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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
· Demons and Wizards· HammerFall
· LA Guns· Leng Tch'e
· Steel Prophet· Karaboudjan
· Tiamat· Deceased
· Symphorce· Machine Head
· Dirty Power· Solace
· Queensryche· Advent
· Lamb of God· Widowmaker
· Sickspeed· Hammerwhore
· Black Sabbath· Shakra
· Biomechanical· Fireball Ministry
· The Graveyard Boulevard· Lanfear
· Dream Weaver· Malstrom
· Eidolon· Halloween
· Edguy· Body Count
· Secret Sphere· Iron Savior
· Royal Anguish· Fairyland
· Dreamaker· F5
· Fear Factory· I Hate Sally
· Yngwie Malmsteen· Funerus
· Construcdead· Exodus
· W.A.S.P.· Kingcrow
· Graveland· Icon And The Black Roses
· Donnerkopf· Metalium
· Velvet Revolver· Black Zodiac
· Brutal Mastication· Dimmu Borgir
· Fabrizio Bonanno· Destructor
· Acrid· Therion
· Fireaxe· Scorpions
· Bonfire· Saxon
· Age Of Silence· I.C.E.
· Jungle Rot· House of Shakira
· Tartharia· The Project Hate
· Haunted By Angels· Anger
· Seventh One· Angra
· Dark Tranquillity· Of Infinity
· Code Black· Crowbar
· Gods Of Fire· Audiovision
· Miles Beyond· Lost Soul
· Belef· Hellfueled
· Maze Of Torment· Astral Doors
· Hibria· Shatterpoint
· Vicious Circle· Mechanical Poet
· Angtoria· Mystic Prophecy
· Wolverine· Samael
· Chaoswave· Omegalord
· Lord Gore· Pro-Pain
· Embraze· Unshine
· Kult ov Azazel· Evemaster
· Sebastian Bach· Alice Cooper
· Morgana Lefay· Painmuseum
· Lake Of Tears· Armored Saint
· Winterfell· 1349
· Barcode· Third Degree
· Damnation· Spellbound
· Fallen Wisdom· Lair Of The Minotaur
· Beyond Fear· Wolves in the Throne Room
· Scum· Boris
· Cryptopsy· Cataract
· Candlemass· Down Factor
· Hirax· Dreams of Damnation
· Stormcrow· The Strongest Proof
· Apiary· Sun Descends
· Ensoph· Royal Hunt
· Swashbuckle· Zero Hour
· Death Breath· Teeth of the Hydra
· Twinball· Venom
· Lesbian Bed Death· Cheva
· Demise· Extium
· Urkraft· Gaza
· Phazm· Stonegard
· Threat Signal· Omnium Gatherum
· Dream Theater· Mindgrinder
· Necrophobic· Old Man's Child
· Incrave· Almah
· Mendeed· Pantera
· Nominon· Aborted
· JR Ewing· Hearse
· Architect· Depressed Mode
· Temple Of Blood· Destynation
· Pathosray· Night Ranger
· Deceiver· Mortiis
· Moonshine· Cursed
· Giant Squid· Suspyre
· Suffocation