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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· HammerFall
· Carpathian Forest· Karaboudjan
· Misery Index· Regurgitate
· Anthrax· Goatwhore
· Dirty Power· Gun Barrel
· Warhorse· Queensryche
· Fozzy· Mortician
· Widowmaker· Dark Moor
· God Dethroned· Conquest
· Johnny Lokke· Hammerwhore
· Circle of Nero· Ion Vein
· Exawatt· Iced Earth
· Inner Rage of Emotion· Attacker
· Pink Cream 69· DevilDriver
· Iron Savior· Doro
· Hard Echo· Soil
· TNA· Shiva
· Evanescence· Disarmonia Mundi
· Gamma Ray· Metalium
· U.D.O.· Marillion
· Lonewolf· Hatework
· House of Lords· Insomnium
· Skeletonwitch· Black Destiny
· Rhapsody of Fire· Shadows Fall
· Dio· Wintersun
· Marshall Law· Internal Bleeding
· Acheron· Made of Iron
· Jackyl· Behemoth
· Karmakanic· John Oliva's Pain
· Code Black· Bloody Sign
· Gods Of Fire· Rottweiller
· The Mighty Nimbus· Entombed
· Requiem Aeternam· Soilwork
· Quiet Riot· Shatterpoint
· Mystic Prophecy· Diecast
· Severe Torture· Freedom Call
· Derek Sherinian· Bruce Dickinson
· Magica· Lord Gore
· Kinrick· Operatika
· Ignitor· Ramesses
· Astarte· Agents Of Man
· Sothis· Vicious Art
· Slough Feg· Testament
· Secrets She Kept· Monolithe
· Thor· Havochate
· The Scourger· Loits
· Sun O)))· Twilight
· Mabon· Wolfmother
· Urizen· Dragonlord
· The Tenth Circle· Hate
· Taunusheim· Early Man
· End My Sorrow· Fallen Wisdom
· Mental Care Foundation· Pile of Heads
· Across Tundras· Ephel Duath
· Fields Of The Nephilim· Hell-Born
· Boris· Leviathan/Sapthuran
· Manngard· Phoenix Mourning
· Silver Dirt· Candlemass
· Down Factor· The Sword
· Jotunspor· Space Odyssey
· She Said Destroy· War Within
· Time Requiem· Mouth of the Architect
· Wednesday 13· The Ruins of Beverast
· Setherial· Battle Bratt
· Myon· Amputated
· Semargl· Teeth of the Hydra
· Lordi· Winger
· Demise· Starkweather
· Celtic Frost· Urkraft
· Gaza· Onslaught
· Dezperadoz· Nagelfar
· Incrave· Trouble
· Passion· Pantera
· The Prophecy· Katrina Johansson
· Denial Fiend· Transmission 0
· Lipstick Magazine· Throneum
· Cauldron· Pathosray
· Frosthardr· Night Ranger
· Distorted· Alkemyst
· 40 Below Summer· Jesus Martyr
· Winterfylleth· Nasty Idols
· Caliban· DC4
· Suspyre· Dark Castle
· Earthen Grave