Criminally Underrated albums topic ...

There are Lots to mention on this issue . Some few I can remeber : Fates Warning - Inside Out . Nuclear Assault - 3rd World Genocide and Somehting Wicked . Deliverance - Assimilation and What a Joke . The list goes on and on and on ...

Testament-Souls of Black
Slagged a lot but I like it.

Sepultura - Schizophrenia; this album almost never seems to get mentioned when people talk about how awesome Beneath the Remains and Arise are (rightfully so on those two, especially the former, one of my top five metal albums ever).

Flotsam And Jetsam - My God

I don't see this one get a lot of mention, but I think it's a phenomenal album.

007 wrote:

Flotsam And Jetsam - My God

I don't see this one get a lot of mention, but I think it's a phenomenal album.

I couldn't agree more. This is a fantastic album. Was lucky to find a copy at a tiny record shop in paris earlier this year.

Tankard's zombie attack should also rank high among the speed/thrash classics of the 80s.

I agree with Souls of Black and My God. I would also add Overkill's I Hear Black and Kreator's Outcast. I think they're better than what the general consensus made of them...

Sepultura - Against. I love the hardcore influence on this one. I think a lot of people initially dismissed it originally due to the shock of no Max. People dismiss it now because it wasn't a continuation of Roots (which was the first Soulfly album)

Fear of God - Toxic Voodoo. People seemed not to care for the heavier, less gothic sound from their first one. I thought it was a great piece of doomy groove metal.

Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death. As much praise as Sepultura, Demolition Hammer and other get (and deserve), I hate that this kickass band/album is almost never mentioned.

Wehrmacht - Shark Attack. Classic crossover album on par with anything Suicidal, Ludichrist, Hirax, or Crumbsuckers were putting out at the time.

Life of Agony - Broken Valley. Just a terrific hard rock album that was all but over looked because people still expect River Runs Red II.

Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh is a pretty underrated album .

Dokken's Dysfunctional was a pretty legit comeback album but it was pretty much ignored.

anthrax_fan wrote:

There are Lots to mention on this issue . Some few I can remeber : Fates Warning - Inside Out . Nuclear Assault - 3rd World Genocide and Somehting Wicked . Deliverance - Assimilation and What a Joke . The list goes on and on and on ...

Agreed on Inside Out. Different, sure, but it's a damn good album. I'm likely more forgiving because it was my intro to Fates Warning.

mc666 wrote:

Fear of God - Toxic Voodoo. People seemed not to care for the heavier, less gothic sound from their first one. I thought it was a great piece of doomy groove metal.

Life of Agony - Broken Valley. Just a terrific hard rock album that was all but over looked because people still expect River Runs Red II.

Toxic Voodoo is a really good album. "Beyond the Veil" is such a badass opener! And Dawn's voice...man, so f*cking good. Shame she died.

I also really dig Broken Valley. Not their best, but a great one. I'm loving the two tracks they've released from their upcoming album, too.

Metallica's Load and Reload. I understand why these albums don't sit well with many Metallica fans, but I think they're both excellent. Rock albums, for sure, and not what Metallica was known for at the time, but that doesn't make a difference to me. To me, they're the last great Metallica albums. Wish they'd have continued in that direction instead of trying to force the whole "thrash metal" thing on subsequent albums.

Eyesore wrote:

Metallica's Load and Reload. I understand why these albums don't sit well with many Metallica fans, but I think they're both excellent. Rock albums, for sure, and not what Metallica was known for at the time, but that doesn't make a difference to me. To me, they're the last great Metallica albums. Wish they'd have continued in that direction instead of trying to force the whole "thrash metal" thing on subsequent albums.

I've been getting into Load in the last couple of months. I wasn't a big fan of the self titled album either, so it's not like I avoided it because I thought they sold out or something. I just fell out of love with Metallica around 1990. Didn't get back on board until St. Anger (which I like & heavily mocked for). Since then I've been going back & kind of rediscovering the post Justice albums. Load seems to be the strongest, song wise, of the lot of them. Really not a bad album.

Cro mags- 'near death experience'

Seems like people only like to talk about age of quarrel, and even lesser best wishes, but there was some killer stuff on this album, the new vocal styles by John Joseph are cool and not really present on other cro mags albums.

Black sabbath- Forbidden

People talk so so so much shit on this album because they don't like ice cube, but whatever thats like one song, the rest in my opinion is actually really good.

Metallica-Load & ReLoad
Megadeth-Risk
Black Sabbath-Forbidden & Technical Ecstasy
Extreme-Waiting For The Punchline
Motley Crue-S/T
Kreator-Endorama
Led Zeppelin-Presence (a lot of people I know pan it and it's my fave Zep)

Anything I say is gonna get slagged. So, I will let ya have at this one: Bride - Snakes in the Playground

Stender wrote:

Black sabbath- Forbidden

People talk so so so much shit on this album because they don't like ice cube, but whatever thats like one song, the rest in my opinion is actually really good.

Oh yeah I agree completely.

Wasn't Snakes pretty much Bride's most popular album?

mc666 wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Metallica's Load and Reload. I understand why these albums don't sit well with many Metallica fans, but I think they're both excellent. Rock albums, for sure, and not what Metallica was known for at the time, but that doesn't make a difference to me. To me, they're the last great Metallica albums. Wish they'd have continued in that direction instead of trying to force the whole "thrash metal" thing on subsequent albums.

I've been getting into Load in the last couple of months. I wasn't a big fan of the self titled album either, so it's not like I avoided it because I thought they sold out or something. I just fell out of love with Metallica around 1990. Didn't get back on board until St. Anger (which I like & heavily mocked for). Since then I've been going back & kind of rediscovering the post Justice albums. Load seems to be the strongest, song wise, of the lot of them. Really not a bad album.

Load is probably the catchiest of the two, so I guess I'd agree that it's better. Not by much, though.

Biggest problem with Forbidden was the crappy recording sound.

I Hear Black by Overkill is such a FANTASTIC album . I´d describe it as a somewhat "sludge thrash" or something . Heavily influenced by Black Sabbath . Traditional Heavy Metal roots still present . a solid album , that doesn´t get the recognition it deserves .

Megadeth-Cryptic Writings. Maybe slightly more commercial , but I found Trust, The Disintegrators, Mastermind, Vortex, She-Wolf, and FFF to be solid songs.

Hammerfall: Chapter V-Unbound, Unbent, Unbroken. This album contains one of my all time favorite Hammerfall tunes in Fury of the Wild, and the rest of the album isnt half bad either.

Metallica-Load & ReLoad - is criminally underrated ? !! ?
I will say this, re-listening to a CD, does,
sometimes make you appreciate the band, the release date, a little more.
For instance, yesterday, in my car, on the highway, rainy out,
I got my CD wallet...and took out Paul DiAnnos Battlezone "Children of Madness"
By the time the sixth song was playing -
it was like I had awakened...and thought " this is a damn good release "
and DiAnno - was - part of the original Maiden line up.....
So that's my choice !

anthrax_fan wrote:

Exodus - Pleasures of the Flesh is a pretty underrated album .

It is!