A list of bands ordered by the biggest difference between their highest rated album on MS and their lowest rated album on MS. Finally my Excel skills paid off. Some ratings may be a bit outdated. Open to suggestions because I barely scratched the surface.

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Metallica - Lulu [Collaboration]

3.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

4.Celtic Frost - Cold Lake

5.Machine Head - The Blackening

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Stuff that got me hooked in the course of the years, from my very first blurred memories as a toddler to the present day.
Lots of catchy tunes, some cheese, very few flowers.
Songs that had a big impact on me and influenced my taste in music.
Stuff to let it all hang out, songs for campfire sing-alongs and soundtracks to slit your wrists to.
Love at first sight listen.

This is part II of II, covering the years since 2001.

Despite of the list's personal character, suggestions are very welcome.
After all I'm old and I may just have forgotten lots of stuff that did make my day.



Great albums that didn't make it on the list as they can only be enjoyed in their entirety, rather than by picking individual songs:

Thirdmoon - Sworn Enemy: Heaven (Death, 2004)
Defleshed - Reclaim The Beat (Death/Thrash, 2005)
Tyranny - Tides Of Awakening (Funeral Doom, 2005)
Mourning Beloveth - A Murderous Circus (Doom/Death, 2005)
Rotting Christ - Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Black, 2013)

1.Alastis - Unity

2.Diablerie - Seraphyde

3.Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

4.Emperor - Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise

5.Hollenthon - With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell

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The most difficult way to create the title for an album may be to try something that is clever and/or funny.

Likewise, making a list of these titles is also not easy as it would be a very subjective task. In order to apply at least some objective criteria, the resulting (alphabetical) list consists of album titles that contain a pun or pun-related word play ( - possibly even independent of how well these titles worked).

Puns (or pun-related word play examples) rely on (1) the different possible meanings of a word or (2) the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.
In addition, this list contains numbers in titles that (3) contribute to the sound of the corresponding word or (4) that fit optically to the written word.

Please feel free to suggest more examples of such album titles for this list, if they fit to one of the criteria 1 – 4 (in order to keep the list in shape).
Still, it would also be interesting, if you could share other clever and/or funny album or song titles in the comments.

1.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations

2.Afflicted - Prodigal Sun

3.Alestorm - Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum

4.Anthrax - Attack Of The Killer B's

5.Alice Cooper - The Beast Of Alice Cooper

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Reading through the comments section throughout these pages you would be mistaken if you thought it was an anti-metal site given the huge amount of negativity. "Oh I'm a fan of this band, really, but this new albums shit"; "This band should stop making albums and play their old stuff" blah blah blah. This list compiles albums that are a prime target; the over-sized bulls-eye; a band bashing bandwagon for trolls. Too bad 'cause I thoroughly enjoy them. Sure there are metal albums I don't like but why whinge? It's about time this site had some positivism thrown in. If you hate these records Calvin Harris has some Special K he'd like to share with you.

1.Metallica - Re-Load

2.Megadeth - Risk

3.KISS - Creatures Of The Night

4.Metallica - Load

5.Korn - Issues

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1.Cradle Of Filth - V Empire

2.Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace

3.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast

5.Cradle Of Filth - Nymphetamine

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JUST FOR FUN….Bad Records From Great Bands Or Bands You Just Don’t Get Into…This is my personal choice
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1.Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

2.Limp Bizkit - Significant Other

3.Bruce Dickinson - Skunkworks

4.KISS - Unmasked

5.Manowar - Kings Of Metal MMXIV

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1.Cradle Of Filth - Dusk... And Her Embrace

2.Cradle Of Filth - Cruelty And The Beast

3.Cradle Of Filth - Midian

4.Cradle Of Filth - The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh

5.Cradle Of Filth - Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder

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A good year, I could make a great and lengthy list of songs just based on these albums. The top 5 is especially awesome, the first two I could probably put on my top 10 album list of all time.

1.Deathstars - Termination Bliss

2.Celtic Frost - Monotheist

3.Illnath - Second Skin Of Harlequin

4.Lifelover - Pulver

5.Draconian - The Burning Halo

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1.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

2.Insomnium - Above The Weeping World

3.Cradle Of Filth - Thornography

4.Trivium - The Crusade

5.Necrophobic - Hrimthursum

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These albums, in no particular order (except for the very 1st one) are the albums that have affected my life the most.

1.Seether - Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces

2.Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

3.AC/DC - Highway To Hell

4.Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli

5.Gorgoroth - Twilight Of The Idols

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1.Moonspell - Memorial

2.Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion

3.Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side

4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die

5.Angtoria - God Has A Plan For Us All

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