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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
· Cave In· Leng Tch'e
· Vehemence· Children Of Bodom
· Big Dumb Face· Poisonblack
· Narziß· Impellitteri
· Skullview· Advent
· Iron Maiden· Dark Moor
· Manowar· Metallica
· Power of Omens· Valley's Eve
· Black Label Society· Evolution
· Catch 22· Artension
· Mourning Beloveth· Nordheim
· Sludge!· Mnemic
· Drillpoint· Pink Cream 69
· Deivos· Fairyland
· Tesla· Yngwie Malmsteen
· Drowning Pool· Construcdead
· Exodus· Leash Law
· Bleeding Inc· Wolf
· Disarmonia Mundi· Edge Of Forever
· Van Helsing’s Curse· Velvet Revolver
· Jorn· Ministry
· Acrid· Therion
· Final Dawn· Wintersun
· Katagory V· I.C.E.
· Polterchrist· Jamie. St. James
· Dark Ruin· Incantation
· Silent Force· Overlorde
· Trans-Siberian Orchestra· Made of Iron
· Seventh One· Behemoth
· Bloody Sign· Cradle To Grave
· Miles Beyond· Corrosion Of Conformity
· Belef· Soilwork
· Necrophagia· Labyrinth
· Astral Doors· Shatterpoint
· Car Bomb· Apocalyptica
· Backyard Babies· Antares
· Stormwarrior· Kaamos
· Oathean· Novembers Doom
· Kinrick· Swallow The Sun
· Thunderblast· Ignitor
· Callenish Circle· Naglfar
· Maximum Overdrive· Slough Feg
· Sentenced· Unshine
· Prowler Inc.· Gemini 5
· Fates Warning· Widow
· To The Bone· Mercyful Fate
· Peccatum· Penetrator
· Forever Slave· Shattersphere
· Avenged Sevenfold· Damnation
· Crystal Ball· Doomfoxx
· Skullshifter· The Classic Struggle
· Khold· Machina
· Fallen Wisdom· Codeon
· Nikki Puppet· Thyrane
· Fields Of The Nephilim· Nightmare
· Hell-Born· Steep
· Clawfinger· Event Horizon
· Speed/Kill/Hate· The Furor
· The Strongest Proof· Smohalla
· Amon Amarth· Ynis Vitrin
· Jeff Walker und Die Fluffers· Enochian Crescent
· Rotting Christ· Lordi
· E-lane· Kotipelto
· The Gathering· Fu Manchu
· Diagnose: Lebensgefahr· Warbringer
· The Chronicles of Israfel· Marc Sasso
· Chrome Division· Five Finger Death Punch
· Katrina Johansson· Antigama
· Randy Ellefson· Echoes of Eternity
· Alkemyst· Glenn Hughes
· Shining Star· Cockpit
· Father Befouled· Blood Haven
· Straight Line Stitch· Burzum
· Puscifer· Virgin Black
· The Lamp of Thoth· Celestia
· Medieval Steel· Alestorm
· Place Of Skulls· Luna Mortis
· Mustasch· Sotajumala