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'neath – The Spiders Sleep

4arm – Submission for Liberty

4arm – The Empires of Death

9 Foot Super Soldier – Party Violence

9 Foot Super Solider – Cheap Beer and $2 Thongs

A Breach Of Silence – Dead Or Alive

A Million Dead Birds Laughing – Xen

Abramelin – Never Enough Snuff

Abramelin – Transgressing the Afterlife (The Complete Recordings)

Abraxxas – Bitter Harvest

AC/DC – Black Ice

Adamus Exul – Arsenic Idols

Adrift For Days – Come Midnight…

Adrift For Days – The Lunar Maria

Advent Sorrow – Before The Dimming Light

Aeon of Horus – Existence

Aeternitas – Holocaust of Reason

Agave Maize – Thrones of Isolation

Airbourne – Black Dog Barking

Airbourne – Breakin’ Outta Hell

Airbourne – No Guts. No Glory

Akuma – Shrouds of the Final Nothing

Alarum – Eventuality

Alarum – Natural Causes

Alice Through The Windshield Glass – Keep Your Eyes On The Road

Alkira – Juggernaut

All is Violent – Cartographers of Human Purpose

Amelus – Amelus (Demo)

Among Them – Coming and Going

Anarion – Beneath It All

Annihilist – Vol. 1

Anno Domini – Atrocities

Anubis – 230503

Anubis – A Tower Of Silence

Anythium – The Awakening

Apparitions of Null – Kaleidoscopes

Arcadia – In Ruins

Arcadia/Bury The Fallen – Worlds Collide

Arcane – Chronicles of the Waking Dream

Arcane – Known/Learned

Aronora – Aronora

Artemis Blade – As Above…So Below

As Paradise Falls – Save Yourself

Ashes of December – Dying Is For Fools

Asphyxia – Asphyxia

Astral Winter – Illustrations of Death

Athenas Wake – Contemplation

Atra Vetosus – Voices From The Eternal Night

Audio Reign – Audio Reign

Avandra – Descender

Avarin – Requiem

Aversions Crown – Servitude

Aversions Crown – Tyrant

Ayera – The Chaos Rebellion

Ayreon – The Theory of Everything

Balloons Kill Babies – Prodromal

Bane of Bedlam – Monument of Horror

Bane of Isildur – Bane of Isildur EP

Bane of Isildur – Stormlords

Bane of Winterstorm – The Last Sons of Perilyn

Bateman – SMUT

Battle Pope vs Jesus Christ Posse (split)

Battlegrave – To Hell With War

Be'lakor – Stone's Reach

Be'lakor – The Frail Tide EP

Be’lakor – Vessels

BerserkerfoX – History.Altar.Ashes

BeserkerfoX – King Kong on Crack EP

Beyond Terror Beyond Grace – Nadir

Beyond Terror Beyond Grace – Our Ashes Built Mountains

Black Asylum – Truths of the Blood

Black Asylum – Anthem Of Order

Black Majesty – In Your Honour

Black Orchid – Inertia

Black Trillium – The Locked Woods

Blackened – The Sense In Violence

Bleakwood – Blood & Faith 7"

Boris The Blade – The Human Hive

Boris The Blade – Tides of Damnation

Boris the Blade – Warpath

Born From the Ashes- Born From the Ashes

Branch Arterial – Beyond the Border

Breaking Orbit – The Time Traveller

Buried In Verona – Circle The Dead

Buried in Verona – Saturday Night Sever

Buried In Verona – Vultures Above, Lions Below

Caligula’s Horse – Bloom

Caligula’s Horse – The Tide, The Thief & River’s End

Caprycon – Dark Earth

Catacombs – Sin

Cauldron Black Ram – The Poisoner

Chaos Divine – Colliding Skies

Chaos Divine – The Human Connection

Chronolyth – Atrophy

Circles – Infinitas

Circles – The Last One

Claim The Throne – Aletales

Claim The Throne – On Desolate Plains

Claim The Throne – Only The Brave Return

Claim the Throne – Triumph and Beyond

Code Atlantic – Eclipses

Cog – Just Visiting

Colossvs – Unholy

Conscious Control – Feed the Machine

Contrive – The Internal Dialogue

Contrive – The Meaning Unseen

Copia – Eleven : Eleven

Copia – Epoch

Create|Destroy – Organic Perception

Crimsonfire – Arise To Chaos

Cryptic Abyss – Feed ‘Em To The Sea

Cryptic Abyss – Into the Abyss

Cuntscrape – Papsmear Campaign

Cuntscrape/Deathfuckingcunt – Splitroast

Cursed Earth – Cycles of Grief: The Complete Collection

Cursed Earth – Enslaved by the Insignificant

Daemon Foetal Harvest – Beasts of Tribulation

Daemon Pyre – Daemon Pyre

Damnations Day – A World Awakens

Darker Half – Duality

Darker Half – Never Surrender

Dawn of Retribution – Blood Drunk

Dawn of Retribution – The Plan To End Humanity

Daysend – Within The Eye Of Chaos

DEAD – Idiots

DEAD – THUNDAAAAAH!

Dead City Ruins – Dead City Ruins

Dead City Ruins – Never Say Die

Dead Kelly – Sons of the Southern Cross

Dead Letter Circus – The Endless Mile

Dead Letter Opener – Lumen

Dead River Runs Dry – Hierophants of the Storm

Deadspace – The Liquid Sky

DeathFuckingCunt – Ungodly Violation

Decimatus – Catalyst For Rage

Decryptus – The Necrotic Design

Defamer – Chasm

Defamer – Monolith of Filth

Dejan Toracki – Atmospheric Disturbance

Demonhead – Bring on the Doom

Demonhead – Demonology 101

Demonium – Horrid Engorgement

Depravity – Evil Upheaval

Depravity – Reign Of The Depraved

Desecrator – Down to Hell

Desecrator – Live Til Death

Desecrator – To The Gallows

Deströyer 666 – Call Of The Wild

Diamond Construct – DCX2

Diamond Noir – Monsters

Dining In Tuscany – 1556

Dire Wolf – Tooth & Nail

Direblaze – Smelted, Reformed and Doomed EP

Disentomb – Promo 2009

Disentomb – The Decaying Light

Divine Ascension – Liberator

Dot The Eyes – Eden’s Brigade EP

Downriver – Seethin' Heathen

Dr. Colossus – IV

Dreadnaught – D->0

Dream On, Dreamer – Loveless

Dred – A Path To Extinction

Drown this City – Alpha // Survivor

Drowning Horse – Drowning Horse

Dumbsaint – Panorama, in ten pieces

Dumbsaint – Something That You Feel Will Find Its Own Form

Dyscord – Tirades

Dyssidia – Of Delight And Despair

Earth Rot – Chthonian Virtues

Earth Rot – Follow The Black Smoke

Earth Rot – Renascentia

El Colosso – Pathways

Electrik Dynamite – Hair.Denim.Sex.Metal

Elysian – Self-Titled EP

Empyrean – Quietus

Encircling Sea – A Forgotten Land

Envenomed – Envenomed EP

Envenomed – Evil Unseen

Envenomed – Reckoning

Envenomed – The Walking Shred

Eritherium – Ephemeral

Espionage – Digital Dystopia

Espionage – Wings Of Thunder

Exposed – Exposed

Eye of the Enemy – The Vengeance Paradox

Eye of the Enemy – Weight of Redemption

Eyefear – The Unseen

Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt – Dys/Closure

Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt / Jxckxlz – Split EP

Fear The Setting Sun – Of Slumber Woods Once Spoke

Fearscape – Scent of Divine Blood

Feed Her To The Sharks – Fortitude

Feed Her To The Sharks – Savage Seas

Fenrir – Fenrir

Figures – Figures EP

Figures – Figures EP

Figures – Chronos

Figures – Operating in Unsafe Mode

Flaming Wrekage – Catharsis

Frankenbok – Cheers, Beers & Beards!

Fuck I’m Dead – Another Gory Mess

Fuck The Fitzroy Doom Scene – Facing The Ruin

Gallows for Grace – A Process for the Destruction of Tomorrow (EP)

Gods of Eden – Gods of Eden

Golden Bats – Golden Bats III

Greytomb – A Perpetual Descent

Grimalkin – Grimalkin

Hadal Maw – Charlatan

Hadal Maw – Olm

Hadal Maw – Senium

Halfmast – Death of Ignorance

Harlott – Extinction

Harlott – Origin

Harlott – Proliferation

Hatchet Dawn – Faith In Chaos

Hazmat – Hazmat

Hemina – As We Know It

Hemina – Nebulae

Hemina – Synthetic

Her Tortured Embrace – A Car Crash Fascination

Herratik – Wrath-Divine

Hidden Intent – Fear, Prey, Demise

High Tension – Purge

Horizons Edge – Heavenly Realms

House of Thumbs – Crossing the Rubicon

House of Thumbs – Home

Hybrid Nightmares – Hybrid Nightmares

Hybrid Nightmares – Obelisk

Hybrid Nightmares – The First Age

Hybrid Nightmares – The Second Age

Hybrid Nightmares – The Third Age

I Am Duckeye – Husband

I Built the Sky – The Zenith Rise

Ice on Mercury – Blind Leading the Lifeless EP

Ignite the Ibex – Ignite the Ibex

Ilium – Vespertilion

Ill Omen – Demo 2009

Illimitable Dolor – Leaden Light

In Hearts Wake – Skydancer

In Hearts Wake – Ark

In Malice's Wake – Eternal Nightfall

In Malice’s Wake – Light Upon The Wicked

In Malice’s Wake – The Thrashening

Ink – Black Water Reign

Intercranial Tremors – Rebirth

Internal Harvest – Ethereal Struggle

Internal Nightmare – Chaos Reborn

Internal Nightmare – Demo 2009

Internal Nightmare – Segregation

Ironwood – :Fire:Water:Ash:

Ironwood – Ironwood EP

ISAW – The Identity

James Norbert Ivanyi – Aphasia

Kaamora – Lambs To The Slaughter

Karnivool – Sound Awake

Katabasis – Katabasis

Kettlespider – Kettlespider

KING – Reclaim the Darkness

King Parrot – Bite Your Head Off

King Parrot – Dead Set

King Parrot – Ulgy Produce

Kunvuk – Consume Rapture

Lacrymae – The Hallowed Design

Lagerstein – All For Rum & Rum For All

Level Seven – Let It Out

Limb From Limb – Emet

Limb From Limb – Rip Him From His Fucking Throne

Lomera – Lomera II

Lord – Digital Lies

LORD – Fallen Idols

Lord – Hear No Evil EP

Lord – Set In Stone

Lord – Live at Progpower USA

Love Cream – First Taste

M0DAL1TY – Synthes1s

Majora – Iridescent

Make Them Suffer – Lord of Woe

Make Them Suffer – Worlds Apart

Malakyte – Human Resonance

Maniacal – Buried In Hell

Mark Kelson – Resurgence

Mason – Impervious

Mason – Warhead

Meliorist – ii

Mental Cavity – Aneurysm

Metal – Proving Our Mettle

MetalStorm – I: Saeculum Obscurum

Mhorgl – Antinomian

Monoliyth – Imminent Demise

Mortification – 20 Years in the Underground

Motherslug – The Electric Dunes of Titan

My Dynamite – My Dynamite

Myoora – Moon Grotto

Myraeth – In Glorious Death

Myraeth – Retribution

Myridian – Under The Fading Light

Myridian – We, The Forlon

Mystery – 2013

Naberus – Hollow

Naberus – Reveries

Nazxul – Iconoclast

Ne Obliviscaris – Citadel

Ne Obliviscaris – Portal Of I

Ne Obliviscaris – The Aurora Veil

Ne Obliviscaris – Urn

Nekrofeist – Nekrofeist EP

Nemesium – Sentient Cognizance

Nemesphyxia – The Calm Before The Carnage

Nevetherym – Rendezvous EP

Nexus – The Paradise Complex

Night Hag – Gilded Age

No Anchor – Golden Bridge

No Anchor – Real Pain Supernova

Northlane – Alien

Northlane – Node

Northlane – Mesmer

Not Like Horse – Not Like Horse

Noûs – Eobiont

Nucleust – Resistivity

Nucleust – Terra Cerebral

Nyvosus – The Rebirth EP

Ocean Grove – The Rhapsody Tapes

Octanic – Aeternus Imperium

Okera – A Beautiful Dystopia

Oligarch – Hypocrisy Oath

Omnipresence – Thanatophobia

Order of the Oblique – Layers

Orpheus – Bleed The Way

Orpheus – So It Begins…

Orpheus Omega – Partum Vita Mortem

Orpheus Omega – ResIllusion

Orpheus Omega – Wear Your Sins

Our Last Enemy – Wolves of Perigord

Ouroboros – Glorification of a Myth

Paindivision – One Path

Paradigm – Mind Is Key

Paradigm – Symmetry (In)Sanity

Parkway Drive – Ire

Parkway Drive – Reverence

Party Vibez – Legends of Gnarlia

Perseverance – Silence, Forever; Endless

Plini – Sunhead

pointbreakdown – Utah

Polaris – The Guilt and the Grief

Portal – Vexovoid

Psychonaut – Shock ’em Dead

Psycroptic – As The Kingdom Drowns

Psycroptic – Psycroptic

Quandary – Ready to Fail

Quiet Child – The Coming Storm

Rainshadow – Cold Years

Rainshadow – End Songs

Rainshadow – Waters Imperium

Randomorder – The Forbidden Knowledge

Reaper’s Riddle – A Touch of Death

Red Bee – Ictus

Red Descending – Kingdoms

Remission – Genocide

Requiem Of The Damned – Type I

Riff Fist – Fistful of Riffs

Rise of Avernus – Dramatis Personæ

Rise of Avernus – L’appel du vide

Rise of Avernus – Eigengrau

Robotosaurus – Sayra Bahk Vol 1 & 2

Roundtable – Dread Marches Under Blood Regalia

Ruins – Place of No Pity

Sacrifire – Died Alive (EP)

Sanctium – Sanctium

Sanzu – Painless

Satoria – Where Loyalties Lie

Scaphis – Rituals of Torture and Death

Scar the Surface – From the Shadows to the Fire

Scar the Surface – Take Your Fight To The Sun

Scoredatura – Honest Oblivion

SEIMS – SEIMS

Separatist – The Motionless Apocalypse

Septerrus – Tacit

Serious Beak – Ankaa

Serious Beak – Huxwhukw

Sewercide – Severing the Mortal Coil

Shadowqueen – Living Madness

Shellfin – Cities Without Names

Shellfin – Secondhand Family

Shihad – Ignite

Shrapnel – Hellbound

Signal The Firing Squad – Earth Harvest

Silent Knight – Conquer & Command

Silent Knight – Masterplan

Silent Knight – Power Metal Supreme

Siren's Gate – Haunt Me EP

Skintilla – King of Kings

sleepmakeswaves – in today already walks tomorrow

sleepmakeswaves/Tangled Thoughts of Leaving – Split EP

Sobrusion – Maieutics

Solum – Enthrall

Space Bong – In Doom We Crust

Spire – Spire EP

Stardrifter – Volume 0

SteelSwarm – The Ultimate Offering

Stephen Taranto – Permanence

Stonecutters – Ritualistic

Stories – The Youth To Become

Storm Messenger – Brace for the Storm

Stormtide – Wrath Of An Empire

Subterranean Disposition – Contagiuum and the Landscapes of Failure

Subterranean Disposition – Subterranean Disposition

Super Fun Happy Slide – Drop Your Pants & Grind

Superheist – Sidewinder

Sword Toward Self – Dissolution Mantras EP

Sydonia – Given to Destroyers

Syko Sapian – Humanity Lost EP

Synthetic Breed – Catatonic

Synthetic Breed – Perpetual Motion Machine

Taberah – Necromancer

Taberah – Sinner’s Lament

Taberah – The Light of Which I Dream

Taberah – Welcome To The Crypt

Taberah – Live…ish!

Tangled Thoughts of Leaving – Tiny Fragments EP

Tempest Rising – Alter Ego

Tempest Rising – Transmutation

Templestowe – Cimmerian

Temujin – 1000 Tears

Teramaze – Esoteric Symbolism

Teramaze – Her Halo

Terra Australis – Anthem for a Dying Angel

Terra Australis – Premonition of Life Defiled

The Amenta – Flesh Is Heir

The Amenta – n0n

The Amity Affliction – Let the Ocean Take Me

The Arbiter – Cult

The Arbitrary Method – Augmentation

The Autumn League – Concept of Irony

The Berzerker – The Reawakening

The Boy Who Spoke Clouds – Secret Corridors Lay Outside The Walls

The Butterfly Effect – Final Conversations of Kings

The Eternal – Kartika

The Eternal – Under a New Sun

The Eternal – Under a New Sun (single)

The Eternal – Waiting For The Endless Dawn

The Eternal – When The Circle of Light Begins to Fade

The Furor – Cavalries of the Occult

The Kill – Make ‘Em Suffer

The Kremlings – Whole Earth Cleansing

The Levitation Hex – Cohesion

The Levitation Hex – The Levitation Hex

The Loom of Time – NihilReich

The Matador – Destroyer

The Molotov – Resistentia

The Mung – Showering in Shit

The Mung – The Splatter Sessions

The Omen – The Omen

The Omnific – The Mind’s Eye

The Ophidian Ascension – Ire

The Red Shore – Lost Verses

The Red Shore – The Avarice of Man

The Reverend Jesse Custer – Perpetual Victim

The Veil – Ghosts of Memory

thedowngoing – ATHOUSANDYEARSOFDARKNESS

Thornhill – Butterfly

Thy Art Is Murder – Dear Desolation

Thy Art Is Murder – The Adversary

Toehider – Good

Toehider – Toehider EP

Toehider – What Kind Of Creature Am I?

Tomb of Doom – Digust

Toxicon – Purge

Trancestate – Planetary Awakening

Trigger – Machina

Triple Kill – Age Of Rebellion

Troldhaugen – Obzkure Anekdotez For Maniakal Massez

Truth Corroded – The Saviours Slain

Truth Corroded – Upon The Warlords Crawl

Unclechunk – Join The Dots EP

Untruth – Act 1: The Absence of Beacons

Vahrzaw – Acquiesce EP

Vahrzaw – Defiant

Vanishing Point – Distant Is The Sun

Vanishing Point – The Fourth Season

Vanishing Point – Tangled in a Dream (Reissue)

Vanity Riots – Vanity Riots

Various Artists – The Euphony Fusion

Various Artists – The Euphony Fusion II

Various Artists – The Euphony Fusion III

Vendetta of the Fallen – The 13th Day

Verses All – Embrace the Upgrade

Vespers Descent – Fragments of the Forgotten

Vessel – Introspective

Vipassi – Śūnyatā

Voros – Diseased Deity

Voros – The Sky Burial EP’s

Voyager – I am the reVolution

Voyager – Ghost Mile

Vrag – Black Plague of Human Extinction

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