Speaking of really consistent bands: I've revisited the Immortal discography and i really didn't expect them to be so much consistently good, i had a lot of fun with each album!

...And here comes the unpopular opinion: All Shall Fall is a really great album and one of the best of their discography, Abbath's riffing is way more creative than he's given credit for and the fact that they can both make a fun Bathory-like thrasher like Hordes to War, a melodic charger like the title track and a brooding epic like Unearthly Kingdom on the same album shows their versatility. Damned in Black too is often maligned, but i really liked it.

The least fun ones were probably the first, the latest and Blizzard Beasts (even if the strong songs here are really strong) and the best kept secret is the amazingly fun I Between Two Worlds album, Ice Dale is one of the best lead guitar players you don't know!

I'd say you should give Risk a chance. Keep an open mind, it's not heavy metal but it is pretty darn good. I love the Time songs for example. Those are some of the best stuff Mustaine has written.

Why though, when that time could be spent on MUCH better albums?

Yet another metal guy who doesn't like hardcore-adjacent genres. Yeah..... SUPER unpopular opinion there bud haha.


Seriously this thread lost the plot over 10 pages ago.

Creatures of the Night is a Saxon record with Paul and Gene singing.

Guess I'm a golden mean kind of Immortal listener, since my top three favourites by them are Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism, Damned in Black and Northern Chaos Gods.

Guess I'm a golden mean kind of Immortal listener, since my top three favourites by them are Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism, Damned in Black and Northern Chaos Gods.

Yet another metal guy who doesn't like hardcore-adjacent genres. Yeah..... SUPER unpopular opinion there bud haha.

Seriously this thread lost the plot over 10 pages ago.

Ehh honestly it's starting to be. I'm in a metal Discord (not this site's, another one) where being a hater of sludge/hardcore/post-whatever is definitely in the minority, meanwhile classic 80's metal gets sneered at and you get called a "boomer" etc.


Well yeah. I mean, that was the case when some assclown claimed black metal was the least racist subgenre (and, naturally, ran away and never came back to elaborate).

Sepultura Chaos A.D. is a great album

You need only contestualize

Sepultura Chaos A.D. is a great album

You need only contestualize

Well yeah. I mean, that was the case when some assclown claimed black metal was the least racist subgenre (and, naturally, ran away and never came back to elaborate).

That's not really an unpopular opinion, though.

Also Immortal is at their best with more heavy metal and thrash influence. At The Heart of Winter and Sons of Northern Darkness are masterpieces and All Shall Fall is good fun.

Or at least it shouldn't be. Sepultura's last good album tbh.

Burzum is one hundred times better than Mayhem.

The end complete is better than Cause of Death

I find myself listening to End complete more often than COD so I think I agree, but I doubt we're the only ones; wasn't TEC the biggest-selling death metal record ever, or something? Plus they played the entire thing for a streaming gig recently.

Mayhem only have one decent album, and even that is ruined by the vocals.

Mayhem have at least three great albums. Ordonad Chao and Esoteric Warfare are cool too.

At the Heart of Winter is pretty varied and technical though. Always considered it to be pretty technical for Black Metal.

Mayhem have at least three great albums. Ordonad Chao and Esoteric Warfare are cool too.

I find myself listening to End complete more often than COD so I think I agree, but I doubt we're the only ones; wasn't TEC the biggest-selling death metal record ever, or something? Plus they played the entire thing for a streaming gig recently.

Mayhem only has one GREAT album (which single-handedly justifies their legend) and the vocals are great.

That was obviously a joke.

And I didn't run away, I wrote several paragraphs of response to HeavenDuff. You are just wrong, and very rude.

That was obviously a joke. And I didn't run away, I wrote several paragraphs of response to HeavenDuff. You are just wrong, and very rude.

nah, some cool riffs and atmosphere but zero songwriting

I barely care about dinosaur bands anymore, you know, the Maidens, Weens, Priests, etc...

I rather look up new bands (that play classic heavy/power/speed, which is what I'm into) that are currently trying to make it and support them because buying 1 album (physically or digitally) from a new band, makes a much bigger impact for them, than for example Maiden, if I buy their album, that money is just a dissapearing drop in the ocean.

I barely care about dinosaur bands anymore, you know, the Maidens, Weens, Priests, etc...

I rather look up new bands (that play classic heavy/power/speed, which is what I'm into) that are currently trying to make it and support them because buying 1 album (physically or digitally) from a new band, makes a much bigger impact for them, than for example Maiden, if I buy their album, that money is just a dissapearing drop in the ocean.

Daemon is a great album…