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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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!

A bit top much over the top for me.

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.

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)

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

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.

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

FUCKNO

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?

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.