Avenged Sevenfold, Lil Pump, and Greta Van Fleet voted Worst Albums of the Year by Anthony Fantano

Fantano is widely respected as a music critic, and gives non-biased, detailed reviews about all of the music he chooses. Even whilst selecting the worst albums he's heard this year, Fantano's reviews seem fair and constructive.

Taking the tenth place on the list is Macklemore's Ben, which Fantano described as: "overly sentimental, mediocre piano rap songs combined with some tracks that are just so cringe and tongue-in-cheek and too silly for words," noting that there simply just wasn't anything good about it.

Other featured albums, in chronological order are World’s End Girlfriend by Resistance & the Blessing, Leyenda Viva by 6ix9ine, which contains some songs that Fantano says "barely counts as music", Lil Pump 2, The Maybe Man by AJR, If Looks Could Kill by Destroy Lonely, and Starcatcher by Greta Van Fleet.

Third place goes to The Mockingbird & the Crow's latest release, HARDY, whilst the second worst album of the year is The Brave 2 by Adam Calhoun and Tom MacDonald – "your favourite dumb, ignorance right-wing white rappers".

Anthony Fantano's Worst Album of the Year is awarded to Avenged Sevenfold with their eighth studio album, Life Is But a Dream…. "I do truly think this is the worst album of this year, but there is a silver lining to this cloud because I feel like A7X landed this spot because they dared to do something different."

He praises the band for not allowing their previous albums to have influenced the direction of Life Is But a Dream..., but he thinks their vision was "horrendously bad and unintentionally hilarious".