re: Metal bands that did not get their due.

acid bath is the only heavy band from my youth that i still listen to.

I started a similar thread some time ago. My initial thread had Accept, Alabama Thunderpussy, and fricking Exodus.

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Armored Saint

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Awesome call!! A little disappointed in myself for not including them in mine back then.

I don't know how old you are Brosef, but I actually saw Armored Saint in Baton Rouge in '86. I was already a big fan of theirs. Saw 'em open for Saxon no less, at the fricking Texas Club. I COULD NOT believe it when I saw that they would be playing in Baton Rouge together, and at the Texas Club.

I brought my Delirious Nomad album and got to meet them on their bus in the parking lot after the show, where they all signed it. They were super cool, especially Gonzo. He was pretty emphatic about how much he loved the state of Louisiana so far.

Good times.

ETA: I had to make a choice that night. Just so happened to be the same night as LSU-Purdue in the opening round of the NCAA tourney, which obviously happened to be played at the PMAC. And of course that was one of Daddy Dale's final four runs. As much as I love LSU though, it wasn't a very tough choice. No way I was going to miss Saxon and Armored Saint in a club in BR. I remember thinking no one there would give a shite about the game. But when they announced the score at intermission, a huge cheer went up, much to my surprise.

Iced Earth seems like the logical choice when it comes to this topic. They were overshadowed during the '90s due to the domination of Pantera, death metal, hardcore acts, and nu-metal bands. By the time most of these groups fell by the wayside or disbanded, there had been a massive stylistic shift in metal as a whole and Iced Earth's more traditional style did not fit in well with the polarizing metal fanbase (those who favored more extreme metal and those who leaned towards metalcore and more 'radio-friendly' genres).

Check out Burnt Offerings, The Dark Saga, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Horror Show, and list me one band during that particular time period (1995-2001) with a more impressive run of albums.

Also, Canadian thrash legends Annihilator deserve mention.

Ministry

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Vio-Lence

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There used to be a toll-free heavy metal hotline you could call that would play cuts off new heavy metal albums. I remember calling and listening to the Vio-Lence cut for shits and giggles. It could have been Beethoven, though, and that shite still wouldn't have sounded good over the phone.

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The Scorpions

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The Scorpions absolutely got their due. In fact they were pretty damn big once their music went to shite after Blackout.

Getting back to Exodus. It's a damn shame just how underrated they are. They were right there with the "Big Four" at the forefront of the thrash movement. They never gained the popularity of those four but man, they sure have put out some phenomenal metal over their careers and especially the last ten years. I guess I understand it somewhat though because they have gone through a couple of breakups and a few lineup changes along the way. In fact, vocalist Rob Dukes just left and Steve Souza is back for his third stint on the mike. That's fine with me. I liked Dukes just fine, but if he's gone, I'm glad Souza is the one back in the fold. He was vocalist on five of their releases, most recently Tempo Of The Damned in 2004, one of the best thrash albums ever by anyone. This shite right here is hard to top. Not sure it's possible.

War Is My Shepherd

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but in the 80's and early 90's.....LA's own Lillian Axe was very underrated. Never understood why they werent bigger.

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As I sit here and listen to "Dream Of A Lifetime", I'd say it was because they really kinda sucked.

I've still got to see that Anvil documentary.

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bands like Iron Maiden , Pantera , Judas Priest are all excluded from the RnR HOF while every 80s hair band is included...

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This is a crime against humanity

ETA: When I played in a band years ago, we opened a show for a band called Adrenochrome. They were sick. They should've made it big. Don't know why they didn't.