I wish there was more quality, instead of quantity, in modern heavy metal music, so we could write "top X best albums" lists once in a while. We actually managed to do it twice, with the 3 War Metal Albums That Don't Suck and the Top Atonal Black Metal Bands lists.
However, regression to the mean means that we inevitably will run into the opposite more often than not, the albums that actually are garbage.
Here we go, the 5 worst metal albums of the last decade.
5. Dark Funeral - We Are the Apocalypse
This album We Are the Apocalypse is the sonic equivalent of a budget "indie" movie, in that dramatic transitions occur between what is essentially dialogue-based navel-gazing endless discussion, without any actual point or purpose except going through the motions and using the "approved" methods to get applause from the crowd, or lack thereof. Music to listen to if you like watching paint dry.
4. Arch Enemy - Blood Dynasty
Welcome to death metal as a job, where you have to come up with new takes on old riffs, mix in completely unrelated deftly, and come up with something that aesthetically resembles death metal - a death metal shaped consumer product - so that people who are listening to Blood Dynasty with half a brain won't notice the odious mallcore pervading the release.
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3. Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey
These "omni metal" type bands that attempt to combine heavy metal, hard rock, alternative rock, radio rock, death metal, black metal, speed metal, and probably disco too, but mostly just metalcore, really strike me as completely directionless. With In The Twilight Grey, this once generic death metal band Necrophobic has completed embraced the mallcore and the nu-metal, managing to produce an album that is both boring and grandiose which makes them irritating like circus music played at full volume.
2. Deicide - Banished by Sin
Stuff like modern Deicide reminds me of the kids who get As in elementary and middle school by writing down whatever the teacher had said and presenting it as their own "original" thought... the little sycophants knew how to manipulate stupid narcissistic adults, and similarly, this release Banished by Sin ticks all the boxes for "modern death metal mixed with stadium rock", but really, it's mostly just garbage tier deathcore, sort of like Justin Bieber with shitty pignose vocals and more reverb.
1. Gorgoroth - Instinctus Bestialis
Later Dimmu Borgir has a lot to answer for in inventing this style of high-speed chihuahua-vocalled rushing collection of metalcore riffs with lots "Hail Satan" shouts and no song development, which seems to be the model that post-Gaahl and King ov Hell Gorgoroth adopted on the advice of their financial advisers, but it makes for music, as heard on Instinctus Bestialis, that is both utterly pretentious and completely directionless, leading to abrupt boredom and the termination of listening.
All of these albums are essentially "participation metal". They were made just for the sake of it, without any real "point" behind the music. An example of what NOT to do?
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