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| Brilliant, overlooked metal albums you haven't heard
Here are some of the most underrated gems in metal I have come across, that you most likely haven't heard yet. | | 1 |  | Wuthering Heights
The Shadow Cabinet
Proggressive power/folk metal. Sounds like an odd, yet awesome combination, doesn't it? Truth to be told, it is. What these danish guys manages to pull off in The Shadow Cabinet is some of the most unique power metal you'll ever hear, with an incredible display of passion. They manage to completely avoid the cheesy elements and remain epic throughout the entire album, without becoming pretentious. Highly recommended to people who even despises power metal. | | 2 |  | Theory In Practice
The Armageddon Theories
Technical Death metal. An absolute monster with some of the craziest riffing I've ever heard in the genre. Songs are chaotic as hell, yet brilliantly structured. Things gets shreddy as well but not to the point where it would be considered wank at all. Guitar leads and drums are some of the best in the genre too. | | 3 |  | Allegiance (SWE)
Hymn Till Hangagud
Blackened death metal. Similar to Necrophobic with beastly tremolo riffing, and a bit of melodic touches as well. Very dark, haunting and majestic. Any fan of blackened DM should listen to this. | | 4 |  | Followbane
Dead Fantasia
Symphonic melodic death metal. Japan's got some interesting metal acts indeed, but this album has to be my favorite from them. Extremely melodic throughout the whole thing, with some superb guitar and symphonic work. An epic journey for sure. | | 5 |  | Mithotyn
In The Sign Of The Ravens
Black/Viking metal. Possibly the best viking metal album. The melodies are so majestic sounding it makes your mind imagine a picture of how vikings looted back in the days. Oh, and it got some excellent choir work as well. | | 6 |  | The Crown
Eternal Death
Melodic death metal. Criminally underrated melodeath from the 90's. How these guys never got more credit is beyond me. Tremolo riffing dominates the album, but it's so much more than that. Songs gets desperate, sad, uplifting and epic sounding in a wonderful package. | | 7 |  | Winterhorde
Nebula
Symphonic/melodic black metal. A metal band from Israel? Sounds kind of out ouf place, but Winterhorde's debut album is a complete success in every way. The amount of intensity Winterhorde delivers on Nebula is a rare sight for a band releasing their first effort. The tremolo riffing is absolutely relentless, so is the drumming. And thanks to the symphonic elements, it adds a more dynamic sense to the already furious experience. Highly recommended for fans of Emperor etc. | | 8 |  | Armageddon (SWE)
Crossing The Rubicon
Melodic Death metal. Chris Amott's (ex-Arch Enemy) side project. Most interesting thing about this album is actually the non-metal instrumentals, which displays what a great musician Chris really is.
Funeral in Space might be the most beautiful thing he's ever written. Other than that, there is interesting guitar work, clever drumming and brilliant vocal performance going on too. | | 9 |  | Ansur
Warring Factions
Proggressive metal/rock. An odd, yet beautiful album. Similar to Between the Buried and Me, with tons of different influences. Might be considired "run-of-the-mill-proggressive", but that doesn't take away the fact that it's still a very fun and enjoyable listen. | | 10 |  | Aquilus
Griseus
Black/Folk/Classical(?) metal. One hell of an experience. Really hard to describe this kind of music, but when I say epic, I mean EPIC. The orchestral work that's presented here sounds a lot like what an old classical composer would write. Add a very raw guitar tone which plays beautiful chord progressions, acoustic interludes with folky twists, an extremely creepy vocal performance with lengthy songs and you have Griseus, a very remarkable and unique piece of work. | | 11 |  | Sunless Rise
Promo
Melodic death metal. Actually an EP but whatever. The musicianship shown on this EP is nothing but extraordinary. Although borrowing influences from bands such as Children of Bodom, Skyfire etc, these young russians play their own game. And how. Thanks to the atmospheric keyboards, the songs gets an incredible depth to them hardly seen in todays scene, which they would already have since the guitar work is so flowy and so dynamic. Add an insane drum performance, and a powerful choir vocal work to that and you have what might be the finest EP in all of metal. Not bad for a band that aren't even signed to a label. | |
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11.20.15 | Read the book that 1 is based off so on that alone I will check it out. Cool list man, I'm super interested in a bunch of these so I'll definitely give some a go. | Keyblade
11.20.15 | 1 and 10 are sweet | ComeToDaddy
11.20.15 | Just commenting to remind myself to check these out tomorrow. Only know 4 and 10 but they're great so I'm keen to jam more m/ | FrozenVain
11.20.15 | All of these are at least a 4 to a 4.5 in my book (except Winterhorde which I haven't listened to yet).The Shadow Cabinet is an all time favorite. Sunless Rise will prob release something new 2016. Nice concise introductions for the albums btw. Good stuff. | brainmelter
11.20.15 | dope list, going to check somethese | Aftertheascension
11.20.15 | 10 is awe inspiring
| Futures
11.20.15 | 10 yeeee | Voivod
11.20.15 | major kudos for 2. | Aftertheascension
11.20.15 | Experimental 11% | HenchmanOfSanta
11.20.15 | Salt is pretty highly thought of, which is surprising because it's pretty fucking boring. | Kusangii
11.20.15 | Cheers, hope y'all dig them
@FrozenVain; Sunless Rise are actually set to release their full-length debut next month! They have arranged a release party the 4th if I'm not mistaken. Can't fucking wait. | NLD
11.20.15 | Been meaning to check out 5 and 6 for a while, gonna do that after my Spanish test and try to check out the others here soon. Nice list | manosg
11.20.15 | I'm always up for some epic stuff so I'll be checking 10 in the near future. | FrozenVain
11.20.15 | @Kusangii
Nice! That's awesome. Gonna be sick.
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Damn, that's edgy. Straight out of the kitchen drawer. | MO
11.20.15 | good list | evilford
11.20.15 | sweet I gotta check some of these | Alastor
11.20.15 | "Possibly the best viking metal album"
Not by a long shot. It's alright, but there are superior contestants for this title (Hammerheart, Twilight Of The Gods, Arntor, Hävitetty etc.) | DungeonBoy
11.20.15 | Cool list, not trying to dump on it but:
Hell is Here, Deathrace King, Crowned in Terror > Eternal Death
some of these I haven't heard, will check!
| Kusangii
11.20.15 | @Alastor: It's all subjective. Truth is I haven't even heard those album you mentioned, which is kind of embarrassing considering the fact I've known about Hammerheart and Twilight of the Gods for quite some time now. Should probably check them out ASAP.
@Dungeonboy: I agree with you that Deathrace King and Crowned in Terror are slighly better. It's just that Eternal Death happens to be a bit more overlooked than those two, therefore the feature. | forkliftjones
11.20.15 | Nice choice for 5 | DungeonBoy
11.20.15 | yeah man, I agree, I also feel like the Crown in general are super overlooked on this site, even though they totally rip. | Kusangii
11.20.15 | Agreed hard, they're definitely one of the most overlooked melodeath/thrash bands ever if you ask me | bloc
11.21.15 | 8 rules hard | Asdfp277
11.21.15 | most of this ranges from p. bad to decent to me :[ | Kusangii
11.21.15 | That's too bad! | HenchmanOfSanta
11.21.15 | Just realized I said Salt when I meant The Shadow Cabinet. Either way not a fan of Wuthering Heights. | FrozenVain
11.22.15 | I know you have heard Steadfast by Forefather. Now that's a good viking metal album. The riffs are real. | Kusangii
02.09.19 | Fuck my taste is so good | Ocean of Noise
02.09.19 | 9 is amazing. tbh though comparing it to BTBAM really doesn't do it justice. Ansur are sooo much better. | Kusangii
02.09.19 | Yeah that comparison might have been exaggerated, they just throw in so many different genres that I couldn't think of anything else lol. But yes they're also way better |
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