Overlooked Metal Albums
Just posting metal albums I dig that currently have under 100 ratings or far less. I've made similar lists before but I am trying to create something more definitive here. Regardless of my personal ratings, these are all worth hearing I believe. |
| 1 |  | Scald Will of the Gods is Great Power
A true doom classic.
Genre: Doom Metal.
My Rating: 5/5. |
| 2 |  | Fall of the Leafe Vantage
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 3 |  | Beyond Twilight The Devil's Hall of Fame
For me, this is Jorn's finest hour.
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 4 |  | Medicine Death As a Vigorous and Lustful Figure
This one's awesome, but is also a total mindfuck of bizarreness.
Genre: Death / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 5 |  | Odious Mirror of Vibrations
Genre: Melodic Black Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 6 |  | Wicked Innocence Omnipotence
My favorite death metal album as far as being "brutal" goes.
Genre: Technical / Brutal Death Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 7 |  | Depressive Age First Depression
Genre: Progressive Thrash Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 8 |  | Virgin Black Requiem - Mezzo Forte
Endless amounts of soul here.
Genre: Gothic Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 9 |  | Sortsind Sår
This one is absolutely terrifying, but in a good way. If you like Silencer and Bethlehem, this will scratch your itch.
Genre: Depressive Suicidal Black Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 10 |  | Eye of Solitude Cenotaph
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 11 |  | Novembre Dreams D'Azur
I listen to this band the most nowadays. My favorite album from them is Materia, however, this one is just a little slept on on here compared to their other releases.
Genre: Progressive Gothic Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 12 |  | Zero Hour The Towers of Avarice
One of the few albums where I wouldn't want a single thing about it changed.
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 5/5. |
| 13 |  | Poema Arcanvs Iconoclast
Genre: Gothic Doom / Death Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 14 |  | Colosseum (Fin) Chapter I: Delirium
The first album of a trilogy that is consistently excellent.
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 15 |  | Human Remains Using Sickness as a Hero
A short, but very high energy release.
Genre: Grindcore / Death Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 16 |  | Phlebotomized Immense, Intense, Suspense
This still remains as my actual favorite death metal album.
Genre: Avant-Garde / Death / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 17 |  | Amaseffer Slaves for Life
I'd recommend this very much if you dig things akin to Orphaned Land.
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 18 |  | Code Resplendent Grotesque
Genre: Progressive / Black Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 19 |  | Power of Omens Eyes of the Oracle
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 20 |  | Manes Vilosophe
Genre: Progressive / Experimental Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 21 |  | Skeleton of God Urine Garden
This one is very much in the vein of Human Remains and bands alike.
Genre: Grindcore / Death Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 22 |  | Obsidian Gate The Nightspectral Voyage
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 23 |  | Jumpin' Jesus The Art of Crucifying
Genre: Thrash / Death Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 24 |  | Ark Burn the Sun
It's hard to go wrong with Jorn Lande.
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 25 |  | Lychgate The Contagion in Nine Steps
Genre: Avant-Garde Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 26 |  | Saviour Machine Saviour Machine I
Genre: Progressive Gothic Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 27 |  | Cynthesis DeEvolution
Highly atmospheric progressive metal created by Zero Hour members.
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 5/5. |
| 28 |  | Nightly Gale Illusion of Evil
Genre: Experimental Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 29 |  | Ripping Corpse Dreaming With the Dead
Genre: Thrash / Death Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 30 |  | Thorns of the Carrion The Scarlet Tapestry
I could see myself 5'ing this one day.
Genre: Gothic Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 31 |  | Dark Millennium Ashore the Celestial Burden
Genre: Progressive / Death / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 32 |  | Autumnal Grey Universe
Genre: Death / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 33 |  | Tyrant (JPN) Under The Dark Mystic Sky
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 34 |  | Hidden In The Fog Damokles
Genre: Progressive Black Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 35 |  | Winterhorde Maestro
Genre: Progressive Black Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 36 |  | Desire (POR) Infinity... A Timeless Journey
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 37 |  | Arcana Coelestia Le Mirage de L’idéal
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 38 |  | Thurisaz Scent of a Dream
Genre: Atmospheric Death / Black Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 39 |  | Confessor Condemned
Genre: Technical Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 40 |  | Fallen (NOR) A Tragedy's Bitter End
Genre: Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 41 |  | Solstice (UK) New Dark Age
Genre: Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 42 |  | Obtained Enslavement Witchcraft
This album is magical. From Times in Kingdoms is my favorite black metal song alongside Dissection's Night's Blood.
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 43 |  | Lux Occulta The Mother and the Enemy
Genre: Avant-Garde Black Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 44 |  | Kekal The Habit of Fire
Genre: Progressive / Experimental Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 45 |  | The Gault Even as All Before Us
A very solid doom band featuring Weakling's John Gossard.
Genre: Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 46 |  | Void Of Silence Human Antithesis
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 47 |  | Theory In Practice The Armageddon Theories
Genre: Technical Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 48 |  | Drawn A New World?
Genre: Progressive / Avant-Garde Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 49 |  | Funeral From These Wounds
This one is really stunning, I'll most likely raise my rating eventually.
Genre: Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 50 |  | Braindance Redemption
One of the best examples of a hidden gem I can think of.
Genre: Progressive / Experimental Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 51 |  | While Heaven Wept Sorrow of the Angels
Genre: Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 52 |  | Apotheosis Farthest from the Sun
Riffs.
Genre: Symphonic Black / Thrash Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 53 |  | Visceral Evisceration Incessant Desire for Palatable Flesh
Genre: Gothic Doom / Death Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 54 |  | Pagan Altar Volume 1
Genre: Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 55 |  | Lemur Voice Divided
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 4.5/5. |
| 56 |  | Fatima Hill Valhalla
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 57 |  | Sempiternal Deathreign The Spooky Gloom
Genre inventive, though later perfected by bands that came after.
Genre: Death / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 58 |  | Carbonized Disharmonization
Genre: Grindcore / Death Metal
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 59 |  | Seventh Angel Lament for the Weary
Genre: Thrash / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 60 |  | Nomicon The Me
Genre: Technical Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 61 |  | Beyond Dawn Pity Love
Genre: Gothic Doom Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 62 |  | Paramaecium Exhumed of the Earth
Genre: Death / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 63 |  | Devil Doll The Girl Who Was... Death
Unique.
Genre: Avant-Garde Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 64 |  | Psycho Symphony Silent Fall
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 65 |  | Vortex (JPN) Colours Out From the Emptiness
Genre: Technical Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 66 |  | Thormenthor Abstract Divinity
Genre: Technical Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 67 |  | Eniac Requiem Space Eternal Void
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 68 |  | Nagelfar Srontgorrth
Genre: Black Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 69 |  | Congenital Hell Ultra Anger and Grief
Genre: Sludge / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 70 |  | Invocator Excursion Demise
Genre: Technical Thrash Metal.
My Rating: 3.5. |
| 71 |  | Tyranny Tides of Awakening
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 72 |  | Mar De Grises Streams Inwards
Genre: Death / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 73 |  | Labyrinth Return to Heaven Denied
Genre: Power Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 74 |  | How Like a Winter Beyond My Grey Wake
Genre: Gothic Doom Metal
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 75 |  | Forgotten Silence Thots
Don't be fooled by the album name.
Genre: Progressive Death Metal.
My Rating 3.5/5. |
| 76 |  | Lunatic Invasion Totentanz
Genre: Gothic Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 77 |  | Life is Pain Bloody Melancholie
This one scared the hell out of me.
Genre: Depressive Suicidal Black Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 78 |  | Blunt Force Trauma (JPN) Vengeance for Nothing
Genre: Slam Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 79 |  | Ysigim Whispers
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 80 |  | Warlord And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun...
Genre: Heavy Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 81 |  | Psychotropic Transcendental Ax Libereld...
Genre: Progressive / Experimental Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 82 |  | Omit Repose
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 83 |  | Mourning Beloveth The Sullen Sulcus
Genre: Death / Doom Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 84 |  | Jenovavirus Demo 1
Genre: Slam Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 85 |  | Ewigkeit Conspiritus
Genre: Progressive / Experimental Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 86 |  | Sirrah Acme
Genre: Gothic Doom / Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 87 |  | Odium (NOR) The Sad Realm of the Stars
Genre: Symphonic Black Metal
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 88 |  | Nyarlathotep Slub Lorth in Eternal Rest
Genre: Funeral Doom Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 89 |  | Amnesia (CA) Land of No Return
Genre: Technical Death / Black Metal.
My Rating:: 4/5. |
| 90 |  | To-Mera Transcendental
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 91 |  | Votum :KTONIK:
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 92 |  | Dornenreich Bitter ist's dem Tod zu dienen
Genre: Melodic Folk / Black Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 93 |  | Drautran Throne of the Depths
Genre: Black Metal
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 94 |  | Embrionic Death Stream of Solidarity
Genre: Technical Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 95 |  | Kampfar Mellom Skogkledde Aaser
Genre: Folk / Black Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 96 |  | Koyaanisqatsy From the Yearning to Burst the Perpetual Circle
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 97 |  | Estatic Fear Somnium Obmutum
Genre: Gothic Doom / Death Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 98 |  | Conception Flow
Genre: Progressive Metal.
My Rating: 4/5. |
| 99 |  | Ebonylake On the Eve of the Grimly Inventive
Genre: Avant-Garde Black Metal.
My Rating: 3.5/5. |
| 100 |  | Arcturus The Sham Mirrors
Unrelated to the rest of this list, I'm just throwing Arcturus here for the hell of it since they're my favorite band.
Genre: Avant-Garde Metal.
My Rating: 5/5. |
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