German metal band Suidakra

 

Tinsley Ellis. 

Alien Ant Farm.

Minus the Bear.

tbh, imo these bands are underrated in a prespective way as "not appearing in a lot of places" :

 

• Breaking Benjamin
• Chevelle
• Godsmack
• Alter Bridge

 

but if you i want to say a criminaly underrated band, then (surprise,surprise) Billy Talent would be my #1 for that.

LITTLE CAESAR

 

Silver Condor ?

what a great song they made : 

 

 

 

or even better

 

 

i'm gonna add Gary Clark jr (seriously there's a whole 2 cdlc for him (one of which is an official)

 

 

Johnathan Fire*Eater

Easy, Rest Repose. Someone needs to make a CDLC Pack for them.

Future of the Left. Usually placed in post-punk, noise rock category, but have quite their own unique sound.

 

In fact I came here looking for CDLC because the bass in their music is just so god damn delicious, but only found a mclusky (former singers band) song w/o bass option.

Mclusky were also a brilliant band. Some people may have heard of them.

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Came to look for a request forum just to realise it's been closed down two months ago or so.

A ride of disappointment, haha.

 

It's a shame because they are brilliant. They really need some more exposure.

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I want to be as badass as their bassist one day :)

Clutch

 

Naxatras

 

1000mods

 

Polkadot Stingray

 

Bala

 

Octopussy

 

Somali Yatch Club

 

Vulfpeck

 

Knower

 

Madd

 

Mild Orange

 

Dream wife

 

Fazerdaze

 

Dan Patlansky

 

Khruangbin

 

Mastodon

 

Dead Sara

 

Annenmaykantereit

 

Good Morning

 

No buses

 

CRX

 

There are probably more but those are the first ones that come to my mind.

Clutch

 

Naxatras

 

1000mods

 

Polkadot Stingray

 

Bala

 

Octopussy

 

Somali Yatch Club

 

Vulfpeck

 

Knower

 

Madd

 

Mild Orange

 

Dream wife

 

Fazerdaze

 

Dan Patlansky

 

Khruangbin

 

Mastodon

 

Dead Sara

 

Annenmaykantereit

 

Good Morning

 

No buses

 

CRX

 

There are probably more but those are the first ones that come to my mind.

 

I second Clutch and 1000mods. Fantastic bands.

Personal top three would have to be:

 

-Everything Everything

-The Cult

-SikTh

 

Probably with a band like Clutch for close fourth.

Slade

Night Ranger

Krhuangbin

 

OMG they are awesome!

I would have to agree Clutch is very under rated.

 

Also Jerry Cantrell's solo albums are very under rated for the awesome riffage on Degridation Trip Volume 1 and 2.  Boggy Depot was a good album but the anger in Degridation Trip just shines through.  I would love to see someone chart Bargain Basement Howard Hughes, Leave Me Alone, Pig Charmer, Gone.  just a few off the top of my head.

A little off from what I am seeing, but I do not see too much talk about Silverchair, at least in the United States. This might be an unpopular opinion, and I am too young to have grown up in the 90's but I barely hear about them. I have only heard people mention them when I covered one of their songs at a show a couple of years ago, but since then it's been quiet about them. I really like their first two albums (Frogstomp and Freak Show) and think they are pretty good.

 

Faultline (my favorite song by them)

 

The Closing (The song I covered)

I think a distinction between underrated and underappreciated is needed.  I wouldn't call Nightwish underrated, they have an excellent reputation and anyone that has seen or heard them perform recognizes they are very good. (Look at all the youtube videos of people reacting to Nightwish) So, it's more that their style of music isn't what a lot of people like to listen to (notably in the US) , rather than people thinking Nightwish sucks. 

I would say AC/DC is underrated, even though they are extremely popular, because their playing has always been criticized for being simple and not being very good - even though playing their songs CORRECTLY so they sound right,  is quite hard.  How many novice guitar players choose AC/DC songs to learn specifically because they think they are easy? 

 

I think it's similar to country music. Where in the US country artists especially the more modern ones like Brantley Gilbert, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, etc will sell out huge stadiums. But they usually won't even tour in Europe, and if they did probably would only play small venues. 

 

Sure maybe you've got some fans of American country music in Germany or Austria but I'd doubt it's very much. ;)

 

I think a lot of 80s rock bands (especially Melodirock) that went over "Big in Japan" were underrated in much of the rest of the world like Scorpions, Mr. Big, Night Ranger and Toto.

 

Though I think the most underrated band of the last 5 years is either Brother Firetribe. All of their albums are great! Diamond in the Firepit was a great surprise this year, probably in my top 5 albums of 2014.

 

 

 

Bands that fit into the symphonic metal genre such as Nightwish and Within Temptation.  I say this because it seems like I can't talk to anybody about these bands without getting a strange look because they've never heard of them.

NIghtwish is HUGE in Scandinavia, and Within Temptation is also a well known band here.

 

Yeah but I wish these bands would be well known in America.  I honestly believe these bands could sell out 10,000 seat arenas over here but they end up playing in small venues.

 

 

Back in the early Y2K wehn Metalcore was still pretty new there was this band that started out as Christian Metal called Symphony in Peril, and while their first album was not too memorable, I still think that their follow-up The Whore's Trophy is top tier metalcore.

khruangbin

The Cult

Metal Church

Sevendust

Chevelle

 

are 4 bands that come to mind right away

Ween

 

Because everyone thinks they are a novelty band when they are genre defying musicians that can hold their own with most touring acts

Sugar (90s power trio) / Bob Mould (solo stuff...check Workbook) / Husker Du (seminal 80s) Mould is a guitar animal and largely unheard of.

 

Zappa

 

The Clash (and Big Audio Dynamite)

 

Another band I want to put into the discussion is Crimson Glory.  The solo on this song is amazing and Midnight was one of hell of a singer and song writer.  I'm actually shocked there isn't more Crimson Glory on this site

I'd have to recommend  Capstan and Hot Mulligan

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRL4lP3Dbw

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usqyWu0ATBk