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RANDY HOLDEN, POPULATION II(recorded 1970, apparently never officially released, though bootlegs exist)
Randy Holden was the guy who left Blue Cheer because they weren't heavy enough, and his 1970 stoner-rock ur-text Population II was a sonic black hole: recorded with a Stonehenge stack of amplifiers, it was too dark, deep and dense to ever see release. Holden's definitive proto-metal statement of identity didn't even get a chance to fizzle, suffocating in company vaults until a years-later reissue—and even that was so sketchy that Holden almost didn't discover his own record was finally out.

K.M.D., BLACK BASTARDS(recorded 1993, released 2001)
Now-legendary metal-faced MF Doom was just Zev Love X when his first group K.M.D. recorded Black Bastards, an album that their label Elektra was too scared to release. The cover art—Sambo getting lynched—and fierce songs like "What a Niggy Know?" spooked the company execs, though Zev Love's agile flow and production landing somewhere between the best of Black Sheep and Buckwild would have made Bastards a textbook classic. Before a compromise—if one was possible—could be reached, Zev Love's brother and group member DJ Subroc was killed in a car accident. Zev Love retreated for years and resurfaced later with a mask and a new name, and Black Bastards—still unfinished after Subroc's death, though it doesn't suffer for it—wasn't released until eight years after it was recorded.