Bands who have gotten better overtime ?

[Gabe_LTD]

I have seen a lot of bands release great albums over the years but I have also seen bands release really Disappointing Albums.
What are some bands that actually have Released better albums later in their carrier?

[BucketheadRules]

SikTh.

Don't like the first album at all but Death of a Dead Day is really good.

And Pantera, because they were a hair metal band once, remember... although their best album is Cowboys From Hell which was in the middle of their career.

[Pchink]

Protest The Hero, mainly for their overall sound, which IMO was the best in Scurrilous, and the songwritting/style has matured really well throughout the albums.

[synrgy]

This is all subjective, of course, but here are some of mine:

Deftones: Diamond Eyes is my favorite album of theirs to date.

311 (I can just hear the groans..): I wasn't a big fan of their first few eps and the first full length, but from Transistor and onward, I love the vast majority of their work.

Tool: They get increasingly brilliant with the passage of time. Lateralus and 10,000 Days are light years ahead of Opiate and Undertow, and Aenima is one of my all time favorite albums by anyone, ever.

Pearl Jam: I'm probably in the minority on this one, too, but as much as albums like Ten, Versus and Vitalogy have a veritable shit-ton of nostalgic value for me, their songwriting has drastically matured since that era. This is kind of a funny one, because I don't particularly like their last several albums, but speaking objectively I still think the songwriting is much better. Plus, when looking at virtually all of the other bands we might consider their peers from way-back-when, it's pretty amazing that they're still alive/together/performing/recording.

Just so there's some balance here, I'll give a couple I think are the opposite:

Mars Volta: Deloused is one of my favorite albums ever, but they've become increasingly more difficult to listen to with each subsequent album.

Metallica: I don't think this even warrants an explanation.

[stevo1]

Job For a Cowboy definitely, They're sound has progressed so much since the release of ruination. There older stuff, like genesis, I found really dull. And Doom sucked.
Also I would say bloodbath. Not their musical writing abilities, because that's always been pretty good, but their sound. The last two albums they put out didnt sound like a chainsaw cutting through wood. their ep sounded better.

[Pchink]

Oh, Machine Head have a parabola type curve of music quality through their albums

[ZOMB13]

Dir En Grey


I love their old stuff (Vulgar <3) and their latest CD is just amazing.

[synrgy]

Also...

"gotten"?

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[USMarine75]

Since I'm a Van Hagar fan I prefer later Van Halen. Not Anti-Dave, but I prefer EVH's newer rhythm and writing style... (e.g. Humans Being, Me Wise Magic, and Balance and .... are my 2 fav albums, followed by 5150 and OU812)

I prefer middle to newer Megadeth to the older by far. I didn't like the thrashier era with Chris Poland... I prefered the Marty era the most and then the newer stuff after that (RIP, Countdown to Extinction, Youthanasia being my favorites)... I think Dave is an underated song writer.

Black Tide - I love "Post Mortem", but not really into their older throwback sound...

I mentioned in another thread, but I prefer newer In Flames (boooo). A Sense of Purpose was the first album I really heard by them. Although I like Reroute to Remain a lot now, Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place!) and beyond is when I really start loving every song on the album!

[Scar Symmetry]

Aborted.
Cult of Luna.
Beneath The Massacre.

[Nesty]

Originally Posted by synrgy

Also...

"gotten"?

/Grammar Police

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[Floppystrings]

Originally Posted by synrgy

Also...

"gotten"?

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Explain...

[synrgy]

Originally Posted by Nesty

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That doesn't make any sense..

[MatthewK]

Stratovarius. Their best stuff was like 5 or 6 albums in.

[Augury]

Originally Posted by stevo1

Job For a Cowboy definitely, They're sound has progressed so much since the release of ruination. There older stuff, like genesis, I found really dull. And Doom sucked.

THIS
But I like Doom though


Well, If we speek about generic deathcore shit then:
Chelsea Grin. My Damnation is a huge progress for them.
Annotations of an Autopsy - Reign of Darkness is definately the shit on the background of their old shit. But the funny thing they went now back to Emmure shit xDD

Ok .... deathcore (except All Shall Perish and Whitechapel )




The Faceless! I personally love Akeldama, because that was the first techdeath I heard in my life. But yeah, Planetary Duality is way better.
Gorod? I don't know how Transcendeny actually is (didn't heard yet) but Process of a New Decline is much better than the older stuff IMO.
And Beneath The Massacre. Dystopia was actually awesome, but Maree Noire... now THAT'S the shit.


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Haha I just realized how many times I wrote "shit" in this post... xD

[RobZero]

Originally Posted by BucketheadRules

SikTh.

Don't like the first album at all but Death of a Dead Day is really good.

this. I dislike the first album but the second is one of my favs.

Deftones? i found them boring in the first cds, but the last cds have awesome grooves mixed with dreamy atmospheres...especially diamond eyes is fantastic imho!

[dbrozz]

There are countless bands that 'evolve' or mature over the course of their career.
I think one good mention is Karnivool.
Their first LP is well done and straight forward,
but the following addition to their discography, Sound Awake, was a massive leap in all aspects, including a change in writting style.
Though the two albums had a farily lenghty wait between them,
lets hope thats not the case for the next

[linchpin]

Meshuggah

[ArrowHead]

Gamma Ray, Fates Warning, Redemption. Three cases where lineup changes made a bands output much more appealing to me. ESPECIALLY in the case of Gamma Ray. I couldn't stand Ralf's voice or style. When they re-recorded with Kai singing, all of those songs improved and quickly became favorites for me.

[ArrowHead]

Originally Posted by synrgy

That doesn't make any sense..

Yes it does. Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation are three separate entities. Closely related through context, but not the same. Grammar is the USAGE of words. You can hav a mispelt sentence which is still grammatically flahless.

[USMarine75]

Originally Posted by Opeth21

There are countless bands that 'evolve' or mature over the course of their career.

But I think that's his point... sometimes bands "mature" but people complain how they've gotten worse.

All of the In Flames fans I know love the old stuff and wish they would go back to their older sound. A lot of people feel that way about Scar Symmetry now that Alvestam is gone, and I thought I would too, but surprisingly I still like the 2 new albums a lot.

I remember when the Black album came out and there was so much backlash that Metallica had finally sold out. A lot of my friends hated Exodus' Force of Habit and Megadeth's Youthanasia and Countdown for the same reasons...

I guess "better" is subjective...

[vampiregenocide]

Meshuggah - The old thrashy stuff is cool, but I prefer their later groovier stuff. Everything after Chaosphere really.

Lamb of God - Wrath is probably my favourite album overall.

Tool - I love the grungey sound they had on their older stuff, but the more polished, atmospheric sound of more recent material sits with me better.

[synrgy]

Originally Posted by ArrowHead

Yes it does. Spelling, Grammar, and Punctuation are three separate entities. Closely related through context, but not the same. Grammar is the USAGE of words. You can hav a mispelt sentence which is still grammatically flahless.

'Gotten' is not a word at all, therefore the issue is not spelling, but usage.

[eurolove]

surprise noone has mentioned born of osiris. they upped the ante with A Higher Place and then blew my mind with The Discovery. The addition of Jason Richardson really helped i feel.

[SenorDingDong]

Coal Chamber - First album amazing, second better, third wow.

Pain of Salvation - Every offering keeps growing, improving.

Blind Guardian - Of course I love everything they've done, but their last couple just blew me away.