in your opinion, which is the most overlooked metal band today?

you know, guys with amazing talent and great songs but no one gives a shit about them.

I could post something lame as metallica, but I won't

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i was talking about stuff like Spiral Architect.

their only album so far is beyond good and yet, i don't see too many people talking about them.

Pist.On, ArthemesiA, and Ragnarok

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Anthrax.

The eternal underrated heavy metal band.

HOLY FUCK!!!!! SLAYME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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i agree on antrax. there's this festival comping up with anthrax and some other shitty bands, and anthrax is place under at the bill. complete madness.

underrated bands: Anal Cunt, Down, Darkane

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Shit I forgot about Dahmer, Lust of Decay, Neuropathia, Torsofuck, Putrid Pile, and Gutrot.

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anthrax were great back in the 80's. never heard anything post-Belladona, though.

I hate their new cd... pure shit.

Insomnium

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Here's a few awesome metal bands that aren't really under rated just not really know i guess.

Cadacross and Kaliban (not caliban) both play Folkish style power/death, real awesome shit.

probably a british black metal band called The Meads of Asphodel, there pretty original and unusual

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maybe im an ignorant Australian cunt (well, i am anyway but .....)

Neuraxis

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He said talented, they are just hilarious ambient noise. But i do like them

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"ambient noise"?

What the fuck are you on?

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acoustic mayhem

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I like them. But i think the singer looks like a gay pretty boy.

Mourn in silence is really underrated. Probably due to the fact that so many of you hate black metal. Its almost not black metal though, being so melodic and all. Mithotyns really fuckin underrated, mainly since so few people have heard them. And it only gets worse since they broke up. Enough explanations:

Winter bestowed
draugnim
nazgul
evermork
warblade
garden of shadows, fuckin underrated great guitarists. ...and its death metal Theres a chick too
EDIT: In fact, heres the link www.gardenofshadows.com
samples are gone due to shitty mp3.com though.

VOIVOD
Overkill
Mercyful Fate*
King Diamond*
Sodom
Exodus
Death Angel
Anthrax
Therion

Ok, I felt that I should defend my stances on Mercyful Fate and King Diamond.

Mercyful Fate: Ok, most metalheads hail Melissa and even Don't Break the Oath as classics. However, in my eyes, they're right up there with Maiden and even Priest. It's basically Priest style playing, (with the obvious differance in vocals) with even a little bit more bite. Plus some of their riffs are onpar with Maiden and Priest's. Select riffs from "Into the Coven", "A Dangerous Meeting", and pretty much all of "Curse of the Pharoh", come to mind.

King Diamond: Vocally, I believe King Diamond should be mentioned in the same breath as Halford and Dickenson. I know alot of people don't like King Diamond's vocal delivery style, but when he wants to, he's got talent to spare. For example, take his guest apperance on The Usurper's "Necronemesis". That, for me at least, fucking screams "METAL BITCHES!". He has also kept his voice in good condition, as even on The Puppet Master, he sounds as possessed as ever.

But what do I know? I'm just a simple sandwich salesman.

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wow, the day i buy any of those CD's i'm going to hang myself.

Transient knows whats going on...GORGUTS!!! add ESOTERIC!!!!!

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Buy an Exodus CD, then hang yourself. You'll be doing music AND good taste a favour. Multi-tasking.

Whoever said Overkill is blind. They get theirs.
Whoever said Darkane is just goofy. Their recent stuff has all the appeal of greasy re-digested shit.

I pick A Life Once Lost, Green Carnation and your eternal mother.

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Sinner's bleed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, they're not underrated. They're just unknown.
It's death-metal from berlin.
www.sinners-bleed.de
Download "ludo game" and you'll be surprised. They're really great. Got their CD today. The first thing that happened while i was listening to this CD: one of my speakers crashed.

Underrated:
deeds of flesh
beheaded
iniquity
necrophagist

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I agree. Also I think Psycroptic are underrated vis-a-vie Terrorizer omitting to mention them in their top 50 albums of 2003. Blasphemy, utter blasphemy.

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Definatly.

I think Carphurnaum is underrated too. Fractured is definatly one of my favorite albums, and I can listen to it over and over. Much better than Martyr, who too are underrated.

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yes but then again we must remember that all death metal is underrated, no matter how popular they are within the metalheads

Yes, certainly - they couldn't even get Warp Zone distributed in Europe until 3 years after its release.

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maybe thats because they're pretty new

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also immolation

they are completely original and nobody listens to them

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You are full of shit, Tranny. Trust me, they get their due from alot of people.

Agalloch need to start doing tours. They are incredibly under-rated. Deeds is starting to get a little more popular, but are very under-rated as well.

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Bollocks. They're older than the mental age of most of our forum monkeys here... they got signed in the mid 90's.

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I agree

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I second that

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Yeah, they've got 3 or 4 albums out, I think.

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What we have to understand about death metal, is that it will never reach mainstream status. But nevermind a comment like that. Bands still get their due.

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totally agree

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Not all death metal is underrated. There are certain deaht bands, that, although within the metal community, are overrated. Cannibal Corpse and Deicide some to mind.

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Necrophagist, Dark Angel, Watchtower, SA Slayer, Nasty Savage, Atheist, Cynic, and dare I say, Suffocation. Sure, Suffo are very well known and respected, but in my opinion they are the best all around death metal band, and few people recognize them as such.

I think mortician is overrated. They suck so terribly, to me. I had the cd domain of death for a while, then one day i gave it one last 10 sec. of play, removed from my cd player, and smashed it on the side of the desk. Thats one of the worst death metal bands ive ever heard, yet they still are liked

So you agreed with me on Iniquity, deeds of flesh and necrophagist.
But what's abour beheaded?
And what's about Sinner's bleed? Has someone already listened to them? They're really fucking great!!!

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Cruachan

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asphyxiation

i agree with all of them

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ahhhhhhhh. YES!

sorry, i mixed em up with Liturgy

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is Martyr starting to get any recognition in Europe? the next album should be more available, but who knows...

what about the states too, have they even played a show there?

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No, they haven't..

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i gotta pick up warp zone, only 10 bucks at century media

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Concur. Love that stuff.

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Most of the critics think they're great but the distributors and labels don't seem to want to know. But with Warp Zone being released last year, maybe they're starting to come round to our way of thinking.

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they better, Martyr is great.

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martyrs writing for a new album now i think

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Yeah, a couple of the Canadians here said they heard some new material when they saw them live not so long back.

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Martyr is awesome, i downloaded warp zone off atif... man it kicks ass. Now to find a place where i can buy it.

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I got "Warp Zone" back when the FTP was still around.

Speaking of which, I need to make one of those.

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You can buy it from their website, I think. There should be a link to it somewhere on this site (I can't remember it off the top of my head). I got my copy from coprodirect.com for £9 (~$16+ shipping). Here's the link if you're interested:

http://www.coprodirect.com/advanced...4e5c130791b5043

Shipping to the US is £2 which is roughly $3.50 so if you willing to pay around $20 then that's the place to go but I'm positive it will be cheaper from their official site.

EDIT: Found the Martyr site. Here's the link to the merch page:

http://pages.infinit.net/martyr/eng...rtyr_frames.htm

Scroll down and click 'ordering form' to see the prices. You should find that Warp Zone is $12 including shipping. You could even get the Warp Zone tab book not to mention a thong, haha!

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He doesn't need another thong! He keeps stealing mine, the bastard.

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Maybe if I work some English magic he'll buy me one this time!

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$12 isent bad at all, and yes Johnny ill buy you a thong, a KISS THONG!! AHAHEHEHE (just because i have one laying around, it was gonna be for atif... he just loves Paul Stanley)

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Give back my thong, BLS! I miss those little flowers on the front...

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What about Susperia?
Their new CD is really good, and nobody speaks about it, even not here.

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Deeds of Flesh are pretty big. I don't think they are underrated at all, they get the recognition they deserve.

On the other hand, Mortal Decay don't.

i like susperia too, you are dropping some nice names there poldi

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mmm anorexia nervosa, theatre of tragedy and kataklysm, nobody ever talks about them... pretty good in my opinion...
the berzerker, dark tranquility, devildriver, fleshcrawl, panzerchrist, samael and tristania

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Eh, someone remember Warlord? not the fuckin' punks that made "Rock for the toe Hammer" or someting like that, i mean the almighty Warlord, the best 80's heavy metal band?