Good thing it wasn't written for violins, then. Or music professors. That's the most absurd criticism of a death metal record, or possibly any piece of music, I've ever heard in my life.

I can see not liking them, even if they're my favorite metal band (even the recent stuff is alright to me), but to call them "cookie-thrash" is a bit much when you add the views of their contemporaries into the equation.

Seconding Queen. That's a band I liked when I was a little kid but quickly grew out of. I can't fault their songwriting or Freddie's talent/charisma, but they always came across as too "polished," I guess. I like my rock to be a bit dirtier.

Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, and all the other arena rock giants of the late 70s/early 80s are terrible. One or two good songs mixed with a bunch of overproduced garbage. The recent (within the last decade) infatuation with them perplexes me.