Worst Albums by Great Metal / Hard Rock Bands

In my opinion most bands have a fluke or have just lost their greatness from the past. These are my least favorite albums by great bands. They are all from subgenres of metal or rock.
The Top Ten
1 Lulu - Lou Reed & Metallica

Wow it feels like you're in a block of flats, you hear Lou Reed in the shower talking and singing while next door Metallica are playing next door. That's how bad it is. I don't see how God Hates us All is bad, Disciple is a rocking song. Maybe Diabolus in Musica.

This should be at number one it was awful who hell makes garbage like this I want too sue Lars for this album good Lou reed is dead so a sequel will never be made few I was in fear that that would happen good thing it never did

It sounds like Lou Reed and Metallica were high on crack when they made this. You hear Lou Reed's drunken voice with Metallica playing in the background. Did I forget to mention the lyrics. "I am the tablet"? Seriously!?

One of the biggest disappointments I've ever experienced. Being a fan of both Metallic and Lou Reed, I was expecting the album to be amazing.

2 Nightmare - Avenged Sevenfold

I'm Not a Big Fan of A7X but this is one of their best albums and this shouldn't be number 1 Sounding the Seventh Trumpet has ABSOLUTELY no good songs on it and the fact it wasn't on the list along with The Spaghetti Incident? By Guns N' Roses and the fact that Rust In Peace and Master of Puppets is on the list just makes me lose faith in this website

Whoever put this album on the list needs to be shot! It has so many genius songs like so far away, buried alive, nightmare, fiction, save me.

This album is an unique album... Everyone please listen this album... In this album has everything...

They shouldve stayed with City of Evil style. Hail to the King kinda brings it back

3 A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park

Yes angrybyrd they do, they do have to constantly release hybrid theory and meteora over again because everything after that specially this one is poo

Disagree completely. It's a very beautiful and artistic electronic album. The only reason it's on this list is because there are too many people who can't grow up and realize that Linkin Park don't need to constantly make Hybrid Theory part 2.

This is the worst linkin park album, that being said, all linkin park albums are great! Therefor, this is still a good album and should not be on this list

It sounds cool though

4 St. Anger - Metallica

What do guys thinking about? Lulu worsen than this, in St. Anger, they have Frantic and St. Anger that I think is really good. But Lulu? No one in that album is good or can I say all of their song is bad and worsen than St. Anger. St. Anger maybe at 2 or 3

As much as people complain about this album, this album allowed Metallica to survive. I liked Frantic, St. Anger, Some Kind of Monster, The Unnamed Feeling, Sweet Amber and All Within My Hands.

Why critics why did you let this peace of junk whin Grammy really how could this peace have in to the world it will kill you metal

No way Load or Reload were worse than this. Both awful, but St. Anger is so bad you laugh at it.

5 Chinese Democracy - Gun's N' Roses

Please... This album is amazing! Buy some decent system to play it on and play it loud, yes Axl is being a dick but most rock stars are, and this album does have a better guitarist (Buckethead, best guitarist of all time). It would be great if Slash was here too but he's not so get over it and enjoy the music. If this was released under a different band name headed by Axl Rose people would love it.

Some good songs on the record and I love Buckethead but Axl is killing Gun's N' Roses and their legacy.

This album had one catchy song on it to me

6 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day

I would agree except for the fact the green day are not hard rock or metal, they are pop punk (and uno,dos and tre are also much worse than this)

This was not the only bad album by Green Day. A lot of their albums sucked and some are overrated

Only bad Green Day album and it was not good. Few high points on the record.

UNO DOS TRE are worst then this

7 No Prayer for the Dying - Iron Maiden

I am glad this album is here instead of Virtual XI. Everything from Virtual XI except TAatG beats everything from No Prayer for the Dying except Mother Russia.

Worst by Iron Maiden

8 A Different Kind of Truth - Van Halen

I don't think there is a single song on this album that I could listen to twice. And to answer the previous comment... at least VH III had Fire In the Hole. Not a great song... but better than anything off of this turd.

Why is this here and not Van Halen III?

9 Load - Metallica

What new sound Metallica tried to capture on the black album was improved upon on Load. This was much better compared to the black album which was alright, but was unfocused and not as tightly woven as Load.

Laugh out loud top two is Metallica, I bet all the butt-hurt megadeth fans are celebrating (by the way I am in no way insulting megadeth I just love the wy Metallica fans and megadeth fans hate eachothers bands)

This album started the 3 horrid albums by Metallica which is why I think it is the worst album by great bands.

This is even worse than St. Anger and where is Reload? LULU is not a Metallica album it's just an album by Lou Reed featuring Metallica, I hated this album because Metallica dosen't write about Girls. The Metallica I know writes about Drugs and war.

10 Super Collider - Megadeth
The Contenders
11 Flick of the Switch - AC/DC

It's not nearly as bad as the other albums on this list

Probably their weakest album

This is an Underrated album

12 Risk - Megadeth

Ok 1. Lulu is not a a Metallica album 2. God hates us all is amazing 3. Megadeth ha many albums that are on the same level as risk. This list is messed up. People...

Ok 1. Lulu is not a real Metallica album. 2. Every slayer album rules 3. God hates us all kicks ass and diablos in musica kicks ass. Megadeth sucks

This album made me stop listening to megadeth, the only good song is prince of darkness but that's it

My favorite band on this list, but Mustaine messed up on this one.

13 Lightning Bolt - Pearl Jam

I actually like this album.

14 Dedicated to Chaos - Queensryche
15 Beneath the Encasing of Ashes - As I Lay Dying

Their vocalist is a hypocrite, singing about Christian values then putting out a hit on his exwife. What a loser, and besides that they blow goat phallus

Only metalcore band I'm into and their first album is their only bad one.

I love this band, but I can't listen to this album at all.

16 Temper Temper - Bullet for My Valentine

This album turned a really good metal band into radio rock trash.

17 Diabolus in Musica - Slayer
18 Living Things - Linkin Park

Hybrid Theory and Meteora were awesome. Minutes to Midnight had some flops, but some of LP's best songs. A Thousand Suns was a cool direction for the band to go in, and it also resulted in several great songs. But this album just sounds like LP ran out of ideas.

The lyrics are pretty damn good but the sound is way too electronic

19 Forbidden - Black Sabbath

I'd argue Born Again was worse, but whatever.

20 Unmasked - KISS

The title tells you it isn't KISS and it is NOT KISS.

21 God Hates Us All - Slayer

It's not good. Warzone is good but everything else is very disapointing.

God hates whoever voted this

22 Sounding the Seventh Trumpet - Avenged Sevenfold

Hail To The King was worse. This and Waking the Fallen I think are pretty good.

Was this album with NO good songs at all not on the list?

23 In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin
24 Demolition - Judas Priest

Notice the title of this list says Great metal bands. Now that's something Priest isn't. But yeah, Demolition is pretty bad, even by Priest's standards.

Judas Priest is a great band. This album however is just awful.

What was Ripper Owens thinking?

25 Th1rt3en - Megadeth
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