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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
· LA Guns· Leng Tch'e
· Nightwish· Steel Prophet
· Children Of Bodom· Neck
· Symphorce· Kataklysm
· Kalibas· Circle II Circle
· Steel Attack· Rawhead Rexx
· Sickspeed· Legend
· Crematorium· Manowar
· Abigor· Power of Omens
· The Chainsaw· Circle of Nero
· Goat Horn· Exawatt
· Byfist· Supervillain
· Black Sabbath· Shakra
· Catch 22· Paragon
· Godiva· Kilfast
· Lanfear· Dream Weaver
· Nordheim· Beautiful Creatures
· Tad Morose· Drillpoint
· Halloween· Whitesnake
· Wicked Sensation· Deivos
· Hard Echo· Tesla
· TNA· Killik
· Funerus· Evanescence
· Edge Of Forever· Gamma Ray
· Highlord· Velvet Revolver
· Joe Stump· Joe Lynn Turner
· Mob Rules· Fireaxe
· Imp· Occult
· Unearth· Jungle Rot
· Tartharia· Mine
· Conquestador· Arch Enemy
· Haunted By Angels· Overlorde
· Anger· Tsjuder
· Dark Tranquillity· Sonata Arctica
· Fifth Cross· Of Infinity
· Motley Crue· The Apocalyptic Riders
· Hellfueled· Kamelot
· Dirt· Apocalyptica
· Backyard Babies· Wolverine
· Crimson Moonlight· Kaamos
· Chaoswave· God Fear None
· Meshuggah· Magica
· Operatika· System Of A Down
· Callenish Circle· Raintime
· Impiety· Throes of Dawn
· Hatesphere· Blind Stare
· Astarte· Graveworm
· Evemaster· Monolithe
· Killing Spree· Power Quest
· Resurrecturis· Holy Blood
· A Lower Deep· Flotsam & Jetsam
· Painmuseum· Octavia Sperati
· The Atomic Bitchwax· Pagan's Mind
· Russell Allen· Crystal Fate
· Mabon· Overmars
· Wolfmother· Khold
· Dismember· Early Man
· Insense· Powerglove
· Poison· Codeon
· Beyond Fear· Steep
· Pyramaze· Elvenking
· Sun Descends· Theater of Tragedy
· Cult of Luna· Unsilent Phenomenon
· Azure· Skid Row
· Agalloch· Jeff Walker und Die Fluffers
· Pretty Maids· Enochian Crescent
· Semargl· Mastodon
· Venom· Lesbian Bed Death
· Obtest· Audrey Horne
· Cheva· Celtic Frost
· Centinex· Warmachine
· With Passion· Onslaught
· Throne of Katarsis· Madking Ludwig
· Zyklon· Incrave
· Mithras· Denial Fiend
· Ulcerate· Hellveto
· Spheric Universe Experience· Heresi
· Distorted· Pathology
· Ride The Sky· Rosetta
· Aetherius Obscuritas· Blood Haven
· Burzum· Vulture Industries
· To-Mera· Armory
· Trinacria· Uriah Heep
· Kiuas· Giant Squid