Your WORST albums of 2013

Which 2013 albums did you think were the worst, terrible, dissapointing, letdowns, dumpster fires, crapfests, etc...?

I know there have to be some, but I am not so sure that I bought anything terrible this year.  Maybe your picks will jog my memory.  

Have at it!

It's not really bad, but I was disappointed in the new Helloween album quite a bit. Just couldn't get into it.

I just thought of one:

Ghost - Infestissumam - I really wanted to like this one, but nothing has really stuck with me from the album. I would say it was disappointment.

Probably something I haven't heard. I filter out most music and only focus on stuff I like.

The only thing I've bought this year that I liked nothing from was from Kill Devil Hill.

Frequency Unknown, for sure. Although hopes weren't all that high.

The new Eminem album is pretty terrible. Like anyone here cares. Haha.

The new Volbeat, while good, was a bit of a letdown.

Winter Kills, by DevilDriver, wasn't a good as I was expecting. It's solid, but far from great.

While I love the album, I was really annoyed with the latest from Ayreon. Two discs, 42 songs, all under four minutes long. For someone like me who enjoys listening to music on shuffle, this is quite obnoxious.

The biggest disappointment by far, however, is the Fragmented Armageddon EP, by One Minute Silence. In June or July of 2011, I pledged money for their PledgeMusic campaign. It was supposed to be a new, full-length album. I also pledged for the companion DVD that was supposed to chronicle the writing process and recording of the album, as well as feature the band doing a full live in-studio set.

More than two years later I got a CDR EP in a cheap digipack which featured just two new songs, a demo of an old song they're trying to say is a re-recording, and two worthless remixes. So a full-length was downsized to an EP, which was then downsized to two tracks and crap filler. The DVD fared worse. Instead of a DVD, I got a One Minute Silence memory stick, which had the MP3s of the EP, an acoustic EP from the guitarist (probably funded by pledger money), and some shitty photos.

Not only one of this year's biggest disappointments, but one of the worst I've ever had when it comes to music.

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Frequency Unknown, for sure. Although hopes weren't all that high.

What he said.

Though I will admit that I find the album interesting in a WTF, can't-turn-away-from-the-car-crash sort of way.

mc666 wrote:

The only thing I've bought this year that I liked nothing from was from Kill Devil Hill.

I really wanted to like their albums, but they sound like boring, by the numbers, mid-90s metal albums to me. Very generic.

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Frequency Unknown, for sure. Although hopes weren't all that high.

What he said.

Though I will admit that I find the album interesting in a WTF, can't-turn-away-from-the-car-crash sort of way.

Yep - worst album of the year

Wurthless wrote:

It's not really bad, but I was disappointed in the new Helloween album quite a bit. Just couldn't get into it.

I thought it was solid. That band is super consistent. What were you looking for?

Didn't really hear anything "bad" this year. I will say I was disappointed in the new Trouble album, not because it was bad or anything, I just really don't like the vocalist and don't think he fits the group at all.

I didn't buy anything that I thought totally sucked. I didn't even hate Tate-ryche. It had a couple of worthy songs.

Lari wrote:

Wurthless wrote:

It's not really bad, but I was disappointed in the new Helloween album quite a bit. Just couldn't get into it.

I thought it was solid. That band is super consistent. What were you looking for?

I guess the problem is that I'm only a fairly casual fan of them. I'm only extremely familiar with The Keeper albums and Walls of Jericho. Not really a huge fan of Andi Deris, either.

Now that I think of it, I guess it's more my fault than Helloween's, lol.

Nothing sucked for me at all. Even the TateRyche was pretty decent (I think I enjoyed it more than anyone else here). The Revocation was ho-hum, even though I truly enjoyed it at first. Helloween was, well, Helloween, and I share the same opinion as Wurthless. I had a lot of issues with sound quality on some releases, such as the drums on 13 and compression on some of the thrash. But these are all tiny nitpicks. It's been one of the greatest years for heavy metal in recent memory.

Wurthless wrote:

Lari wrote:

Wurthless wrote:

It's not really bad, but I was disappointed in the new Helloween album quite a bit. Just couldn't get into it.

I thought it was solid. That band is super consistent. What were you looking for?

I guess the problem is that I'm only a fairly casual fan of them. I'm only extremely familiar with The Keeper albums and Walls of Jericho. Not really a huge fan of Andi Deris, either.

Now that I think of it, I guess it's more my fault than Helloween's, lol.

So true, I don't even try no more. Even Chameleon is much more interesting than any Deris song I've heard forcing myself to like them.

As for the albums that suck:
Sacred Warrior - Waiting in Darkness. Completly characterless. It is not bad, its mediocre all the way through. And that is even worse, since you hope for something good to happen, a song to grab you, but no, just 50 minutes of 3-rd rate background musical nonsense you cant turn off beacuse there is (was) a potential in the band.

ToddRyche. So much hype, so little to offer. Didn't bother with Mr. Tate, since aside from a couple of songs I knew I wouldn't care for the whole album. But from what was heard, it is far from being terrible. Actually, Tate made an album everyone expected from him - a decent offer. The "real back-to-the-roots Ryche" on the other hand failed to deliver in my book. Yeah, the album is ok, somewhat good, but far from what I expected to hear after reading rave comments all over the web.

Probably the new Ghost for me. Not that I think it's terribly bad but it just didn't stick with me like the first album.

One I was disappointed with, though I wouldn't say it sucked was
Rivera/Bomma - Infinite Journey of Soul
Horrible production unfortunately sort of ruins the listening experience

BearOnUnicycle wrote:

As for the albums that suck:
Sacred Warrior - Waiting in Darkness. Completly characterless. It is not bad, its mediocre all the way through. And that is even worse, since you hope for something good to happen, a song to grab you, but no, just 50 minutes of 3-rd rate background musical nonsense you cant turn off beacuse there is (was) a potential in the band.

Well, it won't make my Top 20 list for the year either but I didn't think it was "3rd rate background musical nonsense" either. I think I was mostly disappointed because it just doesn't sound like Sacred Warrior musically or vocally.

I can't say I've got a worst one. I only bought 7 of them this year so far and none have been bad.

disapointment, not good enough for me to repeatly listen in 2013:
Deep Purple
Motorhead
Black Sabbath
Dream Theater
Aerosmith
.. will add later another.

iamrockerfun wrote:

disapointment, not good enough for me to repeatly listen in 2013:
Black Sabbath

    

I'm way too low on funds to buy a lot of new music, so I don't think I bought anything I thought sucked from this year.

The new Sacred Warrior sounds like The Sacrificed and I like it.

I am disappointed in Trouble, just not what I wanted I guess.

thejokeriv wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

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Frequency Unknown, for sure. Although hopes weren't all that high.

What he said.

Though I will admit that I find the album interesting in a WTF, can't-turn-away-from-the-car-crash sort of way.

Yep - worst album of the year

Just thinking back - my 2011 worst album of the year was Dedicated To Chaos, 2012 was Kings and Thieves and 2013 FU... Can The Geoff make it 4 years in a row in 2014???

thejokeriv wrote:

Just thinking back - my 2011 worst album of the year was Dedicated To Chaos, 2012 was Kings and Thieves and 2013 FU... Can The Geoff make it 4 years in a row in 2014???

The real question is why you keep wasting money on that crap?   

ultmetal wrote:

One I was disappointed with, though I wouldn't say it sucked was
Rivera/Bomma - Infinite Journey of Soul
Horrible production unfortunately sort of ruins the listening experience

BearOnUnicycle wrote:

As for the albums that suck:
Sacred Warrior - Waiting in Darkness. Completly characterless. It is not bad, its mediocre all the way through. And that is even worse, since you hope for something good to happen, a song to grab you, but no, just 50 minutes of 3-rd rate background musical nonsense you cant turn off beacuse there is (was) a potential in the band.

Well, it won't make my Top 20 list for the year either but I didn't think it was "3rd rate background musical nonsense" either. I think I was mostly disappointed because it just doesn't sound like Sacred Warrior musically or vocally.

Perhaps I might dislike it that much because I expected "Mad Mad World", "Kamikaze" and that kind of stuff. And what I got is an album with "stagnation" written all over it that doesn't sound even remotely close to SW.