Most Underrated Band

[jgcable]

I'm going to go along with Opeth being underrated. I don't know anybody that is not into metal who has ever even heard of them. Master's Apprentices is another great track from them.

I tend to really like how Swedish singers sound though.

If you mean Opeth Damnation.. then I agree. That album is incredible.

[Hellbat]

That album IS incredible. Watershed is a great album too. Coil is one of the most beautiful, haunting songs I've ever heard and then they follow it up with the craziest super heavy cookie monster song in Heir Apparent. They are the only metal band that I generally like the use of keyboards in.

I don't like their cookie monster stuff in general but I can appreciate the musicianship that every member of the band brings forward. And I can honestly say I don't know of a single person I know in my day to day life that has ever bought an Opeth song/album or knowingly heard one. And the other thing is they can pull off the songs live sounding true to the recording.

[tonemonster]

I tend to really like how Swedish singers sound though.

yea me too...... ABBA kicked ass!

[Hellbat]

I was thinking more along the lines of John Norum and Goran Edman. But the ABBA chicks could sing, that's for sure.

[Mazrim]

Racer X should have been huge.
So should Voivod, Sodom and Coroner.

May I also say that I should be smothered in equal parts affluence and decadence by now. This meagre, comfortable existence was not part of my teenage plans at all. Still, there is yet time.

[VitaminG]

Prototype. Listening to Trinity at the moment. Great band

[dtt001]

Motorhead. Have a listen to "Too good to be true" studio version and although it may seem a bit peculiar for them, "Love me Forever" -again studio version. These are somewhat of a departure from "Ace of Spades" which is of itself not bad, just quite over-associated with them. Also there is an acoustic version of "I ain't no nice guy" (without Ozzie - MTV unplugged session I think) which is very good.

As for guitar players a previous post nailed it with Alex Lifeson. Check out "Cold Fire" or "Bravado". I have mentioned these two songs before.

[VoiceX3]

Do you mean the Canadian death metal band Slaughter from the '80s, or Mark Slaughter's band?

Think he means the band constructed by Dana Strum.... And I will agree they were underrated being that I knew Tim Kelly and he was very close with a lot of my friends. Another phenominal player taken MUCH too soon. R.I.P. Timmy!

Yep, Mark was on the second VV album. It's funny, he sounds EXACTLY like the guy on the first album, Robert Fleishman, who used to sing for Journey before Steve Perry.

Joe, Mark sounded a lot like Fleishman, but his voice back then had much more feeling than Roberts....now he just sounds like his voice is shot.


As for my choice of underrated bands.....I gotta say what I always say. LIZZY BORDEN!

[Shibs]

Underrated Guitarist - Alex Lifeson
Underrated Drummer - Sean Kinney
Underrated Bassist - Rex Brown

All True....

[Shibs]

Saxon, Krokus, Girl School, Anvil, Asphalt Ballet, Bulletboys.... I could probably keep going! LOL

[Sephiroth]

Coroner. Their "No More Color" and "Mental Vortex" albums are outright brilliant with mixing prog with thrash.

[BQlleFrQ]

Crumbsuckers - Beast on my back

[VitaminG]

Scatterbrain

[Codex]

Crumbsuckers - Beast on my back

Scatterbrain

Love both of these bands. And I agree - both underrated.

[markD]

edguy should be bigger in the US. their last couple albums have had some good solid rock songs on them.