Good Reunion/Bad Reunion
With Faith No More getting the thumbs up, Creed getting the thumbs down and Limp Bizkit somewhere between the two, it’s the season of the reunion. We delve into the best and worst reunions to date.
Our favourite reunions:
ALICE IN CHAINS
After the death of Layne Stayley, we all feared the worst when Alice reunited with William DuVall on vocals. We shouldn’t of worried one tiny little bit. their Download performance was pretty good but their show at the London Astoria was monolithic.
When their album arrives in the Metal Hammer office, I think we’re going to have a group hug like a bunch of stinking hippies.
LED ZEPPELIN
OK, so it was just one show but all of the members of Team Hammer who were there say it was the best show they’ve ever seen. Those of us who didn’t make it aren’t bitter at all. We just spit in their cuppa every time it’s mentioned.
IRON MAIDEN
it seems so long ago that Bruce wasn’t in the band, you almost forget that ‘Maiden were part of a reunion. Put simply, Bruce came back and Iron Maiden became one of the greatest bands on planet Earth once more. They continue to go from strength to strength, they’re even getting respect from the industry now and they deserve every bit of praise thrown at them.
FAITH NO MORE
We could be jumping the gun a bit here but there’s not one tiny part of us that thinks this won’t be awesome. Come on, think of all of the songs they could pull out of the bag! Let’s have it!
TESTAMENT
The Formation Of Damnation line-up is arguably the strongest the band have ever had and their show at Islington Academy next week is going to be an absolute stormer. Miss it at your peril.
And the shittest reunions are…
SMASHING PUMPKINS
Has any songwriter in the history of time lost it as spectacularly as Billy Corgan? Right the way up to and including The Melon Collie & The Infinite Sadness album, the Pumpkins owned. Hell, Adore had it’s moments too. Everything the man has touched since has been an abomination and the Pumpkins reunion has been nothing short of awful. Give it a rest, Billy.
CRAZY TOWN
Why the fuck would you even think about reforming if you were in Crazy Town? If we’d have been in Crazy town, we’d spend our days wailing in tears while cold water poured down on us in the shower. Gits.
RATT
Everyone loves an 80’s hair band who were about girls, drugs and fucking girls while on drugs. Watching them sing songs about those subjects, while they’re in their 40’s and looking like they couldn’t get a girl if they had the antidote in their loins, is no fun at all.
3 COLOURS RED
Average the first time around, crap the second.
BLIND MELON
See above.
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limp bizkit…. shittest reunion of them all.
Where are Carcass and At The Gates for fave reunions? They fucking rules last year!
And I was at Led Zep : )
I’m with both Bob and Mike- At The Gates was a great reunion, and da Bizkit were dire 10 years ago when Significant other came out, worse two years later when Chocolate Starfish came out. People who didn’t like metal liked them- a bunch of my mates who back then (I was15 when SO came out) listened to the Bizkit and now love Elbow and Coldplay. I was big into Fear Factory and still do, and hated da Bizkit and still do.
Testament’s the reunion I’ve got most excited about so far.
One reunion that must happen as soon as possible is the mighty System Of A Down. Each album was a total belter, Daron Malakian is one of the best guitarists and songwriters around and Serj Tankian is one of the all time great vocalists. Get back together FFS!
MH was actually overjoyed when Crazy Town reunited. Bunch of pretencious cunts
Life of Agony in 2003.
Judas Priest in 2005. Both superb!
When the proper Sepultura get back together, that will be worth celebrating. We all know it’s going to happen. Don’t the new people in the band realise they’re just hired hands until the proper members come back?
Blind Melon were shit the first time around MH. And if you count Iron Maiden as a reunion, then how about including Judas Priest when Rob Halford rejoined them? And Emperor’s reunion hasn’t been mentioned? Tsk tsk…
The Priest reunion started off well, but then they had to go and combine Spinal Tap’s “Stonehenge” with “Jazz Oddysey” to bring us “Nostradamus”. I thought the lyrics were supposed to get better now that Halford is back? Yeesh. The music is still kind of neat though, if a little bit too slow and drawn-out.
Other reunions of note:
Black Sabbath, and Heaven and Hell (Black Sabbath). The “one true Sabbath” reunion was pretty good (saw it live – freaking awesome) even if the oft-promised album never materialized. But Ozzy has a nearly coherent point on that — there’s no point in making a new Black Sabbath album unless it is really, really good. I guess they tried to write some stuff but just weren’t happy with it. It’s been 30 years since the last one so the pressure is high. Now the “other true Sabbath” reunion seems to be going VERY well… the new tracks on the compilation were cool, the live show is good (saw it – YEAH) and there is a new album out soon. I’m excited.
If everyone in the comments got their way with these lists, they’d take all day to read
Yeah man! System Of A Down!! We need ‘em bunch of nutters!
WHERE’S GN’R?
i wouldnt say 3colours red were average the first time around……but yeah, crap the second…even il agree with that…
What about Take That?????
Wow, there’s some serious hatred directed towards Limp Bizkit these days. I never really got into them the first time around, I was far from being a fan, but if they got played in a club it’s not like I hurled beer bottles at the DJ. If one of their videos was on TV I didn’t get up and kick the screen in. The fact is, back in the late-90’s/early-00’s Limp bizkit was one of the biggest bands in the world. They sold shit loads of records and played some seriously big tours and festivals. There are a LOT of people posting on this, and other, website forums that have some big skeletons in their closets. I’m willing to bet my last penny that the majority of people posting on here, saying that Fred Durst is every arsehole under the sun, has owned at least one of his CD’s or seen them live at some point in their lives.
Is Limp Bizkit bashing the new thing?
The only decent tunes Limp Bizkit have done are Rollin’ and the MI2 theme tune =P
I’m super excited about Faith No More. But RATT has always been a guilty pleasure – it’d br nice to hear a more mature version of them – it worked for Aerosmith.