“Swing and a miss” albums

[Thesius]

Everything Coheed has done before or after Welcome Home.

Fixed that

 

[akinari]

Gorguts - Colored Sands
If Obscura and From Wisdom to Hate used dissonance as a vehicle to drive great, memorable and well composed songs, this album used it as a spike strip.

No One Knows What the Dead Think - s/t
I want to love this album, but I can't. I love the riffs and the production, but the drumming just feels so clumsy and stilted at times. Kyosuke stepping in to replace Dave Witte probably would've worked a lot better if they had rehearsed more.

Slipknot - Iowa
So one note and drab in comparison to the first album.

Gwenmars - Driving a Million
Their previous album, Magnosheen, is one of the all time classics of 90s alternative - better than a LOT of albums from that era that people drool over 25 years later - but holy cow Mike and the guys lost the plot on this one. If they had kept the psychedelic and post punk elements from the first record and maybe hopped on the trend of tuning lower, they could have easily had another classic under their belt. This sounds like a label threatened them into making it.

Atrocity - Blut
More like "crap."

Every Queens of the Stone Age record after Lullabies
No thanks.

 

[Pietjepieter]

Rivers of Nihil - the works

Kadinja - DNA

Good Tiger - Raised in a Doomsday Cult

The Faceless - Latest record, I even forgot the name

 

[Crash Dandicoot]

The Afterman double album was a straight up masterpiece though?

YOTBR was a definite miss, TCBTS was mixed, Unheavenly had some hits, Vaxis II is largely a miss imo, but Afterman is flawless.

Opinions~

I don't view The Afterman set with the same contempt as I do YOTBR, TCBTS, Unheavenly or Vaxis II, but labelling it as "a straight up masterpiece" is a stretch, IMO. Better than the other post-Good Apollo outings but not in league with any of the first four records.

 

[MFB]

Good Tiger - Raised in a Doomsday Cult

The Faceless - Latest record, I even forgot the name

I straight up forgot about Raised in a Doomsday Cult and just assume that Good Tiger hung it up, especially without Rudinger on the drums. I tried it a couple times and was just left very, "what was that?" after each listen, so now I just listen to the two I know are good.

Faceless might as well not exist after Planetary Duality either

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Oh yeah, Queensryche. They did this shit MULTIPLE times

Hear In The Now Frontier. Geoff and DeGarmo fully embraced the grunge and alt rock movement. Didn't work out.
Q2K. See above, but even worse and no catchy DeGarmo hooks.
Mindcrime II. This wasn't even a Queensryche album. But that's the least of it's problems.
Dedicated to Chaos. An album so bad they had to get rid of Geoff lmao.

While we're at it. Geoff's Kings and Theves and Frequency Unknown albums were pretty, being done out of spite and legal reasons pretty much. Huge contrast from his 2002 solo album which was a lot different, but a much more sincere album.

 

[Bloody_Inferno]

I'd say the other 3 albums after that were just OK, nothing between Low/Demonic/The Gathering stands out to me besides two tracks - one being the self-titled track of "Low" and the other being "D.N.R."

Give The Gathering another chance. DNR is a fantastic intro but that whole album is monstrous from start to finish.

 

[KentBrockman]

Dream Theater’s Falling Into Infinity and The Astonishing have been well-discussed here and for good reason, but I found Distance Over Time to be pretty bland. I liked Pale Blue Dot and At Wit’s End, but I found everything else to be pretty dull. It just sounded half-arsed. It’s as if they were told to make a totally unremarkable album. Not a bad one, but just one that isn’t noteworthy.

 

[Hoss632]

Pretty much all Metallica post Re-load for me.

Green Day's album Warning was very meh considering they had 3 really good albums prior (loved the first album through nimrod myself). But then was followed up by American Idiot.

Godsmack anything after Faceless. They have a few songs here and there that work. But as an entire album after Faceless to me it was eh.

Avenged Sevenfold the Stage. Just could not get into the album like I did most everything prior.

Dream Theater- Pretty much everything post Portnoy. Though I actually liked a Dramatic Turn of Events. But after that I just haven't enjoyed them as much.

 

[Sammy J]

Gorguts - Colored Sands
If Obscura and From Wisdom to Hate used dissonance as a vehicle to drive great, memorable and well composed songs, this album used it as a spike strip.

No One Knows What the Dead Think - s/t
I want to love this album, but I can't. I love the riffs and the production, but the drumming just feels so clumsy and stilted at times. Kyosuke stepping in to replace Dave Witte probably would've worked a lot better if they had rehearsed more.

Slipknot - Iowa
So one note and drab in comparison to the first album.

Gwenmars - Driving a Million
Their previous album, Magnosheen, is one of the all time classics of 90s alternative - better than a LOT of albums from that era that people drool over 25 years later - but holy cow Mike and the guys lost the plot on this one. If they had kept the psychedelic and post punk elements from the first record and maybe hopped on the trend of tuning lower, they could have easily had another classic under their belt. This sounds like a label threatened them into making it.

Atrocity - Blut
More like "crap."

Every Queens of the Stone Age record after Lullabies
No thanks.

Damn bro, Colored Sands and Iowa?

 

[CanserDYI]

Wait people actually like Godsmack? I heard voodoo or whatever back in the 2000s and that song is enough to burn every album of theirs, literally, in a fire pit.

 

[Crungy]

I hated Voodoo but "Whatever" went hard for the time. After that they continued to get more douchey and became leaders in butt rock.

 

[jaxadam]

NOFX - Heavy Petting Zoo. Coming off of Punk in Drublic this was just an utter disappointment.

 

[CanserDYI]

NOFX - Heavy Petting Zoo. Coming off of Punk in Drublic this was just an utter disappointment.

God I love nofx and you are so right. That album has absolutely zero memorable songs on it. Even the ones after this album had bangers, pump up the valium was great, so long and thank you for the shoes was great, etc.

 

[jaxadam]

God I love nofx and you are so right. That album has absolutely zero memorable songs on it. Even the ones after this album had bangers, pump up the valium was great, so long and thank you for the shoes was great, etc.

So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes was the last one I bought. Ribbed, White Trash, and Punk are still timeless. Some of my favorite albums of all time.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Give The Gathering another chance. DNR is a fantastic intro but that whole album is monstrous from start to finish.

Yeah it's so weird seeing someone say they love Ritual but hate Low and The Gathering, arguably 2 of their best albums imo

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

Oh also. Van Halen III. Hyped up because new singer that was arguably better than DLR and Hagar combined, ended up being a mess of an album because EVH took nearly full control.

Oh also everyone says DT became boring when Portnoy left. Imo it was much earlier; Octavarium is when it happened for me. Train of Thought was a pretty honest effort but with Octavarium they lost the plot.

 

[Furtive Glance]

The Astonishing and DT’s latest album. Just so meh…

 

[Kwert]

Borknagar - Empiricism

Had high hopes for this after the excellent first four, especially with Vintersorg’s involvement. The Genuine Pulse was a great opener and then the rest of the album was a total dud for me.

 

[ErockRPh]

I can't believe no one has mentioned Diabolus in Musica by Slayer yet. Scrum is a great song, but the rest is just Slayer trying to be nu-metal and failing.

Spineshank lost me after Height of Callousness. Their first two albums were pretty damn good industrial-metal, but they sold out big-time after that.