Most underrated albums of all time?
Posted on Monday, June 30th, 2008 @ 8:48 pm » permalinkWhat are they? In your opinions? Post some comments letting me know. I'm feeling like discovering some new (old) shit.
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June 30th, 2008 @ 9:06 pm
As the Sun Sets' "Each Individual Voice Is Dead in the Silence." Definitely not the most underrated of all time, but it's the first thing that springs to mind. Acme's "To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist" is legendary in the right circles, but that whole Acme/Mörser/Carol/Systral et al school of German metalcore never got its due credit in my humble opinion (though that Keitzer band you posted about a while back seems to be flying the flag well). And speaking of things you've already posted about, if you haven't heard the recent stuff from Parlamentarisk Sodomi, it blows every grindcore release from the past five or so years straight out of the water.
June 30th, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
I know this goes without saying…
Handsome - s/t
June 30th, 2008 @ 9:12 pm
SABBAT: DREAMWEAVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FVCK YESS!
June 30th, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Control Denied "Fragile Art Of Existence".
June 30th, 2008 @ 9:24 pm
Seaweed - Four
June 30th, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
Path of Debris - Eyes of the Basilisk
NO ONE knows who this band is, but they're one of the most amazing sort-of melodic death bands I've ever heard. And I got their CD for a penny on Amazon.
June 30th, 2008 @ 10:27 pm
Here's a few that come to mind:
Destruction "Least Successful Human Cannonball" - Unfairly slagged by Schmier purists who believe this lineup was total shit. Listen & be amazed…
EXE "Stricken by Might" - Prob similar to what Slayer may have sounded like in 1982 but packing an assload more melody & atmosphere. An unsung classic.
Holocross "Holocross" - Insane speed & riffing, plus sinewy vocals that really set this band apart from alot of their contemporaries.
Mitra "All Gods Kill" - Bottom-heavy Texan sludge straight from former Wrath frontman, Kurt Grayson. This is the SHIT!
Venom "The Wastelands" - Seriously hook-laden thrash from an era that some Venom fans have long forgotten.
June 30th, 2008 @ 10:32 pm
Probably Anacrusis 'Screams and Whispers'.
I would have said Atheist 'Unquestionable Presence' or Cynic 'Focus' back in '93 or something but those bands eventually got their due credit to some extent. Anacrusis is still severly overlooked.
June 30th, 2008 @ 10:41 pm
One band I never hear anyone talk about: Dead Blue Sky. Their CD on Goodlife is amazing.
June 30th, 2008 @ 10:56 pm
You probably already have these but I still think they deserve mention:
Antischism-Still Life (favorite 90's hardcore record)
Destruction-Infernal Overkill (best of the "early" black metal)
and something a little less known:
Final Fight-Under Attack (a modern day classic of melodic hardcore)
June 30th, 2008 @ 11:09 pm
Beyond 'No Longer At Ease' - so fucking good and the most interesting NYHC record in my opinion, but people don't know it like they know a lot of other much less interesting bands.
June 30th, 2008 @ 11:29 pm
Sheesh, that's a tough one so I'll have to name a few recent listens at random… Acrimony "Tumali Shroomaroom" (UK stoner classic), Saidiwas "All Punk Cons" (great Swedish Umea HC/indie), Stressball s/t (Noo Orlins sludgecore), Discharge "The Beginning of the End" (they come back with a recording like that in 2004 and it doesn't even hit the radar…). Most of the stuff I'd call underated amongst peers are probably revered as classics by some of this sites blog readers! If we're talking pure METAL I'd have to name check Xentrix.
July 1st, 2008 @ 12:05 am
Hammerhead - "Ethereal Killer"
July 1st, 2008 @ 2:59 am
Falling Cycle - Conflict (Unfortunately no longer together) They still have a myspace page though; http://www.myspace.com/fallingcycle
July 1st, 2008 @ 3:10 am
The first thing to come into my head is Grand Belial Keys - Mocking the Philanthropist. You never see this anywhere, though that may be because they have some stupid political affiliations that prevent them from reaching a certain amount of exposure. Great death metal with some rocking old-school, NWOBHM guitar leads. Another album that should be in everyone's record collection is Anti-Products - the Deafening Silence of Grinding Gears. I absolutly love the passion and intensity that comes across in the music. It's an amazing album that's totally underrated. Oh yeah, Crom - the Cocain Years, has some sort of genius about it, but I may be the only one that sees it. Also, I always felt that anything King Fowley (Deceased, Doomstone, October 31) touches is top notch, yet he's never reached the exposure he deserves.
July 1st, 2008 @ 5:18 am
i second what manisthebastard said, but think "duh… the big city" is better. hammerhead were on amrep and get namedropped quite a lot by the "in-crowd", but few others. features one of the most destructive, distortion-leaden bass sound i've ever heard. the whole album has a really unique feel to it.
July 1st, 2008 @ 6:08 am
Nick: The problem with "No longer at ease" (as I see it :)) is that the demo is a thousand times better. That is the real classic, and the best hardcore recording of that era, if not all time.
July 1st, 2008 @ 6:10 am
Driven: Cowardice consumer of the west, Gorguts: Obscura and some more. I don't remember the names. Of course Acme and Handsome. Yes the whole german old metalcore scene.
July 1st, 2008 @ 7:00 am
Awesome. Thanks everyone! I've never heard of several of these mentions, so I'm gonna be busy here…
July 1st, 2008 @ 7:42 am
The V/A compilation "Not salsa, just brutal music: Cuba's hardest" because it is NEW, 10 hardcore and metal bands from Cuba, just to tell to the world that Cuba is not only salsa, rum and cigars !! The cuban hardcore metal scene is very good and I invite you to discover the CD, the first and only one ever released devoted to the cuban underground scene ! Thank !!!
July 1st, 2008 @ 10:04 am
Damn, this is tough because there are so many underrated/overlooked bands, but here goes.
Damn the Machine, "S/T"- Chris Poland's first post-Megadeth project, an interesting prog metal/rock sound that is criminally ignored by many
Khoma, "The Second Wave"- I think Andrew reviewed this, but I can't understand how this album hasn't even been released in the US. Good for fans of newer Katatonia or Anathema.
Batoche, "Terra Incognita"- now defunct metal/hc band from Canada. Sounds like a mix of Catharsis, "Persistence of Time"-era Anthrax and Neurosis. Criminally overlooked.
Tropiezo- very popular hc/punk band from Puerto Rico playing a fast, slightly thrashy style. Reminiscent of latter-era Minor Threat, DS-13 and even a little Dead Kennedys
July 1st, 2008 @ 11:13 am
MARTYR: WARP ZONE
July 1st, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
One eyed god prophecy, Lvmen, Khoma, Zatokrev, russian metal, Sabbat (ooo yeah!!!), Mean Season, Violator, Cortez, Profane,etc.
July 1st, 2008 @ 12:39 pm
Unanimated - Ancient God Of Evil
July 1st, 2008 @ 12:50 pm
I liked that Handsome cd for a few months back in the day. I just pulled it out again last week, still sounds like the "lite" version of Quicksand to me.
July 1st, 2008 @ 1:09 pm
I totally second Paul's mention of Crom's The Cocaine Years. Throw in the self-titled album from Totalt Jävla Mörker (I think it's getting a US release some time this summer); it's excellent Swedish hardcore, and the "big hit single" track "Kall Värld" is catchy as all hell. Mp3s are available at http://www.totaltjavlamorker.com. Anything by the Laughing Hyenas (John Brannon's post-Negative Approach band) … the sound is hard to describe if you've never heard them before, but it sure as hell isn't hardcore. The older, rawer stuff is the best in my opinion; check out the songs "Crawl" (from the Crawl EP) and "Sister" (from You Can't Pray a Lie) on their Myspace.
July 1st, 2008 @ 1:14 pm
DarK Angel - Time Does not Heal
Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom
Artillery - Terror Squad
Infernal Majesty - None Shall Defy
Litmus - Planetfall
July 1st, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
oh..forgot!
Scissorfight - Mantrapping for sport and profit
July 1st, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
Mindfunk - Dropped
July 1st, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
I like bands with 1-2 albums the most, speaking of underrated bands
Abysmal'1995 "The Pillorian Age" - unique atmospheric black metal
Disharmonic Orchestra - all albums (starting from strange death/grindcore to technical death metal to who knows what)
Le Scrawl - all albums - grindcore/ska ;-)
Lutomysl - all albums - good ukrainian black metal, my fav band for whatever reason
Mangled Torsos "Drawings of the Dead" - nice grindcore/doom metal mix
Promethean'1997 "Gazing the Invisible" - gothic/acoustic band with Black Crucifixion members, very good stuff!
July 1st, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
all bands with tim singer. and shora - malval.
July 1st, 2008 @ 7:06 pm
Andrew you KNOW Sixty Nine's "just for the fun" and both SCHIZO albums are heavily underrated!!
July 1st, 2008 @ 7:27 pm
Shield "Build Me Up …" (Swe) , Concrete (Italy), Purusam (Swe), Lash Out (Nor)
July 1st, 2008 @ 8:10 pm
I have dreams self titled ( maybe ) http://www.myspace.com/ihavedreams19981999
July 2nd, 2008 @ 12:13 am
Fleurety - Department of Apocalyptic Affairs.
Karma to Burn - s/t. Everything else by them is amazing too, but the one with vocals has a special place in my heart.
July 2nd, 2008 @ 9:46 am
Stavesacre-Speakeasy
July 2nd, 2008 @ 10:55 am
My list:
Kill The Client - Kill The Client
Excel - The Jokes On You
Life Sentence - No Experience Necessary (late 80's hardcore)
Supersuckers - La Mano Cornuda
Exhorder - The Law (everyone talks about Slaughter In The Vatican, not enough about this crushing release)
Malevolent Creation - Retribution
Rostok Vampires - Transylvanian Disease
Righteous Pigs - Stress Related (how can you go wrong with Joe Caper's agonizing wails - Mitch Harris was in the band too as most of you probably know).
July 2nd, 2008 @ 2:55 pm
racked my brain on this but here's one that people just never seem to be aware of:
Strength 691 - Means To An End (i think this is technically their discography)
July 2nd, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
Dude, I've been looking for that Strength 691 CD for awhile and I can never find it. If anyone has quality mp3's of that disc and can hook me up it would be MUCH appreciated.
I have MANY more comments related to this thread, but I'll leave it at that for the moment!
July 2nd, 2008 @ 5:59 pm
HEATHEN: BREAKING THE SILENCE……. sure the band is touching all the bases, and basically trying to please everybody at once, but i think they actually pull it off. i have listened to this album consistently since it came out. and never get tired of it.
July 2nd, 2008 @ 8:54 pm
iceburn "firon" more metal than metal was in 1990 an a hell of a lot more creative
acme "to reduce the choir"
cable "variable speed drive" and "never trust a gemini"
stickfigurecarousel "st"
the trans maghetti "steal the jet keys"
fall silent "drunken violence"
christ "document 15"
prema "pebble"
trial "are these our lives"
catharsis "passion"
purusam "way of the dying race"
July 2nd, 2008 @ 8:57 pm
p.s. as friends rust "a young trophy band in the prime of their time" the lyrics are awesome and the vocal melodies are completly unique for this style of hc
July 2nd, 2008 @ 10:53 pm
KEKAL " 1000 Thoughts of Violence".. The best metal band from Indonesia!
July 3rd, 2008 @ 1:05 am
Craw - Lost Nation Road
(kosher pay-what-you-wish download available here: http://www.craw.com/mp3.html)
July 3rd, 2008 @ 2:31 pm
I agree with the Craw suggestion. S/T, Lost Nation and Map Monitor Surge are sick and demented albums. You can get them all from the bands website. ^^^
Hose Got Cable. No one ever talks about them.
and yeah, funny that I posted Shield a few days after this post. Synchronicity is great like that. Everyone go to my page and get Shield's Build Me Up. some of the best mid 90's New Age style hardcore.
July 3rd, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
Skycamefalling - 10.21, awesome!
July 4th, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
it always bears repeating: KISS - MUSIC FROM THE ELDER. phenomenal.
July 5th, 2008 @ 6:37 am
Madonna's mid nineties stuff is largely overlooked.
Just as Voivod's two albums with Eric Forrest as singer/bassist. Negatron is the heavier one and Phobos is the more experimental one but both are really worked oud heavy thrashing industrial spacetecmetal, fairly unique anyway.
About unkown hardcore gems I think that probably every mid size town in the westeren civilization has one in the history of there local scenes. Belgium's prime candidate should be Out For Blood's Strive to Survive, they were a nineties hardcore band from Brussels, there is also a lot of fertile HC/metal ground but it never drew as much attention as the famous H8000 scene. And if you're going to check out the German Bremen-sound bands then also try to find Rubbish Heap, they were from Belgium and always got lumped in with that sound as well.
On an ending note, people are always talking 'bout the beatles and the stones but seriously the best rockband from those days was The fucking Who, they still rule.
July 5th, 2008 @ 6:43 am
I'll add a true overlooked modern day Hard Rock classic:
Las Cruces - Ringmaster
from 1998 only, too late for the first wave of stonerrock and too early for the current doom-revival but truly a great darkly shining jewel on the crown of those styles
July 5th, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
one. life. crew. and pitboss2000
July 5th, 2008 @ 4:02 pm
Newer stuff:
Solea s/t (Texas Is The Reason's singer + Samiam dude)
- very good guitardriven pop/rock-whatever-alternative. Better than TITR IMO.
Joe Coffee: "When the fabrid don't fit the frame"
- Paul Bearer's new band. Enuff said!
Channels: "Waiting for the next end of the world"
- J. Robbin's new band. As good as Jawbox.
Everyday Dollars: "Before the supply"
- Good basic hc
Forgotten records from the 90's:
Bad Trip: "Fear & Loathing"
- One of the best rocked out-post-hc-whatever 90's albums
Citizen's Arrest: "Colossus"
- I think this was labeled deathcore in the 90's
Into Another: "Ignaurus"
- The best release from REV ever. Yes, even better than "Bringin it down"!
July 5th, 2008 @ 10:29 pm
One of them has to be 3-D by Wrathchild America
July 5th, 2008 @ 10:36 pm
Whever mentioned Mindfunk is on to something. Dropped is incredibleI'd like to mentione two evil sounding mid 90's intense metalcore bands from the top of my head, DIE MY WILL and Red Sky
July 6th, 2008 @ 3:36 am
Thoughts Of Ionesco - For Detroit, From Addiction (excellent jazz infused HC)
The Secret - Luce (quality metalcore from Italy with touches of mathcore)
Abominable Iron Sloth - S/T (Sludgey metalcore from members of Will Haven)
Giant - Song ep (Best Sludge/Post-metal band in my recent discovery)
Blotted Science - The machinations Of Dementia (Instr. Tech-Death w/ members of Cannibal Corpse, Spastik Ink, And Behold… The Arctopus)
Celestine - At The Borders Of Arcadia (@nd Best Sludge/Post rock find in awhile)
Chaos Blood - Fragments Of a Shattered Skull (UK Deathcore with some very nice grind influences)
Coma Lilies- Memento Mori (Instrumental Rock that does alot of genre hopping)
Comity - The Deus Ex-Machina As A Forgotten Genius
July 6th, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
RED ROSES FOR A BLUE LADY - The Return to Melancholy
July 6th, 2008 @ 5:15 pm
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris (amazing experimental tech death metal from czech republic)
July 7th, 2008 @ 5:46 am
Handsome - s/t, obviously. Also seconding SYSTRAL. I still spin black smoker on a weekly basis. KOREISCH is another vastly underrated band.
July 7th, 2008 @ 11:21 am
Solstice (US) - Solstice. High energy death/thrash from the early nineties. Featuring Rob Barret (guitar/vox & Alex Marquez (drums).
DBC - dead brain cells
July 7th, 2008 @ 5:33 pm
I saw the Spitfire reference in the Daymares post comments, which reminded me I totally should have put The Dead Next Door on here. Way way way better than their post-hiatus stuff and way underrated. The mild death metal influences set them apart from the rest of the late-90s early-2000s Coalesce/Converge/Botch/Dillinger et al. bands. Toss in Drowningman's Rock and Roll Killing Machine for good measure … not so obscure, but I don't hear it talked about much anymore.
July 7th, 2008 @ 5:57 pm
fuckin a.
totally surprised (in a good way) by some of the bands mentioned. now if i only had some to add. haha.
July 7th, 2008 @ 6:06 pm
i'll hit you up with the Strength 691 tonight.
July 7th, 2008 @ 8:33 pm
Since I'm always on an extreme doom kick:
Buried At Sea - Migration is one of the heaviest albums ever recorded, should've been huge but they broke up shortly after releasing only this and another 12". Everyone knows Sanford Parker as a producer now (and some know him as being in Minsk), but this is seriously some of the most extreme doom ever recorded.
Toadliquor - The Hortator's Lament a compilation CD that Southern Lord released a few years ago, these dudes were kicking out serious EHG/Cavity/Grief sludge at the same time but without any similar recognition. Some of this stuff still sounds new today, fiercely angry and pissed off.
Uncertainty Principle - everything they (even though it's just one dude) ever recorded. He was bridging the gap between doom, drone and noise way before the Sunn, Boris, Monarch or any of the others. Almost a painful listen at times, sounding like early Godflesh, Merzbow and Khanate discs playing simultaneously. Stupidly ridiculously heavy.
July 7th, 2008 @ 11:58 pm
All Else Failed - Archetype
raging metalcore from the philly area.
For The Love Of - Feasting on the Will of Humanity
uh, more raging metalcore. this time from jersey.
Orange Goblin - Coup de Grace
Awesome motorhead-influenced stoner rock from England.
July 8th, 2008 @ 4:44 am
Great topic!
Everything Verbal Assault ever did, those riffs!
No hope for the kids - lp, a modern day classic. This will stand the test of time for sure.
Cyclone - both albums (brutal destruction and inferior to none)
Hellnation - Colonized, fuckin' fast and fuckin' brilliant
Running Wild - Walpurgis night ep (victims of states power!)
El Guapo Stuntteam - Accusation Blues (ok, they're friends but this is one monster of a record)
Everything Eric Wood did before Bastard Noise (including all the man is the bastard stuff, neanderthal and pissed happy children)
dystopia - human = garbage lp
grief/13 - split ep
messiah - extreme cold weather lp
integrity - septic death covers ep
Asphalt - 357 knockout cd
Lärm - straigth on view lp
enewetak - guns elvis loved them lp
…. so many records, so little time!
July 8th, 2008 @ 6:28 am
everything by Starkweather. everything! old and new.
Graves at the Sea (forgot the name of the album :( )
Cephalic Carnage: Halls of Amenti (compared to other stuff they made)
Negativa: s/t
Creation is Crucifixion: not a single mention so far ?!?!
Cold as Life: Born to Land Hard
July 8th, 2008 @ 6:23 pm
Extol - Synergy/Undecieved.
Religosity aside, ANY fan of tech-death/thrash (and especially the band Believer) needs to immediately seek these out!
Artillery - Terror Squad/Fear of Tomorrow.
Holy fuck Terror Squad has some of the most untouchable riffing! FoT is just as brilliant in a slightly more Mercyful Fate-ish way.
Deathrow - Deception Ignored. Coming from another criminally overlooked band Mekong Delta, musical prodigy Uwe Osterlehner came in and just pushed the envelope with this (up to that time) fairly typical German thrash band. Remains hands fucking down one of the most forward thinking metal lps!
July 8th, 2008 @ 8:28 pm
Whippersnapper-America's Favorite Pastime. The fucking best melodic punk album ever. Great dual guitar work. Wrong or Right and Tragic Flaw will always be two of my top 10 songs.
July 9th, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
shit. the floodgates have opened! haha.
Theory In Practice - The Armageddon Theories / Colonizing the Sun
Phenomenally hyper tech metal from Sweden. So over-the-top it sound unhuman. Guitarist Peter Lake is a shredding riffer of the highest caliber. Heavily influenced by prime-era Atheist and Mekong Delta (whom Lake now plays for!) this shit is a complete mindfuck. Also check into Lake's other project Mutant which does use a drum-machine and is just as insane. Not to mention these dudes do a ridiculous cover of Sparks - This Town Ain't Big Enough For The Two of Us!
July 10th, 2008 @ 5:45 am
Dusk - Majestic Thou In Ruin
Before I listening to this album I could never really get into most doom. Plodding drums and slowly chugging guitars can be rather tiresome. Dusk's "Majestic Thou In Ruin" breaks the mold with songs that engage the listener. There's something about this bleak and despair filled opus that completely enamored me. Maybe it's the quirky, offbeat drumming style but I've yet to hear anything like this album. Sure, there are bands who play in a similar style but none have come close, in my opinion, to capturing the same feeling or writing songs that don't have the tendency to bore. The album is available as part of a discography called "Mourning… Resurrect" on Lost Disciple Records who seem to be closing their doors and selling everything for $6.
July 11th, 2008 @ 12:01 am
80's Hardcore
76% Uncertain - Estimated monkey time
Capitol Punishment - When putsch comes to shove
Deathwish - Tailgate 7"
Genetic Control - Firts impressions 7"
Heimat-los - Negative mental obsession 7"
Insight - What will it take?
Justice League - Shattered dreams
Lockjaw - Shock value 7"
Major Conflict - 7"
No Use For A Name - Incognito
Pailhead - Trait
Psycho - 6 song EP
Rest In Pieces - My rage
Seizure - All hail the fucking system EP
Sick Pleasure - Dolls under control 7"
Skeezicks - Selling out
Stupids - Violent nun 7"
The Worst - Expect the worst
Uppercut - Four walls
V/A-Look At All The Children Now
90's/00's Hardcore
59 Times The Pain - More out of today
Acid Indigestion - Defy you
Beneath The Remains - Quest of the lost souls
Born - Raging
Bugout Society - Yo! baby sup
Congress - The other cheek
Cry Of Justice - Confront
Curbside - 7"
Diehard - Looking out for #1
Face Value - The price of maturity
Hate Force - Back for more
Inhuman - 7"
Krutch - I'll see you in hell
Murder One - S/T
No Fun At All - Vision
Out For Blood - Strive to survive
Personnal Choice - Days of trust
Racial Abuse - No need
Raised Fist - Stronger than ever
Run Devil Run - Sinking deeper
Shutdown - Against all odds
Subzero - Happiness without peace
Timescape Zero - Total war
Vitality - Crucial wires
Metal
Dream Death - Journey into mystery
Excel - Split image
PC Deathsquad - Shit talking & mayhew
Prong - Primitive origins
Tankard - Chemical invasion
July 13th, 2008 @ 7:21 am
whoever mentioned thoughts of ionesco, pretty much all their shit is crucial. they released a retrospective compilation/dvd called "the scar is our watermark", which contains tracks from all their albums.
July 14th, 2008 @ 4:49 am
Breach, Breach and Breach
July 14th, 2008 @ 7:43 am
BREACH!!!
BREACH!!!
And Sabbat
July 14th, 2008 @ 12:10 pm
Parlamentarisk Sodomi!
fucking yeas!!!
July 14th, 2008 @ 2:15 pm
I have a feeling you've heard some of these but just in case…
Atrocity - Hallucinations / Longing for Death!
Knut - the Hydra Head ep / Challenger!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shora - (all)!
BREACH! It's Me God / Venom!!!!! / KOLLAPSE!!!!!!!!!!!
July 14th, 2008 @ 3:50 pm
There are so many underrated releases. Some of which are finally getting some attention (State Of The Union) are others are still sitting in limited edition/out of print/small label obscurity.
I guess I'll list my top 10 bands and the albums that I feel are excellent listens.
1. The Grey Wolves - Blood and Sand and Punishment. If you like death industrial/harsh noise/power electronics/ambient soundscape stuff these guys are the top of the line.
2. Failure Face - All. To me this was essential pissed off 90's hardcore.
3. Ulcer - All. This stuff was also essential 90's hardcore and featured an Aspirin Feast cover, which brings me to…
4. Aspirin Feast - both 7". Super fast early 80's late 90's hardcore that no one seems to remember or care about.
5. Expatriate - No Sleep Until Chugwater. This came out in 1987. I picked it up about 10 years after that as part of some random box of 7"s. It's really good, and seems to be totally unknown as far as I can tell.
6. Desecration - Who's in control? and their split with Subverse. I only own a real copy of the split with Subverse, which is actually the weaker of the two releases, but my tape copy of Who's in control got about a million plays before it took a crap on me. I can't find any mp3's of it either…
7. Gasp - Any and All. I think a lot of their releases were on Slap-a-ham, which means they are impossible to find at this point, but these guys totally ruled ass.
8. State Of The Union - all. Andrew just made a post about this being re-released, and it needed it. One of the most criminally underrated bands…ever.
9. Harvest - Living With A God Complex. I love this album, and it seems they get sort of overlooked when talking about mid-late 90's metalcore.
10. Plaid Retina - s/t 7". This somehow ended up on Lookout Records. Totally fast and awesome hardcore from the 80s.
July 14th, 2008 @ 4:14 pm
Raw Power - Screams from the Gutter / Wop Hour.
Over the top Italian punk/hc, harsh ass vox and a maniac shredding guitarist which somehow worked!?!
July 15th, 2008 @ 7:49 pm
Say You Hate Me- "The Looking Forward" EP
July 18th, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
First, I'd have to agree with Tobias… Scissorfight's "Mantrapping for Sport and Profit" is a fantastically, heavy, stonerific album.
I'd also agree with Anxiety Hagnover's mentioning of Buried At Sea - "Migration." These 3 songs are absolutely pummeling. Plan on blown speakers.
Lastly, I'll go with the others that mentioned them… BREACH. "It's Me God" is a fucking awesome album.
July 20th, 2008 @ 3:03 am
Hellchild's Circulating Contradiction and Bareskin. Criminally underrated.
July 20th, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
I have to agree with these records:
Handsome - s/t
Cable - Variable Speed Drive
Some others:
Only Living Witness - Prone Mortal Form and Innocents
Dissolve - Dismantle
Bluetip - any
Hoover - any
Threadbare - Feeling Older Faster
Sam Black Church - Superchrist
Dayspring(Grip) - Dreamstate
Engine Kid - any
Bloodlet - Entheogen
July 21st, 2008 @ 2:20 pm
slightly off the metallic track, but since Hoover has been mentioned…
Regulator Watts - The Mercury cd. / The Aesthetics of No-Drag.
Beyond a mere Fugazi rip-off. More minimal than Hoover or Crownhate Ruin.
I could go on forever about how godly Alex Dunham's unmistakeable guitarwork is, or how his tone, lines or the band's influence can be heard in (some huge!) bands playing heavy music at the moment, but…
July 21st, 2008 @ 2:54 pm
Regulator Watts is incredible… the guy can do no wrong.
Love Engine Kid too! I always want to yell it whenever people talk about Sunn O))) and Andersons old projects. No one seems to mention Engine Kid…
If anyone has that Grip EP i havent heard it in well over a decade… or any of that Cen Penn stuff… Dayspring/Cycle… t
July 22nd, 2008 @ 1:52 am
Coroner's "Punishment for Decadence."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coroner_(band)
Very good stuff IMO.
July 22nd, 2008 @ 11:18 am
Donora - ANY!
Ipecac - ANY!
Coroner - ANY!
Secrecy - ANY!
Sieges Even - Life Cycle / Steps! / A Sense Of Change.
Pure moderized tech-metallized Rush worship!
Post-Watch Tower / Pre-Spiral Architect etc.
Steps - Admittedly the vox take some getting used to, but this is an unparalleled 90's progressive metal masterpiece!
July 30th, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
what, am i the only one left?
OLD - Lo Flux Tube / Musical Dimensions of Sleastak / Formula.
Jim Plotkin (Khanate/Flux/Joy Of Disease/Phantomsmasher etcetc.) is a fucking genius! These are all slightly different from each other, especially Formula which is more tranced-out with hyper-vocoded vox. I've only heard bits and pieces of the very first "Old Lady Drivers" record which was cool for the time.
An easy reference would be Voi Vod as they share the Die Kruezen and Rush influence although this is much more rigid as he and Alan Dubin (Khanate) kept time with a drum-machine. LFT is the harshest (John Zorn helped out and adds sax to one song). Impossible to really give the proper review, or to put into words. This music has to happen to you, and when it does, it does! A heavy influence on the final (incredibly overlooked) Rabies Caste disc.
July 30th, 2008 @ 5:22 pm
Lo flux tube, motherfucker! EXCELLENT record. I had two copies, I think I paid about $1.50 combined for them. Gave one away for some silly fuckin' reason many years ago. Much ridiculous Mike Diana-esque artwork in the booklet too, that band was over the top in about seven different ways. HUGELY goddamn recommended.
If I was to recommend an underrated album I would go for the Winter LP Into darknkess, though I guess that one's more underexposed. How 'bout some TIMEBOMB though, eh?
July 30th, 2008 @ 5:25 pm
I revisited Timebomb's "Hymns for a Decaying Empire" a few months ago and remembered why I was never a huge fan, actually. It just didn't do much for me…
July 30th, 2008 @ 10:42 pm
i dodnt know about the " all-time " thing but, this is really good: Arghoslent- incorrigible bigotry…..
July 31st, 2008 @ 11:14 am
RE - OLD: as far as i know Mike Diana did the cover.
July 31st, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
I checked and the back of the record says "All art by Simon Curtis/Mindpollution studios." No idea who that is, though…
August 28th, 2008 @ 2:32 pm
Groundwork (AZ) - Today We Will Not Be Invisible Nor Silent LP + Living In Fear 7"
How could i forget this shit!?
Completely crushes!!! Apparently they have been accused of biting Downcast, which there are some references, but the same goes for most of of their political ilk from the San Diego/So. Cal. area. Not really sure who to compare this to other than those bands. Pissed as fuck, abrasive yet tight and controlled chaotic rage! Seriously, this IS one of thee heaviest things ever released in the 90's. Hands down.