Bands you dig and now you Don't

Just for a bit of fun, what are some bands you used to dig at one time or another and now just can't swallow the pill. And perhaps reasons why (if you know why).

Also- bands you thought were okay, or didn't like back in the day but now really dig (and the reason/s why if you know)

Here are a few Bands I once liked very much and now... well...

Tourniquet: Loved this band once. They are great musicians, but now when I listen to them I just don't get any aggressive attack from them that thrash should have (IMO) and the vocals remind me of Judas Priest and king Diamond. Not a fan of either of those bands.
                    
Whitecross: Another band I once loved. Don't know why, but just can't dig them anymore. I think lyrics have a lot to do with it now too (mind you, I can listen to Rez just fine so maybe that's !@#$%& I don't know... Just don't excite me anymore.

Bride: Another one I liked- really can't get into that guns n roses vibe and groove anymore, and Dales voice grates my ears now (used to love it)

Petra with John Schlitt: Used to love the Jon Schlitt Petra era when I was "On Fire"- however, I still love the Volz years though, the layers in the music and his voice are amazing, even the first two (though Washers whiter than is questionable, but doable).

Stryper: To hell with the Devil and Brides: Silence is Madness, were the first proper christian heavy metal bands I heard and got excited about (until I heard Vengeance rising) now I listen to it and everything from dressing up like women right down to the cringe lyrics and kiddie metal anthem songs is just awful. It's like drinking sugary cough medicine bottle after bottle.



So how bout ewes...

Yeah, this is going to be a great topic. No flame wars pending...at all.

BaleMaster wrote:Yeah, this is going to be a great topic.  No flame wars pending...at all.

Doesn't have to be that way. It's just opinions. Put your big boy pants on. You'll be fine.

White cross, didn't age well. I'll listen to the first one for nostalgia is all. Not metal but Servant. Really dated sound.

Bands I no longer care for:  Too many to mention.  Actually I would prefer to say I'm just taking a break from them.  
One specific thing I am definitely bored with is excessive guitar wankery.  Shred has it's place at times but I prefer more economical, tasteful playing.

Bands that didn't thrill me back then but that I like now:
When black / unblack metal first began, I did not like it.   In the past few years I began to get into it more.  
Not as a steady diet, just every so often.

Actually I never cared much for Stryper in their early years except for 2-3 classics and the "Against The Law" album.  But ever since NMHTP, they sound so much stronger to me.  Maybe it's the modern production, but it's a different experience now.

Bands I still can't get into:   One Bad Pig.  No matter how many times I try, I just....can't.   I just do not connect with them on any level.  I just don't like the garage kind of sound.

The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

I didn‘t care for Precious Death and Randy Rose back in the day as they were too soft but now I appreciate them as Christian alternatives to Faith No More and Danzig, respectively.

I agree that some White Cross hasn‘t aged well but there are still enough songs I like. Vocals on the first three Bride records are over the top and I have a hard time listening to them nowadays. I still dig Kinetic Faith and Snakes tho.

Man, I still love me some Whitecross. Y’all are crazy. 

For some reason I keep giving all the bands I liked in the past a chance every time they release something new... If they have made more than a few albums, they probably have a few stinkers. But I can’t think of a band I have completely abandoned. Maybe there is… but I can’t recall at this time.

I did almost give up on Deliverance around the time of “Assimilation”, but Jimmy has somewhat redeemed himself. I quite enjoy “As Above, So Below” and recently I have given “Hear What I Say!” a new fresh listen and I like it more than I did before. The Subversive Kind is good too.

Actually, I do have one…
I haven’t been enjoying the stuff Believer has released since their comeback. I thought Gabriel had a few nice moments, but the production is crappy and the songwriting is weirder than usual. The follow up Transhuman was a big stylistic departure too…
I haven’t bothered with their series of EP’s. From what I’ve heard, I didn’t like them very much. I don’t think they even released the final installment. 

I will always like their first two albums though! Especially Extraction From Mortality.

Pethead wrote:The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

A few examples of "similar bands"?? I'm interested.

Dustofyears wrote:

BaleMaster wrote:Yeah, this is going to be a great topic.  No flame wars pending...at all.

Doesn't have to be that way. It's just opinions. Put your big boy pants on. You'll be fine.

The Big Boy pants have been on much longer than many of those worn by this board's members.  As a student of history, I know how these threads turn out.  They quickly devolve into flame wars, because they involve skewering one another's sacred cows for no valid reason.  

Pethead wrote:The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

Never liked Shout. Or Tamplin. Talented though, very talented.

TZ75 wrote:

Actually, I do have one…
I haven’t been enjoying the stuff Believer has released since their comeback. I thought Gabriel had a few nice moments, but the production is crappy and the songwriting is weirder than usual. The follow up Transhuman was a big stylistic departure too…
I haven’t bothered with their series of EP’s. From what I’ve heard, I didn’t like them very much. I don’t think they even released the final installment. 

I will always like their first two albums though! Especially Extraction From Mortality.

Really like those albums. didn't at first but they both grew on me. The only thing I don't like about Gabriel is all that filler stuff at the end of it. I don't mind a little filler here and there, but not a chunk of it and call it a track when a perfectly good song could've been there.

No mention of Dimensions I noted... Let's just pretend that never occurred and let it slid just this one time.

BaleMaster wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

BaleMaster wrote:Yeah, this is going to be a great topic.  No flame wars pending...at all.

Doesn't have to be that way. It's just opinions. Put your big boy pants on. You'll be fine.

The Big Boy pants have been on much longer than many of those worn by this board's members.  As a student of history, I know how these threads turn out.  They quickly devolve into flame wars, because they involve skewering one another's sacred cows for no valid reason.  

Ah... Thus the Master. Well, Master Bale, student of history and gatekeeper of the Christian Metal Realm- I must commend you for figuring out after all those years that opposing opinions can cause tension on the internet. A most worthy student indeed.

Perhaps you'd like to bring some of those "Sacred Cows" to the altar, so that we might "skewer" them...

Dustofyears wrote:

Pethead wrote:The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

Never liked Shout. Or Tamplin. Talented thought, very talented.

I like Tamplin’s self-titled pretty well. Yeah, he’s very talented both on guitar and vocals. Seems like a nice guy, as well.

Sevenoneself wrote:

Pethead wrote:The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

A few examples of "similar bands"?? I'm interested.

Angelica, Guardian, Holy Soldier, some of Bride and Bloodgood, Whitecross, Stryper, Crystavox, Legend Seven, later Leviticus, Mastedon, Ransom, Red Sea, The Brave, X-Sinner (Get It), Zion, Fear Not, Rage of Angels

Dustofyears wrote:

BaleMaster wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

BaleMaster wrote:Yeah, this is going to be a great topic.  No flame wars pending...at all.

Doesn't have to be that way. It's just opinions. Put your big boy pants on. You'll be fine.

The Big Boy pants have been on much longer than many of those worn by this board's members.  As a student of history, I know how these threads turn out.  They quickly devolve into flame wars, because they involve skewering one another's sacred cows for no valid reason.  

Ah... Thus the Master. Well, Master Bale, student of history and gatekeeper of the Christian Metal Realm- I must commend you for figuring out after all those years that opposing opinions can cause tension on the internet. A most worthy student indeed.

Perhaps you'd like to bring some of those "Sacred Cows" to the altar, so that we might "skewer" them...

🥸

To give credit where credit is due to ole Tamplin, this is a MONSTER song:

Pethead wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

Pethead wrote:The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

Never liked Shout. Or Tamplin. Talented thought, very talented.

I like Tamplin’s self-titled pretty well. Yeah, he’s very talented both on guitar and vocals. Seems like a nice guy, as well.

When I say Tamplin- I am referring to the music and not the person, just so it's clear. yeah He seems like a genuinely good guy.

Dustofyears wrote:

TZ75 wrote:

Actually, I do have one…
I haven’t been enjoying the stuff Believer has released since their comeback. I thought Gabriel had a few nice moments, but the production is crappy and the songwriting is weirder than usual. The follow up Transhuman was a big stylistic departure too…
I haven’t bothered with their series of EP’s. From what I’ve heard, I didn’t like them very much. I don’t think they even released the final installment. 

I will always like their first two albums though! Especially Extraction From Mortality.

Really like those albums. didn't at first but they both grew on me. The only thing I don't like about Gabriel is all that filler stuff at the end of it. I don't mind a little filler here and there, but not a chunk of it and call it a track when a perfectly good song could've been there.

No mention of Dimensions I noted... Let's just pretend that never occurred and let it slid just this one time.

Dimensions is okay, but it was my least favorite of the original 3.

Dustofyears wrote:

Pethead wrote:

Dustofyears wrote:

Pethead wrote:The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

Never liked Shout. Or Tamplin. Talented thought, very talented.

I like Tamplin’s self-titled pretty well. Yeah, he’s very talented both on guitar and vocals. Seems like a nice guy, as well.

When I say Tamplin- I am referring to the music and not the person, just so it's clear. yeah He seems like a genuinely good guy.

I’ve met him. He is indeed nice.

Pethead wrote:

Sevenoneself wrote:

Pethead wrote:The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

A few examples of "similar bands"?? I'm interested.

Angelica, Guardian, Holy Soldier, some of Bride and Bloodgood, Whitecross, Stryper, Crystavox, Legend Seven, later Leviticus, Mastedon, Ransom, Red Sea, The Brave, X-Sinner (Get It), Zion, Fear Not, Rage of Angels

I'm a fan of about 1/2 of these bands, NOT a fan of about 1/4, and haven't listened to another 1/4. In 2 weeks of being on this forum, my list of bands to check out is about 50!!

Pethead wrote:

Sevenoneself wrote:

Pethead wrote:The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

A few examples of "similar bands"?? I'm interested.

Angelica, Guardian, Holy Soldier, some of Bride and Bloodgood, Whitecross, Stryper, Crystavox, Legend Seven, later Leviticus, Mastedon, Ransom, Red Sea, The Brave, X-Sinner (Get It), Zion, Fear Not, Rage of Angels

Did you give Shout - It won‘t Be Long a fair listen? I really love this one, it‘s quite straightforward, as opposed to the more complex, artistic solo albums and less bombastic than Magdallan. 

On a related note you mentioned Mastedon. I recently wondered who did the vocals on It‘s a Jungle Out There, must be the guy from X Sinner? That track is so dope and I was so disappointed when I found out he didn‘t sing throughout the whole record.

Sevenoneself wrote:

Pethead wrote:

Sevenoneself wrote:

Pethead wrote:The one that comes to my mind is Shout. I picked up In Your Face many moons ago when I was desperate for anything resembling christian hair metal and I listened to it a bunch. But I don’t really ever play it anymore. It’s got a couple good tunes, but there are many other similar bands I’d rather hear.

A few examples of "similar bands"?? I'm interested.

Angelica, Guardian, Holy Soldier, some of Bride and Bloodgood, Whitecross, Stryper, Crystavox, Legend Seven, later Leviticus, Mastedon, Ransom, Red Sea, The Brave, X-Sinner (Get It), Zion, Fear Not, Rage of Angels

I'm a fan of about 1/2 of these bands, NOT a fan of about 1/4, and haven't listened to another 1/4. In 2 weeks of being on this forum, my list of bands to check out is about 50!!

Holy Soldier's first two albums, self titled and Last Train, is hair metal perfection. If you haven't heard those albums- do yourself a solid and go have a listen on youtube!

There really aren’t any bands that I used to like, but now don’t. I listen to bands less than I used to, sure, but I still enjoy them.