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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· HammerFall
· Lost Horizon· Big Dumb Face
· Mondo Generator· Perzonal War
· Goatwhore· Symphorce
· Ring of Fire· Black Label Society
· Alchemy X· Led Zeppelin
· Ion Vein· Saint
· Biomechanical· Morbid Angel
· Kilfast· Assrockers
· Dream Weaver· Malstrom
· Sinergy· Beautiful Creatures
· Mnemic· Stalker
· Primal Fear· Fraise
· Secret Sphere· Fairyland
· Fear Factory· Yngwie Malmsteen
· Drowning Pool· Jaw
· Leash Law· Cans
· Madison Paige· Bleeding Inc
· Wolf· Epica
· Graveland· Low Earth Orbit
· Joe Stump· House of Lords
· Goatsnake· Images of Eden
· Nashville Pussy· Throcult
· Arch Enemy· Silent Force
· The Lizards· Made of Iron
· Twisted Sister· Sonata Arctica
· Feared Creation· Cradle To Grave
· Miles Beyond· Lost Soul
· Hellfueled· Maze Of Torment
· Astral Doors· Shatterpoint
· Yyrkoon· Tarot
· Heartcry· Antares
· Derek Sherinian· Axis Of Perdition
· Kinrick· Operatika
· Strapping Young Lad· Neil Turbin
· Burden Of Grief· Biss
· Embraze· Goddess Of Desire
· Circus Maximus· The Father Panic Riot Orchestra
· Love Forsaken· Morgana Lefay
· Scar Symmetry· A Lower Deep
· Flotsam & Jetsam· Future is Tomorrow
· Peccatum· 1349
· Forever Slave· Ewigkeit
· Spellbound· Cryogen
· Vile· Midnight Idols
· Torture Killer· Beecher
· Early Man· Brother Hawk
· Fallen Wisdom· Pile of Heads
· Across Tundras· Firehouse
· Tris Katone· Cryptopsy
· Degree Absolute· Leviathan/Sapthuran
· Athanator· Down Factor
· Speed/Kill/Hate· Sun Descends
· Spawn of Possession· Before Silence
· Gorgoroth· Bloodbound
· Jeff Walker und Die Fluffers· The Finals
· Mastodon· Eighteen Visions
· Starkweather· Deicide
· Better Left Unsaid· Steve Cone
· Urkraft· Fu Manchu
· Onslaught· Dream Theater
· Madking Ludwig· Crescent Shield
· White Willow· Mendeed
· Trouble· Chrome Division
· Katrina Johansson· Warner Drive
· Glorior Belli· Throneum
· Hearse· Sworn Enemy
· Cauldron· Pathology
· Averse Sefira· Ost Est Ima
· Father Befouled· The Obsessed
· Mar De Grises· The More I See
· Iron Fire· Sin
· Ihsahn· Something Beautiful
· Caliban· Suspyre