I don't see a lot of content about 'Stratovarius'... I fkn love that band...👍🏻❤ It would be sooooo cool if you do a video about them one of this days...
You want a really underrated band? DIABLO - A Finnish metal band (Not to be mixed up with a game) All of their albums are diamonds and I can't praise them enough.
Their first records are so sick that more than 30 years later there are still bands trying to sound exactly like that. I mean.. is insane, they own that genre like no other pioneer band owns a genre, even the stoner doom crowd departs from sabbath here and there, but the goregrind guys.. slow parts alternating with blast beats? Check. B tuning and gross distorted tone? Check. High, snarling vocals alternating with low growls, gurgling and/or pitch shifted? Check. Grotesque disgusting lyrics about the human body and it's illnesses and decay, preferably with medical terminology? Check. Ominous intros? Solos that are either cacophonic and atonal or melodic and evocative? Cover art that is either old anatomical ilustrations or photos of corpses and body parts? All check. It's insane how they started a genre, perfected it in a few records and then moved on. I love Carcass, and everything after Heartwork, but I think is mind blowing how bands are still trying to replicate symphonies or necroticism. That's how extreme and good those records were
I discovered Symphony X through a podcast about Metal of a group that made MP3 sagas that parodied DnD back in High school in 08-09. It wasn't the first Metal band I have ever heard per say (symphonic metal bands like Nightwish, Epica and Within Temptation were the first ones) but it counts among the first ones where I learned about the different metal "chapels" and I love their music to this day.
Very much so. Allen's work elsewhere in Star One, Adrenaline Mob and ventures with Jorn Lande are all great too. Busy guy. Lande is also a criminally underrated vocalist, he's one of my top favs !
I'm glad he included Symphany X, Nevermore, and Carcass as they are three bands I like. But, when I read the title, the first band that came to mind was Savatage.
Maiden are my number one band, but Gutter Ballet is an absolutely fantastic album. Queensreich's Operation Mindcrime, another gem. Carcass' Swansong is fantastic.
@@llongone2exact same thing here. Looooots of great riffs, great guitar solos and great vocals (Jon Oliva was really visceral and always put a lot of emotion in his singing).🤘🏻
Thank you for including Nevermore. They’re my second favorite band of all time and they broke up shortly after I become a fan. Never got to see them live. Criminally underrated. RIP Warrell
I love Nevermore. Such an all around amazing band. I was fortunate enough to see them twice. One they headlined, and the second time was on the first Gigantour. That was a metal musician dream. Symphony X, Nevermore and Dream Theater on the same bill. Romeo, Loomis and Petrucci!!
So it's your fault they broke up! So sad when WD passed with Sanctuary just starting up again. The Year the Sun Died was quite good (in my opinion at least) and it just felt like the beginning of something great.
Savatage, Stormwitch, Grim Reaper, Diamond Head, Omen, Warlock, Angel Witch, so many bands that came out during NWOBHM times and never really went anywhere.
I will agree but in my opinion i can't find anything bad before 2012, very sadly after that the writing-playing style of the band it's definitely something I can't listen to...
@@christinedeltsidou8418 I agree the older ones are better, but The Fall of Hearts has some of their best tracks in Serac and The Night Subscriber. City Burials is a consistently high quality album with great songs like Heart Set to Divide, Lacquer and City Glaciers and the same can be said for Sky Void of Stars with Opaline and Author. They're all great listens full of hidden gems imo. It's true that their older albums don't have hidden gems because almost every single song is phenomenal.
Carcass should definitely be talked about more. First got into them in ‘91 when Necroticism came out. Brilliant band and after 17 years dormant came back just as great.
The guitar player in my old band owned Bill Steer's website. He hooked us up with a copy of Surgical Steel like two months before it was released. It was so tough sitting on that, knowing how good it was and unable to share it with others. What a way to come back from a hiatus!
Fun fact, I used to live next door to carcass’s drummers’ (Kenneth Owen) mum and dad. My mum and dad were even at his wedding. When I was about 10/11 I was playing drums and Ken gave me his old, battered (incomplete) drum kit and pair of sticks. Tbh, I didn’t know that much about carcass at the time.
I saw Nevermore in Tilburg (the Netherlands) and was blown away. They broke up after that tour and then Warrel Dane passed away :( This Godless Endeavour live was an experience
I had a metal guitar teacher as my first teacher, and it went from Pantera into Slayer then Slayer into Carcass.. And Heartwork just opened my eyes into Melodic Death Metal. Really made me enjoy the heavy harsh style.
Soilwork is an incredible band, their songs are catchy, powerful and very heavy at the same time, yeah it's melodeath metal, but a unique melodeath metal
I love Symphony X and I loved the shout out. I fell in love with them years ago. Those first 5 records with Sir Russell Allen are absolute classics for me.
Nevermore really should have gotten Opeth level of recognition. Such a unique and amazing band. The band where I always thought they should be the next big thing was Diablo Swing Orchestra. Especially in their prime during the first three or four albums when they had the trained opera singer, they were one of the most creative bands out with such a good feel for melodies and always putting their crazy ideas in service of the song.
Sadly their last album just wasn't as good as it could and should have been, I wonder if there was some creative differences. I wonder if that one really banged if they would have kept going. RIP to Warrel, legend
@@BrofUJu When they cancelled the final tours (which I had tickets to, goddamn!) they cited creative differences as the reason, so that's a given. But to me that is something that comes up in the writing process when you shape your songs, but apparently they disagreed so much that they couldn't even finish their live duties, which would make it seem like it was more than just creative minds disagreeing. I kinda think the final album was fully on par with Enemies of Reality, but not as good as Dead Heart in a Dead World or especially This Godless Endeavor (because let's face it- nothing could ever rival that record, and the title track in particular). I'm not sure they could have ever peaked any further while still being recognizably Nevermore, so I would have gladly taken five more albums in the vein of The Obsidian Conspiracy. That opening is a blast.
@@PikkaBird fair! It had some good stuff, I just felt a lot of the weird time signatures and especially just the vocals over top of these bizarre riffs was totally gone. Haven't hit that last album in years, maybe I should give it another shot
I definitely agree about Nevermore. In almost 20 years of listening to metal, I've never found a band capable of replicating their sound. For anyone curious, check out the albums Dead Heart in a Dead World, Dreaming Neon Black, and This Godless Endeavor for their best stuff.
I would put Saxon in this conversation. Sure they’re well known and successful, but they deserve to be up there with the heavy metal greats like Priest and Maiden and I just never hear them mentioned in that category. I would argue they’ve been more consistent than almost any of the “greats”- They just released their 24th album of a 49 year-long career, have never taken a break, maintained a consistent lineup, and only seem to improve with age (unlike most classic acts, their post-2000 run has been incredible with some of the best albums of their career). Truly heavy metal legends
They *were* huge the UK from about 1980- 1983. The trouble is they have the "stigma" of selling out when they tried and failed to break the American market from 84-89. By the time they got back on course they were seen as a bit of a dinosaur band. But still one of my all time favorite bands.
They are very underrated but that has to do with Rotten Records copyright striking everything. Acid Bath was extremely popular where I grew up in the 90s. They toured along the Gulf Coast a lot.
@@PERPowns Dax preferred his singing over his screaming. He also said he wouldn’t want to get together with the band again if theyre wasnt slower and calmer music.
Belakor is amazing The Frail Tide is epic Stones Reach is phenomenal Of Breath and Bone is perfect Vessels is epic And Coherence is amazing No bad albums. Not my favorite band of all time but they’re high on my list
I actually remember where I was when I heard that sweep section in This Godless Endeavor for the first time. It really was life changing. I got the Schecter Hellraiser C-7 because of it, and it's still my main electric guitar roughly 18 years later.
Nice list!! I could mention bands such as Cirith Ungol, Manilla Road, Coroner from the eighties... Kyuss and Alchemist from the 90's and from the 2000's I could mention so many bands, but I would stick to Arcturus, Hammers of Misfortune and Diablo Swing Orchestra
I have good memories of Nevermore, I remember my family went on holiday to Scotland for May half term where I was expected to revise for my exams that were straight after. Instead, I just listened to "The River Dragon Has Come" for the whole week. I got 3s in all my exams but it was kinda worth it
Carcass is the first extreme metal band I ever heard, the first growls I ever heard in music, so for me I think about them a lot, my introduction to death metal.
nevermore - dead heart in a dead world symphony x - the odyssey blind guardian - nightfall in middle earth 3 best melodic metal albums of all time. i never get tired of those records
@@kmacgregor6361 not too familiar with that one to be honest, i'll check it out. but i'll always be sentimental about Kamelot bc i got my first ever speeding ticket after blazing down the highway listening to kamelot's 'wings of despair, no clue how fast i was going till i got pulled over 🚓👮♂😓
Not enough people mention Manilla Road. Absolutely shred and helped establish US power/heavy metal. Plus they can have so many unique ideas is one song.
If ever pushed to name my single favourite band, I'd go for Manilla Road. I genuinely put their longer tracks like "Dreams of Eschaton" & "The Ninth Gate" right up there with the celebrated metal epics like "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
It also had Bat Country in it, and oh boy, did it really piss me off when the Brotherhood, at 5 notoriety, would smash their trucks when into me and I'd just hear that music.
For me, my underrated picks are: Atheist Impaled Nazarene Cryptopsy Mercyful Fate (King Diamond is great and gets a lot of shine, but MF's Don't Break The Oath should be spoken of with Painkiller, MoP, RiP, etc. It's a 10/10 album)
WOW! I've never even heard about Scar Symmetry before, but just listening to two random songs and I'm already extremely impressed! They hit my taste in metal pretty much exactly! Thank you Bradley, for introducing me to another great band! (always loved Symphony X aswell, The Odyssey is a masterpiece)
For me it's Katatonia. I have no idea how they aren't more popular. Another one would be Mastodon, even though they are pretty famous, I still think they are way underrated.
4:13 Nevermore yeah... and definitely Sanctuary with Warrel Dane in vocals as well and their Refuge Denied. Judas Priest seemed to be inspired by 'Die for my sins ' song when they composed 'Between the hammer and the anvil'
Yeah, when talking about Nevermore, you definitely have to at least mention Sanctuary, a legend from the late 80s and the forerunner band to Nevermore (Sanctuary's first album was produced by Dave Mustaine, by the way). Maybe he's too young to have ever heard of Sanctuary, along with the fact that Nevermore hated it when they were compared with their own past, and thus never mentioned Sanctuary themselves ...
Vocalist gets grating after an album or two. Not much variety with that guy. Fortress or whatever was their peak imo. That was like half a dozen albums ago
That run of albums they did with Fortress, Scurrillious, and Volition is one of the best three album stretches I’ve heard. Pacific Myth and Palimpsest haven’t really grabbed me as much as the earlier stuff. Still good…just not banger after banger good.
Jim Matheos is the greatest guy nobody gives a shit about. I love everything he does but somehow he has like 7 fans total :D Fates Warning did some banger albums back in the day, I loved the shit out of APSOG and FWX
W.A.S.P. kinda exists in that territory where they’re too extreme for most hair metal people and too soft for metalheads which is unfortunate as they have some great music. Igorrr is the GOAT too
Symphony X has Russell Allen on vocals, which alone makes it worth listening to. Such an amazing singer. Nevermore is just such a class act, and again Warrel Dane on vocals is simply amazing. Obviously Jeff Loomis is a god, but Dane's voice is just so unique, characterful and intense. Really good lyrics too. And Carcass is just an insane riff machine. Such effin groovy and strong rythmic sections. All of these bands are absolutely brilliant and worth getting into.
My top 5 of underrated METALLLL Bands (In no particular order: Paradise Lost Dark Tranquillity Rotting Christ Grand Magus Candlemass You should make a poll
For me are The Ocean, they're total geniuses from the music to their amazing lyrics, amd urne, not so original but incredibly good live and their riffs are total bangers. Amd yes Symphony X, one of my top 5 bands of all time. They're simply incredible.
Manilla Road will always be THE most underappreciated band ever. So much influence all over the place from Pantera to Darkthrone yet nobody EVER talks about them..
@@TheKingMetalMurray I've never been a huuuge Slough Feg guy but their cover of Street Jammer is awesome. Hardworlder is not bad as a whole to be honest. Manilla Road, Cirith Ungol, Brocas Helm and Slough Feg are my big 4 of US Epic Metal.. and they all deserve way more respect from the wider metal community. I've got the first three on my battle vest.
@@IntercactusYKW Funny enough, Slough Feg's cover of Street Jammer was how I discovered Manilla Road. Little did I know how much they would impact me from that very moment. And excellent shout on Cirith Ungol and Brocas Helm!
@@TheKingMetalMurray I was very heavily considering getting a Manilla Road backpatch for my jacket but decided on X-Wild's Monster Effect instead. If you haven't listened to that album I would highly highly recommend, ESPECIALLY if you like Running Wild since most of the band are ex-members. Plus I couldn't find a good quality backpatch of either of my favourite Manilla Road albums (The Deluge and Voyager).
Great list! Nevermore is one of my favorites. Since deadheart in a dead world came out. Oddly enough the album i listen to most now. Saw them live during the godless tour and hung out after the show and they were all awesome. Got most of my CDs signed. Sadly I did an interview with Jeff loomis at the show but the recording didn’t record and it was such a great interview too 😢. So glad we got phones now that can do this. Symphony x are incredible too! Saw them live and after the show i was hanging outside of the venue waiting for blind guardian to come out and Russel Alan came up and said hi to me 😂. Scar symmetry are amazing af! Really loved their first two albums and their latest album is incredible too. Saw them live with their original vocalist and it was great! Carcass is classic. Only really liked heartwork though.
You lured me in with two of my favourite bands (Symphony X and 3IoB), went into Nevermore who have always been in the periphery of my tastes, introduced me to Scar Symmetry, and reminded me Carcass exist, who I used to listen to in my black metal years 20 years ago. Great video, and a freshly expanded Spotify playlist :D
I've heard so many bands and thought, "that sounds like they took it from Carcass, but Carcass did it better and first, so I'll just go listen to Carcass." I've felt this way since about the mid 90s. I would say Nocturnus, Dark Angel, Possessed, Bolt Thrower and Sacrifice (Canada) are my five picks.
Yeah man. The first time I heard them blew me away. My buddy got their demo before they got signed to Earache. We couldn't wait for the record to come out. Then I saw them live and they played it all note for note perfect. Phenomenally tight band. I don't know the ins and outs of what happened exactly, but Davis pretty much walked away from the music industry because he hated it. He does real estate or something now and gives guitar lessons one the side. That's what I heard anyway.@@penttikoivuniemi2146
I feel like it's hard to know what's underrated in tech death. The entire genre is pretty niche. Some of my favs are absolutely underrated in a broader sense (Beyond Creation, Equipoise, Psycroptic, First Fragment, Alkaloid)
I clicked because of Carcass.. definitely one of the best metal bands ever. Their unique vocals and riffs are something I've never listened in other bands from the same genre. I used to be so into them I had a Carcass tribute band when I was 15, managed to play in a few shows in small bars and stuff, good times.
Skyclad, King's X, Galactic Cowboys and Fates Warning would be mine. And Nazareth and Tesla if I include hard rock. And many more if you include bands who only released a few albums.
I'm gonna mention Satyricon here. Thier first 3 albums are genuinely amazing, and their later material is also great. Check out Now, Diabolical. Its got some amazing riffs. They should get talked about far more often!
Sylosis (Finally getting more traction in the last year or so) But other than that, Mors Principium Est (Criminally underrated) Chimaira (Shadowed by Lamb of God) Persefone (Releases banger albums yet not enough traction) Soilwork Scar Symmetry (Both shadowed by other Melo death bands) We need more love for these bands. Seriously these bands deserve better, also Chimaira needs to come back
The last Sylosis album was unbelievable. And apparently that still wasn't enough to do a euro headline tour. They "only" opened for Malevolence. What a waste.
3 Inches of Blood is the quintessential Canadian metal band for me. A lot of my early practicing was inspired by an interview with Shane Clarke. Every band on here is bang on! Cheers from Newfoundland
Symphony X - Domination Has maybe one of the COOLEST bass intros ever!! Up there with Panic Attack by DT and (sadly often overlooked) the RE-RECORDING of Souls of Black by Testament.
In the early 2000s, I had friends in a band who had a rehearsal space right next to Symphony X in Red Bank, NJ. I used to spend every Saturday there with them just hanging out. Got to see Russell Allen and Jason Rulo there. Mike Romeo even did mixing and mastering for the demos my friends did. Such a great time. I miss those days
Mercenary! GREAT band and nice mixture of growls/clean vocals. I tend to dislike clean and growls, as you mentioned with SS, but works well with Mercenary. Nevermore and Symphony X definitely, Michael Romeo is one of the most underrated guitarists out there - he is an absolute frikking beast.
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Especially the Sandager years, up to Architect of Lies. The newer albums are solid too.
Falconer is in my top 5 favorite bands of all time, and they are CRIMINALLY underrated; since they disbanded I feel like they've only faded more into obscurity, but I refuse to let them be forgotten 🤘
Underrated albums: Manticora-8 Deadly Sins Lost Horizon-Awakening the World Biomechanical-Empires of the World Unexpect-In a Flesh Aquarium Mind Odyssey-Signs Adagio-Underworld Savage Circus-Dreamland Manor Metal Church-Self Titled Vanden Plas-Christ 0 Virgin Steele-House of Atreus pt.1 and 2 Luca Turilli-Prophet of the Last Eclipse Darkane-Expanding Senses Pain of Salvation-Perfect Element Circus Maximus-isolate Septic Flesh-Communion Diabolical Masquerade-Nightwork Anathema-Alternative 4 DGM-Misplaced Rigor Mortis-Self Titled
Man, I'm so glad I watched this. I already love Symphony X so much. Odyssey, Paradise Lost, and Iconoclast were my favorite albums, but pretty much any album with Russel Allen on vocals was pure gold for me. I hadn't really listened much to Nevermore or Scar Symmetry, but they're definitely on my radar now, thanks to you.
@@scifiordie lemme take a listen to them and see for myself Edit: nope, deffinetly right where they belong you're just another elitist, that thinks that bands with more than 3 album sales are overrated.
Yeah, There’s many Thrash Bands that’s underrated like Nuclear Assault, Demolition Hammer, Morbid Saint, Overkill And Toxik, But Testament’s not the most underrated of all of them
@@BrainDead_Ed_102-gz9zp I never said they were the MOST underrated, I'm saying that they are very underrated but I agree with the other bands you mentionned they are all indeed underrated
Not trying to be an elitist, but we're talking about almost 2,7 million monthly Spotify listeners and Billboard chart positions for most albums. Should they be the biggest metal band of all time or something?
MYRATH was a huge discovery for me last year. Unbelievable underrated and unknown band considering how good are all their songs. Metal from Tunisia with big middle east influence in their music. Just amazing.
Disillusion from Germany. There are many bands that started larger movements or subgenres that get surpassed in terms of commercial success by newer bands or simply people they inspired. I could name a few: Neurosis, Watchtower, Psychotic Waltz, Samael, Skyclad. Then of course there are some pearls among the marbles that simply do not get much recognition or commercial success.
Also, similar band to Nevermore that are still together and even more underrated is Witherfall. They are kind of like Nevermore mixed with Mercyful Fate.
Hell yeah, bro. Symphony X and Nevermore are so great. I'd like to shout out Vanden Plas as a criminally underrated band, too. They're like DT but don't lose the plot and wank off into oblivion in the middle of every song. Christ 0 is one of my all time favorite albums.
That's a great list! Been listening to Symphony X and Carcass since HS. Seen Nevermore live in Denver early 2000s and they were great. I will deep dive the other two... I trust your judgment on this on Bradley. 🤘😎🤘
Yessssss Symphony X! Michael Romeo is a total beast that just gets better with age. War of the Worlds part 1 and 2 blew me away, the riff from Djinn is just so nasty
Nice, that short clip of Jason doing the intro to Iconoclast was the stop on that tour I attended back in 2012. Their bus got to the venue super early and the catering/hospitality wasn't set up back stage yet, so me and couple of other fans that had queued super early walked Russel Allen from Symph X and Jon Schaffer from Iced Earth down a block to the Flying Saucer taproom to grab a beer before sound check. Sadly Jon had to go and show his whole ass storming the Capitol on Jan 6th.