| 4.5 superb |
| A Million Dead Birds Laughing Force Fed Enlightenment |
| Agalloch Pale Folklore |
| Anaal Nathrakh The Codex Necro |
| Anaal Nathrakh When Fire Rains Down From the Sky... |
| Angelus Apatrida Clockwork |
| Atheist Unquestionable Presence |
| Atlantean Kodex The White Goddess (A Grammar Of Poetic Myth) |
| Autopsy Mental Funeral |
| Behemoth The Apostasy |
| Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath |
| 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. |
| Brutal Truth Need to Control |
| Cattle Decapitation Monolith of Inhumanity |
| Clutch Blast Tyrant |
| 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 |
| Cripple Bastards Misantropo a senso unico |
| Cynic Focus |
| Danzig Danzig III: How The Gods Kill |
| Deathspell Omega Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum |
| Demons and Wizards Demons & Wizards |
| Dimmu Borgir Stormblåst MMV |
| Disaffected Vast |
| 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. |
| Eucharist Mirrorworlds |
| 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 |
| Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance |
| Kamelot Epica |
| Kvelertak Kvelertak |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye |
| Megadeth Rust in Peace |
| Metallica S&M |
| Monster Voodoo Machine Suffersystem |
| Moonsorrow Verisäkeet |
| Moonsorrow Tulimyrsky |
| Nasum Inhale/Exhale |
| Nasum Shift |
| Necromantia Ancient Pride |
| Necromantia IV: Malice |
| Necrophagist Onset of Putrefaction |
| Nevermore Enemies of Reality |
| Nevermore Dreaming Neon Black |
| Nevermore The Year of the Voyager |
| Nile In Their Darkened Shrines |
| Nile Black Seeds of Vengeance |
| Nile Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka |
| Nokturnal Mortum The Voice of Steel |
| Obituary Slowly We Rot |
| Ozzy Osbourne Live & Loud |
| Pagan Altar Lords of Hypocrisy |
| Pantera Official Live: 101 Proof |
| Peste Noire La Sanie des Siècles |
| Pig Destroyer Phantom Limb |
| Piss Vortex Piss Vortex |
| Possession (USA-KS) Eternally Haunt |
| Primordial The Gathering Wilderness |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Rotten Sound Cycles |
| Rotten Sound Cursed |
| Septicflesh The Great Mass |
| Slayer Divine Intervention |
| Slayer Undisputed Attitude |
| Soilent Green Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of C |
| Soilwork The Chainheart Machine |
| Soundgarden Superunknown |
| Splitter Avskräckande Exemplar |
| Stratovarius Fourth Dimension |
| Testament The Legacy |
| The Crown Deathrace King |
| The Crown Crowned in Terror |
| Tool Undertow |
| Unanimated Ancient God of Evil |
| Vader Litany |
| Vader Revelations |
| Vader Impressions In Blood |
| Vader And Blood was Shed in Warsaw |
| Visigoth The Revenant King |
