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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
· Anvil· Demons and Wizards
· HammerFall· Leng Tch'e
· Scanner· Children Of Bodom
· Big Dumb Face· Carpathian Forest
· Mondo Generator· Dokken
· Disturbed· Neck
· Kalibas· Dirty Power
· Nazareth· Vaginal Carnage
· Sickspeed· God Dethroned
· Alchemy X· Vyndykator
· Led Zeppelin· Pelican
· Black Sabbath· Saint
· Paragon· Inner Rage of Emotion
· Biomechanical· Bloodbath
· Thunderbolt· Artension
· The Graveyard Boulevard· Lanfear
· Malstrom· Nordheim
· Guardians Of Time· Mnemic
· Hypocrisy· Edguy
· Wicked Sensation· Lacuna Coil
· Brides of Destruction· Body Count
· Three Inches of Blood· Superchrist
· Evanescence· downBleed
· Deep Purple· Donnerkopf
· Metalium· Low Earth Orbit
· Jorn· Judas Priest
· Black Zodiac· Spiral Madness
· Mob Rules· Bonfire
· Dio· Beaten Back To Pure
· Occult· Dark Age
· Megadeth· Annihilator
· Polterchrist· Chris Caffery
· Jamie. St. James· Throcult
· Dark Ruin· Conquestador
· Haunted By Angels· Within Temptation
· Agnostic Front· Mirror of Deception
· Made of Iron· Angra
· Legion· Gods Of Fire
· The Apocalyptic Riders· Korpiklaani
· Necrophagia· Labyrinth
· Sabaton· Vicious Circle
· Strikelight· Apocalyptica
· Darkthrone· Argument Soul
· Boomerang· Bleed The Sky
· Frantic Bleep· Kryoburn
· Strapping Young Lad· Slumber
· Green Carnation· Groundcrew
· Manntis· God Among Insects
· Voyager· Leaves Eyes
· Cannon· Edenbridge
· Flotsam & Jetsam· Peccatum
· Orphaned Land· Before The Dawn
· Winterfell· Overloaded
· 1349· Running Wild
· Savage Circus· Ewigkeit
· Gojira· The Tenth Circle
· Grimfist· Nobody's Fool
· Craft· Fallen Wisdom
· Pile of Heads· Second Shadow
· Totalisti· Lair Of The Minotaur
· Wolves in the Throne Room· Cryptopsy
· Bal-Sagoth· Imagika
· Down Factor· Bludgeon
· Hate Profile· Stormcrow
· The Furor· The Strongest Proof
· TK-421· Black Crucifixion
· Royal Hunt· Jotunspor
· Suzukiton· Paul Bonrud
· Skid Row· Ynis Vitrin
· Fleshgore· Woodtemple
· Skyforger· Anata
· The Finals· Thy Majestie
· Isis· Mastodon
· Cult of Daath· Lupara
· Lesbian Bed Death· Obtest
· The Showdown· Middian
· Battered· Static-X
· Dezperadoz· Grenouer
· White Willow· Spit Like This
· Since the Day· Warner Drive
· Wuthering Heights· Architect
· Hellveto· Cauldron
· Pathology· Bilocate
· Blood Haven· Puscifer
· Virgin Black· The More I See
· Faded Hope· Earthen Grave