10 Biggest Drop-offs In Rock History

Any casual Metallica fan would know that the metal legends have gone through many career drop offs in their time. Though they always manage to at least learn from their mistakes, there's always been some questionable motives in the Metallica camp, from the decision to cut their hair and make alt-rock during the Load era to daring to even go mainstream with the Black Album. While many would point to St. Anger as the point of no return, there's probably a stronger case to be made for Lulu.

With the release of Death Magnetic, it was clear that Metallica were back to being the thrash legends we knew and loved, if All Nightmare Long and The Day That Never Comes were any indication. Instead of staying in that lane though, Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield thought it was now time to experiment, going into the studio to provide the backing track to one of Lou Reed's productions entitled Lulu.

As much credibility as Reed had as one of the founders of artful rock, there really is no reason for these two musical forces to come together, with most of the record sounding like two completely different genres that for some reason have to be placed next to each other. Even though Metallica fans have come to expect left turns like this, it stings that much more when they were doing something better literally one album ago.