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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
· Demons and Wizards· Lost Horizon
· Nightwish· Twilight Odyssey
· Big Dumb Face· Twisted Tower Dire
· Symphorce· Godsmack
· Queensryche· Circle II Circle
· Steel Attack· Lamb of God
· Abigor· Cage
· Vyndykator· Ion Vein
· Exawatt· Byfist
· Inner Rage of Emotion· Sevendust
· Mourning Beloveth· King Diamond
· Sludge!· Beautiful Creatures
· Guardians Of Time· Mnemic
· Pharaoh· Deivos
· Body Count· Secret Sphere
· Royal Anguish· Dreamaker
· Node· Death Angel
· Cryonic Temple· Construcdead
· Riot· Jaw
· Ebony Ark· Evanescence
· UFO· W.A.S.P.
· Epica· Disarmonia Mundi
· Edge Of Forever· Metalium
· Low Earth Orbit· Lonewolf
· Judas Priest· Scorpions
· Joey Belladonna· Saxon
· Final Dawn· Dio
· Beaten Back To Pure· Dark Age
· Age Of Silence· I.C.E.
· Polterchrist· Necrodemon
· Internal Bleeding· Haunted By Angels
· The Lizards· The 7 Method
· Behemoth· Crowbar
· Scenteria· Helgrind
· Divine Fire· Entombed
· Necrophagia· Diecast
· Novembers Doom· Derek Sherinian
· Operatika· Sinisthra
· Slumber· Def Leppard
· Green Carnation· Sentenced
· Dam· Nightvision
· Holy Blood· Clutch
· Blitzkrieg· Nuclear Assault
· Mercyful Fate· The Atomic Bitchwax
· Illuminatus· Pagan's Mind
· Monster Magnet· Evergrey
· Armored Saint· Bolt Thrower
· Forever Slave· Shattersphere
· Avenged Sevenfold· Dechrist
· Crystal Ball· Spellbound
· Infliction· Chain Collector
· Bronx Casket Company· Zero Down
· The Tenth Circle· Khold
· Nocturnal Rites· End My Sorrow
· Fallen Wisdom· Witchery
· Naked Beggars· Poison
· Hell-Born· Clawfinger
· Degree Absolute· Valhalla
· Phoenix Mourning· Cataract
· 8th Sin· Dreams of Damnation
· Sun Descends· Spawn of Possession
· Michael Orlando· Fragments of Unbecoming
· Jotunspor· Unsilent Phenomenon
· Hydrogyn· Psycroptic
· Skid Row· Ynis Vitrin
· Vicious Rumors· The Abominable Iron Sloth
· Wastefall· Amputated
· Rotting Christ· Centinex
· Fu Manchu· Omnium Gatherum
· Static-X· Lord Belial
· Mindgrinder· Almah
· Rob Zombie· Retrospective
· Wuthering Heights· Ulcerate
· Nation Beyond· Echoes of Eternity
· Cauldron· Hell N' Diesel
· Averse Sefira· Rosetta
· Pop Evil· Last Stone Cast
· Puscifer· Godhead
· Celestia· Uriah Heep
· Bible Of The Devil· UFOmammut
· Wolfgate· Sotajumala
· Crown The Lost· Giant Squid
· Suspyre· Earthen Grave