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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...

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RANDOM ACTS OF METAL
· Bathory· Cave In
· LA Guns· Nightwish
· The Haunted· Carpathian Forest
· Impellitteri· December
· Deranged· Twisted Tower Dire
· Norma Jean· Queensryche
· Fozzy· Mortician
· Legend· Manowar
· Valley's Eve· October 31
· Brainstorm· Catch 22
· SelfInflicted· Thunderbolt
· Stryper· Tad Morose
· Hypocrisy· Edguy
· Slayer· Doro
· Volbeat· Force Of Evil
· Construcdead· Ebony Ark
· Leash Law· Gamma Ray
· Dimmu Borgir· De Lirium's Order
· Fabrizio Bonanno· Goatsnake
· Metal Church· Katagory V
· Annihilator· Necrodemon
· Internal Bleeding· Slowlife
· Neurosis· GWAR
· Throcult· Within Temptation
· Acheron· The 7 Method
· Karmakanic· Betrayer
· Paradise Lost· Ligeia
· Audiovision· Corrosion Of Conformity
· Maze Of Torment· Dirt
· Korpiklaani· Apocalyptica
· Samael· Antares
· Frantic Bleep· Soul SirkUS
· Chastain· Kryoburn
· Kinrick· Ramesses
· Raintime· Throes of Dawn
· Def Leppard· Hatesphere
· Embraze· Manntis
· Python· Slough Feg
· Dark Funeral· Circus Maximus
· Slik Helvetika· Power Quest
· Holy Blood· Morgana Lefay
· Iron Maidens· Redemption
· Black Majesty· Orphaned Land
· Ignarus· Mabon
· Shattersphere· Vinterriket
· The Absence· Overmars
· Vile· Infliction
· Define Divine· Decapitated
· Early Man· Grimfist
· Witchery· Sepultura
· Codeon· Scum
· Leviathan/Sapthuran· Moonspell
· Valhalla· Manngard
· Phoenix Mourning· Bal-Sagoth
· Vreid· Speed/Kill/Hate
· Abysmal Dawn· Michael Orlando
· Before Silence· Jotunspor
· Azure· Space Odyssey
· Dendura· Time Requiem
· Warface· From the Grave
· Shadows Within· Vicious Rumors
· Jeff Walker und Die Fluffers· Belphegor
· Wastefall· Thy Majestie
· Isis· Rotting Christ
· Satyricon· Twinball
· Lesbian Bed Death· Sathanas
· E-lane· Escape The Fate
· Extium· Quest of Aidance
· The Gathering· Onslaught
· Mindgrinder· Dezperadoz
· Cruachan· Grenouer
· Marc Sasso· Satariel
· Mithras· Divine Empire
· Transmission 0· Retrospective
· Kruger· David Galas
· Funeral· Fight
· Randy Ellefson· Pathosray
· Dantesco· Orthodox
· Shining Star· Ost Est Ima
· Father Befouled· Blood Haven
· Kreator· Equilibrium
· Virgin Black· Son of Eric
· Sin· Eighteen Wheels Burning
· My Dying Bride