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36 Crazyfists – Lanterns

A Trust Unclean – Reality Relinquished

Accept – Blood of the Nations

Accept – Restless and Live

Accept – Stalingrad

Ace Frehley – Anomaly

Act Of Defiance – Old Scars, New Wounds

Aeternam – Disciples of the Unseen

Alcest – Spiritual Instinct

Alestorm – Black Sails at Midnight

Alestorm – No Grave But The Sea

Alestorm – Sunset On The Golden Age

Alestorm – Captain Morgan’s Revenge

Alice Cooper – Along Came A Spider

Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue

Alice In Chains – Rainier Fog

Almanac – Tsar

Amarna Reign- Atonement

Amon Amarth – Deceiver of the Gods

Amon Amarth – Twilight Of The Thunder God

Amorphis – Forging The Land of Thousand Lakes

Amorphis – Skyforger

Anathema – The Optimist

Angel Blake – The Descended

Annihilator – Annihilator

Annotations of an Autopsy – The Reign of Darkness

Another Life – Memories From Nothing

Anthrax – Worship Music

Anubis Gate – Horizons

Apocalyptica – Shadowmaker

Arcania – Sweet Angel Dust

Architects – The Here And Now

Armored Saint – La Raza

Arsis – Starve For The Devil

As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise

Asphyx – Death…The Brutal Way

At The Drive In – In•ter a•li•a

At The Gates – To Drink From The Night Itself

At The Soundawn – Red Square: We Come In Waves

Atheist – Jupiter

Austrian Death Machine – Double Brutal

Austrian Death Machine – Total Brutal

Avantasia – The Scarecrow

Avenged Sevenfold – Hail to the King

Axel Rudi Pell – One Night Live (DVD)

Axel Rudi Pell – The Crest

Ayreon – The Source

Babymetal – Babymetal

Baroness – Blue Record

Barren Earth – Our Twilight

Battle Beast – Bringer Of Pain

Beastwars – Blood Becomes Fire

Behemoth – Evangelion

Behemoth – Messe Noire

Belphegor – Totenritual

Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn

Beneath The Sky – The Day The Music Died

Between The Buried And Me – The Great Misdirect

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

Beyond Creation – Algorhythm

Black Breath – Heavy Breathing

Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate

Black Sheep Wall – I’m Going To Kill Myself

Black Star Riders – Heavy Fire

Black Stone Cherry – Family Tree

Black Sun Aeon – Darkness Walks Beside Me

Blackguard – Profugus Mortis

Blaze Bayley – Promise and Terror

Bleeding Through – Bleeding Through

Blessed By A Broken Heart – Feel the Power

Blind Guardian – 2009 Remasters/Re-issues

Blind Guardian – At the Edge of Time

Blind Guardian – Beyond the Red Mirror

Blues Pills – Blues Pills

Body Count – Bloodlust

Bonded By Blood – Exiled To Earth

Bullet For My Valentine – Venom

Burning Skies – Greed.Filth.Abuse.Corruption

Burweed – Hide

Butcher Babies – Take It Like A Man

Cancer Bats – Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones

Candlemass – Death Magic Doom

Candlemass – The Door To Doom

Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain

Cannibal Corpse – Red Before Black

Carcass – Despicable

Carcass – Surgical Steel

Carnifex – Hell Chose Me

Castevet – Mounds of Ash

Cathedral – The Guessing Game

Cattle Decapitation – The Anthropocene Extinction

Cellar Darling – This Is The Sound

Cephalic Carnage – Misled by Certainty

Charred Walls of the Damned – Self-Titled

Children of Bodom – Halo of Blood

Children of Bodom – I, Worship Chaos

Children of Bodom – Skeletons In The Closet

City of Fire – City of Fire

Coal Chamber – Rivals

Cradle of Filth – Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness of Decay

Cradle of Filth – Godspeed and the Devil's Thunder

Cradle of Filth – Hammer of the Witches

Currents – The Place I Feel Safest

Cyberne – Law

Cynic – Re-Traced

Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth

Dark Tranquillity – We Are The Void

Daughters – You Won’t Get What You Want

Dawn of Ashes – Genocide Chapters

Deafheaven – Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

Death Angel – Sonic German Beatdown Live (DVD)

Deathwhite – Grave Image

Decapitated – Anticult

Dee Snider – For the Love of Metal

Dee Snider – We Are The Ones

Deicide – Overtures of Blasphemy

Deluge – Æther

Demonic Resurrection – The Demon King

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

Destinity – The Inside

Destroyer Attack – Solve Et Coagula

Destruction – Born To Perish

Devil You Know – The Beauty Of Destruction

Devil You Know – They Bleed Red

DevilDriver – Pray for Villains

Devils Whorehouse – Blood and Ashes

Devin Townsend – Empath

Devin Townsend Project – Ki

Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence

Devin Townsend Project – Ocean Machine: Live in Plovdiv

Diablo Blvd. – Zero Hour

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

Dimension Zero – He Who Shall Not Bleed

Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra

Dimmu Borgir – Eonian

Disperse – Foreword

Disturbed – Asylum

Disturbed – Indestructible

Disturbed – The Sickness (10th Anniversary Limited Edition)

Dodecahedron – Dodecahedron

Domain – The Chronicles Of Love, Hate And Sorrow

Double Dragon – Devastator

Dr. Living Dead – Radioactive Intervention

Dragonforce – Ultra Beatdown

Drawn and Quartered – The One Who Lurks

Dream Evil – In The Night

Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Dream Theater – The Astonishing

Dream Tröll – The Knight of Rebellion

Drudkh – Handful of Stars

Dying Fetus – Wrong One to Fuck With

Eagle Twin – The Feather Tipped The Serpent’s Scales

Eagles of Death Metal – Heart On

Earthless – Black Heaven

Earthside – A Dream In Static

Edguy – Fucking with Fire (DVD)

Edguy – Space Police – Defenders Of The Crown

Electric Wizard – Black Masses

Electric Wizard – Wizard Bloody Wizard

Eluveitie – Everything Remains As It Never Was

Eluveitie – Origins

Eluveitie – Ategnatos

Eluveitie – Slania

Elysia – Lion of Judas

Emmure – Look At Yourself

Enabler – La Fin Absolue Du Monde

Engulf – Gold and Rust

Ensiferum – From Afar

Ensiferum – Two Paths

Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini

Enslaved – In Times

Ephel Duath – Through My Dog's Eyes

Ephrat – No One's Words

Epica – Design Your Universe

Epica – Requiem for the Indifferent

Epica – The Holographic Principle

Epica – The Quantum Enigma

Epica – The Solace System EP

Equilibrium – Armageddon

Equilibrium – Sagas

Evile – Infected Nations

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

Eyehategod – Eyehategod

Fallen Order – The Age of Kings

Fallujah – The Flesh Prevails

Fallujah – Undying Light

Fear Factory – Genexus

Fear Factory – Mechanize

Fear My Thoughts – Vulcanus

Finntroll – Nifelvind

Firewind – Days Of Defiance

Firewind – Immortals

Five Finger Death Punch – And Justice For None

Five Finger Death Punch – Got Your Six

Fleshgod Apocalypse – King

Flotsam and Jestam – The Cold

Follow The Cipher – Follow The Cipher

Forbidden – Omega Wave

Fozzy – Chasing the Grail

Fozzy – Do You Wanna Start A War

Fuck The Facts – Disgorge Mexico

Gamma Ray – Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome

Gamma Ray – Hell Yeah!!! The Awesome Foursome DVD

Gamma Ray – Land of the Free II

Gamma Ray – The Best (Of)

Gamma Ray – To The Metal!

Garganjua – Toward The Sun

Gaza – No Absolutes In Human Suffering

George Kollias – Invictus

Ghost – Meliora

Ghost – Prequelle

Ghost Brigade – IV – One With The Storm

Gloryhammer – Tales from the Kingdom of Fife

God Dethroned – Under The Sign of the Iron Cross

Godless – Centuries of Decadence

Gojira – From Mars to Sirius

Gone is Gone – Echolocation

Good Tiger – We Will All Be Gone

Grave – Burial Ground

Grave Digger – Ballads of a Hangman

Grave Digger – Healed By Metal

Grave Digger – Return Of The Reaper

Hackneyed – Burn After Reaping

Hail of Bullets – Of Frost and War

Halford – Halford III: Winter Songs

Halford – Made of Metal

HammerFall – Built To Last

Hammerfall – Infected

HammerFall – No Sacrifice, No Victory

Hansel – Never Say Die

Hate Eternal – Upon Desolate Sands

Hate Internal – Infernus

Havok – Conformicide

Hell Or Highwater – Vista

Helloween – Gambling with the Devil

Helloween – Unarmed: 25th Anniversary Best Of

Helstar – Rising from the Grave

Hemlock – No Time For Sorrow

Hermh – Cold+Blood+Messiah

Hideous Divinity – Simulacrum

High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine

HJELVIK – Welcome to Hel

Hope To Find – Still Constant

Horisont – About Time

Hour of Penance – Paradogma

Hypno5e – Acid Mist Tomorrow

Hypocrisy – End of Disclosure

Iced Earth – Incorruptible

Iced Earth – Plagues of Babylon

Iced Earth – Something Wicked Part 2: The Crucible Of Man

Ignominious Incarceration – Of Winter Born

Ihsahn – Àmr

Ill Niño – Dead New World

Immolation – Atonement

Immolation – Majesty and Decay

Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods

In Dread Response – From the Oceanic Grave

In Flames – A Sense of Purpose

In Flames – Battles

In Flames – I, The Mask

Intronaut – Fluid Existential Inversions

Job for a Cowboy – Ruination

Job For A Cowboy – Sun Eater

John 5 – The Art of Malice

John Garcia – The Coyote Who Spoke in Tongues

Judas Priest – A Touch of Evil: Live

Judas Priest – Firepower

Judas Priest – Nostradamus

Judas Priest – Redeemer of Souls

Kadinja – Ascendancy

Kalmah – Palo

Kamelot – Poetry for the Poisoned

Kataklysm – Heaven's Venom

Kataklysm – Meditations

Katatonia – The Fall of Hearts

King Diamond – Songs for the Dead Live

Kittie – I’ve Failed You

Knights of the Abyss – Shades

Korn – The Path of Totality

Korpiklaani – Korven Kuningas

Kreator – Gods Of Violence

Kreator – Hordes of Chaos

Krisiun – Forged in Fury

Krokus – Big Rocks

Kvelertak – Kvelertak

Kylesa – Exhausting Fire

Lacuna Coil – Broken Crown Halo

Lamb of God – Resolution

Lamb of God – VII: Sturm Und Drang

Lost Society – Terror Hungry

Lost Soul – Immerse In Infinity

Machine Head – Bloodstone and Diamonds

Machine Head – Catharsis

Malevolent Creation – Invidious Dominion

Månegarm – Nattväsen

Mantra – Laniakea

Mar de Grises – Streams Inwards

Marduk – Frontshwein

Marduk – Viktoria

Marduk – Wormwood

Mare Cognitum – Luminiferous Aether

Marshall Law – Razorhead

Marty Friedman – Inferno

Masterstroke – Sleep

Mastodon – Emperor of Sand

Me And That Man – Songs Of Love And Death

Megadeth – Endgame

Megadeth – Rust In Peace: Live (DVD)

Melechesh – Emissaries

Melechesh – The Epigenesis

Memoriam – For The Fallen

Mercyful Fate – Don’t Break The Oath

Meshuggah – Alive (CD version)

Meshuggah – obZen

Metallica – Death Magnetic

Metallica – Hardwired…To Self Destruct

Milking The Goat Machine – Back From The Goats

Misery Index – Heirs to Thievery

Misery Signals – Controller

Miss May I – Shadow Inside

Mnemic – Sons of the System

Modern Day Babylon – Coma

Monstrosity – The Passage of Existence

Monuments – Phronesis

Moonreich – Pillars of Detest

Moonsorrow – Jumalten Aika

Morbid Angel – Kingdoms Disdained

Mortemia – Misere Mortem

Moss – Sub Templum

Motionless In White – Reincarnate

Mötley Crüe – Saints Of Los Angeles

Motörhead – Motörizer

Municipal Waste – Slime and Punishment

Murderdolls – Women and Children Last

Mutiny Within – Mutiny Within

My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion

My Dying Bride – The Barghest O’ Whitby

Nachtmystium – Assassins: Black Meddle Part 1

Nachtmystium – The World We Left Behind

Nails – You Will Never Be One Of Us

Napalm Death – Apex Predator/Easy Meat

Necrophagia – WhiteWorm Cathedral

Necrophobic – Death To All

Negura Bunget – Maiestrit

Negura Bunget – Om

Negurã Bunget – Vîrstele Pamîntului

Netherealm – As We Reign

Nevermore – The Obsidian Conspiracy

Nevermore – The Year of The Voyager

Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful

Nightwish – Imaginaerum

Nightwish – Vehicle of Spirit

Nile – Vile Nilotic Rites

Nile – What Should Not Be Unearthed

Northward – Northward

Novelists – Noir

Nuclear – Jehovirus

Obscura – Retribution

Oceano – Contagion

Old Silver Key – Tales of Wandering

Om – Advaitic Songs

One-Way Mirror – One-Way Mirror

Opeth – In Cauda Venenum

Opeth – In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

Opeth – Sorceress

Order of Ennead – An Examination of Being

Ov Hell – The Underworld Regime

Overkill – Ironbound

Overkill – The Grinding Wheel

Pain – Coming Home

Pain – Cynic Paradise

Pain of Salvation – Road Salt One

Pain of Salvation – Road Salt Two

Pain of Salvation – In the Passing Light of Day

Pallbearer – Heartless

Papa Roach – Crooked Teeth

Papa Roach – F.E.A.R

Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha and Omega

Periphery – Periphery

Persefone – Aathma

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

Phil Campbell And The Bastard Sons – The Age Of Absurdity

Power Quest – Master of Illusion

Powerflo – Powerflo

Primal Fear – Apocalypse

Primal Fear – Rulebreaker

Protest The Hero – Pacific Myth

Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime

Rage – Seasons of the Black

Rage – Strings to a Web

Rammstein – Untitled

RATT – Infestation

Raunchy – Wasteland Discotheque

Razorwyre – Another Dimension

Retaliatory Measures – MMX

Rex Brown – Smoke On This

Rhapsody of Fire – The Frozen Tears of Angels

Rings of Saturn – Lugal Ki En

Ritual Killer – Exterminance

Rob Zombie – Hellbilly Deluxe 2

Rob Zombie – Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor

Rolo Tomassi – Hysterics

Rosetta – Utopioid

Rotting Christ – Aealo

Rotting Christ – Rituals

Royal Thunder – Wick

Rush – Beyond The Lighted Stage (DVD)

Sabaton – Coat of Arms

Sabaton – Heroes

Sabaton – The Great War

Sabaton – The Last Stand

Sabaton – The Swedish Empire Live

Sadistik Forest – Morbid Majesties

Samael – Hegemony

Sanctuary – Inception

Satyricon – Deep Calleth upon Deep

Satyricon – The Age of Nero

Savage Circus – Of Doom and Death

Saxon – Into The Labyrinth

Scar Symmetry – Holographic Universe

Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions

Scott Hull – Audiofilm I

Scour – Black

Seether – Poison the Parish

Septicflesh – Codex Omega

Sepultura – A-Lex

Sepultura – Machine Messiah

Sepultura – Quadra

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

Serpentcult – Weight of Light

Severe Torture – Slaughtered

Shade Empire – Zero Nexus

Shinedown – The Sound of Madness

Shining – IX – Everyone, Everything, Everywhere, Ends

Shining – X: Varg Utan Flock

Shrapnel – The Virus Conspires

Sikth – The Future In Whose Eyes?

Sirenia – Dim Days of Dolor

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

Skeletal Remains – Devouring Mortality

Skeletonwitch – Serpents Unleashed

Slayer – Repentless

Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone

Slipknot – Slipknot: 10th Anniversary Edition

Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind

Sodom – Agent Orange (20th Anniversary Edition)

Sodom – Decision Day

Sodom – In War and Pieces

Soen – Lykaia

Soilwork – Live in Helskini

Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast

Sokrovenno – De Rerum Natura

Solstafir – Berdreyminn

Sólstafir – Svartir Sandar

Sólstafir – Masterpiece of Bitterness

Son of Aurelius – The Farthest Reaches

Sonata Arctica – The Days of Grays

Sonic Syndicate – Love and Other Disasters

Sonic Syndicate – We Rule the Night

Sons Of Apollo – Psychotic Symphony

Soulfly – Archangel

Soulfly – Conquer

Soulfly – Enslaved

Soulfly – Omen

Spiritual Beggers – Return to Zero

Spyder Baby – Let Us Prey

Stälker – Shadow Of The Sword

Starset – Vessels

Steel Attack – Enslaved

Steel Panther – All You Can Eat

Steel Panther – Balls Out

Steel Panther – Lower The Bar

Steve Vai – Where The Wild Things Are

Stigmata – Psalms of Conscious Martydom

Stone Sour – Audio Secrecy

Stone Sour – Hydrograd

Stormwarrior – Thunder & Steele

Stryper – God Damn Evil

Subtract – Winning Hearts and Minds EP

Suffocation – Blood Oath

Suicide Silence – Suicide Silence

Suicide Silence – You Can’t Stop Me

Suidakra– Crógacht

Swashbuckle – Back to the Noose

Switchblade – Invictus Infinitium

Tankard – One Foot In The Grave

Taproot – Plead The Fifth

Tarja – Act II

Tarot – Spell of Iron MMXI

Terrorizer – Caustic Attack

Testament – Brotherhood of the Snake

Testament – The Formation Of Damnation

The Absence – Enemy Unbound

The Banner – Frailty

The Black Dahlia Murder – Abysmal

The Black Dahlia Murder – Fool ‘Em All

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