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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
· Demons and Wizards· LA Guns
· Mudvayne· The Great Deceiver
· Vicious Mary· Neck
· Deranged· Usurper
· Advent· Rawhead Rexx
· Mortician· Crematorium
· Angel Dust· Powergod
· Late Nite Romeo· Dr. Butcher
· Vyndykator· Hammerwhore
· Tungsten· Byfist
· Iced Earth· Paragon
· Dragonforce· Stryper
· Pharaoh· Lacuna Coil
· Project: Failing Flesh· Soil
· Killik· Gothic Knights
· Exodus· Bleeding Inc
· Outworld· Van Helsing’s Curse
· Nova Lex· Jorn
· Iron Angel· Black Zodiac
· Dragonspoon· Estuary
· Dimmu Borgir· Joe Lynn Turner
· Fireaxe· Ungodly
· After Forever· Saxon
· Rhapsody of Fire· Megadeth
· Valume Nob· The Lizards
· Tsjuder· Kinetic
· Gods Of Fire· Helgrind
· The New Breed· The Mighty Nimbus
· Kings X· Tarot
· John Sykes· God Fear None
· Debris Inc.· Operatika
· Babylon· Throes of Dawn
· Biss· Rudra
· Brand New Sin· Communic
· Sentenced· Dynamic Lights
· Evemaster· Ritual Killer
· The Father Panic Riot Orchestra· Killing Spree
· Thor· Impaled Nazarene
· Nuclear Assault· Painmuseum
· Future is Tomorrow· Peccatum
· Black Majesty· Orphaned Land
· Dirty Americans· Casus Belli
· Ghost Machinery· Akercocke
· Spellbound· Avulsed
· Asrai· Detonation
· Nobody's Fool· Fallen Wisdom
· Katatonia· Cardinale
· Poison· Ephel Duath
· Cataract· Candlemass
· Down Factor· Nicodemus
· Bludgeon· Dreams of Damnation
· Jotunspor· Bloodbound
· Swashbuckle· Hydrogyn
· Dendura· Paul Bonrud
· The Ruins of Beverast· Setherial
· Enochian Crescent· Myon
· Isis· Sathanas
· Cheva· Extium
· Deicide· The Gathering
· Hardcore Superstar· Southern Gentleman
· Omnium Gatherum· Necrophobic
· Madking Ludwig· Crescent Shield
· Cruachan· Passion
· Hacride· Pentacle
· Tears· Wuthering Heights
· Funeral· Hearse
· Temple Of Blood· Ensiferum
· Cauldron· Diamond Dogs
· Heresi· Dantesco
· Bilocate· Father Befouled
· Pop Evil· Embalming Theatre
· Souls Of We· Bible Of The Devil
· Papa Roach· Coffins
· Battleroar· My Dying Bride
· Raven· Dark Castle