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Heliosaga - Towers in the Distance
Self-released
Power Metal
|
81 / 100
|
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Dragonforce - Maximum Overload
Metal Blade
Melodic Power Metal
|
84 / 100
|
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Equilibrium - Erdentempel
Nuclear Blast
Folk Metal
|
73 / 100
|
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Age of Artemis - Overcoming Limits
MS Metal Records
Melodic Power Metal
|
79 / 100
|
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Istapp - Blekinge
Metal Blade
Melodic Black Metal (with various other influences)
|
83 / 100
|
|
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Coheed & Cambria - The Afterman: Ascension
Hundred Handed / Everything Evil
Progressive Rock / Alt. Metal
|
86 / 100
|
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Skeletonwitch - Forever Abomination
Prosthetic Records
Blackened Thrash Metal
|
87 / 100
|
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Toxic Holocaust - Conjure and Command
Relapse
Crusty, Doomy, Blackened Thrash Metal
|
81 / 100
|
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Dragon Guardian - Destiny of the Sacred Kingdom
Self-released
Symphonic Power / Speed Metal
|
69 / 100
|
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Shaman - Origins
AFM Records
Melodic / Progressive Power Metal
|
90 / 100
|
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Rhapsody of Fire - From Chaos to Eternity
Nuclear Blast
Symphonic Power Metal
|
80 / 100
|
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Heliosaga - Equinox
Self-released
Power Metal
|
no quote
|
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Ryu-5150 - Yonshiki Gakuten -Dainishou-
Symphonic / Neoclassical Power Metal / Black Metal
|
83 / 100
|
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Dropkick Murphys - Going Out in Style
Born & Bred Records
Celtic Punk
|
90 / 100
|
|
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Aura - Deliverance
Spider Rock Promotion
Progressive Rock / Metal
|
71 / 100
|
|
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Auvernia - Afraid of Me
Self-released
Symphonic Progressive Metal (with various influences)
|
95 / 100
|
|
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Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
Metal Blade
Melodic Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
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Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
Underground Operations/ Vagrant
Progressive Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
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Symfonia - In Paradisum
Avalon / Marquee
Melodic Power Metal
|
79 / 100
|
|
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Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
No Colours Records
Black Metal
|
93 / 100
|
|
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Power Quest - Blood Alliance
Marquee / Avalon (In Japan), Napalm Records (Everywhere else)
Melodic Power Metal
|
91 / 100
|
|
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Dark Moor - Ancestral Romance
Scarlet Records
Symphonic Power Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
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The Batallion - Head Up High
Dark Essence Records
Blackened Thrash Metal
|
76 / 100
|
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Wretched - Beyond The Gate
Victory Records
Progressive Melodeath / Metalcore
|
85 / 100
|
|
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Stratovarius - Elysium
Armoury Records
Melodic Power Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
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Viathyn - The Peregrine Way
Unsigned
Progressive Power / Folk Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
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Helloween - 7 Sinners
SPV
Power Metal
|
87 / 100
|
|
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Impaled Nazarene - Road to the Octagon
Osmose Productions
Black / Thrash Metal
|
87 / 100
|
|
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Cradle Of Filth - Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa
Peaceville Records
Symphonic Extreme Metal
|
64 / 100
|
|
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Heljareyga - Heljareyga
Black Bards Entertainment
Progressive Power / Folk Metal
|
93 / 100
|
|
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Sodom - In War And Pieces
Steamhammer/SPV
Thrash Metal
|
81 / 100
|
|
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Jaldaboath - Rise of the Heraldic Beasts
Napalm / Death To Music
Medieval Folk Metal
|
28 / 100
|
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Angrepp - Warfare
Abyss Records
Blackened Thrash / Punk
|
74 / 100
|
|
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Royal Jester - Night Is Young
Scarlet Records
Melodic Power Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
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ReinXeed - Higher
Rivel Records
Symphonic / Neoclassical Power Metal
|
87 / 100
|
|
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Volbeat - Beyond Hell / Above Heaven
Vertigo / Universal
Groove Metal
|
68 / 100
|
|
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Pathfinder - Beyond The Space, Beyond The Time
Unsigned
Symphonic Power Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
 |
Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere
Candlelight
Black Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
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Angra - Aqua
SPV
Melodic / Progressive Power Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
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Blind Guardian - At The Edge Of Time
Nuclear Blast
Power Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
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Kozeljnik - Deeper The Fall
Paragon Records
Black Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
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Taake - Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik
Wounded Love Records
Black Metal
|
93 / 100
|
|
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Nox Aurea - Ascending in Triumph
Napalm Records
Melodic Doom / Death
|
87 / 100
|
|
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Thulcandra - Fallen Angel's Dominion
Napalm Records
Melodic Black Metal / Dissection Worship
|
79 / 100
|
|
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Hacavitz - Metztli Obscura
Moribund Cult
Blackened Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
 |
Aquaria - Luxaeterna
Scarhorow
Symphonic Power Metal
|
95 / 100
|
|
 |
Equilibrium - Rekreatur
Nuclear Blast
Bombastic, Melodic Folk Metal
|
94 / 100
|
|
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Diabolic - Excisions of Exorcisms
Deathgasm Records
Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
 |
Sinbreed - When Worlds Collide
Ulterium Records
Melodic Power / Speed Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
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Strapping Young Lad - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
Century Media
Industrial Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
 |
SpellBlast - Horns of Silence
Metal Crusade
Melodic Power / Folk Metal
|
79 / 100
|
|
 |
Angra - Holy Land
Limb Music Products
Progressive / Melodic Power Metal
|
94 / 100
|
|
 |
Dioramic - Technicolor
Lifeforce Records
Progressive Metalcore / Post-Hardcore
|
80 / 100
|
|
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Coheed & Cambria - Year Of The Black Rainbow
Columbia
Alt. / Prog Rock
|
85 / 100
|
|
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Masterplan - Time To Be King
AFM Records
Melodic / Heavy Power Metal
|
84 / 100
|
|
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Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Active Records
Technical, Progressive Death / Thrash, Jazz Fusion
|
CLASSIC
|
|
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Wuthering Heights - Salt
Scarlet Records
Melodic, Progressive Power / Folk Metal
|
93 / 100
|
|
 |
Eversin - Divina Distopia
My Kingdom Music
Progressive Power Metal
|
74 / 100
|
|
 |
Nocturnal Breed - Fields of Rot
Agonia Records
Blackened Thrash / Speed Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
 |
Avantasia - Angel of Babylon
Nuclear Blast
Power Metal / Hard Rock
|
82 / 100
|
|
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Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony
Nuclear Blast
Power Metal / Hard Rock
|
80 / 100
|
|
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Ea - Au Ellai
Solitude Productions
Epic / Atmospheric Funeral Doom
|
88 / 100
|
|
 |
Darkthrone - Circle the Wagons
Peaceville Records
Blackened Crust Punk
|
82 / 100
|
|
 |
White Wizzard - Over the Top
Earache Records
Heavy Metal à la Maiden
|
84 / 100
|
|
 |
The Breathing Process - Odyssey (un)Dead
Candlelight
Symphonic / Blackened Deathcore
|
68 / 100
|
|
 |
Volbeat - Rock the Rebel / Metal the Devil
Mascot Records
Thrash / Groove, Rockabilly
|
85 / 100
|
|
 |
Arsis - Starve For The Devil
Nuclear Blast
Technical Melodeath
|
80 / 100
|
|
 |
Rage - Strings To A Web
Nuclear Blast
Power / Speed Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
 |
Symphonity - Voice From the Silence
Limb Music Products
Symphonic Power Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
 |
Doom - Total Doom
Peaceville Records
Crust Punk
|
no quote
|
|
 |
Borknagar - Universal
Indie Recordings
Progressive Folk / Post-Black Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
 |
Derdian - New Era Pt. 3 - The Apocalypse
Magna Carta
Symphonic / Neoclassical Power Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
 |
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Misanthropy
Black Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
 |
Wrath And Rapture - Wrath And Rapture
Tragic Hero Records
Progressive Melodeath / Power Metal / Metalcore
|
no quote
|
|
 |
The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis
I Hate Records
Atmospheric Doom Metal
|
83 / 100
|
|
 |
Dark Fortress - Ylem
Century Media
Melodic / Atmospheric / Technical (??) Black Metal
|
91 / 100
|
|
 |
Fides Inversa - Hanc Aciem Sola Retundit Virtus (The Algolagnia Divine)
Osmose Productions
Black Metal
|
77 / 100
|
|
 |
Savage Circus - Of Doom And Death
Dockyard1
Power Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
 |
Gamma Ray - To The Metal!
Edel
Power Metal
|
79 / 100
|
|
 |
Candlemass - Nightfall
Active Records
Epic Doom / Heavy Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
 |
Psychogenesist - Celestial Destiny
Self-released
Brutal Death / Grind
|
no quote
|
|
 |
Versailles - Jubilee
Warner Music Japan
Symphonic / Neoclassical Power Metal
|
87 / 100
|
|
 |
Qantice - The Cosmocinesy
Brennus Music
Symphonic / Progressive Power Metal
|
91 / 100
|
|
 |
Mortification - Mortification
Intense Records
Death / Thrash Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
 |
Winds Of Plague - The Great Stone War
Century Media
Symphonic Deathcore / Death Metal
|
69 / 100
|
|
 |
Machinae Supremacy - Overworld
Spinefarm Records
Power Metal
|
84 / 100
|
|
 |
Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
Relapse Records
Technical Death / Grind
|
81 / 100
|
|
 |
Theocracy - Mirror Of Souls
Ulterium Records
Epic Melodic Power Metal
|
98 / 100
|
|
 |
Blackguard - Profugus Mortis
Nuclear Blast
Folk / Melodic Death Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
 |
X-Japan - Blue Blood
Sony Records
Power / Speed Metal, Visual Kei
|
90 / 100
|
|
 |
Evile - Infected Nations
Earache Records
Thrash Metal
|
50 / 100
|
|
 |
Gamma Ray - Somewhere Out In Space
Noise Records
Melodic Power Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
 |
Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion
Willowtip
Extremely Technical Death Metal
|
81 / 100
|
|
 |
Motorhead - Sacrifice
Steamhammer
Heavy / Speed Metal
|
93 / 100
|
|
 |
Skyfire - Esoteric
Pivotal Rockordings
Melodic Death Metal
|
90 / 100
|
|
 |
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Profound Lore Records
Avant-Garde Black Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
 |
Austrian Death Machine - Double Brutal
Metal Blade
Thrash Metal / Metalcore
|
73 / 100
|
|
 |
Weverin - Serpent Light
War Flagellation Productions
Black / Death Metal
|
79 / 100
|
|
 |
Enfold Darkness - Our Cursed Rapture
Sumerian Records
Blackened, Technical, Melodic Death Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
 |
Rigor Mortis - Rigor Mortis
Capitol Records Inc.
Thrash Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
 |
Revocation - Existence Is Futile
Relapse Records
Technical Thrash / Death Metal
|
80 / 100
|
|
 |
Gama Bomb - Tales From The Grave In Space
Earache Records
Thrash Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
 |
Epica - Design Your Universe
Nuclear Blast
Symphonic Gothic / Power Metal
|
89 / 100
|
|
 |
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire
Prosthetic Records
Blackened Thrash Metal
|
89 / 100
|
|
 |
Dethklok - Dethalbum II
Williams Street Records
Melodic Death Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
 |
Future Is Tomorrow - Fit To Die
Self Financed
Progressive Power metal
|
84 / 100
|
|
 |
Morrigu - The Niobium Sky
Dark Balance
Melodic Doomdeath
|
70 / 100
|
|
 |
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Osmose Productions
Black Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
 |
Saltatio Mortis - Wer Wind Sæt
Napalm Records
Medieval Folk / Hard Rock
|
64 / 100
|
|
 |
Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
Osmose Productions
Black Metal
|
86 / 100
|
|
 |
Melodius - Dream On
Avatarn Records
Melodic, Progressive Power Metal
|
69 / 100
|
|
 |
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
Earache Records
Punky Thrash Metal
|
72 / 100
|
|
 |
Darktrance - Ghosts In The Shells
Solitude Productions
Depressive, Pseudo-"Experimental" Black Metal
|
53 / 100
|
|
 |
Kreator - Terrible Certainty
Noise Records
Thrash Metal
|
95 / 100
|
|
 |
Vader - Necropolis
Nuclear Blast
Death Metal
|
82 / 100
|
|
 |
Wine From Tears - Through The Eyes Of A Mad
BadMoodMan
Melodic Doom Metal
|
85 / 100
|
|
 |
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
Roadrunner Records
Brutal Death Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
 |
Versailles - Noble
Sherow Artist Society
Symphonic, Neoclassical Power Metal With Various Other Influences
|
93 / 100
|
|
 |
ReinXeed - The Light
Rivel Records
Melodic Power Metal
|
79 / 100
|
|
 |
Axxis - Utopia
AFM Records
Power Metal
|
88 / 100
|
|
 |
Korpiklaani - Karkelo
Nuclear Blast
Folk Metal
|
64 / 100
|
|
 |
Celesty - Vendetta
Spinefarm Records
Symphonic Power Metal
|
92 / 100
|
|
 |
Ensiferum - From Afar
Spinefarm Records
Folk Metal
|
94 / 100
|
|
 |
Dark Forest (Canada) - Aurora Borealis
Self-Financed
Melodic/Atmospheric Black Metal
|
87 / 100
|
|
 |
Primal Fear - 16.6 (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead)
Frontiers Records
Heavy Power Metal
|
77 / 100
|
|
 |
Coheed & Cambria - In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3
Equal Vision Records
Progressive Rock
|
93 / 100
|
|
 |
Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic
Nuclear Blast
Sci-Fi Symphonic Extreme Metal
|
95 / 100
|
|
 |
Slayer - South Of Heaven
American Recordings
Thrash Metal
|
CLASSIC
|
|
 |
Demoniac - The Fire And The Wind
Osmose Productions
Power Metal With Blackened Vocals
|
50 / 100
|
|
 |
Severed Savior - Servile Insurrection
Willowtip
Technical Brutal Death Metal
|
89 / 100
|
|
 |
Ravenheart - Valley Of The Damned
Twilight Zone Records
Melodic Power Metal
|
49 / 100
|
|
 |
The Stone - Umro
Folter Records
Black Metal
|
97 / 100
|
 |
 |
The Stone - Magla
Folter Records
Black Metal
|
94 / 100
|
|
 |
Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight
Napalm Records
Pirate-Themed Power Metal
|
78 / 100
|
|
 |
Sylosis - Conclusion Of An Age
Nuclear Blast
Thrash/Melodic Death Metal
|
90 / 100
|
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