Most Overrated Metal Albums
This was a great album, but not quite a masterpiece. Ride The Lightning is far better, and sometimes this album gets a bit too repetitive and overlong. The title track is one of the best metal songs ever, but the rest doesn't quite live up to it.
Metallica is great, but this should be number 1.
It's amazing just not number 1
Why is Operation Mindcrime at the top of this list?
This isn't even the best Slayer album. Hell Awaits is way better. This album didn't do much that Hell Awaits didn't already do. Most of these songs are great, but everything in between Jesus Saves and Raining Blood are filler tracks (especially Epidemic and Postmortem).
People say this is the heaviest metal album of all time but have clearly never listened to Pleasure to Kill by Kreator.
The only two really good songs on the album are Raining Blood and Angel Of Death (especially Angel Of Death), so, it’s not worthy of being called one of the best metal albums of all time if there’s only two really good tracks.
What? This is an amazing album. From start to finish easily one of the best of all time. The individual song "Paranoid" is overrated, definitely not the album. Just look through the track listing:
1) War Pigs (Arguably one of the greatest songs of all time, both complicated and simple sections that give such a groove and incredible feel).
2) Paranoid (Amazing riff, lyrics, overrated, yeah, but certainly not bad.)
3) Planet Caravan (The more psychedelic yet super intriguing song on the album. Very underrated).
4) Iron Man (One of the most famous riffs ever, but in my opinion, it's the lyrics and the solos that make this one of the most iconic songs in metal).
5) Electric Funeral (In my opinion, the worst song on the album, but the unique riffs and incredible solo section show that it's still a solid song.)
6) Hand Of Doom (One of the most complex Black Sabbath songs. Just all around amazing work; clenching vocals from Ozzy, incredible groovy bass and drum work from ...more
Great album, but it's not the best Black Sabbath album. It's their fifth best in my opinion. Sabotage, Heaven and Hell, Master of Reality and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are better.
Yeah, this is the best metal album of all time just because I contains War Pigs Paranoid and Iron Man? LMAO
Its even overrated compared to the other albums by Ozzy
Easily the most overrated metal album of all time. I would argue that this is one of Priest's weaker albums. Too predictable and humoginized. Breaking the Law is a great song though.
Painkiller is more overrated than this masterpiece.
Painkiller is better.
Ugh. Get it to number 1. I know it's not a metal album but still.
Not metal at all.
Probably the most UNDERRATED metal album, from one if not the MOST UNDERRATED metal band!
It's not overrated.
This album is almost perfect, but Gangland is a bit too repetitive. Amazing masterpiece, but not quite perfect.
Incredibly boring album by one of the biggest poser metal bands ever. Most overrated album ever!
This album is fantastic. Easily the best Pantera album.
People say this is the first death metal album but I disagree. Possessed's Seven Churches is the first death metal album in my opinion.
Anything Pantera is overrated.
Cowboys-Reinventing the Steel all sound the same.
Tough-guy lyrics every song, generic annoying-ass squealy guitar solos. How this band gets the praise it does is beyond me
This is highly overrated. Basically a dumbed-down, more repetitive and more gineric version of Cowboys From Hell.
