2024

Sgàile - Traverse The Bealach	9
Judas Priest - Invincible Shield	9
Dvne - Voidkind	9
Slift - Ilion	8
Eternal Storm - A Giant Bound To Fall	8
Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace	8
Blood Red Throne - Nonagon	8
Borknagar - Fall	8
Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer	8
Dark Oath - Ages Of Man	7
Ihsahn - Ihsahn	7
Chapel Of Disease - Echoes Of Light	7
Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project	7
Necrophobic - In The Twilight Grey	7
Suldusk - Anthesis	7
Hauntologist - Hollow	7
In Vain - Solemn	7
Civerous - Maze Envy	7
Wheel - Charismatic Leaders	7

2023

Riverside - ID.Entity	9
Insomnium - Anno 1696	9
Enslaved - Heimdal	9
Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium	9
Ne Obliviscaris - Exul	9
Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags	9
Alkaloid - Numen	9
Sermon - Of Golden Verse	9
Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us	9
Nospūn - Opus	9
The Ocean - Holocene	8
Gorod - The Orb	8
Immortal - War Against All	8
Omnerod - The Amensal Rise	8
Vulture Industries - Ghosts From The Past	8
Wayfarer - American Gothic	8
Katatonia - Sky Void Of Stars	8
Sulphur Aeon - Seven Crowns And Seven Seals	8
Klone - Meanwhile	8
Blackbraid - Blackbraid II	8
Shylmagoghnar - Convergence	8
Haken - Fauna	8
Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit	8
Sworn - A Journey Told Through Fire	8
TesseracT - War Of Being	7
TEMIC - Terror Management Theory	7
Moonlight Sorcery - Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle	7
Thy Catafalque - Alföld	7
Shade Empire - Sunholy	7
Earthside - Let The Truth Speak	7
Carnosus - Visions Of Infinihility	7
Queens Of The Stone Age - In Times New Roman...	7
Primordial - How It Ends	7
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex	7
Soen - Memorial	7
Night Crowned - Tales	7
AVKRVST - The Approbation	7
Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare	7
In Flames - Foregone	6
Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden	5

2022

Wilderun - Epigone	9
Fallujah - Empyrean	9
Allegaeon - Damnum	9
Aenaon - Mnemosyne	9
An Abstract Illusion - Woe	9
Disillusion - Ayam	9
Pure Reason Revolution - Above Cirrus	8
Charlie Griffiths - Tiktaalika	8
Decapitated - Cancer Culture	8
Devin Townsend - Lightwork	8
The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost	8
Elder - Innate Passage	8
Shadow Of Intent - Elegy	8
Crippled Black Phoenix - Banefyre	8
Blind Guardian - The God Machine	8
Psycroptic - Divine Council	8
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation	8
Amorphis - Halo	8
Psychonaut - Violate Consensus Reality	8
Cobra The Impaler - Colossal Gods	8
Septicflesh - Modern Primitive	8
Kardashev - Liminal Rite	7
White Ward - False Light	7
Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!	7
Bloodbath - Survival Of The Sickest	7
Revocation - Netherheaven	7
Ibaraki - Rashomon	7

2021

In Mourning - The Bleeding Veil	9
Subterranean Masquerade - Mountain Fever	9
Blood Red Throne - Imperial Congregation	9
Hippotraktor - Meridian	9
Archspire - Bleed The Future	9
Iotunn - Access All Worlds	9
Be'lakor - Coherence	9
Dvne - Etemen Ænka	9
Vola - Witness	9
Mastodon - Hushed And Grim	9
Gojira - Fortitude	8
Helloween - Helloween	8
Aquilus - Bellum I	8
Leprous - Aphelion	8
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu	8
Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound	8
Omnium Gatherum - Origin	8
Dormant Ordeal - The Grand Scheme Of Things	8
Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm	8
Kauan - Ice Fleet	8
Hypocrisy - Worship	8
Dordeduh - Har	8
Carcass - Torn Arteries	7
Soen - Imperial	7
Elder - Eldovar - A Story Of Darkness And Light [Collaboration]	7
Rivers Of Nihil - The Work	7
Act Of Denial - Negative	7
Cynic - Ascension Codes	7
Steven Wilson - The Future Bites	6

2020

Fluisteraars - Bloem	9
Pure Reason Revolution - Eupnea	9
All Them Witches - Nothing As The Ideal	9
Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant	9
Lucid Planet - Lucid Planet II	9
Haken - Virus	9
The Ocean - Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic	9
Dark Fortress - Spectres From The Old World	8
Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota	8
Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst	8
The Reticent - The Oubliette	8
Lunatic Soul - Through Shaded Woods	8
Elder - Omens	8
Ulver - Flowers Of Evil	8
Pain Of Salvation - Panther	8
Mors Principium Est - Seven	8
Vredehammer - Viperous	7
Sólstafir - Endless Twilight Of Codependent Love	7
Abysmal Dawn - Phylogenesis	7
Dark Tranquillity - Moment	7
Katatonia - City Burials	7

2019

Allegaeon - Apoptosis	9
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct	9
Tool - Fear Inoculum	9
Leprous - Pitfalls	9
Wilderun - Veil Of Imagination	9
Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race	9
Soen - Lotus	8
Iapetus - The Body Cosmic	8
Devin Townsend - Empath	8
Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods	8
Misþyrming - Algleymi	8
Opeth - In Cauda Venenum	8
Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave	8
Mgła - Age Of Excuse	8

2018

Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name	9
Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy	9
The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic	9
Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd	9
Tribulation - Down Below	8
Sulphur Aeon - The Scythe Of Cosmic Chaos	8
Primordial - Exile Amongst The Ruins	8
Thy Catafalque - Geometria	8
Amorphis - Queen Of Time	8
Omnium Gatherum - The Burning Cold	8
Manes - Slow Motion Death Sequence	8
Horrendous - Idol	8
Riverside - Wasteland	8
Haken - Vector	8

2017

Ne Obliviscaris - Urn	9
Pain Of Salvation - In The Passing Light Of Day	9
Riverside - Lost 'N' Found: Live In Tilburg [Live]	9
Ulver - The Assassination Of Julius Caesar	9
Elder - Reflections Of A Floating World	9
Leprous - Malina	9
Caligula's Horse - In Contact	9
Vulture Industries - Stranger Times	8
Archspire - Relentless Mutation	8
Dvne - Asheran	8
Soen - Lykaia	8
Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World	8
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel	8
Mastodon - Emperor Of Sand	8
Steven Wilson - To The Bone	8
Warbringer - Woe To The Vanquished	7

2016

Alcest - Kodama	9
Vektor - Terminal Redux	9
Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience	9
Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika	9
Haken - Affinity	9
Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts	9
Leprous - Live At Rockefeller Music Hall [Live]	9
Be'lakor - Vessels	9
Insomnium - Winter's Gate	9
Thy Catafalque - Meta	8
Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens	8
Ihsahn - Arktis.	8
Gojira - Magma	8
Dormant Ordeal - We Had It Coming	8
Devin Townsend - Transcendence	8
Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake	8
Dark Tranquillity - Atoma	8
Opeth - Sorceress	7
Slice The Cake - Odyssey To The West	7

2015

Vola - Inmazes	9
Mgła - Exercises In Futility	9
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.	9
Wilderun - Sleep At The Edge Of The Earth	9
Elder - Lore	9
Leprous - The Congregation	9
Alkaloid - The Malkuth Grimoire	9
Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud	9
Riverside - Love, Fear And The Time Machine	9
Caligula's Horse - Bloom	9
Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror	8
Batushka - Litourgiya	8
Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls	8
Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar	8
Symphony X - Underworld	7

2014

Haken - Restoration [EP]	9
Devin Townsend - Casualties Of Cool	9
Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere	9
Gazpacho - Demon	9
Allegaeon - Elements Of The Infinite	9
Dark Fortress - Venereal Dawn	9
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel	9
Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era	8
Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun	8
Opeth - Pale Communion	8
Mastodon - Once More 'Round The Sun	8

2013

Haken - The Mountain	10
Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork	9
Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves	9
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn	9
Vulture Industries - The Tower	9
Caligula's Horse - The Tide, The Thief & River's End	9
Omnium Gatherum - Beyond	9
Shade Empire - Omega Arcane	9
Carcass - Surgical Steel	9
Leprous - Coal	9
Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything	8
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)	8
Amorphis - Circle	8
The Ocean - Pelagial	8

2012

Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone	9
Witchcraft - Legend	9
Katatonia - Dead End Kings	8
Mgła - With Hearts Toward None	8
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist	8
Wintersun - Time I	8
Enslaved - RIITIIR	8
In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad	8
Aoria - The Constant	8
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I	8
Allegaeon - Formshifter	7
Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes	6

2011

Leprous - Bilateral	10
Symphony X - Iconoclast	9
Elder - Dead Roots Stirring	9
Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows	9
Graveyard - Hisingen Blues	9
Fair To Midland - Arrows & Anchors	9
Týr - The Lay Of Thrym	8
Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning	8
Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa	8
Haken - Visions	8
Insomnium - One For Sorrow	8
Devin Townsend - Deconstruction	8
Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times	8
Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth	8
Falconer - Armod	8
Opeth - Heritage	7
Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt Two	7
Turisas - Stand Up And Fight	7
Iced Earth - Dystopia	7

2010

Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time	9
Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini	9
Allegaeon - Fragments Of Form And Function	9
Haken - Aquarius	8
Crippled Black Phoenix - I, Vigilante	8
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier	8
Overkill - Ironbound	8
Dark Fortress - Ylem	8
Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt One	7

2009

Mastodon - Crack The Skye	9
Devin Townsend - Addicted	9
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach	9
Gwynbleidd - Nostalgia	9
Gazpacho - Tick Tock	9
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs	9
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome	9
Amorphis - Skyforger	9
Devin Townsend - Ki	8
Heathen - The Evolution Of Chaos	8
Porcupine Tree - The Incident	8
Insomnium - Across The Dark	8
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition	8
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos	8
Ensiferum - From Afar	7
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day	7

2008

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes	9
Enslaved - Vertebrae	9
Cynic - Traced In Air	9
Opeth - Watershed	9
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God	8
Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh	8
In Mourning - Shrouded Divine	8
Septicflesh - Communion	8
Eluveitie - Slania	8
Testament - The Formation Of Damnation	8
Hibria - The Skull Collectors	6

2007

Gazpacho - Night	10
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet	10
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction	9
Amorphis - Silent Waters	9
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty	9
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid The Omniscient	8
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement	8
Ensiferum - Victory Songs	8
Be'lakor - The Frail Tide	8
Sieges Even - Paramount	8
Primordial - To The Nameless Dead	8
Turisas - The Varangian Way	8
Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free II	8
Fair To Midland - Fables From A Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True	8
Megadeth - United Abominations	7
Machine Head - The Blackening	7
Pain Of Salvation - Scarsick	7

2006

Negură Bunget - OM	9
Insomnium - Above The Weeping World	9
Pure Reason Revolution - The Dark Third	9
Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death	9
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance	9
Enslaved - Ruun	9
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain	9
Devin Townsend - Synchestra	8
Mastodon - Blood Mountain	8
Amorphis - Eclipse	8
Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth	8
Ensiferum - Dragonheads [EP]	7
Leprous - Aeolia [Demo]	7

2005

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing	10
Opeth - Ghost Reveries	9
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome	9
Moonsorrow - Verisäkeet	9
Subterranean Masquerade - Suspended Animation Dreams	9
Mors Principium Est - The Unborn	9
Sieges Even - The Art Of Navigating By The Stars	9
Demons & Wizards - Touched By The Crimson King	9
Gamma Ray - Majestic	9
Kiuas - The Spirit Of Ukko	9
Dark Tranquillity - Character	9
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal	9
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor	9
Strapping Young Lad - Alien	8
Kamelot - The Black Halo	8
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius	8
Kreator - Enemy Of God	8
Karnivool - Themata	8
Bruce Dickinson - Tyranny Of Souls	8
Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?	7
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy	6

2004

Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down	9
Wintersun - Wintersun	9
Ensiferum - Iron	9
Mastodon - Leviathan	9
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh	9
Pain Of Salvation - "BE"	9
Enslaved - Isa	9
Isis - Panopticon	9
Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor	9
Decapitated - The Negation	8
Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination	8
Turisas - Battle Metal	8
Clutch - Blast Tyrant	8
Hibria - Defying The Rules	8
Megadeth - The System Has Failed	7

2003

Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution	9
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness	9
Windir - Likferd	9
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja	9
Opeth - Damnation	9
Manes - Vilosophe	9
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought	9
Riverside - Out Of Myself	8
Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death	8
Enslaved - Below The Lights	8
Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll	8
Týr - Eric The Red	8

2002

Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane	10
Agalloch - The Mantle	10
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors	9
Decapitated - Nihility	9
Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness	9
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf	9
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia	9
Opeth - Deliverance	9
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera	8
Manowar - Warriors Of The World	8

2001

Opeth - Blackwater Park	10
Devin Townsend - Terria	9
Sodom - M-16	9
Green Carnation - Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness	9
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down	9
Ensiferum - Ensiferum	9
Windir - 1184	9
Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta	9
Tool - Lateralus	9
Moonsorrow - Suden Uni	9
Gamma Ray - No World Order	9

2000

Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World	10
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I	10
Iron Maiden - Brave New World	9
Decapitated - Winds Of Creation	9
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun	9
Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper	9
Kalmah - Swamplord	8
Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R	8
Quo Vadis - Day Into Night	8

1999

Opeth - Still Life	10
Anathema - Judgement	9
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter	9
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory	9
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream	9
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder	9
Windir - Arntor	9
Demons & Wizards - Demons & Wizards	9
Amorphis - Tuonela	8
Testament - The Gathering	8

1998

Death - The Sound Of Perseverance	10
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth	9
Anathema - Alternative 4	9
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding	9
Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse	9
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes	8
Iron Maiden - Virtual XI	6

1997

Bruce Dickinson - Accident Of Birth	9
Strapping Young Lad - City	9
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech	9
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale	8

1996

Opeth - Morningrise	9
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson	9
Tool - Ænima	9
Amorphis - Elegy	9

1995

Death - Symbolic	10
Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane	9
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul	9
Gamma Ray - Land Of The Free	9
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side	9
Opeth - Orchid	7
Iron Maiden - The X Factor	6

1994

Kyuss - Kyuss	10
Megadeth - Youthanasia	9
Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes	9
Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops	9

1993

Carcass - Heartwork	9
Cynic - Focus	9
Death - Individual Thought Patterns	9

1992

Alice In Chains - Dirt	10
Demolition Hammer - Epidemic Of Violence	9
Faith No More - Angel Dust	9
Dream Theater - Images And Words	9
Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun	9
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond	9
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction	8
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark	7

1991

Devastation - Idolatry	9
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence	9
Coroner - Mental Vortex	9
Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider	9
Death - Human	9
Overkill - Horrorscope	9

1990

Megadeth - Rust In Peace	10
Artillery - By Inheritance	9
Kreator - Coma Of Souls	9
Annihilator - Never, Neverland	8
Judas Priest - Painkiller	8
Entombed - Left Hand Path	8
Death - Spiritual Healing	8
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss	8
Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World	8
Demolition Hammer - Tortured Existence	8
Queensrÿche - Empire	7
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying	6

1989

Annihilator - Alice In Hell	9
Testament - Practice What You Preach	9
Scanner - Terminal Earth	9
Kreator - Extreme Aggression	8
Blind Guardian - Follow The Blind	8
Overkill - The Years Of Decay	8

1988

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son	10
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime	10
Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn	9
Testament - The New Order	9
Death - Leprosy	9
Slayer - South Of Heaven	9
Metallica - ...And Justice For All	8
Blind Guardian - Battalions Of Fear	8
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?	8

1987

Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I	9
Testament - The Legacy	9
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction	9
Overkill - Taking Over	8

1986

Metallica - Master Of Puppets	9
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time	9
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?	9
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus	8
Slayer - Reign In Blood	8

1985

Overkill - Feel The Fire	8
Exodus - Bonded By Blood	8

1984

Iron Maiden - Powerslave	10
Metallica - Ride The Lightning	9

1983

Metallica - Kill 'Em All	9
Dio - Holy Diver	9
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind	9
Slayer - Show No Mercy	8

1982

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast	10
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance	9

1981

Rush - Moving Pictures	9
Iron Maiden - Killers	9

1980

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden	9
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell	9
Saxon - Strong Arm Of The Law	8
Saxon - Wheels Of Steel	8

1978

Van Halen - Van Halen

9

1976

Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

9

1972

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath Vol. 4

8

1971

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

9

1970

Black Sabbath - Paranoid	9
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath	8