Popular Acts/Albums You Dislike?

I can understand why Manowar would turn some people off though lol

Another album I thought of is Nevermind. I think that's mostly from straight up overexposure everywhere, as there are a couple songs I do like from that album. I'd just much rather listen to anything off of Bleach or In Utero.

I don't dislike him either but for such a major artist in whatever form he releases under I am surprised I never got into his music more. 

Back in 2011, I was still running and primarily reviewing for Heavy Metal Haven at the time, I remember well what a big deal among the community the release of Deconstruction was. I was never able to get why that was. I enjoyed the album, but found it to have many issues that capped it at a 4 star for me, which is the highest I've ever given anything by Townsend. 

siLLy puPPy wrote: Mgla

I'm more set against Mgla because of how many people run Uada down for being a Mgla clone which I just don't find to have a grain of truth to it. 

Same Chris although they have a few songs I do like here and there.

But thrash has never been my main interest so I don't think it that outlandish that I don't rate Slayer too much. 

Controversial and off topic opinion: even though I hold respect for the Big 4 during their classic period, I don't think that in general they did much to cement that legacy after the start of the 90s. Slayer's the only one who didn't at some point abandon thrash. 

That always struck me as ironic since many (especially younger) metalheads hold thrash up as the 'truest' form of metal, but the Big 4 mostly explored other avenues with Anthrax jumping on the groove band wagon and Metallica and Megadeth trying out more commercial heavy metal and hard rock sounds. These bands did eventually return to thrash (an on/off relationship for Metallica), but only after every single one of them had released at least one album that was disliked or even maligned by fans. And that seems to apply to Slayer too looking at their RYM averages. 

Unitron wrote: like rym, which I hate but love at the same time for discovering so much music from there)

 

Having seen Sepultura with Green fronting a couple of times in the last couple of years, have ignited my interest in the Green-era albums. My interest in Sepultura had originally ended with Chaos A.D. (I didn´t even listen to Roots before after some years after its release), so it wasn´t because Green became the vocliast that I wasn´t interested in their music anymore. It was their stylistic change which meant I wasn´t interested anymore back then. I´ve learned to accept and enjoy more groove oriented music more over the years though, and therefore I´ve begun to investigate the Green-era albums now.

A thing with RYM is that they've been working toward splitting their music and movie sides (as well as adding a gaming platform) into separate sites and features added to RYM itself seem to get overlooked. And these new sites seem to be taking forever to be properly launched. They've been going on about them for years now.