Albums you were looking forward to, but didn't like them as much as you

I remember being in Texas doing some spring break shows down on South Padre Island in 1985. Went to a local record shop and seen "Night Of The Crime" by Icon and put down the cash for the tape. I had really dug the s/t debut and was actually pissed off hearing all the keyboards at that time. I have grown to dig this album over the years.

mc666 wrote:

Testament - The Formation of Damnation

I've listened to that one a few times since I bought it, I keep hoping it's going to really "kick in" for me...but it hasn't happened. I blame the songwriting. It sounds good while it's playing, but it vanishes from my mind the second it's over. Each song has little instrumental parts that I think are good, but as a whole nothing all that memorable.

However, the older Testament songs stick in your head like glue (that's a compliment).

detuned wrote:

mc666 wrote:

Testament - The Formation of Damnation

I've listened to that one a few times since I bought it, I keep hoping it's going to really "kick in" for me...but it hasn't happened. I blame the songwriting. It sounds good while it's playing, but it vanishes from my mind the second it's over. Each song has little instrumental parts that I think are good, but as a whole nothing all that memorable.

However, the older Testament songs stick in your head like glue (that's a compliment).

don't get me wrong. i like that album. it's just not the follow up to The Gathering that i had hoped for. more melodic & less intensity.

I still have yet to hear either Low or The Gathering, will have to remedy that sometime soon.

The Gathering is one of my all time favourite thrash albums. It is literally the heaviest album ever.

Smindas wrote:

The Gathering is one of my all time favourite thrash albums. It is literally the heaviest album ever.

ditto... it's the best Testament has ever put to plastic. thanks in no small part to Lombardo.

ever mteallica after AJFA heard they're goning back then boom bunch of crap.

mc666 wrote:

Smindas wrote:

The Gathering is one of my all time favourite thrash albums. It is literally the heaviest album ever.

ditto... it's the best Testament has ever put to plastic. thanks in no small part to Lombardo.

Maybe for those that don't care about guitar solos...

Judas priest: angel of retribution.
Testament: the formation of damnation.
Kreator: hoardes of chaos.
Metallica: death magnetic (it's just better then st anger, really).
Guns n roses: chinese democracy
Iron maiden: a matter of life and death.

Those albums are nothing but fillers in my library...

COMMUNIC-PAYMENT OF EXISTENCE
EVERGREY TORN
IRON MAIDEN NO PRAYER FOR THE DYING
PINK CREAM 69 IN10SITY
SLAYER DIVINE INTERVENTION
STRYPER REBORN

I agree with that Communic being disappointing. I love Waves of Visual Decay but Payment just bores me.

Megadeth's united abominations. I forgot about that one.

Troublezone wrote:

mc666 wrote:

Smindas wrote:

The Gathering is one of my all time favourite thrash albums. It is literally the heaviest album ever.

ditto... it's the best Testament has ever put to plastic. thanks in no small part to Lombardo.

Maybe for those that don't care about guitar solos...

that would be me. i can take them or leave them.

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The Gathering is one of my all time favourite thrash albums. It is literally the heaviest album ever.

Intriguing. I'm curious now.

Another album I was really disappointed in at the time was Dio-Angry Machines and these is an easy target but Raven-The Pack Is Back, the cover showed have been a give away.

Mortification - Silver Cord....
Black Sabbath - Born Again

Both lp's have grown on me over the years, but were a let down when they were released.

Judas Priest - Turbo
Extol - Blueprint Dives

Still don't like these.

candlemass wrote:

Judas Priest - Turbo

Still don't like these.

I used to hate 'Turbo' but now I think it is a classic Priest album, just a very cool album with some fun songs.

Metallica - Metallica (loved it now though)

Deliverance - Stay of Execution

Mortifiaction - Blood Work

The last two Iced Earth CDs have pretty much left me cold.

Going farther back, lemme see... didn't care for KISS' PSYCHO CIRCUS much at all. Or W.A.S.P.'s K.F.D.

Warrior Soul's CHILL PILL was kind of a stiff. Now I know they did it that way on purpose but that doesn't make the album any easier to listen to.

Recent albums from Death Angel, Exodus, Laaz Rockit, Onslaught, Flotsam and Jetsam, yada yada yada.

And, Yeah, Stryper - Reborn. Man.......

Gilbert wrote:

Judas priest: angel of retribution.
Testament: the formation of damnation.
Kreator: hoardes of chaos.

I like all these quite a bit. Just listened to Hordes of Chaos again today.

Testament - Formation of Dangnation (unmemorable, no hooks, sterile)

Judas Priest - Nostradangnus (too drawn out, and where is the band? Rob sounds fantastic, to bad the band forgot to show up)

Iced Earth - Crucible of Man (really looked forward to this but it just doesn't have the energy or something, but I still dig it, just not as much as I had hoped)

Blind Guardian - a night at the opera & a twist in the myth (both albums were HIGH on my eager to get list, but they are both way to dense and jumbled for me, the jumbliness ruined this band for me)

Solitude Aeturnus - Alone (just doesn't have the hooks like the other albums did, kind of forgettable and nothing that made me want to pull it out over and over like the previous albums did, thanks goodness that Rob is in Candlemass now)

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Blind Guardian - a night at the opera & a twist in the myth (both albums were HIGH on my eager to get list, but they are both way to dense and jumbled for me, the jumbliness ruined this band for me)

Good call. I echo that sentiment on both.