HamburgerBoy
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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)
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)
