For example, a band like Joy Division. Two masterpiece albums in the form of Unknown Pleasures and Closer, and the untimely death of Ian Curtis cut it all short. They were even heading into the direction that New Order eventually went in, and it would have been interesting to see what Ian Curtis would have done if they fully made the leap into electronic music while he was still alive.
Sugarcult.
They never got the same amount of recognition as other SoCal pop punk acts from the same era. Likely because Start Static was a phenomenal debut album, but the next (and last) two they followed it up with were kinda shit. Memory and Dead Living were the only two good songs that came out of Palm Trees And Power Lines and Lights Out respectively - and it’s no surprise they fell off the face of the planet.
Would love to see them record a new album.
I would’ve also said The Higher but they got back together recently and put out this banger.
The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
Their second album, Rise of the Eagles is amazing, but their lead guitarist left, they didn’t make an album for another 7 years, and by then, it was too late :/
I also like The Cooper Temple Clause, but their third album after the bassist (Didz Hammond) left to do other stuff was shit, with a couple of decent tracks. Then they broke up.
Power Trip :( Fuck fentanyl, man. PT so perfectly encompassed 80s thrash metal and were absolutely electric live. Lucky to have a few amazing albums from them, but I’m sad we’ll never get more.
Device.
This was a group that consisted of David Draiman from Disturbed and Geno Lenardo who is a former guitarist from Filter. Only one album was released in the entire discography and the project lasted 2 years. It was a nice breakaway to hear David branch out from Disturbed to see what else he can do and I wished more albums was released. It could’ve been an industrial supergroup.
Not a band, but Chris Cornell …Temple of the dog, Soundgarden, Audioslave…
