|
2007 |
| 1. KAUAN - LUMIKUURO |
| 2. THE OLD DEAD TREE - THE WATER FIELDS |
| 3. THE FORESHADOWING - DAYS OF NOTHING |
| 4. NOVEMBRE - THE BLUE |
| 5. THE FALL OF EVERY SEASON - FROM BELOW |
| 6. AMORPHIS - SILENT WATER |
| 7. SHINING - HALMSTAD |
| 8. ULVER - SHADOWS OF THE SUN |
| 9. FORGOTTEN TOMB - NEGATIVE MEGALOMANIA |
| 10. THE KNELL - HARM |
| HONOURABLE MENTION: WOODS OF INFINITY - HAMPTJARN HARDINGROCK - GRINE
|
| 2005 |
2006 (Year of Metal 666) |
| 1. Sham Rain:
Someplace Else |
1. Novembre:
Materia |
| 2. Opeth:
Ghost Reveries |
2. Katatonia: The Great Cold Distance |
| 3. The Old
Dead Tree: The
Perpectual Motion |
3. Eyes of Fire: Prisons |
| 4. WYRD: Rota |
4.
Daylight
Dies: Dismantling Devotion |
| 5. Hyponic:
Noise of Time |
5. Amorphis: Eclipse |
| 6. Ulver:
Blood Inside |
6. Madder Mortem: Desiderata |
| 7. World Below: Maelstrom | 7. Slayer: Christ Illusion |
| 8. Asgaut: Village | 8. Amon Amarth: With Oden On Our Side |
| 9. Slumber: Fallout | 9. National Napalm Syndicate: Ressurection of The Wicked |
| 10. Sentenced: The Funeral Album | 10. Darkthrone: The Cult Is Alive |
| Honourable
Mention: Kekal: Acidity Umbra Nihil: Gnoia Cathedral: The Garden of Unearthly Delights Vreid: Kraft Antimatter: Planetary Connectment Evoken: The Antithesis of Light Pantheist: Amartia Swallow The Sun: The Ghost of Loss Mournful Congregation: The Monad of Creation Tyranny: Tides of Awakening Aphotic/Dusk: Split Nile: Annihilation of The Wicked Manegarm: Vredens Tid Room With A View: Collecting Shells At Lighthouse Hill Hypocrisy: Virus Drudkh: The Swan Road |
Honourable
Mention: Mirrorthrone: Carriers of Dust Summoning: Oath Bound My Dying Bride: A Line Of Deathless King Ahab: The Call of The Wretched Sea Borknagar: Origin Catacombs: In The Depths of R'Lych" Saturnus: Veronika Decides To Die Drudkh: Blood In Our Wells Nortt: Ligferd WYRD: The Ghost Album I: Between Two Worlds Unearthly Trance: The Trident Kimaera: Ebony Veiled Agalloch: Ashes Agasint The Grain Negura Bunget: Om Vedonist: Awaking To Immortality Vader: Art of War + Impressions In Blood Neglected Fields: Splenetic All Weird Releases from The End Records: Estradasphere: Palace of Mirrors Giant Squid: Metridium Field Unexpect: In A Flesh Aquarium Head Control System: Murder Nature Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Grand Opening And Closing Stolen Babies: There Be Sqabbles Ahead |
| 2003 |
2004 |
| 1. Katatonia: Viva Emptiness |
1. Eyes of Fire: Ashes To Embers |
| 2. Opeth: Damnation |
2. My Dying Bride: Songs of Darkness, Words of Light |
| 3. Pantheist: O Solitude |
3. WYRD: Vargtimmen pt. II |
| 4. The Old Dead Tree: The
Nameless Disease |
4. The Eternal: The Sombre Light of Isolation |
| 5. WYRD: Vargtimmen pt. I |
5. Aarni: Bathos |
| 6. Runemagick: Darkness Death
Doom |
6. Bloodbath: Nightmares Made Flesh |
| 7. Windir: Likferd |
7. Radigost: For The Honour of Our Truth |
| 8. Nortt: Gudsforladt |
8. Forgotten Tomb: Love's Burial Ground |
| 9. Calvarium: The Skull of
Golgotha |
9. Amon Amarth: Fate of Norms |
| 10. Swallow The Sun: The Morning Never Came | 10. Morgion: Cloaked By Ages, Crowned In Earth |
| Honourable Mention: Anathema: A Natural Disaster Rudra: Kurukshetra Sword of Darkness: Heathendom Mutiilation: Majestas Leprosus Amorphis: Far From The Sun Mirrorthrone: Of Wind and Weeping Naglfar: Sheol Forgotten Tomb: Springtime Depression Watain: Casus Luciferi Wasara: Kaiken Kauntin Loppu Manegarm: Dodsfard Leviathan: The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide Xasthur: The Funeral of Being Drudkh: Forgotten Legends |
Honourable Mention: Orphaned Land: Mabool Enslaved: Isa Forest of Shadows: Departure Esoteric: Subconscious Dissolution Into The Continuum Leviathan: Tentacles of Whoror Vader: The Beast Mars de Grises: The Tatterdemalion Express Shining: IV Drudkh: Autumn Aurora |
| 2001 |
2002 |
| 1. Katatonia: Last Fair Deal
Gone Down |
1. Daylight Dies: No Reply |
| 2. Wyrd: Heathen |
2. WYRD: Huldrafolk |
| 3. Opeth: Blackwater Park | 3. Bloodbath: Resurrection Through Carnage |
| 4. Officium Triste: The Pathway | 4. Wolfnacht: Night of The Werewolf |
| 5. Satan Penguins: Birds of
Darkness |
5. Radigost: Nocturne |
| 6. Mutiilation: Black Millenium |
6. Forgotten Tomb: Songs To Leave |
| 7. Windir: 1184 | 7. Opeth: Deliverance |
| 8. Novembre: Novembrine
Waltz |
8. Hetroertzen: Flying Across The Misty Gardens |
| 9. Shining: II - Livets Andhallplats | 9. Shining: III - Angst |
| 10. Arch Enemy: Wages of Sin | 10. Amon Amarth: Versus the World |
| Honourable Mention: Hyponic: Black Sun Emperor: Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise Evoken: Quietus Green Carnation: Light of Day, Day of Darkness Madder Mortem: All Flesh is Grass Forest of Shadows: When Dreams Turn To Dust Oathean: Ten Days In Lachrymator Amon Amarth: Crusher My Dying Bride: The Dreadful Hours |
Honourable Mention: Dusk: Mourning...Resurrect Darkane: Expanding Sense My Dying Bride: The Voice of The Wretched Negura Bunget: N Crugu Bradley Vader: Revelations Nile: In Their Darkened Shrines Agalloch: The Mantle Madder Mortem: Deadlands Xasthur: Nocturnal Poisoning |
| 1999 |
2000 |
| 1. Katatonia: Tonight’s Decision
|
1. Melancholy Pessimism: Evil Planet |
| 2. Opeth: Still Life |
2. Shining: I - Within Deep Dark
Chambers |
| 3. Nokturnal Mortum: NeChrist | 3. Nile: Black Seeds of Vengeance |
| 4. Darkane: Rusted Angel | 4. Shape of Despair: Shades of… |
| 5. Judas Iscariot: Heaven’s In
Flame |
5. Cryptal Darkness: They Whispered You Had Risen |
| 6. Marduk: Panzer Division
Marduk |
6. Mental Home: Upon The Shores of Inner |
| 7. Windir: Antor |
7. Vader: Litany |
| 8. My Dying Bride: The Light At
The End of The World |
8. Watain: Rabid Death's Curse |
| 9. Summoning: Stronghold |
9. Astarte: Rise From Within |
| 10. Novembre: Classica |
10. Neglected Fields: Mephisto
Lettonica |
| Honourable Mention: Potentiam: Balsyn Agalloch: Pale Folklore Amon Amarth: Avenger Emperor: IX Equilibrium Arch Enemy: Burning The Bridges |
Honourable Mention: Weakling: Dead As Dreams Manegarm: Havets Vargar Dying Fetus: Destroy The Opposition Saturnus: Martyre Ulver: Perdition City Thyrfing: Urkraft Dark Lunacy: Devoid Die Apocalyptischen Reiter: All You Need Is Love Green Carnation: Journey To The End of The Night |
| 1997 |
1998 |
| 1. Emperor: Antheme To The
Welkin At Dusk |
1. Katatonia: Discouraged One |
| 2. Ulver: Natten Mardrigal |
2. Opeth: My Arms, Your Hearse |
| 3. Nokturnal Mortum: Goat Horns | 3. Mental Home: Black Art |
| 4. Morgion: Among Majestic Ruin |
4. Nokturnal Mortum: To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire |
| 5. Vader: Black To Blind |
5. Naglfar: Diabolical |
| 6. Arcturus: La Masquerade
Infernale |
6. Amon Amarth: Once Sent From
The Golden Hall |
| 7. Windir: Soknardalr |
7. Death: The Sound of
Perseverance |
| 8. Graveland: Following The
Voice of Blood |
8. Theatre of Tragedy: Aegis |
| 9. Enslaved: ELD | 9. Therion: Vovin |
| 10. Hecate Enthroned : The Slaughter of Innocence, A Requiem for the Mighty | 10. Anathema: Alternative 4 |
| Honourable Mention: Summoning: Nightshade Forest In The Woods: Omnio Falkenbach: ...Magni Blandinn ok Megintiri... Empyrium: Songs of Moors and Misty Fields |
Honourable Mention: Lunatic Gods: Sitting By The Fire Manegarm: Nordstjarnans Tidsalder Bethlehem: Sardomscher Untergang im Zeichen irreligioser Darbictung Nile: Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka Sa The Sins of Thy Beloved: Lake of Sorrow Marduk: Nightwing Enslaved: Blodhemn Neglected Fields: Synthinity |
| 1995 |
1996 |
| 1. Darkthrone: Panzerfaust |
1. Katatonia: Brave Murder Day |
| 2. My Dying Bride: The Angel And
The Dark River |
2. Opeth: Morningrise |
| 3. Dissection: Storm of the
Light’s bane |
3. Amorphis: Elegy |
| 4. Ulver: Bergtaat |
4. Marduk: Heaven Shall Burn
... When We Are Gather |
| 5. Summoning: Lugburz/Minus
Morgul |
5. Absurd: Facta Loqunntur |
| 6. Death: Symbolic | 6. Orphaned Land: El Norra Alila |
| 7. Naglfar: Vittra | 7. Burzum: Filosofem |
| 8. Opeth: Orchid | 8. Cryptopsy: None So Vile |
| 9. In Flames: Jester Race | 9. Theatre of Tragedy: Velvet Darkness The Fear |
| 10. Graveland: Thousand Sword | 10. Summoning: Dol Guldur |
| Honourable Mention: At The Gates: Slaughter of The Soul Anathema: Silent Enigma Moonspell: Wolfheart Theatre of Tragedy: S/T Dark Tranquillity: Gallery |
Honourable Mention: Therion: Theli Saturnus: Paradise Belongs To You Angel Corpse: Hammer of Gods My Dying Bride: Like Gods of The Sun Edge of Sanity: Crimson Borknagar: S/T Lunatic Gods: Inhuman And Insensible |
| 1993 |
1994 |
| 1. My Dying Bride: Turn Loose
The Swans |
1. Thergothon: Stream From The
Heavens |
| 2. Katatonia: Dance of December
Soul |
2. Darkthrone: Transylvania
Hunger |
| 3. Darkthrone: Under A Funeral
Moon |
3. Amorphis: Tales From The
Thousand Lakes |
| 4. Enslaved: Vikingligr Veld |
4. Emperor: In The Nightside
Eclipse |
| 5. Dissection: Somberlain | 5. Slayer: Divine Intervention |
| 6. Sepultura: Chaos A.D. | 6. In Flames: Lunar Strain |
| 7. Burzum: Det Som Engang Var |
7. Orphaned Land: Sahara |
| 8. Immortal: Pure Holocaust | 8. Mayhem: De Mysteriis Dom
Sathanas |
| 9. Marduk: Those of The Unlight |
9. Burzum: Hvis Lyset Tar Oss |
| 10. Mayhem: Live in Leipzig |
10. Enslaved: Frost |
| Honourable Mention: Death: Individual Thought Pattern Cynic: Focus Benediction: Transcend the Rubicon Carcass: Heartwork |
Honourable Mention: dISEMBOWELMENT: Transendence into the Peripher Edge of Sanity: Purgatory Afterglow Abigor: Verwüstung - Invoke The Dark Age Bethlehem: Dark Metal |
| 1991 |
1992 |
| 1. Darkthrone: A Blaze In The
Northern Sky |
1. Amorphis: The Karelian Isthmus |
| 2. Massacre: From Beyond |
2. Burzum: S/T |
| 3. Death: Human |
3. The Gathering: Always… |
| 4. Grave: Into The Grave |
4. Nocturnus: Thresholds |
| 5. Entombed: Clandestine | 5. My Dying Bride: As The Flower Withers |
| 6. Sepultura: Arise |
6. Marduk: Dark Endless |
| 7. Cathedral: Forest of Equilibrium | 7. Immortal: Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| 8. Atheist: Unquestionable Question | 8. Deicide: Legion |
| 9. Malevolent Craetion: The Ten Commandments | 9. Megadeth: Count Down To
Extinction |
| 10. Pestilence: Testimony of The Ancients | 10. Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power |
| Honourable Mention: Nocturnus: The Key Paradise Lost: Gothic |
Honourable Mention: Paradise Lost: Shades of Gods Trouble: Manic Frustration |
| 1980s |
1990 |
| 1. Slayer - Reign In Blood (1986) |
1. Slayer: Seasons In Abyss |
| 2. Sepultura - Beneath The
Remains (1989) |
2. Morbid Angel: Altar of
Madness |
| 3. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of
Ozz (1980) |
3. Entombed - Left Hand
Path |
| 4. Mercyful Fate - Don’t Break The Oath (1984) | 4. Death: Spiritual Healing |
| 5. Exodus - Bonded By Blood
(1985) |
5. Megadeth: Rust In Peace |
| 6. Slayer - Show No Mercy (1983) |
6. Morgoth: The Eternal Fall/Resurrection Absurd |
| 7. Slayer - South of Heaven
(1988) |
7. Darkthrone: Soulside Journey |
| 8. Death - Scream Bloody Gore
(1987) |
8. Paradise Lost: Lost Paradise |
| 9. Megadeth - Peace Sells...But
Who's Buying (1986) |
9. Kreator: Coma of Souls |
| 10. King Diamond: Abigail (1987) |
10. Deicide: S/T |
| Honourable Mention: Anthrax: Among The Living (1987) Sepultura: Schizophrenia (1987) Mercyful Fate: Melissa/The Beginning (1983/1987) Exodus: Fabulous Disaster (1989) Motorhead: Ace of Spades (1980) Kreator: Pleasure To Kill (1986) |
Honourable Mention: Atheist: Piece of Time Pantera: Cowboys From Hell Orbituary: Cause of Death Trouble: S/T |