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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
· Bathory· Steel Prophet
· The Great Deceiver· Vicious Mary
· Goatwhore· Twisted Tower Dire
· Machine Head· Skullview
· Solace· Queensryche
· Usurper· Mortician
· Crematorium· Masterplan
· Alchemy X· Conquest
· Johnny Lokke· Goat Horn
· Tungsten· Nicta
· Iced Earth· Bloodbath
· Artension· Lanfear
· Evanesce· Krisiun
· Primal Fear· Out of the Lair
· Secret Sphere· Soul Reaper
· Doro· Royal Anguish
· Fear Factory· I Hate Sally
· Killik· Superchrist
· UFO· Bleeding Inc
· Epica· Metalium
· Velvet Revolver· Marillion
· Ministry· Cyst
· Joe Stump· De Lirium's Order
· Therion· Insomnium
· Scorpions· Metal Church
· Occult· Dark Age
· Theocracy· Scavenger
· Chris Caffery· Slowlife
· House of Shakira· Neurosis
· Dark Ruin· Overlorde
· Trans-Siberian Orchestra· Triumph
· John Oliva's Pain· Fifth Cross
· Legion· Of Infinity
· Image· Ligeia
· Audiovision· Labyrinth
· Sabaton· Vicious Circle
· Mechanical Poet· Chuck Schuldiner
· Kaamos· Novembers Doom
· System Of A Down· Gizmachi
· Slumber· Defleshed
· Graveworm· Subterranean Masquerade
· Taake· Prowler Inc.
· Supagroup· Power Quest
· Alice Cooper· Flotsam & Jetsam
· Octavia Sperati· Future is Tomorrow
· Peccatum· Redemption
· Russell Allen· Dirty Americans
· Winterfell· Dechrist
· Crystal Ball· Dreamland
· Doomfoxx· Gojira
· Define Divine· Midnight Idols
· Absu· Vader
· End of Level Boss· Witchery
· Tandjent· Cannibal Corpse
· Poison· Lair Of The Minotaur
· The Berzerker· Moonspell
· Stormcrow· The Strongest Proof
· Non-Human Level· Theater of Tragedy
· Before Silence· Smohalla
· Destruction· Sahg
· Setherial· Oblomov
· Zoroaster· Isis
· Rotting Christ· Twinball
· Venom· Sathanas
· Middian· Celtic Frost
· Lecherous Nocturne· Quest of Aidance
· Diagnose: Lebensgefahr· Southern Gentleman
· Battered· Nagelfar
· White Willow· Textures
· Divine Empire· Warner Drive
· Hell N' Diesel· Keldian
· Mongrel· Averse Sefira
· Bilocate· Deceiver
· Jesus Martyr· Blood Haven
· Burzum· Vulture Industries
· Hacksaw Surgery· The Lamp of Thoth
· Bullet For My Valentine· Alestorm
· Iron Fire· End of Man
· Winterfylleth· Something Beautiful
· Giant Squid