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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
· Anvil· Loudness
· Twilight Odyssey· Carpathian Forest
· Mondo Generator· Perzonal War
· Twisted Tower Dire· Norma Jean
· Queensryche· Ring of Fire
· Advent· Rawhead Rexx
· Fozzy· Late Nite Romeo
· Vyndykator· October 31
· Hammerwhore· Pelican
· The Chainsaw· Evolution
· Exawatt· Black Sabbath
· Thunderbolt· Steel Preacher
· Mnemic· Vhaldemar
· Thunderstone· Asperity
· Iron Savior· Hard Echo
· Soil· TNA
· Black Stone Cherry· Gothic Knights
· Scala Mercalli· Jaw
· Leash Law· Wolf
· Epica· Donnerkopf
· Nova Lex· Judas Priest
· Joe Stump· De Lirium's Order
· Insomnium· Ungodly
· Saxon· Psychotron
· Dio· Otep
· Division· Annihilator
· Slowlife· Dark Ruin
· Six Feet Under· Within Temptation
· Silent Force· Trans-Siberian Orchestra
· Cryme· Rush
· Tristania· John Oliva's Pain
· Fifth Cross· Bloody Sign
· The Mighty Nimbus· Miles Beyond
· Kings X· Requiem Aeternam
· Loudblast· Dirt
· Korpiklaani· Labyrinth
· Vicious Circle· Hellfire
· Mechanical Poet· Carina Alfie
· Angtoria· Nevermore
· the missing:· Darkthrone
· Bruce Dickinson· Debris Inc.
· Slumber· Groundcrew
· Agents Of Man· Sothis
· Maximum Overdrive· Ektomorf
· Dynamic Lights· Gemini 5
· The Father Panic Riot Orchestra· Power Quest
· Alice Cooper· Nightvision
· Thor· Widow
· Blitzkrieg· Mercyful Fate
· Redemption· Pagan's Mind
· Dirty Americans· The Firstborn
· Barcode· Savage Circus
· Ewigkeit· Thrones
· Dechrist· Cryogen
· Dreamland· Define Divine
· Mastermind· Skullshifter
· Khold· Motorhead
· Across Tundras· Lair Of The Minotaur
· Beyond Fear· Upwards of Endtime
· Hell-Born· Steep
· Degree Absolute· Leviathan/Sapthuran
· Viron· Manngard
· Cavalar· Speed/Kill/Hate
· Dreams of Damnation· Sun Descends
· Ensoph· Dawn of Azazel
· Spawn of Possession· Sahg
· Warface· Fleshgore
· Woodtemple· Skyforger
· Satyricon· Better Left Unsaid
· The Gathering· Stonegard
· Onslaught· Omnium Gatherum
· Lord Belial· The Chronicles of Israfel
· Madking Ludwig· White Willow
· Trouble· Textures
· Gotthard· Aborted
· David Galas· JR Ewing
· Faith And Fire· Sworn Enemy
· Echoes of Eternity· Mongrel
· Mass Extinction· Pathology
· Orthodox· Cockpit
· Rosetta· Mortiis
· Last Stone Cast· Manilla Road
· Trinacria· Suspyre