Blog: ‘Lost Gems’ Album Challenge
/ Blog / 01/01/2009 15:34pm
Inspired by digging out awesome albums that we’ve not heard for ages over the festive period, the ‘Hammer blog brings you the ‘Lost Gems’ challenge.
We’re challenging you to head on in to this page and leave us an album that you’ve played recently that you’ve not paid for ages in our comments section and we’ll send a goodie bag to the entry that makes us rub our chins the hardest.







lights out by UFO
The Impossibility Of Reason – Chimaira
Focus, by Cynic
Filter – Short Bus
mudvayne – LD 50
alice in hell – annihilator
Blue Öyster Cult – ‘Spectres’
Demanufacture – Fear Factory
The American Way by Sacred Reich
Blind Illusion – The Sane Asylum
ThreadsOf Life – Shadows Fall
Misery Loves Co. – Not like them
Burn My Eyes – Machine Head
E-Lux by Human Waste Project last week top album and yesterday SAnctuary medicines by Rico a really underrated album
Job For A Cowboy – Doom
Hundred Reasons – Ideas Above Our Station
Fun Lovin Criminals – Come Find Yourself
Far – Water & Solutions
Entombed: To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
Carcass – Heartwork
Finch – Say Hello To Sunshine
Sacrilege B.C. – Party with God
This album kills!
Highway Chile “Storybook Heroes”
Sons Of Pioneers by Workhorse Movement
Prism-Prism
Millenium Monsterwork – Fantomas Melvins Big Band
arch enemy – Doomsday Machine
Earth Vs The Wildhearts
Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar – Chemlab
Infectious Grooves – Sasippius’ Ark
Therapy? – Infernal Love
Blackwater Park – Opeth
Slipknot – Slipknot
The Almighty – Powertrippin’
THE RODS – THE RODS
Monster Magnet POWERTRIP
Kittie – Spit
The Union Underground – A Education in Rebellion
Chimaira – Chimaira
System of a Down- Toxicity
slayer reign in blood
in flames-colony
Himsa – Ground Breaking Ceremony
RIP Himsa. Gutted.
Rhapsody (Of Fire)- Dawn Of Victory
Ozzy Osbourne – Diary Of a Madman
Black Sabbath – Live Evil
american headcharge-the feeding
Samhain: November-Coming-Fire
therapy? – “troublegum”
kerching….i think we have a winner!
Demon – The Unexpected Guest
Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill
arc’tan’gent – earthtone 9
Not just a classic British album, but a classic metal album well ahead of its time
1987 – Whitesnake
I found this beauty in he loft, it’s my dads!
Running Wild- “Gates of Purgatory”
Blow Up Your Video – AC/DC
My first AC/DC album and still my favourite
South Park: Chef Aid
Not the most metal album in the world, but most of the tracks kick some ass. Except Ween’s.
Silver Ginger 5 – Black Leather Mojo
Ginger Wildheart and Conny Bloom, what a combination!
Also, Blackout in the Red Room by Love/Hate, and Doomsday for the Deceiver by Flotsam & Jetsam!
I had a bit of a retro Crimble! LOL
Jaguar- “Power Games”
Fair to Midland – Fales from a Mayfly: What I Say 3 Times is True
not the most metal album, or that old, but certainly a great listen by a band that seem to have never reached the heights they deserve
W.A.S.P – W.A.S.P.
heard this in the summer for the first time and i love it, its a great album!
Been playing Skid Row’s Subhuman Race, it’s worth listening to just for Ironwill alone.
Iron Maiden – Killers
iron maiden.live after death
The best live album ever!
the legacy by TESTAMENT. yeaaaaahhhhhh…….. black cats will appear as the witching hour nears
Death Angel : Frolic Through The Park
Kill II This – Trinity
Transcendence by Crimson Glory – I was cleaning out some rooms and found a bag full of cassettes and lo and behold, look at what was on top staring at me. it was cool hearing it again. must be about 14 years since i’ve heard it.
Soul Destruction – The Almighty
B.O.M.B (BEAST ON MY BACK) – CRUMBSUCKERS
Superb technical hardcore metal from a long way back!
CLOSE SECOND:
THE HUMAN FACTOR – METAL CHURCH
Classic heavy power metal
Time Does Not Heal – Dark Angel
The LA Caffeine Machine on smoking form with this riff-after-riff-after-riff-after-riff-after-riff-after-riff-after mutha fuggin riff(and then some more riffs!!) classic.
From 1991, thrash does not get much better than this.
Where’s me hi-tecs!!???
Suicidal Tendencies – Lights, Camera, REVOLUUUUTION! – what a corker
Alice in Chains – Dirt
BRASIL by RATOS DE PORAO………brasil nuts from hell
Days of Rising Doom by Aina
This “a long time” was only about a year for me, but I listen to my music a lot and so they all usually get some light every few weeks.
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