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HJELVIK – Welcome to Hel

Scour – Black

Carcass – Despicable

Garganjua – Toward The Sun

Sepultura – Quadra

My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion

Deathwhite – Grave Image

Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions

Alcest – Spiritual Instinct

Hideous Divinity – Simulacrum

Voyager – Colours In The Sun

Opeth – In Cauda Venenum

Nile – Vile Nilotic Rites

The Great Old Ones – Cosmicism

Sabaton – The Great War

Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind

Destruction – Born To Perish

Rammstein – Untitled

Fallujah – Undying Light

Eluveitie – Ategnatos

Devin Townsend – Empath

In Flames – I, The Mask

Candlemass – The Door To Doom

King Diamond – Songs for the Dead Live

Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want

Northward – Northward

The Spirit – Sounds from The Vortex

Hate Eternal – Upon Desolate Sands

Beyond Creation – Algorhythm

Terrorizer – Caustic Attack

Monstrosity – The Passage of Existence

Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog

Monuments – Phronesis

The Vintage Caravan – Gateways

Dee Snider – For the Love of Metal

Kataklysm – Meditations

Deicide – Overtures of Blasphemy

Primal Fear – Apocalypse

Drawn and Quartered – The One Who Lurks

Void Rot – Consumed by Oblivion

Tarja – Act II

Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Follow The Cipher – Follow The Cipher

Stryper – God Damn Evil

Skeletal Remains – Devouring Mortality

Devin Townsend Project – Ocean Machine: Live in Plovdiv

Destroyer Attack – Solve Et Coagula

Engulf – Gold and Rust

At The Gates – To Drink From The Night Itself

Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods

Sadistik Forest – Morbid Majesties

Five Finger Death Punch – And Justice For None

Marduk – Viktoria

Ghost – Prequelle

Zeal & Ardor – Stranger Fruit

Ihsahn – Àmr

Kalmah – Palo

The Sword – Used Future

Dimmu Borgir – Eonian

Earthless – Black Heaven

Behemoth – Messe Noire

Black Stone Cherry – Family Tree

Judas Priest – Firepower

Visigoth – Conqueror’s Oath

Modern Day Babylon – Coma

The Dali Thundering Concept – Savages

Good Tiger – We Will All Be Gone

Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons – The Age Of Absurdity

Dimbag Darrell: DimeVision – Vol 2: Roll With It Or Get Rolled Over

Phil Anselmo & The Illegals – Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue

Samael – Hegemony

Machine Head – Catharsis

Ensiferum – Two Paths

Stälker – Shadow Of The Sword

Shining – X: Varg Utan Flock

Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard

Morbid Angel – Kingdoms Disdained

Act Of Defiance – Old Scars, New Wounds

We Came as Romans – Cold Like War

Veil of Maya – False Idol

Cannibal Corpse – Red Before Black

Sons Of Apollo – Psychotic Symphony

Cradle of Filth – Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness of Decay

Diablo Blvd. – Zero Hour

Satyricon – Deep Calleth upon Deep

The Darkness – Pinewood Smile

Epica – The Solace System EP

Belphegor – Totenritual

36 Crazyfists – Lanterns

Rosetta – Utopioid

Novelists – Noir

Dream Tröll – The Knight of Rebellion

Iced Earth – Incorruptible

The Contortionist – Clairvoyant

Cellar Darling – This Is The Sound

Septicflesh – Codex Omega

Rage – Seasons of the Black

Venom Inc – Avé

Dying Fetus – Wrong One to Fuck With

Stone Sour – Hydrograd

Rex Brown – Smoke On This

Wintersun – The Forest Seasons

Starset – Vessels

Decapitated – Anticult

Powerflo – Powerflo

Currents – The Place I Feel Safest

Anathema – The Optimist

Papa Roach – Crooked Teeth

Municipal Waste – Slime and Punishment

Tankard – One Foot In The Grave

Havok – Conformicide

At The Drive In – In•ter a•li•a

Alestorm – No Grave But The Sea

Sikth – The Future In Whose Eyes?

Seether – Poison the Parish

Hell Or Highwater – Vista

Miss May I – Shadow Inside

Wednesday 13 – Condolences

Mastodon – Emperor of Sand

Uneven Structure – La Partition

Me And That Man – Songs Of Love And Death

Royal Thunder – Wick

Solstafir – Berdreyminn

John Garcia – The Coyote Who Spoke in Tongues

Steel Panther – Lower The Bar

Ayreon – The Source

Pallbearer – Heartless

Memoriam – For The Fallen

Sanctuary – Inception

Sirenia – Dim Days of Dolor

Body Count – Bloodlust

Dee Snider – We Are The Ones

Emmure – Look At Yourself

Immolation – Atonement

Protest The Hero – Pacific Myth

Soen – Lykaia

Overkill – The Grinding Wheel

Accept – Restless and Live

Firewind – Immortals

Suicide Silence – Suicide Silence

Battle Beast – Bringer Of Pain

Krokus – Big Rocks

Kreator – Gods Of Violence

Horisont – About Time

Black Star Riders – Heavy Fire

Grave Digger – Healed By Metal

Pain of Salvation – In the Passing Light of Day

Persefone – Aathma

Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake

Mantra – Laniakea

Kadinja – Ascendancy

Disperse – Foreword

Gone is Gone – Echolocation

Sepultura – Machine Messiah

In Flames – Battles

Nightwish – Vehicle of Spirit

Metallica – Hardwired…To Self Destruct

Sixx:A.M. – Prayers for the Blessed Vol. 2

HammerFall – Built To Last

The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation

Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence

Sodom – Decision Day

Mare Cognitum – Luminiferous Aether

Opeth – Sorceress

Pain – Coming Home

Nails – You Will Never Be One Of Us

Epica – The Holographic Principle

Sabaton – The Last Stand

Twilight Force – Heroes Of Mighty Magic

Equilibrium – Armageddon

Whitechapel – Mark of the Blade

Katatonia – The Fall of Hearts

Godless – Centuries of Decadence

Moonsorrow – Jumalten Aika

Almanac – Tsar

Fleshgod Apocalypse – King

Primal Fear – Rulebreaker

Rotting Christ – Rituals

Dream Theater – The Astonishing

Moonreich – Pillars of Detest

Devil You Know – They Bleed Red

Ritual Killer – Exterminance

Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower

Deluge – Æther

Kylesa – Exhausting Fire

The Black Dahlia Murder – Abysmal

Earthside – A Dream In Static

Trivium – Silence In The Snow

Five Finger Death Punch – Got Your Six

Children of Bodom – I, Worship Chaos

A Trust Unclean – Reality Relinquished

Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed

Slayer – Repentless

Butcher Babies – Take It Like A Man

Ghost – Meliora

Soulfly – Archangel

Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction

Bullet For My Valentine – Venom

Fear Factory – Genexus

Hate Internal – Infernus

Lamb of God – VII: Sturm Und Drang

Krisiun – Forged in Fury

Gamma Ray – The Best (Of)

Coal Chamber – Rivals

Cradle of Filth – Hammer of the Witches

Apocalyptica – Shadowmaker

Theories – Regression

George Kollias – Invictus

The Voynich Code – Ignotum

Shining – IX – Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends

Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Enslaved – In Times

Burweed – Hide

Napalm Death – Apex Predator/Easy Meat

Soilwork – Live in Helskini

Marduk – Frontshwein

Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha and Omega

Yngwie Malmsteen – Spellbound: Live in Tampa

Blind Guardian – Beyond the Red Mirror

Papa Roach – F.E.A.R

Black Sheep Wall – I’m Going To Kill Myself

Rings of Saturn – Lugal Ki En

Ghost Brigade – IV – One With The Storm

Machine Head – Bloodstone and Diamonds

Job For A Cowboy – Sun Eater

Unisonic – Light of Dawn

Necrophagia – WhiteWorm Cathedral

Motionless In White – Reincarnate

Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain

Wolf – Devil Seed

Shrapnel – The Virus Conspires

Nachtmystium – The World We Left Behind

Fallujah – The Flesh Prevails

Demonic Resurrection – The Demon King

Vintersorg – Naturbål

Alestorm – Sunset On The Golden Age

Blues Pills – Blues Pills

Fallen Order – The Age of Kings

Sepultura – The Mediator Between the Head and Hands Must Be the Heart

Eluveitie – Origins

Fozzy – Do You Wanna Start A War

Twitching Tongues – World War LIVE

Suicide Silence – You Can’t Stop Me

Eyehategod – Eyehategod

Judas Priest – Redeemer of Souls

Marty Friedman – Inferno

Grave Digger – Return Of The Reaper

Lacuna Coil – Broken Crown Halo

Enabler – La Fin Absolue Du Monde

The Black Dahlia Murder – Fool ‘Em All

Volbeat – Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies

Edguy – Space Police – Defenders Of The Crown

Epica – The Quantum Enigma

Sabaton – Heroes

Anubis Gate – Horizons

Babymetal – Babymetal

Tuomas Holopainen – The Life and Times of Scrooge

Devil You Know – The Beauty Of Destruction

Steel Panther – All You Can Eat

Lost Society – Terror Hungry

Within Temptation – Hydra

Stormwarrior – Thunder & Steele

Iced Earth – Plagues of Babylon

Children of Bodom – Halo of Blood

Gloryhammer – Tales from the Kingdom of Fife

Skeletonwitch – Serpents Unleashed

Toxic Holocaust – Chemistry of Consciousness

Avenged Sevenfold – Hail to the King

Sabaton – The Swedish Empire Live

Carcass – Surgical Steel

Razorwyre – Another Dimension

Amon Amarth – Deceiver of the Gods

Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor

Beastwars – Blood Becomes Fire

Hypocrisy – End of Disclosure

Dr. Living Dead – Radioactive Intervention

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats – Blood Lust

Between The Buried And Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence

Om – Advaitic Songs

Eagle Twin – The Feather Tipped The Serpent’s Scales

Gaza – No Absolutes In Human Suffering

Epica – Requiem for the Indifferent

Soulfly – Enslaved

Van Halen – A Different Kind Of Truth

Hypno5e – Acid Mist Tomorrow

Accept – Stalingrad

Blessed By A Broken Heart – Feel the Power

Lamb of God – Resolution

Dodecahedron – Dodecahedron

Nightwish – Imaginaerum

Korn – The Path of Totality

My Dying Bride – The Barghest O’ Whitby

Cyberne – Law

Pain of Salvation – Road Salt Two

Hammerfall – Infected

Old Silver Key – Tales of Wandering

Steel Panther – Balls Out

Anthrax – Worship Music

Kittie – I’ve Failed You

Sólstafir – Svartir Sandar

Tarot – Spell of Iron MMXI

Trivium – In Waves

Retaliatory Measures – MMX

Sodom – In War and Pieces

The Damned Things – Ironiclast

The Haunted – Unseen

The Chariot – Long Live

Negura Bunget – Om

Architects – The Here And Now

Megadeth – Rust In Peace: Live (DVD)

Black Breath – Heavy Breathing

Castevet – Mounds of Ash

Cephalic Carnage – Misled by Certainty

High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine

Electric Wizard – Black Masses

Arcania – Sweet Angel Dust

Halford – Made of Metal

Opeth – In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

Spiritual Beggers – Return to Zero

God Dethroned – Under The Sign of the Iron Cross

Kataklysm – Heaven's Venom

Firewind – Days Of Defiance

Kamelot – Poetry for the Poisoned

Ill Niño – Dead New World

Oceano – Contagion

Kvelertak – Kvelertak

Melechesh – The Epigenesis

Desecrated Dreams – In The Embrace Of Lies/Die!mensions

Forbidden – Omega Wave

The Ocean – Anthropocentric

Flotsam and Jestam – The Cold

Rush – Beyond The Lighted Stage (DVD)

Blaze Bayley – Promise and Terror

Amarna Reign- Atonement

Netherealm – As We Reign

Accept – Blood of the Nations

Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra

Dawn of Ashes – Genocide Chapters

Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini

Stigmata – Psalms of Conscious Martydom

Witchery – Witchkrieg

Murderdolls – Women and Children Last

Atheist – Jupiter

Trigger The Bloodshed – Degenerate

Malevolent Creation – Invidious Dominion

Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy

Drudkh – Handful of Stars

Hope To Find – Still Constant

The Absence – Enemy Unbound

Obscura – Retribution

Sokrovenno – De Rerum Natura

Nuclear – Jehovirus

Domain – The Chronicles Of Love, Hate And Sorrow

Son of Aurelius – The Farthest Reaches

Blind Guardian – At the Edge of Time

Disturbed – Asylum

Sonic Syndicate – We Rule the Night

Ov Hell – The Underworld Regime

Axel Rudi Pell – One Night Live (DVD)

Axel Rudi Pell – The Crest

Amorphis – Forging The Land of Thousand Lakes

Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society – Order of the Black

Mar de Grises – Streams Inwards

Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth

Treat – Coup De Grace

Mnemic – Sons of the System

Aeternam – Disciples of the Unseen

Grave – Burial Ground

Helstar – Rising from the Grave

John 5 – The Art of Malice

As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise

Watain – Lawless Darkness

Immolation – Majesty and Decay

Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast

Taproot – Plead The Fifth

The Dillinger Escape Plan – Option Paralysis

Misery Index – Heirs to Thievery

Soulfly – Omen

Hour of Penance – Paradogma

Whitechapel – A New Era of Corruption

Annihilator – Annihilator

Severe Torture – Slaughtered

Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy

Cynic – Re-Traced

Bleeding Through – Bleeding Through

Whitesnake – 1987

Voluspaa – Asa

Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones

Order of Ennead – An Examination of Being

Periphery – Periphery

Pain of Salvation – Road Salt One

The Ocean – Heliocentric

Sodom – Agent Orange (20th Anniversary Edition)

Woe of Tyrants – Threnody

Bonded By Blood – Exiled To Earth

Rhapsody of Fire – The Frozen Tears of Angels

Sabaton – Coat of Arms

Negura Bunget – Maiestrit

Disturbed – The Sickness (10th Anniversary Limited Edition)

Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break The Oath

Mortemia – Misere Mortem

Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime

Negurã Bunget – Vîrstele Pamîntului

Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate

City of Fire – City of Fire

Unleashed – As Yggdrasil Trembles

Rotting Christ – Aealo

Treat – Coup de Grace

RATT – Infestation

Fozzy – Chasing the Grail

Finntroll – Nifelvind

Hansel – Never Say Die

Mutiny Within – Mutiny Within

Triptykon – Eparistera Daimones

Gamma Ray – To The Metal!

Cathedral – The Guessing Game

Armored Saint – La Raza

Carnifex – Hell Chose Me

The Genitorturers – Blackheart Revolution

Charred Walls of the Damned – Self-Titled

Meshuggah – Alive (CD version)

Meshuggah – obZen

Dark Tranquillity – We Are The Void

Arsis – Starve For The Devil

Annotations of an Autopsy – The Reign of Darkness

Savage Circus – Of Doom and Death

Fear Factory – Mechanize

Månegarm – Nattväsen

Dream Evil – In The Night

Devils Whorehouse – Blood and Ashes

Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe 2

Eluveitie – Everything Remains As It Never Was

Overkill – Ironbound

Exodus – Shovel Headed Tour Machine: Live at Wacken and other Assorted Atrocities

Gojira – From Mars to Sirius

Rage – Strings to a Web

Lost Soul – Immerse In Infinity

Helloween – Unarmed: 25th Anniversary Best Of

Marduk – Wormwood

Blind Guardian – 2009 Remasters/Re-issues

Yngwie Malmsteen – High Impact

The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine

Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn

Barren Earth – Our Twilight

Baroness – Blue Record

Milking The Goat Machine – Back From The Goats

To-Mera – Earthbound

Halford – Halford III: Winter Songs

Between The Buried And Me – The Great Misdirect

Steve Vai – Where The Wild Things Are

Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal

Edguy – Fucking with Fire (DVD)

Evile – Infected Nations

Tyr – By The Light of the Northern Star

Alestorm – Black Sails at Midnight

Ace Frehley – Anomaly

Behemoth – Evangelion

Epica – Design Your Universe

Serpentcult – Weight of Light

Subtract – Winning Hearts and Minds EP

Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue

Children of Bodom – Skeletons In The Closet

Amorphis – Skyforger

Hackneyed – Burn After Reaping

Slipknot – Slipknot: 10th Anniversary Edition

Threat Signal – Vigilance

Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions

Megadeth – Endgame

Suffocation – Blood Oath

Ensiferum – From Afar

Sonata Arctica – The Days of Grays

Melechesh – Emissaries

Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Asphyx – Death…The Brutal Way

Swashbuckle – Back to the Noose

DevilDriver – Pray for Villains

Job for a Cowboy – Ruination

Judas Priest – A Touch of Evil: Live

Helloween – Gambling with the Devil

Another Life – Memories From Nothing

Vader – Necropolis

Black Sun Aeon – Darkness Walks Beside Me

Suidakra– Crógacht

Devin Townsend Project – Ki

The Boy Will Drown – Fetish

Death Angel – Sonic German Beatdown Live (DVD)

Switchblade – Invictus Infinitium

Yngwie J. Malmsteen – Angels of Love

Tim "Ripper" Owens – Play My Game

Necrophobic – Death To All

Kreator – Hordes of Chaos

Twisted Sister – Live at the Astoria

In Dread Response – From the Oceanic Grave

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