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
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: 4/5. |
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: 3.5/5. |
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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