Yahoo's Top Ten Worst Heavy Metal Albums

[Gadough]

https://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/141511/the-ten-worst-heavy-metal-albums-of-all-time/

10. Kiss - Music from The Elder
9. Def Leppard - Slang
8. Motley Crue - Motley Crue
7. Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
6. Raven - The Pack is Back
5. Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
4. Twisted Sister - Come Out and Play
3. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
2. Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
1. Metallica - Load, Reload, and St. Anger

[Zydar]

What? 

Music From The Elder, Never Say Die, and Bark At The Moon are all underrated and great albums.

[Gadough]

Yeah, this whole list makes me go WTF. I always thought Bark at the Moon was a fan favorite album, and Fear of the Dark certainly doesn't deserve to be here.

[AcidLameLTE]

They put Load/Reload in there but not Death Magnetic? Jesus.

[Gadough]

There are certain rules to heavy metal that must be observed. The first rule is FIRE THE KEYBOARD PLAYER. Let him join a progressive rock or pop band where he belongs.

All Van Halen albums with Sammy Hagar qualify for this list. But that was too obvious.

lol

[Zantera]

They put Load/Reload in there but not Death Magnetic? Jesus.

This.
Load is about 5 times better then Death Magnetic.

[BlobVanDam]

Kiss - Music from The Elder
ok, this doesn't surprise me, but from what I've heard from it, it's not that bad. I think it's legacy is much worse than the reality.

Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
What are they smoking? It's not as good as the first two albums, but it's still a really solid album. No Rest For The Wicked would have been a better pick, but it seems they chose this because they don't like 80s.

Metallica - Load, Reload, and St. Anger
These don't deserve to be lumped together. St Anger does deserve to be on the list, because it is truly dreadful, but Load and Reload have a lot of great music on them, even though I'm not a fan of the albums overall. But one of the 10 worst heavy metal albums they can think of? Do they even listen to metal?

Most of that list just seems like they don't like 80s metal and just chose a few obvious choices, and a few wtf choices. Really nothing insightful or original.

[ZKX-2099]

Chinese Democracy is metal?

[cfmoran13]

They put Load/Reload in there but not Death Magnetic? Jesus.

This.
Load is about 5 times better then Death Magnetic.

Seriously?!?  Death Magnetic is WAY better than Load or Reload.  It may have been mixed like sh#t.  But, it's probably their best album since Justice.

And, Motley's s/t album is totally underrated.  Granted, I bought it and traded it to a friend of mine for pizza money at college when it came out.  Having gone back and reacquired it, though... it's a very solid album.  It's not Feelgood 2, which is what everyone wanted.  I mean, who gets rid of their lead singer after their most successful album to date?  Not the best move.  But, Corabi brought a lot to the table.

And, who really considers KISS's 'The Elder' a metal album?  That's just silly!  I agree...  way underrated, too. 

Was Def Leppard ever really metal?  The first 3 albums were great hard rock, not metal.  Their edge left (understandably) with Rick Allen's arm.  And, Adrenalize was the beginning of the end of them as even a hard rock band.  Everything after (and including) that album are "meh".

[Jirpo]

A few right choices, but Load/Reload/Never Say Die/FOTD/BATM WTF?

[Xanthul]

What the fuck are Load and ReLoad doing there? Seriously if I ever become a multimillionaire I will dress in a Load suit at night and break into these stupid people's houses to blast Bleeding Me until they realize their wrong ways.

[JRundquist]

NOT.....EVEN.......CLOSE (Well maybe 1/10)

This is seriously lacking Cryptopsy's The Unspoken King, Queensryche's Addicted To Chaos, Any Deathcore album, and plenty of others.

[Zantera]

They put Load/Reload in there but not Death Magnetic? Jesus.

This.
Load is about 5 times better then Death Magnetic.

Seriously?!?  Death Magnetic is WAY better than Load or Reload.  It may have been mixed like sh#t.  But, it's probably their best album since Justice.

Ya seriously.
The mixing is one thing, but it really sounds like "we're playing thrash again because that's what our fans want", and the album just feels soulless for me.
I do enjoy "That Was Just Your Life" and "The Day That Never Comes", but the rest of it is fairly meh for me, Load however is more interesting.
It's not typical Metallica, but I don't think it's a miss-album.

[wolfking]

https://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/listoftheday/141511/the-ten-worst-heavy-metal-albums-of-all-time/

10. Kiss - Music from The Elder
9. Def Leppard - Slang
8. Motley Crue - Motley Crue
7. Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
6. Raven - The Pack is Back
5. Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
4. Twisted Sister - Come Out and Play
3. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon
2. Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
1. Metallica - Load, Reload, and St. Anger

FOTD is top 3 Maiden.  Never Say Die is truly an amazing album and very underrated.  Bark at the Moon is one of Ozzy's weakest efforts but top 10 worst of all time is just laughable.  Load and Reload I enjoy very much and St Anger I'd say is one of my fav Metallica albums, if not my favourite.

[Xanthul]

After putting myself through the misery of reading the blog instead of just the list, I am now much calmer knowing that the blogger is a full time idiot. Disregard this crap.

[jingle.boy]

lol at this list.  In fact, lol at pretty much any mainstream press/editorials from the music industry.  It's an antiqutated practice.

[MasterShakezula]

5. Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark

That's just asinine.

[cfmoran13]

What the fuck are Load and ReLoad doing there? Seriously if I ever become a multimillionaire I will dress in a Load suit at night and break into these stupid people's houses to blast Bleeding Me until they realize their wrong ways.

It's certainly not typical Metallica.  However, "Bleeding Me" is one of my favorites off that album.  I'm just glad I'm way past the initial shock of the album's change of direction and their haircuts when it first came out and I can appreciate Load for the handful of decent songs it has.

I think most people can agree that, aside from being their shittiest album, St. Anger is one of the shittiest SOUNDING albums ever created.  I can't believe Lars is still defending the tin can drum sound.

[lordxizor]

I'm not sure that I would even call Load and Reload heavy metal. They definitely don't derserve to be on that list. St. Anger does though.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

All Van Halen albums with Sammy Hagar qualify for this list. But that was too obvious.

Fuck them.  This quote is bullshit.  I'm fucking sick of critics bashing VH albums because Sammy Hagar's on them.  Sammy Hagar is a fantastic singer, an excellent guitar player, and added a shitload of depth to what Van Halen was capable of.  No disprespect to the Roth era, because I loved it, but this constant bashing of the Sammy era albums is ridiculously tiresome and completely without merit.

Besides, on a list of top heavy metal albums, why would this douche even be discussing Van Halen??

[Gorille85]

What the shit.

[skydivingninja]

I'm sure one look at unpopular screamo/grindcore/hardcore artists could have provided 100 bad metal albums for their list.

[LudwigVan]

That's just a stupid list.  I'm sure it was done, in part, to elicit a reaction. 

[YtseBitsySpider]

^^agreed^^

3, 5, 8??? Go fuck yourself Yahoo.

[Liberation]

Seems like a typical "I don't like these albums, so NOBODY IS ALLOWED TO LIKE THEM" list. Lol-worthy at best.

They put Load/Reload in there but not Death Magnetic? Jesus.

If they put Death Magnetic in there the list wouldn't be lol-worthy, it would be rofl-worthy.

[Vajra]

Load & Reload = When you look past the filler material, you realize these albums contain some of Metallica's best songs they've ever written. Bleeding Me, Outlaw Torn, and Fixxxer are prog masterpieces, just to name a few.

[King Postwhore]

Yahoo can't count.  That's 12 albums not 10.

[Dream Team]

NOT.....EVEN.......CLOSE (Well maybe 1/10)

This is seriously lacking Cryptopsy's The Unspoken King, Queensryche's Addicted To Chaos, Any Deathcore album, and plenty of others.

Now we're talking!

[MykeHavoc]

This list touches dinkies with other lists

[ZirconBlue]

And, Motley's s/t album is totally underrated.  Granted, I bought it and traded it to a friend of mine for pizza money at college when it came out.  Having gone back and reacquired it, though... it's a very solid album.  It's not Feelgood 2, which is what everyone wanted.  I mean, who gets rid of their lead singer after their most successful album to date?  Not the best move.  But, Corabi brought a lot to the table.

I'd go so far as to say that their S/T was better than any other album the band released.  But, it's not really a "Motley Crue" album. 

[Gadough]

I hate to say it, but I agree that Never Say Die belongs on the list. Someone needs to explain to me why that album is any good.

[cfmoran13]

And, Motley's s/t album is totally underrated.  Granted, I bought it and traded it to a friend of mine for pizza money at college when it came out.  Having gone back and reacquired it, though... it's a very solid album.  It's not Feelgood 2, which is what everyone wanted.  I mean, who gets rid of their lead singer after their most successful album to date?  Not the best move.  But, Corabi brought a lot to the table.

I'd go so far as to say that their S/T was better than any other album the band released.  But, it's not really a "Motley Crue" album.

I might go so far as to agree with you.  It's a really solid hard rock album.  It's just a shame that Tommy and Nikki originally blamed John Corabi for the album's failure.  They made a calculated move to go in the opposite direction of Dr. Feelgood and go really heavy and dark.  Mission accomplished.  At least he went on to make 2 more good albums with Bruce Kulick after that.

[Ravenheart]

There are certain rules to heavy metal that must be observed. The first rule is FIRE THE KEYBOARD PLAYER. Let him join a progressive rock or pop band where he belongs.

There are rules in music?


Edit: Oh God, the comments on this thing are just as vomit-inducing.

[ZBomber]

What a horrendous list. 

[EPICVIEW]

Raven, the Pack is Back.... NO WAY!!!!!!! This album defines Metal and is really a concept album based upon Wackos time at Burger King, its a deep album that must be listened to with only the highest quality headphones, look..Im not saying the remaster of it is done correctly, but I don think that should be taken into account..sigh......