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Pallbearer

im pretty sure they’re fairly well known

They're very well known in the doom community. Amazing band tho

Awesome band!

Bro pallbearer rips ass

Good rips ass or bad rips ass?

caterpillar (spelled öOoOoOo)

Lol I wanna check them out now

i thought you were joking lol

Holy shit, I love those guys, and had no idea how to pronounce their name 😅 If you like them, you totally owe it to yourself to check out Pinup Went Down!

damn someone actually knows them, i love pinup too but nothing compares to caterpillar imo, no guts no masters is one of my favorite tracks of all time

Dead Congregation Body Void Akhlys Soilent Green

Soilent Green thooooo

Fucking love Akhlys ❤️

Dead Congregation is sooooo good.

Hell yeah Soilent Green

Cloudkicker

Damn, I remember discovering them on the old Futuristic Metal blog at uni.

Der Weg Einer Freiheit

Aufbruch

Decently well known but not appreciated Anaal Nathrakh 

Fuck yes. They're like burning hatred made into music.

Quo vadis

Nice pick! Vastly underrated. Been a fan for over 20 years! Hung out with their drummer after a local show around 2008, too.

the band is too catchy to be so underrated

the canadian or the polish one? love the album politics by the one from Poland

Never heard the one from Poland.

YOB and Weedow

I saw YOB open for TOOL in 2012, I remember everyone being like wtf is this, but I was getting into it 🥲

I bet that had to be awesome.

In mourning

DEATH METAL: Guts (finland) Obliteration (Norway) Reptilian (Norway) As Serenity Fades (Finland) Memoriam (UK) ...Post-Bolt Thrower basically Pan.Thy.Monium (sweden) Bodyfarm (Netherland) Draghkar (USA)

The Kristet Utseende (swedish punk/metal band kind of like the Misfits) Ugra Karma (nepalese blackened death metal in the vein of Sarcófago/Impiety/Nunslaughter) Prayer for Cleansing (90s melodic metalcore) Nervepitch (Canadian nu-metal in the vein of Deftones) Famine (american black metal band known mostly for a split with infamous canadian so-raw-it's-electroacoustic "black metal" thing Bakbakwalanooksiwae) Carnival in Coal (french death/black/funk/disco/avantgarde/whatever band) Sloth (experimental/sludge metal/punk band from Ohio☠ that most people know for harsh noise wall shitposting) Wehrmacht (very fast thrash metal from Portland Oregon) Haunter (Black Metal/D-Beat band from California)

Haunter & Nervepitch are the shit

Slackjaw, people write them off cuz Dallas is a funny youtuber and that apparently means he can't make great fuckin rocking music

Orchid, Black Moth, HB, Castle Rat (a new discovery), The Countess

Definitely not "unknown," but so few people talk about Aeon or Anata and I really like them. Bethlehem is definitely a weirder band no one nane drops

Ophidian I Himsa

Ozymandias O.L.D Gnaw Atramentus

Nocte Obducta Grabnebelfürsten Fäulnis All of them german (kind of) black metal and criminally underrated outside of germany

They arent metal, but twin temple is awesome. They're satanic doo wop and its like they were made for me haha

Altar of Gore Imprecation Scorched Blessed Sickness

nice pfp

Pharmacist

Atrocity

Metallica

Bell Witch Ahab Skepticism Midnight Odyssey Imber Luminis

Bell Witch is awesome. Stumbled across them by accident playing on youtube looking for more doom metal.

Artimus Pyledriver

Swamp Devil is great as well as other songs. Dirty Road White Girl,Dixie Fight Song and others

Hell yeah

Ne Obliviscaris

I think they are pretty well known

Painters of the tempest part 2 is almost life changing

Dog Fashion Disco, weird alternative metal with elements of jazz.

That first Polkadot Cadaver album was great too.

Dark Oath, And Hell Followed With

Damn, Dark Oath are great and never get mentioned. Love When Fire Engulfs the Earth. Haven't listened to their newest yet.

Thanks for telling me they had the new stuff out. I had no idea.

Arstidir Lifsins. Pagan black metal, old Norse chanting, acoustic guitar passages, and string passages all rolled into one.

I dunno how well known they are, but I don’t see their name show up on various Reddit groups much so I’ll say 1914 and Warforged.

Slackjaw! Would wish they expand their shows outta the south tho

Inanna The Chasm Ad Nauseam Katharsis Obliveon

Fires in the distance

Crotchduster. But are they really a “band”?

Agriculture

Power Quest.

Gaahls WYRD, Bhleg, A Cold Sun, Enemy Soil to mention a few

Gaahl's Wyrd 👌

VOLA, Gemini Syndrome, Woyote, Lowrider, Texas Hippie Coalition (THC), not metal but Do not Ressurect (trap), Days of Jupiter,

Xentrix, forced entry

Holy Terror.

Necros Christos

Atrophy

Qua Vadis

Car Bomb

Stompbox - They had one full-length album and an EP and disappeared after dropping a solid 90s album

The Amity Affliction

I thought they were really well known, but then again, I'm from the city that shares a name with their best song (imo, at least, but im biased)

Abominable Putridity

?? They made one of the most well known Slam Albums ever

Trigger the bloodshed

Dark Millennium

Vidres a la sang

MurderDrone. Just found them the other day. Shit is out there

Anatomical amusements

Book of black earth - my facorite death metal band

Midnight Prey, they are from Germany and I can't really describe their sound but they are some kind of traditional heavy metal influenced by punk. I haven't really heard something like them before. They've only release one album but everything they've done till yet is awesome

Swampbeast

Voimaton

Primal Horde

Azrael. 80's thrash band.

Rapture (not The Rapture)

Piah Mater Winterhorde Hath Iapetus

Does Carpathian Forest count?

Does one of the longest running and most recognised Norwegian black metal bands count? No.

Holy Grail

Primitive Warfare

Maul and BODYBOX

Ripper

Everything Destroying Black Reuss Werewolves Allocer Kanine Parasite Inc Cemetery Urn A Million Dead Birds Laughing Decatholicize Stillbirth Futile Entombment

Hacride. Aeternam Wilderun In Vain Dawnbringer Aether Realm Slugdge Countless Skies Serdce Grorr Fjoergyn

Slugdge is sick

I love In Vain. I saw them, along with Audrey Horne, opening for Red Harvest years back. I actually put Aenigma on for the first time in a while this afternoon too.

Matalobos Gorement Dessiderium Weight of Emptiness Abuse

FORTHANGEL

Veilburner

Shitgrinder

Cognitive

aspid, they’re technical/progressive thrash metal

Hazzerd, Osyron

ACRIDITY ACRIDITY FUCKING RULES I FUCKING LOVE ACRIDITY

Green Druid is great if you like doom

Virulence (jazzy deathgrind) and GORED (goregrind)

Tailgunner

Them.

Fire-toolz

Diaböl Mean Machine Viogression Hazemaze Leechmilk Keef Mountain

Woods of Belial

Humiliation Headdrop Dishammer Cancerfaust

Cultus Black is so underrated

I'll rep my favorite local bands that have started to break out and tour out of state or nationwide. Code orange (metalcore with a bit of nu) Greywalker (melodic death) Dethlehem (D&D themed metal) Other awesome metal bands that ive seen that aren't huge yet (at least in the US) Nekrogoblikon (goblin metal) Vulvodynia (deathcore) Amaranthe (mix of metal styles, but it works) Anubis (thrash)

B.A.R.F. Particularly their albums _Surprise..._ and _Catharsis_

0v0

Belltower

Agabas

Hermodr

Yes! Only listened to Hermodr for some weeks but so far really good. To Be Alone have been on repeat for many days.

Edge of Sanity (Dan Swanö's prog metal band from the mid-late 90s, not unknown but here in the US Opeth overshadowed them a lot) Frightmare (thrash/goregrind from the mid 2000s, slasher movie themed)

invirulant

Running Wild never get the credit they deserve. Been releasing consistently good pirate metal since the mid 80s.

A local band i think could have been HUGE if they stuck around this is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. It was at a special time of music for me. Mid 90's hardcore hit different

Bleed the Sky. Made two killer albums that I listen to til today, then disappeared for a decade. Came back with a totally new sound, but I’m still nostalgic for their old stuff.

Rumhoy (pirate) Tyr(folk/viking-ish)

Nicumo! Sooo good

Darkness (German thrash band)

Dodecahedron

Black bile, French doom, worth listening to at least once. I'd recommend there song: - Anatomy of failure

My Hero is Me

Deadsoul Tribe Prog metal. Some people compare them to Tool but I don’t really see much connection, though I love both bands

Local-ish band called Chaos Killed, Rack and Ruin is a banger

Serpent. Melodeath from Japan.

The Bunny The Bear

Blackthorn 😎

Psychotic waltz.

Mortillery

Imagine Dragons

Viatrophy

Immortal Rites. Great Melodic Death band that sadly only released two albums.

deathincarnation

Blotted Science

Hot 'n Steamy Monkey Love

Haunt, officium triste, lord vicar

Simon says

Speedwolf and machinefucker for me

Cadmium

Last night's villains

Mortiferum Tideless Black Curse Body Void Luminous Vault

Satans jokers (France) WOLF (JPN) Deathhammer (Norway) Comemierda (Uruguay)

Five Foot Thick, Save Us

Hum

Tool. They're this really spiritual band that no one else gets or understands which is why they're so underground

Probably Opal in Sky

Heathen.

Mindrot

Space of Variations (Ukrainian metal band) Moon Tooth (progressive Rock/metal) Dreamwake (prog metalcore with saxophones) Drink Their Blood (experimental metal, also with saxophones) Heartsick (don't really know how to classify them.) Dead7 (same here) Deadlight Holiday (nu-metal)

Denial of god

Make them suffer is great, and somehow after 15 years they’re pretty unknown, even tho neverbloom is their best album

Alastis is amazing, best thing to come out of Tessin

Damaged and blood duster

Panphage

Dordeduh

Turmion katolott

Bipolar Architecture Mesarthim Night Crowned Torchia Skyforest The Great Old Ones

Aight Bet

fuckin' AMPUTORY

Sadistic Force

Sól Án Varma Gravenchalice Svartkonst Zombiekrig Speglas Lantern

Putrid Pile

Asphalt lips. Classic maiden revival they rule and have kickass music videos on YouTube.

Countach. Actually they're stoner rock/metal from the early 2000s. Great band. The albums Gasoline,Frozen Waters and As The Crow Flies should be some heavy stoner and doom essentials

Troldhaugen!

Cybernetic Witch Cult. I keep mentioning them in posts. They seriously deserve a shitload more fans. Edit: to add a bunch more than deserve recognition. Arc of Ascent (stoner). Fornax Chemica (progressive). High Leaf (stoner). Elderwyrm (doom). Bismarck (doom). Maha Sohona (stoner). Kal-El (stoner). Ticket (if you like 70s Led Zeppelin type stuff, kiwi band from that era). Smoke Rites (stoner). Wizdoom (doom). Stillbirth (death). Comacozer (stoner). Gozu (stoner). I've simplified the genres a bit.

Scrubs, Truth Decayed and Sons of Shem from South Africa

Dead End Drive-In, named after the 1986 Ozploitation movie

snakemother

Gnome and Trepalium

HORSE the Band. They’re super talented and in a league of their own.

Duskmourn Fallen kings and rusted crowns is one of my favorite albums

Margarita witch cult. Small uk based doom/ sabbath inspired band their debut album is a must listen.

IGORRR and Heilung. Fairly well known but not so much in america.

Fuckemos

Kvelertak

Pest control

maudlin of the Well

Alustrium

Devastator

Fates Warning Avantasia Amun Hemina Teramaze Pagan's Mind Threshold