Hopsin actually has some talent, his flow is good. At this point it’s downright embarrassing that someone his age is still writing songs about how awful women are for leaving him in the friendzone. And maybe that would be fine if Hopsin was that teenager, but he’s 30 years old. “Did the man who invented college go to college?” Hopsin’s hypotheses on Pound Syndrome are less that of the wise philosopher he was going for, and more of a whiney teenager who doesn’t understand the world half as well as he thinks he does. Over-processed and completely lacking in edge, Immortalized takes the worst of Disturbed and puts it into a neat little package. Unfortunately, though, at the end of the day, this album is just too boring to be a clever parody. The only reason Immortalized isn’t higher on this list is that I’m not entirely convinced I’m wrong.
SAD SONGS BY FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH SERIES
In my review of Immortalized, I pondered on the possibility that Disturbed have been a parody band all along, and this was simply the latest instalment in a series of releases aiming to take this piss out of modern heavy metal and metal culture. Don’t waste your time, other bands are doing it better. The album is soulless tripe, its only aim being to cash in on what is popular in rock music now. While these bands made their own path, Papa Roach have spent the past few years chasing trends, and never has this been more obnoxious than on F.E.A.R. Limp Bizkit broke up entirely, only to return in 2011 when nostalgia for the genre had grown. Deftones took the opportunity to experiment more with different sounds. Korn and Linkin Park got softer and brought more electronic elements into their music. The fact that the album, while not bad, is certainly not good doesn’t help matters.Īs nu-metal fell out of popularity, bands had no choice but to adapt. While Adams claimed he simply wanted to pay tribute to an album he liked, I couldn’t help but find this a weak cash-in on the most popular album of last year. However, 1989 earns its place on this list for just how cynical it felt.
Hell, I’d go so far as to say the cover of “Style” is pretty damn good, albeit nowhere near as good as the original. Honestly, Ryan Adams’ full-album cover of Taylor Swift’s 1989 isn’t awful, and I hesitated to include it on this list.
But there is no reason to listen to this album. Some bad albums are worth listening to because they have interesting ideas, while other you just have to hear how bad it is for yourself. For a metal band composed only of cellists, Apocalyptica don’t do much with their gimmick, instead showering the cellos with effects until they sound like shitty guitars. The album is absolutely devoid of anything that would make it stand out, good or bad, and that alone made it worthy of this list. But Shadowmaker is almost impressive in how empty it is. There were worse albums out this year, there were albums that disappointed me more.
I was honestly surprised at myself for including Shadowmaker on this list. The result of which are these ten albums bad enough that I had to give them special mention. As fantastic as 2015 was for music, it only made the shit stink more.
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