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Topic: I also have a question...
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NightSod
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posted September 11, 2006 05:28
    
Courtesy of Mnsr. Helicoptor.
"This is really anal. Much more fun to debate the worst metal album! Same band, anyone?"I vaguely remeber asking the same thing back in the day on voivod.com...
Mine haven't really changed since then, except to say that I am very old and can't clearly recall two of them: 1. "Thor", a 7" I had called "When Gods Collide". Beautiful, sub-Manowar viking metal. 2. For that matter, Anything by "Manowar". I still worry how listenable I find them - I think what wins me over is that ernest sincerity possessed of the truly, truly stupid. 3. It was titled something like "Willkommen nach dem Krankenhaus". (I leant it out and it never came back.) Amazing stuff, but I only remember an "I cry, I die." rhyming scheme in heavily accented German. 4. A well below par thrash album that contained the legend "I deficate before the holy one."
I think that's still my favourite lyric. 5. Were it not for the title track, "Priest's" "Turbo.". Very, very nasty indeed.
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Emlyn K Helicopter
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posted September 11, 2006 11:03
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Originally posted by warcorpse:
Five stages to liking a shitty record.
(by warcorpse)
Excellent post, sir. However this assumes we're talking about bad records from bands you like, rather than straight-up bad metal records. quote:
Originally posted by Morgoth:
2. For that matter, Anything by "Manowar". I still worry how listenable I find them - I think what wins me over is that ernest sincerity possessed of the truly, truly stupid.
Now this grasps the very essence of shit metal albums! I simply cannot get enough shit metal, this is why I scour second hand record shops to unearth such gems as "Living Death" or "Steel Vengeance". The often astonishingly bad album artwork and laughable photo-montages are as much a joy as the wasp-in-a-beercan guitars or the crap-echo-at-100% vocals. Ah. The earnest, pure, cack-handed delivery of old metal! Fuck Pro-tools. Look, it just seems that arguing over which of the ten or so metal albums is the best is useless. Whereas this is educational! -------------------- Der der der-der DER! Der der der-der DER! DER!
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NightSod
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posted September 11, 2006 12:15
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Originally posted by Emlyn K Helicopter:Look, it just seems that arguing over which of the ten or so metal albums is the best is useless. Whereas this is educational![/QB]
Yes!
For us it was an unoficial competition. We'd flaunt them like badges of honour.
I still remember the excitement when my mate showed me his "Nitro" album.
It looked horrible.
The guitarist called himself "Michael Angelo". A good sign.
The music didn't disapoint either. Well, only because we wanted it to be horrible - and oh, by my giant arse, it was certainly that. You know? More: "so bad it's good" ethic; bands who take themselves seriously that REALLY shouldn't bother, but you have to admire the sincerity?
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Slaytanic
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posted September 11, 2006 13:15
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Originally posted by warcorpse:
Keep in mind getting to stage five can take years, sometimes decades.
I never make it to stage five.
I don't remember ever getting past stage two. It takes a lot of effort to survive until stage four, so here goes my respect, mayor.  -------------------- "Forty-five moments of perfection translated through a cautionary escape into the perils of the mundane, the inherent entropy in ultimate order, and the potential threats of eternal, unchecked apathy in civilization; all cloaked in musical expression so thoughtful, creative and forward thinking that almost a quarter-century later, few can even comprehend it, much less match it." (autothrall)
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Nuclear Vampire
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posted September 11, 2006 13:34
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Originally posted by Morgoth_Mothman:
Yes!
For us it was an unoficial competition. We'd flaunt them like badges of honour.
I still remember the excitement when my mate showed me his "Nitro" album.
It looked horrible.
The guitarist called himself "Michael Angelo". A good sign.
The music didn't disapoint either. Well, only because we wanted it to be horrible - and oh, by my giant arse, it was certainly that.You know? More: "so bad it's good" ethic; bands who take themselves seriously that REALLY shouldn't bother, but you have to admire the sincerity?
Michael Angelo Baito. King of over-the-top shred. Or so he thinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYqhWtYcMqA&mode=related&search=
Nitro? Quite possibly the worst thing in music ever, but to me, anything the general populace usually terms "hair metal" is not metal at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4coXyznC0c
Btw, I know a guy who has one of those double guitars at another forum. It actually comes apart to make 2 separate guitars. He bought it off MAB himself.
I've come to the ACCEPTANCE stage with a few of the worst stinkers in metal. Turbo, Virtual XI, Load, but not Cold Lake. I've never been brave enough to actually go into a store and buy a copy, so I haven't had the years of slowly growing accustomed to and eventually accepting it.
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NightSod
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posted September 12, 2006 04:44
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Originally posted by Hypercube:
Indeed. I got goosebumps from their german version of "Heart Of Steel" - "Herz aus Stahl".
Wow. There's a treat awaiting me then!Another classic of the Genre was Doro Pesch's
acoustic cover of "Breakin' the Law". So breathtakingly witless, so utterly missing the entire point of the original it somehow, almost surpasses it. Starting gently, (ala. Nothing Else Matters) it appears to be incable of deeper idiocy, *bam*, then the string arrangements begin, and just as you felt you were already drowning - wait till the big 'rock-out' section kicks in.... So, EKH, I think you can have high production values on turds, but they're still turds, and so still worthy of consideration. Anyway, show us yours!
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