Bands that have never failed you.

[Patton662]

Clutch ! That band is constantly amazing !

 

[Rotating Bread]

Radiohead.

(By god some of you have bad music taste).

 

[JdA]

Bad Religion, Clutch, Mastodon, Motorhead, and Monster Magnet. What's more, they all back it up with outstanding live performances.

I'd say Iron Maiden, but No Prayer for the Dying does absolutely nothing for me. I do suppose 1/15 aint bad though.

 

[Aurora219]

Rise against.

Edit: Billy Talent come second, as they have less albums

I've got your back there. These were the two that came to mind when I saw the title.

Paramore, almost.. "All we know is Falling" is perfectly listenable but not that exciting.

 

[Legendsmith]

Everything by Arjen A Lucassen, which includes Ayreon, Ambeon and Star One.
I like every one of his songs. I highly reccomend him to anyone who like power metal, symphonic metal, rock opera or even classical music.

 

[Lykon]

Edguy.

Tobias Sammet is a fucking god. Most amazing song writing, while having at least one song on each album that takes the piss out of themselves

EDIT: if you're into symphonic stuff, but know a lot of 80's pop, may I recommend Northern Kings. Holy shite they do amazing stuff

 

[oooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

Radiohead
Nothing but pure gold

This. Pablo Honey is a let down by Radiohead standards, but its still a cut above most albums.

Other then that, Beirut don't have a single weak album and, though "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank" isn't the best, Modest Mouse is also fairly strong.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Holyhell have never released a bad album. They've only ever released one, but hey.

 

[Korenith]

Opeth, right from the word Orchid they've released quality studio albums and a few decent live ones too.

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

The Protomen and The Hammers of Misfortune.

 

[vanthebaron]

Coheed and Cambria don't know what a bad album is.

agreed also RATM and Flogging Molly

 

[Ultimateslayer]

Definatly the Pixies. And NIN? Really? There stuff is really hit or miss, with the last couple of albums being absolute shit.

 

[zehydra]

Porcupine Tree. Their sound has changed drastically time and time again, and they never stop being awesome.

 

[Istabitwithmysword]

The Hold Steady <3

 

[Fozza]

Nightwish, absolutely. Haha. I was a little dissapointed at the latest Sirenia album but otherwise Morten Veland has never failed me. =)

 

[EvilMaggot]

Linkin Park

Children of Bodom

was the first ones the come to mind

 

[Naturality]

Yo La Tengo.

It's funny, I was listening to Smashing Pumpkin's Zeitgeist when I saw this thread. Not that Zeitgeist is a particularly bad album, mind you, it just wasn't as good as I was expecting from Billy & Jimmy.

 

[theshadowkhan]

Let's see... on the face of it, there are lots of bands that have "never failed me", in the sense that every album they've produced that I have heard has been great. But if I'm judging them by the criteria specified in the OP, that makes things more complicated.

When you take those criteria into consideration, I'm forced to leave a lot of bands whose virtues I happily extol off of this list because I haven't actually listened to all their albums, and so I'm unable to conclude they have never produced one that isn't good. Other bands I would generally proclaim to be wonderful might have some early material that is less than wonderful, and a whole slew of great bands I would love to mention here haven't actually produced 3 or more albums just yet.

So with that in mind, the list of bands with 3 or more albums that I can personally verify have never sucked is as follows:

Beyond Twilight
Epica
Falconer
Fireflight
Karmakanic
Lullacry
Masterplan
Poets of the Fall
Rhapsody (Of Fire)
Scar Symmetry
Silent Force
Sirenia
Tarot
Tristania

I've gotta say, I love most of the bands on your list. (especially Epica and Tristania) but I think Sirenia is a poor choice since they go through lead female vocals almost once an album.
As for my pick:
Kamelot & Epica
Just ignore Kamelot's first two albums
the band had an absolutely dynamic change when the got Khan

 

[andeve3]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

 

[Stir72]

Dream Theater.

I grieve for the loss of Portnoy, though.

He was too big a part of the band for them to truely recover fully with another drummer.

Agree on all 3 points. I wish they'd give these guys their own Rock Band - every album, every song - I don't care how much it costs!