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25 Albums We Love That You May Have Missed!
7/31/2015 5:49:57 PM by Frank Hill





There is a vast amount of hard rock and heavy metal bands releasing albums every year. A decade ago, we roughly estimated that there were somewhere in the range of 150,000 of those bands across the world. The Encyclopaedia Metallum website has almost 85,000 reviews alone. So many groups over time have released as little as one record before they disappeared like the fading notes of a concert encore.

With today's widely-available digital technology, more and more bands are able to put out music themselves and who knows exactly how many albums have been released since metal's inception 46 years ago.

We've put our collective writer heads together into a beastly hydra and dug through the mountains of metal we own for a special "25 Albums We Love That You May Have Missed" list.

These are the personal gems we've unearthed...

See our Maximum Metal list here: [Full Column Link]


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RANDOM ACTS OF METAL
· Loudness· Steel Prophet
· Twilight Odyssey· Immolation
· Exmortem· Rebellion
· Neck· Narziß
· Twisted Tower Dire· Skullview
· Mark Boals· Liege Lord
· Sickspeed· Dr. Butcher
· Alchemy X· Johnny Lokke
· Dragonforce· Rage
· King Diamond· Mnemic
· Tad Morose· Vhaldemar
· Windseeker· Thunderstone
· Tesla· Shiva
· Yngwie Malmsteen· Cryonic Temple
· Scala Mercalli· downBleed
· Skyfire· Gary Moore
· Juggernott· Acrid
· Krokus· Insomnium
· Chapter VIII· Scorpions
· Unleashed· Imp
· Wintersun· Potential Threat SF
· Occult· Marshall Law
· Jungle Rot· Ironhorse
· Made of Iron· Seventh One
· Angra· Twisted Sister
· Tristania· Crowbar
· Ligeia· Lost Soul
· Seige of Hate· Quiet Riot
· Labyrinth· Strikelight
· Desire Black· Mystic Prophecy
· John Sykes· the missing:
· Alex Skolnick Trio· God Fear None
· Kryoburn· Strapping Young Lad
· Gizmachi· Impiety
· Throes of Dawn· Disbelief
· Naglfar· Amorphis
· Vicious Art· Slough Feg
· Dynamic Lights· Secrets She Kept
· Nuse· Slik Helvetika
· Gemini 5· Cannon
· Fates Warning· Love Forsaken
· Impaled Nazarene· Holy Blood
· Flotsam & Jetsam· Octavia Sperati
· Future is Tomorrow· Mercyful Fate
· Peccatum· Eternal Reign
· Barcode· Algol3
· Running Wild· Ewigkeit
· Mistress· Akercocke
· Infliction· Zero Down
· Virgin Steele· Vanquished
· Sodom· Nobody's Fool
· Brother Hawk· Pile of Heads
· Totalisti· Across Tundras
· Katatonia· Cardinale
· Dissection· Moonspell
· Cavalar· Abysmal Dawn
· Before Silence· Cult of Luna
· Vengeance· She Said Destroy
· Skid Row· Burialmound
· Hurt· Jeff Walker und Die Fluffers
· Anata· The Abominable Iron Sloth
· The Showdown· Winger
· Cheva· Middian
· Celtic Frost· Handful of Hate
· Omnium Gatherum· Throne of Katarsis
· Manticore· Cruachan
· Pantera· Rob Zombie
· Since the Day· Wuthering Heights
· Trenchfoot· Lipstick Magazine
· The Wonderfools· Sworn Enemy
· Keldian· Night Ranger
· Cockpit· Rosetta
· Manilla Road· Puscifer
· Embalming Theatre· Godhead
· Equilibrium· Bible Of The Devil
· Alestorm· Faded Hope
· Uli Jon Roth· Dark Castle