Metal Hammer Staff Top Ten: Under-Rated Albums
The Metal Hammer staff have been beavering away as always on another awesome issue but it’s not stopped them coming at you with a brand new top ten!
Check out what they believe to be the top ten most under-rated albums and leave your own top ten in our comments section! You can also check out past top ten’s on the Metal Hammer blog.
Alexander Milas (editor)
Metallica – S&M
NIN – The Fragile
Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes
Opeth – Damnation
Spiritual Beggars – Ad Astra
I – Between Two Worlds
Green Carnation – Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness
Pride And Glory - Pride And Glory
Devin Townsend – Ocean Machine: Biomech
Wolverine – The Window Purpose
Caren Gibson (deputy editor)
earthtone9 – arc’tan’gent
Corrosion Of Conformity – Wiseblood
Sixty Watt Shaman – Seed Of Decades
Pride & Glory – Pride & Glory
Himsa – Hail Horror
Wool – Box Set
Snot – Snot
Gruntruck – Push
Karma To Burn – Karma To Burn
Sevendust – Next
James Gill (editor at large)
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Skid Row - Slave To The Grind
Ignite - Our Darkest Day
He Is Legend - We Are Hollywood
Maylene And The sons Of Disaster - II
The Fall Of Troy - Doppelganger
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Whitesnake - Slip Of the Tongue
Skindred - Roots Rock Riot
Protest The hero - Kezia
Jonathan Selzer (reviews editor)
The Young Gods - The Young Gods
The End - Elementary
Akercocke – Choronzon (basically, their entire career)
Isis - In The Absence Of Truth
Watchmaker - Kill. Crush. Destroy.
Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
Rotting Christ - Theogonia
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part
Dexys Midnight Runners - Don’t Stand Me Down
Yattering - Genocide
James Isaacs (art editor)
Red Tape - Radioactivist
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Black Crowes - Amorica
Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Jackyl - Jackyl
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Van Halen - F.U.C.K.
Pride & Glory - Pride & Glory
Slayer - Divine Intervention
Goatboy - Superlube
Chris ingham (publisher)
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Pulkas - Greed
earthtone9 - arc’tan’gent
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
Kiss - Revenge
AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Entombed - To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth
Dub War - The Wrong Side Of Beautiful
Pitchshifter - Desensitized
Terry Bezer (web monkey)
Slayer - Divine Intervention
Metallica - Load
Kiss - Revenge
Rocket From The Crypt - RFTC
Jetplane Landing - Once Like A Spark
Machine Head - The Burning Red
Morrissey - Vauxhall & I
Ozzy Osbourne - Ozzmosis
3 Colours Red - Pure
Prince - The Love Symbol Album





thers’ some good one there guys and some not so good ones lol but here’s my list (just for fun…ish)
master of reality -black sabbath
snot -snot
slave to the grind -skid row
wasp-wasp
2112-rush
physical graffti -led zepp
brave new world-iron maiden
black rose-thin lizzy
megadeth - youthanasia
metallica - garage days re-revisited
marilyn manson - portrait of an american family
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Korn - Life is Peachy
Slipknot - Iowa
Metallica - …And Justice for All
I totally agree with most of those…
Especially Roots Rock Riot..
I have no idea why skindred are not bigger than half the bands out there… they are easily currently the most underrated british band…
Sepultura - Schizophrenia
Sarcofago - The Laws of Scourge
Sacrifice - Forward to Termination
Anthrax - Persistence of Time
Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So Waht!
Overkill - Killbox 13
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
Witchfinder General - Death Penalty
Bon Jovi - 7800° Fahrenheit
i definately agree with the skindred one they are amazing. I hav seen them twice now and both times have been on top form and benji makes you feel a real part of it.
anything with sabbeth is great and still underrated
Overkill -W.F.O.
Prong- Prove You Wrong
Black Crows ain’t metal fancy lad.
Exhorder - Slaughter in the Vatican
Coroner - Metal Vortex
Holy Moses - Finished with the Dogs
Artillery - By Inheritance
King Diamond - The Eye
Bathory - Blood, Fire, Death
Cynic - Focus
Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Vulcano - Bloody Vengeance
Exhorder!! Good shout!
SNOT - SNOT
Nailbomb - Point Blank
Misery Loves Co. - Misery Loves Co.
Shotgun Messiah - Violent New Breed
Profound Effect - Lashing Out
Kreator - Coma Of Souls
Carcass - Heartwork
Old Man’s Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion
Pro-pain - The Truth Hurts
Body Count - Violent Demise: The Last Days
The Almighty - Crank
here is my top 10 albums, not in any particular order though lol.
cradle of filth - nymphetamine
satyricon - now diabolical
cannibal corpse - kill
sepultura - arise
gorgoroth - ad majorem satanum
bolt thrower - IVth crusade
decapitated - winds of creation
rotting christ - theogonia
machine head - the blackening
dark throne - prepare for war
some good stuff up there,overkill especially but my choices have to be…..
Samhain- november coming fire.
Exodus-pleasures of the flesh.
Testament-practice what you preach.
Metallica-REload
Misfits-american psycho.
Alice in chains-alice in chains(the one with the dog on)
Big black-songs about fucking.
Mad season-above
Ministry-the mind is a terrible thing to taste
The jesus lizard-down.
there you go my top 10 forgotten/under-rated albums
Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
Eyehategod - Take As Needed For Pain
Soilent Green - A Deleted Symphony For The Beaten Down
Crowbar - Broken Glass
Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
Down - NOLA
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Dax Riggs - We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love
Agents Of Oblivion - self-titled
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
check them out!!
Thanks for including Hail Horror Caren. I bought it at the beginning of the year and it’s still one of the most played albums on my iPod (hint for a future top ten…). My list:
As I Lay Dying: An Ocean Between Us
Himsa: Hail Horror
Machine Head: The Burning Red (it’s not nu metal fuckers!)
ACDC: Ball Breaker
Soulfly: Prophecy
Megadeth: Cryptic Writings
In Flames: Soundtrack To Your Escape
Dark Tranquility: Everything they’ve ever stamped their name on.
Bruce Dickenson: Accident of Birth
Anthrax: Volume 8
Agree with The Burning Red by Machine Head, that album is wonderous!
Some great albums listed there, especially Karma To Burn, Metallica’s ‘Load’ and earthtone9.
Some more under-rated albums for y’all:
Planes Mistaken For Stars - ‘Fuck With Fire’
Clutch - ‘The Elephant Riders’
Karma To Burn - ‘Almost Heathen’
The Locust - ‘Plague Soundscapes’
Husker Du - Anything they ever made
Kerbdog - ‘On The Turn’
The Replacements - ‘Let It Be’
Hot Water Music - ‘A Flight and a Crash’
Far - ‘Water & Solutions’
Chamberlain - ‘Fate’s Got A Driver’
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross. Amazing record.
Destruction - All Hell Breaks Loose
Sodom - Agent Orange
Wizard - Odin
Gamma Ray - Powerplant
Waylander - Reawakening Of Pride Once Lost
Alice In Chains - Facelift
Falkenbach - Heralding The Fireblade
Ministry - Filth Pig
Death - Human
Bathory - Hammerheart
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life & Death
Metallica - St. Anger
Mordred - In This Life
The Organization - The Organisation
silverchair - Diorama
Satyricon - Volcano
Sepultura - Schizophrenia
Pantera - Reinventing The Steel
King Diamond - The Eye
Testament - Souls of Black
i was just thinking today how under rated louder than love by soundgarden was and its in the list, uncanny! what an album though,nothing like it!!
My Top Ten Under-rated Albums As Follows:
Black Sabbath - Cross Purposes
Sepultura - Nation
Paradise Lost - Symbol Of Life
Judas Priest - Demolition
Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth
The Misfits - American Psycho
Anthrax - Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
Type O Negative - October Rust
Corrosion Of Conformity - Wiseblood
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Iron Maiden - S/T
Bad Religion - New Maps of Hell
Thousand Foot Krutch - The Art of Breaking
Megadeth - Youthanasia
AC/DC - The Razors Edge
Oasis - What’s The Story (Morning Glory)
(TLW) Slough Feg - Down Among the Deadmen
Violator - Chemical Assault
Tarot - Suffer Our Pleasures
a couple more i just thought of
Pig-Sinsation
Forbidden-Forbidden evil
I LIKE ANAL!!!!!!!!!!
how about these
1. Killing is my bussinesss…and bussiness is good - Megadeth
2. British Steel - Judas Priest
3. Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
4. Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
5. Mate Feed Kill Repeat - Slipknot
6. Live Fast Die Dast - Wolfsbane
7. Fables From A Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True - Fair To Midland
8. Agent Orange - Sodom
9. It’s 5 O’clock Somewhere - Slash’s Snakepit
10. Something Wild - Children Of Bodom
Excuse me? S&M is UNDERRATED? That’s probably the most populat live metal album in the world.
all venoms albums
MACHINE FUCKING HEAD!!
they r great rekon there should be more of it on there
and burning red is not fucking nu metal!!
Megadeth - So Far… So Good… So What!