OK, we've all listened to bands on the recommendations of others and either found new loves or new avoids. Either way, there are some bands that are hyped beyond stupidity and you for some reason "just don't get it". What bands do others love but you just can't stand?

For me a few would be:

Opeth
Electric Wizard
Hooded Menace
Coffins
Neurosis

These are bands I have tried to get into but just can't for the life of me; and as a result I hate them (although Hooded Menace get bonus points for having a cool name and Coffins don't piss me off as much as they used too).

Theres quite a few, but Crowbar stand out, i just dont get it. They seem like they are holding back and not going balls out. i dunno...Vocals too clean for "sludge"

Melvins, Napalm Death since Harmony “Morrisound-f****d-death-metal” Corruption, Neurosis, Sunn O))), Khanate and last but not least Blood Ceremony.

Most of mine have already been covered in other threads. So called goth doom - My Dying Bride, Type O Negative, Paradise Lost, Katatonia blah blah blah, the list goes on and on for that scene.

The Melvins - never got whats so good about them and I have tried to like them, I even bought albums on the off-chance I might them but that didn't work.

Neurosis - loved their first couple of albums but since then, have been pretty bored by everything they have done.

Queens Of The Stone Age - never heard a song I like.

In doom metal there is not many bands I can say I hate, I can listen to just about all of them if I am in the mood including some I have mentioned here. In other styles of metal though, the list is endless starting with the big 4 - Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax are all bands I have NEVER liked too much. Back in 83-86, I must have been the only metal head not into these bands at the time. To me there was many other bands that were much better and didn't get the credit they deserved.

And don't get me started on black metal, that list would go one forever. Very overrated genre of heavy metal IMO.

Cradle of Filth
My Dying Bride
Anathema
The Melvins
Draconian
Most grindcore bands
Norwegian black metal
Dream Theater

Hmmm there is a lot more, I will have to come back to this.

I will tell you one band I have a problem with - Clutch. Apart from a few songs, nothing has ever grabbed me with that band.

Neurosis - other than certain songs i.e. The Doorway, Locust Star and a few others, not really into them
Melvins - I really like the older stuff i.e. Gluey Porch Treatments, Ozma, and I saw them in the early 90s a few times and like it alot, Not into most of the stuff after the Solo LPS
Grindcore, especially Pornogrind, I didnt find songs about raping and shitting on someones corpse funny or shocking when i was 12 and do even less so now. maybe i should start a porno doom band and show them how to be creative and funny, no, thats a wast of time too
Most drone, 20minutes of 1 chord? no thank you, its an acquired taste I guess, i have friends that swear by it, just not for me, maybe i should try drugs first
Bottle Doom Lazy Band, I had a few friends rave about them but i just wanted to shove icepicks in my ears when the vocals started
A lot of black metal, I am thinking of starting a segment called Black Metal band or Yoko Ono, because honestly the vocals are much different a lot of times, liek a stuck pig fucking a dying cow

Also on the new Crestfallen out this week, I play some of the bands mentioned here (paradise lost, my dying bride, anathema) haha, but i stick to their debut releases as they are the ones i love.

-Opeth
-Katatonia
-Anathema
-Amorphis
-Paradise Lost
-Ozzy Osbourne (Solo)
-Saint-Vitus
-Swallow the Sun
-Saturnus
In fact, too much to mention 'em all...

@Crestfallen: Can't agree more with you about The Bottle Doom Lazy Band!

@Wedding in Hades

I love a lot of those bands, listen harder, lol

Been discussing a similar topic with Joe Hasselvander on Facebook, he posted this funny but true message but Metallica.

"I can explain it in very simple terms! Slayer and all of their imitators through the years suck! Their fans are the same idiots that made that overrated pile of shoit, Metallica a house hold name! They also ...have a set of half ass imitators who have now blossomed into garbage like Nickleback! This crap is all a horrible fad that should have died in the cut out bins upon the release of their little miserable albums! They are only popular because they have been used as background noise for spoiled arrogant goofballs who can't get girlfriends to now have an out let for their anger in a mosh pit bumping and shoving each other! They need to just cut the crap and go to a down town gay dance club!"

Couldn't have said it better !! Well done Joe !!

I agree with the sentiments regarding Clutch, pornogrind, and drone, although I'm honestly not very familiar with drone. I have one Sunn O))) album, but I never really got into it that much until I saw them live. They do have a pretty big presence in that format, and having Attila Csihar on vocals definitely helped their case.

I am a big black metal guy though, and while I know that it's not everyone's cup of tea, I'm a bit surprised that it's almost universally disliked here. Bands that fuse black metal and doom, like Unholy, Dolorian, Katatonia, Bethlehem, etc..., make some of my favorite music. Not saying everyone should be into this stuff too, far from it actually, I'm just a bit surprised I'm one of the only ones.

I love the first two Amorphis recordings (The Karelian Isthmus & The Privilege of Evil) but I cannot stand Tales From The Thousand Lakes. Which is odd because its straight up Doom/Death. I never did care for their original vocalist but he did get the job done.

Newer Anathema is garbage. I completely agree with you there. Their last album should've "We're here because we're too lame to leave".

I totally agree with you there. I am also into the first wave of bands in all genres. All music goes through that cycle, innovators, the b-league and then comes the clone bands. People are always waiting around for the new wave of innovators to come along but I am pretty sure, it may not ever happen. I don't want to sound like a old grump (which I am lol) but everything has truly been done. Now it is up to bands to be as original or unique as they can with the blueprints they have presented with and run with it. It is interesting that the truly unique bands in doom-metal are mostly the ones that people generally have trouble with. People complain about Sabbath-clones but that is what most still want to hear.

With BM I think it is kind of sad that most people still think of church burnings and Satanism when it comes to BM music. There is some great music going on but most people will never hear it because of the preconceptions they have on the BM scene. Doom Metal has its own problems too and anything labeled stoner-rock gets a bad rap from people who think it is only music for drug taking freaks. The media is partly to blame but fans themselves have screwed things up by pushing the dope smoking angle all the time and ignoring the actual music.

The best BM band ever is/was Venom.

I think I already did a post about this but I saw Venom when I was in the UK in the 80's. They were really really bad but good at the same time lol. It was total spinal tap stuff.

Saw Venom in 85..with Voivod and the Cro Mags...It was Voivods FIRST american show ever...fucking amazing all 3 of them

When I saw Venom they were getting a lot of negative press about how they couldn't play blah blah blah and I used to defend them even though it was obvious they were pretty rough musicians. Seeing them live though made me realize how bad they actually were. Cronos couldn't play bass, most of the time he just hacked away on one string, not even holding a note usually. Mantas hit bum notes in every song and his solos were so messy that a lot of the time, he would lose his place and then just improvise to get to the end of that section. The look on his face was hilarious because you could tell he was thinking ' oh shoit, fucked up again' ha ha

The drumming went slow, fast, was never steady and never in time and he dropped sticks frequently. The sound was extremely loud but didn't sound mixed at all like the dude on the mixing went home after the first song. The only song that sounded tight was 'Seven Gates Of Hell,' the rest of the set was sloppy as shoit. The stage production was total spinal tap with some things working, some things only half worked and some things didn't work at all including several lights that blew out during the first song. Despite all this though, it was great fun and a great night that I will never forget.

True, I do adore Voivod. That's a band that truly is progressive, not like the hordes of Dream Theater clones that think progression somehow equates to lining up right behind your idols.

As far as Venom being the best BM band out there, I can't really agree. I love Venom, but there's lots of other BM out there I would listen to first. Venom is an odd case, where the band that created the template was easily surpassed by MANY of the bands that they influenced.

To me Venom were just a raw, noisy, punky version of Motorhead cranked to 11 etc, the BM tag came from their lyrics more than anything else. In the early 80's punk kids loved them even though punk magazines like "Maximum Rock N' Roll" hated them. Venom started the satanic image/lyric thing but real BM music started a year or two later. So many bands rip them off too, the first two Bathory albums had rip offs of venom songs for example and then Quothorn denied being influenced by them which I always thought was BS.

It is interesting that when Welcome To Hell was released a Danish metal mag said Venom were a cross between Discharge and Black Flag and was crude punk with satanic lyrics. A lot of people at the time thought they had nothing to do with heavy metal.

I really can't stand Tool. People always rave about how awesome they are. but I find them coma-inducing boring. I have two of their releases, Aenima and Lateralus, and a few years back, I decided to listen to both of them every day, for a period of ten days, or so, in order to find what made them so awesome. What a waste of time. After spinning each CD ten times, I still could not recall a single song, its lyrics or melodies. As if they try to make their music as an-catchy as possible. Still, I give them credit for being decent background music, since it is not intrusive, lacking the ability to suck you in.

Meshuggah - Just plain mechanized noise, imo.

Nevermore - Annoying! Since when did Warrel Dane turned into such a whiner?

I know that I'm in the minority with this one (what else is new?), but Tool is one of my favorite bands. They're not really a metal band so I can understand that most metal fans don't like them, but there's just something about them that I have loved since the first time I heard them. They were pretty much my gateway into music, which could have something to do with it, but even after exploring many different sounds they remain one of my favorites.