Rock and Metal Albums with the Worst Production
I agree, horrible mixing, subpar drumming, and far from Greg Ginn's best work. It's a shame too because he's a great punk guitarist. Well, the album does warn you it's going to suck with the god-awful cover art.
The production in this album is abysmal. The mixing makes the guitar sound all over the place, and you can barely hear any other instrument. Not only that, but the guitar tone is really bad. To top it off, every song on the album sounds the same, with almost no effort put into it.
Despite the weird mix of death metal, symphonic metal, and techno, the mixing in the album is laughably bad. All of the instruments sound extremely synthetic, especially the drums. The guitar tone might be decent, but when it's overshadowed by such abysmal overproduction, it's really hard to listen to.
Pretty much the same problem as Black Flag's What The...: almost no effort was put into this. Danzig's voice is all over the mix, the guitar tone is awful, and you can barely hear it.
Everything about this album sounds like a demo. Craig Mabbit's screamo in this is one of the worst I've heard, and the guitar tone is abysmal. The feedback effect is extremely bad as well. I know it was just Blessthefall's debut, but they could have tried to make something listenable.
Not only is the mix between nu metal and deathcore awful, but everything about this album's instrumentation is really bad. The guitar tone is awful, Frankie's screaming is terrible, and you can barely hear the bass and drums because the guitars and Frankie's voice are so awfully compressed.
Limp Bizkit on steroids... in the worst way possible. Everything about this album is wretched, from the guitar tone to how loud and overly compressed it is, to both rappers' voices. This album pretty much turns into noise multiple times, especially on the two "highlights" of the album, "Toxic" and "Darkside."
Another album where barely any effort was put in. The worst thing about this is that You Can't Stop Me was actually a decent album, and this just killed Suicide Silence's career in the worst way possible.
Yes, I'm counting it as a rock album, and the mixing in this album is borderline offensive. Of course, I expected overproduction, but listening to songs like Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea, Church, or Young and Menace feels like an insult due to how loud it gets. This is another album that turns into noise at moments.
It was between this and RHCP's Californication... but since Californication is actually good, I decided to put this one. I don't even need to explain why this album's production is bad. Everyone knows how bad it gets.
The drums sound terrible on this album, and the absence of bass is strange. The guitar tone, though, is great.
The mixing in this album is hot garbage. Not only are there instruments here that sound borderline synthetic, but some of them feel extremely compressed to the point where the most I can hear is just an annoying static feedback, plus Josey Scott's awful voice.
Miss May I might be one of the most underrated metalcore bands ever, but that doesn't give this album a pass. The mixing on this one is absolutely TERRIBLE!
They're actually a fun band to listen to if you are into extreme metal. Yeah, the production is garbage, but it's supposed to be.
Good album, but the production doesn't hold up like Blood Sugar Sex Magik does.
