Let's talk crap.

No!  I don't want to remember anymore!  

Emmure - Speaker of the Dead.  

My lowest rating on the site is one I accidentally rated, "Twilight Dementia" by Dragonforce, which I haven't heard. So I can't really talk crap about it.

However, my lowest rated albums are Black Clouds & Silver Linings by Dream Theater and Blooddrunk by Children of Bodom. They are both atrociously boring albums for me. I have fallen asleep plenty of times trying to listen to Black Clouds. As for Bodom, one of my friends was really into them and I checked them out by borrowing their latest CD from him. Now I know that they have some fairly good stuff in their early years, but Blooddrunk has absolutely the most standard generic riffs amongst a myriad of stupid synth effects.

I haven't purposefully given a .5 rating to something before. I guess I haven't come across something I find completely unlistenable yet.

I haven't given too many poor ratings (2 or lower).  Thus far I gave DT's Systematic Chaos and Megadeth Youthanasia 2 stars, and The Black Album 1.5.   There are songs from those I like, but on a whole I'm disappointed with them and very rarely do I want to listen to them.  I'd reserve 0.5 or 1 if I couldn't stomach an album at all.

Play 'n the Game by Nazareth. 1 star and that's being very kind.

Edited by cannon - 09 Jul 2011 at 10:32am

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/run-the-streets--review.aspx?id=245270

Tupan wrote: And St. Anger, the worst piece of sh*t ever made by a metal band?

Well, I will respectfully, and strongly, disagree but I am in the large minority

I guess the band was so big the hatred is magnified. It gets SO much hate and amazingly low ratings...there is much worse shit out there!

At least the latest Morbid Angel may take its mantle!

Time Signature wrote: I like "St. Anger", too. "Load" and "Reload" are worse , I think.

Well, I hate St. Anger not only by your horrible music, but I remember before their release the expectation was high. Everyone expected a honest album, not a commercial attempt to sound "modern" (yes, nu metal). And the lack of solos, the rap vocals... that disgusting drum sound...

Stooge wrote: The only thing I don't get about the ripping of St Anger is the complaining of the lack of solos.  Don't people rip on Hammett when he does solo?

Yes, I absolutely believe no solos in Metallica is a bonus

Even as far back as Kill 'Em All, if you compare Hammett's solos to what Mustaine used to play, he just took the first 4 bars of Mustaine's solos and then went somewhere much simpler/easier to play/more boring after.  He's really nowhere near as good as the credit he gets (among 12 year olds on youtube )

Tupan wrote: The Kirk Hammet solos only sucks on Black Album. And Load. And Reload. And "I Disappear" (MIssion Impossible 2 soundtrack)!