R.I.P. victims of the loudness wars

Terribly mixed, brickwalled, clipped everywhere, static noise, ears bleeding, the horror... loudness wars victims. As an audiophile, it deeply saddens me when I find a good album ruined by a horrible mixing. I think this disease began spreading towards the end of the 1990’s, and from now on, most of the albums are simply unlistenable. Producers responsible by these atrocities should die slowly and in great pain, by having all their blood drained away from their perforated eardrums.

Here it follows a list of some ruined albums which I particularly mourn over, because I cannot listen to:

Slayer Undisputed Attitude 1996 -10.54 dB Red Hot Chili Peppers Californication 1999 -12.42 dB Children of Bodom Follow the Reaper 2000 -12.63 dB Pantera Reinventing the Steel 2000 -11.42 dB Stratovarius Infinite 2000 -11.47 dB

Rage Against the Machine Renegades 2000 -11.98 dB Velvet Revolver Contraband 2004 -10.45 dB Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better 2005 -11.02 dB Audioslave Revelations 2006 -11.14 dB Joey Ramone Ya Know? 2012 -10.12 dB

There you have something that makes me really sad about.