I'll be honest, the only A7X album I actually like is Waking the Fallen. Everything after that just blended together into a collective pile of meh. Nothing stood out other than a few songs.
Sieze the Day, Strength of the World, M.I.A., A Little Piece of Heaven, Warmness on the Soul. That's just looking at the list. Everything else I couldn't be bothered to even click. Seems ironic that those are the ballads yet I'm picking on them for losing their edginess.
It's like Disturbed. As much as people like to think they changed, they didn't.
The Sickness was mostly good. Few bad songs. Believe was crap, 10 000 was alright, Indesctructible: meh. And if they released anything after that, I never bothered, I'm not too enthused to look into it further given their last three weren't that great.
Another band I haven't listened to in eons: Children of Bodom. Listening to their older stuff, it's alright. But starting at Blood drunk, I just can't do it.
In Flames follows that same fate as well.
Metal on the whole, it's kinda lame.
This on the other hand: