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bands that made some great albums and good, professional and emotional music. Bands that have their fans, but unknown in the big wide world...

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Rank   Name Genre(s) Career Began Albums Labels
  1. 1
    Rock music, New Wave
    San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area
    The Best of The Call, Modern Romans, Red Moon, Red Moon, Live Under the Red Moon, You Run, Reconciled, Into the Woods, The Walls Came Down: The Best of the Mercury Years, Love Is Everywhere, To Heaven and Back, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Call, Let the Day Begin More
    Elektra Records, MCA Records, Mercury Records, Music Corporation of America, Fingerprint Records More
  2. 2

    Michael Been

    On the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough
  3. 3
    Hard rock, Progressive rock, Heavy metal, Progressive metal
    Springfield
    Rehearsal CD, Volume 1, Dogman, Tape Head, Out of the Silent Planet, Please Come Home... Mr. Bulbous, Black Like Sunday, Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, XV, King's X, Ogre Tones, Live & Live Some More, XV, Best of King's X, Sneak Preview, Faith Hope Love, Live All Over the Place, Manic Moonlight, A Box, It's Love, Ear Candy More
    Atlantic Records, InsideOut Music, Metal Blade Records, Megaforce Records More
  4. 4
    Alternative rock, New Wave
    Rhyl
    Eye of the Hurricane, Electric Folklore Live, Newid, Eponymous, 68 Guns, Change, Declaration: 1984-1985, Raw, Strength, Raw, The Stand, The Best of the Alarm, Eponymous, 1981-1983, The Chant Has Just Begun, The Best of the Alarm and Mike Peters, Change: 1989-1990, Strength: 1985-1986, Rare Tracks, B-Sides & Demo Tapes, Acoustic Standards, Sixty Eight Guns, Greatest Hits Live, Declaration, Electric Folklore: 1987-1988, Guerilla Tactics, Under Attack, Eye of the Hurricane: 1987-1988, Standards, In The Poppy Fields [4 Edward Henry Street], The Alarm, Strength, Raw: 1990-1991, In the Poppy Fields More
    Liberty Records, I.R.S. Records, Snapper Music
  5. 5
    Heavy metal, Speed metal, Symphonic metal, Power metal, Christian metal, Christian music, Neo-classical metal More
    United States of America, Orlando
    Rage of Creation, Eyes of Eternity, Rage of Creation, Holy Hell, Eyes of Eternity, Garden of Chaos More
  6. 6
    Hard rock, Heavy metal, Christian metal, Neo-classical metal
    United States of America
    Live! Fast! Loud!: Live in Japan '95 and '96, The Very Best of Impellitteri: Faster Than the Speed of Light, Stand In Line, Grin & Bear It, Crunch, Victim of the System, Eye of the Hurricane, System X, Fuel for the Fire, Wicked Maiden, Pedal to the Metal, Stand in Line, Live in Tokyo 1988, Screaming Symphony, Answer to the Master, Impellitteri, Wicked Maiden, Crunch, Grin and Bear It More
    Relativity Records, Victor Entertainment
  7. 7
    Alternative rock, Rock music, Folk rock, New Wave, Post-punk, Celtic rock More
    Scotland
    King Biscuit Flower Hour, Greatest 12" Hits, Without the Aid of a Safety Net: The Complete Concert, Radio One Sessions, Ships (Where Were You), Restless Natives & Rarities, Rarities VII: Damascus Sessions, Fields of Fire, Singles Collection 4, Singles Collection 2, No Place Like Home, East of Eden, In a Big Country, The Collection, 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Big Country, Brighton Rock, The Best of Big Country, One in a Million, Republican Party Reptile, The Seer, Eclectic, www.bigcountry.co.uk, Rarities V, The Collection: 1982-1988, The Crossing, Come Up Screaming, Under Cover, Peace in Our Time, In a Big Country, Big Country Live Hits, Master Series, Through a Big Country: Greatest Hits, Without the Aid of a Safety Net, Steeltown, Peace Concert: Live in East Berlin: 1988, Rarities II, In a Big Country, Why the Long Face, Twenty Five Live, Harvest Home, Radio 1 Sessions, The Buffalo Skinners, Chance, Alone, NON!, Kings of Emotion: A Diverse Collection, Singles Collection 1, Wonderland, John Wayne's Dream, Beautiful People, See You / Perfect World, Driving to Damascus, Rarities VIII, Look Away, Fragile Thing (feat. Eddi Reader), Rarities IV, Rarities VI More
    Phonogram Records, Transatlantic Records
  8. 8
    Folk rock, Celtic rock
    Isle of Skye
    Capture the Heart, Hearthammer, Flower of the West, Wall Of China, Recovery, The Stamping Ground, The Cutter & The Clan, Heartland, Rhythm of My Heart, Tonder Festival 1999, Landscape Poets, Access All Areas Vol.7 (Runrig Live), Farewell Concert in Cologne, Play Gaelic, Transmitting Live, Amazing Things, The Big Wheel, Alba: The Best of Runrig, BBC Session and Live at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow '96, Once In A Lifetime, Everything You See, Long Distance, Access All Areas, Volume 3, Mara, Searchlight, Scotland's Pride - Runrig's Best, Scotland's Glory/Runrig's Ballads, Things That Are, Song of the Earth, The Greatest Flame, In Search of Angels, Access All Areas, Volume 2, Proterra, Wonderful, Day of Days: The 30th Anniversary Concert, Year of the Flood, Live at Celtic Connections 2000, Live 1999 in Hamburg, An Ubhal as Àirde (The Highest Apple), The Collection, Beat the Drum, Hit Collection, 50 Great Songs, Book of Golden Stories, Long Distance: The Best of Runrig, Long Distance: The Best of Runrig, Access All Areas Vol.5 (Runrig Live), Stepping Down the Glory Road, The Highland Connection, 30 Year Journey: The Best, Access All Areas, Volume 9, The Gaelic Collection, Runrig - Access All Areas Vol.10 (Runrig Live), The Runrig Collection, Access All Areas Vol.1 - Runrig live More
    Chrysalis Records
  9. 9
    Heavy metal, Thrash metal, Speed metal, Progressive metal, Christian metal More
    United States of America
    Camelot-in-Smithereens, Live At Cornerstone 2001, Deliverance, Stay of Execution, River Disturbance, Greetings of Death, Etc, Classic Archive, Intense Live Series, Volume 1, Learn, The Executioner, Back In the Day: The First Four Years, A Decade of..., What a Joke, Assimilation, Weapons of Our Warfare, As Above - So Below More
  10. 10

    Geoff Mann

    Solo Live + Demos, Peace Offering, Loud Symbols, Recorded Delivery, In One Era..., Ministry of the Interior, Second Chants, I May Sing Grace More
  11. 11

    This Picture

    Alternative rock
    Stronger Than Life Itself, Naked Rain, Highrise, City of Sin, A Violent Impression, Step Up, With You I Can Never Win, Hands on My Soul More
    RCA Records, Rough Trade Records
  12. 12
    Symphonic metal, Christian rock, Christian metal, Gothic metal, Neo-classical metal More
    Los Angeles
    Live in Deutschland 2002, Legend, Part II, Legend III:I, Rarities / Revelations, Live in Deutschland, Legand, Part III:I, Legend, Part III:I, Rarities / Revelations, Saviour Machine II, Saviour Machine I, Legend, Part I, Behold a Pale Horse More
  13. 13
    Heavy metal, Progressive metal
    Houston
    Galactic Cowboys, The Horse That Bud Bought, Feel the Rage, Let It Go, At the End of the Day, Machine Fish, Space In Your Face More
    Geffen Records, Metal Blade Records
  14. 14
    Rock music, Hard rock, Progressive rock, Classic rock
    Boston
    I Need Your Love, Rock and Roll Band, Don't Look Back, Boston, More Than a Feeling, More Than a Feeling, Greatest Hits, Walk On, Third Stage, Can'tcha Say (You Believe in Me), Corporate America, Greatest Hits More
    MCA Records, Epic Records, Music Corporation of America, Artemis Records More
  15. 15
    Heavy metal, Power metal, Progressive metal
    Deliver Us, Rock the Foe Hammer, Deliver Us, Best of Warlord, And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun..., Warlord, Rising Out of the Ashes More
    Metal Blade Records, Drakkar Entertainment
  16. 16
    Progressive rock, Celtic music
    England
    The River Flows: Anthology, Volume 1, Open Sky, Journey Into the Morn, The Book of Kells, Live in London, Iona, Live: Heaven's Bright Sun, Beyond These Shores, The Circling Hour, Iona, Live in London, Woven Cord, Treasures: The Very Best, Another Realm, Treasures More
    Word Records, What Records, Open Sky Records
  17. 17
    Heavy metal, Thrash metal, Symphonic metal, Progressive metal, Christian metal, Avant garde metal, Neo-classical metal More
    Colebrook Township
    Transhuman, Dimensions, Sanity Obscure, Extraction From Mortality, Gabriel, The Return More
    R.E.X. Records, Roadrunner Records, Metal Blade Records
  18. 18
    Doom metal, Thrash metal, Death metal
    Halesowen
    The Dust of Years, The Torment, Lament for the Weary
    Music For Nations
  19. 19

    Picture House

    Rock music, Pop music, Power pop
    Dublin
    Probably, Shine Box
  20. 20
    Progressive metal
    England
    Extinct Instinct, Wireless: Acoustic Sessions, Wounded Land, Decadent, Critical Mass, Psychedelicatessen, Supermassive Black Hole, Pressure, The Best of Threshold: The Ravages of Time, Surface to Stage, Replica, Hypothetical, Paradox: The Singles Collection, Wireless, Dead Reckoning, Clone, Pilot in the Sky of Dreams, Livedelica, Subsurface, Critical Energy, Concert in Paris, Critical Mass More
    Nuclear Blast, InsideOut Music
  21. 21
    Heavy metal, Thrash metal, Speed metal, Crossover thrash
    Los Angeles, Orange County
    El rostro de la muerte, Raging Violence, El Rostro de la Muerte, Metal Massacre, Volume 3, Noise Chaos War, The New Age of Terror, Chaos and Brutality, Hate, Fear and Power, Raging Violence, Not Dead Yet, The New Age of Terror, Blasted in Bangkok, Assassins of War, Hate, Fear and Power, Barrage of Noise More
  22. 22
    Heavy metal, Thrash metal, Speed metal, Power metal, Progressive metal, Christian metal, Neo-classical metal More
    Los Angeles
    Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm, Carry the Wounded, Ocular Digital, Where Moth and Rust Destroy, The Collected Works of Tourniquet, Intense Live Series, Volume 2, Crawl to China, Intense Live Series, Vol. 2, Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance, Acoustic Archives, Circadian Rhythms - The Drumming World of Ted Kirkpatrick, Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance, Vanishing Lessons, Till Sverige Med Kärlek, Psycho Surgery, Stop the Bleeding, Psychosurgery, Stop the Bleeding, Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance More
    Metal Blade Records, Intense Records, Benson Records
  23. 23
    Progressive rock, Neo-progressive rock
    England
    Collectors Item, Art & Illusion, Fact and Fiction, Art & Illusion: The Definitive Edition, Night Vision: Art & Illusion Tour 1984, Corner of the World, Live and Let Live, Smiling at Grief... Live, Live From London, Voices in the Night, Live at the Target, MMX, Live at the Target, Early Material, Fact and Fiction, XII, Reading Rock '83, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Entropy, Flashbacks, Skan, Smiling at Grief, The First Tape Album, Twelfth Night XII More
  24. 24

    Mike Peters

    Rock music
    Abbey Road Sessions, Acoustic Works 1981-1986, Breathe, The Millennium Gathering, Feel Free, Second Generation Volume 1, Flesh and Blood, Collected Works, Rise More
  25. 25
    Rock music, New Wave, Christian rock, Christian punk
    Sacramento
    Sticks and Stones, Tom Tom Blues, Ping Pong Over the Abyss, All Fall Down, 77's, Eighty Eight, Pray Naked, Drowning With Land in Sight, Echos O' Faith, EP, When Numbers Get Serious, A Golden Field of Radioactive Crows, Direct, A Golden Field of Radioactive Crows: Radioactive Singles, Late, Holy Ghost Building, More Miserable Than You'll Ever Be More
    Myrrh Records, Galaxy21 Music, Broken Records, Island Records, Fools of the World, Brainstorm Artists International, Exit Records, Lo-Fidelity Records More

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