My pick is Five Finger Death Punch and the obvious answer is Ivan Moody. The guy radiates that alpha-male wannabe energy and it definitely rings through all of the songs he has written and performed with this band. The guy is just a prick and a self-victimizing asshole.
I think he’s the primary reason FFDP is mocked so badly.
I’d be more likely to listen to AC/DC without Brian Johnson. He hasn’t done anything wrong (that I know of) and he’s a talented vocalist, but that rasping voice of his makes me wince every time I hear it. Does he gargle glass shards?
I really don’t think their music would have changed much if Milli or Vanilli wasn’t in Milli Vanilli.
I see what you did there. Do we live in the same senior center?
I’ve always told my friend who is a huge Morrissey fan that The Smiths would have been better without Morrissey to troll him.
Lostprophets. It should be obvious who and why.
I also think Guns’n Roses have soome fucking awesome riffs and songs, but I find Axl Rose to be an insufferable cunt of a diva. Slash, Izzy, Duff, and Adler should have released Appetite for Destruction with a different vocalist.
I loved their first album, listened to it a lot. Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja and The Fake Sound of Progress are both amazing tracks. Unfortunately they’re both vocalized by a literal baby rapist, so it’s hard to rock out to them now. Asshole wrote the tracks too, so I doubt No Devotion will ever cover them.
As for Guns N’ Roses, a friend pointed out something that’s been living in my head for months now: Axl Rose is the Starscream of Guns N’ Roses.
Axl Rose seems like a dick, but would it have been the same band without him? His really unusual voice is a lot of the appeal of the music imo
Along those same lines, Limp Bizkit because of Fred Durst. They still would have been pretty mid, but maybe I wouldn’t go out of my way to skip their songs when they sneak onto my playlists.
Fuck Fred Durst. Fucking riff-stealing crybaby.
He stole riffs?
Indeed he did. Years ago, they were holding auditions in my area for a new guitarist after Wes Borland left. They asked people to demo stuff they had written, rather than try to play along with their current songs. After auditions wrapped, they didn’t pick anyone and life went on.
Cut to a few months later when their next album dropped. The local rock station that helped sponsor the audition starts getting numerous calls from people saying the material they demoed during the audition got incorporated into songs from the new album. No credit or compensation was given to any of them. From that point on, the radio station rightfully blacklisted them.
Muse without the vocals.
Love the instrumentals, vocals strike me as written by a teenage theatre kid. Overly dramatic and theatrical in a way that doesn’t fit well imo.
Will listen to the first 45 seconds of “assassin” then it’s tike to turn it off lol https://youtu.be/nNPSSs1xnpY?si=sfnQHjlgclCEwWwZ
I feel the same about a lot of metal. I often really love the instrumental portion of lots of really heavy metal, then often the vocalist opens his fucking mouth and ruins it.
This is death metal and black metal for me.
Badass instrumentals. Why the fuck is the vocalist a growling cookie monster? Can’t even comprehend a single fucking word he’s “singing” and yet the song somehow has lyrics. I can barely, BARELY tolerate Cannibal Corpse for the reason that I can comprehend the vocalist.
To each their own, I suppose.
Lars from Metallica after he attacked napster.
Least metal thing of all time. I don’t know if he apologized or what because everyone seems to have forgiven/forgotten.
I think he’s Unforgiven
Roger Waters put a damper on my enjoyment of Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd would have been completely different without him though
He is anti hunting, anti poverty, anti malaria, anti Israel, pro veteran, anti fascist, anti chevron, anti brexit and pro Assange.
Which part dampens your enjoyment?
The pro Russia part does.
Wikipedia didn’t cover Russia in detail so I did some reading.
“The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was illegal. I condemn it in the strongest possible terms”
“Also, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked, so I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest possible terms”
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64580688
He calls Putin a gangster.
I think his opinions are naive. He identifies Western Propaganda but ignores the possibility that Putin is lying.
He seems to be consistently anti war though so I’m not going to burn my Pink Floyd collection … yet
He’s one of those guys who hates America so much that he starts to think anyone who goes up against them must be the good guy (I’m sure nobody on Lemmy could possibly imagine such a situation!), missing the point that lots of people/countries/organisations can all be bad.
He’s a complete edgelord and always has been, but that has always been a recipe for great art!
Someone should chuck Assange in a woodchipper and be done with it.
Pretty much every member of Gloryhammer
https://loudwire.com/alleged-leaked-chat-gloryhammer-misogynists-racists/
I don’t know what Michael Keene is doing in The Faceless but he goes through band members like most people go through socks
Keene has struggled a lot with drugs over the years. He’s notoriously difficult to work with. Its a shame because he’s an incredible musician. I really hope he can get his shit together.
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Anthony Kiedis statutorily raped a 14 yo.
I like their music and had friends who played them a lot through a great period in my life. But, when I hear them now and can’t not think “that fucker’s a pedophile”.
This one bums me out because Chad Smith is a great drummer and seems like such a a good dude.
Him and Flea sharked an MTV presenter during a live broadcast. They subsequently apologised but still, they ain’t exactly good people.
What does that even mean? Lol
