Bands with Appalling Back Catalogues

[astfgyl]

I have One Kill Wonder by The Haunted and it's so bland that I can't remember a bit of it. Like unrelentingly bland.

Jesus the more I think of it the less I can remember it.

Absolutely awful

[Trev]

I liked the album that had DOA on it when ot came out, although the fact that's the only song I can remember from it probably means it's actually a bit shit

[Eoin McLove]

I can't remember a thing about The Crown from that gig. They had a cool video on HBB a couple years before that when they were still called Crown of Thorns. Or is that another band entirely? Medulla Nocte makes sense. They were the go to support band back then. Decent live but I never felt inspired to buy a CD.

[Pagan Saviour]

I think both albums were great but Inside I'm Dying is a must

[Trev]

Carnal Forge are another, not bad, just completely bland and forgettable

[Thorn]

Some ridiculous names put forward in this thread but Carnal Forge I can fully get on board with.

[Paul keohane]

That Haunted/The Crown gig was fairly savage, was very much into both bands at the time.

Most bands get boring as fuck when your on the go 30 plus years, but loads pop up with the odd gem deep into their careers too!

Some Lads on here dismissing loads of solid bands!

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Def down with the Vader call. Also down with Kiss. It's always been difficult for me to see them as anything other than the band with the least justified level of cred. What is supposed to be their best album? Do they have an album that's start to finish bangers (from a fans point of view even)? Destroyer? Detroit Rock City is pure grand, but it sounds like a song any two-bit rock band from the mid-70s could have released. There's a quote from the movie Detroit Rock City which always struck me as hilariously ironic, about how within the space of a year Kiss went from opening for Blue Öyster Cult to BÖC opening for them. Sometimes such switches really are just a case of crappy bands having more mass appeal, especially when they throw a clown act into the mix. Cos in 1976, same year as Destroyer, BÖC released Agents of Fortune which, in terms of both musicality and the path towards heavy metal, is just fucking head and shoulders above Destroyer. So yeah, I didn't wish you dead Ace, but I also wasn't bothered in the slightest by your passing. And on that note, let's have some BÖC!   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6MUYPT2JIw

[StoutAndAle]

Aerosmith - for me anyway - are very much a singles band, They have some wicked tracks in the back-catalogue and the "Big Ones" compilation solidifies that.

I really tried with their stuff from the debut up to "Get A Grip" and, in my opinion, I don't think that they have even one wall-to-wall belter of an album.   

[Pagan Saviour]

Annihilator has reminded me Overkill would be another one for me. A couple of cool tracks but jaysus some of the records are really tedious. Like Vader every once in a while I'll get lured in with a review or a snippet of a latterday track that sounds good.

What's Overkill's magnum opus? Years of Decay, Feel the Fire? Because they're just grand.

20 studio albums to their credit if you're into that kind of thing.

[Bürggermeister]

Ah the first 5 Overkill are beyond reproach. That's about where the quality train derails, though, yes.

[Neuromancer]

It's mind blowing to me that a guy like Dez Fafara (Devildriver/Coal Chamber) has had a career at all, nevermind one spanning nearly 30 years. Coal Chamber, a combination of all the worst nu-metal cliches combined in a one unlistenable band and then the utter generic dross that was Devildriver - 14 albums the lad has put out, all dog shit - yet he's been a relentless fixture "on the scene".

A lot of the old timers are definitely guilty of just releasing for releasing's sake, as mentioned: Megadeth, Annihilator, Overkill, Testament, Exodus, Saxon - and there's plenty of others, all straying into that territory... they've productised the sound and settled into a release/tour cycle - I think when the amount of bad albums outweighs the good (see Megadeth as a prime example) it's starting to tarnish the legacy a little.

What's Overkill's magnum opus? Years of Decay, Feel the Fire? Because they're just grand.

Yeah, I'd say "Years of Decay" and "Taking Over", anything else I could live without - few good tunes here and there, but hardly essential.

[Eoin McLove]

Wait, I thought Dez Fafara was responsible for bringing metal back alongside Flobb and Metal Hammer. Have I missed something?

[Thanatos]

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?

[Emphyrio]

Aerosmith - for me anyway - are very much a singles band, They have some wicked tracks in the back-catalogue and the "Big Ones" compilation solidifies that.

I really tried with their stuff from the debut up to "Get A Grip" and, in my opinion, I don't think that they have even one wall-to-wall belter of an album.   

Even Big Ones has a lot of shite. I would say they have less than 10 great songs, but their good tunes are fuckin A1.