Metal Church - Masterpeace

Dug this one out today and gave it a spin after not hearing it for quite some time. I still have a hard time understanding what people hated about this CD. It's a good heavy metal album IMO.



ult

ultmetal wrote:

Dug this one out today and gave it a spin after not hearing it for quite some time. I still have a hard time understanding what people hated about this CD. It's a good heavy metal album IMO.



ult

Me to I always thought it was really good!

Wargod50

I like this album a lot. Of course I'm a Wayne fanboy to. The song Falldown is almost as good as anything off of Metal Church or The Dark.

ultmetal wrote:

Dug this one out today and gave it a spin after not hearing it for quite some time. I still have a hard time understanding what people hated about this CD. It's a good heavy metal album IMO.



ult

THANK YOU!!! I am one of those people who NEVER understood all the hate for the album, other than the pro-Christianity bent of much of the lyrical content. Musically, however, it's rock-solid, sounding almost like it could have been the follow-up to "The Dark" in many ways, albeit a bit older/wiser band. I just listened to that last weekend on the way home from a family gathering - killer stuff!

I really need to grab this as it is one of the 2 missing pieces from my MC collection.

I loves me some Metal Church, but I'm sorry, this album bored the hell outta me. Wayne's vox were terrible, he sounded nothing like his old self. I was so stoked when I heard MC were coming back... till I heard this record. Traded it off soon afterward.

Then a few years later I thought "Was it really that bad? I don't remember" and re-acquired it in a trade. Yup... it really was that bad. So off to the trade pile it went again!

I love this album. I think it became popular to slag on these guys for some reason.

I don't hate it. But it just doesn't stand a chance agains those early classics. The songwriting isn't nearly as good, and as of writing this, I can't even remember one song from the album without putting it my CD player.

kmorg wrote:

I don't hate it. But it just doesn't stand a chance agains those early classics. The songwriting isn't nearly as good, and as of writing this, I can't even remember one song from the album without putting it my CD player.

You summed up my feelings about this disc.

this album just sounded so dull & lifeless. they just weren't feeling it, & it plainly shows.

Sorry,but this is a good cd. It was a breath of fresh air to me when it was released. I really don't think there's a weak song on it.I still listen to it alot to this day.

I have only give it one spin since the time that I bought it a long time ago when Virgin records was closing, and I did not like it. Probably when I feel in the mood to give it another try I will see what happens.

Well I haven't listened to all of it but what I HAVE heard sounds almost like Munroe era style Metal Church but with Wayne on vocals....in other words, sounds perfectly fine to me. Don't get the hate here guys.

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It was a breath of fresh air to me when it was released

It was considering how stagnant most of metal was.

Wayne's Metal Church is a great metal album as well.

ultmetal wrote:

Wayne's Metal Church is a great metal album as well.

I like Wayne's METAL CHURCH album way better than MC's MASTERPEACE. Go figure.

So do I. One of my favorites of all time.

This album re-sparked my interest in Metal Church. I kinda lost interest in them for a long time, then one day I was in Tower Records and saw Masterpeace in the new release rack. I had forgotten about these guys, so I thought I'd give this one a shot(having an Aerosmith cover on there helped too). I liked it just fine. It seemed so fresh and new to me at the time when metal was kinda falling off the radar. After hearing it, it made me wonder what I had been missing with their other releases and eventually I went back through their catalog and picked up everything else I was missing.

Sadly, this would be the last new release that I would purchase from Metal Church. Once again, I've lost interest in them and their newer material. If I saw their stuff for cheap in the used bins, I'd probably snag it, but I'm not going out of my way to find them either.

First Metal Church album I got. Back in the days when I had under 100 cd's in my collection, this was a frequent in the CD player as it was one of the few metal CD's I actually owned.

Neither album ever did much for me.

Fat Freddy wrote:

ultmetal wrote:

Wayne's Metal Church is a great metal album as well.

I like Wayne's METAL CHURCH album way better than MC's MASTERPEACE. Go figure.

That WAYNE album is surprisingly friggin awesome.

That guitar player is a total monster. Incredible riffage and top-notch playing all-around.

Jimi Bell is the guitarist who has played on the last two House Of Lords albums. B.J. Zampa is the drummer who also has been playing with HOL.

Was spinning Waynes - Metal Church today!

Wargod50

Finally found me a copy of Masterpeace.The album should reach me within the next two weeks.

My Metal Church discography would then be completed!

Gilbert wrote:

Finally found me a copy of Masterpeace.The album should reach me within the next two weeks.

My Metal Church discography would then be completed!

Hooray!