11 Criminally Underrated Extreme-Metal Bands | Revocation Bandleader Dave Davidson's Picks 

Dave Davidson is such a likeable guy. He's a fantastic musician, he's a killer live performer, very personable, and he really appreciates other great musicians. Awesome rec list here

The Miasmatic Necrosis tee says it all. This man knows what’s up

Anata - I have always wondered why these guys have remained relatively unknown, even in the extreme metal scene, as those last 2 records are pure genius and I listen to them all the time. Criminally overlooked and underrated. 🤘

I’ve seen Extol twice. Their earlier stuff was way heavier but the new stuff is so technical, it’s insane. Love those guys.

So happy to hear Extol on the list! One of the most unique sounds in metal I've heard.

Extol's Undeceived has been one of my favorite albums for a long time. Amazing stuff.

Double Dave’s got some choice cuts on here. Abhorrent’s Intransigence is such a killer album, was stoked to see that mentioned first.

Great Extol shoutout! I love Extol and have been championing them for years.

Finally a metalhead with actual metal recommendations (and good ones) and not rock or other stuff. Good job!

So glad Anata is getting some love. The Conductor's Departure is one of all-time favourite albums!

Martyr!! Fuck yeah, Dave. Dan Mongrain’s guitar work is so inspiring on their three albums. It’s just overwhelmingly colorful and creative. Dan also recorded lead guitars on From Wisdom to Hate, by Gorguts. Anyone looking for more insane metal licks from him, definitely check that album out. He helped add a swirling jazzy element that only Mongrain can come up with.

Love the Thantifaxath shout out. Sacred White Noise is one of the best black metal albums period

Some of my favorites when it comes to next level brutality and technicality: BENEATH THE MASSACRE ARCHSPIRE OPHIDIAN I RINGS OF SATURN (Not the newest instrumental album but albums like Gidim) FIRST FRAGMENT ORIGIN BEYOND CREATION THE FACELESS SPAWN OF POSSESSION (R.I.P.) CYTOTOXIN NECROPHAGIST (R.I.P.) VIRAEMIA List of underrated older bands from different metal genres: -NOSTROMO -CANDIRIA (Check out the album Surrealistic Madness. There older material is so much better than the newer stuff) -PIG DESTROYER -BURNT BY THE SUN -MR. BUNGLE -ZAO (Older Zao like the album When Blood and Fire Bring Rest. These guys were the biggest heaviest Christian Metal band back in the 90’s and very early 2000’s) -LIVING SACRIFICE -THE RED CHORD -TODAY IS THE DAY -CEPHALIC CARNAGE -CRYPTOPSY -A BLACK ROSE BURIAL (Excellent Horror Metal) -DYING FETUS -MISERY INDEX -SYL I need to stop or I never will 😂. Here is a link to one of the greatest Zao songs that has probably given many people neck issues from headbanging hard. This is an absolute banger so just give it a chance. This is 90’s Metalcore done right plus these dudes were a Christian band (I’m not a Christian but this music is sick and this whole album is a banger and ahead of it’s time ). Enjoy! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hlNp38EcUQU.html

WOW shout out to Extol! First time I have seen someone give them props. IMO their best track is Undeceived with the chilling violin intro and lyrical subject matter.

I totally back Thantifaxath and Extol. Great bands who aren’t on a lot of people’s radar. Extol’s Undeceived is the best one to check out if you’re new. Very good progressive and melodic death metal.

HOLY SHIT MAN! I thought I was the only person who knew about Cosmic Putrefaction. So glad that Dave knows about him. It's fucking awesome.

Extol is amazing. Glad they got a mention.

Whoa, this is a great list, I will definitely be checking out the bands I had not heard about.

Love the Extol mention. One of my favorite bands of all time and absolutely underrated, no one has heard of them it seems like. Every single one of their albums is so damn good. They’re all a different flavor too, they pushed themselves each album to do something different and it pays off big time.

So glad to see Anata and Extol getting a shout out

Thank you for this, my playlist is gonna be really loud and grimy for a few weeks.

Anata - The Conductors Departure, is my favorite Tech-Death album of all time. So fuckin good!

Dope Noisear shoutout, outrageous musicianship and absolutely furious, way underrated.

Love the miasmatic necrosis shirt

super excited to see the anata shoutout!!! i never see anybody talk about them, one of my favorites!

Nicely done! Great interview.

Hi Dave. I met you briefly on the tour bus when you guys toured with Voivod in Seattle 2019. I went to Berklee too. And I love Martyr. Wish I had gotten to talk with you more. Thanks for the video - great job

I concur on Anata. Amazing band…

That's sooooo cool to have new to check, thanks!

Yeah, I saw Extol years ago at a Seattle bar so small they didn't have a stage, just an open spot on the floor. They brought the energy for sure. So good!

Thanks for this Dave! Hello from METALIDADS 🤘

I clicked as fast as i could when i saw the cover of Martyr’s Warp Zone in the thumbnail ❤️ You can definitely hear their influence in Dave’s riffs and composition. Also Dan Mongrain plays in Voivod currently so, you know… killer musician

Thanks for the fun vid.

4 of 10 bands with releases on willowtip.

I like the way he is speaking out about music he likes. Good video, thanks

Awesome choices, thank you for expanding my library. I will add Dragged into Sunlight as one of my favorite criminally underrated extreme projects. Changed my view on metal.

Dude, Extol! Such a killer band. Awesome to see them get some recognition here.

Rocking a Miasmatic Necrosis shirt 🔥

Love "Extol" and so glad it made the list! One TDM band that I think is criminally underrated too is "Ouroboros" from the Land Down Under. Give it a listen and be amazed!

EXTOL Yes highly underrated

Finally hear someone describe Anata as I feel about their music. This band deserve more recognition in the rest of the world.

I love this series!!!!There are so many bands out there it's impossible know about all of them.

I wish dave would do more metal suggestion videos. His knowledge makes me want more

Extol is pretty Good. Burial is a total masterpiece 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Excellent! Making a playlist of all these on my way home, gonna play it shuffle while i fight some randoms on tekken7 😜

This has to one of the best "recommended-videos" ever done! So many great band (which is most important of course) and then a funny, clever dude presenting on top of that

Conductor's departure has some of the best melodies I've heard on any album. Also, come on earache records...

Just poured a heaping pile of metal into my playlist thanks Mr Davidson

Some legitimately great recommendations here!

Glad to see an underground band like thantifaxath on here! Good job!

I knew some of these (Abhorrent, Anata, Visceral Bleeding, Dodecahedron, Martyr) but a lot of new ones too! I can tell Dave and I share a lot of common tastes so I’m definitely gonna check them out! 🤘

Martyr... one of my favourite band and I can't help hearing Dan Mongrain's Influence in Dave's playing

Cool video. I'll be checking out some of these bands. I would add to the list Lost Soul from Poland. I don't think they've ever toured the states.

Definitely going home after work and checking out all of the bands on the list.

Martyr!!! I remember in around 2006/7 when i got into Necrophagist and all that tech death stuff i also found Martyr. I was blown away, awesome and especially "Virtual Emotions", that intro-riff is still in my mind. I'm soo glad they return.

Being from Rochester I have seen Kalibas many times and live they are super sludgy, muddy band. Eric Burke is an awesome guy. In the early 90’s when I was 14 Eric was in a brilliant band called Matrikhore and he was so cool giving us opening slots to my band that was very green and not even close to the technical brilliance of Matrikhore and later Lethargy. Such a great musician and person.

Yeah, Dave and I could be friends. Great taste in music. Abhorrent, Cosmic, and Dodecahedron. 🤘 RIP Michiel from Dodecahedron. Anyone who is just now discovering Dodecahedron, since the death of Michiel, the other members are now playing in Autarkh and Ulsect. Check em out.

Martyr is incredible, missing out if you haven't heard them

omfg Thantifaxath is so good... Thanks Dave and Revolver!

awesome to see some love going to extol!

Thantifaxah and Cosmic Putrefaction are an amazing shout! Would love to hear more music from Thantifaxah...

Great list! I will certainly be checking a few of those out. I would certainly add Gadget (Swedish Grindcore) and Implore (Austrian/Germany Death/Black/Grind - new album out 28th Oct) to this list . . . 😀

Nice Miasmatic Necrosis shirt

Hell yeah Dodecahedron was a killer recommendation. Good list Dave!

Good call including Extol on there. Their latest album (2013) rocks ass too. For whatever reason it’s not on Spotify though.

Extol is one of my favorite bands

Saw Visceral Bleeding live many years ago when they were on tour opening for Cryptopsy and man those guys were ripping riffs all over the fretboard and the drummer had a unique style where he was leaning towards the drumkit when he was doing blast beats, those guys and Anata were truly on the forefront of what has become modern technical death metal as we know today and yes criminally underrated, great list!

I always heard some influences from martyr in revocation and I love that

5:08 "Please tell me Synergy is spelt how I think it's spelt." Thinking the exact same , man. 😂

I’m fucking STOKED he put Martyr on this list- what a great band

I knew about Anata back before Revocation even, back in the high school days around Conductor's Departure, didn't get to Revocation til a couple years ago ha

Dave and Metal blade doing great stuff with the PR for the new album.

Dodecahedron has been one of my favorites, so glad Dave mentioned them. Love everything they’ve put out, and was pretty bummed to hear about their vocalist passing a few years back

Nice to have some Martyr on the thumbnail!

Extol - Burial, is a fuckin masterpiece!

Some fantastic choices here. Go Dave!

Last album of Haunter and Dormant Ordeal are amazing too... Two band who needs so much attention. Clairvoyance, Ceremony of Silence, misantropæ, if you love you metal dissonant and original! And a last one... Altars - Paramnesia, can't get enoug of it.

Extol shouldn't be underrated...they should be known by every Metalhead...

I'm so happy he mentioned Anata. They are so good.

I've had a split of Kalibas/Rune split for 18 years. Both underrated as hell. Anata is another favorite of mine.

Dave Davidson is amazing. Both at being a great guitar player and being a great guy!

Props for repping Miasmatic Necrosis. I have the same shirt :)

Anata's The Conductor's Departure is amazing! I really wish they weren't on hiatus.

Great list, and so glad Extol got a shout. Their album’s Undeceived and their self titled are flawless. I wonder if he knows about the Extol side projects called Fleshkiller and Våde… both amazing in their own right as well.

Sounds like he gravitates to the same type riffing I do. Technical, but always an element of groove to it. I think he would enjoy the band Serocs.

So happy to hear Dave shout out Thantifaxath \m/

Miasmatic Necrosis is siqq af

Hell yeah Miasmatic Necrosis \m/

Amazing picks also I'm gonna steal his miasmatic necrosis shirt 😐

I could get used to hearing Dave's picks on monthly bases. Even of older albums, or simply what comes to his mind.

Great list, the disrespect not shouting out his ex bandmates band Artificial Brain though.

Great choices

Glad to see Extol getting a shoutout; they're one of my favorite bands! I love their 2013 Self-Titled album (as well as just about everything they've done, haha)!

Oh man, the Thantifaxath shout is sick. Got to see em with Inter Arma, Wayfarer, and Wild Hunt. Thantifaxath rips.

I really like that miasmatic necrosis shirt

Pretty sure I have not heard of any of these bands before, pretty rare in a list like this. Plenty stuff to check out now 😆

Usually these lists are predictable and lame but this is awesome

Ne Obliviscaris and Allegaeon are the biggest under the radar bands on the Tech Metal Genre 🤘🏻

Dave Davidson is a legend. Nuff said.

Dude, great hidden gems! ANATA should return. Saw them when the toured with Dismember and Psycroptic.