WTF is with censored metal albums?

Clean edits are so stupid. If the parents don't want their kids listening to music with swearing or the like, then that should be up to the parents not the record companies. Like you said, more often then not, they won't tell you it's a clean edit. Nobody wants a clean edit.

Psydye wrote: If it's been edited, censorship or otherwise, it should probably say so on the cover. 'Bit misleading, that!

I think there should be a label on the album saying it's clean, just like it does when the album is explicit.

I remember there´s a censored version of Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold out there too. Pretty disgusting. Wolverine Blues by Entombed also exists in two different versions, but I´m sure that´s a copyright issue, as one of the versions feature movie samples (one from "Flatliners" among others) and the other don´t. After listening to the version with samples for years (which I believe is how it was intented to sound) it´s impossible to listen to the other version and not feel that it sounds a bit empty.

Ugh...that´s even worse

This used to happen all the time back in the day when people bought 7" singles by the bucket-load. Pretty much all of the punk bands had an album version different from a single version, where a phrase like "fuck-all" became "sod-all" or similar.

Even further back, bands got around censorship by pretending they hadn't used an inappropriate term. So the Beatles on Ticket To Ride sang "she's a prick teaser" but wrote the lyric as "big teaser". And the Kinks on Ape Man (a song unfortunately of its time with the accompanying salsa beat) sang about "the air pollution is-a-fucking up my eyes" but claimed in the lyrics to be singing "fogging up my eyes". :-)

^^Or maybe you´re just an old perverted bastard, who hears what he wants to hear 

Edited by UMUR - 26 Jun 2015 at 9:35am

In most if not all cases, censorship for metal removes any prior meaning the line had or loses the desired effect.

Vim Fuego wrote: The remastered version of Megadeth's version of These Boots is so full of edits it's almost like a karaoke track. I removed it from my playlist and reinserted the old version. It was extra cut up because Dave Mustaine had changed the lyrics, so it's not all swearing which has been edited out.

aglasshouse wrote: Psydye wrote: If it's been edited, censorship or otherwise, it should probably say so on the cover. 'Bit misleading, that! I think there should be a label on the album saying it's clean, just like it does when the album is explicit.

sometimes it says on the price tag edited and sometikes it doesn't