As a metalhead it's amazing to see infamous flops like Illud Divinum Insanus and gross but hilarious metal inside jokes like Torsofuck and Waking the Cadaver get represented here... but holy crap, did they miss out on a GOLDMINE with the genres they skipped. Heck, the grindcore and goregrind section alone would have probably yielded a whole vid of its own
There’s also a band called Canine with two dogs on the vocals. Edit: it’s Caninus, not Canine, my bad. They have a split with Hatebeak and one with Cattle Decapitation.
worst morbid angel record. big mistake. please don’t base your opinion on them just from that one misstep from a extensive catalog of great classic Florida death metal
I just wish industrial metal was included, because I know torch the faith by psychosexual should be on it. Speaking of which we really need to get Bradley to listen to it.
Industrial imo is by far the most impressive subgenre. Albums like Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (or any of them really), Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey, Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip are all far more cinematic than frontrunners of other subgenres. Not to mention, making industrial music in general is really difficult, but making that work with a guitar riff and bassline is extremely difficult. It's something that really takes a lot of knowledge of sound design to get right. Also, nu-metal. Really shocked it's not there considering there's tons of terrible albums (Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary), and tons of incredible albums (Mudvayne - L.D.50 is the peak of nu-metal).
@@bchil8738 There's also the rebrand (it's the exact same thing) band called Psychosynner. Same band, except maybe the faceless musicians have different masks I guesss. He's already seen Etienne Sin, this would make it a sin off !!
The fact that the Burzum album appeared in this video is shocking. It's lazy sure but it is not even considered bad black metal, nevermind one of the worst of all time
@@crazyluigi6664Nah dude, there are hundreds of black metal records releasing every year. Lots of underground stuff and solo projects but also a looot of better known bands in the scene put out stuff regularly
I was hoping someone else would make this comment lmao. But yeah, go listen to the demo version of Waking the Cadvers Chased Through the Woods... if you wanna know more
1:40 about this one, the name roughly translates to devil's dawn - the devils are calling, and next to no info is out there about who actually made it. the ambient tracks are actually quarter decent though. also throwing craniorachischisis (NSFW) intot the ring. UPDATE: I did some digging, some guy who goes by the name of Keldon Krothor made diabły wzywają, and apparently was involved in some other projects, but outside of that is pretty much an enigma.
if Torture has million number of fans i am one of them. if Torture has ten fans i am one of them. if Torture has no fans. that means i am no more on the earth. if world against Torture, i am against the world. i love Torture till my last breath... die hard fan of Torture. Hit like if u think Torture best & smart in the world
Slightly off topic but one thing I find interesting about some music scenes is that the ppl really invested in it have completely different "norms." Like one album can be hated by a majority of metalheads for something non-metalheads wouldn't even notice - often barely tied to the actual music.
Sunbather by Deafheaven is a quintessential example of this. I’ve heard non-metalheads love it, but it just sounds terrible to me and a lot of other metalheads for various reasons. Biggest I can name off the top of my head are the massive amounts of filler, horrendous guitar tone, vocals way too quiet in the mix, very dull production overall, lack of any strong or memorable riffs, and hamfisted fake-feeling emotional elements (like the piano in the last track lol). I think a lot of those are just symptoms of how the shoegaze aspects were included, but then again I’ve heard blackgaze albums that didn’t bore me to death before so it may be more than just that.
@@uranium54321 I once listened to a relatively obscure (at least to people who aren't huge fans of black metal) album that was widely seen as one of the worst black metal albums ever - one that was lowkey disrespectful of black metal culture as a whole. To me, who is only mildly familiar with it, I genuinely couldn't tell what separated it from most other OK-ish black metal.
The OP video is kinda ass tbh… the black metal section is solid but the rest isn’t great. Their rule that the album needs to have a certain number of ratings to qualify means the actual worst albums aren’t even considered. 3/5 is considered bad? Like, the first Aborted as the worst BDM album of its time? Seriously? It’s a 6/10 at worst imo (website agrees), and BDM is PACKED with poorly performed, poorly executed turbo-trash. Besides, what about bands like Putrid Stu/Prolapsed Bicep/Mortuary Ghoul, or avant-garde ambient death metal like Portal/Ulcerate/Imperial Triumphant that are good *because* they’re ‘bad’ on purpose. They’d be the worst for the uninitiated, but they’re great (or at least well made) for those with the ear for it. Where do those go? High or low?
@darealjoff19 considering making my own, more curated video of the worst of 2024 (not necessarily all time) and a lot of them beat the examples here by miles, especially in the doom metal sections lol
17:14 That is genuinely the worst Dream Theater album, its 2 hours long and the whole theme of the album feels like something straight out of a star wars ripoff But i recommend checking out for the funsies
Alestorm is a fun band just in general. If you’re trying to turn your brain off but still want a little heaviness with your fun, you can’t go wrong. Same with Electric Callboy on the metalcore side of things. Edit: sorry for long comment, but in defense of Rings of Saturn, before the vocalist and drummer were basically driven out, they were a fairly good technical deathcore band. Alrighty, I’ve said my words lol
I can understand Brad's take, DT are cheesy af, but they usually make up for it by being mind-melting musicians. I think he needs to check out Metropolis Part Two and Train of Thought.
@@tylerbailey9329 Nah he needs to check Periphery (he loved Meshuggah) and then try one of the newer Haken albums, and THEN try Train of thought. That's a good path for someone who likes Shuggah to get into noodly wiener flopping prog
You should check out more modern Kamelot, especially the albums from the Roy Khan era. They became a completely different band, and have some spectacular live performances. Karma - Epica - The Black Halo is an insanely good run of albums.
As a Dream Theater fan, I can admit that The Astonishing and WDADU (When Dream And Day Unite) are not good albums. While WDADU has the benefit of being old enough to have probably been somewhat enjoyable in the 80s for Prog fans, The Astonishing was.. well... astonishingly bad from day 1. The band has a lot of nice stuff to offer, although they rarely escape the legitimate criticisms of track bloat, including overly long intros and meandering outros that just pad runtime across what I consider to be their best work. They have some fantastic tracks across their discography, but I can understand that they do not appeal to everyone.
@@hannahkozlovic1715 i saw them live last year they were really good. haven't listened to them much since the festival but i remember the albums to be good so i was amused that they were on the list.
just reading some of the song titles and band names, you can clearly tell, that their goal was making people feel pure disgust. major W for all the edgy metal bands i guess
Bc it wasn’t a very good Sepultura album and it was just taken directly from RYM (which requires certain numbers of ratings to chart). A lot of the worst albums don’t get that many ratings so mediocre albums end up near the bottom of the list in some cases
seeing the really niche and heavier/brutal genres i see as normal is kinda funny. like waking the cadaver is like a sunday drive to me basically lol. also im a HUGE dream theater fan and yeah the astonishing fuckin sucks. their albums from the 2010s are very weak.
It seems like without Portnoy, they just kind of stopped trying new things and stayed in their comfort zone. It's progressive metal without any progression.
I really do hate that the memey bullshit "hurr durr funny" and "wah slow melody" is all that represents PM in the eyes of music critics. So much of it is genuinely fantastic but this video doesn't help it's case 😭
If you care, I'd say some of my favorites are Keepers 2 by Helloween, Destiny by Stratovarius, and Somewhere out in space by Gamma Ray. For USPM I'd throw out Crystal Logic by Manilla Road, In the Hall of the Mountain King by Savatage and Traveler by Slough Feg.
Kinda surprised to see any Strato on the worst list given their massive level of influence, but I guess there's not much else to choose in the 80s. Other super essential albums (besides Keepers 2), Somewhere Far Beyond by Blind Guardian, Symphony of Enchanted lands by Rhapsody and Rebirth by Angra
It's insultingly bad. The first half would be mid but adequate, if the songs were about half their lengths. The second half is Onision-tier zero effort hold music garbage. I honestly don't get why fans of black metal, by and large an awesome, inventive genre, fixate on this one bellend- Weakling exist for heavens sake.
No idea why I struggled so hard to find the appeal in this stuff as a kid. Internally I'd be thinking "Yeah this is great" but deeper down I'd be like "wtf..."
I'm honestly disappointed I didn't get to show brad the magic of Vorak's "Triumph of the Will" for the first time, it's legit one of the funniest things I've ever heard EDIT: 9:02 -- as someone who's listened to over 600 metal albums released in 2024 so far, believe me when I say there IS a ton of bad doom metal. It's just SO bad that it doesn't get enough ratings to show up on the "worst of all time" list on RYM. Also it's mostly not funny-bad, it's just extremely boring.
Reaction to the reaction as a metal fan for 10+ years, especially black metal Czarci Świt is basically the 'so bad it's good' of black metal albums. Gets me cackling everytime Neckbeard Deathcamp is a one man parody project formed by a leftist dude to imitate and make fun of bad NSBM projects. So the album is bad on purpose- not really an excuse tho lol The behemoth placement is rather odd- but as the last two albums has been so aggresively mid and since they are defintely one of the biggest metal acts in the world I understand Negura Bunget are a bastion in incorporating folk elements( actual folk instruments, not just keyboard) into cold hard-hitting black metal and imo have a flawless discography. Lowkey grinds my gears that it's on a list like this lol That Burzum album is actually a compliation released of re-recordings of his earlier stuff,- I guess the low score is because re-recordings mostly are inferior to the originals. Trha's albums are actually amazingly beautiful, I don't know why this split sounds like this That Bethlehem album is another bland re-recording . The band's earlier work could be categorized as such, but then they went into a wierd experimental tangent which is hit or miss. Their earlier albums are definitely the most pulverizing and cathartic examples of depressive/doomy black metal- listen to Dictius Te Necare.( Also, the guy who did vocals for this album is one of the most cringe tryhard edgelords in black metal, and that's saying something) P.S this comment was written before Brad was laughing hysterically at Dictus Te Necare on the 'highest rated metal album' snippet. Not cool Brad, not cool >:( Sorry is a great DSBM band. I like Sorry Wtf that Sepultura split is awesome! One of the best examples of proto-black metal Six Feet Under wohooo! Let's go BREE BREE BREE Illud Divinum Insanus is one of the more popular bad metal albums, maybe even the most popular. All that being said it's slightly grown on me I understand the Aborted hate today since they sold out but The Purity of Perversion is a great album, a death metal classic Torsofuck is just mindless fun stuff, so is Hatebeak That Tougher than nails album has some insane lore behind it, I'd suggest do some research on that and read some interviews Even Candlemass' worst album sounds so good is a testament to their legendary status Folk metal is not one of my favourite genres either, but it's a lot of fun especially live The Gathering has probably the best female clean metal vocalist ever, and this song doesn't do that justice Cradle of Filth has some absolute classics but the mid outweights the bangers unfortunately NSD could be considered the worst of the Ozzy era, but Black Sabbath has wayy worse. Listen to Born Again and tell me if that isn't much much worse Jag Panzer are classic, they have a lot of memorable stuff WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT that Discharge album.Thanks for not talking about it Brad :) In a wierd way over the years I've grown a form of affection towards Lulu, in a novelty kind of way wtf who put Parkway Drive in the same collection of old school metal acts? Anthrax is one of the big 4 of thrash and you put it under speed metal? ( Also Brad not all thrash metal is Slayer -_- ) Venom Inc is a band with only one of the core Venom members and the same lineup as 1991 Venom. So they are essentially wish Venom lol Toxic sounds more power metal than speed metal Don't understand why OP wants to distinguish power metal ( I guess he is talking about European power metal here) and US power metal. Def on average the former is faster than the latter, but the lines are very very blurred- so much so that this partition doesn't make sense Iced Earth- Jan 6th core metal Why is Kamelot in both categories lol( Btw Brad there is some really good power metal out there, listen to Blind Guardian or Helloween) Hammerfall is great Queensryche's first two albums are considered prog metal essentials but I agree this album is ass Probot is a metal project of Dave Grohl. That album has some bangers Ok that's alll I gotta say. Peace out
also the trha is unfortunate since trha is like the best black metal band imo thats still making black metal today, and the person behind it is really cool, its just that its a split and the other side didnt do very well
@@anuraglakshminarayan4559 Well, the point is that album ranked 0.75 is definitely a worthy 0 contender alongside a couple other albums listed like that one all-time worst black metal album and the album with the compressed to death vocals.
Half of these albums are no BAD albums, some sub genres themselves are acquired tastes, like In Jeraspunta by Dark Tribe, if you only hear the first 30 seconds you would think it has a rating of 2
@@IsraDevilEthan is 100% a Zionist or at the very least upholds Zionist views, energy, and confused desires (he wants Palestinians to live but also thinks Israel deserves the land too? That's not how it works) Just another hypocritical take from Mr. Ethan Klein himself.
I don't take anyone's opinion seriously if they say they hate power metal 😅 Ensiferum Two Paths and Manowar Lord of Steel might be a step down in quality compared to those 2 bands other albums but they are nowhere close to being worst in their subgenres. I think the low scores are just from angry fans who will rate an album that's objectively a 6 out of 10 as a 2 because it didn't quite meet their expectations.
You lost a long time fan today homie. Apologizing for hanging with Ethan and Hila without even trying to defend it is pathetic. Just stay in your room if you have no spine.
Venom is like bog standard metal. The fact it showed up multiple times in speed metal means either that's a great genre, or such a niche genre that it crosses over with a bunch of other genres and venom was the only one that fit whatever the speed genre is supposed to be.
Kamelot is actually one of my favorite bands, but their first three albums were basically glorified demos, and they didn't get good until they got an actual professional producer in 1999.
I unironically own and listen to that Torsofuck album Also, brads reaction to Slam Metal is about as beautiful and as perfect as i expected(I love all the slam and brutal death metal albums)
Hell yeah. The OG pig squealing death metal band Waking the Cadaver. As I am watching... Brad didn't listen to the so bad it's amazing masterpiece "chased through the woods...." I don't remember the full title. It has everything from the generic documentary sample of a serial killer.. to the illegible lyrics.. to the straight up pig 🐖 squeals... "Shredded wheat.. shredded shredded shredded and shredded wheat ...."
afraid i may have brainrot because not only do i like a number of these bands (sorry, waking the cadaver, torsofuck) but i recognized a good number. SHREDDED WHEAAAAT
most of Bethlehem's music is excellent. that album is a terrible "remake" of their classic, Sardonischer Untergang im Zeichen irreligiöser Darbietung (SUiZiD). Morbid Angel is also mostly excellent. i have no idea what they were thinking on Illud Divinum Insanus. Venom's first few albums are pretty good, a big early influence on Black Metal, alongside Bathory. Dream Theater does indeed suck balls. so much talent wasted on such bad music. Probot is an interesting project, it's Dave Grohl on most instruments, working with his Metal heroes like Lemmy and King Diamond. not a masterpiece, but some solid tracks. A Blaze In The Northern Sky, and Darkthrone in general, are well worth checking out. classic Black Metal.
SUiZiD is such a mindblowing fricked-up little industrial dungeon. Others don't seem to agree, but it's on the same level of Dictius Te Necare for me. I rarely hear music this simultaneously unsettling and riotously fun.
This video gives me the same feeling as when a Brit shits on the US. Like does the US suck? Sure, but I don't want to hear it from a brit. Does Waking the Cadaver suck? Sure, but I don't want to hear it from someone who has never heard of brutal death metal.
Kaatharian Life Code by Darkthrone... It's one of the first Darkthrone songs I have ever heard. The last riff made my hair stand on end. Was disappointed to see Vintersorg on here. And was that Madhouse by Anthrax, I heard? Man...
As a metalhead it's amazing to see infamous flops like Illud Divinum Insanus and gross but hilarious metal inside jokes like Torsofuck and Waking the Cadaver get represented here... but holy crap, did they miss out on a GOLDMINE with the genres they skipped. Heck, the grindcore and goregrind section alone would have probably yielded a whole vid of its own
Pornogrind is a classic
I would love to see brad listen to some mince or grind
@@nicholaswhite-spenik3453me too
Can we get brad to listen to mxmxm or last days of humanity?
@@safetyfirst487 ldoh yes
These albums represent the mainstream's perception of metal.
This genre really is like a video game, looks like these albums did not beat the final stage 😢
Or the first, for that matter
they did not collect any coins...
These albums stuck on the tutorial
But they are growing up to be big
Yall really need to stop posting comments like this
Oh hey! Thanks for reacting to my video!
A lot of work went into it, so I hope you had fun watching it.
I definitely had fun watching your reaction :)
3:52 greatest moment in metal history
Hey Aspen (●’◡’●)ﾉ
Number of the Beak is hilarious
Rip Blake Harrison
There’s also a band called Canine with two dogs on the vocals.
Edit: it’s Caninus, not Canine, my bad. They have a split with Hatebeak and one with Cattle Decapitation.
@Buzzah can you give the rym link?
I love how the first thing he thinks about is covering up the album cover and then a no no german symbol shows up right after
worst morbid angel record. big mistake. please don’t base your opinion on them just from that one misstep from a extensive catalog of great classic Florida death metal
Seconded and boooost
yes
listen to altars of madness and blessed are the sick
amazing albuks
where the slime live my beloved,
@@Dr._Heinz_Doofenshmirtzdon’t forget covenant, formulas, and gateways🤨
@@coolbugfacts3953 Thankfully, he did listen to Where The Slime Live first before that one Morbid Angel clip. :)
Brad learns about Extreme Metal sub-genres.
I love watching brad discover the weird anime brutal death metal crossover bubble lmao
ICDD 🔥🔥🔥
Is that the one with that Love Live! School Idol morbid fanfiction in it?? 😂😂
@@griffix2841dude ICDD is so sick fr
its a somewhat cool crossover tho! im mutuals w the dude from yanderechainsawregurgitationfactory n the guys totally sweet
@@Gary_a_normal_human_being frrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I just wish industrial metal was included, because I know torch the faith by psychosexual should be on it.
Speaking of which we really need to get Bradley to listen to it.
Industrial imo is by far the most impressive subgenre. Albums like Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (or any of them really), Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey, Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip are all far more cinematic than frontrunners of other subgenres. Not to mention, making industrial music in general is really difficult, but making that work with a guitar riff and bassline is extremely difficult. It's something that really takes a lot of knowledge of sound design to get right.
Also, nu-metal. Really shocked it's not there considering there's tons of terrible albums (Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary), and tons of incredible albums (Mudvayne - L.D.50 is the peak of nu-metal).
that album has been more thoroughly scrubbed from the internet than any other musical project I know of, so good luck with that
Well, I know this channel called Obscure that has a video with the entirety of the album on it.
@@bchil8738 There's also the rebrand (it's the exact same thing) band called Psychosynner. Same band, except maybe the faceless musicians have different masks I guesss. He's already seen Etienne Sin, this would make it a sin off !!
4:05 Deftones if they were good:
I watched yooouuu chaaaaaaaange
"I'm Chino and I'm soooo hoooorny"
@@matthewroth4078 In the house of flies...
The fact that the Burzum album appeared in this video is shocking. It's lazy sure but it is not even considered bad black metal, nevermind one of the worst of all time
yeah like majority of burzums black metal stuff is peak
@@Hallow1And then Varg made synth music.
The ties to Varg are not doing it any favors
I mean, Brad was fair in saying there wasn't that many black metal albums released in the 2020's thus far, probably.
@@crazyluigi6664Nah dude, there are hundreds of black metal records releasing every year. Lots of underground stuff and solo projects but also a looot of better known bands in the scene put out stuff regularly
Brad feels like that one cool uncle in the family meetup
"that one cousin who's a dick but still makes you laugh" is more like it
Brad Feeling me up like that one cool uncle in the family meetup ?
A counter to Coleen ballinger 's "creepy aunt"....?
Yeah if that uncle gets on social media and talks about "hearing Palestinian voices" and "black lives matter". That uncle would suck.
W profile pic
7:06 for *SHREDDED WHEAT*
Unfortunately that version of the song is not on the album hahaha
I was hoping someone else would make this comment lmao. But yeah, go listen to the demo version of Waking the Cadvers Chased Through the Woods... if you wanna know more
@@LordofDiamondsMetal make sure it's the misinterpreted lyrics one hahaha
That misinterpreted lyrics video has been a meme in the metal community since the MySpace years
1:40
about this one, the name roughly translates to devil's dawn - the devils are calling, and next to no info is out there about who actually made it. the ambient tracks are actually quarter decent though. also throwing craniorachischisis (NSFW) intot the ring.
UPDATE: I did some digging, some guy who goes by the name of Keldon Krothor made diabły wzywają, and apparently was involved in some other projects, but outside of that is pretty much an enigma.
Brad being exposed to Slam is so funny, someone send him Enduring Freedom by Torture
i suddenly have the urge to send him infectious jelqing.
if Torture has million number of fans i am one of them. if Torture has ten fans i am one of them. if Torture has no fans. that means i am no more on the earth. if world against Torture, i am against the world. i love Torture till my last breath... die hard fan of Torture. Hit like if u think Torture best & smart in the world
x-ray arcade show was a movie
I played a show with a slam band and the singer brought his co workers to the show and they looked so uncomfortable lol I felt bad 😂
"Literal diarrhea of porn grind"
Dude hasn't even heard Gutalax yet, has he?
If you ever run into an "I listen to all kinds of music!" kind of person, show them this. Probably won't even like music anymore afterwards
Yeah "listen to all kinds" is never the right word choice. I listen to many types OR I am open to all types is probably more accurate.
I am one of those people, and I grew up listening to this kind of music, I even recognized several of the bands😂
Slightly off topic but one thing I find interesting about some music scenes is that the ppl really invested in it have completely different "norms." Like one album can be hated by a majority of metalheads for something non-metalheads wouldn't even notice - often barely tied to the actual music.
Sunbather by Deafheaven is a quintessential example of this. I’ve heard non-metalheads love it, but it just sounds terrible to me and a lot of other metalheads for various reasons. Biggest I can name off the top of my head are the massive amounts of filler, horrendous guitar tone, vocals way too quiet in the mix, very dull production overall, lack of any strong or memorable riffs, and hamfisted fake-feeling emotional elements (like the piano in the last track lol). I think a lot of those are just symptoms of how the shoegaze aspects were included, but then again I’ve heard blackgaze albums that didn’t bore me to death before so it may be more than just that.
@@uranium54321 I once listened to a relatively obscure (at least to people who aren't huge fans of black metal) album that was widely seen as one of the worst black metal albums ever - one that was lowkey disrespectful of black metal culture as a whole. To me, who is only mildly familiar with it, I genuinely couldn't tell what separated it from most other OK-ish black metal.
Finally brad is discovering some good music
1:09 they done let the birds in they done let the- 🦅
This video kinda feels like the lowest rated metal albums of all time (reaction) but that might just be me idk
The OP video is kinda ass tbh… the black metal section is solid but the rest isn’t great. Their rule that the album needs to have a certain number of ratings to qualify means the actual worst albums aren’t even considered. 3/5 is considered bad? Like, the first Aborted as the worst BDM album of its time? Seriously? It’s a 6/10 at worst imo (website agrees), and BDM is PACKED with poorly performed, poorly executed turbo-trash.
Besides, what about bands like Putrid Stu/Prolapsed Bicep/Mortuary Ghoul, or avant-garde ambient death metal like Portal/Ulcerate/Imperial Triumphant that are good *because* they’re ‘bad’ on purpose. They’d be the worst for the uninitiated, but they’re great (or at least well made) for those with the ear for it. Where do those go? High or low?
@darealjoff19 considering making my own, more curated video of the worst of 2024 (not necessarily all time) and a lot of them beat the examples here by miles, especially in the doom metal sections lol
Def need to check out Blaze in the Northern Sky. If there was ever to be one Black Metal album we fedex to the alien homeworld, that would be the one.
In The Nightside Eclipse is peak for me, but A Blaze In The Northern Sky is close.
@@nondescriptcat5620 TBH Emperor is a better listen, fo sho
@@scottwatrousnah
22:21 Why does the vocalist sound like he's screaming "groovy tuxedo!!!" XD
Rainer Landfermann is one of my favorite black metal vocalist he sounds so deranged
New additions to the nightmare blunt rotation playlist just dropped 🔥
"worst X metal"..... a 3.5/5 is like a 7/10, thats not even bad enough to complain about
17:14 That is genuinely the worst Dream Theater album, its 2 hours long and the whole theme of the album feels like something straight out of a star wars ripoff
But i recommend checking out for the funsies
Alestorm is a fun band just in general. If you’re trying to turn your brain off but still want a little heaviness with your fun, you can’t go wrong. Same with Electric Callboy on the metalcore side of things.
Edit: sorry for long comment, but in defense of Rings of Saturn, before the vocalist and drummer were basically driven out, they were a fairly good technical deathcore band. Alrighty, I’ve said my words lol
I unironically listen Torsofuck 😢
Same…
What's your favourite stuff from them?
@@flutterg1035 cannibalism violence demo. The full lengths are dope but I like demos they makes my wiener feel bigger
Me too a whole playlist full of their music. Edit do you like Holy Cost?
@@WoRmTrinity same. I own two of their shirts and I can really only wear them at shows
16:24 Dream Theater mentioned! Just in a bad light lol
Yeah yet another Brad L but atleast they were mentioned
I can understand Brad's take, DT are cheesy af, but they usually make up for it by being mind-melting musicians. I think he needs to check out Metropolis Part Two and Train of Thought.
@@tylerbailey9329 Nah he needs to check Periphery (he loved Meshuggah) and then try one of the newer Haken albums, and THEN try Train of thought. That's a good path for someone who likes Shuggah to get into noodly wiener flopping prog
DT fucking sucks but Pull Me Under and Panic Attack are good songs
Surprised that St Anger wasn't on here
Yeah, though I'm not sure which metal genre to even place that. It is some kind of lo-fi hard rock, nu metal, alt rock abomination.
This video is my first time hearing Discharge’s weird metal era and I’m disturbed. Bring me back my d-beat please
I haven’t seen the video yet but I hope Brad goes “REMEMBER!” Every few songs
You should check out more modern Kamelot, especially the albums from the Roy Khan era. They became a completely different band, and have some spectacular live performances. Karma - Epica - The Black Halo is an insanely good run of albums.
As a Dream Theater fan, I can admit that The Astonishing and WDADU (When Dream And Day Unite) are not good albums. While WDADU has the benefit of being old enough to have probably been somewhat enjoyable in the 80s for Prog fans, The Astonishing was.. well... astonishingly bad from day 1.
The band has a lot of nice stuff to offer, although they rarely escape the legitimate criticisms of track bloat, including overly long intros and meandering outros that just pad runtime across what I consider to be their best work. They have some fantastic tracks across their discography, but I can understand that they do not appeal to everyone.
Images & Words is decent, and I'm not that much of a DT fan.
@@MetalPersonJ it's arguably their biggest success for non-prog fans. Pull Me Under is their greatest hit, after all.
Seeing aborted on the brutal death metal was hilarious. Their new album was kinda great tho can't even pretend
I’m seeing Aborted live on Sunday so I found this very entertaining as well
Aborted isn't even bad, surprised to see them at the bottom
Their first one is great too - don't know what people are smoking.
They have several great albums!
@@hannahkozlovic1715 i saw them live last year they were really good. haven't listened to them much since the festival but i remember the albums to be good so i was amused that they were on the list.
just reading some of the song titles and band names, you can clearly tell, that their goal was making people feel pure disgust. major W for all the edgy metal bands i guess
brad summer
where's limp bizkit
At the top where he BELONGS
ChOclOlAtE StArFiSh
nu metal doesnt counts as metal for most metal heads (its more rockish tbh, as a ratm and linkin park fan)
That’s for the best albums
@@canalcoloradoaado it is a form of metal If Korn or Slipknot aren't metal then i don't know what is
4:49 why is Sepultura here :(
i mean, it still has a 3/5. that ain't bad.
Bc it wasn’t a very good Sepultura album and it was just taken directly from RYM (which requires certain numbers of ratings to chart). A lot of the worst albums don’t get that many ratings so mediocre albums end up near the bottom of the list in some cases
6:48 someone in chat said wind type beat 😭
Man now I need brad to listen to some of the power metal classics like early blind guardian, running wild or helloween
Hating power metal means I now don't respect his judgement on any music ever 😅
seeing the really niche and heavier/brutal genres i see as normal is kinda funny. like waking the cadaver is like a sunday drive to me basically lol. also im a HUGE dream theater fan and yeah the astonishing fuckin sucks. their albums from the 2010s are very weak.
It seems like without Portnoy, they just kind of stopped trying new things and stayed in their comfort zone. It's progressive metal without any progression.
@whym6438 exactly! I'm so glad he's back and I'm pumped as hell for the new record.
Right I feel like an alien watching Brad react so harshly to music I find normal
Never Say Die isn't bad, it's just post prime Black Sabbath and pre Dio Sabbath.
It's great if you compare it to Born Again
@@drumdreamer92 no, born again blows nsd out of the water
@@TheCozierPowellBorn Again has good songs, but the production is almost unlistenable
Genre: Emperor Palpatine choking to death on an exceptionally large Cheeto
I really do hate that the memey bullshit "hurr durr funny" and "wah slow melody" is all that represents PM in the eyes of music critics. So much of it is genuinely fantastic but this video doesn't help it's case 😭
If you care, I'd say some of my favorites are Keepers 2 by Helloween, Destiny by Stratovarius, and Somewhere out in space by Gamma Ray. For USPM I'd throw out Crystal Logic by Manilla Road, In the Hall of the Mountain King by Savatage and Traveler by Slough Feg.
Kinda surprised to see any Strato on the worst list given their massive level of influence, but I guess there's not much else to choose in the 80s. Other super essential albums (besides Keepers 2), Somewhere Far Beyond by Blind Guardian, Symphony of Enchanted lands by Rhapsody and Rebirth by Angra
This video is literally about the lowest rated albums, what did you expect?
0:43 bro who let strong bad on the mic 😭😭😭
DECAY, DERANGED, DECREPIT, DELOUSED
@@mememachine-386jugga jigga wugga
The Burzum disrespect is crazy,., you can hate the guy, but hating on filosofem? Its top 3 black metal records ever!
This album is pure garbage to me.
It's insultingly bad. The first half would be mid but adequate, if the songs were about half their lengths. The second half is Onision-tier zero effort hold music garbage. I honestly don't get why fans of black metal, by and large an awesome, inventive genre, fixate on this one bellend- Weakling exist for heavens sake.
"Highest rated viking metal" is an oxymoron
Joining the stream when Rings of Saturn played was something else. What the hell was that?
Torsofuck and Waking the Cadaver are great man!
3:10 that's just Liturgy
No idea why I struggled so hard to find the appeal in this stuff as a kid. Internally I'd be thinking "Yeah this is great" but deeper down I'd be like "wtf..."
I NEED a brad taste reaction to the entirety of Blaze in the Northern Sky now
I'm honestly disappointed I didn't get to show brad the magic of Vorak's "Triumph of the Will" for the first time, it's legit one of the funniest things I've ever heard
EDIT: 9:02 -- as someone who's listened to over 600 metal albums released in 2024 so far, believe me when I say there IS a ton of bad doom metal. It's just SO bad that it doesn't get enough ratings to show up on the "worst of all time" list on RYM. Also it's mostly not funny-bad, it's just extremely boring.
Half of these sound like something you would hear playing on a TV or Radio in Smiling Friends
Certified Brad Classic
I'm so disappointed that we didn't get to hear the lowest rated nu metal albums of all time
1:26 triumph of the will of the people
Reaction to the reaction as a metal fan for 10+ years, especially black metal
Czarci Świt is basically the 'so bad it's good' of black metal albums. Gets me cackling everytime
Neckbeard Deathcamp is a one man parody project formed by a leftist dude to imitate and make fun of bad NSBM projects. So the album is bad on purpose- not really an excuse tho lol
The behemoth placement is rather odd- but as the last two albums has been so aggresively mid and since they are defintely one of the biggest metal acts in the world I understand
Negura Bunget are a bastion in incorporating folk elements( actual folk instruments, not just keyboard) into cold hard-hitting black metal and imo have a flawless discography. Lowkey grinds my gears that it's on a list like this lol
That Burzum album is actually a compliation released of re-recordings of his earlier stuff,- I guess the low score is because re-recordings mostly are inferior to the originals.
Trha's albums are actually amazingly beautiful, I don't know why this split sounds like this
That Bethlehem album is another bland re-recording . The band's earlier work could be categorized as such, but then they went into a wierd experimental tangent which is hit or miss. Their earlier albums are definitely the most pulverizing and cathartic examples of depressive/doomy black metal- listen to Dictius Te Necare.( Also, the guy who did vocals for this album is one of the most cringe tryhard edgelords in black metal, and that's saying something)
P.S this comment was written before Brad was laughing hysterically at Dictus Te Necare on the 'highest rated metal album' snippet. Not cool Brad, not cool >:(
Sorry is a great DSBM band. I like Sorry
Wtf that Sepultura split is awesome! One of the best examples of proto-black metal
Six Feet Under wohooo! Let's go BREE BREE BREE
Illud Divinum Insanus is one of the more popular bad metal albums, maybe even the most popular. All that being said it's slightly grown on me
I understand the Aborted hate today since they sold out but The Purity of Perversion is a great album, a death metal classic
Torsofuck is just mindless fun stuff, so is Hatebeak
That Tougher than nails album has some insane lore behind it, I'd suggest do some research on that and read some interviews
Even Candlemass' worst album sounds so good is a testament to their legendary status
Folk metal is not one of my favourite genres either, but it's a lot of fun especially live
The Gathering has probably the best female clean metal vocalist ever, and this song doesn't do that justice
Cradle of Filth has some absolute classics but the mid outweights the bangers unfortunately
NSD could be considered the worst of the Ozzy era, but Black Sabbath has wayy worse. Listen to Born Again and tell me if that isn't much much worse
Jag Panzer are classic, they have a lot of memorable stuff
WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT that Discharge album.Thanks for not talking about it Brad :)
In a wierd way over the years I've grown a form of affection towards Lulu, in a novelty kind of way
wtf who put Parkway Drive in the same collection of old school metal acts?
Anthrax is one of the big 4 of thrash and you put it under speed metal? ( Also Brad not all thrash metal is Slayer -_- )
Venom Inc is a band with only one of the core Venom members and the same lineup as 1991 Venom. So they are essentially wish Venom lol
Toxic sounds more power metal than speed metal
Don't understand why OP wants to distinguish power metal ( I guess he is talking about European power metal here) and US power metal. Def on average the former is faster than the latter, but the lines are very very blurred- so much so that this partition doesn't make sense
Iced Earth- Jan 6th core metal
Why is Kamelot in both categories lol( Btw Brad there is some really good power metal out there, listen to Blind Guardian or Helloween)
Hammerfall is great
Queensryche's first two albums are considered prog metal essentials but I agree this album is ass
Probot is a metal project of Dave Grohl. That album has some bangers
Ok that's alll I gotta say. Peace out
also the trha is unfortunate since trha is like the best black metal band imo thats still making black metal today, and the person behind it is really cool, its just that its a split and the other side didnt do very well
Three different categories for Kamelot, actually!
Also, that 0.75/5 Stoner Metal album is definitely one of the worst out there.
@@anuraglakshminarayan4559 Well, the point is that album ranked 0.75 is definitely a worthy 0 contender alongside a couple other albums listed like that one all-time worst black metal album and the album with the compressed to death vocals.
I made a huge mistake looking up some of these album covers.
Half of these albums are no BAD albums, some sub genres themselves are acquired tastes, like In Jeraspunta by Dark Tribe, if you only hear the first 30 seconds you would think it has a rating of 2
no idea what was going on with the dislikes and the comment section, checked r/youtubedrama and was relieved
@@IsraDevilEthan is 100% a Zionist or at the very least upholds Zionist views, energy, and confused desires (he wants Palestinians to live but also thinks Israel deserves the land too? That's not how it works) Just another hypocritical take from Mr. Ethan Klein himself.
@@IsraDevilIf Israelis aren't a monolith, why are you spreading the antisemitic claim that 90% of the jewish population adheres to zionist ideology?
So funny seeing all the death metal CD's I bought as a teenager appear on this list. Gotta love a bit of torsofuck
I don't take anyone's opinion seriously if they say they hate power metal 😅 Ensiferum Two Paths and Manowar Lord of Steel might be a step down in quality compared to those 2 bands other albums but they are nowhere close to being worst in their subgenres. I think the low scores are just from angry fans who will rate an album that's objectively a 6 out of 10 as a 2 because it didn't quite meet their expectations.
This is my favorite video of yours so far. man it was good!
You lost a long time fan today homie. Apologizing for hanging with Ethan and Hila without even trying to defend it is pathetic. Just stay in your room if you have no spine.
Unironically love Waking the Cadaver, "Beyond Cops, Beyond God" goes dummy. Also wild that Brad has never even heard of the Brutal DM or Slam genres
Venom is like bog standard metal. The fact it showed up multiple times in speed metal means either that's a great genre, or such a niche genre that it crosses over with a bunch of other genres and venom was the only one that fit whatever the speed genre is supposed to be.
Maybe it's both? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Naaaah I know Brad didn't dismiss my GOATs Manilla Road like that
Slough Feg too??
4:09 - Brad's reaction to the sudden screaming is gold
A blaze in the northern sky review would be so sick
3:50 Bethlehem is actually peak, this is just a rerecording of a REALLY good album, shame that was your first experience with them 😭
so when's the Skeleton Metal X reaction, Brad?
I'm Polish and it's amazing to see Polish representation in the worst black metal albums of all time
Polish dungeon synth is such a joy because i swear ive heard many synth songs mixed with those fucking vocals
Kamelot is actually one of my favorite bands, but their first three albums were basically glorified demos, and they didn't get good until they got an actual professional producer in 1999.
dream theater’s my guilty pleasure band 😭
Dream Theater is a band for metal elitists. It doesn't make sense for they being a guilty pleasure band.
In defense of most Folk Metal bands, they basically just make a bunch of drinking songs.
Eluveitie is fire, though.
These albums are how the latest A7x sounds to my ears
This is a certified metal classic.
I unironically own and listen to that Torsofuck album
Also, brads reaction to Slam Metal is about as beautiful and as perfect as i expected(I love all the slam and brutal death metal albums)
Surprised to see Metalizer on the bottom of the power metal list. I knew not even the fans liked it, but I didnt think it would be THAT low.
You know it's good entertainment when Brad gives the librarian look followed by childish giggle.
Brad your hair was really good in this video :) good job on the video!
23:14 Hermetica mentioned
In theory, I would be a huge fan of witch Broadway metal. I imagine it would be like 90s Swans except heavier on Jarboe soliloquy and guitar solos.
You should do best metal albums of every genre now. That would be sick.
Vorak's Triumph of the Will is like what the Angels sound like in Evangelion, lol.
I'm sorry, Hatebeak does NOT deserve to be on this list
Hell yeah. The OG pig squealing death metal band Waking the Cadaver. As I am watching... Brad didn't listen to the so bad it's amazing masterpiece "chased through the woods...." I don't remember the full title. It has everything from the generic documentary sample of a serial killer.. to the illegible lyrics.. to the straight up pig 🐖 squeals...
"Shredded wheat.. shredded shredded shredded and shredded wheat ...."
afraid i may have brainrot because not only do i like a number of these bands (sorry, waking the cadaver, torsofuck) but i recognized a good number. SHREDDED WHEAAAAT
love you king keep your head up
We really need an insane based rich guy to donate for a Mirror Reaper review
it's not that serious lil bro
most of Bethlehem's music is excellent. that album is a terrible "remake" of their classic, Sardonischer Untergang im Zeichen irreligiöser Darbietung (SUiZiD).
Morbid Angel is also mostly excellent. i have no idea what they were thinking on Illud Divinum Insanus.
Venom's first few albums are pretty good, a big early influence on Black Metal, alongside Bathory.
Dream Theater does indeed suck balls. so much talent wasted on such bad music.
Probot is an interesting project, it's Dave Grohl on most instruments, working with his Metal heroes like Lemmy and King Diamond. not a masterpiece, but some solid tracks.
A Blaze In The Northern Sky, and Darkthrone in general, are well worth checking out. classic Black Metal.
SUiZiD is such a mindblowing fricked-up little industrial dungeon. Others don't seem to agree, but it's on the same level of Dictius Te Necare for me. I rarely hear music this simultaneously unsettling and riotously fun.
@@gaynebula6439 if you want fun Black Metal, check out the Belgian band Lugubrum.
This video gives me the same feeling as when a Brit shits on the US. Like does the US suck? Sure, but I don't want to hear it from a brit. Does Waking the Cadaver suck? Sure, but I don't want to hear it from someone who has never heard of brutal death metal.
Some of these are favorites of mine. Critics suck. I love that Cradle of Filth album. Torsofuck and Waking The Cadaver are brutal!
Kaatharian Life Code by Darkthrone... It's one of the first Darkthrone songs I have ever heard. The last riff made my hair stand on end. Was disappointed to see Vintersorg on here. And was that Madhouse by Anthrax, I heard? Man...
hey would you consider reviewing Live Through This by Hole? very critically acclaimed 1994 grunge album