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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
· Into Eternity· Leng Tch'e
· Nightwish· Opeth
· Chaingunn· Tiamat
· Perzonal War· Grave Digger
· Twelfth Gate· Stratovarius
· Cradle of Filth· Goatwhore
· Gun Barrel· Seven Witches
· Overkill· Fozzy
· Lamb of God· Liege Lord
· Crematorium· Wizard
· Metallica· Late Nite Romeo
· Power of Omens· Led Zeppelin
· Byfist· The Graveyard Boulevard
· Curriculum Mortis· Runemagick
· Malstrom· Duke
· Eidolon· Stalker
· Krisiun· Fraise
· Royal Anguish· Fairyland
· Three Inches of Blood· Soil
· Jag Panzer· Ebony Ark
· Cans· Icon And The Black Roses
· Disarmonia Mundi· Donnerkopf
· Marillion· Iron Angel
· Zaius· Therion
· Goatsnake· Vox Tempus
· Dio· Occult
· Otep· Eternal Flight
· House of Shakira· Dark Ruin
· Blind Guardian· Trans-Siberian Orchestra
· Made of Iron· Tsjuder
· Karmakanic· Avenue F
· Rush· Tristania
· Azrael's Bane· Crowbar
· Helgrind· Requiem Aeternam
· Quiet Riot· John Sykes
· Cemetary· Bleed The Sky
· Lord Gore· Soul SirkUS
· Ramesses· Impiety
· Biss· Disbelief
· Rudra· Agents Of Man
· Mirador· Graveworm
· Subterranean Masquerade· Unshine
· Kult ov Azazel· Slik Helvetika
· Horna· Power Quest
· Resurrecturis· Impaled Nazarene
· Sheavy· V:28
· Evergrey· 1349
· Third Degree· Algol3
· Shattersphere· Ghost Machinery
· Dechrist· Akercocke
· Overmars· Midnight Idols
· Celebratum· Dragonlord
· Sodom· The Berzerker
· Degree Absolute· Event Horizon
· Silver Dirt· Athanator
· Dream Or Nightmare· 8th Sin
· Bludgeon· Dreams of Damnation
· The Strongest Proof· Theater of Tragedy
· Fragments of Unbecoming· Vengeance
· Smohalla· Paul Bonrud
· Scary Manilow· Fleshgore
· Mouth of the Architect· Anata
· Semargl· Isis
· Biolich· Obtest
· Deicide· Quest of Aidance
· Blood Tsunami· Mindgrinder
· Necrophobic· Madking Ludwig
· Crescent Shield· Old Man's Child
· Cruachan· Nagelfar
· Passion· Textures
· Hacride· Pentacle
· Rob Zombie· Since the Day
· Manes· Glorior Belli
· Architect· Hell N' Diesel
· Frosthardr· Dantesco
· Ride The Sky· 40 Below Summer
· Mortiis· Last Stone Cast
· Embalming Theatre· Intolerant
· Alestorm· Son of Eric
· End of Man· Cursed
· Mustasch· Giant Squid