Top 10 Great Follow-Ups to Bad or Disappointing Metal Albums
The times where metal bands released duds, and followed them up with actual good albums.
I love Death Magnetic. The Day That Never Comes is just amazing! I never listened to St. Anger though.
Follow-up to St. Anger. Great album that really nailed the balance between their thrash metal and hard rock sounds.
After the forgettable Blaze Bayley era of Maiden, Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith came back to the band and helped produce a classic.
That cover looks AWESOME though.
Megadeth's whole career has been full of ups and downs. Super Collider was one of those downs. The addition of Kiko Loureiro and Chris Adler, though, breathed new life into Megadeth, and it really shows in this album.
Compared to Super Collider, Dystopia was a masterpiece. The best song on Super Collider was a Thin Lizzy cover...
It goes without saying that Illud Divinum Insanus was a bad album. Thankfully, Trey Azagthoth was able to round up a new crew and drop a Morbid Angel album that actually sounds like Morbid Angel.
Supercharger was a low point for the band, and thankfully, they found their sound again with this album.
Vengeance Falls was not good. Silence in the Snow was ok. This album was absolutely incredible. It can't be overstated how much of a relief it was to hear this album after two (technically four) years of disappointment from an otherwise great band.
Huge respect for Avenged Sevenfold for putting out album of this sort despite the risk of losing a huge chunk of fan base. Look at other mainstream bands, they just find ways to earn easy money by recycling the same stuffs over and over again. But, a7x chooses to experiment (as always) and brought the best out of their talent and resources. Idiotic elitists will still diss this band and say that the album is not metal or original. I'm an extreme metal fan and I still love this band for helping me get into Metal and making my childhood memorable.
Hail to the King was not a bad album at all, but it could've been better. It felt very much like a tribute album, and in some cases it was very easy to tell the inspiration for some of the songs. They must've realized this, because this album is infinitely more original, and really showcases how much A7X have matured as a band. Gotta love those progressive, thrash, and even black metal (yes, I said black metal) influences.
A much more focused and aggressive album than the failed "death metal" experiment that was Demonic.
The follow-up to the Unspoken King, which was an album that suffered a bit of an identity crisis. They resolved the, though, and returned to for with this album.
Slayer's years without Dave Lombardo produced some strange music, that almost sounded like they were playing with nu-metal, which...no. Then, after he came back to the band, they made an album that felt like an actual Slayer album.
The next Bathory album came after really bad Requiem and Octagon, was quite good.
Was considered a comeback for Rammstein after Rosenrot was considered a minor disappointment
