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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
· HammerFall· The Kovenant
· Racer X· Carpathian Forest
· Poisonblack· Solemnity
· Impellitteri· December
· Machine Head· Skullview
· Kalibas· Solace
· Queensryche· Circle II Circle
· Usurper· Vaginal Carnage
· Steel Attack· Lamb of God
· Wizard· Angel Dust
· God Dethroned· Cage
· Pyn Siren· Brainstorm
· Iced Earth· Rage
· Sinergy· Thunderstone
· Drillpoint· Wicked Sensation
· Defiled· Probot
· Out of the Lair· Iron Savior
· Soul Reaper· Dew Scented
· Yngwie Malmsteen· Drowning Pool
· Jaw· Leash Law
· Cans· Metalium
· U.D.O.· Spiral Madness
· Destructor· After Forever
· Black Destiny· Metal Church
· Dio· Aina
· Medusa· Scavenger
· Internal Bleeding· Neurosis
· Six Feet Under· Haunted By Angels
· Avenue F· Cryme
· John Oliva's Pain· Scenteria
· Kings X· Lost Soul
· Belef· Crionics
· Kamelot· Maze Of Torment
· Soilwork· Seige of Hate
· Backyard Babies· John Sykes
· Diecast· Crimson Moonlight
· Pure Inc· Axis Of Perdition
· Axel Rudi Pell· Swallow The Sun
· Ignitor· Burden Of Grief
· Throes of Dawn· Biss
· Embraze· Mirador
· Graveworm· Naglfar
· Amorphis· Brand New Sin
· Ektomorf· Sentenced
· Kult ov Azazel· Frameless Scar
· Power Quest· Nightvision
· Flotsam & Jetsam· Painmuseum
· To The Bone· Peccatum
· Redemption· V:28
· Crystal Fate· Ignarus
· Phantom X· Dechrist
· Asrai· Chain Collector
· The Classic Struggle· Celebratum
· Gorefest· Machina
· Taunusheim· Southern Black Sand
· Codeon· Fields Of The Nephilim
· Hell-Born· The Ocean
· Ampast· Candlemass
· Apiary· Cult of Luna
· Gorgoroth· She Said Destroy
· Amon Amarth· Scary Manilow
· Wednesday 13· Zero Hour
· Pretty Maids· Myon
· Amputated· Zoroaster
· Satyricon· Lupara
· Deicide· Lecherous Nocturne
· Urkraft· Gaza
· Lost Eden· Terry Sullivan
· Throne of Katarsis· Manticore
· Necrophobic· Merciless Death
· Nagelfar· Almah
· Manes· Aborted
· Wuthering Heights· Malevolent Creation
· Fight· Randy Ellefson
· Architect· Cauldron
· Averse Sefira· Trivium
· Vulture Industries· Equilibrium
· Bullet For My Valentine· Alestorm
· The More I See· Iron Fire
· Place Of Skulls· Suspyre