I adored Worship Music when it came out and it was easily my favorite Anthrax album for a while. It still might be, to be honest, because as good as Spreading the Disease, Among the Living, and Persistence of Time are at their heights, I've never felt that they managed a fully consistent album until Worship Music and For All Kings, which have great songs and great production and are a lot of fun. My opinion of Worship Music has cooled a bit since its release and I don't listen to it as much, but I fully agree that it is worthy of praise.

I only listened to Unsung Heroes once in full, but I found nothing about it offensive. I'm probably closer to the majority opinion on that one because I would hardly say that I "love" it (I'm also no serious Ensiferum fan anyway, which might work to my advantage here), but I do think it's a good album that suffers somewhat unfairly, much as I can appreciate how fans could find it underwhelming.

I'm not a diehard Opeth fan either, so while I'd say that their classic albums are far superior in quality to In Cauda Venenum, I probably wind up listening to them all about the same amount anyway. In Cauda Venenum was good, and while I wouldn't say that any of the last four have moved me to the same extent that Watershed and Still Life did, for example, I still enjoy them and I never loved Opeth enough to be affronted by the change in direction.

Roots I just find boring aside from a few specific tracks (and "Roots Bloody Roots" itself is a legendary track).

I did not know some of these albums were "meh" like Balls to Picasso (which I listened on cassette when it was released ), Worship Music (I thought it was a good comeback). Some others are good albums like Cryptic Writings, Re-Load, X Factor, In Cauda Venenum, Symbol of Life.