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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
· Anvil· Demons and Wizards
· Leng Tch'e· Opeth
· The Great Deceiver· White Skull
· Tiamat· Seether
· Steel Attack· Widowmaker
· Dark Moor· Crematorium
· Wizard· Dr. Butcher
· Cage· Ion Vein
· Black Sabbath· Victory
· Evanesce· Sinergy
· Pink Cream 69· Slayer
· Wicked Sensation· Probot
· Dreamaker· Babylon Mystery Orchestra
· Ebony Ark· Deep Purple
· Bleeding Inc· Wolf
· David Shankle Group· Nova Lex
· Lonewolf· Ministry
· Hatework· Joe Stump
· Estuary· Feinstein
· Unleashed· Lilitu
· Rhapsody of Fire· Occult
· Lullacry· Katagory V
· Annihilator· Scavenger
· Valume Nob· Slowlife
· Six Feet Under· Arch Enemy
· Haunted By Angels· Negative Creeps
· Paradise Lost· The New Breed
· Audiovision· Necrophagia
· Labyrinth· Shatterpoint
· Icarus Witch· Apocalyptica
· John Sykes· Oathean
· Alex Skolnick Trio· Lord Gore
· Kinrick· Swallow The Sun
· Rudra· Communic
· Dynamic Lights· Evemaster
· Gaia· The Father Panic Riot Orchestra
· Sheavy· Painmuseum
· To The Bone· Mercyful Fate
· V:28· Illuminatus
· Dragonia· Before The Dawn
· Blood Thirsty Demons· Even X
· Overmars· Vile
· Wolfmother· Avulsed
· Sinocence· Detonation
· Virgin Steele· Dismember
· Machina· Vader
· End of Level Boss· Early Man
· Insense· Second Shadow
· Witchery· Southern Black Sand
· Naked Beggars· Poison
· Firehouse· Cryptopsy
· Leviathan/Sapthuran· Manngard
· The Smackdown· The Smashup
· Athanator· Dreams of Damnation
· Hate Profile· Stormcrow
· Space Odyssey· Agalloch
· From the Grave· Vicious Rumors
· The Abominable Iron Sloth· Wastefall
· Rotting Christ· Venom
· Panzerchrist· Deicide
· Lecherous Nocturne· The Gathering
· Necrophobic· White Willow
· Mendeed· Trouble
· Pantera· Pentacle
· Katrina Johansson· Antigama
· Transmission 0· Glorior Belli
· Blut Aus Nord· Funeral
· Hearse· Himsa
· Cauldron· Destynation
· Night Ranger· Ride The Sky
· Cockpit· Gutted With Broken Glass
· Rosetta· Witchfinder General
· Manilla Road· Puscifer
· Embalming Theatre· Souls Of We
· Intolerant· Mar De Grises
· Bible Of The Devil· UFOmammut
· Wolfgate· Ihsahn
· DC4· Raven
· Giant Squid· Dark Castle