Doom Metal - Faroe Islands - Metal Blade Records - Rating: 8.3

Technical Brutal Death Metal -Italy - Century Media Records - Key Songs: The Numinous One, Against the Sovereignity of Mankind, Quasi-Sentient, More Than Many, Never One - Rating: 8.3

Death Doom Metal - UK - 20 Buck Spin - Key Songs: Gut-Brain Axis, Splayed Mudscape, Tidal Slaughtermarsh - Rating: 8.3

Dissonant Death Metal - Australia- Key Songs: Inner Oceans, Endurance - Rating: 8.2

Death Metal - Belgium - Nuclear Blast Records - Key Songs: Dreadbringer, The Shape of Hate -Rating: 8.2

Progressive Metal / Math Metal - Song: Phoenix VI Invocation - Rating: 8.2

Melodic Black Metal - Sweden - Wolves of Hades - Rating: 8.1

Melodic Death Metal - Sweden - Century Media Records - Key Songs: Grace of the Past, Clavis Inferni - Rating: 8.1

Athmospheric Black Metal - Australia - Napalm Records - Key Songs: Verdalet, Crowns of Esper, Anthesis - Rating: 8.0

Death Metal - USA - Season of Mist - Rating: 8.0

Technical Death Metal - Brazil - Rating: 7.9

Death Metal - USA - Rating: 7.7

Melodic Death Metal - Prosthetic Records - Rating: 7.9

Thrash Metal - Rating: 7.7

Thrash Metal - Greece - Nuclear Blast Records - Key Songs: Deathstalker, Profane Prayer, The Return of the Reaper - Rating: 7.7

Heavy Metal - UK - Rating: 7.7

England - Heavy Metal - Key Songs: Afterglow of Ragnarok, Resurrection Men, Eternity Has Failed - Rating: 7.7

Thrash Death Metal - Rating: 7.7

Progressive Metal - Tunisia - Key Songs: Candles Cry, Wheel of Time - Rating: 7.4

Black'n'Roll - Rating: 7.2

Post-Metal - Rating: 7.2