overlooked essentials

[genocide roach]

this may have been done in the years past. but i dont remember it, therefor it didnt happen...

what albums do you think are true classics and should be owned by everyone, but are overlooked for some reason. ya know, they were big in norway but never broke out to the rest of the world, type thing

EDIT: also, maybe break it out into genre if youve got a long list. explain your choices too
~gR~

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Vomit - Still Rotting

 

[nissan]

There are too many. I'll keep popping back into the thread and name one at a time.

Disillusion - Back To Times of Splendor

 

[DigToChina]

Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

So much better than anything put out by the Florida DM scene of the time and so much better, timeless album :O

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Here are a few:

Assück - Misery Index (despite only being 15 minutes, the roots of deathgrind make themselves obvious in this album)

Kronos - Colossal Titan Strife (OK not really overlooked, but I'm fucking surprised a lot of people have not heard this yet!)

Anata - The Infernal Depths Of Hatred (overlooked debut by this melodic/tech death masters)

Octinomos - On The Demiurge (great, epic, melodic-ish Swedish black metal; lost in the 2nd wave shuffle)

 

[cookiecutter]

Cenotaph - Pseudo Verminal Cadaverium

 

[Zephyrus]

Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
Mysticum - In the Streams of Inferno
Samael - Ceremony of Opposites
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Cenotaph - Pseudo Verminal Cadaverium

OK yeah fuck you that is essential. A tech death masterpiece.

 

[rfe]

Death - Scream Bloody Gore
At The Gates - Gardens of Grief
Hellhammer In General

 

[cookiecutter]

I would hardly call any of those overlooked

 

[rfe]

Really? I always find that Gardens of Grief doesn't get much respect as their debut does, which I found wasn't as great as Gardens of Grief. That's just me, though.

Hellhammer and Death aren't as overlooked, but they are overlooked in comparison to superior entities/albums (in Hellhammer's case, Celtic Frost). While Individual Thought Patterns is indeed a great album, Scream Bloody Gore is stuck in the shadow of their Progressive albums. I find it essential because it was start of not only Death, but it was one of the earliest Death Metal releases.

 

[George]

Satyricon - The Shadowthrone

I really wouldn't consider that overlooked. I've seen it get some praise on here recently.

 

[DarkBliss]

Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

This album is an established classic.

 

[Zephyrus]

I really wouldn't consider that overlooked. I've seen it get some praise on here recently.

I think it stands on equal ground with DMT and Nemesis but those two tend to be hyped more than Shadowthrone. That and The Shadowthrone was the only Satyricon album I couldn't find in stores, which is one explanation for its lack of appreciation among fans.

 

[ohiogrinder]

Assück - Misery Index (despite only being 15 minutes, the roots of deathgrind make themselves obvious in this album)

every self-respecting grindhead should own this album.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Throne of Ahaz - Nifelheim

 

[~Derek~]

I think it stands on equal ground with DMT and Nemesis but those two tend to be hyped more than Shadowthrone. That and The Shadowthrone was the only Satyricon album I couldn't find in stores, which is one explanation for its lack of appreciation among fans.

Also Dark Medieval Times is often overshadowed by Emperor-In The Nightside Eclips and Anthems to The Welkins at Dusk, Mayhem-Dem Mysteriis Dom Sathanas,Burzum-S/T, Det Som Engang Var,Hyvis Lydett Tar Oss, and Filosofem, and Darkthrone-Blaze In The Northern Sky, Transilvanian Hunger, and Under a Funeral Moon.

 

[Life Sucks]

Electrocution - Inside The Unreal (great old school thrashy death, on par with the likes of Pestilence, Asphyx, etc.)

Morpheus Decends - Ritual of Infinity (as good as the debuts of the "big" NYDM bands)

Disaffected - Vast (atmospheric doom death metal. as good as the CD is, one would think it would be widely praised)

Necrophiliac - Chaopula: Citadel of Mirrors (very good old school death metal in the vein of Incantation. even good for old school death metal, yet unrecognized)

 

[zabu of nΩd]

This album is an established classic.

So... what exactly is so great about that album? All I really heard when I listened to it was a Bolt Thrower soundalike with a few extra slow parts and 'mystical' chord progressions thrown in. And the slow parts all bored the crap out of me.

 

[Life Sucks]

So... what exactly is so great about that album? All I really heard when I listened to it was a Bolt Thrower soundalike with a few extra slow parts and 'mystical' chord progressions thrown in. And the slow parts all bored the crap out of me.

It doesn't sound much like Bolt Thrower. It's a melodic take on the Finnish death metal style. It includes great melodic passages while retaining the typical Finnish dm sound. IMO it is definitely one of the top 5 death metal albums of all time (or metal albums of all time, for that matter). I guess it's a matter of taste, though I bet that several others here agree with me on this.