Hardcore, Punk & Heavy Metal > W Hardcore, Punk & Heavy Metal > 1990 to 1999 > 5 GBP to 10 GBP

Advantages: Its power to invoke emotion
Disadvantages: Its power to affect your mood.

The Crimson Idol is a beautiful album, which fluctuates between powerful emotions of melancholy, rage and frustration. As a concept album it is dark and depressing. It makes you feel for the character of Jonathan as he deals with beatings from his father, fear, being ignored, running away, his own mocking reflection in the mirror, insanity, the words of a gypsy fortuneteller. The machinations of Chainsaw Charlie, His rise to fame and his fall from ...
...Roktor. The album sweeps in with the aptly named Titanic Overture and ends on a long melancholy reprise track. I love this album, if you like raw emotions in your music; this is what you are looking for because the angst filled tracks come fast and furious from the start ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing vocals, lyrics and guitar work.
Disadvantages: not that I have found!

...Slide it in. The Greatest Hits album takes tracks from 3 previous albums the afore mentioned Slide it In, 1987, and Slip of the Tongue, as well as remakes from the very early albums such as Saints and Sinners and Lovehunter. You have a mixture of soul shaking power ballads like Is This Love, Cryin' in the Rain and Now you're Gone which gives you the feeling that Coverdale has never been lucky in love! But then tracks like Slide it In, Slow an' Easy, ...
...he was in love, music wasn't the only thing that rocked! When you hear the music and listen to the lyrics, you'll know what I mean! Unlike some of the "metal" bands around now, Whitesnake represent the core of Rock like Led Zeppelin, Rainbow, through to the like of Bon Jovi and Aerosmith, and each song tells a story. This man can do things with his voice that Christina Aguilera, Brtiany Spears and Justin Timberlake could only dream of. Buy it, ... Read review

Advantages: The CD Cover makes a good frisbee
Disadvantages: The Worst of W.A.S.P.

"Helldorado" is the eighth in the list of many W.A.S.P albums and was released in 1999 on the return of W.A.S.P'S original guitarist Chris Holmes. After a very successful experiment with extreme metal with the release of their 7th album K.F.D (Kill Fuck Die) W.A.S.P tried to go back to the power chord sounds of their first two albums W.A.S.P and The Last Command and only partly succeeded. Although the sound is reminiscent of the first two classic ...
...Although all the songs on this album have some good riffs, in general they are all mediocre metal at best. If W.A.S.P has one bad album this is it and is for only the most die hard W.A.S.P fans. This is an album that looks like W.A.S.P, was written by W.A.S.P was even sung by W.A.S.P but is in no way W.A.S.P. (I wonder if that's why Chris Holmes left the band again) You won't see too many of these tracks making to the live set on their next tour ... Read review

Advantages: Some decent topics discussed, very experimental
Disadvantages: Not fun or cheerful

...band. The band's 3rd album Penis Envy which helped mould the band's more serious, political and less matcho style which differed from their first 2 albums was released in 1981 on the band's own label Crass Records. The band features Eve Libertine (originally the band's first fan) and Joy De Vivre on vocals, the main issue I have with this is that I simply don't like their voices. Harsh, high and militant they certainly get their message across but ...
...sure that's what the band were looking for but there are plenty of bands who have succeeded in getting political messages across (U.K. Subs, Bob Marley and even Carcass without sounding as unattached from sing-song than these two girls) The messages in the songs are at times interesting, often involving quite indepth stuff either in psychology or politics but at the end of the day, it's just no fun and the constant experimenting with different sounds ... Read review

Advantages: Plenty of classic tunes
Disadvantages: Could have added a few more tracks from This Dirty Town

...that period. This album Last Will and Testament is a compilation of just about all their greatest hits and therefore I definitely recommend buying it! One downside of the album is that misses out probably the band's heaviest number in "Heroin, It's All Over" but you do get a taste of the original bonus tracks "New Guitar in Town" and the rock n roll punk track "Little Ole Wine Drinker Me" and like any other Best of Albums, it has all the anthems: ...
...cover of Bo Diddley's "Pills" that is only matched by the New York Dolls version of the track. The album has easily collected the best recordings and sounds pretty polished throughout. A must have! 1. I'm On Heat 2:32 2. Cyanide 2:05 3. Pills 2:26 4. Shadow (single Version) 2:40 5. Little Ol' Wine Drinker Me 2:38 6. Out In The Dark 3:35 7. Freak Show 2:21 8. Jenny 2:24 9. Self Destruct 1:47 10. Ain't Got A Clue 2:11 11. Take Me Back To ... Read review