Bands with Appalling Back Catalogues

[Carnage]

I'll be shot for this but I'd have similar views on AC/DC, if ever there was a 'greatest hits' band, it's them.

[Pentagrimes]

Ill no doubt get shit for this, but Midnight, Toxic Holocaust and Municipal Waste all belong in this category.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I'm a fairly huge Aerosmith fan, but their albums did tend to be uneven. That said, I can very happily listen all the way through to Rocks, Toys in the Attic, Permanent Vacation, and (with a little help from nostalgia) Get A Grip. Also, their Live!Bootleg album is class.

[Pagan Saviour]

Midnight, Toxic Holocaust and Municipal Waste all belong in this category.

100%

Most of the Retro Thrash acts would be in that file.

[open face surgery]

Satanic Royalty is a good buzz by Midnight. Everything else and those other bands are drivel to me.

[Sworntothecans]

<prepares for the pitchforks>

Anathema & Katatonia. I'll never see the fascination folks have for them. Boring as fuck. I've tried over the years to go back and see what's the hook with them but it's always a nope for me.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That's just cos you don't like them then.

[ldj]

I saw Katatonia over the summer and while I quite enjoyed their set, any time I've tried their post-death doom stuff I've turned it off.

Think that 'Criminal' song ruined my ability to get into them, awful track.

[Ollie]

Has anyone mentioned the spectacularly awful Crematory yet? Been going since the very early 90's and have spat out an almost relentless spew of absolute rubbish to this day. They're like all the worst shite you'd see in those old late 90's Nuclear Blast catalogs rolled into one massive cringe inducing package.
I recall reading an article a good few years ago where they were whinging about online piracy, streaming and the likes and how they were threatening to break up if nobody bought their new album.
They're still on the go so there must be people still buying this shite to a level where they can keep going?
I asked a German friend recently if he had any insights into who the culprits are. The only suggestion he could put forward was "Overweight middle aged goths who rarely leave the house?"

They must be one of the most useless, irredeemably shite bands to ever exist?

Just listened to Crematory there. I turned it off after 2 minutes and 21 seconds

[Pagan Saviour]

Septic Flesh another one

[Mooncat]

Aerosmith and AC/DC are wild calls and out of step with what the thread is asking 

It's the lowest of low hanging fruit but Five Finger Death Punch qualify as a band with no good albums, but a very generic sound that a lot of kids seem to love/

You could probably put any number of hair metal bands in here too that had something of a career from a popular song or two but no good albums.

[John Kimble]

While the lines between 'bands with appalling back catalogues' and 'bands i don't like" are somewhat blurred, FFDP most definitely fall into both categories. I've no doubt they have plenty of (braindead) fans but you'd struggle to find anyone who could convincingly argue they've ever made anything of merit. See also Drowning Pool.
It's a resolute no for bands like Anathema and Katatonia, and this is from someone whose patience has been sorely tested by both and has no inclination whatsoever to hear any new music from either. They both have released classics and again, the good outweighs the bad (not necessarily numerically but you get the idea).

[Squigs]

I'd say Cryptopsy fall into this category. NSV undoubtedly one of the greatest DM albums of all time for me, BMF is excellent, the DiSalvo albums - while I love WS, are divisive at best, and everything post Lord Worm initial return is shite/a different band entirely.

[Pagan Saviour]

With Cryptopsy it's more of a fall from grace but their classics are undeniable.

In similar boat for me would be Decapitated. The direction up to the third album was amazing - can't listen to the brodude stuff they put out now

[Trev]

With Decapitated everything up to and including Organic Halluconosis is brilliant, the post crash stuff is awful, so half great/half shit back catalogue