brickhed
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06.26.25 gribbe solemn dungeon synth06.23.25 Bad Album Binge: Death Metal ♦
05.24.25 666 posts n dm digzzzz05.19.25 gibbe your worst albums
04.10.25 rec some goregrind/brutal death metal a04.09.25 brickhed's new noise/idm album??
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02.20.25 Music Pet Peeves01.23.25 A Descent Into Noise
11.27.24 complex and wild albums

gibbe your worst albums

time to appreciate the good music by listening to the bad. also probably good to round out my objectivity score in general.
1Cromagnon
Orgasm

yeah i'll start june 1st with it. i'll do albums i haven't listened to before. also before this happens i'm not doing drone bullshit like bull of heaven. nice try.
another rule, im going to do albums that are actually poorly received/divided rather than "i don't like this." i'll let bungie pass since i didn't think of that rule then.

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2Sarcofago
The Worst

recced by RVAHC13

jesus this album is one hell of a snoozefest. as someone who does not have a hate boner for drum machines, i feel that it does everything just okay. good riffs, decent vocals, and some cool use of the drum machine. lyrics are misanthropic but honestly i clocked out halfway through. album does wake me up with some tasty groove, but thats so few and far between that its not worth it.

songs do drag for too long, with the title track the biggest offender. WHY IS IT SIX AND A HALF MINUTES LONG? other than that its okay. production gets the job done. really mentally draining, too.

final score: 2.5
3Agalloch
The Mantle

recced by bungie

i really hate being the guy who calls an album 'pretentious' (since it really feels like its lost all meaning these days), but this fits it. i can see a hipster drinking a starbucks coffee jamming this hard. i expected black metal looking at the cover and its post metal and folk metal.

kinda seems like 20 minutes in they actually bother to do engaging riffs, which is pretty nice. i'm fine with the black metal vocals but the cleans really reinforce the pretentious vibe i was getting earlier. overall its ight but pretty dull most of the time.

final score: 2.5
4Kid Cudi
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven

recced by Flashmobba

at times its decent, and other times its cringe inducing. godspeed to those who finish this bloated album in its entirety, its stuffed with useless demo versions that pad out the length. could be a lot worse, but as is it sucks and has baffling choices that could have been cut out if people told Kid Cudi no.

final score: 2.0
5Fleurety
Department of Apocalyptic Affairs

recced by BAT

this album has a ton of ideas, but doesn't blend them into anything really interesting. the album feels really bloated with its 50 minute runtime. it feels like its meandering aimlessly after a while, which really makes this a bit of a slog to get through. the ideas by themselves are interesting, but the execution is too aimless. i'm the type of guy who loves experimental stuff, this album just help proves all of it isn't good.

final score: 2.5
6Drake
Honestly, Nevermind

recced by jrlikestodance

everything about this is lazy. lazy beats. lazy ideas. lazy vocal performance, lazy autotune. lazy lyrics. i don't believe that drake didn't listen to it and not know it was this bad. even a fool can see that. currents is the best example of what i'm talking about. the awkward sex song needs bed creaking BECAUSE ITS A SEX SONG. speaking of, this entire album is him bitching about relationships and sex for an entire hour. the beats are 'minimalistic' at best, and just awful at worst.

its pretty funny to hear drake flub a line (he does this multiple times) because he could just not give less of a fuck. some albums impress me with how lazy it is, but this does not. give a teenager a night to make an album and this will come out.

final score: 1.0
7Nostalgia Critic
The Wall

recced by Koris
really not looking forward to this one

i have not listened to Pink Floyd's The Wall. nor have i seen the movie. but i can easily say that Doug is an ego drivin maniac to make shit like this and say he's somehow clever. i feel bad for the people that worked on this, hopefully they made sure their names were dropped. the lyrics are somehow trying to be clever but also as stupid as can be. kinda seems like he heard the album once, understood the lyrics on a surface level, and decided that this needed to be made.

instrumentally its okay since it just steals everything from The Wall. because its a music parody, which means change the lyrics, right? not sure how to feel about this. the parts that are original come from sheer and unrefined stupidity. as a much better internet reviewer once put it: "WHAT WERE THEY *THINKING*?"

final score: 1.0
8Six Feet Under
Graveyard Classics IV: The Number Of The Priest

recced by Dedes

a boring, by the numbers covers album. now i get to hear Chris Barnes awful gutturals and signature EEEEEE screech. I haven't heard any of the original songs here but instrumentally its boring. I'm not even sure who this is made for since I know for a fact it copy's the songs by the T. So the instrumentals are subpar and boring and Chris ranges from a boring to awful death metal vocalist. When Chris has to do anything fast his weaknesses are much more apparent. Murders at the Rue Morge is a good example, with him struggling to keep up in his stupid guttural style and throwing in some EEEEE's for the five Six Feet Under fans. Invader would be inoffensive if not for the grating overdone backing cleans in the last minute or so. On top of everything else you can clearly tell that his vocals are pitch shifted down at times.

This has the vibe for a soulless cash grab, which is fitting for a band as disrespected in death metal as Six Feet Under.

final score: 2.0
9Bring Me The Horizon
Music to Listen to...

recced by Futures

this impresses me with how lazy it is. the fact that most of track 5 is a 20 second loop while the rap feature is doing spoken word for around 15 minutes really shows the level of effort given. A Devastating Liberation is just boring. in fact, i can tell is going for an ambient feel, which works. but everything else is so lazy and done as an afterthought. best song is for sure the second track, with the ambience and electronic stuff working quite well. when there's actual music in track 5, its pretty good. the rap elements are done well and the beat is good enough. that's it though.

final score: 2.0
10John Lennon
Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins

recced by osmark86

holy shit is this psychedelic. easily the most out there music i've ever heard, surpassing even bands like Begnagrad in terms of sheer weirdness. even Yoko Ono's infamous crooning is not as bad in this twisted context. the spacy jam feel really works with the uneasy psychedelic atmosphere. the tape loops, mellotron pitch bends, and unhinged crooning work in some type of atonal unison. and this was done in 1968? the fact that people can't handle this 57 years later speaks volumes in how far John Lennon was trying to push music as we know it. crazy stuff.

this was before no wave, noise, or even rock in opposition. i don't think im pretentious in saying that John Lennon and Yoko Ono were innovating at the time.

final score: 3.5 (may bump later)
11Lana Del Rey
Chemtrails Over The Country Club

recced by JohnnyoftheWell

this is the first album here that i really did not want to finish more than Sleep Token. it's dull as a doornail with some light piano or acoustic guitar. lyrics are vapid and is a even bigger waste of time than 17. not much else to say.

final score: 1.5
12Sonic Syndicate
Confessions

recced by Rolling Girl

this is literally the music that plays over medicine commercials that list all the ways you'll get cancer from the drug. it impresses how boring and radio friendly it is. Sonic Syndicate reach breaking ground in sonic boredom; normal pop slop has nothing on this. at least Imagine Dragons are not the worst band to catch on repeat, this would drive a lesser man insane.

i kept this at a low volume and nothing was lost. i forget this type of music is released and are put on albums. also fuck the band for not making the entire album streamable via bandcamp, i'll just pirate it then.

final score: 1.5
13Spraygun War
Into the Blackness

recced by Rolling Girl (2)

this has been cast to the shadow realm, so that means i can't find it anywhere. not on soulseek or any other streaming service other than spotify, and i can't play it. not even hunting for it on my browser gets anything gone. this work of 'rap rock, rap metal, brostep' was apparently so abhorrent the internet nuked it. band broke up immediately after this EP, too. maybe its for the best, who knows
14Hello Kitty Suicide Club
^_^

recced by RadioSuicide

this album is hilarious. at times it actually goes hard, with the unhinged midi cybergrind working as it should. most of the album is going so fast it's almost falling at the seams, with varying levels of success. sometimes it does fall apart, which isent utilized that well here. the samples do suck, though. and there are very questionable mixing choices on the second half of the album, most of which so bad it really ruins the songs.

a solid foundation that needs more tweaking. could have something really good if the dude behind this worked on this type of cybergrind more.

final score: 2.7 (or 3.0)
15Machine Head
Catharsis

recced by FearThyEvil

started off with some cool breakdowns and groovy riffs and descended into generic walmart metalcore and more. best song is easily Before the Pale. has some generic metalcore cleans that sound awful but the chorus goes real hard. things really start going downhill when Bastards starts. it wants to be generic metalcore with acoustic songs mostly, but lyrically can be interesting. Triple Beam has the best lyrics about drug abuse, drug dealing, and dying young. plus the instrumentals are the most consistent. A close second for best song here.

the second half honestly sucks with sappy "look at me i have a acoustic guitar and singing about vaguely uplifting lyrics" that bore me to tears. has the ingredients for a good album but really fumbles the ball. there's also just really bizarre turns that kill the pacing. is this a metalcore album or not? just make up your mind. the into to Heavy is the Crown just screams identity crisis. otherwise it's okay.

final score: 2.0
16Attila
Villain

recced by s0nicx

this started off decent, with the first two songs just seeming like the band could have tried, but really didn't want to. when it started getting bad is with the third song, Blackout. the rest of the album is full of awful songs with lyrics such as: sex, objectifying women, partying, being edgy, and general frat boy attitude. this took everything wrong with bands like Falling in Reverse and made an entire album around it. shit like this is why the "woman abuser metalcore vocalist" stereotype exists.

i do love that the vocalist tries to imitate Kim Dracula but he just can't pull it off without sounding like a self-absorbed douchbag.
instrumentals are okay to cringe inducing. i hate this album and what it stands for.
final score: 1.0
17Camila Cabello
C, XOXO

recced by sr388

something something obnoxious and boring. this is what i feared 100 gecs would be like, but not as dull. i've heard the lyrics are narcissistic and just concerning in general (which i do hear when i pay attention), but it's just slightly annoying generic pop. tons of guests because god forbid there's no crutch and even the guests are kinda bland. sure, throw in some gangsta rap lyrics with some rap feature, who cares.

basically camila is there half of the time and everything is dull and auto tuned pop slop. not worth my time.

final score: 2.0
18Myrimin
Zvier Viartajecca

recced by TheSonomaDude

this is bad to the point of self parody. when they don't try to make music, the absolutely garbage production works in its favor. i've heard raw black metal that sounds better than this. the ambience works with the production, giving it an oddly mystic feel. but for the actual music its garbage. take everything you know about raw black metal. okay, increase that tenfold, then make it 5 times worse. now we're getting on Myrimin's level. The second track is so bad its hilarious, with the god awful clunky riffs and black metal gutturals sure to at least be funny. the rest is either boring or decent droning ambience.

when it tries black metal tremolo ambience, it kind of just comes off as boring. there's zero reason track 4 should be as long as it is, its pretty much 15 seconds of music repeated ad nausum for seemingly forever.

final score: 1.5
19Myrimin
Den Store Risinning

BRICKHED BONUS - i have to listen to the album with shrek on the cover.

nevermind i can't find it anywhere, not even on bandcamp. where the hell could this be??

tried looking for it a second time on soulseek and its not there either, which means this is lost media or something.
20Emmure
Felony

recced by NudeTayne

the instrumentals are surprisingly great on this album. if you mostly ignore the vocals, this album goes hard most of the time. the breakdown hardcore influences are really well done and varied, which vanquished my fear of the riffs sounding the same. Felony, First Impressions, and Sunday Bacon are standouts.

there are boring tracks, with You Sunk My Battleship and The Philosophy of a Time Traveler. but luckily it breaks out of that and gets right back into the moshable riffs. there are dud riffs in the second half, but its short enough to again, not be too big of an issue.

the lyrics and vocals are easily the worst part of this album. it drips of the self-absorbed emo myspace metalcore vibe, but the instrumentals make up for it enough to not be a glaring issue.
there's so many great riffs on this album that i'm baffled it's so hated. I may even revisit it. if this is Emmure's worst album, then i gotta check out the band.

3.3 (or 3.5)
21Bullet For My Valentine
Temper Temper

recced by Rowhaus

these guys can clearly play but it feels like they're just boxed in with the "radio friendly metalcore" template they were given. you can tell on tracks like Leech that they can show some good riffs. the lyrics suck and are vapid, which doesn't help the bargain bin metalcore vibe this thing reeks of.

vocals are in the typical annoying and overdone metalcore fashion. its okay, not amazingly awful but not anything that should be held in any high esteem. it's not even dreadfully boring as it wakes me up with a few great riffs and chugs here and there.

final score: 2.5
22Sleep Token
Take Me Back to Eden

recced by Hawks

i came in with expectations that this would bore me. it did, but not as fast as i thought. when the album actually bothers to do anything djent related, it sounds pretty good. The Summoning has a fantastic breakdown and shows that the band has potential outside of vanilla tiktok pop. but sadly its few and far between. I'm 22 minutes in and i'm very tempted to just give up. the overly vanilla pop that dominates this album is boring and has zero variance. the lyrics are vapid. there's even screamo vocals in one of the tracks but i was so bored by then it dident grab my attention.

30 minutes in and i'm done. its exactly what i thought was going to be and i know exactly what i'm missing. i swear if this was just djent with slight pop influences it would actually be pretty good. but its vice versa and all i can say is i sleep.
not for anyone who isn't really into pop or tundra.
before i'm done score: 2.5
23The Beach Boys
Summer in Paradise

recced by WretchedCacophony

I know the band had a lot of turmoil leading up to this album, but i seriously wonder who they thought it would appeal to. nostalgic old people? this came out in 1992, which makes zero sense. everyone was obsessed with grunge for the better or worse, and there was zero market for bands like the Beach Boys. but now to the music.

the drum machine is not used very well here, and just serves its purpose. hearing these old men who's heyday was over 30 years ago crooning about collage girls is kind of off-putting, not to mention boring. theres not much to say about this album, other than it was dead on arrival and its kind of creepy knowing how old the band was when making this album. its 40 minutes of boring songs about collage girls and the beach. what more do you want from me?

final score: 1.5
24DoomThrone
Skeleton Veiled in Flesh

recced by Hyperion1001

another band that suffers from people outside the niche. this is very subpar funeral doom, with obvious influence taken from Electric Wizard. the vocals sound like they want to be black metal, but the guy hasn't fully trained his vocal cords yet. the instrumentation is very uninspired and add nothing new. if you're not paying attention the extremely subtle changes will go unnoticed, which means the songwriting isn't the best.

final score: 2.0
25Marty Friedman
Future Addict

BRICKHED BONUS - just curious, considering that this is his only terrible album in his discog
26Obscura
A Sonication

BRICKHED BONUS
27Mayhem
Grand Declaration of War

Recced by ToSmokMuzyki

simular to 5, but the ideas are more focused. album had a lot of potential with the jagged riffs and dissonance, but overambition squandered it. the overdone spoken word is too much and the eletronic bits really give off a huge fuck you vibe. except that mayhem still wanted to be at least taken seriously by the black metal community when releasing this (im guessing). the ideas are very solid and even work at certain times. someone in the studio just needed to tell them no.

final score: 3.0
28100 Gecs
1000 gecs

recced by idiotican

the first three tracks are the best on the album. the wild twists the songs take are really fascinating. a dubstep style breakdown to tie your hyperpop song together? now that's awesome. then the album gets inconsistent. there's atonal sequences that go for too long, and the other songs range from way too stupid to all right. kind of disappointing since if the entire album was doing what the first 3 tracks were doing i would really like this album. the lyrics are just stupid enough to work most of the time.

so starts off so strong that the rest can't live up to it. an interesting conundrum.
final score: 3.0
29Necromorphic Spawn
Xenomorph Colony

recced by NexCeleris

AUGH ITS ACTUALLY 15 MINUTES OF GROWLING PLEASE STOP TURN IT OFF
the growls have zero rhyme or reason, and are just done to fill space. the production is produced to have the vocals be the center, which is a terrible choice in a death metal record in general. then imagine the exact same one note gutteral growling and you have 90% of this record.

instrumentally, the bass presence is somewhat noticeable and welcomed. but everything is shoved into a corner for the awful vocals. really feels like a not shit production and a different vocalist could make then a decent bdm band. and they use ai slop as a cover? it's almost like they have zero idea what they're doing.

the samples are garbage, low quality, and the first one goes on for too long. its like they pirated the movie, compressed it a few times, then decided to sample. at least it was only 15 minutes.

final score: 1.0 (-.5 for aislop, -.5 for samples.)
30Rapewalker
Post Traumatic Murder

recced by NexCeleris (2)

my fucking god i can't take it anymore. i can't. i think im going crazy. 29 and 30 sound almost exactly the same but this is twice as bad. the instrumentation is so lazy and the vocals are so similar to 29 that i think the label is a scam. i gave up halfway through a 22 minute album. if i didn't i would freak out like a tweaker.

looking at the Raped by Zombies (yes thats the label name) bandcamp, its all ai generated covers. the music files cost money, and the single dude who runs the label is selling CD's. i personally think he's making fake bands, making shitty songs in audacity, then shipping it out and slap ai slop on it with 5 minutes in photoshop. then go from there. this can't not be a scam after listening to these two back to back.

oh yeah if 0.0 was an actual rating i would give it. so i'll settle with 1.0.
31Justin Bieber
My World 2.0

people still care about this dude in 2025???
recced by Asdfp277

small child sings about love with lyrics written by millennials. kinda makes you wonder if he was forced into it or not, a lot of child pop stars are taken advantage of one way or another. anyway, i don't care for this. this is britany spears type shit, which means easy listening thats really just boring. instrumentals are barebones and lyrics are surprisingly one note (yes, every single song is a love song. take that how you will). what a waste of time.

final score: 2.5
32Imagine Dragons
ƎVOLVE

recced by foxblood
33Bon Jovi
Crush

recced by Demon of the Fall

an entire hour of dreadfully dull pop rock. what, you're tired of love ballads? here's more. there's zero reason this is an hour long, and like 12 i forget this type of music is actually released on albums.

final score: 1.5
34Deep Forest
Boheme

recced by gabba

I can tell what this is going for, but i can tell this is just not for me. it sounds like typical new age with tribal chanting influences and trance. the trance does work, but nothing really flows well enough to lock me in. the female vocals pierce through the downtempo synths in a way that feels jarring, which is a production issue. possibly personal preference. i've heard deep forest is a fine project but this is not my thing.

final score: 2.5
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