Underground Metal/Rock Albums You Think Are 10/10

Here my albums that I think are 10/10



10.Iron Man-Generation 

9.Adramelch-Irae Melanox

8.Lucifer Was-Underground And Beyond

7.Solitude Aeturnes-Beyond The Crimson Horizen

6. Trouble -Trouble 1990

5.Saint Vitus-Saint Vitus 1984

4.Pentagram-Relentless

3.Angel Witch-Angel Witch

2.Manilla Road-Open The Gates

1.Fates Warning-Awaken The Gardian

Totally agree with your Angel Witch and Trouble picks.

Here's some of mine, just off the top of my head:

Steeler - s/t
Deliverance - s/t
Carnivore - Retaliation
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form
Armored Saint - March of the Saint
Mortal Sin - Face of Despair
Helstar - Burning Star
Grave Digger - Heavy Metal Breakdown
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Doctor Butcher - s/t
Iron Savior - s/t

Edge of Sanity - Unorthodox
Hypnosia - Extreme Hatred
Grave - Soulless
Vader - Litany
Candlemass - Nightfall
Solitude Aeturnus - Through the Darkest Hour
Entombed - Clandestine

there are more. I just can't think right now.

Here's what I think:
Mystifier - Goetia
Blasphemy - Gods of War
Gnipahålan - S/T
Nihilobstat - S/T
Vlad Tepes - War Funeral March
Moonblood - Blut und Krieg
Luror - The Iron Hand of the Blackest Terror

This is a cool topic.
I never thought of a 10/10 before.
I never heard of most of these bands either.
Angel Witch - Steeler - Candlemass - good calls.
I did recently buy TOUCHED ( death row ) for song ‘ night attacker ‘
Hasn’t arrived yet.

RUNNING WILD “ Branded and Exiled “

Coroner - Mental Vortex
Trouble - Psalm 9
Tourniquet - Psycho Surgery
Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest
Seventh Angel - Lament for the Weary
The Crucified - s/t
The Crucified - Pillars of Humanity
Deliverance - Weapons of Our Warfare
Living Sacrifice - s/t
Betrayal - The Passing
Six Feet Deep - Struggle
Believer - Extraction from Mortality

KYUSS-Welcome to Sky Valley
METAL CHURCH-Metal Church
MONSTER MAGNET- Dopes to Infinity
LOUDNESS- Thunder in the East
SLAYER- Reign in Blood
SODOM- M16
UNCLE ACID- The Night Creeper
DR.KNOW- Wreckage in Flesh
The CARDIGANS- Life
The DOORS- S/T
TROUBLE- S/T
DEATH ANGEL- ACT III
NUCLEAR ASSAULT- Survive
RATT- Out of the Cellar
OPETH- Ghost Reveries
VEKTOR- Black Future

I dug a hole once on third grade, hoping to reach "CHINA", but I only found an 8 track of "In Rock" by Deep Purple in said hole. Maybe not "METAL", but it was underground. Too bad there not more tapes.

I'm struggling with defining "underground". Lots of major label acts have been mentioned already.

I will try and make a list, but I don't even know what to put on it.

Lari wrote:

I'm struggling with defining "underground". Lots of major label acts have been mentioned already.

I will try and make a list, but I don't even know what to put on it.

That is where I was at, thus the corny joke

(IMHDO) The replies have been more "OBSCURE" than '"UNDERGROUND". I know from experience that a band has to be "KNOWN" to be even "UNDERGROUND", think about it

Well I went with an approach that is more mathematical. I took what I have rated as 5.0/5.0 on RYM. There's 89 of them currently, and I picked ten from those, the metric being the ten albums with the least amount of ratings on the site (I guess that's a sign of popularity? The number of ratings, regardless of if the ratings are good or bad. The more ratings, the more popular).

In order of least to most popular, I got:

Marshall Law - Razorhead
Valley's Eve - Deception of Pain
Axxis - Kingdom of the Night II: White Edition
Chris Caffery - Faces
Impellitteri - Wicked Maiden
Axxis - Back to the Kingdom
Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel
Impellitteri - Eye of the Hurricane
Morgana Lefay - Grand Materia
Axxis - Paradise in Flames

And if you accept live albums, Annihilator's Double Live Annihilation. But live albums always get less ratings anyway, so I would exclude that.

Runner-ups were Pink Cream 69's Sonic Dynamite and Doctor Butcher's self-titled. And Paradox's Tales of the Weird, and Angel Dust's Enlighten the Darkness etc etc, but those are obviously more popular using this metric I went with.

So there, lots of Axxis and Impellitteri. Go check them out if you haven't already.

Now I'm even more confused

Lari wrote:

I'm struggling with defining "underground". Lots of major label acts have been mentioned already.

I will try and make a list, but I don't even know what to put on it.

Ratt definitely isn’t underground!  

Round and Round is in frequent rotation on rock radio.

Many on my list are Christian thrash bands. So by default, they are considered underground. Most mainstream people probably haven’t heard of most (or any) of them.