Hated albums from well-respected bands

Thought this would be an interesting poll, here's some of the most hated albums from some of the most respected bands in metal. Happen to enjoy any of them? If so, what's your favorite. Or if you hate all of them, what's the least worst may be more appropriate. 

Virtual XI.

Whilst Cold Lake is Celtic Frost's weakest album I quite like it. Celtic Frost going commercial, relatively speaking, is still a long way from Poison. I also like Turbo and Roots quite a lot.

Unitron wrote: Vim Fuego wrote: Unitron wrote: ...but I think St. Anger would be a pretty good album if it wasn't for the awful drum sound.  There's that, and then there's the lack of solos, the dumb-arsed lyrics, and the poor riffs, but otherwise, nah, it's still shit. I find the guitar riffs to actually be pretty good, but yeah the lyrics are kind of dumb. I don't think it takes long to come up with something like "My lifestyle determines my deathstyle"

Or "tick, tick, tick, tock"

Edited by LittleBig - 29 Aug 2016 at 1:55am

I actually love Turbo. I also quite like Roots and God Hates Us All. Cold Lake is pretty enjoyable too although it doesn't hold a candle to Celtic Frost's other output. I also like St. Anger, probably because I tend to compare it to Load and ReLoad which I think are so fucking boring it hurts. Virtual XI, on the other hand, is an album I can't listen to in full. Apart from 'Futureal' and 'The Clansman', most of the songs on the album strike med as sub par and bordering on butt rock. I know that many of people like the album, so it's probably just me who's a douche. Likewise, Rogue en Vogue is unenjoyable for me to listen to, knowing how weak it is compared to Running Wild's 80s and early 90s output.

Unitron wrote: LittleBig wrote: Happy that Paradise Lost - Host and Kreator - Endorama are not in the list, I like these two that usually get a lot of hate. I assume Endorama is an album that gets hate elsewhere, because on the site it has a 3.90, which I would say is far from hated.

Warthur wrote: I sneakily quite like Celtic Frost's Cold Lake. I agree that it's probably their weakest album, but a weak Celtic Frost album is still pretty good, and I found their take on glam metal to be nowhere near as cheesy as much of the rest of the subgenre. Then again, it might not even be their most hated release. It's an infamous one, but there's an obscure little demo tape out there called Prototype which as I understand it was an abortive attempt by Celtic Frost to go nu metal. I haven't heard it - not many people even know it exists, it seems - but those who have heard it have really bad things to say about it.

I only heard Cold Lake for the first time in the past year or so, and I couldn't find too much wrong with it myself. Might have been different back in the day, but I didn't get into Celtic Frost until Vanity/Nemesis. Just your mentioning it means I now want to hear that Prototype thing, even just once.

Vim Fuego wrote: I only heard Cold Lake for the first time in the past year or so, and I couldn't find too much wrong with it myself. Might have been different back in the day, but I didn't get into Celtic Frost until Vanity/Nemesis. Just your mentioning it means I now want to hear that Prototype thing, even just once.