KaiKaspareK's Kremling Kreator

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...

     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...

Fact: Venom invented extreme metal.  Without Venom, thrash, black, death, metalcore, grindcore, blackened death and everything in between would not exist.  Way more so than Motorhead.  I love Motorhead, possibly my favorite band of all time.  While they do deserve some credit for extreme metal's architecture, Venom is just more important, and I will explain why. Objectively speaking, if you were to make a Top X metal bands of all time, they have to be top 5, possibly in the top 3.   Their influence is so prevalent in everything afterwards that you really don't even notice it.  It's like commenting on the type of wood that forms the skeleton of a house.  Yet reading that top 5 sentence out loud would probably grant more snickers and "ehhhhs" than cheers of approval.  Unfortunately, it seems like history has almost forgotten Venom, despite their first two records, Welcome To Hell  released in 1981, and Black Metal  released in 1982, provid...

     I will always have respect for Bob Daisley. He is without question, the Bernie Taupin to Ozzy's Elton John. At the same time, I always have to look at him funny. Like, dude. Sharon being a problem was not some revelation you discovered 20 years down the line (like it was for the rest of us). You knew she was bad news right then and there. Yet you still kept coming back. Even Lee Kerslake saw The Sign went back to Uriah Heep. I mean, I'm glad you came back and we got many great albums cos of you, but still, you got no one to blame for the repeated abuse but yourself. And yes, Robert Trujillo re-recording your bass lines was bullshit and the worst thing he's ever done. (yes that includes Lulu). I look at Ozzy's relationship with his musicians as a two way street. His musicians gave him musical credibility and songwriting he clearly could not get on his own. At the same time, Ozzy gave his musicians a street credibility that they couldn't get anywhere el...