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Damn, I spend a week away and so much to check out. Are there any really good death metal bands in amongst these? Given that it HAS been a while since I've been around, I figure I have some sort of right to ask that question haha.
Sure. Well, Ch'aska is a folk/death metal band from Peru that's really good. Battlelore is not well-known, but almost everyone who knows them seems to love them. They're not really technical, but they keep producing great albums. The Last Alliance was good and so is Doombound. I personally think Aletheian is very underrated as well.
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Re: Underrated or Unknown Metal I have unearthed another underrated and unknown metal band. Vinterland are a Swedish death metal band that released all of one album in 1996 before vanishing. However, in 2010, they released a second album. Interestingly, I can highly recommend them, despite only having heard a couple of their songs... They're brilliant. Actually kind of different to average death metal. If the vocals weren't so raw sounding, I might say they sounded like a slow version of Old In Flames. I recommend the song "I'm an Other in the Night" on the "Welcome My Last Chapter" album. 'Tis brilliant I say!

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Re: Underrated or Unknown Metal Turns out that Shangren is a bunch of Oriental guys...but the band is from Australia. Ironic. Anyhow, I listened to (D)ekaden(z). I thought they were pretty interesting; you seem to have an ear for good industrial metal! Anyhow, Darksun isn't on here yet and they definitely should be. Some of my favorite power metal by far. :D

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Re: Underrated Albums I'll start this off with Iron Maiden and their so-called "bad albums": No Prayer for the Dying, Fear of the Dark, The X-Factor & Virtual XI. I'll never know why IM decided to take a giant leap backwards after 7th son. Who knows where they could've gone had they stuck with their new sound; but they didn't. No Prayer for the Dying is a logical follow up to Killers as far as sound goes. It's rough, raw and generally simplistic. The biggest problems with it and it's follow up is Bruce pretty much ruined his voice shouting instead of singing and they is a lot of hard rock present. There are a LOT of great riffs, melodies and solos however. The songs aren't bad either if you give them a chance. I too hated NPFTD when I first got it, but it grew on me. Now it's a favorite. Fear of the Dark is considerably better than its predecessor but sadly more on the rock side of the fence. It was Maidens darkest album at the time dealing more with real world issues instead of the fantasy of their older works. This album has even more to offer than NPFTD. The X-Factor is Maidens darkest and rawest to date. The songs are melancholic and bitter. Steve Harris had gotten a divorce prior to the albums creation and his mood is apparent. New vocalist Blaze Bailey also made his debut and while he was certainly different he fit the mood of the album perfectly. There is a slight return to fantasy on this album. Its followup is back in the fantasy mold. Virtual XI was the last Iron Maiden album ever made. Yes, they've made 3-4 since Bruce returned but they don't sound like Maiden albums. They sound like watered down representations of Iron Maiden aping Bruce's solo work. This album had the bands best production with the band using digital recording instead of tapes. Musically, this is an energized uptempo album. Lyrically the songs aren't that great, but over all this is a much better album than anything that's come since Blazes departure.

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Re: Underrated Albums Judas Priest - Jugulator Ahh, the Ripper Owens era, the albums all most priest fans love to hate, except if you are a big Priest fan, and you hate it, you're not being a very kind friendly fan like you should be are you? They hardly gave Ripper a chance, and that's one of the main reasons that Jugulator wasn't a HUGE success. The First Song is The title Track "JUG-U-LAY-TORRR!" Great Intro, loving the Industrial feel, you can tell when the song starts, that this, is the heaviest Priest album EVER, absolutely Thundering riffs and a Awesome Death Metal/Thrash feel, And Tim does a great job on vocals, he may not be Rob, but he has his own voice you know! he doesn't have to sound exactly like him! Second Song is Blood Stained, not much to say about this track except that it's AWESOME! oh and heavy aswell, of course. "You Cannot Wash, The Blood.. Stains.. OFFFFFF!" Next is the Obliterating 'Dead Meat' probably The 2nd Heaviest song on the Album, and one of the best on the album, the chorus rules! And the lyrics are pretty cool aswell. Now for my favourite song on the album! "OH NO! I WON'T GO! you'll never get me down to... DEATH ROW!" Possibly the best intro, the best chorus, and riff in the same song, although almost every song on this album has a brilliant riff this one is probably the best. The Guitar solos are AMAZING! If you don't like this song, your on a one way ticket to.. DEATH ROW!!! And now, get ready for, DECAPITATIOOOOOOON! This song has got to be the most heavy, and Death Metally song on the album, the lyrics are great, Decapitate, Walk Through Hells Gate! *Chopping Sound of Posers losing their heads*. Burn In Hell is an Fantastic Song song, Ripper's Vocals are extremely Awesomely Great on this track also. they even had a cool music vid for this one! 8E-tCigMeD0 And now we get to the 2 slightly yawny songs on the album, although Brain Dead is actually alright abductors has to be my least favourite, they don't really have the energy of the other songs, and never interested me as much. Hello everybody, and welcome to the Bullet Train, we hope you enjoy your journey, IF YOU SURVIVE THAT IS! HAHAHAA! This track is absolutely brilliant, the lyrics are some of the best on this album, and the vocals are fandabbydosey. the the yell at the start is just awesome, "Bullet, bullet, Bullet Train! Piercing through, through MY BRAIN!!!" And that's it for this albu.. what? whats that? THERE'S ANOTHER SONG! OH BOY! Cathedral Spires is the EPIC of the album, what lochness should've been maybe,(from angel of retribution) It has a nice ballad at the start, to make you feel safe, and then the guitar comes in like a bloody chainsaw! rips straight in your ear, Fantastic, This song has the best structure of any song on the album, its my fav along with Death Row, I really can't explain how good it is, except that it is amazing, and that Ripper is an amazing vocalist, go on, find out for yourself! 6g4yhSjyc3M "Oooooh i'm sooo tired, time to rise up and retire" (in my bed!) (Cathedral Spires Lyrics quote)

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Re: Underrated Albums Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What? don't know why this album seems to be so hated, Set The World Afire, Liar, Hook In Mouth, In My Darkest Hour, 502 all FANTASTIC songs, Liar would have fit perfectly on Killing Is My Business, just raw, ripping thrash, In My Darkest Hour still makes the set list of Megadeth shows today, Hook In Mouth is easily Megadeth's most political song and the solo/riff thing is brilliant, STWA has more riffs at then I can be bothered to count, five oh two is such an under-rated song and the hate for this album continues to confuse me

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Re: Underrated Albums Jugulator is massively underrated. It's the heaviest Priest album and it's one of their top 3 releases. I'll never understand why people automatically discredit bands when they have a personal change. So Far, So Good, So What? sucks however.

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Re: Underrated Albums Napalm Death had a brief period of listenable music, that period began in 1994 and ended in 1998. Fear, Emptiness, Despair, Greed Killing, Diatribes, Inside the Torn Apart & Words from the Exit Wound showed ND was capable of growing as musicians going from a boring wall of noise to a fierce assault of progressive aggression. I stopped listening to their earlier albums after these came out, that's how good they are. Sadly they got boring after after 98.

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I'll start this off with Iron Maiden and their so-called "bad albums": No Prayer for the Dying, Fear of the Dark, The X-Factor & Virtual XI. I'll never know why IM decided to take a giant leap backwards after 7th son. Who knows where they could've gone had they stuck with their new sound; but they didn't. No Prayer for the Dying is a logical follow up to Killers as far as sound goes. It's rough, raw and generally simplistic. The biggest problems with it and it's follow up is Bruce pretty much ruined his voice shouting instead of singing and they is a lot of hard rock present. There are a LOT of great riffs, melodies and solos however. The songs aren't bad either if you give them a chance. I too hated NPFTD when I first got it, but it grew on me. Now it's a favorite. Fear of the Dark is considerably better than its predecessor but sadly more on the rock side of the fence. It was Maidens darkest album at the time dealing more with real world issues instead of the fantasy of their older works. This album has even more to offer than NPFTD. The X-Factor is Maidens darkest and rawest to date. The songs are melancholic and bitter. Steve Harris had gotten a divorce prior to the albums creation and his mood is apparent. New vocalist Blaze Bailey also made his debut and while he was certainly different he fit the mood of the album perfectly. There is a slight return to fantasy on this album. Its followup is back in the fantasy mold. Virtual XI was the last Iron Maiden album ever made. Yes, they've made 3-4 since Bruce returned but they don't sound like Maiden albums. They sound like watered down representations of Iron Maiden aping Bruce's solo work. This album had the bands best production with the band using digital recording instead of tapes. Musically, this is an energized uptempo album. Lyrically the songs aren't that great, but over all this is a much better album than anything that's come since Blazes departure.
i definetly agree with X factor, and fear of the dark is cool, Blaze Was treated really unfairly, he and tim 'ripper' owens were both in the exact same position.
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