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| Metal Bands That Have Nose-dived Into Obscurity
Metal Bands that were surprisingly good up until their recent releases... | | 1 |  | Bullet For My Valentine
Fever
There is no denying that upon their debut, BFMV hit a chord with many people, even if you had heard better. Anthemic choruses were a feature of their first two albums, and the band tried to create an even more epic sound in the process. All they created was an embarrasment. Matt Tuck managed to lower his vocal quality even further, some horrendous songs appeared (Alone, anyone?) This one was truly one for the fans only. | | 2 |  | Avenged Sevenfold
Nightmare
This album showed us that Avenged Sevenfold were expecting a sympathy vote after the tragic death of "The Rev". And everyone wondered how the band would come back from such a blow. And the answer is badly. Their self titled 2007 effort wasn't great, but compared to this, it is gold. With the same mix of teenage garbage lyrics, and distinct lack of quality guitar playing from usually reliable Zacky and Synster, two of the most stupid names that I have ever heard, this album was a tragedy. Even Mike Portnoy couldn't help this band out. | | 3 |  | Dark Tranquillity
We Are The Void
Now, I am a huge DT fan. And they were seen as the last hope for the Gothenburg scene that had gradually lost its key acts, such as At The Gates and Jesper Stromblad from In Flames. The group usually most reliable created an album that simply stuck to the roots of its predecessor and sounded laboured and unimaginative. Finally breaking their strong run of albums with such a dissappoiting result was a huge letdown, and the apocalyptic chorus of "Iridium" was left all alone amongst pretty weak songs. | | 4 |  | Mushroomhead
Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children
The only reason this group got away with being so singly handedly pissed off at a band was that they sounded surprisingly good on their fifth album, XIII and Saviour Sorrow. The new album is so piss poor, it is the final closing on the door of a genre which has remained stagnant ever sonce 2004 with Slipknot's epic. Awful lyrical content, annoying crunch guitars and shocking drums means this is definatley a no go for all but the Cleveland dedicated. | | 5 | | Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage (II)
With "As daylight Dies", KSE created their most anthemic, heavy as balls and melody ridden record to date, so topping it was always going to be hard. The crash that followed however, was not. Repetetive guitar playing, poor drumming and a considerable down tuning of Howard Jones usually spine chilling screaming left a lot to be desired. many will argue this doesn't deserve to be on here, but compare it to other records of the genre and the groups previous work, and you will soon find out. For saying Adam Dutkiewicz felt this was their best release, his claim is laughable. | |
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10.01.10 | lol | Terrifyer
10.01.10 | list title makes no sense | sumyunguy
10.01.10 | 5 is painfully bad. Seriously cringe-worthy. | bloc
10.01.10 | You could say they've entered a Darkvoid? | Darkvoid67
10.01.10 | Haha hilarious. Only the quality of that release was not | Jesuslaves
10.01.10 | As Daylight Dies fucking sucks. | ButcheredChildren
10.01.10 | since when was BFMV ever good? their album "The Poison" just barely passes as a 2.5 and that album has been the peak of their career so far.
2. decent but very dry at times
3. I was disappointed with as well :
4. haven't heard yet but I have it downloaded and I'll listen to it first before I judge
5. wasn't THAT bad, could've been alot worse but is definately the worst of the best in-terms of killswitch's releases. At least we know they aren't going to be shit in the future, their song "My Obsession" which appeared on the "God Of War III OST" was pretty damn good | Darkvoid67
10.01.10 | @ jesuslaves
You gave venom and black metal a 2.5. Your opinion s no longer welcome | Hyperbore
10.01.10 | "since when was BFMV ever good?"
Since when were ANY of these bands, except MAYBE Dark Tranquility, ever good?
And Venom's 'Black Metal' is fucking shit, tardo. | jingledeath
10.01.10 | gay | Bfhurricane
10.01.10 | I agree with everything but A7X. Nightmare is a great record and tons better than their S/T imo. It's actually good music with a few awesome songs. | tiesthatbind
10.01.10 | 2 is definitely better than the s/t. | LepreCon
10.01.10 | lolwut | AnotherBrick
10.01.10 | fuck the rev and fuck avenged sevenfold | Yeahtoast
10.01.10 | 2 is definitely better than the s/t. [2] | bailar14
10.01.10 | necrophilia is looked down upon in modern society brick | AnotherBrick
10.01.10 | omg you are SO funny. did you come up with that on your own? thats classic. | bailar14
10.01.10 | lol brick | AnotherBrick
10.01.10 | i dont get it | Dryden
10.01.10 | As Daylight Dies fucking sucks
list sucks | bailar14
10.01.10 | tell em dry dry | Terrifyer
10.01.10 | my beer shits smell better than this list | Strider
10.01.10 | 1. That was great, and Alone is the best song on there (But I'm not being objective since it's BFMV)
2.Much better than s/t
3.don't know
4.don't know
5. I was expecting much worse after what I've heard about it, it was a good solid album, some nice tunes. Definitely not As Daylight Dies | Scrambled
10.01.10 | nose-dived into obscurity, hmm | chait12
10.02.10 | OMG i wouldnt put dark tranquillity here only cos their new album sucks | Seggli
11.03.10 | Nightmare was the #1 album into the United States, how is that a dive into obscurity?
Not that the album was any good | ConsiderPhlebas
11.03.10 | 1. Um
2. Er
3. Eh
4. Well
5. Yes | Lakes2
11.03.10 | 1. Probably, but they were never exactly good
2. lol no
3. No
4. Pretty much
5. YES!!! | qwe3
11.03.10 | ITT we discover that obscure means the same thing as bad |
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