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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
· Hate Eternal· LA Guns
· Leng Tch'e· Nightwish
· Sinner· The Great Deceiver
· Grave· Helloween
· Overkill· Godsmack
· Mark Boals· Widowmaker
· Ravage· Dark Moor
· Sickspeed· Dr. Butcher
· Vyndykator· Byfist
· Black Sabbath· Biomechanical
· Fireball Ministry· Artension
· Rage· Axenstar
· Mnemic· Windseeker
· Attacker· Krisiun
· Lacuna Coil· Defiled
· Secret Sphere· Iron Savior
· Dew Scented· Royal Anguish
· Tesla· Volbeat
· Black Stone Cherry· Drowning Pool
· Devil To Pay· Exodus
· Messiah's Kiss· Outworld
· Highlord· Low Earth Orbit
· Velvet Revolver· Lonewolf
· Dragonspoon· Estuary
· Destructor· Acrid
· Joe Lynn Turner· Occult
· Theocracy· Division
· Jamie. St. James· Tartharia
· Throcult· Incantation
· Within Temptation· Seventh One
· The 7 Method· Karmakanic
· Napalm Death· Paradise Lost
· Dirt· Labyrinth
· Vicious Circle· Hellfire
· Apocalyptica· Darkthrone
· Novembers Doom· God Fear None
· Pure Inc· Omegalord
· Chastain· Operatika
· Swallow The Sun· Thunderblast
· Ignitor· Gizmachi
· Groundcrew· Astarte
· Agents Of Man· Python
· Naglfar· Amorphis
· Unshine· Leaves Eyes
· Nightvision· Cannon
· Resurrecturis· Edenbridge
· Redemption· The Atomic Bitchwax
· Pagan's Mind· Dirty Americans
· Penetrator· ASG
· Mabon· Arthemis
· Urizen· Dogs Of Winter
· Virgin Steele· Vanquished
· Absu· From This Day
· Nobody's Fool· Craft
· Sepultura· Southern Black Sand
· Katatonia· Ephel Duath
· Thyrane· Dissection
· Clawfinger· Bal-Sagoth
· Elvenking· Imagika
· Nicodemus· Stormcrow
· The Furor· Black Crucifixion
· Dawn of Azazel· Jotunspor
· Vengeance· Nachtmystium
· Sahg· Agalloch
· From the Grave· Pretty Maids
· The Showdown· Extium
· Starkweather· Steve Cone
· Diagnose: Lebensgefahr· Hardcore Superstar
· With Passion· Onslaught
· Manticore· Passion
· Chrome Division· Pantera
· Textures· Gotthard
· Spit Like This· David Galas
· Faith And Fire· Sworn Enemy
· Hell N' Diesel· Destynation
· Pathology· Dantesco
· Alkemyst· Orthodox
· Ride The Sky· Rosetta
· Embalming Theatre· Godhead
· Souls Of We· The Lamp of Thoth
· Celestia· Mar De Grises
· Alestorm· Ihsahn
· Mustasch