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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· Into Eternity
· Nightwish· Vehemence
· Grave· Misery Index
· Poisonblack· Regurgitate
· Stratovarius· Cradle of Filth
· Twisted Tower Dire· Kalibas
· Overkill· Warhorse
· Vaginal Carnage· Advent
· Iron Maiden· Mortician
· Crematorium· Angel Dust
· Cage· Alchemy X
· Vyndykator· Led Zeppelin
· Endless Time· Agony Divine
· Iced Earth· Paragon
· Bloodbath· Sevendust
· Victory· Sludge!
· Duke· Eidolon
· Mnemic· Vhaldemar
· Silent Scythe· Murdercycle
· Pharaoh· Deivos
· Soul Reaper· Royal Anguish
· Fairyland· Neverland
· Yngwie Malmsteen· Celesty
· Exodus· Skyfire
· Metalium· Marillion
· Iron Angel· Cyst
· Joe Stump· Schenker/ Pattison Summit
· Lilitu· Shadows Fall
· Dio· Dark Age
· Tartharia· Witchburner
· Jackyl· Creed
· Betrayer· John Oliva's Pain
· Kinetic· Blood Red Throne
· Kings X· Crionics
· Quiet Riot· Shatterpoint
· Yyrkoon· Vicious Circle
· Strikelight· Chuck Schuldiner
· Cemetary· Argument Soul
· Kaamos· Derek Sherinian
· Omegalord· Meshuggah
· Babylon· Slumber
· Pro-Pain· Agents Of Man
· Sothis· Unshine
· Voyager· Nuse
· Ritual Killer· Fates Warning
· Love Forsaken· Impaled Nazarene
· Havochate· A Lower Deep
· Dirty Americans· 1349
· Forever Slave· Arthemis
· Overmars· Skullshifter
· Zero Down· Torture Killer
· Detonation· Machina
· From This Day· Totalisti
· Tandjent· Cannibal Corpse
· Poison· Beyond Fear
· Hell-Born· Steep
· Bal-Sagoth· Vreid
· Cataract· Dream Or Nightmare
· Bludgeon· Non-Human Level
· Dawn of Azazel· Psycroptic
· Sahg· I
· Battle Bratt· Semargl
· Rotting Christ· Lupara
· Obtest· Lecherous Nocturne
· Handful of Hate· Hardcore Superstar
· Lost Eden· With Passion
· Onslaught· Battered
· Omnium Gatherum· Mindgrinder
· Almah· Satariel
· Five Finger Death Punch· Katrina Johansson
· Since the Day· Denial Fiend
· Trenchfoot· JR Ewing
· Nation Beyond· Faith And Fire
· Keldian· Heresi
· Night Ranger· Mass Extinction
· Dantesco· Glenn Hughes
· Bilocate· Jesus Martyr
· Trivium· Armory
· Virgin Black· Celestia
· Papa Roach· Ihsahn
· Battleroar· Suffocation
· Earthen Grave