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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
· The Kovenant· Racer X
· The Haunted· Vehemence
· Children Of Bodom· Karaboudjan
· Dokken· Anthrax
· Impellitteri· Overkill
· Queensryche· Advent
· Iron Maiden· Liege Lord
· Widowmaker· Dark Moor
· Abigor· God Dethroned
· Alchemy X· Johnny Lokke
· Pyn Siren· Circle of Nero
· Supervillain· Shakra
· Paragon· Chainsnap
· Evanesce· Dream Weaver
· Guardians Of Time· Axenstar
· Duke· Eidolon
· Thunderstone· Out of the Lair
· Fairyland· Hard Echo
· Fear Factory· Shiva
· Scala Mercalli· Ebony Ark
· Messiah's Kiss· Madison Paige
· Bleeding Inc· Disarmonia Mundi
· Metalium· Dragonspoon
· Hatework· Juggernott
· Acrid· Krokus
· Therion· Imp
· Medusa· Otep
· Division· GWAR
· Tartharia· Throcult
· Witchburner· Six Feet Under
· Incantation· Haunted By Angels
· Negative Creeps· Agnostic Front
· Avenue F· Dark Tranquillity
· Sonata Arctica· Azrael's Bane
· Cradle To Grave· Crionics
· Maze Of Torment· Astral Doors
· Yyrkoon· Heartcry
· Soulscar· Nevermore
· Wolverine· Stormwarrior
· Omegalord· Magica
· Operatika· Neil Turbin
· Sinisthra· Raintime
· Burden Of Grief· Embraze
· Defleshed· Blind Stare
· Graveworm· Unchained
· Taake· Fates Warning
· Impaled Nazarene· Flotsam & Jetsam
· Illuminatus· Black Majesty
· Sun O)))· Avenged Sevenfold
· Ghost Machinery· Damnation
· Balatonizer· Thrones
· Doomfoxx· Vile
· Mastermind· Dismember
· Witchery· Tandjent
· Thyrane· Fields Of The Nephilim
· Daylight Dies· Hell-Born
· Steep· Bal-Sagoth
· Candlemass· Abysmal Dawn
· Suzukiton· Sahg
· Skid Row· From the Grave
· Death Breath· Pump
· Thy Majestie· Teeth of the Hydra
· Eighteen Visions· Biolich
· Venom· Sathanas
· Cheva· Extium
· Better Left Unsaid· The Gathering
· Threat Signal· Dream Theater
· Static-X· Marc Sasso
· White Wizzard· Passion
· Pentacle· Antigama
· Malevolent Creation· Randy Ellefson
· Sworn Enemy· Dantesco
· Ride The Sky· Mortiis
· Father Befouled· Demonic Symphony
· Trivium· Blood Haven
· Straight Line Stitch· Burzum
· Vulture Industries· Virgin Black
· Celestia· Sin
· Coffins· Eighteen Wheels Burning
· Crown The Lost· Giant Squid