12 Most Underrated Metal Albums

There is a whole wealth of contemporary bands that owe a huge debt to Disembodied. Specifically, the nu-metalcore acts such as Code Orange, Knocked Loose and Vein, who took the vicious, angular aspects of Disembodied’s music and piled atop their own layers of contemporary bleakness and savagery.

Diablerie was the first of only two full-length albums released by the band during their original lifetime, but its roots have spread far across the heavy musical landscape. Although Disembodied are often classed as a hardcore punk act, there’s very little in the musicality of Diablerie that could be classed as ‘punk’. The album rarely exceeds that of a mid-tempo stomp, preferring to opt instead for mean, punishing buildups and breakdowns, with guitars that sound like Sepultura jamming with early-My Dying Bride.

Disembodied deserve an audience beyond the slam-dancing hardcore kids. Their music is intense, nihilistic and doomy, far removed from the amphetamine-charged, often empowering drive of traditional hardcore punk. With its progressive stylistic fusion and bleak worldview, Diablerie appears more and more ahead of its time with every day that passes.