2024

Ihsahn - Ihsahn

8

2023

Insomnium - Anno 1696

8

2022

Amorphis - Halo	8
Blind Guardian - The God Machine	8
Disillusion - Ayam	8
Porcupine Tree - Closure / Continuation	8
Septicflesh - Modern Primitive	7

2021

Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers

6

2020

Katatonia - City Burials	8
Paradise Lost - Obsidian	8

2019

Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light	7
Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave	7

2018

A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

7

2017

Septicflesh - Codex Omega	9
Soen - Lykaia	8
Pain Of Salvation - In The Passing Light Of Day	7

2016

Vektor - Terminal Redux	9
Be'lakor - Vessels	9
Anciients - Voice Of The Void	8
Ihsahn - Arktis.	8
Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts	8
Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary	8
Insomnium - Winter's Gate	8
Dark Tranquillity - Atoma	8
An Abstract Illusion - Illuminate The Path	8
Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct	7
Megadeth - Dystopia	7
Haken - Affinity	7
Fates Warning - Theories Of Flight	7
Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake	7

2015

Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud	9
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.	8
Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III	7

2014

Animals As Leaders - The Joy Of Motion	9
Angra - Secret Garden	8
Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun	8
Septicflesh - Titan	8
Katatonia - Kocytean [EP]	7

2013

Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)	8
Children Of Bodom - Halo Of Blood	8
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Saivon Lapsi	6

2011

Steven Wilson - Grace For Drowning

6

2010

Ihsahn - After	8
Rhapsody Of Fire - The Frozen Tears Of Angels	7
Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards	7
Overkill - Ironbound	7
Exodus - Exhibit B: The Human Condition	7
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy	7
In Mourning - Monolith	6
Secret Sphere - Archetype	6
Death Angel - Relentless Retribution	6
Helstar - Glory Of Chaos	6
Kalmah - 12 Gauge	6

2009

Kalisia - Cybion	9
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition	9
Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us	8
Insomnium - Across The Dark	8
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos	8
Blood Tsunami - Grand Feast For Vultures	8
Swallow The Sun - New Moon	8
Amorphis - Skyforger	8
Vektor - Black Future	8
Obscura - Cosmogenesis	8
Mastodon - Crack The Skye	8
Skyfire - Esoteric	8
Profane Omen - Inherit The Void	8
Porcupine Tree - The Incident	8
Persefone - Shin-Ken	8
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach	8
Sacrifice - The Ones I Condemn	8
Artillery - When Death Comes	7
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day	7
Freak Kitchen - Land Of The Freaks	7
Megadeth - Endgame	7
Suicidal Angels - Sanctify The Darkness	7
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Children Of The Dark Waters	7
Criminal - White Hell	7
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs	7
Adagio - Archangels In Black	7
Poema Arcanus - Timeline Symmetry	7
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal	6
Darkology - Altered Reflections	6
Fairyland - Score To A New Beginning	6
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings	6
Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays	6
Heathen - The Evolution Of Chaos	6
Savage Messiah - Insurrection Rising	5
Heavenly - Carpe Diem	5
Dark Moor - Autumnal	5

2008

Mar De Grises - Draining The Waterheart	10
Septicflesh - Communion	9
Cynic - Traced In Air	8
Metallica - Death Magnetic	8
Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh	8
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery	8
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God	7
Ayreon - 01011001	7
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes	7
Opeth - Watershed	6
Elvenking - Two Tragedy Poets (...And A Caravan Of Weird Figures)	6

2007

Paradise Lost - In Requiem	8
Kamelot - Ghost Opera	8
Exodus - The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A	8
Megadeth - United Abominations	8
Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring [EP]	8
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet	8
Be'lakor - The Frail Tide	7
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant	7
Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos	7
Swallow The Sun - Hope	6
Dark Moor - Tarot	5

2006

Martyr - Feeding The Abscess	9
Slayer - Christ Illusion	8
Falconer - Northwind	8
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side	8
Kalmah - The Black Waltz	8
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Before The Bleeding Sun	8
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance	7
Blind Guardian - A Twist In The Myth	7

2005

Opeth - Ghost Reveries	10
Coprofago - Unorthodox Creative Criteria	9
Poema Arcanus - Telluric Manifesto	9
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing	9
Kamelot - The Black Halo	8
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius	8
Symphorce - Godspeed	8
Paradise Lost - Paradise Lost	8
Dark Moor - Beyond The Sea	8
Criminal - Sicario	8
Riverside - Second Life Syndrome	8
Dream Theater - Octavarium	8
Sieges Even - The Art Of Navigating By The Stars	8
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor	8
Kreator - Enemy Of God	7
Swallow The Sun - Ghosts Of Loss	7
Freedom Call - The Circle Of Life	7
Secret Sphere - Heart & Anger	6

2004

Mar De Grises - The Tatterdemalion Express	9
Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion	8
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night	8
Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor	8
Wintersun - Wintersun	8
Elvenking - Wyrd	8
Ayreon - The Human Equation	8
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh	8
Fates Warning - FWX	7
Symphorce - Twice Second	7
Persefone - Truth Inside The Shades	7
Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned	7
Skyfire - Spectral	7
Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden	6
Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination	6
Dream Evil - The Book Of Heavy Metal	5

2003

Kamelot - Epica	9
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson II	9
Katatonia - Viva Emptiness	9
Opeth - Damnation	9
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came	9
Norther - Mirror Of Madness	8
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step	8
Anathema - A Natural Disaster	8
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought	8
Septicflesh - Sumerian Daemons	8
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild	8
Secret Sphere - Scent Of Human Desire	8
Stratovarius - Elements Part I	7
Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll	7
Kalmah - Swampsong	7
Riverside - Out Of Myself	7
Stratovarius - Elements Part II	6
Dark Moor - Dark Moor	6
Dream Evil - Evilized	5

2002

Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence	9
Luca Turilli - Prophet Of The Last Eclipse	9
Dark Moor - The Gates Of Oblivion	9
Bloodbath - Resurrection Through Carnage	9
Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane	9
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia	9
Freedom Call - Eternity	8
Symphorce - PhorcefulAhead	8
Opeth - Deliverance	8
Falconer - Chapters From A Vale Forlorn	8
Blind Guardian - A Night At The Opera	8
Poema Arcanus - Iconoclast	8
Agalloch - The Mantle	8
Rhapsody - Power Of The Dragonflame	8
Norther - Dreams Of Endless War	7
Amon Amarth - Versus The World	7
Dream Evil - Dragonslayer	7

2001

Opeth - Blackwater Park	10
Tool - Lateralus	9
Sonata Arctica - Silence	9
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore	9
Secret Sphere - A Time Nevercome	9
Elvenking - Heathenreel	9
Freedom Call - Crystal Empire	8
Kamelot - Karma	8
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down	8
Falconer - Falconer	8
Porcupine Tree - Recordings [Compilation]	8
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin	7
Iced Earth - Horror Show	7

2000

Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper	9
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms	9
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris	9
Cave In - Jupiter	9
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element, Part I	9
Dark Moor - The Hall Of The Olden Dreams	8
Coprofago - Genesis	8
Fates Warning - Disconnected	8
Martyr - Warp Zone	8
Rhapsody - Dawn Of Victory	8
Stratovarius - Infinite	7
Kalmah - Swamplord	7
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty	7
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun	7
Nevermore - Dead Heart In A Dead World	7

1999

Opeth - Still Life	9
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica	9
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory	9
Luca Turilli - King Of The Nordic Twilight	8
Testament - The Gathering	8
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder	8
Freedom Call - Stairway To Fairyland	8
Korn - Issues	8
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream	8
Anathema - Judgement	8
Grave Digger - Excalibur	7
Poema Arcanus - Arcane XIII	7
Secret Sphere - Mistress Of The Shadowlight	7
Dark Moor - Shadowland	6

1998

Opeth - My Arms, Your Hearse	9
Rhapsody - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands	9
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle-Earth	8
Pain Of Salvation - One Hour By The Concrete Lake	8
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes	8
Ayreon - Into The Electric Castle	8
King Diamond - Voodoo	8
Anathema - Alternative 4	8
Stratovarius - Destiny	7
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance	7
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Vilda Mánnu	6

1997

Stratovarius - Visions	9
Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Gray	8
Symphony X - The Divine Wings Of Tragedy	8
Children Of Bodom - Something Wild	8
Dream Theater - Falling Into Infinity	7
Testament - Demonic	6

1996

Tool - Ænima	9
Edge Of Sanity - Crimson	9
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day	9
Porcupine Tree - Signify	8
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga	8
Anathema - Eternity	8
Stratovarius - Episode	8
King Diamond - The Graveyard	6

1995

Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings	9
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times	9
Opeth - Orchid	8
Death - Symbolic	8
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways	8
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side	8
Dream Theater - A Change Of Seasons [EP]	8
Stratovarius - Fourth Dimension	7

1994

Dream Theater - Awake	9
Porcupine Tree - Staircase Infinities [EP]	8
Testament - Low	8
Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes	7
Megadeth - Youthanasia	7
Stratovarius - Dreamspace	6

1993

Death - Individual Thought Patterns	9
Cynic - Focus	9
Porcupine Tree - Up The Downstair	8

1992

Dream Theater - Images And Words	9
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond	8
Porcupine Tree - On The Sunday Of Life...	7
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction	7
Testament - The Ritual	7
Stratovarius - Twilight Time	6

1991

Atheist - Unquestionable Presence	9
Death - Human	8
Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider	8

1990

Megadeth - Rust In Peace	9
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss	8
Blind Guardian - Tales From The Twilight World	8
King Diamond - The Eye	8
Testament - Souls Of Black	8
Sacrifice - Soldiers Of Misfortune	7

1989

Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness	8
Sodom - Agent Orange	8
Testament - Practice What You Preach	8
Overkill - The Years Of Decay	8
Annihilator - Alice In Hell	7
Blind Guardian - Follow The Blind	7
Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite	7
King Diamond - Conspiracy	7

1988

Testament - The New Order	9
Slayer - South Of Heaven	8
Metallica - ...And Justice For All	8
King Diamond - "Them"	8
Blind Guardian - Battalions Of Fear	7
Death - Leprosy	7
Megadeth - So Far, So Good... So What?	7

1987

Anthrax - Among The Living	9
King Diamond - Abigail	9
Testament - The Legacy	9

1986

Metallica - Master Of Puppets	10
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?	9
Slayer - Reign In Blood	9
Kreator - Pleasure To Kill	9

1985

Slayer - Hell Awaits	9
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!	7
Exodus - Bonded By Blood	7

1984

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

9

1983

Metallica - Kill 'Em All	8
Slayer - Show No Mercy	7