Most Underated Bands (metal)

[QUOTE="Ek-Andy"]

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"]Metal sounds the same to you?:| ThisSounds like thisOr thisOr thisOr this?Darth-Caedus

Just flicked through them, and yeah, save for the second one which sounded awful to me (Sorry), they do sound very samey. Most of them sounded like songs I've already heard, just slight variations on the metal theme. They didn't really do anything for me. It's not that I don't like metal, it's just that I find most of it dervivtive. Even from your examples I felt like I had heard those songs a million times before, except for the second one, which I never want to hear again.

I just had a bit of a listen to unexpect, and it sounds like something that would probably take a little bit to get used to :P But I suppose it could be that there was so many different elements to it, bombarding me all at once, so it probably made it a bit difficult to pick out what sounds I like.

[QUOTE="Darth-Caedus"][QUOTE="Ek-Andy"]

Just flicked through them, and yeah, save for the second one which sounded awful to me (Sorry), they do sound very samey. Most of them sounded like songs I've already heard, just slight variations on the metal theme. They didn't really do anything for me. It's not that I don't like metal, it's just that I find most of it dervivtive. Even from your examples I felt like I had heard those songs a million times before, except for the second one, which I never want to hear again.

Celldrax

I just had a bit of a listen to unexpect, and it sounds like something that would probably take a little bit to get used to :P But I suppose it could be that there was so many different elements to it, bombarding me all at once, so it probably made it a bit difficult to pick out what sounds I like.

I only heard of Metallica like a week ago. St.Anger seems to be their best CD.

Hockey_Slayer

St. Anger? Are you joking me? That is just sad. Master of Puppets is the best. And they have not been underated since 1984 my man.

[QUOTE="Hockey_Slayer"] I only heard of Metallica like a week ago. St.Anger seems to be their best CD.

axia_777

St. Anger? Are you joking me? That is just sad. Master of Puppets is the best. And they have not been underated since 1984 my man.

[QUOTE="Hockey_Slayer"] I only heard of Metallica like a week ago. St.Anger seems to be their best CD.

axia_777

St. Anger? Are you joking me? That is just sad. Master of Puppets is the best. And they have not been underated since 1984 my man.

I personally consider Kill em All and Justice (Justice being the album that got me into metal :D ) to be my favourite Metallica albums, with RtL coming 3rd, and then MoP......but I guess that's just me :P

Uhhh there's counless of underrated bands in metal because the genre lacks much potential for commercial success at the moment, especially the extreme metal subgeneres. That being said some lesser known ones that deserve a bit of a boost would be: Agathodaimon, Arsis, Brain Drill, Catamenia, Diabolical Masquerade, Dragonlord, Gallhammer, Inevitable End, Kiuas, Novembre, Paths of Possession, Vesperian Sorrow, Warbringer, Windir, Wintersun, and Zimmers Hole.

There are plenty of underrated groups out there, both metal and not metal, and I'd like to mntion them all, but these are just once that I consider to be realtively unkown a a large scale and need a boost in popularity the most. And of course I'd like to give a shout out to my two favorite underrated bands, Nevermore and Strapping Young Lad! One can also not forget about Devin Townsend's solo work, the guy is a modern musical genius. You guys should check some fo these bands out!

[QUOTE="Big_Bad_Sad"]Mastodon? Dont know how big they are but theyre amazing.Wolf-Man2006

Yup, they're amazing

Anyway, for me, I'd pick Maximum the Hormone,a J-metal band

[QUOTE="Wolf-Man2006"]

[QUOTE="Big_Bad_Sad"]Mastodon? Dont know how big they are but theyre amazing.-KinGz-

Yup, they're amazing

Anyway, for me, I'd pick Maximum the Hormone,a J-metal band

*whew* I thought you were talking about Mastodon for a second......but then I realised there was more than one quote :P

[QUOTE="-KinGz-"][QUOTE="Wolf-Man2006"]

Yup, they're amazing

Anyway, for me, I'd pick Maximum the Hormone,a J-metal band

Celldrax

*whew* I thought you were talking about Mastodon for a second......but then I realised there was more than one quote :P

Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth... ...oh, wait, sorry, I thought you were asking for overrated metal.chessmaster1989

You forgot Anthrax, Exodus and Testament ;)

Meshuggah's obZen album was pretty well recieved, but I think it deserved more credit. It is, to date, my favourite metal album.

[QUOTE="Wolf-Man2006"]

[QUOTE="Big_Bad_Sad"]Mastodon? Dont know how big they are but theyre amazing.-KinGz-

Yup, they're amazing

Anyway, for me, I'd pick Maximum the Hormone,a J-metal band

Yeah, they are metal (alt. metal)

The Devil Wears Prada

Attack Attack!

Falconer.

Here's one of their songs.

Definetly The Absence. My favourite songs from them are Riders of the Plague, World Divides, and The Murder.Jillian11

Gates of Ishtar!!!

Mythic,enough said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF9M0vetBB0

I would say Between the Buried and Me

Here's some of their songs:

The Primer

The Decade of Statues

Sun of Nothing (Live)

Reaction + Shevanel Take 2

Alaska

Selkies: The Endless Obsession

obscura, decapitated, acid drinkers, and sepultura

Mantic Ritual is one.

Animosity

Peste Noire.

French Black Metal FTW.

Oh yeah almost no one knows how Underoath used to sound before they went Post-Hardcore

Agalloch, Arcturus, Borknagar and Limbonic Art. Really good bands they are!

The Human Abstract (Their first album Nocturne is mindblowingly awesome! AJ Minette is one of the best guitarists around today IMO)

Nightrage (Considering their original singer was the same singer from At the Gates it's surprising they don't get much any recognition)

Deathstars.

Death, Dark Angel, old Slayer[show no mercy], Bathory

Overkill, I really don't think they get enough credit. Best Thrash group ever, imo.

overkill is known, but extremely underated thrash band, they do not get the credit they desirve "WE ARE THE WRECKING CREW" ,

also mercyful fate and venom especially are underrated, they along with motorhead pretty much influenced thrash, and the two of them pretty much wrote the blueprints for black metal lyrical themes and vocal styles.

metal church is another overlooked thrash band.

EDIT : destruction, the third band of the big 3 teutonic thrash, a lot of people havnt even heard of them. and while we are at it, artillary.

Overkill, I really don't think they get enough credit. Best Thrash group ever, imo.

dhyce

See, yeah, I don't know every Thrash group ever by any means, of the ones I have heard, I feel Overkill really blows them out of the water. I never really see people bring them up, like, ever.

Cadacross

Insomium

dont flame me for this but Megadeth underated, tho they r my favorite band

dont flame me for this but Megadeth underated, tho they r my favorite band

Bardock47

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Opeth

Darth-Caedus

Metallica, Iron Maiden and Megadeth all so very very underrated.

Hockey_Slayer

dont flame me for this but Megadeth underated, tho they r my favorite band

dont flame me for this but Megadeth underated, tho they r my favorite band

Are you kidding me?? I only heard of Metallica like a week ago. St.Anger seems to be their best CD.

Hockey_Slayer