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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· Leng Tch'e
· Twilight Odyssey· Big Dumb Face
· Poisonblack· Tiamat
· Neck· Anthrax
· Majesty· Mark Boals
· Usurper· Vaginal Carnage
· Rawhead Rexx· Liege Lord
· Widowmaker· Masterplan
· Firewind· Powergod
· Power of Omens· Cage
· H.I.M.· Tungsten
· Agony Divine· Catch 22
· SelfInflicted· Godiva
· Dragonforce· Chainsnap
· Lanfear· Vhaldemar
· Silent Scythe· Windseeker
· Attacker· Hypocrisy
· Edguy· Defiled
· Asperity· Out of the Lair
· Silver Mountain· Riot
· Babylon Mystery Orchestra· Ebony Ark
· Bang The Union· UFO
· Madison Paige· Skyfire
· Gamma Ray· Black Zodiac
· Juggernott· Lilitu
· Final Dawn· Aina
· Tearabyte· Katagory V
· Division· Age Of Silence
· I.C.E.· Valume Nob
· Necrodemon· Slowlife
· GWAR· The Lizards
· Anger· The 7 Method
· Code Black· Bloody Sign
· Ligeia· Divine Fire
· Veni Domine· Heartcry
· Hellfire· Icarus Witch
· Apocalyptica· Marduk
· Severe Torture· Oathean
· Alex Skolnick Trio· Novembers Doom
· Derek Sherinian· Soul SirkUS
· Holy Moses· Kryoburn
· Ignitor· Ramesses
· Fastkill· Throes of Dawn
· Hatesphere· Mirador
· Python· Communic
· Testament· Devil Lee Rot
· Edenbridge· Blitzkrieg
· Future is Tomorrow· Illuminatus
· Black Majesty· Orphaned Land
· Crystal Fate· Ignarus
· Forever Slave· Algol3
· Shattersphere· Phantom X
· Dechrist· Akercocke
· Ram-Zet· Nocturnal Rites
· Hate· Beecher
· Sodom· Nobody's Fool
· Brother Hawk· Cannibal Corpse
· Thyrane· Scum
· Steep· Firehouse
· Tris Katone· Degree Absolute
· Cavalar· Candlemass
· Dream Or Nightmare· Bludgeon
· TK-421· Ensoph
· Black Crucifixion· Michael Orlando
· Psycroptic· Time Requiem
· Mouth of the Architect· Amputated
· Eighteen Visions· Twinball
· Biolich· Lupara
· The Showdown· Cheva
· Middian· Phazm
· With Passion· Onslaught
· Pantera· Five Finger Death Punch
· Wuthering Heights· JR Ewing
· Funeral· Hearse
· Nation Beyond· Sworn Enemy
· Architect· Depressed Mode
· Spheric Universe Experience· Mass Extinction
· Dantesco· Alkemyst
· Bilocate· Deceiver
· Aetherius Obscuritas· Souls Of We
· Equilibrium· Medieval Steel
· Bible Of The Devil· Sin
· DC4