Underrated Rock or metal bands.

That CD has 8 out of 10 BTTW songs, so you've heard the majority of it. It think both albums are great. As is Breaker.

 

Ratt was awesome!
all their albums were great and the last one they did was awesome too.

 

Yes\m/

 

Keelhaul

 

You really need to hear Breaker. There are a couple of clunkers on there, but at least half of it is totally awesome, and overall it's definitely on a par with Restless. If you took the best of those two albums, you'd have a 'top 10 of all time' metal album, IMO:

From Breaker:

Starlight
Breaker
Midnight Highway
Son Of A Bitch
Run If You Can

From Restless:

Fast As A Shark
Restless & Wild
Neon Nights
Demons Night
Princess Of The Dawn


I was perhaps a little harsh on Balls, but for me, it was a massive disappointment after the previous two albums. Nothing exciting on there at all. Metal Heart was a return to form, but Balls was just boring IMO.

 

I’m so proud of my thread!
and thanks everyone for great bands to look into.to give people a heads up my next thread is gonna be ..........the most underrated rock or metal studio album.

 

Groundhogs
Stray
Wishbone Ash
Captain Beyond
Dust
A Foot In Coldwater
King's X
T2
Diamond Head
Budgie
Buffalo
Night Sun
Armageddon
Steamhammer
Jericho
May Blitz
Golden Earring
Riot
Fates Warning
Trouble
... I could go on and on and on...

 

King's X
Thin Lizzy
Armored Saint

 

Wow! What a list

 

Thanks. I'll add more later. Hard rock/heavy psych/proto-metal/heavy prog of the early '70's is my listening preference.

 

Me to!
But you def have more experience in it I see.
Some of those bands I have heard of and some I have not.but can’t wait to listen to some.how have you heard of some of these bands?through Spotify or pandora?

 

It all started in the early '80's when the MTV/MM took control of the music industry with their lame & limp mainstream agenda with synth-pop, new-wave, AOR being the flag ship sub-genres. Being a fan of hard rock, metal and prog at the time I went back to the late '60's/early '70's which I discovered hundreds of new albums. During that time the literature was hard to find about most these rare artists. Goldmine magazine, a local LP dealer, record swap meets and a few books like the first two editions of the Rolling Stone Record Guide, Osborne Record Price Guide and a few others.

Some of it I've discovered through the internet. Some of these artists I thought I would never hear back in the day. That's not the case today.

 

Awesome I hate getting fed also the stuff that media forces you to listen to and that’s why I don’t ever listen to the radio.im into jazz fusion of the 60s and 70s also and you will never ever hear that stuff ever.

 

I agree. I'm also a big fan of jazz-fusion/jazz-rock.

 

Fishbone

 

Ever hear of a band called brand x?
Great jazz rock.

 

BLACK OAK ARKANSAS

 

Y&T

 

In Wales, most of our bands and artists are underrated outside of our country!

Here's a list of some underrated Welsh artists:

The Alarm
Amen Corner
Badfinger
Budgie
Bullet For My Valetine
Dave Edmunds (+ Love Sculpture)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
John Cale (Compared to Lou Reed!)
Man
Manic Street Preachers
Skindred (+ Dub War)
Super Furry Animals
Tigertailz
Young Marble Giants

 

Saigon Kick
Sharks (Chris Spedding's band)
Biters
The Payolas

 

Two Words...Oingo Boingo

 

Oh yeah.... great band.

 

10cc and Thin Lizzy might be well respected in some circles, but I believe: generally still underrated.

Europe, Ratt and Poison are probably hated by most of the forum, but they are great!

 

Krokus and the Tygers of Pan Tang are two bands that I have always thought should have been a lot bigger than they were/are. Both are still bringing out great albums. In fact I saw the Tygers live in Edinburgh two weeks ago and they were awesome.

 

Orange Goblin. Heavy. Album--Healing Through Fire
Sheavy. Pick any album. Not as heavy as Orange Goblin.