Drop your favorite underrated album or album with three reviews or less that you feel deserves more attention. My pick is As The Heavens Fall from the Progressive/Melodic Death Metal band Threnody.

Witchcraft - Legend

Excellent 70's-ish doomy hard rock/metal. I love this album but it has 2 reviews.

Probably too many examples of this to wrap my head around. One that springs to mind is Undergang’s Misantropologi — one of my favorite death metal records of recent years is sitting with one review at 43%.

Not a long thinking process... Fog of War's Here Lies Humanity, arguably my favourite album ever. Two reviews, one of them being my own

Hangman’s Chair - A Loner

My favorite album of 2022, and it has zero reviews on MA (maybe I should change that…)

Their page as a whole is pretty lacking in reviews actually, super underrated band in general.

I love finding albums with no reviews or a low review that blow away my misconstrued expectation.

As The Heavens Fall on has on 87% review and it baffles me every time I check the page. It’s such a killer album. Incorporates so much into it without it being overdone. Beautiful acoustic guitar and even has a song with clean singing, acoustic guitar and a flute solo. The other guitar solos are done well and placed perfectly within the songs and they do a great job of incorporating doom elements.

Impelliteri - Answer to the Master 0 Reviews and a 100%er in my book.

Indeed. Fantastic album.

Sabbat - Satanasword

Can't believe this only has one review, IMO it's the best album they put out. When it comes to Sabbat, most seem to talk up Evoke, The Dwelling, or Karisma as their peak, but I think Satanasword is so underrated. It's the perfect mix of blackened thrash and traditional heavy metal, with a lot of Temis' leads recalling Mercyful Fate at times. There's loads of dynamics in songwriting, from short thrashers like Death Zone to the almost 14-minute-long Nekromantik, arguably the best Sabbat song (and that's including The Dwelling).

Lots and lots of albums like this, but a big one for me
Cerebral Effusion - Smashed And Splattered Organs
A key "CC except brutaller" type BDM release from the mid 2000s. Underrated here. 3 reviews. One positive one that complains about the (awesome) burpy vocals, two nearly 0% reviews that are just standard 2000s era tirades about how much they hate brutal death metal (which was stigmatized at the time due to being oversaturated, being perceived as "artless" or "one-dimensional," etc).

I had forgotten about this band. I loved the album they did prior to that ("Firewood") which I owned, and liked everthing else that I heard from them. Great band, but one that I hadn't realized were listed here on the archives as I had assumed they were more Jethro-Tull influenced rock and not really "metal" per-se. But yeah, they do deserve more reviews.

Anything Hanker or Antiquus did. Some of the best unknown, weird trad metal past the 80s. Brilliant and inventive. Just great.

Ostrogoth - Feelings of Fury. Only one review, and it is mine. It is the best Ostrogoth album and in my opinion the best pure heavy metal album. Unbelivable compositions, 10000% manly wild beastial vocals, some of the best guitar solos I've ever heard and overall very powerful album!! A must have on physical copy for every true metal fan!!!!

Both Prostitute Disfigurement's "Deeds of Derangement" and "Left in Grisly Fashion", which I think most would agree are their 2 best works, only have 1 review each. In fact, most of their albums (save Descendants of Depravity) have only 1-2 reviews. That's insane for what I personally consider the best death metal band of the 00's.

A lot of Trhä fit the bill, considering they only have a handful of reviews.

Samson's Before the Storm. It has zero reviews and about as many listeners.
I've been listening to this album regularly for more than 40 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSlCX5N ... JTXJgBLn8h

Naglfar's "Diabolical" is one of my favourite black metal albums, and it only has 2 reviews and a score of 76%.

Shadow (Japan). A better In Flames than In Flames. My most underrated metal band.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Shadow/1170

Kruelty's Untopia (2023) only has one 100% review and that's it, an incredible album for fans of beatdown hardcore and death metal. Japan always delivers good metal.

Weapon, easily. Their entire discography basically is underrated

Their last two albums have more than 2 reviews, mind you, but overall still not very many. They've been split up for a while now, but they released three very solid blackened death metal albums that hardly ever get talked about IMO.

Or maybe I've just not been paying attention.

Russian Circles - Gnosis.

0 reviews and about a 9/10 album.

I’m enjoying all the love this post is getting and seeing all your responses makes me feel like I’m not alone in enjoying music that doesn’t get enough recognition. Plus it’s fun to check out all these band pages. Gonna keep it in the realm I’m currently working on, which is death metal. So here’s two bands of the same name who both dropped bangers in 1996.
Cenotaph (Mexico)-Epic Rites (9 Epic Tales & Death Rites)
Cenotaph (Turkey)-Voluptuously Minced
The Mexican Melodic Death Cenotaph put out one of the best Melodic Death Metal albums in my opinion. Got an A+ from me and sits at 90% with one review.
The Turkish Brutal Death Band put a banger as well. I haven’t been the biggest fan so far of pure Brutal Death without the technical somewhere in between, but this hits like a truck. It’s done so well and that bass throughout is the cherry on top. Let that bass ride. Give it an A grade and it’s also sitting at 90% with one review. How odd that is for both bands of the same name.

The Heart of the Matter by Triosphere has 2 reviews. It has a rating of 98% though, so people who are listening are enjoying it at least.

There are many, these are just a few:

Morgul - The Horror Grandeur has 2 reviews setting a 91% average. It's gem of symphonic black metal.

Dolorian's discography, each album has 3 reviews each. I like specially When All the Laughter Has Gone, black doom from the depths of Finland. One of my fav albums of the genre.

Morgion's Among Majestic Ruin has just 3 reviews and even Solinari only has 4. They're both stepping stones of the doom death genre.

Tholing the Void - Insignificance. Zero reviews on an album that few people may know, but it's a really good black doom album with violins topping the cake.

Deathwhite - Grave Image. 1 review at 80%. Great album if you enjoy the likes of Katatonia and Paradise Lost. The song In Eclipse rotates frequently around here.

Hmm, that’s blasphemy! It certainly deserves better! On par with Vittra and by far much more appealing than all those more popular Dimmu Borgir wanna be albums that came out after.

Somehow none of the albums from the Gates of Slumber have many reviews - most are two. Total shame since this is one of my favorite bands, and back in like 2011 I was thinking they'd get way bigger than they did (of course they had several deaths and a break up). They apparently reunited several years ago but I have no idea what they're actually up to.


If I had to pick one in particular, Hymns of Blood and Thunder is my favorite and should have way more than 3 reviews

Some more melodic metal with not a lot of reviews...

Fireleaf - Behind the Mask - hard as fuck, driving music with the right amount of melodic complexity to become a kind of power metal. But it's not really a genre work; it's just a really cool, intense album with no weak tunes.

Vulvagun - The Painful Road to Eden - the name is goofy but they write some spotless, aggressive, hooky stuff that recalls all the greats from the 80s and does its own spin on them.

Abysmal Grief

Underrated band in general, and regarding the reviews, all of their albums have only one review each. Except for Strange Rites of Evil with zero reviews. Their last album Funeral Cult of Personality is the favorite of mine, so I'm glad that at least someone (thank you, gasmask_colostomy) reviewed it positively...

Here’s another one from myself.
Aggressor-Procreate The Petrifactions. Sits at one review with an 85% (Thanks, Lane.) Estonian Death/Thrash that hits all the right spots. Their song Wrong Faith is one of my all time favorites to throw on in the car. 7+ minutes of Death/Thrash that has some really fun breakdowns in between.

Any of Blazon Stone's albums, all at 3 reviews or less, and Heavy Load - Death or Glory + Stronger than Evil (only 2 reviews for both is strange)

Terrorizer "Hordes of zombies"

First LP is a historic record, maybe not the best of grind from the 80s/early 90s, probably because of not-so-good recoring
Second LP is so-so, not really bad but without cnsistence

Then this third one is to me a perfect record, I can't explain why it's only 69% here, except if I'm comparing this one to the historic first. It's fast and melodic, sound could be a bit better, but I love that running effect, classic riffs, nothing technical, and for this far better than most grind/death albums with boring technical enmptiness...

I can't exprim in english, but the fact is this LP got a place withing the best one from the modern times to me - 89% most probably
And this is not true for the next LP

Sacramentum - The Coming Of Chaos.
I keep waiting for this album to be re-evaluated and judged on its own merrit for the awesome slab of melodic thrashy black/death that it is but still no dice.
Yep Far Away is a classic but both Chaos and Thy Black Destiny as well for that matter both RIP.

While i'm at it, Aeternus - Shadows Of Old is tops and is more often than not looked down apon.

Great call. Essential listening for anyone with functioning ears

Abandon - The Dead End

Stunning funeral doom/sludge/noise album which makes excellent use of a pump organ. It's incredibly oppressive, sad and emotionally vulnerable. The vocalist passed away before its release and the band faded from view. It currently stands at just 1 (admittedly very positive) review from 2009.

I might dust off my CD copy and take a stab at reviewing it sometime this weekend.

Exhumed's Anatomy is Destiny, feels overshadowed by the earlier works. No one talks about it! :d

Mega Colossus - Riptime. I feel like I'm alone in absolutely loving this album. I'm the only reviewer for it. Just really great high energy trad metal.

Validor's first album and War Dance Sons of Thunder come to my mind the moment of writing this.

Redemption - "The Fullness of Time" and "Snowfall on Judgement Day"

Trouble - "Trouble" (1990 s/t) and "Manic Frustration"
Their two best, IMO.

You're not alone! One of my favorite trad albums of the past decade.