Couldn't be bothered anymore

[The Heretic]

Bands you really used to like and still listen to their old stuff, but couldn't be arsed anymore with their new stuff (lets say their last 3-4 albums) and even in this free download era haven't bothered to listen to it for free that never mind buy the CD or whatever

for me its

Metallica
Maiden
Megadeth
Def Leppard
ACDC

Who is on your "can't be fucking arsed anymore" list?

[Emphyrio]

Unfortunately I'm that way with most bands. That's why I started a thread recently looking for starting points on bands that I didn't give attention to at the time.

[Carnage]

Paradise Lost instantly spring to mind, they've become increasingly dull as time's passed. Draconian Times is the last one I liked and that's 30 years old.

[Maggot Colony]

Gary Glitter

[The Great Cull]

Gary Glitter

No the thread is bands you can't get into anymore, not performers who can't get into their fans anymore

[Maggot Colony]

Gary Glitter

No the thread is bands you can't get into anymore, not performers who can't get into their fans anymore

 

[Circlepit]

Slayer, I used to love God Hates Us All, but now I can't take the vocals.
Also the whole album is far too thin sounding.
That carried on after that.
World Painted Blood was supposed to be some sort of return to form. The whole thing is in the red.

Hatebreed. Someone told him he could hold a tune so Jasta started some form of melodic singing and the riffs became even more recycled.

Alice In Chains. NO.

[Pagan Saviour]

Paradise Lost, Katatonia, Opeth, Overkill, Megadeth

Basically bands that put out shit every two years and have a stupid amount of records.

I'd be more inclined to give a new Metallica record a go because there's so much time passing between albums.

[Carnage]

Overkill are still putting out decent albums IMO.

Napalm Death - Smear Campaign was fantastic, probably my favourite by them but they fell sharply off the cliff after that. Haven't bothered with the last couple, have no inclination to at this stage. And from the live footage I've seen, Barney's voice is completely gone.

[Pagan Saviour]

Overkill are still putting out decent albums IMO.

There was a good run of garbage Bloodletting, Immortalis, Reliv or whatever all the same thing. Ironbound was good but the bits I heard off Electric Age etc didn't thrill me.

[Trev]

Overkill are grand, but it's been pretty much the same album for the last fifteen years or so. You could swap songs in and out between their recent stuff and be hard pressed to notice a difference

[astfgyl]

Katatonia are the greatest example of this that I can think of.

Album after album of the same song since about 2004

And the songs aren't even that bad, they're just nothing like

[PG Púca]

Most bands, honestly. Like a tv series, you only get a few good albums from a band before it becomes stale, unfocused or something different entirely. Usually.
Obviously there are exceptions, but most of the bands I love, I find the majority of their new stuff boring.
Maybe I need to open my mind a little and give the newer albums more of a chance, but it never seems worthwhile...
Discovering new bands is way more enjoyable to me than listening to old bands new songs.

Judas Priest, Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth etc... I have absolutely no interest in listening to anything new these types of bands release. The older the band is, the less chance I'll even listen to the new stuff. Mostly.

[John Kimble]

Agreed with Katatonia, pretty much the first band that springs to mind here. I was on board up until and including Viva Emptiness but everything since has been a chore.
Mastodon have been hit and miss with me for a while now, I actually didn't mind Hushed and Grim but the prospect of new material doesn't hold much interest for me.
Napalm Death...yeah to an extent but I really enjoyed Throes of Joy...
Nine Inch Nails - have released so much material over the years but nothing of consequence since the Fragile tbh. And that was a long time ago. Some of the eps were ok i suppose but I've lost hope of one last great album.

[The Great Cull]

Following a band for completeness sake just doesn't make sense to me in general anymore. It really has worn thin, especially for bands who have a "signature" sound.

A band mentioned a few times here already is Paradise Lost. I'm a massive fan of them BRFORE anything resembling a signature sound was a thing with them. It's mind blowing to think how they evolved (for better or worse) between 1990 to 1999 on Lost Paradise to Host. Recent releases are just various shades (pardon the pun) of the same thing.

Likewise the likes of Metallica and Megadeth in the first ten years.

Once a band seems to lock in on a formula, it's very hard to maintain an excitement for what may be about to land.

Granted when a band doesn't stick to a formula, it doesn't always hit the spot with the initial fanbase. Not too many people who were wowed by Gothic, would be fawning over One Second and very few who loved Beneath The Remains will see the value in Roots but at least these bands were artistically exploring new ground at the time.

A band like Overkill or Exodus who rarely deviated from the formula ran thin on interest with me far sooner (in fact its this approach that fucked thwmselves in the late 90s). And do I really need to own all the recent Testament or Clutch albums? Do I fuck.

And to save Burggermeister the bother of typing it, it's bands like Voivod and Sepultura that constantly evolved, not giving a fuck about others that keeps some level of interest these days.