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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
· Cathedral· Into Eternity
· Lost Horizon· Sinner
· Vehemence· Children Of Bodom
· Vicious Mary· Chaingunn
· Karaboudjan· Misery Index
· Symphorce· Machine Head
· Commit Suicide· Overkill
· Godsmack· Majesty
· Advent· Widowmaker
· Dark Moor· Metallica
· Abigor· Power of Omens
· Nicta· Inner Rage of Emotion
· Wycked Synn· Mourning Beloveth
· Nordheim· Sinergy
· Duke· Windseeker
· Halloween· Hypocrisy
· Primal Fear· Asperity
· Secret Sphere· F5
· I Hate Sally· Bang The Union
· Deep Purple· Wolf
· David Shankle Group· Skyfire
· Metalium· Gary Moore
· Zaius· Black Zodiac
· Dragonspoon· House of Lords
· Juggernott· Fireaxe
· Joey Belladonna· Killswitch Engage
· Imp· Theocracy
· Annihilator· Scavenger
· Marshall Law· Necrodemon
· Internal Bleeding· Tartharia
· The Last Act· The Lizards
· Mirror of Deception· Azrael's Bane
· Code Black· Crowbar
· Motley Crue· The Apocalyptic Riders
· Entombed· Miles Beyond
· Crionics· Kamelot
· Loudblast· Maze Of Torment
· Astral Doors· Hibria
· Sabaton· Backyard Babies
· Drunkard· Thunderblast
· Neil Turbin· Ignitor
· Pro-Pain· Biss
· Astarte· Python
· Maximum Overdrive· Goddess Of Desire
· Gemini 5· The Father Panic Riot Orchestra
· Fates Warning· Sheavy
· Morgana Lefay· Scar Symmetry
· Octavia Sperati· V:28
· Orphaned Land· Crystal Fate
· Penetrator· 1349
· Forever Slave· Avenged Sevenfold
· The Absence· Dreamland
· Avulsed· The Tenth Circle
· Absolution· Vader
· End My Sorrow· Totalisti
· Hell-Born· The Berzerker
· Dissection· Viron
· Vore· Phoenix Mourning
· The Smackdown· The Smashup
· Ampast· Bal-Sagoth
· Vreid· Fragments of Unbecoming
· Suzukiton· Swashbuckle
· Skyforger· Eighteen Visions
· Obtest· Lordi
· Winger· Middian
· Starkweather· Deicide
· Steve Cone· Urkraft
· Handful of Hate· Phazm
· Blood Tsunami· Fu Manchu
· Terry Sullivan· The Chronicles of Israfel
· Old Man's Child· Dezperadoz
· Blood of the Black Owl· Passion
· Five Finger Death Punch· Gotthard
· Spit Like This· Aborted
· Lipstick Magazine· Kruger
· Funeral· Architect
· Himsa· Ride The Sky
· Demonic Symphony· Jesus Martyr
· Manilla Road· Hacksaw Surgery
· Equilibrium· Virgin Black
· Trinacria· Bullet For My Valentine
· End of Man· Sin
· Coffins· Ihsahn
· Crown The Lost· Raven