Heavy Metal Gems
Heavy Metal Gems: The Best Hard ‘n’ Heavy Tracks You Have Not Heard – 01.2026
Here is a list of songs you should know, but probably don’t.
The list contains overlooked gems of hard rock and heavy metal that deserved to be better known and propel their composers and performers to bigger profiles.
Each of these 13 songs signalled the talent and expertise to craft heavy metal that is deserving of a larger profile and accolade for the bands and composers responsible, yet instead remained underground and relatively unknown!
Explore these unsung anthems and rediscover the raw power, melody and creativity that defined the golden age of heavy metal.
- Warning: Rock City (1982)
- Torch: Warlock (1983)
- Spitfire: Eyes Of Storm (1984)
- Ruthless: Metal Without Mercy (1984)
- Faithful Breath: King Of The Rock (1984)
- Griffin: Heavy Metal Attack (1984)
- Glacier: Vendetta (1985)
- Blacklace: Speed Of Sound (1985)
- Blessed Death: Blessed Death (1985)
- Excess: Foreign Lands (1986)
- Eliza: Scorpion (1986)
- Sacred Blade: IC Eyez (1988)
- Saber Tiger: Misery (1992)
Track these songs down, turn on the record player and rediscover the sheer power of metal’s forgotten era.
