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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
· Lost Horizon· Scanner
· Opeth· Steel Prophet
· White Skull· Karaboudjan
· Grave Digger· Regurgitate
· Narziß· December
· Overkill· Queensryche
· Widowmaker· Firewind
· Valley's Eve· Led Zeppelin
· October 31· Pyn Siren
· Hammerwhore· Circle of Nero
· Endless Time· Supervillain
· Saint· Paragon
· Godiva· Fireball Ministry
· Artension· Rage
· Savatage· Iron Savior
· Hard Echo· Killik
· Bang The Union· downBleed
· Cans· Madison Paige
· W.A.S.P.· Outworld
· Epica· David Shankle Group
· Edge Of Forever· Metalium
· Gary Moore· Destructor
· Joe Lynn Turner· Psychotron
· Shadows Fall· Beaten Back To Pure
· Lullacry· Eternal Flight
· Z02· Jamie. St. James
· Throcult· Agnostic Front
· Blind Guardian· Trans-Siberian Orchestra
· The 7 Method· Avenue F
· Creed· Kamelot
· Maze Of Torment· Dirt
· Korpiklaani· Labyrinth
· Hibria· Sabaton
· Shatterpoint· Hellfire
· Mechanical Poet· Suidakra
· Angtoria· Mystic Prophecy
· John Sykes· Alex Skolnick Trio
· God Fear None· Chastain
· Holy Moses· Biss
· Defleshed· Astarte
· Python· Communic
· Subterranean Masquerade· Unshine
· Gemini 5· The Father Panic Riot Orchestra
· Alice Cooper· Nightvision
· Love Forsaken· Iron Maidens
· A Lower Deep· The Scourger
· Painmuseum· V:28
· Overloaded· Forever Slave
· Savage Circus· Avenged Sevenfold
· Ewigkeit· Crystal Ball
· Mastermind· Bronx Casket Company
· God Forbid· Absolution
· End My Sorrow· Mental Care Foundation
· Cardinale· Blackmore's Night
· Intronaut· Nikki Puppet
· Wolves in the Throne Room· Thyrane
· Fields Of The Nephilim· Scum
· Boris· Event Horizon
· The Ocean· Vreid
· Hate Profile· Unsilent Phenomenon
· Azure· Time Requiem
· Skyforger· Setherial
· Belphegor· Myon
· Semargl· Mastodon
· Rotting Christ· Teeth of the Hydra
· Lordi· Audrey Horne
· Cheva· Extium
· Hardcore Superstar· Omnium Gatherum
· Crescent Shield· Incrave
· White Willow· Almah
· Mendeed· Passion
· Gotthard· Hacride
· Spit Like This· David Galas
· The Wonderfools· Hearse
· Sworn Enemy· Himsa
· Cauldron· Keldian
· Destynation· Distorted
· Trivium· Pop Evil
· Straight Line Stitch· Burzum
· SOS· Vulture Industries
· Armory· Luna Mortis
· Coffins· Ihsahn
· Sotajumala