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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
· Leng Tch'e· Slipknot
· Steel Prophet· Vicious Mary
· Twilight Odyssey· Big Dumb Face
· BloodDuster· Carpathian Forest
· Immolation· Exmortem
· Disturbed· Rebellion
· Narziß· Twelfth Gate
· December· Helloween
· Circle II Circle· Majesty
· Lamb of God· Sickspeed
· Manowar· Abigor
· Power of Omens· Valley's Eve
· Black Label Society· Carnal Forge
· Johnny Lokke· Brainstorm
· Supervillain· Bloodbath
· Curriculum Mortis· King Diamond
· Beautiful Creatures· Eidolon
· Tad Morose· Hypocrisy
· Slayer· Body Count
· Mother Misery· Exodus
· downBleed· Donnerkopf
· Edge Of Forever· Van Helsing’s Curse
· Velvet Revolver· U.D.O.
· Gary Moore· Black Zodiac
· Dragonspoon· De Lirium's Order
· Schenker/ Pattison Summit· Acrid
· Joe Lynn Turner· Fireaxe
· Insomnium· Ungodly
· Meliah Rage· Final Dawn
· Beaten Back To Pure· Katagory V
· Overlorde· Agnostic Front
· Made of Iron· Karmakanic
· Twisted Sister· Tristania
· Creed· Triumph
· Emerald Sun· Image
· Ligeia· Impaled
· Dirt· Yyrkoon
· Heartcry· Carina Alfie
· Diecast· Pure Inc
· Axel Rudi Pell· Soul SirkUS
· Throes of Dawn· Hatesphere
· Blind Stare· Sothis
· Darkane· Subterranean Masquerade
· Dark Funeral· Dynamic Lights
· Monolithe· Frameless Scar
· Thor· Resurrecturis
· A Lower Deep· Russell Allen
· Overloaded· Running Wild
· Ewigkeit· Vinterriket
· Balatonizer· Overmars
· Infliction· Define Divine
· Skullshifter· The Classic Struggle
· Sinocence· Bronx Casket Company
· Nocturnal Rites· Decapitated
· Insense· Brother Hawk
· Intronaut· Thyrane
· Leviathan/Sapthuran· The Ocean
· Dream Or Nightmare· Hirax
· Bludgeon· Non-Human Level
· Before Silence· Cult of Luna
· Destruction· Nachtmystium
· Warface· Shadows Within
· Vicious Rumors· I
· Hurt· Abominant
· Rotting Christ· Teeth of the Hydra
· Biolich· Lordi
· Middian· Deicide
· Lecherous Nocturne· Urkraft
· Handful of Hate· Blood Tsunami
· Stonegard· Terry Sullivan
· Lord Belial· Incrave
· Pentacle· Rob Zombie
· Denial Fiend· Malevolent Creation
· JR Ewing· Faith And Fire
· Keep of Kalessin· Ensiferum
· Pathology· Ride The Sky
· SOS· Moonshine
· Embalming Theatre· Equilibrium
· Place Of Skulls· Sin
· UFOmammut· Something Beautiful
· Mustasch· My Dying Bride
· Caliban