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The BEST and WORST thing about 30 metal bands:

I'm a follower of youtuber Bradley Hall, and this is totally a ripoff of his video of the same title. I'll post a link to his video at the end of the article. Accept: Best: Wolf Hoffman and his wife Gaby were one hell of a songwriting team. Gaby's lyrics were especially smart and very forward thinking for the 1980s. The Balls To The Wall album as a whole is one of the most underrated lyrical masterpieces in metal. There's just one problem..... Worst: It's album cover is fucking atrocious and made the whole world think Accept were gay band when they weren't. Also, Udo's voice is nails on a chalkboard, thank God for Mark Tornillo. Angel Witch: Best: Their s/t debut is a stone-cold underground classic that has aged very well, and has influenced just about every metal sub-genre that came after it. Worst: Kevin Heybourne's vocals are really wimpy. Even for NWOBHM standards. Anthrax: Best: Joey Belladonna is the Steve Perry of thrash. By far the bes

Stop complaining about "original" members.

     This is not an article telling you that you shouldn't complain that a formerly great band isn't a shadow of its former self, or even that a band has too many nobodies fans don't care about. This is an article telling you that you're doing it wrong.      With a lot of older bands, very rarely is it the case that the x number of people that formed the group in 1885 stay together to the end.  When one of those members is replaced, the term "scab" or "scab member" is frequently thrown at the band.  This is a term that, in my opinion, the meme "you keep using that word, it doesn't mean what you think it means" comes into play.  Scab should only be used when the band dresses up the new member to look like the old member to fool stupid, filthy casuals into thinking the old member is still there so they'll buy tickets. And filthy casual fans are stupid.  They are the dumbest, laziest pieces of shit to walk the earth.  Yet somehow they&