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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
· Bathory· HammerFall
· Loudness· Opeth
· Big Dumb Face· Carpathian Forest
· Narziß· Impellitteri
· Twelfth Gate· Skullview
· Circle II Circle· Godflesh
· Vaginal Carnage· Steel Attack
· Liege Lord· Manowar
· Valley's Eve· Alchemy X
· Hammerwhore· Brainstorm
· Ion Vein· Exawatt
· Byfist· Iced Earth
· Paragon· Inner Rage of Emotion
· Biomechanical· Fireball Ministry
· Hypocrisy· Murdercycle
· Defiled· Three Inches of Blood
· Death Angel· Black Stone Cherry
· Celesty· Bleeding Inc
· Kingcrow· Outworld
· Edge Of Forever· Low Earth Orbit
· Gary Moore· Marillion
· Dragonspoon· Feinstein
· Destructor· Ungodly
· Vox Tempus· Unleashed
· Tearabyte· Otep
· Z02· Internal Bleeding
· Acheron· Blind Guardian
· Tsjuder· Azrael's Bane
· Code Black· Seige of Hate
· Astral Doors· Strikelight
· Mechanical Poet· Darkthrone
· Diecast· Meshuggah
· Magica· Operatika
· Ignitor· Raintime
· Burden Of Grief· Groundcrew
· Testament· Kult ov Azazel
· Slik Helvetika· Supagroup
· Ritual Killer· Gaia
· Thor· Fates Warning
· Devil Lee Rot· Love Forsaken
· Sheavy· Future is Tomorrow
· ASG· Overloaded
· Mabon· The Absence
· Paths Of Possession· Even X
· Cryogen· Dreamland
· Doomfoxx· Wolfmother
· Asrai· Celebratum
· Dragonlord· Torture Killer
· Gorefest· Detonation
· Absolution· Taunusheim
· Fallen Wisdom· Mental Care Foundation
· Thryfing· Naked Beggars
· Dissection· Clawfinger
· Degree Absolute· Vore
· The Smackdown· The Smashup
· Down Factor· The Furor
· Michael Orlando· Before Silence
· Smohalla· Space Odyssey
· Paul Bonrud· Scary Manilow
· Time Requiem· Battle Bratt
· Myon· Oblomov
· Thy Majestie· Semargl
· Cult of Daath· Better Left Unsaid
· Lecherous Nocturne· Blood Tsunami
· Melechesh· With Passion
· Battered· Omnium Gatherum
· Static-X· Lord Belial
· Cattle Decapitation· White Willow
· Pantera· Textures
· Mithras· The Prophecy
· Gotthard· Katrina Johansson
· Manes· Warner Drive
· Retrospective· Depressed Mode
· Mongrel· Night Ranger
· Averse Sefira· Shining Star
· 40 Below Summer· Aetherius Obscuritas
· Blood Haven· Embalming Theatre
· Virgin Black· The Lamp of Thoth
· Bullet For My Valentine· Mar De Grises
· End of Man· Luna Mortis
· Caliban· Uli Jon Roth
· Suspyre