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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
· Anvil· Demons and Wizards
· HammerFall· The Kovenant
· Opeth· The Great Deceiver
· Grave· Big Dumb Face
· Immolation· Karaboudjan
· Misery Index· Mondo Generator
· Tiamat· Anthrax
· December· Machine Head
· Dirty Power· Seven Witches
· Nazareth· Majesty
· Advent· Agoraphobic Nosebleed
· Masterplan· Firewind
· Metallica· Angel Dust
· Pelican· Circle of Nero
· Exawatt· Agony Divine
· Shakra· Catch 22
· Iced Earth· Bloodbath
· Thunderbolt· Morbid Angel
· Beautiful Creatures· Drillpoint
· Hard Echo· TNA
· Funerus· Jaw
· Deep Purple· Outworld
· Epica· Icon And The Black Roses
· Jorn· Ministry
· Cyst· Dimmu Borgir
· Chapter VIII· Killswitch Engage
· Rhapsody of Fire· Beaten Back To Pure
· Dark Age· Nashville Pussy
· Annihilator· Polterchrist
· Six Feet Under· Arch Enemy
· Made of Iron· Milkweed
· Bloody Sign· Divine Fire
· Entombed· Kamelot
· Soulscar· Apocalyptica
· Darkthrone· Omegalord
· Frantic Bleep· Gizmachi
· Fastkill· Throes of Dawn
· Defleshed· Rudra
· Raging Speedhorn· Graveworm
· Naglfar· Dynamic Lights
· Evemaster· Dam
· Alice Cooper· Cannon
· Edenbridge· Blitzkrieg
· Nuclear Assault· To The Bone
· Redemption· Illuminatus
· ASG· Ignarus
· Twilight· Third Degree
· Vinterriket· Phantom X
· Doomfoxx· Skullshifter
· God Forbid· Vanquished
· Absolution· End of Level Boss
· Grimfist· Enforsaken
· Pile of Heads· Totalisti
· Across Tundras· Cannibal Corpse
· Upwards of Endtime· Fields Of The Nephilim
· Hell-Born· Firehouse
· Manngard· Speed/Kill/Hate
· The Sword· Abysmal Dawn
· Swashbuckle· Ynis Vitrin
· Skyforger· Enochian Crescent
· Wastefall· Oblomov
· Semargl· Rotting Christ
· Venom· E-lane
· Starkweather· Kotipelto
· Steve Cone· Hardcore Superstar
· Onslaught· Throne of Katarsis
· Madking Ludwig· Old Man's Child
· Cattle Decapitation· White Wizzard
· Five Finger Death Punch· Since the Day
· Manes· Warner Drive
· Blut Aus Nord· Kruger
· Throneum· Fight
· Randy Ellefson· Pathosray
· Mass Extinction· Alkemyst
· Ride The Sky· Jesus Martyr
· Last Stone Cast· To-Mera
· Trinacria· Medieval Steel
· Uriah Heep· Iron Fire
· End of Man· UFOmammut
· Coffins· Winterfylleth
· Something Beautiful· Raven
· Dark Castle