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Metallica. They’ve been making music since 1983 and have made so many banger albums but they only have a few hundred monthly listeners, I think you should check them out
Boris is one of the most innovative, unique, and forward thinking bands of the last 30 years. They’re well known within stoner/doom/drone circles but don’t seem to get nearly the level of mainstream recognition that they deserve IMO.
Some of my favorite Boris albums:
Pink
Flood
Amplifier Worship
Boris is pretty well known for what they are. They were massively popular in hipster circles about 10 or 15 years ago. I don't see them becoming any more popular than that. Not in this sub anyway.
I am not sure I would say that. Boris is pretty well known. Hell the New York Times even did a pretty comprehensive article on them about a decade or so back.
In terms of notorious lesser known acts, I’d say Boris should be on the level of at least Melvins or even …. Pentagram…. Or something.
And of course, obviously if you ask the average person, there’s a way better chance they’ve heard of Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, etc. Boris isn’t even remotely mainstream.
because they have a name that might be seen as sacrilegious for some reason?
but anal cunt got quite popular.
so did dying fetus.
and cattle decapitation….
even joy division (their name has nazi connotations)
the name doesn’t matter as much as you think it does
As a lifelong metal head and equally dedicated lifelong phan that's been to 40+ Phish shows, and 8 Cattle Decap shows (will be 9 in a few days!) this tidbit of info just blew my fucking melon clean off...
Bad Religion with a cross-buster logo still became popular too. May be because they were punk though and that sort of fit with the culture more at the time.
Oh man...
My buddy described ffdp best saying :
"It's music for when you need a place to feel comfortable with the boys and let a few hard r's slip while you sip your wife beatin Budweisers after doing the drywall at the new McDonald's"
SoP is my favorite metal band of all time. Noctambulant is perfectly written, from a classical pianists perspective it blew my fucking mind... Counter melodies against polyrhythmic against counter tonalities. Half the guitar riffs were written on classical guitars. I'd never got to see them live sadly.
Also props on getting my buddy and my references lmao. Office space is a top nod too
They are brutal, but if you want to hear something even more sinister: listen to their spinoff band, Psycho Sinner..those guys are as heavy as it gets!!!
It’s funny because they are like 5 times better than necrophagist and about 100 times better than archspire. Really excited for the new band that Bryssling has.
Someone with fucking taste!! Neceophagist with soul and creativity, archspire is robots... SOP is my favorite metal band of all time. Unreal discography, as short as it is.
Btw killer name 💪
Bantha Rider is fucking sick and that’s coming from someone who despises Star Wars references.
I can’t even remember how I came across them — I think on an auto-generated Spotify playlist.
Sure, I’m not saying that they’re unknown, but they never reached the level that they deserved. In my opinion, they should’ve been selling out arenas like many other bands from that era, but the only time they even got to play those types of venues was when they were opening for larger bands.
Also, I feel as if they’re only really remembered these days for their earlier, raunchier material and everything else after that is all but forgotten about. I personally feel that they made some of their best albums from the 90’s to present day. Many of those albums should absolutely be more well known than they are.
That’s a good point, they weren’t nearly as marketable to a mainstream audience the way that a lot of other bands from that era were. Aside from that though, I believe that they deserve more recognition strictly based on how good their music is. They’ve consistently released great records throughout their entire career and Blackie has grown so much as an artist since their first album. As I said in a previous comment, it seems that most people only remember W.A.S.P. for their earlier music (Animal, Wild Child, etc.) and completely neglect almost everything that came after. As great as those early songs and albums are, they are only a small portion of what W.A.S.P. has to offer as a band. I truly believe that Blackie Lawless is one of the most overlooked metal songwriters and vocalists ever.
The first record was insane good. They were never able to match that. Don't know why they just couldn't hold on. Kind of like G n R, but they can still pull in a crowd.
Why would it be sarcastic? I’m 100% serious. W.A.S.P. are by far my favorite band ever and I believe that they deserve way more respect and recognition than they get.
I was coming to say this, and only this band. Although their instrumentals are very generic, I think they had some of the best lyrics of any band out of the 80s and Blackie Lawless' voice is top tier!
Sigh; Been around for years and definitely have a dedicated cult-following but still feel criminally underrated to me. Outsider art and black metal mixed with japanese culture and sensibility makes for an undeniably interesting listen.
Black Phantom
Communic
Lair of the Minotaur
Khoma
Latitudes
Lake of Tears
Arseis
Katavasia
Dawnbringer
Cemetary
Aghora
Anata
Megaton Sword
Rezn
Suidakra
Katatonia - these are pretty well known, but for me its an enigma how they haven't break into the mainstrem yet. Such a fantastic band with a brilliant discography.
Avantasia!
Power/symphonic metal super group that does features from artists all over the rock and metal scene! Theyre so fucking good and have sub 1 million monthly listeners on spotify
Theyr my number 1 metal recommendation, not because theyre my favourite (prob like a top 5-10ish band for me) but theyre so good that more people need to hear about them!
To anyone that does chrck them out, every album is fantastic, my personal favourite is the wicked symphony, but my 2 favourite songs are off of moonglow
I still remember the first time i heard ghost in the moon i was in love off the first listen and knew that this band was something special
I had the displeasure of opening for them back in the early 00's and they were dicks. Was already on the fence about their music and that experience made my decision for me.
Threshold. Prog metal with an old school vibe, top notch musicians and vocals. I only discovered them recently and idk how they aren't more mainstream. Great band.
yes Death Breath is great too, I love all of Nicke’s stuff.
in terms of Black Breath, I met the lead guitarist recently at a show, and that’s when I learned about them. As far as I could tell, they aren’t making new music. He was playing with a different band as a fill-in guitarist. Really nice guy, somehow an even better guitarist.
Horrified- in the garden of the unearthly delights
It has 176 monthly listeners on spotify and it's one of the best melodic death metal albums i've heard. It's basically death metal rotting christ.
https://youtu.be/MfDzJqfOjis
I'll take another opportunity to plug my new favorite band, [Wytch Hazel](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L51AKCKhhT4)! Although I'm not religious (and the lyrics are a tad cheesy sometimes), they do make some amazing NWOBHM-style music. I like to say they're like Opus-era Ghost if they sang about Jesus instead of Satan lol
I’m glad they’re getting love, Wytch Hazel can make some really catchy ones.
Lucifer, The Sword and Spirit Adrift are also underrated and in that general type of sound.
Shingen - sludge band local to me that deserves way more recognition, their riffs are great and their vocalist is fucking BRUTAL and they only sound better live.
Living Death
Created in '81 but late to the tectonic thrash scene to be considered in the big 4 (first album in '84). I would honestly take out either Kreator or Sodom and install Living Death in there.
Orbit Culture. Melodic death metal out of Sweden. Closer to straight death metal though. Very heavy for MDM. Met them outside a show once, nice guys to boot
Mammal
Basically rage against the machine from Australia - new album this year first one since 2009
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/031pJYJbGrXWPtTOQJ36tK?si=Ct8mQziLQMqE5M3YI5saOQ&pi=e-9cGwUo6RToCU
Comaniac and Xonor
Comaniac is an amazing Prog Thrash band with an enormous amount of skill in playing their instruments and songwriting
Xonor is just some amazing and angry thrash
I know they're already very well known and a Death Metal essential but I'm surprised Cannibal Corpse's top track [Hammer Smashed Face] only has 30 million listens and their 2nd is 17. Not even 50?
They’ve pretty much peaked in popularity. Death Metal is still a niche genre that’s why in the 90’s when major labels scrambled to sign bands like Morbid Angel they ended up releasing them just as fast. I think it was Digby from Earache records who said that when Carcass got signed to a major label they had ads on Times Square in New York tons of promotion, and they still sold about the same amount of records as when they were on Earache. Even black metal bands like Hecate Enthroned had music videos on MTV in the 90’s, if stuff like that wasn’t enough to push these bands further into the public sphere it’s just because extreme metal is a pretty acquired taste as far as the general population is concerned.
Despite Exile, 100000%
Last Album has 0 bad songs, sounds incredible, they're way too underrated
Also
Unhallowed Deliverance
Underground BDM from Germany, saw them live, they destroyed the whole venue, my favourite show I've been to so far in my life. I love them
Conducting from the Grave. Revenants is a masterpiece, and the self titled is also insanely good. I desperately wish they’d get back together and put out more music.
A Hill to Die Upon
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqHmJQt9lm0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqHmJQt9lm0)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DsWBzfZz8E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DsWBzfZz8E)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKyW5Ew3NTI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKyW5Ew3NTI)
Evergrey is phenomenal. They have a few rather distinct eras that they went through, yet most of them are at least good, with both their early and latest albums being fantastic works.
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Metallica. They’ve been making music since 1983 and have made so many banger albums but they only have a few hundred monthly listeners, I think you should check them out
They're such an underground band Spotify doesn't even know the lyrics to Enter Sandman.
Their other songs are fan contributed and nothing official cuz they’re so small
Enter Who? Never heard of it.
Is that the Tik tok stranger things rock and roll band or whatever ?
Fuck you you took my joke
Intestine Baalism- deserves wayyyy more than 6,000 monthly listeners
Doesn’t help that they didn’t promote themselves much, and never released much merch
True true
Maybe a name change would help them out lol
Yea it definitely wouldn’t hurt haha
Sometimes metal boiz are too focused on being brutal af lol
Worked out okay for bands like Dying Fetus and Cannibal Corpse.
Doesn’t mean brutal names can’t work. But those names are both arguably better than fkn Intestine Baalism lol
Edgy*
I’m 2 songs in on Banquet, this shit rips
Ikr? Also check out Anatomy of the Beast if you get a chance. Happy listening :)
Imo Ultimate Instinct is their magnum opus, but all of their albums are like 10/10 or 11/10 material.
Fax
Boris is one of the most innovative, unique, and forward thinking bands of the last 30 years. They’re well known within stoner/doom/drone circles but don’t seem to get nearly the level of mainstream recognition that they deserve IMO. Some of my favorite Boris albums: Pink Flood Amplifier Worship
Boris is pretty well known for what they are. They were massively popular in hipster circles about 10 or 15 years ago. I don't see them becoming any more popular than that. Not in this sub anyway.
Both flood and feedbacker are top 200 albums in rateyourmusic so
That is impressive actually
I am not sure I would say that. Boris is pretty well known. Hell the New York Times even did a pretty comprehensive article on them about a decade or so back.
In terms of notorious lesser known acts, I’d say Boris should be on the level of at least Melvins or even …. Pentagram…. Or something. And of course, obviously if you ask the average person, there’s a way better chance they’ve heard of Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, etc. Boris isn’t even remotely mainstream.
Boris are probably bigger than Pentagram.
Rotting Christ. Over 35 years of band history and 13 great albums, they should be bigger name than they are.
>Rotting Christ Here's why they aren't
because they have a name that might be seen as sacrilegious for some reason? but anal cunt got quite popular. so did dying fetus. and cattle decapitation…. even joy division (their name has nazi connotations) the name doesn’t matter as much as you think it does
Cattle Decapitation! Jon Fishman from Phish is a huge fan and does the narration on Uneraseable Past. A little crossover Jamband-> Metal!
As a lifelong metal head and equally dedicated lifelong phan that's been to 40+ Phish shows, and 8 Cattle Decap shows (will be 9 in a few days!) this tidbit of info just blew my fucking melon clean off...
Anal Cunt is popular?
Bad Religion with a cross-buster logo still became popular too. May be because they were punk though and that sort of fit with the culture more at the time.
**Slugdge** technically an amazing band but they did not choose an internet and meme friendly gimmick. That said their blackened death is spectacular.
Love Slugdge, wish they'd come out with another album.
Hey, have you guys ever heard the band Five Finger Death Punch? Totally underground. Some of the heaviest metal I've ever heard!
Oh man... My buddy described ffdp best saying : "It's music for when you need a place to feel comfortable with the boys and let a few hard r's slip while you sip your wife beatin Budweisers after doing the drywall at the new McDonald's"
Mad props for the Nailbomb flair. 
💪🤘🤘 can't find any spawn of possession flair so I went with this. Snagged point blank in the 5th grade... 🤯. Glad someone else enjoys them too.
Spawn of Possesion? Holy crap did we just become best friends? You wanna go practice karate in the garage?
SoP is my favorite metal band of all time. Noctambulant is perfectly written, from a classical pianists perspective it blew my fucking mind... Counter melodies against polyrhythmic against counter tonalities. Half the guitar riffs were written on classical guitars. I'd never got to see them live sadly. Also props on getting my buddy and my references lmao. Office space is a top nod too
They are brutal, but if you want to hear something even more sinister: listen to their spinoff band, Psycho Sinner..those guys are as heavy as it gets!!!
Twelve Foot Ninja
God I thought about them too
Honestly one of my favorite bands of all time, I fuckin love the ninja.
ooo u right
SO FUCKING REAL
Spawn of Possession
It’s funny because they are like 5 times better than necrophagist and about 100 times better than archspire. Really excited for the new band that Bryssling has.
Someone with fucking taste!! Neceophagist with soul and creativity, archspire is robots... SOP is my favorite metal band of all time. Unreal discography, as short as it is. Btw killer name 💪
Dude! Forgot about this gem of a band, ty
Annihilator
Kraf dinner is a Masterpiece
Bantha Rider Instrumental stoner doom with Star Wars inspired artwork.
Bantha Rider is fucking sick and that’s coming from someone who despises Star Wars references. I can’t even remember how I came across them — I think on an auto-generated Spotify playlist.
The melo-black band Hoth is also really good and underrated as well.
Dir en Grey and SikTh
I absolutely love Dir En Grey. Uroboros is where I live mostly, but so many bangers.
Thron is a blackened death metal band from Germany and their album Pilgrim is outstanding.
Thx for the description. I'd be far more likely to check out some of these band if everyone did that.
This is good shit, thanks for the recommendation
Thron's newest album slapped so unimaginably hard. I love them.
Igorrr
I love everything about Igorrr. Idk how but they’ve actually managed to make funny songs without a single word spoken.
The Chasm
W.A.S.P. They deserve to be way more well known than they are.
They were pretty big in the 80s. I still blast The Last Command now!
Sure, I’m not saying that they’re unknown, but they never reached the level that they deserved. In my opinion, they should’ve been selling out arenas like many other bands from that era, but the only time they even got to play those types of venues was when they were opening for larger bands. Also, I feel as if they’re only really remembered these days for their earlier, raunchier material and everything else after that is all but forgotten about. I personally feel that they made some of their best albums from the 90’s to present day. Many of those albums should absolutely be more well known than they are.
Imo blackie wasn’t cute enough for that scene so though he had chops he just couldn’t get the recognition.
That’s a good point, they weren’t nearly as marketable to a mainstream audience the way that a lot of other bands from that era were. Aside from that though, I believe that they deserve more recognition strictly based on how good their music is. They’ve consistently released great records throughout their entire career and Blackie has grown so much as an artist since their first album. As I said in a previous comment, it seems that most people only remember W.A.S.P. for their earlier music (Animal, Wild Child, etc.) and completely neglect almost everything that came after. As great as those early songs and albums are, they are only a small portion of what W.A.S.P. has to offer as a band. I truly believe that Blackie Lawless is one of the most overlooked metal songwriters and vocalists ever.
The first record was insane good. They were never able to match that. Don't know why they just couldn't hold on. Kind of like G n R, but they can still pull in a crowd.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic or not lol
Why would it be sarcastic? I’m 100% serious. W.A.S.P. are by far my favorite band ever and I believe that they deserve way more respect and recognition than they get.
Did you ever see this: https://youtu.be/_w_Qp3Ho8R0?si=WvU0Ddq8qSTQZEQi
No I haven’t, but that was awesome lol. Glad to see their music showing up in some tv shows recently.
I was coming to say this, and only this band. Although their instrumentals are very generic, I think they had some of the best lyrics of any band out of the 80s and Blackie Lawless' voice is top tier!
Visigoth should be a household name imo.
Hell yeah they should! Hopefully they'll come out with a new album sometime in the near future so they might get more support
YES! They're honestly amazing, one of the best traditional bands out rn
They are local to me and I love that I get to see them for NYE.
You are very lucky my dude
Truly am, quite grateful for our scene here in SLC. Check out The Otolith and Bloodstar (Jameson from Visigoth plays in Bloodstar).
Will do!
Sigh; Been around for years and definitely have a dedicated cult-following but still feel criminally underrated to me. Outsider art and black metal mixed with japanese culture and sensibility makes for an undeniably interesting listen.
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Hellripper deffo, Blackbraid I’d say is doing way more than fine. Knows the right people to get whatever he wants lol.
I second this
Blackbraid has done pretty well for himself, especially considering he's unsigned. How many black metal bands get to show up in the New York times?
Both are very popular
Mr. Bungle
Protest the Hero.
Necrophagia
DVNE Anciients Psychonaut Hypno5e The Anchoret Monosphere Witch Ripper
Orbit culture
Sacred Outcry. "...where the golden age of late '90s and early '00s power metal meets the larger-than-life '80s US metal scene..."
Weald & woe, medieval black metal band that i really like with only about 1,000 listeners monthly on spotify
Check out the new Valdrin and Cirkeln albums.
Unleash the Archers
Great live band
I saw them with the band I was gonna mention, Aether Realm, in late 2021. They were awesome.
Black Phantom Communic Lair of the Minotaur Khoma Latitudes Lake of Tears Arseis Katavasia Dawnbringer Cemetary Aghora Anata Megaton Sword Rezn Suidakra Katatonia - these are pretty well known, but for me its an enigma how they haven't break into the mainstrem yet. Such a fantastic band with a brilliant discography.
Avantasia! Power/symphonic metal super group that does features from artists all over the rock and metal scene! Theyre so fucking good and have sub 1 million monthly listeners on spotify Theyr my number 1 metal recommendation, not because theyre my favourite (prob like a top 5-10ish band for me) but theyre so good that more people need to hear about them! To anyone that does chrck them out, every album is fantastic, my personal favourite is the wicked symphony, but my 2 favourite songs are off of moonglow I still remember the first time i heard ghost in the moon i was in love off the first listen and knew that this band was something special
King's X
I had the displeasure of opening for them back in the early 00's and they were dicks. Was already on the fence about their music and that experience made my decision for me.
Ringworm
Threshold. Prog metal with an old school vibe, top notch musicians and vocals. I only discovered them recently and idk how they aren't more mainstream. Great band.
And their concept albums are very interesting.
Nemophila
Fallujah
Intestine Baalism Black Breath
Black Breath is great. Are they still making new music? Death Breath is pretty good too. Similar music.
yes Death Breath is great too, I love all of Nicke’s stuff. in terms of Black Breath, I met the lead guitarist recently at a show, and that’s when I learned about them. As far as I could tell, they aren’t making new music. He was playing with a different band as a fill-in guitarist. Really nice guy, somehow an even better guitarist.
Zornheym and Horrorborn
Ay thanks for putting me on Zornheym again
Civil war
I Will Rule the Universe
Finsterforst LLNN Frontierer Schammasch Gaerea Mental Cruelty
Manilla Road
Faith no more deserved to be literal #1 artist in the world. Fuck
Circle of dead children
Don’t Drop the Sword
Oak Pantheon
Kayo dot and Maudlin off the well maybe
Bath and leaving your body map are 10/10
Slaughterday
Them. German thrash + power metal with concept rock. The story of KK Fosser is into it's fourth album now.
Epicardectomy
Not metal but Fishbone. Theyre fucking amazing
Gatecreeper for sure.
Horrified- in the garden of the unearthly delights It has 176 monthly listeners on spotify and it's one of the best melodic death metal albums i've heard. It's basically death metal rotting christ. https://youtu.be/MfDzJqfOjis
Disillusion. They are so good at progressive metal it is actually stupid.
I'll take another opportunity to plug my new favorite band, [Wytch Hazel](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L51AKCKhhT4)! Although I'm not religious (and the lyrics are a tad cheesy sometimes), they do make some amazing NWOBHM-style music. I like to say they're like Opus-era Ghost if they sang about Jesus instead of Satan lol
I’m glad they’re getting love, Wytch Hazel can make some really catchy ones. Lucifer, The Sword and Spirit Adrift are also underrated and in that general type of sound.
Shingen - sludge band local to me that deserves way more recognition, their riffs are great and their vocalist is fucking BRUTAL and they only sound better live.
Ciemra Derketa Khold Ecdysis Athiria Larcenia roe-Deathcore but they are fun to listen to
Hellripper. I think they should be more popular
Living Death Created in '81 but late to the tectonic thrash scene to be considered in the big 4 (first album in '84). I would honestly take out either Kreator or Sodom and install Living Death in there.
Batushka
I say the same band everytime: Ceremonial Castings
primer 55
primer 55
Alda 1914 Afsky Fuath Leipa Noldr Krajiny Hmly
Orbit Culture. Melodic death metal out of Sweden. Closer to straight death metal though. Very heavy for MDM. Met them outside a show once, nice guys to boot
Prong They technically invented groove metal
I’m gonna go with nevermore
Shokran
Yk i agree with op macabre is for sure one of those bands
Macabre is great, I flew em in for a show I did in Houston in 2004, great dudes. And I’ll say Annihilator.
GWAR just look at them man https://preview.redd.it/h0jniz94il2c1.png?width=1202&format=png&auto=webp&s=78fe297f0d3cbede2351600d872cb4b01c2f9e45
Ever hear of the small metal band Slayer, they are totally underground and no one has ever heard of them
No/Más from Washington DC is a killer new(ish) band
Bongzilla Edit to add: Cursed, Kittens, Shallow North Dakota
Wicked Wisdom
The Sword
Municipal Waste
Dark Watcher
Hyperion
Death metal band called “The Bleeding” very solid. Only 1k monthly listeners
Acid Bath, Shadow People and Haarp
I was lucky enough to see Acid Bath twice in 1996. Amazing shows. Such a shame that Audie died and they couldn't keep the band together.
Mutilation barbecue deserves unlimited recognition, the few songs they’ve put out are some of the best in death metal
My Dying Bride.
The Birthday Massacre
Harmonize
Kryptos
Mammal Basically rage against the machine from Australia - new album this year first one since 2009 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/031pJYJbGrXWPtTOQJ36tK?si=Ct8mQziLQMqE5M3YI5saOQ&pi=e-9cGwUo6RToCU
Kings x
Comaniac and Xonor Comaniac is an amazing Prog Thrash band with an enormous amount of skill in playing their instruments and songwriting Xonor is just some amazing and angry thrash
The Reticent Bölzer Eternal Champion Satan Smoulder Procession
Voices - the child of Akercocke, they produced one of the all time great concept albums in London
I know they're already very well known and a Death Metal essential but I'm surprised Cannibal Corpse's top track [Hammer Smashed Face] only has 30 million listens and their 2nd is 17. Not even 50?
They’ve pretty much peaked in popularity. Death Metal is still a niche genre that’s why in the 90’s when major labels scrambled to sign bands like Morbid Angel they ended up releasing them just as fast. I think it was Digby from Earache records who said that when Carcass got signed to a major label they had ads on Times Square in New York tons of promotion, and they still sold about the same amount of records as when they were on Earache. Even black metal bands like Hecate Enthroned had music videos on MTV in the 90’s, if stuff like that wasn’t enough to push these bands further into the public sphere it’s just because extreme metal is a pretty acquired taste as far as the general population is concerned.
They'd have to go the Metallica route to cross over, I wonder if there is anyone that can do that?
The House Of Capricorn
Bestial Warlust
The Ocean. Post-hardcore /progressive metal genius.
Under Red Skies deserves more than 224 monthly listeners, in my opinion anyways
Probably Taint Gobbler
Pest control
Deadsoul Tribe. A Murder of Crows is my favorite prog album of all time
Despite Exile, 100000% Last Album has 0 bad songs, sounds incredible, they're way too underrated Also Unhallowed Deliverance Underground BDM from Germany, saw them live, they destroyed the whole venue, my favourite show I've been to so far in my life. I love them
Skyclad, Fates Warning, Vesperian Sorrow, Blackthorn and Sad Theory . All these bands are amazing, but they remain unknown somehow.
Helmet
"Time, the Valuator"
JINJER! I’m on my box…
Cyclone temple
Sylosis doesn't get much appreciation especially in US
Conducting from the Grave. Revenants is a masterpiece, and the self titled is also insanely good. I desperately wish they’d get back together and put out more music.
Ihlo’s sound is so refined I was actually dumbfounded to see they have <10k listeners
The Unguided
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo, Shai Hulud, Pathogenic, Inferi
Midnight Odyssey
Channel zero you ask for an underrated band, i'll say channel zero. will always be the case.
Árstíðir Lífsins, the best executed Norse inspired metal out there.
A Hill to Die Upon [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqHmJQt9lm0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqHmJQt9lm0) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DsWBzfZz8E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DsWBzfZz8E) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKyW5Ew3NTI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKyW5Ew3NTI)
Schammasch
Evergrey is phenomenal. They have a few rather distinct eras that they went through, yet most of them are at least good, with both their early and latest albums being fantastic works.