EPs that you wish could have been fleshed out into full studio albums

[Talos of Atmora]

So, I was listening to this yesterday...

...and wished that Cynic could have made at least ONE full-length with this style before going with the style they had on Focus. As someone who loves Focus, their sound kicked ass on this demo. Seriously, the instrumentation is great and Paul displays some badass vocals here.

I had an idea to make a thread like this so you guys can showcase EPs that you wish could have been full studio albums whether it be because of style, lineup, etc.

 

[CiG]

I tend to find myself more often thinking the flip, that an album could be better if it were shorter. If it were an EP.
But that's mostly with non-metal albums.

 

[Vegard Pompey]

I enjoy the brevity of EPs. Wouldn't want most of them any longer. But I do wish some great bands that only ever released EPs (such as Dark Age) had released LPs.

 

[Rumpole]

An obvious one for me would be Hellhammer and the Apocalyptic Raids EP, to have that as a full album, and still have it as an early black metal classic? Now that would've been cool. I'm curious beyond belief as to what would've come out of that.

Have you heard Satanic Rites? It came out earlier than Apocalyptic Raids and for all intents and purposes is a full length and heavier than hell.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Already a favourite at 17 minutes, if Liers in Wait's EP had an extra few songs of similar quality extending it to about 30 minutes it could very well be my favourite death metal release ever.

I'm mostly happy with the EPs I love just the way they are, though.

 

[CiG]

@Slayed Necros did you know HHR has a Liers In Wait longsleeve right now?

 

[Vilden]

Bak De Syv Fjell, Strid and Cardinal Sin. Mostly because I just want more music by those bands.

 

[The Ozzman]

The first Queensryche EP

 

[Talos of Atmora]

I enjoy the brevity of EPs. Wouldn't want most of them any longer. But I do wish some great bands that only ever released EPs (such as Dark Age) had released LPs.

Oh, I definitely get what you mean. However, there are EPs like the 1990 demo I mentioned from Cynic that just didn't get made into full length albums that displayed a certain sound.

The first Queensryche EP

I knew you would say that and I agree.

 

[Sirjack]

Uroboric Forms anyone?

 

[Phylactery]

I agree with Liers in Wait's Spiritually Uncontrolled Art simply because of the lack of other material by this band.

I'll also add Sacramentum's Finis Malorum. It is already a brilliant EP but it could have been a fantastic full length since it's somewhat different to FAftS.

 

[CiG]

It would have been cool if Immortal Fate's Faceless Burial EP were at the very least longer, like about 20 minutes would have been nice rather than 11 minutes.

 

[Baroque]

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons
Cynic - Carbon Based Anatomy

 

[no country for old wainds]

IN THE SIGN OF MOTHERFUCKING EVIL

but yeah i agree about the best EPs being perfect and how most albums would benefit from dropping to EP length.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i'd like THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS a lot more if it was in the style of the EP, they shouldda done that.

 

[The Ozzman]

I knew you would say that and I agree

Been digging it a lot lately. I also agree with the Cynic demos.

 

[Evil Dead]

In Flames - Subterranean

 

[The Ozzman]

Slayer - Haunting the Chapel

 

[HamburgerBoy]

If we're counting demos, then almost too many to name. Biggest/easiest would be...

Antagonist's S/T
Dark Age's S/T
Mayfair's S/T
Ulysses Siren's demo comp

All are just one or two songs short of a 5-star full-length, and in Ulysses Siren's case they even had an earlier demo track that could have been recorded properly to flesh things out. None of them give me the indication that they were scraping the barrel with ideas either; even if the hypothetical new tracks were on par with the weakest of their respective releases, they would still be amazing. More of a stretch would be...

Anathema - Salem Lunacy (I want another Irae Melanox even if it isn't perfect)
Maelstrom - This Battle to Make History, Yet History Never Comes (this demo was a portion of an intended ~10 song album which never saw the light of day; one of the founding members of the band has made an effort to rerecord everything and release the full album, but it always seems to fizzle out)
Matrix - 1985 Rehearsal (six tracks from the best Watchtower worshipers, would need at least another three to pass thirty minutes though)
Moral Decay - To Build an End (amazing fusion of classic emo and thrash with perfect production and vision already, but the band members either died or left metal so not sure if a full-length would be possible)
Piranha - Big Fucking Teeth (Baloff, and both songs are excellent; there are longer live bootlegs floating around but the quality is generally too poor to tell if they're really worthy)
Ruthless Horde - Ruthless Horde (one of my favorite more recent discoveries, five songs and all of them varying kinds of amazing, but the next year they'd go from a USPM/thrash/doom fusion to Morbid Saint-style death/thrash of somewhat lower quality)
Spectral Incursion - S/T (not sure if they could have gotten a full album; they had enough tracks when factoring in demos, but not all of them reach this standard)

And for some demos that could have easily been turned into amazing albums had recording circumstances been right at the time...

Artillery - Shellshock (keep the singer and production here, the three exclusive songs from this, then add the exclusive songs from the other two demos, and you've got a fucking awesome nasty doom/thrash album)
Forbidden - Trapped (an album's worth of material from 1991-93 between demos and live bootlegs, they just needed to put it together before groove metal ruined them)
Heathen - Victims of Deception w/ Baloff (fuck David White tbh fam smh)

 

[Slayed Necros]

Sadistic Intent - Ancient Black Earth (please release an actual album, you Mexican assholes)