that thinks that is because they follow others opinions or is people that have just listened. Few songs from them like they check every album and listen to one song and they just say they are shitty, i dont think that, its obvious that many people hate Death 'n roll and barnes voice makes it even worse but i have listened to all of their shit and they have really catchy songs among the entire discography, not so much songs buy yeah, its just that their music its not for everyone you know, Death'n roll was always a hated genre for diehard fans of Classic death metal or BDM. But you have reason in one thing , nightmares is pretty basic instrumentally but they have albums with such great playing bro and again , is the freaking barnes who ruins it xD i dont hate him by the way
@@felipegiraldo8100 I've always hated Barnes' vocals so it sucks that hes technically the owner of SFU
Forbidden is actually my favorite Black Sabbath album.
It's an amazing album so I can understand if it's your favorite.
I actually liked Forbidden...
I always enjoyed Forbidden, not nearly as bad as people say
St Anger is my pick for the worst album in the history of music... Illud Divinum Insanus was rough and stupid, but most of it was listenable to me. Risk is OK, Super Collider is worse imo. Virtual XI isn’t bad per se, but there are real stinkers on it like The Angel And The Gambler and Lightning Strikes Twice has a fucking annoying chorus. Don’t know about the other ones, BUT about bands turning glam: Crust punkers Discharge made their second album Grave New World in that style with a shitty piercingly falsetto vocal delivery lol xD
Fear of the Dark is probably the worst Maiden album...
Virtual XI and The X Factor are way worse.
@@realenglishman580 To me, X Factor is head and shoulders above Fear and No Prayer.
Bah! All of Korn sucks! 🤣
Dud X Factor is excellent 😡🤬