HELLYEAH

It was mildly horrifying to learn that there’s a country, hard rock, nu metal supergroup. Like the traveling wilburys but for music that’s bad. And the music is bad, like as cringe as you’d expect for something like that. Unfortunately alcohaulin ass will be a guilty pleasure for me from now on.

I think the list really fails to explore metal and the inclusion of awful things like this does not help.

ahahaha surely not. For anyone who's never heard of this shit before, it's one of those bands connected to the "Panteraverse". Their ENTIRE appeal was an idiot's call to action because Vinnie Paul was in the band, it was full of little Pantera-isms (including the band name) and its MO was a big assertion that Dimebag would have loved it. "Come on bro, you gonna getcha pull here or what? It's a redneck party here!! BLACK TOOTH AMIRITE??!?" But realistically: to anyone outside the Panteraverse, and even to a whole bunch of us that loved Pantera in the 90s, this is just retarded shit for pickled/cooked hillbillies. It's ICP's metal cousin. The music is just z-tier nu-metal, and the lyrics will make your brain pour out your ears. It's not proof that the "spirit of Dime" lives on or whatever. It's only proof that if you're a big enough name to start with, you can self-fund your way onto the summer festival circuit. What this overlooks is that Dimebag Darrell was an insane talent who could write a fucking song. Ya know? HELLYEAH spends so much time trying to recapture that hootin', hollerin', drinkin' spirit that it completely ignores that Dimebag wrote really soulful, sensitive songs like Cemetery Gates, We'll Meet Again, This Love, FLOODS, etc. Where Darrell came across as an artist, these guys seem like dumbshits. 2/5.

The anthropomorphized version of this album broke into my house, shotgunned a Monster drink, and then punched a hole in my drywall.

You guys are weirdos

Simple and over the top groove metal. The slower southern rock songs (Alcohaulin' Ass) are boring and emphasize the poor lyrics. Not my cup of tea.

how about HELL NO

Didn’t enjoy Pantera on the main list, and didn’t enjoy this Pantara derivative.

Alcohaulin Ass is the greatest song title of all time

From the cover and title I thought we'd be getting a rare parody/humor pick for the list, but unfortunately these guys seem to take themselves quite seriously. The instrumentals are bland butt rock meets half-assed metal, the production flattens all the tracks together and leaves an unpleasant mess of guitar mids and hi-hat, and the lyricism is about as bone dry creatively as it gets to top off this unholy trifecta. This one should've been left in the aughts, there's not much here worth salvaging.

HELLYEAH by HELLYEAH. What else needs to be said. This album has everything you need for a backyard bbq with the biker boys. It has songs about drinking, dead friends, being a bad ass rockstar. I mean who wouldn’t love this album. Most people actually. Alcoholin ass is catchy and was a favorite song to play while underage drinking. So yeah that’s who the song resonated with. 4.1/10

Seems to be a lot of unnecessary hate for this album. Yes, they're similar to Pantera, but there are other elements from other styles and bands. It's heavy, it's loud, it's fun and I liked it. It's got what it needs for a good metal album to thrash around to. Would give a 4, but I'll go 5 because it needs it after all the hate.

Good old fashioned hillbilly get fucked up album! Best enjoyed w a case of beer, in or around a pickup truck. Cheers!

Quick question. Is there someone or someones whose job is to build heavy metal fonts, or do they do it as a side project. You could write Liberace in heavy metal font and you would know that it's a metal album. As far as albums go, this has all the elements of metal. Heavy drums, fast, chaotic guitars, almost indecipherable lyrics, some screaming, Wonderful!

Pretty much what I'd expect from a metal supergroup of this provenance. Nothing particularly new but solid fare in this idiom, a good driving beat for the evening workout and about the length I'm up for in this genre.

FUCKNO

Avengers Endgame for people who beat their wives.

Is this Heavy Metal's Spinal Tap? All cliches tickmarked: - Stupid-ass band name? check! - Album cover with flames, cast-iron band logo and "cool" band pose? check! - Parental Adivisory sticker? check! - Singer that sounds constipated? check! Ughh....🙄

I complained about how metal was done dirty on the OG list. There were clearly a bunch of users who finished who like metal and added albums. But I honestly have to ask... who is this shit for? There HAS to be better metal albums out there. So many of them submitted are garbage. Does metal just straight up suck? I can't believe that for a second, but oh boy are albums like this not helping. This album cover looks like a fucking joke used on 30 Rock of a shitty metal band one of the characters is in. They treat it deadly seriously and everyone knows it is garbage. If you asked me to design an album cover in the early 2000s with shitty pirated version of Photoshop, this is what I would make. It's like the angsty teenagers emo band level band. Shit you cringe at a few years after you make it. I had a brief hope that maybe this was all done ironically and it would be over-the-top Spinal-Tapesque satire but no, this is serious. The only mildly interesting song is Alcohaulin' Ass and that's only because it's a fun pun. My personal rating: 1/5 My rating relative to the list: 1/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

The album cover and album both seem to be a parody joke that you’d find on South Park. Listening to it proved me not to be the case but it otherwise wasn’t particularly memorable.

oh for fucks sake. This is awful. It looks like a parody album but as far as I can see it isn't. What terrible looking people on the album cover. The whole thing is so cringy and agonising.

Hell yeah! A supergroup the equal of any band the members had been in before - which is not always the case. Heavy as hell, and twice as loud, and an absolute blast of a driving album - as long as you don't mind a speeding ticket!

Hell yeah!

A bit top much over the top for me.

Groove metal. Ni fu ni fa.

Rating: 6/10

This was a pretty good metal album! I’d have probably been into this more when it came out but always happy to get a metal album, great addition.

After *Poseía Basíca* yesterday, and also that Debbie Gibson album not so long ago, it looks like the generator wants to show me the worst album covers of all time these days. I've said it before: it's probably a good thing that bad taste is not a criminal offense. But you sometimes wish it is. So Hellyeah is a supergroup featuring members of Pantera, Mudvayne, Damageplan, and Nothingface. Given how much I generally despise Pantera and that kind of redneck metal scene, I kind of expected to hate this, but it turns out I don't. To be honest, I often found this record ten times catchier, sharper and more efficient that anything Pantera ever put out. Who would have seen that coming? I have probably already pissed off Pantera fans writing all this up there, and I would lie if I said that the thought doesn't amuse me. :) That band was a phenomenon I could never understand. When you pretend to play "groove metal", you should at least convey some sense of said groove in your songs, instead of those awkwardly syncopated rhythm patterns. For me, Hellyeah does execute that mission a hell of a lot better than Pantera, to the point where it feels strange to think that they once shared the same drummer (if I'm not mistaken). This here is not enough to make me consider including this project in my own list of 1001 keepers, but I've had to go through far worse metal / hard rock albums in the original list, you know. Of course, the lyrics are often ridiculous, and the *whole* of "Alcohaulin Ass" is just dumb pop-metal shit. But I also admit that it's *tongue-in-cheek* dumb shit, and that this cut is perfectly placed in the tracklist, actually serving the first side's dynamics right somehow. As for the rest of the album, it does its job more than competently. If the choruses are sometimes memorable for wrong reasons, you can't deny that they ARE memorable. Plus, there's a right balance of melodicism and aggression in those songs, and the vast array of sub genres here explored -- going from nü-metal and metal ballads to Ministry-adjacent scorchers or Tool-inspired forays -- make for a somewhat pleasant listen. Those influences point to how derivative the whole thing is, but apart from that, I can easily picture why a metal fan would love this album. You know how the saying goes: don't judge a book by its cover. 2.5/5 for the purposes of this list of essential albums, rounded up to 3. 7.5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 2.5) Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 11 Albums from the users list I *might* include in mine later on: 13 Albums from the users list I won't include in mine: 23 (including this one)

Surprised I'd not heard of this. Pretty fun but lacks the coherence of a Pantera or similar.

I really wanted to hate this as the singer's lyrics are lame, but as far as Tesco Value Pantera goes, this is alright

Judged the book by the cover and was not looking forward to this as it started. I was wrong. I found myself bopping along to several of the tracks. It’s still not a style I am likely to come back to but I am happy I have had the chance to listen to this.

This one just wasn't for me. I've gotten much more into metal in the last couple of years, but I really like it when metal spreads out and incorporates other genres. This seems like straight ahead metal, which is fine, but it doesn't trip my trigger. Everything is competent, and the album is well-produced, but it doesn't feel like like it meaningfully pushed the genre forward compared to what bands like Slipknot had been doing for close to a decade by this point 3/5

Instrumentation is solid, vocals are solid, production is solid, songwriting isn’t the most innovative, but it ain’t offensive, and the lyrics are alright too. I just can’t figure out why I have no desire to listen to it. I find the whole thing bemusing. I’d keep it on if I found it on the radio. If no one else was in the car, that is. I think this isn’t that bad, but I really don’t want to listen to it. The duality of man. 3/5

Though Alcohaulin Ass is a interesting pun, I think it an embarrassing investment in a song above the age of 13. Though their sonic delivery is solid, the content just seems amateur.

No thank you

Yeah it's dumb but it's also kind of silly. I don't hate it.

It's somewhere between the metal I like and the metal I don't like, so I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either. I didn't find it to be a great example, but I think it does a good enough job. 2.5 stars

Musically this was fine, but there's not much here to keep me engaged.

Metal band from Texas called HELLYEAH. Fun stuff! Never heard of them, but they ain't half bad. Didn't dig much of it, but I'm not a big metal guy anyway. 2.5/5

Competent cliche ridden groove metal.I dont like it much. The genre has to offer more to entertain the non-metal fan. 1.5

I appreciate their enthusiasm

Full on 00’s metal supergroup we really didn’t need. I’d accept a Mudvayne or Pantera album, but we don’t need this.

Generic Spiders Music

I'm a Pantera fan, but really?

Pants Pantera

Lowest average rating on the users list, which got me disappointed when it just ended up being mediocre nu-metal. I was hoping for something actually heinous

The metal is fairly competent, by-the-numbers metal. I'd not call it noteworthy.

Why is the artwork so bad?? Not a keeper.

Sounds like it should’ve been released maybe 7 or 8 years earlier than it was…like it was already a little behind the curve when it was released. Going to add an additional star for the review here that, I’m pretty sure, coined the phrase “The Panteraverse”. Without this record being added to this list, that phrase might not have entered the lexicon and I wouldn’t be here thinking about the things that make up the Panteraverse and how it’s kind of fitting that “Ride My Rocket”, the first track on Metal Magic (Pantera’s first album), actually kind of makes a great creation point/big bang event for the start of the Panteraverse.

Weirdly I enjoyed the most country inflected songs the most. Which still wasn't that much. Competent, obviously, but also too much in several ways.

4/10 definitely not a bad album, but REALLY not for me but if you love metal music, you’ll definitely get a kick out of this

Hell yeah, what a band! Glory days of Pantera are long gone, and what's left? Boredom. It reminds me of Motorhead, when I wasn't able to differentiate between songs, they all sound exactly the same. The riffs are simple and unattractive, lyrics very Texan, feeling unobserved. Waste of time.

My god, this is SO FUNNY. You're telling me they formed a supergroup from some of the biggest names in the genre, and they put out an album, and EVERY PART of the album—from the cringy band name to the corny cover to the overly edgy lyrics—just screams "parody". The very people who defined this type of metal released a piece of work that is indistinguishable from what satire would look like, with the only difference being that they are playing it completely straight. The best of the best making this genre look like a joke. Absolutely incredible. Sadly, they were being serious.

uh, NOPE

No thanks

Nope

HELLYEAH isn't good, it's mostly bad, and doesn't do the metalcore/hard rock genre any good. It's super super generic, badly produced, almost phoned in by a supposed supergroup? I like a lot of the genre but this is such a disappointing effort that any casual listeners will be turned off for avoidable reasons. For that, it gets a 1/5.

It wasn’t even a short album…

Nice troll.

This has 'This is Spinal Tap' vibes to it although these guys seem to be taking themselves seriously? Or are they? It's so cheesy - from the album cover and song titles it's a pastiche maybe? The songs are no different to those on other similar genre band albums. Reading up on this perhaps I'm being harsh as this is partially a tribute album.

not for me. 1.

This one's loud, heavy, and simple, which isn't inherently a bad thing, but sound-wise, it is closer to Mudvayne than Pantera. Unfortunately, the band isn't nearly as good as Mudvayne. Or as Pantera. There’s groove and aggression, sure, but the songs just don’t have anything in terms of originality or staying power. Lyrically? Blunt, sometimes dumb, and definitely lacking subtlety. The kind of album that tries to pump you up but leaves you with a shrug instead of a fist in the air. And the cover art is terrible as well. Acceptable if you need something loud and don’t care too much about nuance. But honestly, Mudvayne, Nothingface and Pantera did this kind of thing better and with more purpose. I was going to give this 2 stars, but as a user-submitted album for a list of must-hear records, this doesn’t just miss the mark—it actively weakens the argument for including more metal on the list. A missed opportunity and a wasted slot.

No

Really boring songwriting with repetitive chugging butt-metal riffs. Some of the country-inspired acoustic guitar touches are quite nice, and the track You Wouldn’t Know is admittedly very catchy (I felt like I recognised it and then found out it was on the video game Smackdown VS Raw 2008, which makes a lot of sense and probably gives you a decent idea of how it sounds). Unfortunately the rest of the album is either very forgettable groove metal or wish-I-could-forget-this-shit-able whiny country ballads, with some truly appalling lyrics (you’re telling me a 35-year old wrote ‘I found my star. That star is you’? Give me a break)

HELLNO. Genuinely made me upset and angry

Ooooo... Cookie Monster vocals, dropped D tuning, AND software-drum-replacement high-attack double kick drums??? The full skull-drilling trifecta here. HellNo. 1/10 1 star

hell no. HELL NO NONO. every second of this was hell from start to finish.

I really outgrown this style of music, but I feel like even if I hadn't this would suck