2024

Vitriol - Suffer & Become	9
Myrath - Karma	8
Sonata Arctica - Clear Cold Beyond	7
DragonForce - Warp Speed Warriors	7
Caligula's Horse - Charcoal Grace	6

2023

TesseracT - War Of Being	10
Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden	9
Scar Symmetry - The Singularity (Phase II - Xenotaph)	8
Night Verses - Every Sound Has A Color In The Valley Of Night: Part 1	8
Voyager - Fearless In Love	7
Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen	7
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium	7
Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags	7
Haken - Fauna	7
Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre	7
Ascension (UK) - Under The Veil Of Madness	7
Galneryus - Between Dread And Valor	7
Veil Of Maya - [M]other	6
In Flames - Foregone	6
Orbit Culture - Descent	6
Earthside - Let The Truth Speak	6
Atavistia - Cosmic Warfare	6
Enforcer - Nostalgia	6
Steven Wilson - The Harmony Codex	5

2022

Avantasia - A Paranormal Evening With The Moonflower Society	9
Meshuggah - Immutable	9
Brymir - Voices In The Sky	8
Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor	8
Lorna Shore - Pain Remains	8
Polyphia - Remember That You Will Die	8
Monuments - In Stasis	8
Seventh Wonder - The Testament	8
Northlane - Obsidian	8
Soilwork - Övergivenheten	8
Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!	8
An Abstract Illusion - Woe	7
Wilderun - Epigone	7
Threshold - Dividing Lines	7
Animals As Leaders - Parrhesia	7
Septicflesh - Modern Primitive	7
Blind Guardian - The God Machine	7
Architects - The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Spirit	6
The Halo Effect - Days Of The Lost	6
Fallujah - Empyrean	6
Obsidious - Iconic	6

2021

TesseracT - Portals [Live]	9
Galneryus - Union Gives Strength	8
Lorna Shore - ...And I Return To Nothingness [EP]	8
Archspire - Bleed The Future	8
Beast In Black - Dark Connection	7
Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb	7
Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist	7
Gojira - Fortitude	7
Helloween - Helloween	7
Spiritbox - Eternal Blue	7
Between The Buried And Me - Colors II	7
Iron Maiden - Senjutsu	7

2020

Haken - Virus	8
Plini - Impulse Voices	8
Caligula's Horse - Rise Radiant	7
Protest The Hero - Palimpsest	7
Demons & Wizards - III	6

2019

Avantasia - Moonglow	9
Beast In Black - From Hell With Love	8
Brymir - Wings Of Fire	8
Periphery - Periphery IV: Hail Stan	8
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno	8
Jinjer - Macro	8
Galneryus - Into The Purgatory	8
Sleep Token - Sundowning	8
Dream Theater - Distance Over Time	7
Astronoid - Astronoid	7
Voyager - Colours In The Sun	7
Children Of Bodom - Hexed	6
Overkill - The Wings Of War	6
In Flames - I, The Mask	6
Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites	6

2018

TesseracT - Sonder	10
Amorphis - Queen Of Time	8
Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy	8
Night Verses - From The Gallery Of Sleep	8
Monuments - Phronesis	8
Haken - Vector	8
Rivers Of Nihil - Where Owls Know My Name	7
Judicator - The Last Emperor	7
Between The Buried And Me - Automata II	7
Michael Romeo - War Of The Worlds, Pt. 1	7
Riverside - Wasteland	7
Psycroptic - As The Kingdom Drowns	7
Architects - Holy Hell	7
Vola - Applause Of A Distant Crowd	7
Antimatter - Black Market Enlightenment	7
The Algorithm - Compiler Optimization Techniques	6
Lost In Thought - Renascence	6
Arsis - Visitant	6
At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself	6

2017

The Contortionist - Clairvoyant	9
Septicflesh - Codex Omega	9
Galneryus - Ultimate Sacrifice	9
Leprous - Malina	8
Caligula's Horse - In Contact	8
Persefone - Aathma	8
Nocturnal Rites - Phoenix	8
Archspire - Relentless Mutation	8
Threshold - Legends Of The Shires	8
Ne Obliviscaris - Urn	8
Iced Earth - Incorruptible	7
Steven Wilson - To The Bone	7
Adagio - Life	7
Firewind - Immortals	7
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nightbringers	7
Disperse - Foreword	7
Ayreon - The Source	7
Beast In Black - Berserker	7
Anubis Gate - Covered In Black	6
Anathema - The Optimist	6
Uneven Structure - La Partition	5

2016

Periphery - Periphery III: Select Difficulty	8
Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake	8
Textures - Phenotype	8
Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason	8
Avantasia - Ghostlights	8
Allegaeon - Proponent For Sentience	8
Steven Wilson - 4½ [EP]	8
Theocracy - Ghost Ship	8
Circus Maximus - Havoc	8
Myrath - Legacy	8
Fallujah - Dreamless	8
Megadeth - Dystopia	8
Sonata Arctica - The Ninth Hour	7
Obscura - Akróasis	7
Vektor - Terminal Redux	7
Fleshgod Apocalypse - King	7
Animals As Leaders - The Madness Of Many	7
Haken - Affinity	7
Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts	7
In Flames - Battles	6
Dream Theater - The Astonishing	6
Gojira - Magma	6

2015

TesseracT - Polaris	10
Kamelot - Haven	8
Galneryus - Under The Force Of Courage	8
Cain's Offering - Stormcrow	8
Stratovarius - Eternal	8
Intervals - The Shape Of Colour	8
Symphony X - Underworld	8
Soilwork - The Ride Majestic	8
Periphery - Juggernaut: Alpha & Omega	8
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.	8
Gyze - Black Bride	8
Teramaze - Her Halo	8
Intronaut - The Direction Of Last Things	8
Between The Buried And Me - Coma Ecliptic	7
SikTh - Opacities [EP]	7
Kingcrow - Eidos	7
Fear Factory - Genexus	7
Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud	7
Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls	7
Blind Guardian - Beyond The Red Mirror	7
Caligula's Horse - Bloom	7
Nightrage - The Puritan	7
Leprous - The Congregation	7
Cradle Of Filth - Hammer Of The Witches	6

2014

Monuments - The Amanuensis	8
The Contortionist - Language	8
Threshold - For The Journey	8
Galneryus - Vetelgyus	8
Edguy - Space Police - Defenders Of The Crown	8
At The Gates - At War With Reality	7
Soen - Tellurian	7
Girugämesh - Gravitation [EP]	7
Gamma Ray - Empire Of The Undead	7
Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion	7
Overkill - White Devil Armory	7
Iced Earth - Plagues Of Babylon	6
Opeth - Pale Communion	6
Sonata Arctica - Pariah's Child	6
In Flames - Siren Charms	4

2013

TesseracT - Altered State	10
Battle Beast - Battle Beast	9
Galneryus - The IronHearted Flag Vol. 1: Regeneration Side	8
Girugämesh - Monster	8
Avantasia - The Mystery Of Time	8
Caligula's Horse - The Tide, The Thief & River's End	8
Stratovarius - Nemesis	8
Death Angel - The Dream Calls For Blood	8
Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)	8
Scale The Summit - The Migration	8
The Black Dahlia Murder - Everblack	8
Protest The Hero - Volition	8
Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything	8
Havok - Unnatural Selection	7
Dream Theater - Dream Theater	7
Enforcer - Death By Fire	7
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Labyrinth	7
Arsis - Unwelcome	7
Galneryus - The IronHearted Flag Vol. 2: Reformation Side	7
Vangough - Between The Madness	7
Children Of Bodom - Halo Of Blood	6
Megadeth - Super Collider	3

2012

Anathema - Weather Systems	9
Overkill - The Electric Age	8
Meshuggah - Koloss	8
Galneryus - 絆 [EP]	8
Wintersun - Time I	8
Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage	8
Circus Maximus - Nine	8
Periphery - Periphery II: This Time It's Personal	8
Threshold - March Of Progress	8
Between The Buried And Me - The Parallax II: Future Sequence	7
Kamelot - Silverthorn	7
Testament - Dark Roots Of Earth	7
Galneryus - Angel Of Salvation	7
Cradle Of Filth - The Manticore And Other Horrors	6

2011

TesseracT - One	10
Symphony X - Iconoclast	9
Myrath - Tales Of The Sands	8
Iced Earth - Dystopia	8
Dir En Grey - Dum Spiro Spero	8
Protest The Hero - Scurrilous	8
Textures - Dualism	8
Theocracy - As The World Bleeds	8
Havok - Time Is Up	8
Septicflesh - The Great Mass	8
Eumeria - Rebel Mind	8
Stratovarius - Elysium	7
In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading	7
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Agony	7
Edguy - Age Of The Joker	7
The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual	7
Galneryus - Phoenix Rising	7
Benighted - Asylum Cave	7
Obscura - Omnivium	7
Nervecell - Psychogenocide	7
Vektor - Outer Isolation	6
Megadeth - Th1rt3en	6
Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn Of Events	5
Children Of Bodom - Relentless Reckless Forever	5
Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus	2
Metallica - Lulu [Collaboration]	1

2010

Myrath - Desert Call	8
Hour Of Penance - Paradogma	8
Periphery - Periphery	8
Scorpions - Sting In The Tail	8
Enforcer - Diamonds	8
Galneryus - Resurrection	8
Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time	8
Overkill - Ironbound	8
Versailles - Jubilee	7
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia [EP]	7
Avantasia - Angel Of Babylon	7
Keep Of Kalessin - Reptilian	7
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony	7
D'espairsRay - Monsters	7
Helloween - 7 Sinners	7
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier	7
Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony / Angel Of Babylon [Boxset]	7
Cradle Of Filth - Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa	7
Kamelot - Poetry For The Poisoned	7
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy	6
Firewind - Days Of Defiance	6
Forbidden - Omega Wave	4

2009

Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles	8
Megadeth - Endgame	8
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate	8
Behemoth - Evangelion	8
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest	8
Ensiferum - From Afar	8
Bloodbound - Tabula Rasa	7
Skyfire - Esoteric	7
Girugämesh - Now	7
Amorphis - Skyforger	7
Artillery - When Death Comes	7
Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity	7
Dark Moor - Autumnal	7
Primal Fear - 16.6: (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)	7
Savage Messiah - Insurrection Rising	7
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach	7
Obscura - Cosmogenesis	7
Adagio - Archangels In Black	7
Swallow The Sun - New Moon	7
D'espairsRay - Redeemer	7
Immortal - All Shall Fall	7
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos	6
Graveworm - Diabolical Figures	6
Revolution Renaissance - Age Of Aquarius	6
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Children Of The Dark Waters	6
Skyfire - Fractal [EP]	6
Slayer - World Painted Blood	6
Kalisia - Cybion	6
Stratovarius - Polaris	6
HammerFall - No Sacrifice, No Victory	6
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose	6
Evile - Infected Nations	5

2008

Bloodbath - Unblessing The Purity [EP]	8
Dir En Grey - Uroboros	8
Septicflesh - Communion	8
Cradle Of Filth - Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder	8
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery	8
Sabaton - The Art Of War	8
Galneryus - Reincarnation	8
Girugämesh - Music	8
Protest The Hero - Fortress	8
Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh	8
Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets (...And A Caravan Of Weird Figures)	8
Swallow The Sun - Plague Of Butterflies [EP]	8
Theocracy - Mirror Of Souls	8
Meshuggah - ObZen	8
Avantasia - The Scarecrow	8
Enforcer - Into The Night	7
Mercenary - Architect Of Lies	7
Ayreon - 01011001	7
Revolution Renaissance - New Era	7
In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose	7
Testament - The Formation Of Damnation	7
Opeth - Watershed	7
Moonsorrow - Tulimyrsky [EP]	7
DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown	7
Arsis - We Are The Nightmare	7
Children Of Bodom - Blooddrunk	7
Steel Attack - Carpe DiEnd	7
Firewind - The Premonition	7
Iced Earth - The Crucible Of Man (Something Wicked - Part 2)	6
Dreamtale - Phoenix	6
Keep Of Kalessin - Kolossus	6
Death Angel - Killing Season	6
Edguy - Tinnitus Sanctus	6
Metallica - Death Magnetic	3

2007

Galneryus - One For All - All For One	9
Symphony X - Paradise Lost	9
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal	8
Circus Maximus - Isolate	8
Nocturnal Rites - The 8th Sin	8
Avantasia - Lost In Space Part II [EP]	8
Girugämesh - Reason Of Crying [EP]	8
D'espairsRay - Mirror	8
Girugämesh - Girugämesh	8
Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty	8
Kamelot - Ghost Opera	8
Avantasia - Lost In Space Part I [EP]	8
Megadeth - United Abominations	7
Ensiferum - Victory Songs	7
Helloween - Gambling With The Devil	7
Nile - Ithyphallic	7
Naglfar - Harvest	7
Evile - Enter The Grave	7
Behemoth - The Apostasy	7
Dir En Grey - The Marrow Of A Bone	6
Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A	6
Graveworm - Collateral Defect	6
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked - Part 1)	5
Overkill - Immortalis	5

2006

Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death	10
Galneryus - Beyond The End Of Despair...	9
Edguy - Rocket Ride	8
Seventh Wonder - Waiting In The Wings	8
Profundi - The Omega Rising	7
Keep Of Kalessin - Armada	7
Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth	7
DragonForce - Inhuman Rampage	7
Angra - Aurora Consurgens	7
In Flames - Come Clarity	7
Arsis - United In Regret	7
Girugämesh - 13's Reborn	7
HammerFall - Threshold	7
Firewind - Allegiance	7
Mercenary - The Hours That Remain	6
Cradle Of Filth - Thornography	2

2005

Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked	9
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys - The Legacy	8
HammerFall - Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken	8
Sex Machineguns - Heavy Metal Thunder	8
Galneryus - Advance To The Fall	8
Nocturnal Rites - Grand Illusion	8
Dreamtale - Difference	8
Adagio - Dominate	8
D'espairsRay - Coll:Set	8
Kamelot - The Black Halo	8
Firewind - Forged By Fire	8
Catamenia - Winternight Tragedies	7
Naglfar - Pariah	7
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine	7
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor	7
Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?	7
Graveworm - (N)utopia	7
Swallow The Sun - Ghosts Of Loss	7
Dream Theater - Octavarium	7
Stratovarius - Stratovarius	6
Dir En Grey - Withering To Death	6

2004

Edguy - Hellfire Club	9
Wintersun - Wintersun	9
Skyfire - Spectral	9
Angra - Temple Of Shadows	8
Nocturnal Rites - New World Messiah	8
Behemoth - Demigod	8
DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm	8
Edguy - King Of Fools [EP]	8
Megadeth - The System Has Failed	8
In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape	8
Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt	8
Ensiferum - Iron	8
Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned	7
Ayreon - The Human Equation	7

2003

Dream Theater - Train Of Thought	8
Shaman - RituAlive [Live]	8
Galneryus - The Flag Of Punishment	8
DragonForce - Valley Of The Damned	8
Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death	8
Firewind - Burning Earth	8
Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll	8
Naglfar - Sheol	7
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja	7
Stratovarius - Elements Part I	7
Graveworm - Engraved In Black	7
Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy	7
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came	7
Kamelot - Epica	7
Dir En Grey - Vulgar	6
Tvangeste - Firestorm	5
Metallica - St. Anger	2

2002

Symphony X - The Odyssey	10
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera	9
Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part II	9
Shaman - Ritual	8
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines	8
Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion	8
HammerFall - Crimson Thunder	7
Firewind - Between Heaven And Hell	7
In Flames - Reroute To Remain	7
Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness	7
Dir En Grey - 鬼葬	6

2001

Avantasia - The Metal Opera Part I	10
Edguy - Mandrake	9
Opeth - Blackwater Park	8
Gamma Ray - No World Order	8
Testament - First Strike Still Deadly	7
Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta	7
Iced Earth - Horror Show	7
Kamelot - Karma	7
Ensiferum - Ensiferum	7
Megadeth - The World Needs A Hero	5

2000

HammerFall - Renegade	8
Stratovarius - Infinite	8
Edguy - The Savage Poetry	8
Iron Maiden - Brave New World	8
In Flames - Clayman	8
Helloween - The Dark Ride	8
Symphony X - V: The New Mythology Suite	8
Nile - Black Seeds Of Vengeance	7
Nocturnal Rites - Afterlife	7
Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper	7
Cradle Of Filth - Midian	6
Overkill - Bloodletting	6
Dir En Grey - Macabre	5

1999

Edguy - Theater Of Salvation	10
Testament - The Gathering	9
In Flames - Colony	8
Sex Machineguns - Made In Japan	7
Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy	7
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder	7
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter	7
Keep Of Kalessin - Agnen - A Journey Through The Dark	6
Megadeth - Risk	3

1998

Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth	9
Stratovarius - Destiny	8
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes	8
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance	8
Edguy - Vain Glory Opera	8
HammerFall - Legacy Of Kings	7
Naglfar - Diabolical	7
Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka	7
Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle	7
Helloween - Better Than Raw	7
Symphony X - Twilight In Olympus	7

1997

HammerFall - Glory To The Brave	8
Stratovarius - Visions	7
In Flames - Whoracle	7
Edguy - Kingdom Of Madness	7
Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy	7
Keep Of Kalessin - Through Times Of War	6
Megadeth - Cryptic Writings	6
Children Of Bodom - Something Wild	6
Overkill - From The Underground And Below	5
Metallica - Re-Load	2

1996

Stratovarius - Episode	8
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga	8
In Flames - The Jester Race	8
Helloween - The Time Of The Oath	6

1995

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side	9
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings	8
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve	8
Death - Symbolic	8
Megadeth - Hidden Treasures [Compilation]	8
Naglfar - Vittra	6
Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler	6
In Flames - Subterranean [EP]	6

1994

Megadeth - Youthanasia	8
In Flames - Lunar Strain	7
Helloween - Master Of The Rings	7
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse	7

1993

Savatage - Edge Of Thorns	8
Death - Individual Thought Patterns	7
Overkill - I Hear Black	5

1992

Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond	8
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction	8
Dream Theater - Images And Words	8
Iron Maiden - Fear Of The Dark	7

1991

Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider	8
Overkill - Horrorscope	8
Death - Human	7

1990

Megadeth - Rust In Peace	10
Forbidden - Twisted Into Form	8
Death - Spiritual Healing	7
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying	7
Judas Priest - Painkiller	7
Testament - Souls Of Black	7
Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World	7
Iced Earth - Iced Earth	6

1989

Testament - Practice What You Preach	8
Blind Guardian - Follow The Blind	8
Savatage - Gutter Ballet	7
Overkill - The Years Of Decay	7

1988

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son	8
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?	8
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part II	8
Testament - The New Order	8
Blind Guardian - Battalions Of Fear	8
Death - Leprosy	7
Forbidden - Forbidden Evil	7
Overkill - Under The Influence	6

1987

Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King	8
Death - Scream Bloody Gore	8
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys Part I	8
Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence	7
Overkill - Taking Over	7
Testament - The Legacy	7

1986

Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?	10
Slayer - Reign In Blood	8
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time	8
Metallica - Master Of Puppets	7

1985

Exodus - Bonded By Blood	8
Overkill - Feel The Fire	8
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!	7
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho	7

1984

Iron Maiden - Powerslave	9
Metallica - Ride The Lightning	8

1983

Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind	8
Dio - Holy Diver	8
Metallica - Kill 'Em All	7

1982

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

9

1981

Iron Maiden - Killers

7

1970

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

6