Underrated Albums..

blindpilot

damonjewel wrote: »

I don't know if its underated as it is pretty much unheard of; so if any of you like allman brothers meet Zappa psyche type trip then check out Viola crayola's breathing of statues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twionY7qbUg

Thats pretty cool. How did you come acorss that?

damonjewel

Totally by chance, i was in a record shop in Leicester which specialises in krautrock, prog and other odd stuff called Ultima Thule, the owners Alan and Steve Freeman must be the worlds foremost experts on Krautrock and wrote Crack in the cosmic egg.

Anyway Alan had it on the player when I was there, and I instantly loved it.

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/ultimathule/

Nephilim Wolf

I always thought some of these excellent albums were/are very underated and pretty much ignored.

Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun - Excelllent Irish Black/Doom metal
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors - Very atmospheric and unusual metal
Nosferatu - Rise - Excellent - Old school goth rock from 1993
Elusive - The Great Silence - More old school goth rock in the vein of The Mission and some Fields
I - Between Two Worlds - A cross between Motorhead, Venom and Bathory
Within Temptation - Enter - Doomish gothic metal
Tiamat - Wildhoney - Very imaginative psychedelic death metal
Samael - Eternal - Industrial metal?
Amorphis - any album - One of the best metal bands in Finnland
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation/Black Rose - I much prefer these albums over Jailbreak and Johnny The Fox
Love Like Blood - An Irony of Fate - Old school goth rock like Fields, Sisters etc
To/Die/For - All Eternity/Epilogue - Like HIM, but way better and more memorable
NFD - Dead Pool Rising - Like Fields, without the msytic stuff, but still awesome

cournioni

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

Tiamat - Wildhoney - Very imaginative psychedelic death metal

What now?! :eek:

nacho libre

hmm... yes Tiamat would be classed as atmospheric/gothic/experiment metal

Mental Mickey

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

I always thought some of these excellent albums were/are very underated and pretty much ignored.

Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun - Excelllent Irish Black/Doom metal
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors - Very atmospheric and unusual metal
Nosferatu - Rise - Excellent - Old school goth rock from 1993
Elusive - The Great Silence - More old school goth rock in the vein of The Mission and some Fields
I - Between Two Worlds - A cross between Motorhead, Venom and Bathory
Within Temptation - Enter - Doomish gothic metal
Tiamat - Wildhoney - Very imaginative psychedelic death metal
Samael - Eternal - Industrial metal?
Amorphis - any album - One of the best metal bands in Finnland
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation/Black Rose - I much prefer these albums over Jailbreak and Johnny The Fox
Love Like Blood - An Irony of Fate - Old school goth rock like Fields, Sisters etc
To/Die/For - All Eternity/Epilogue - Like HIM, but way better and more memorable
NFD - Dead Pool Rising - Like Fields, without the msytic stuff, but still awesome

Black Rose is awesome.

nacho libre

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

I always thought some of these excellent albums were/are very underated and pretty much ignored.

Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun - Excelllent Irish Black/Doom metal
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors - Very atmospheric and unusual metal
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I Was Alive Then is class song. Arcane Sun are definitely underrated. The Sham Mirrors is a masterpiece - one of the best metal albums ever released

Welcome
this transmission
from a fallen star

Light has departed
from this black sun
But please put us on
to bring darkness down
from your head and home

Our enterprise a success
as return is no option
our eyes were removed
for our own safety

The distance too great
for you to hear our cries
nevermind take this lamp
we are beyond light

We learned so little
of inhuman culture
before disappearance
went right through us

The mothership
boarded by fools
we escape space
in order to reach
our destination

And if you are listening
please tell us about the time
where and when we exist
no more

For when you go
we go with you
via wormholes :cool:

Nephilim Wolf

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

What now?! :eek:

You should check it out, it's an incredible album.

nacho libre wrote: »

I Was Alive Then is class song. Arcane Sun are definitely underrated. The Sham Mirrors is a masterpiece - one of the best metal albums ever released

Glad to see I'm not the only one who loves Arcane Sun. 'The Sham Mirrors is class as well.

OrthodoxCaveman

Sodom - 'Til Death Do Us Unite

Excellent album, never really given any credit.

fobster

Not so much underrated album as underrated band, Clutch are a band that deserve a bit more recognition! Check them out. From their self-titled album to their latest, Strange Cousins from the West, they only have a handful of dud tracks between them.

Schism

American Head Charge - The War of Art. Thought it was a great album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIibR7M9uZ4

AidySevenfold

Schism wrote: »

American Head Charge - The War of Art. Thought it was a great album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIibR7M9uZ4

Great song.
Have some great tunes, bit weird live though :S

Patricide

I can honestly say american head charge are the loudest band iv ever seen live. My god i dont think my hearing has ever been the same since i seen em!

Zombienosh

Clutch are excellent, and AMH... I wouldnt have said underrated but i now that i think of it maybe, a lot of people seem to know who they are but wouldnt really pay much attention. shame, cos they are amazing.

Kess73

AlcoholicA wrote: »

Clutch are excellent, and AMH... I wouldnt have said underrated but i now that i think of it maybe, a lot of people seem to know who they are but wouldnt really pay much attention. shame, cos they are amazing.

Clutch are a great shout. Their most recent album. Strange Cousins From The West is excellent, but seems to be totally overlooked.

yknaa

Here are the votes from the yknaa jury

1. Dehumanizer - Sabbath
2. Third wish -Feinstein

Nick_oliveri

Meat Puppets: Too High to Die

We Dont Exist
Severed Goddess Hand -Amazing Song.
Things
Shine
Roof With a Hole

Blind Melon: Soup.

Car Seat Please listen to this!
Skinned
Toes Across the Floor
Mouthful of Cavities - Classic.

Mechanical Animals by Marilyn Manson gets a shout too. So weird, so brilliant.

fobster

Heere, here for Dehumanizer, cracking album!

fobster

Kess73 wrote: »

Clutch are a great shout. Their most recent album. Strange Cousins From The West is excellent, but seems to be totally overlooked.

Aye, add it to the stack of quality albums they've released and the new songs are even better live!

stateofflux

i only heard clutch the other day.....blew me away ....amazing and really consistent:)...gonna get all their stuff

fobster

stateofflux wrote: »

i only heard clutch the other day.....blew me away ....amazing and really consistent:)...gonna get all their stuff

That's what I like to hear! Spread the word!

I only found them this year too, back in April. Heard 'Immortal' off 'Pure Rock Fury' in the Hitman:Contracts game. I started with Pure Rock Fury and then worked backwards and then picked up their later albums over the last few months. So many cracking tunes.

They're in the UK and Europe at the moment but no Irish date so I went over to see them in London last Tuesday at Koko which was just deadly. Kylesa and a Swedish band called Kamchatka were supporting. Tickets were less than €20 incl. booking fees. Dirt cheap! Overall it cost less than €90 for flights, tickets and hostel.

RexBanner316

In flames
Reroute to remain.

Great band but this is by far their best album. For some reason it tends to get overlooked.

Nephilim Wolf

noprayerforme wrote: »

no offence but load is a pretty terrible album. we all know that the only reason why it managed to sell so much is simply because its metallica. theres a difference between underrated and just bad. and load, along with reload and st anger are bad albums

Very very true. I haven't liked any of Metallica's albums since the 'Black Album' which was/is a great album even though it's quite commercial. Anyway here are some more very underated rock/metal albums:

I - Between Two Worlds - Old school blackend metal like Bathory/Motorhead and Venom minus blastbeats and lots of class guitars.

Elusive - The Great Silence - Excellent goth rock likt The Mission UK.

Legenda - Autumnal - Dark atmospheric finnish black/doom metal.

Opened Paradise - Occult - Very old school goth rock in the vein of Fields of The Nephilim, Nosferatu and some garden of Delight.

In The Woods... - Omnio - Really great atmospheric prog rock/metal.

NFD - Dead Pool Rising - More old school goth rock.

Within Temptation - Mother Earth - I think the newer albums get more attention than this truly class symphonic metal album.

Tiamat - Wildhoney - Very very underated album that is very atmospheric, dark and very well crafted.

To/Die/For - All Eternity - Much better than any album by H.I.M., and much more well though out. 'All Eternity and Epilogue' are awesome.

Dawn - Slaughter Sun - More or less in same vein as Dissection, but almost just as good.

Old Man's Child - Born of The Flickering - This is my personal favourite album by this band, and it is excellent melodic black metal, with a lot classically inspired guitars/riffs.

Thin Lizzy - Black Rose - ''Jailbreak' seems to get the most praise, but I much prefer this album as it is just as good, and Gary Moore does a fantastic job on the guitar riifs and leads.

Dispatched - Motherwar - Another swedish melodic death metal album that is a bit of a mixture of In Flames, Dissection and Dark Tranquility but still well worth checking out.

ADTR

Deftones - Around The Fur.

GrizzlyMan

OLD MANS CHILD :The Pagan Prosperity (way under rated)

Nephilim Wolf

GrizzlyMan wrote: »

OLD MANS CHILD :The Pagan Prosperity (way under rated)

That's an awesome album. I still prefer 'Born of The Flickering' though, but 'The Pagan Prosperity' is still amazing. Have you listened to both 'Ill Natured Spiritual Invasion' and Revelation 666'? They are also well worth listening to as well.;)

GhostInTheRuins

GrizzlyMan wrote: »

OLD MANS CHILD :The Pagan Prosperity (way under rated)

I've never heard any Old Man's Child albums, but just listened to a few tracks from this on youtube, savage stuff. Going to try and pick that up.

Nephilim Wolf

GhostInTheRuins wrote: »

I've never heard any Old Man's Child albums, but just listened to a few tracks from this on youtube, savage stuff. Going to try and pick that up.

You should pick that album up and 'Born of The Flickering' which was their excellent debut album.

GhostInTheRuins

Yeah you mentioned it in your previous post but I only saw that after I posted. I'll definitely have a look into it, cheers!

GhostInTheRuins

Ah, just listened to 'Christian Death' from their debut. Deadly!