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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
· Cathedral· Opeth
· Slipknot· BloodDuster
· Exmortem· Disturbed
· Neck· Deranged
· Kalibas· Nazareth
· Mark Boals· Steel Attack
· Mortician· Ravage
· Crematorium· Wizard
· Dr. Butcher· Valley's Eve
· Johnny Lokke· Pyn Siren
· The Chainsaw· Exawatt
· Nicta· Paragon
· Fireball Ministry· Mourning Beloveth
· Rage· Victory
· King Diamond· Dream Weaver
· Crystal Eyes· Sludge!
· Duke· Pink Cream 69
· Whitesnake· Defiled
· Probot· Brides of Destruction
· Volbeat· Soil
· I Hate Sally· Silver Mountain
· Drowning Pool· Gothic Knights
· Riot· Freakhouse
· Kingcrow· Epica
· Graveland· Skyfire
· Joe Lynn Turner· Bonfire
· After Forever· Black Destiny
· Metal Church· Shadows Fall
· Aina· Nashville Pussy
· Z02· Jungle Rot
· Internal Bleeding· Acheron
· Tristania· Betrayer
· Paradise Lost· Image
· Miles Beyond· Belef
· Soilwork· Korpiklaani
· Tarot· Angtoria
· John Sykes· Cemetary
· Kaamos· Severe Torture
· Boomerang· Strapping Young Lad
· Thunderblast· Babylon
· Grand Magus· Slumber
· Groundcrew· Defleshed
· Slough Feg· Fates Warning
· Agents Of The Sun· The Scourger
· Painmuseum· To The Bone
· Dragonia· Monster Magnet
· Forever Slave· Twilight
· Avenged Sevenfold· Ewigkeit
· The Absence· Phantom X
· Dechrist· Mistress
· Overmars· Urizen
· The Tenth Circle· Dogs Of Winter
· Absu· Early Man
· Insense· From This Day
· Enforsaken· Witchery
· Upwards of Endtime· Steep
· The Berzerker· Vore
· Manngard· The Smackdown
· Warrant (Amer)· Pyramaze
· Cavalar· Nicodemus
· Royal Hunt· Before Silence
· Gorgoroth· Nachtmystium
· Ynis Vitrin· The Ruins of Beverast
· Setherial· Myon
· Amputated· Zoroaster
· Biolich· The Showdown
· Twisted Into Form· The Gathering
· Melechesh· Southern Gentleman
· Throne of Katarsis· Mindgrinder
· Necrophobic· Cattle Decapitation
· Chrome Division· Textures
· Aborted· David Galas
· The Wonderfools· Randy Ellefson
· Himsa· Hellveto
· Depressed Mode· Ensiferum
· Hell N' Diesel· Shining Star
· Jesus Martyr· Trivium
· Vulture Industries· Equilibrium
· Mar De Grises· Bible Of The Devil
· Something Beautiful· Crown The Lost