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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
· HammerFall· Steel Prophet
· Vehemence· Vicious Mary
· Misery Index· Dokken
· Perzonal War· Anthrax
· Ring of Fire· Advent
· Powergod· Valley's Eve
· Black Label Society· Tungsten
· Evolution· Iced Earth
· Paragon· Chainsnap
· Rage· Victory
· Lanfear· Evanesce
· Rob Rock· Sinergy
· Beautiful Creatures· Eidolon
· Windseeker· Attacker
· Murdercycle· Edguy
· DevilDriver· Slayer
· Wicked Sensation· Lacuna Coil
· Defiled· Probot
· Fairyland· Force Of Evil
· Black Stone Cherry· Cryonic Temple
· downBleed· Messiah's Kiss
· David Shankle Group· Dragonspoon
· Bonfire· Vox Tempus
· Lilitu· Metal Church
· Images of Eden· Theocracy
· Eternal Flight· Z02
· Necrodemon· Slowlife
· House of Shakira· Neurosis
· Witchburner· Agnostic Front
· Trans-Siberian Orchestra· The 7 Method
· Avenue F· Cryme
· Sonata Arctica· Kinetic
· Ligeia· Astral Doors
· Heartcry· Soulscar
· Carina Alfie· Antares
· Kaamos· Severe Torture
· God Fear None· Boomerang
· Frantic Bleep· Chastain
· Debris Inc.· Nightrage
· Biss· Disbelief
· Groundcrew· God Among Insects
· Taake· Evemaster
· Prowler Inc.· Gemini 5
· Nightvision· Wetwork
· Impaled Nazarene· Agents Of The Sun
· A Lower Deep· Lake Of Tears
· Black Majesty· Dragonia
· Violent Storm· The Firstborn
· Algol3· Running Wild
· Avenged Sevenfold· The Absence
· Wolfmother· Mastermind
· Skullshifter· The Classic Struggle
· Bronx Casket Company· Zero Down
· Khold· Vanquished
· Beecher· End of Level Boss
· Sodom· Second Shadow
· Katatonia· Tandjent
· Cardinale· Thyrane
· Nightmare· The Berzerker
· Firehouse· The Ocean
· Warrant (Amer)· Cataract
· Dream Or Nightmare· Ensoph
· She Said Destroy· Zero Hour
· Pump· Battle Bratt
· Amputated· Teeth of the Hydra
· Lordi· Audrey Horne
· Demise· Middian
· The Gathering· Fu Manchu
· Onslaught· Dezperadoz
· Divine Empire· Rob Zombie
· Retrospective· Wuthering Heights
· The Wonderfools· Hearse
· Depressed Mode· Cauldron
· Keldian· Pathosray
· Diamond Dogs· Heresi
· Night Ranger· Mass Extinction
· Pathology· Dantesco
· Averse Sefira· Orthodox
· Bilocate· Mortiis
· Jesus Martyr· Hacksaw Surgery
· Iron Fire· Kiuas
· Sin· UFOmammut
· Something Beautiful· Sotajumala
· Dark Castle