12 Most Underrated Metal Albums

This list includes few comparably recent albums, mostly because it usually takes a degree of time and space away from a release for it to be deemed underrated. However, The Ocean’s Anthropocentric has been included because it's the finest work of an immensely talented band who have, thus far, found major worldwide success elusive.

The German band have put out record after record of ambitious work, of which Anthropocentric is their glorious high point. A metaphysical, complex work, it features weighty thematic concerns critiquing fundamentalist Chrisitanity, using the ideas of Dostoyevsky, Galileo and Nietzsche. Beneath all the philosophy and history are an intelligent and often straight-up fun body of tracks, post-metal epics and mathcore bludgeons that add up to fifty minutes of near-perfect progressive metal.

Despite playing festivals across the globe and touring with established acts, The Ocean have never received the recognition they deserve from within the metal subculture. They have the potential to become much more than just cult favourites, and a rediscovery of Anthropocentric seems the best way for this to be achieved.