Bands with Appalling Back Catalogues

[Circlepit]

I've tried with Vader a fair few times. It's so boring.
Well played but zero personality.

[Pagan Saviour]

Yep and Vader are a band I get screwed over with every once and a while a new record will drop and a track will sound good, buy the thing and the rest always as dull as dishwater.


The also must have about 20 albums at this stage

[Circlepit]

I bought Welcome To The Morbid Reich, it's just a dust collector now.

[Pagan Saviour]

Hypocrisy??

To my mind they've one track. I've four of their albums here and they're all shit.

[Mithrandir]

I was more talking about bands that have released scutter since day one. Not one classic album. As in how in the name of Jaysus do they have a career.

In that case, Kiss and Manowar immediately spring to mind (though in the latter's case it's probably unfair to include parody acts). Consistent excrement.

Manowar is an absolutely insane call for this thread. Sign of the Hammer and Hail To England is some of the best heavy metal ever written.

[Mithrandir]

I've tried with Vader a fair few times. It's so boring.
Well played but zero personality.

Yep and also lump in all those bands that just seem to exist forever without actually releasing anything of note.. Blood Red Throne, Severe Torture, Jungle Rot, God Dethroned, Avulsed...etc

[Pagan Saviour]

Good few I didn't think of there - I had to sit through a Jungle Rot set once still no the better of it.

[Squigs]

The Haunted were my favourite band when I was 14/15. Loved them. Wanted to get a tattoo of the wee logo man, thank fuck that didn't happen. Was talking about them over the last few weeks. S/T and MMDI are worthwhile, there's lots of riffs on there, none necessarily amazing, but I see why it captivated me and why, in a world of nu-metal this seemed so feckin fresh and new. OKW is really, really bland on reflection, I forced myself to like Revolver at the time and when The Dead Eye came out, I knew it was truly over. I'll always check out a new song out of curiosity and it is always dogshit. 10th album coming out this year, holy hell. Who needs it?!

[Squigs]

Also, I used to post on The Haunted forum too and every now and then Peter Dolving would write a wordy, self-indulgent post, and I used to have to try really hard to push down the feeling that he was a bellend.

[Eoin McLove]

I never liked their stuff. Saw them live in Dorans one year. Who else was on that line up? I think Marco Arro (is that right? How has that name stayed in my brain...) was on vocals at the time and not only did they sound boring to me, they looked boring too.

[Squigs]

Was it Stamping Ground? Always regretted missing that one.

[Ollie]

Hypocrisy??

To my mind they've one track. I've four of their albums here and they're all shit.

Don't get me started on Hypocrisy, a laughably terrible band, so boring and no riffs.
Vader are up there too, not a single riff is memorable

[Pagan Saviour]

The gig in Doran's had the Crown and Medulla Nocte in tow. It was a great gig I thought and squigz captured my sentiment towards the band perfectly. I think they were in the right place at right time but I never listen to anything by them these days. Those first two records were on repeat for me for a long time but they've aged dreadfully.


The gig with Stamping ground was the tour for the next record One Kill Wonder and that was Whelans.

Marco I thought was hilarious at the time but he's just an unfunny Sasquatch. I've seen them live more times than I would've cared to, they have been on so many feckin bills.

[Carnage]

Made Me Do It was OK, if frontloaded. Only heard the debut once, it didn't make much of an impression either way. I thought any of the subsequent stuff I've heard was bland to poor.

Witchery were more fun at the time, same guitarist I think?

[Pagan Saviour]

Correct! I'd reach for my Witchery albums over The Haunted any day.