Top 10 Metal Things That Shouldn’t Be
There are some corkers in here!
10. WICKED WISDOM
We’re sure that Jada Pinkett Smith is lovely, but just because you’re married to a film star and fancy a sing, it doesn’t mean we want to hear it. Terrible band. Please stop.
9. MORTIIS
His music evolved from atonal dirges to third-rate NIN rip-offs, but throughout it all the ex-Emperor man had the same stupid rubber face. Get back in your cave, you tit.
8. LIPSTICK AND HAIRSPRAY
The glam metal era was great fun, but did any of you people look at yourselves in the mirror? At least Dee Snider knew he looked like a wrestler in a frock. Shame on you.
7. NICKO MCBRAIN AND SOOTY
Maiden’s drummer appeared with the ageless puppet on kids’ TV during the ‘80s. Sadly, he’s still sticking his hand up a bear’s chuff, to the sound of zero laughter.
6. LIMP BIZKIT’S RETURN
You may think you like it ironically if not nostalgically, but either way in six months’ time you’ll be as embarrassed as you were in 2002. They’ve already sold 33 million records. Stop it.
5. ENORMOUS TROUSERS
You could make eight pairs of curtains out of single pair of these multi-zipped monstrosities. Thanks a lot, nu-metal. No wonder chavs take the piss.
4. FIGHTSTAR
Man with huge eyebrows quits piss poor boy band and reinvents himself as painfully earnest rock bloke. Nope, it’s still that twit from Busted. Never forget, never forgive!
3. IRONIC HEADBANDS
Oh, you crazy screamo tykes! You’re so post-modern! You look like tennis players from the ‘80s! Or that bloke from Dire Straits! Or total fucking idiots. Fuck off.
2. LOINCLOTHS
Don’t worry. We do love Manowar. We’re not mental. But what happens if one of Joey DeMaio’s plums pops out? Or even his heavily-oiled winky? Oh God. *retch*
1. INSANE CLOWN POSSE
Have you ever met anyone that actually likes these fat, hairy gonk-faced retards? It’s hip-hop for dribbling rednecks. Not insane, not clowns, not a posse. Rubbish.





There is NOTHING wrong with baggy pants/jeans/trousers!
MUCH rather them than skinnies/drain pipes any day (Y)
icp will allways be better than anything the gallows make
Did one of Gallows touch your mum in her special place or something? You’re starting to get boring, mate.
doesnt the hatebreed singer wear a headband thing or is that something different… watch download 2009 hatebreed or am i getting confused? also metal hammer you were boning off limp bizkit b4 and after download and now your all like oooo limp bizkit how embarrassing…. give me a break now whos the “scene” followers
I’ll stick with the Bizkit! They kick ass!
“We do love Manowar”
You lost all credibility with that sentence.
manowar: sh*t music, sh*t image, sh*t band.
Didnt Mortiss do a regular wee collum in Metal Hammer a few years back?
not that i particularly disagree
so called “king of heavy metal” you are an absolute fucking idiot. nuff said
Yeah I disagree with Limp Bizkit. I’ll admit they aren’t metal but I still like them. ICP is shit, and aren’t any kind of music, their is no instruments.
Manowar are the Kings of Metal if you dont like them you must be a wimp or poser as they mention allot in there lyrics.
Or maybe cant handle True Metal.
This was in a recent isssue. Why another reprint Hammer? And do any of you above people actually read the magazine?? If you did surely you would have noticed this!! Oh and “king of heavy metal”, do us all a favour and fuck off.
Diablo: I noticed, posted it, and then had my post removed, possibly for asking whether the articles I was going to read in Hammer when Royal Mail finally delivers my mag would resemble those in the latest issue of Revolver. It’s a conspiracy I tell you!
Why was this comment deleted? – This was in a recent isssue. Why another reprint Hammer? And do any of you above people actually read the magazine?? If you did surely you would have noticed this!! Oh and “king of heavy metal”, do us all a favour and fuck off.
Why is it gone again Hammer? Where’s my comment??
No comments have been deleted so it should still be there.
I disagree with #1. I have been listening to ICP since The Great Milenko album and have enjoyed all their music ever since, even the none joker cards. It isn’t everyone’s cup of tea.
However, there are plenty of terrible bands in other genre’s including metal, who could/would comfortably fit into the #1 position.
P.S – I am not a redneck and I don’t dribble.
Screamo is not metal, so the headbands are irrelevant. Headbands are also not screamo.
I dont like Fightstar but im sure Hammer has wrote positively about them a lot before :S
Aside from being wrong, Chris, those are fighting words. Outside. Now!
hey ben… are u ben janes? if not… dw
I think it’s quite fickle to put a mans past against a group of dudes who write honest, good rock.. Metal Hammer might need to grow up a bit before they can appreciate Fightstar without prejudice..
You grow up, bogey-nose.
Hahaha.. Great come back… No seriously, it kinda disappoints me that you guys cant be objective about them… I still love the Mag, don’t get me wrong, but I do sometimes wish you covered them.
To be fair Fighstar are awful even if you dont no his past.
Fightstar suck. Biohazard singer wears a headband as well. And yes, mortiis did write for hammer. i thought they were quite entertaining actually. i started reading as i though he was an idiot so i wanted to see what tripe he was spewing, but i found myself constantly enjoying his columns! BUT people, metal hammer is written by a bunch of people so of course there will be different opinions throughout. Just because limp bizkit got a good review at download, doesnt mean it was written by the same person who wrote this. ps, king of heavy metal, why do it? why just randomly interject about unrelated stuff just to slag a band off? i dont like gallows either but i dont feel like placing bands i dont like into the general psyche of others either. why not instead of slag a band of, say something like blah blah blah SLAYER!!!! blah blah blah? makes more sense to me. moron.
Get ‘im terrybezer! Down with busted! doh! i mean fightstar! same thing.
Eeeeh… number 7 did make me chuckle. Does Nicko still fist bears? Why have I not heard about his bestial adventures?
@terrybezer, comments disappeared earlier today. Thought they were removed for slagging ye!!!
I actually know someone that genuinly likes icp -shudder-……not a clue why, though! Completely agree with the loin cloths sentiment
WTF IS WRONG WITH SOOTY!? :O
He’s more metal then ICP AND Limp Shitstick together! (Y)
just shut the hell up Diablo you’re fucking annoying me now with all of your bitching about MH…why don’t you just forget about coming on here if this is all you are going to do >:(
Lets all go molotav Charlie Simpsons house!!!!!
And Jingee, u r right bout Sootie bein more metal than Limp Pisskit
lol. how angry can some people get over a simple opinion!
Wish you’d do less of these lists though MH, and make the ones you do a bit funnier. Half of this list is funny, and the rest is just a whinge lmao
Got a laugh outta me though
fucking a for number 5 shitty shitty image that gets projected on anyone that listns to metal
Some of the bands here aren’t even metal.
Sweep is more metal than Sootie. And as for Soo!!!!!! And that Matthew geezer? The worst thing I saw this year were the coffins that Metallica had on the ceiling of the O2 with the spotlights on- that was embarassing cos Metallica don’t need that sort of stuff- even tho’ they were made of metal they weren’t metal!
My comment was deleted!!!
ICP never will and never will be metal, why is it on the list
never have and never will*
This is rich..
Just to let the people above know, the people like the lead dude from hatebreed wear a bandana, not a headband, i wear a bandana, but not like as big as the dude from hatebreed, more of a steel panther style, but not pink lol
enormous trousers i remember the days of wearing them,its skinny for me now lol.
but i got to admit i still see plenty of people with street cleaners on.
Is this list one persons opinion? or did you ask everyone who likes metal? probably the first one i’m guessing.
now let’s make “Metal Hammer’s List of Hypocrisy”. despite making this list of bands that “suck”, Metal Hammer has actively reviewed and promoted some of them in the past, and i won’t be surprised if MH will be sucking up to limp dikzit if/when they released another crap album.
Limp bizkit isn’t metal but they kick ass big time! They never said they were all metal heads…. stop dissing them… they’re awesome!
Right…so you put Limp Bizkit, Fightstar and Insane Clown Posse in a category called METAL when nnone of them are. And 2: Fuck off. Mortiis is awesome. That, and his genre is also AMBIENT as well as industrial, which is NO WHERE NEAR anything Nine Inch Nails do. For fuck sake Metal Hammer do some RESEARCH before flaming bands you don’t llike. I could do a decent issue on my own!!
Well you may actually completely slate ICP for the pure reason that they’re metal which is for absolutely retarded. How they’ve even been labeled as Metal is completely beyond me. Seeing as we’re bringing other genres into the mix here for no reason at all ICP are actually more punk than most of the bands out there.
1. They’ve actually created their own style of music.
2. They run two D.I.Y. record labels which are their own.
3. They’ve made more money giving the finger to Major Labels than any other Punk band has.
4. They preach in album after album about unity and how everyone should be accepted as they are, such as the original message of punk for everyone to come together and have a good time.
5. They make their music for themselves, not anybody else, not what the label tells them to do because it’s in at the moment, not having other bands etc write songs for them, just what they enjoy making.
6. They have stage monikers like every other punk whats the difference between calling yourself Justin Sane and Violent J.
7. They use many unconventional sounds in their music, and have an unorthodox way of producing to keep things in budget.
8. They have a huge following that is basically all word of mouth.
9. They don’t give a shit if you like them or not.
10. They’ve been making music together since 1989 and had their first release in 1992 and still remain best friends and still continute to do everything theirselves, which is more than you can say about a lot of bands to date.
In conclusion you may dislike their music, but to assume that only dribbling rednecks listen to ICP, label them as Metal is pretty retarded and ICP have achieved more in their career than a lot of bands that are currently about at the moment.
1) STOP RECYCLING ARTICLES FROM THE MAGAZINE!!!!
2) Fightstar suck monumentally.
3) It’s a bandana people, A BANDANA!
…”have a banana”
Grrrr, we want more of terrybezers comments! They are epic!
Ah ha, i know how to get one…
Fightstar are truely consumate musicians, overloaded with musical talent and song writing skills. They are a positive influence on the growing UK Black Metal scene.
That work?
Limp Bizkit were awesome at soniphere they are amazing band
Glad they are back!
They did it all for the Nookie!
Limp Bizkit Rule!
Their comeback was the highlight of this year!
And Fightstar!
Well i agree with that but give Limp Bizkit a break!
@charan, if you actually read the magazine who’s site you’re on you would know that this site is guilty of recycling articles from old issues. So how the fuck are they newsworthy? Anyway, if I want to give an opinion I’m fucking entitled to. There’s no law saying otherwise!
terrybezer whats your fucking problem, you don’t like other people having an opinion and think only yours is right? fucking hell wonder most of the metal community think you are a twat, especially those who met you at hms hammer and sonisphere, grow the fuck up mate and let people have an opinion
No, I like people having an opinion. It makes this place a lot more fun. You, however, are a cretin. If people feel that way about me, nobody’s ever had the nuts to say it to me. People on this list calling you a twat – 1, people on this list calling me a twat – 0. Case closed.
To answer a bit of the bits above, I love the Bizkit but I’m alone on it. This was written for the mag by a fellow writer who doesn’t. We disagree on things musically the same as you guys. I get blasted for the love of Bizkit all of the time but I’ll always represent for the Durst.
I’ve got no problem with Mortiis. His face melted at the first ever Golden Gods because it was so hot. True story.
ICP are bobbins though, let’s be fair.
Merk: Just to make matters worse, my mrs fancies Charlie eyebrows! Shamed in my face!
Oh and sending me a facebook message that I can’t reply to and that comes minus a picture of you is neither big nor clever.
Im so gonna get flamed for this, but oh well.
fightstar is my massive guilty pleasure, well their second album is. seen them live twice and they were really good. granted their not really metal, and he was in busted, but “one day son…” has some really good post hardcore on.
In My Opinion!
terry you can easily reply just hit the reply to message button or are you that fucking stupid and i’ll happilly call you a twat to your face, you ran off when i went to talk to you at sonisphere fucking pussy
There is no reply button, you wally. You’ve got your profile set to private so I can’t respond.
I have now seen your MySpace photo and I’ve never seen you before in my life. Run off before you got to talk to me? I don’t even know who you are, why would I be running from somebody who a) I’ve never spoken to and b) I don’t recognise.
You’ve developed an unhealthy obsession with me. It’s understandable though, I’m a good looking guy. You can’t help your feeling towards me. X
“His face melted at the first ever Golden Gods because it was so hot.”
i gave mortiss a plastic finger troll at that…think he attacked dani filth with it outside the venue…good times…
have to say, i dont mind the rehashing of material from the magazine on the site, gives me somthing to giggle at in work when reading a magazine is a lot more obvious…
(as much as im not that keen on Fightstar…they did do a really freekin good cover of ‘Disposable Heroes’, ‘My own Summer’ and ‘Fear of The Dark’…but lets not mention theyr dirgible attempt at ‘Breakin’ the Law’…)
for admiting that i deserve 40 lashes i believe.
Noticed my messege was deleted.
Limp Bizkit = Shit
I’m going to passively agree with everything and just assume that when they say enormous trousers they mean ENORMOUS tousers with millions of funky chains zips and pockets. They are a little garish.
Though you’re not a man if you’re trousers aren’t at least a little baggy.
“Top 10 Metal Things That Shouldn’t Be”?
Fightstar? Metal? Nope. There’s more metal in my wooden leg.
If it’s not going to beat you within an inch of your life, bayonet you with a headstock or atleast drop your jaw with how insanely cool or terminally intense it is, it’s not metal.
I’m a pure metalhead at heart, but why rag on ICP? First off, they are not even a metal band, why are they on here? Second, I actually like ICP alot, I think it’s pretty good, and I like to listen to them, why rag on something? If you don’t like it fine, but I don’t get why so many “critics” bash these guys every chence they get. If you don’t like it, then just chill, cause some people are into them. ICP worse them Bizkit? Please…give me a break.
no bigger of a redneck than the fat fuck who wrote this list
are you kidding! Duffy is more metal than ICP! and to think someone added them to this over say fallout boy!
Needless to say, I’m down with the clown til I’m dead in the ground! MCL
Are you guys fucking serious? The list is top ten metal things that shouldnt be. ICP is not metal, they’ve never claimed to be metal. In the description it even says “its hip-hop for dribbling rednecks”. I for one am not a redneck and I know the difference between hip-hop and metal. Seems like some of your writers dont.
shit, they left out Otep.
im going to take a wild guess and say that this guy has only heard a few icp songs and based his entire opinion of them on that, or that he met some fake ass juggalos and based his opinion on that, either way hes a dumb fuck who doesn’t even know what the fuck hes talking about (by the way, their horrorcore, not metal) so fuck ya
“1. INSANE CLOWN POSSE
Have you ever met anyone that actually likes these fat, hairy gonk-faced retards? It’s hip-hop for dribbling rednecks. Not insane, not clowns, not a posse. Rubbish.” this makes me laugh because icp doesnt classify themselves as metal. thats like saying wood is the number one worst metal because it burns too easy. also, this sites hits for the day probly tripled just because they posted that ridiculousness and all the juggalo nation wants to get their fuck offs in. i think metalhammer.co.uk should be number 1. because honestly have u ever met anyone whos heard of this site? Btw im compiling the worst things in country that shouldnt be… gwar is number 1.
ICP are NOT metal, nor do they claim to be, therefore this article is utterly irrelevant.
How many of you typing comments talking shit are in shitty local metal bands that are going absolutely nowhere other than mommy’s basement?
Could you possibly be a little jealous that ICP are multi-platinum recording artist who have been recognized nationally for over a decade and are currently on a 64 city tour of the entire country?
And you know, the most simple solution to not being able to stand these two high school dropout clowns from suburban Detroit area? You can just…
not listen to it… Make sense?
kthx
plz die now
“metal things that shouldn’t be” so that shouldn’t include icp, because just like you said they are “hip hop”, and if the really sucked so bad how come they just got #4 on the top 200 billboard, plus all the other bands on your list, at least they’ve accomplished something you never will.your hate most likely stems from jealousy, it’s alright we all got it. it’s just we didn’t make time to write an article for a website cause we’re not a worthless piece of shit, and i know you’re getting mad and you’re about to call me a piece of shit for commenting on your post. so before you start saying anything just let it go and think about what it would of been like if you went to a good college and got a real job for journalism. have a great day!
They should’ve thrown Linkin Park in there. Stupid how the mainstream constantly considers them a “metal” band, hell they even got “ballsiest” band award on Spike Tv. What an abomination.
LET THE CRAP BE, U ASSHOLES
Carefull Terry Bezer, Ya momma is a skeezer. She’s more than a teaser; she’s a pleaser. She’s giving what she’s got and every juggalo needs her. She’s suckin off every dealer; they hump her and leave her.
Nice. Another one of those “I personally disapprove of the following things and am therefore compelled to pass my opinion as objective truth because otherwise I feel too insecure about my tastes in fashion and music” lists.
Bahaha, Fightstar! Busted was kinda cute though. Sexy sexy Matt Willis
What is the deal with Mortis. He should take himself and his music and stay in middle earth the FRUIT!
Waaat! Busted were little pussy boys wuth stupid lyrics Quote:”nothings changed but we live under water” (haha we all remember that!) they wouldnt have noticed the change in the world being only 14, grounded and licking those windows.
hey shit…
who says manowar is not king of metal ?
Never Forget This :
If u like manowar,good…If not,Go and fuck yrself…
Literally the most pointless and contradictory article anyone could possibly muster up!
I think this article might have been written to deliberately start a gigantic shitstorm that will eventually swallow the planet. I think we all know by now that ICP isn’t metal, you guys don’t really need to keep telling everyone that. I must admit I went through a two-week phase of thinking some of their songs were funny, but after that they just got stale and boring. I get that they pretty much started the whole white rap thing, but aside from that they’re really nothing special at all.