Underrated Albums..

Zombienosh

Hey all,

I've been thinking lately about underrated bands but more specifically, albums.
So im putting this thread up to hopefully share and learn of some underrated albums that might go under the radar and deserve a listen!

For now i have two.

Band: One Minute Silence
Album: One Lie Fits All
Year: 2003

I was never the biggest fan of this band, but this album stands alone. I bought it first not knowing too much of the band just on the strength of the single "I Wear My Skin" (See Below) And at first apart from this single the album didn't do much for me. A few listens in and the album started to grow on me, after many listens this album IMO is a masterpeice and definetly worth checking out.

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Band: Hell Is For Heroes
Album: Transmit Disrupt
Year: 2005


I could have picked any album by HIFH really, but this one stands a little taller maybe then the rest, HIFH to me have always been a really solid band catchy riffs and passion filled vocals always leading to an epic and or uplifting chorus. My love for this album and band was cemented even more after catching a live show by them, a definite recommend.

Hell Is For Heroes - Kamichi , taken from this album.

fluke

Metallica: Load

Zombienosh

I had that on Tape when i was a kid, one of my earlier metallica experiences.

Patricide

Gotta say, Deftones:Deftones and also saturday night wrist. IMO albums of sheer perfection.

The most underrated album ever though has to be staind: Chapter V. Im not much a fan of this band apart from this album but i think its superb. A lot of people will be put off just because its staind but id highly recommend people to give it a listen.

Zombienosh

Heres an underrated band.

Stabbing Westward... anyone into them?

Sephiroth_dude

http://www.myspace.com/acidtone1

Patricide

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

http://www.myspace.com/acidtone1

Il plus 1 this. The crazy thing was they were really young when there album came out and they were playing download and the whole shebang.

Sephiroth_dude

Patricide wrote: »

Il plus 1 this. The crazy thing was they were really young when there album came out and they were playing download and the whole shebang.

Ya they were all between 14 and 16,unreal band,saw them twice and was blown away each time,real pity they broke up.

Kess73

fluke wrote: »

Metallica: Load

Can an album that shifted over six million copies and got the following reviews from the mainstream media be called underrated?

Got the reviews on Wiki.




Rolling Stone (7/11-25/1996, p.85) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...with Load, the foursome dams the bombast and chugs half-speed ahead, settling into a wholly magnetizing groove that bridges old-school biker rock and the doomier side of post-grunge '90s rock."


Entertainment Weekly (6/7/96, pp.56-57) - "...captures the band's earnest pursuit of its Sisyphean mission: to create hard rock that reaches grown-ups and basement-dwelling teens." - Rating: B


Q magazine (7/96, p.119) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "These boys set up their tents in the darkest place of all, in the naked horror of their own heads....Metallica make existential metal and they've never needed the props....Metallica are still awesome....What is new is streamlined attack, the focus and, yes, the tunes."


Melody Maker (6/8/96, p.49) - "A Metallica album is traditionally an exhausting event. It should rock you to exhaustion, leave you brutalised and drained. This one is no exception. It is, however, the first Metallica album to make me wonder at any point, 'What the **** was that?' It's as if the jackboot grinding the human face were to take occasional breaks for a pedicure."


Musician (8/96, p.85) - "The smoother, broader sound that distinguished...1991's Metallica is even more apparent here, as is the tendency to write accessible tunes....the exploration of new sounds does nothing but good for the guitar duo of [James] Hetfield and Kirk Hammett."


New York Times (6/2/96, Sec.2, p.28) - "On Load, Metallica has altered its music, learning new skills. Hetfield has committed himself to melodies, carrying tunes where he used to bark, and he no longer sounds sheepish when he sings quietly."


NME (6/1/96, p.44) - 7 (out of 10) - "...like triumphant warriors returning into a world changed beyond all recognition...Metallica emphatically prove they are still unsurpassed in their self-created genre of stadium nihilism."

ADTR

Vex Red - Start With A Strong And Persistent Desire
Five Pointe O - Untitled

ADTR

AlcoholicA wrote: »

Heres an underrated band.

Stabbing Westward... anyone into them?

+1.

ride-the-spiral

Fine then, Load is overrated by the reviewers that reviewed it upon release. But it's underrated by pretty much every other person.

Kess73

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Fine then, Load is overrated by the reviewers that reviewed it upon release. But it's underrated by pretty much every other person.

I don't know about that. Most people I know who are into Metallica liked it, and plenty who are not into Metallica like it.


It is a decent album, maybe not in the league of the five albums before it, but it is better than all the Metallica albums that followed it.

seachto7

V.A.S.T "audio visual sensory theater"

Snowden "anti anti"

any one of the Nada Surf albums - very under rated in my opinion...

Zombienosh

ADTR wrote: »

Vex Red - Start With A Strong And Persistent Desire
Five Pointe O - Untitled

+1

noprayerforme

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

Schism

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

I disagree entirely. I don't even see the point of arguing it's been done so many times, but no, labeling Load a terrible album is just not true.

Have some King Nothing, it's good for what ails ya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ9y4jzwXaA

fobster

Hetfield's singing style from Load onwards annoys me, adding 'ooh' and 'aah' onto the end of words, it wasn't as bad on the Black album. And that song is a perfect example of Ulrich's drumming "skills". And guitarists that use a wah excessively are just hiding the fact that they aren't that great at solos.

Mental Mickey

Schism wrote: »

I disagree entirely. I don't even see the point of arguing it's been done so many times, but no, labeling Load a terrible album is just not true.

Have some King Nothing, it's good for what ails ya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ9y4jzwXaA

Load is a really good album. IMO, it has some of Metallica's best work on it(King Nothing, Until It Sleeps, Hero Of The Day, Bleeding Me, Outlaw Torn, and last but not least, Mama Said(yes I like this song). They deteriorated from Re-Load onwards, though.

Malice

Moving away from the endless Metallica debate, I've always thought Fear Factory's Demanufacture was underrated. I love it and very few other metal fans I know like it at all.

Patricide

Malice_ wrote: »

Moving away from the endless Metallica debate, I've always thought Fear Factory's Demanufacture was underrated. I love it and very few other metal fans I know like it at all.

I think its a fantastic album. Body hammer, replica, self bias resistor. Whats not to like!

fluke

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Fine then, Load is overrated by the reviewers that reviewed it upon release. But it's underrated by pretty much every other person.

thank you

Malice

Patricide wrote: »

I think its a fantastic album. Body hammer, replica, self bias resistor. Whats not to like!

That's pretty much what I would say but the response is usually something like "I don't like the clean vocals" or "I don't like the synths" or "I don't like the drums".

Zombienosh

FTW Fear Factory anything before the hole dino thing is amazing

Schism

Malice_ wrote: »

Moving away from the endless Metallica debate, I've always thought Fear Factory's Demanufacture was underrated. I love it and very few other metal fans I know like it at all.

Really? For me Demanufacture is the Fear Factory album.

Patricide

Now now, archetype is the best thing they had done in ages. Since then though its just ben meh

cournioni

I love Demanufacture. Its one of my favourite albums of all time.

A very underrated album for me is Divine Intervention by Slayer. Almost every song on it is quality. I really love listening to it, its a mixture of pure aggression and darkness.

Sephiroth_dude

Patricide wrote: »

Gotta say, Deftones:Deftones and also saturday night wrist. IMO albums of sheer perfection.

+1 Great albums.

Malice

Schism wrote: »

Really? For me Demanufacture is the Fear Factory album.

I think Demanufacture has better individual songs (Replica, Pisschrist, Zero Signal) but listened to as an album, Obsolete is better I think.

nacho libre

PORNAPSTER wrote: »

I love Demanufacture. Its one of my favourite albums of all time.

A very underrated album for me is Divine Intervention by Slayer. Almost every song on it is quality. I really love listening to it, its a mixture of pure aggression and darkness.

yes, it's the last great Slayer album in my opinion.

damonjewel

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

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