10 Most Overrated Metal Albums Of The 90s
8. CKY - Camp Kill Yourself, Vol. 1 (1999)
It's almost remarkable how kids of the 90s are branded as "soft" or even "snowflakes" by today's standards, despite us growing up on a diet of Attitude Era WWE, Eric Cantona's flying death kicks, and Jackass.
Second only to perhaps Minutemen - whose song "Corona" still serves as the series' theme song today - no band or artist is more synonymous with the death-defying stunt show than CKY, the alternative/stoner metal band whose drummer, Jess Margera, is also the brother of then-Jackass star Bam.
Their 1999 debut - originally entitled 'Camp Kill Yourself' after the band, but later renamed to 'Volume 1' - was spearheaded by the immensely popular hit "96 Quite Bitter Beings", a mainstay of Jackass and of rock and metal compilations throughout the dawn of the millennium.
However, scratch beyond the surface of the band's most acclaimed hit and things take a bit of a turn. "Rio Bravo" sounds like a nu metal "Kashmir", "My Promiscuous Daughter" somehow sounds like industrial grunge, and my sleep-paralysis demon goes to bed listening to "The Human Drive in Hi-Fi".
"Lost in a Contraption" adds some cool sitar-esque stuff but the hidden track medley (which was annoyingly prevalent in the 90s) of "To All of You" can get in the sea.