| 4.5 superb |
| A Million Dead Birds Laughing Force Fed Enlightenment |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro |
| Anaal Nathrakh When Fire Rains Down From the Sky... |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Blind Guardian Nightfall in Middle-Earth |
| Bruce Dickinson The Chemical Wedding |
| Suffers from some filler in the second half, but the strength of the first five tracks makes this album all but classic. Bruce's solo work of the Adrian Smith era is better than anything Maiden has done since Seventh Son. |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Coalesce OX |
| Coalesce's best album. Diverse, heavy, original, catchy. Earlier efforts were solid but earlier efforts bogged down with a lack of quality material to justify the length. And none of them are very long. This one, though, is packed to the gills with killer riffs and interesting accents. |
| Converge When Forever Comes Crashing |
| Corrosion of Conformity Deliverance |
| Cynic Focus |
| Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Demons and Wizards Demons & Wizards |
| Dissection The Somberlain |
| Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse |
| Enslaved Monumension |
| Entombed DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth |
| Entombed's best album, imo. A death n' roll classic. Would be a five, but some filler in the second half outlasts its welcome. Still, a fuller more inventive interpretation of the sound invented on Wolverine Blues. The quintessential death n' roll album. |
| Entombed Clandestine |
| Gamma Ray Power Plant |
| Grave Extremely Rotten Live |
| Iced Earth Alive In Athens |
| Immolation Close to a World Below |
| Immortal All Shall Fall |
| Ion Dissonance Cursed |
| Metallica S&M |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky |
| Nasum Shift |
| Necromantia IV: Malice |
| Necromantia Ancient Pride |
| Nevermore The Year of the Voyager |
| Nevermore Enemies Of Reality |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka |
| Nile Black Seeds of Vengence |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines |
| Ozzy Osbourne Live and Loud |
| Pagan Altar The Lords of Hypocrisy |
| Pantera Official Live: 101 Proof |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Rotten Sound Cursed |
| Rotten Sound Cycles |
| Septic Flesh The Great Mass |
| Slayer Divine Intervention |
| Slayer Undisputed Attitude |
| Soilent Green Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of C |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine |
| Stratovarius Fourth Dimension |
| The Crown Deathrace King |
| The Crown Crowned in Terror |
| Unanimated Ancient God of Evil |
| Vader Litany |
| Vader Revelations |
| Vader Impressions In Blood |
| Vader And Blood was Shed in Warsaw |
