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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
· HammerFall· In Flames
· Loudness· Sinner
· Slipknot· Twilight Odyssey
· BloodDuster· Immolation
· Dokken· Disturbed
· Grave Digger· Twelfth Gate
· Twisted Tower Dire· Symphorce
· Queensryche· Nazareth
· Usurper· Iron Maiden
· Dark Moor· Masterplan
· Firewind· Angel Dust
· Dr. Butcher· Cage
· Conquest· Pelican
· The Chainsaw· Goat Horn
· Agony Divine· Iced Earth
· Morbid Angel· Kilfast
· Guardians Of Time· Eidolon
· Silent Scythe· Pink Cream 69
· Edguy· Primal Fear
· Defiled· Project: Failing Flesh
· Force Of Evil· Yngwie Malmsteen
· Superchrist· Gothic Knights
· Funerus· Evanescence
· downBleed· UFO
· Graveland· Amityville Whore
· Edge Of Forever· Gary Moore
· Estuary· Destructor
· Krokus· Division
· Z02· Marshall Law
· Incantation· Agnostic Front
· Seventh One· Tristania
· Creed· Code Black
· Crowbar· Emerald Sun
· The Mighty Nimbus· Blood Red Throne
· Belef· Veni Domine
· Loudblast· Labyrinth
· Yyrkoon· Mechanical Poet
· Angtoria· Backyard Babies
· Argument Soul· Antares
· Stormwarrior· Oathean
· Alex Skolnick Trio· Freedom Call
· Pure Inc· Axis Of Perdition
· Drunkard· Magica
· Thunderblast· Green Carnation
· Hatesphere· Raging Speedhorn
· Vicious Art· Ektomorf
· Slough Feg· Circus Maximus
· Voyager· Frameless Scar
· A Lower Deep· Octavia Sperati
· Redemption· Illuminatus
· Black Majesty· Dragonia
· Blood Thirsty Demons· Winterfell
· 1349· Shattersphere
· Savage Circus· Vile
· Midnight Idols· God Forbid
· Khold· Hate
· Decapitated· From This Day
· Enforsaken· Poison
· Upwards of Endtime· Thyrane
· Dissection· Leviathan/Sapthuran
· The Ocean· Vore
· Ampast· Elvenking
· Athanator· Cataract
· Apiary· Jotunspor
· Amon Amarth· Skyforger
· Hurt· The Finals
· Zoroaster· Teeth of the Hydra
· Eighteen Visions· Biolich
· Sathanas· Winger
· Cheva· Deicide
· Lecherous Nocturne· Handful of Hate
· The Gathering· Melechesh
· With Passion· Omnium Gatherum
· Dream Theater· In This Moment
· Warbringer· Manticore
· Necrophobic· Marc Sasso
· Trouble· Chrome Division
· Textures· Gotthard
· Denial Fiend· Throneum
· Architect· Hellveto
· Echoes of Eternity· Mongrel
· Rosetta· Hacksaw Surgery
· Uriah Heep· Eighteen Wheels Burning
· Sotajumala· Sister Sin
· Suffocation