2024

Counting Hours - The Wishing Tomb	9
Dominia - Timeless	8
My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding	8

2023

Fires In The Distance - Air Not Meant For Us	9
Marianas Rest - Auer	9
Marianas Rest - Sirens [Single]	9
Kauan - ATM Revised	9
Saturnus - The Storm Within	9
Soen - Memorial	9
Insomnium - Songs Of The Dusk [EP]	9
Insomnium - Anno 1696	9
Metallica - Screaming Suicide [Single]	8
Metallica - 72 Seasons [Single]	8
Lord Of Shadows - Echoes Of Yore	8
In Flames - Foregone	8
Metallica - 72 Seasons	8
Hanging Garden - The Garden	8

2022

Shape Of Despair - Return To The Void	9
Kirk Hammett - Portals [EP]	9
Evergrey - A Heartless Portrait (The Orphean Testament)	8
Wolfheart - King Of The North	8
Visions Of Atlantis - Pirates	7

2021

Insomnium - The Conjurer [Single]	9
Thy Light - Thy Light [EP]	9
Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers	9
Be'lakor - Coherence	9
Clouds - Despărțire	9
Moonspell - Hermitage	9
Empyrium - Über Den Sternen	9
Ghostheart Nebula - Ascension	8
Insomnium - Argent Moon [EP]	8
Soen - Imperial	8
Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound	8
Evergrey - Escape Of The Phoenix	8
Marianas Rest - Fata Morgana	8
Atoma - Then Came The Wave [Single]	8
Epica - Ωmega	7
Lake Of Tears - Ominous	7
Therion - Leviathan	6
Helloween - Helloween	5

2020

Clouds - Durere	9
Draconian - Under A Godless Veil	9
On Thorns I Lay - Threnos	9
Angellore - Rien Ne Devait Mourir	9
Dark Tranquillity - Moment	9
My Dying Bride - Macabre Cabaret [EP]	8
Katatonia - City Burials	8
Paradise Lost - Obsidian	8
Counting Hours - The Will	8
Aleah - Aleah	8
Apocalyptica - Cell-0	8
Lethian Dreams - A Shadow Of Memories	8
Delain - Apocalypse & Chill	8
Noumena - Anima	8
Light Field Reverie - Another World	8
John Petrucci - Terminal Velocity	8
Dominia - The Withering Of The Rose	8
My Dying Bride - The Ghost Of Orion	8
Heaven Shall Burn - Of Truth & Sacrifice	8
Godthrymm - Reflections	7
Shattered Hope - Vespers	7
Nightwish - Human. :II: Nature.	5
Within Temptation - Entertain You [Single]	4

2019

Insomnium - Heart Like A Grave	9
Officium Triste - The Death Of Gaia	9
Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light	9
Candlemass - The Door To Doom	8
Belzebubs - Pantheon Of The Nightside Gods	8
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct	8
Marianas Rest - Ruins	8
Evergrey - The Atlantic	8
Soen - Lotus	8
Within Temptation - Resist	6

2018

Moonspell - Lisboa Under The Spell [Live]	10
Forest Of Shadows - Among The Dormant Watchers	9
Swallow The Sun - Lumina Aurea [Single]	8
Amorphis - Queen Of Time	8
Clouds - Dor	8
Aeonian Sorrow - Into The Eternity A Moment We Are	8
Beyond The Black - Heart Of The Hurricane	8
Lord Of The Lost - Thornstar	8
Wolfheart - Constellation Of The Black Light	8
Virgin Black - Requiem - Pianissimo	8
Warrel Dane - Shadow Work	8
Harakiri For The Sky - Arson	8
Tribulation - Down Below	8

2017

Clouds - Destin [EP]	9
Iced Earth - Incorruptible	9
Dominia - Stabat Mater	8
Soijl - As The Sun Sets On Life	8
Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements	8
Wintersun - The Forest Seasons	8
Paradise Lost - Medusa	8
Hallatar - No Stars Upon The Bridge	8
Xandria - Theater Of Dimensions	8
Cradle Of Filth - Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness Of Decay	8
Moonspell - 1755	8
Mors Principium Est - Embers Of A Dying World	8
Wolfheart - Tyhjyys	8
Novembers Doom - Hamartia	8
The Dark Element - The Dark Element	8
Dark Tranquillity - The Absolute [EP]	8
Shade Empire - Poetry Of The Ill-Minded	7
Exit Eden - Rhapsodies In Black	7
Enslaved - E	6

2016

Trees Of Eternity - Hour Of The Nightingale	9
Clouds - Departe	9
Devin Townsend - Transcendence	8
Insomnium - Winter's Gate	8
Unreqvited - Disquiet	8
Omnium Gatherum - Grey Heavens	8
Dark Tranquillity - Atoma	8
Alter Bridge - The Last Hero	8
Metallica - Hardwired... To Self-Destruct	8
The Foreshadowing - Seven Heads, Ten Horns	8
Metallica - Hardwired [Single]	8
Heavenwood - The Tarot Of The Bohemians: Part 1	8
Beyond The Black - Lost In Forever	8
Katatonia - The Fall Of Hearts	8
Be'lakor - Vessels	8
Witherscape - The Northern Sanctuary	8
Novembre - URSA	7
October Tide - Winged Waltz	7
Heaven Grey - Manuscriptum	7
Epica - The Holographic Principle	6

2015

Swallow The Sun - Songs From The North I, II & III	9
Angellore - La Litanie Des Cendres	9
Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud	9
Moonspell - Extinct	9
My Dying Bride - Feel The Misery	9
Draconian - Sovran	9
Paradise Lost - The Plague Within	8
Beyond The Black - Songs Of Love And Death	8
Shape Of Despair - Monotony Fields	8
Empyrium - The Mill [EP]	8
Xandria - Fire & Ashes [EP]	8
Stratovarius - Eternal	8
Ahab - The Boats Of The Glen Carrig	8
Leaves' Eyes - King Of Kings	8
Within The Fall - Where Sorrow Grows	8
Wolfheart - Shadow World	8
Kauan - Sorni Nai	8
Enslaved - In Times	8
Wilderun - Sleep At The Edge Of The Earth	7
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal	7
Weeping Silence - Opus IV Oblivion	6
Galneryus - Under The Force Of Courage	6
Kamelot - Haven	6
Nightwish - Élan [Single]	6
Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful	6

2014

Doom:VS - Earthless	9
Ophis - Abhorrence In Opulence	8
Kowai - Dissonance	8
Linkin Park - The Hunting Party	8
Epica - The Quantum Enigma	8
Xandria - Sacrificium	8
Threshold - For The Journey	8
Yossi Sassi - Desert Butterflies	8
Dominia - Theophania	8
Agalloch - The Serpent & The Sphere	8
Ancient Bards - A New Dawn Ending	8
Helevorn - Compassion Forlorn	8
Insomnium - Shadows Of The Dying Sun	8
Descend - Wither	8
Clouds - Doliu	8
Arch Enemy - War Eternal	8
Mors Principium Est - Dawn Of The 5th Era	8
Kauan - Muistumia	8
Saor - Aura	8
Heliosaga - Towers In The Distance	8
Novembers Doom - Bled White	8
Empyrium - The Turn Of The Tides	8
Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails	8
Anette Olzon - Shine	7
Frequency Drift - Over	7
Tuomas Holopainen - The Life And Times Of Scrooge	7
Anathema - Distant Satellites	7
Elysion - Someplace Better	6
Alcest - Shelter	6
Within Temptation - Hydra	6
Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel	5

2013

Thy Light - No Morrow Shall Dawn	9
Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle	9
Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn	8
Officium Triste - Mors Viri	8
Omnium Gatherum - Beyond	8
Dark Tranquillity - Construct	8
When Nothing Remains - Thy Dark Serenity	8
Enshine - Origin	8
Wine From Tears - Glad To Be Dead	8
Hypocrisy - End Of Disclosure	8
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Saivon Lapsi	8
Alter Bridge - Fortress	8
My Dying Bride - The Manuscript [EP]	8
Witherscape - The Inheritance	8
Tarja - Colours In The Dark	8
Insomnium - Ephemeral [EP]	8
Noumena - Death Walks With Me	8
The Fall Of Every Season - Amends	8
Avatarium - Avatarium	8
Sirenia - Perils Of The Deep Blue	7
October Tide - Tunnel Of No Light	7
Mourning Beloveth - Formless	7
The Prophecy - Salvation	7
Serenity - War Of Ages	7
Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother	7
Edenbridge - The Bonding	7
Tristania - Darkest White	7
Visions Of Atlantis - Ethera	6
Lingua Mortis Orchestra - LMO [Collaboration]	6

2012

Moonspell - Alpha Noir / Omega White	9
My Dying Bride - A Map Of All Our Failures	9
Saturnus - Saturn In Ascension	9
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist	8
In The Silence - A Fair Dream Gone Mad	8
Before The Dawn - Rise Of The Phoenix	8
Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol	8
Vision Divine - Destination Set To Nowhere	8
Epica - Requiem For The Indifferent	8
Candlemass - Psalms For The Dead	8
Indesinence - Vessels Of Light And Decay	8
Beyond The Bridge - The Old Man And The Spirit	8
Swallow The Sun - Emerald Forest And The Blackbird	8
Katatonia - Dead End Kings	8
Antimatter - Fear Of A Unique Identity	8
Tiamat - The Scarred People	8
Daylight Dies - A Frail Becoming	8
Falling Leaves - Mournful Cry Of A Dying Sun	8
Enslaved - RIITIIR	8
Bilocate - Summoning The Bygones	8
Ahab - The Giant	8
Atoma - Skylight	8
A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays	8
Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme	8
Kamelot - Silverthorn	8
DragonForce - The Power Within	8
Xandria - Neverworld's End	8
Be'lakor - Of Breath And Bone	8
Lethian Dreams - Season Of Raven Words	8
Eluveitie - Helvetios	8
Rush - Clockwork Angels	8
Wintersun - Time I	8
Les Discrets - Ariettes Oubliées...	8
The Foreshadowing - Second World	8
Frequency Drift - ... Laid To Rest	8
Anathema - Weather Systems	8
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal Of I	7
Ensiferum - Unsung Heroes	7
Allegaeon - Formshifter	7
Wilderun - Olden Tales & Deathly Trails	7
Nightwish - Imaginaerum (The Score)	7
Sabaton - Carolus Rex	7
Sonata Arctica - Stones Grow Her Name	7
The Agonist - Prisoners	6
In Mourning - The Weight Of Oceans	6
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme	6
Saturnian - Dimensions	5
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Pandora's Piñata	4

2011

My Dying Bride - The Barghest O' Whitby [EP]	10
Insomnium - One For Sorrow	9
Nightwish - Walking In The Air - The Greatest Ballads [Compilation]	9
Omnium Gatherum - New World Shadows	8
My Dying Bride - Evinta	8
Ghost Brigade - Until Fear No Longer Defines Us	8
Falloch - Where Distant Spirits Remain	8
Amorphis - The Beginning Of Times	8
Metallica - Beyond Magnetic [EP]	8
Draconian - A Rose For The Apocalypse	8
Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising	8
Nightwish - Imaginaerum	8
Aquilus - Griseus	8
Kauan - Kuu..	8
Within Temptation - The Unforgiving	8
Arch Enemy - Khaos Legions	7
In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading	7
Septicflesh - The Great Mass	6

2010

Alcest - Écailles De Lune	9
Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit	9
Apocalyptica - 7th Symphony	8
Funeral Tears - Your Life My Death	8
Eluveitie - Everything Remains (As It Never Was)	8
Tristania - Rubicon	8
Kamelot - Poetry For The Poisoned	8
Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here	8
Therion - Sitra Ahra	8
Dark Tranquillity - We Are The Void	8
Shattered Hope - Absence	8
Alter Bridge - AB III	7
Shadowgarden - Ashen	7
Burden Of Grief - Follow The Flames	7

2009

Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Children Of The Dark Waters	9
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom	9
Swallow The Sun - New Moon	9
Epica - Design Your Universe	9
Trees Of Eternity - Trees Of Eternity [Demo]	9
Eluveitie - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion	8
Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us	8
My Dying Bride - Bring Me Victory [EP]	8
Wine From Tears - Through The Eyes Of A Mad	8
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal	8
Insomnium - Across The Dark	8
Soulfallen - Grave New World	8
The Prophecy - Into The Light	8
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day	8
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs	8
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire	8
Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays	7
Nightwish - Made In Hong Kong (And In Various Other Places) [EP]	7
Ensiferum - From Afar	7
Elysion - Silent Scream	7

2008

Virgin Black - Requiem - Fortissimo	9
Forest Of Shadows - Six Waves Of Woe	9
Moonspell - Lusitanian Metal [Live]	9
Draconian - No Greater Sorrow [Single]	9
Moonspell - Night Eternal	9
Doom:VS - Dead Words Speak	9
My Dying Bride - An Ode To Woe [Live]	9
DragonForce - Ultra Beatdown	8
Metallica - Death Magnetic	8
Gates Of Winter - Lux Aeterna	8
Amon Amarth - Twilight Of The Thunder God	8
Eluveitie - Slania	8
Omnium Gatherum - The Redshift	8
Daylight Dies - Lost To The Living	8
Opeth - Watershed	8
Draconian - Turning Season Within	8
In Flames - A Sense Of Purpose	7

2007

Moonspell - The Great Silver Eye [Compilation]	10
Alter Bridge - Blackbird	9
Virgin Black - Requiem - Mezzo Forte	9
Kamelot - Ghost Opera	9
After Forever - After Forever	9
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde	9
Paradise Lost - In Requiem	8
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir	8
Tristania - Illumination	8
Warning - Watching From A Distance	8
Sirenia - Nine Destinies And A Downfall	8
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play	8
Ghost Brigade - Guided By Fire	8
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah	8
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy	8
Within Temptation - The Heart Of Everything	8
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant	8
Moonspell - Under Satanæ [Compilation]	8
Officium Triste - Giving Yourself Away	8
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction	8
Linkin Park - Minutes To Midnight	7
Apocalyptica - Worlds Collide	7
Ensiferum - Victory Songs	7
Sonata Arctica - Unia	6

2006

Nightwish - End Of An Era [DVD]	10
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain	10
Doom:VS - Aeternum Vale	10
Nightwish - End Of An Era [Live]	10
Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die	9
Daylight Dies - Dismantling Devotion	9
Insomnium - Above The Weeping World	9
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance	9
The Prophecy - Revelations	9
Draconian - The Burning Halo	9
My Dying Bride - A Line Of Deathless Kings	8
Tarot - Crows Fly Black	8
Noumena - Anatomy Of Life	8
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Before The Bleeding Sun	8
The Gathering - Home	8
In Flames - Come Clarity	8
Moonspell - Memorial	8
Eluveitie - Spirit	7
Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Butcher's Ballroom	5

2005

Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell	10
Apocalyptica - Apocalyptica	9
Kamelot - The Black Halo	9
Epica - Consign To Oblivion	8
John Petrucci - Suspended Animation	8
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine	8
Paradise Lost - Paradise Lost	8
Noumena - Absence	8
Dark Tranquillity - Character	8
Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure	8
After Forever - Remagine	7
Tristania - Ashes	7
Epica - The Score - An Epic Journey	7
Silent Cry - Darklife	7

2004

Dream Theater - Live At Budokan [DVD]	10
Therion - Sirius B	9
My Dying Bride - Songs Of Darkness, Words Of Light	9
Void Of Silence - Human Antithesis	9
Ensiferum - Iron	9
Slumber - Fallout	9
Wintersun - Wintersun	9
Officium Triste - Reason	9
Therion - Lemuria	9
Within Temptation - The Silent Force	9
Forest Of Shadows - Departure	9
Nightwish - Once	9
Insomnium - Since The Day It All Came Down	9
Alter Bridge - One Day Remains	8
Shape Of Despair - Illusion's Play	8
In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape	7
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night	7
After Forever - Invisible Circles	7

2003

Draconian - Where Lovers Mourn	9
Moonspell - The Antidote	9
Kamelot - Epica	9
Swallow The Sun - The Morning Never Came	9
Apocalyptica - Reflections	9
The Gathering - Souvenirs	8
Linkin Park - Meteora	8
Anathema - A Natural Disaster	8
Evanescence - Fallen	8
Epica - The Phantom Agony	8
Virgin Black - Elegant... And Dying	8
Opeth - Damnation	8
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild	7
Metallica - St. Anger	5

2002

Agalloch - The Mantle	10
Nightwish - Century Child	9
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done	8
Sentenced - The Cold White Light	8
Daylight Dies - No Reply	8
Insomnium - In The Halls Of Awaiting	8
Paradise Lost - Symbol Of Life	7
Silent Cry - Dance Of Shadows	7
Novembers Doom - To Welcome The Fade	7
In Flames - Reroute To Remain	6

2001

Forest Of Shadows - Where Dreams Turn To Dust [EP]	10
Ensiferum - Ensiferum	9
Nightwish - From Wishes To Eternity [Live]	9
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - A Virgin And A Whore	9
Savatage - Poets And Madmen	9
My Dying Bride - The Dreadful Hours	9
Virgin Black - Sombre Romantic	9
Opeth - Blackwater Park	9
Kamelot - Karma	8
Moonspell - Darkness And Hope	8
Therion - Secret Of The Runes	8
Tristania - World Of Glass	8
After Forever - Decipher	8
Officium Triste - The Pathway	8
Anathema - A Fine Day To Exit	7
Sonata Arctica - Silence	7
Paradise Lost - Believe In Nothing	6

2000

Nightwish - Wishmaster	9
Within Temptation - Mother Earth	9
Iron Maiden - Brave New World	9
Saturnus - Martyre	9
In Flames - Clayman	8
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory	8
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Chaotic Beauty	8
After Forever - Prison Of Desire	8
Daylight Dies - Idle [EP]	8
Silent Cry - Goddess Of Tears	8
Apocalyptica - Cult	8
Dark Tranquillity - Haven	8
Novembers Doom - The Knowing	7

1999

Anathema - Judgement	9
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory	9
Metallica - S&M [Live]	9
Agalloch - Pale Folklore	9
Tristania - Beyond The Veil	9
My Dying Bride - The Light At The End Of The World	9
Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance	9
Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn	9
In Flames - Colony	8
Lacrimosa - Elodia	8
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica	8
October Tide - Grey Dawn	8
Dark Tranquillity - Projector	8
Moonspell - The Butterfly Effect	7
Novembers Doom - Of Sculptured Ivy And Stone Flowers	7
Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy	7
Paradise Lost - Host	6
Silent Cry - Remembrance	6

1998

Nightwish - Oceanborn	9
Tristania - Widow's Weeds	9
Theatre Of Tragedy - Aégis	9
Anathema - Alternative 4	9
Moonspell - Sin / Pecado	9
Saturnus - For The Loveless Lonely Nights [EP]	8
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Vilda Mánnu	7
Dæmonarch - Hermeticum	7
My Dying Bride - 34.788%... Complete	7
Apocalyptica - Inquisition Symphony	7
Kamelot - Siége Perilous	6

1997

Saturnus - Paradise Belongs To You	9
In Flames - Whoracle	8
Within Temptation - Enter	8
Tristania - Tristania [EP]	8
Lake Of Tears - A Crimson Cosmos	8
October Tide - Rain Without End	8
Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I	8
Nightwish - Angels Fall First	8
Metallica - Re-Load	7
Paradise Lost - One Second	7
Eternal Tears Of Sorrow - Sinner's Serenade	6
Kamelot - Dominion	6

1996

Moonspell - Irreligious	10
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga	9
In Flames - The Jester Race	9
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day	8
Therion - Theli	8
My Dying Bride - Like Gods Of The Sun	8
Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos	8
Anathema - Eternity	8
Metallica - Load	8
Heavenwood - Diva	7

1995

Moonspell - Wolfheart	10
My Dying Bride - The Angel And The Dark River	9
Anathema - The Silent Enigma	9
Lake Of Tears - Headstones	8
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times	8
Opeth - Orchid	8
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery	8
Kamelot - Eternity	5

1994

Tiamat - Wildhoney	9
Megadeth - Youthanasia	8
Moonspell - Under The Moonspell [EP]	8
In Flames - Lunar Strain	6

1993

My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans	8
Paradise Lost - Icon	8
Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer	7
Anathema - Serenades	6

1992

Paradise Lost - Shades Of God	8
My Dying Bride - As The Flower Withers	7

1991

Metallica - Metallica	9
Paradise Lost - Gothic	8

1990

Megadeth - Rust In Peace	8
Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise	6

1988

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son	9
Metallica - ...And Justice For All	9

1987

Candlemass - Nightfall

9

1986

Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus	10
Metallica - Master Of Puppets	10

1984

Metallica - Ride The Lightning	10
Iron Maiden - Powerslave	9

1983

Metallica - Kill 'Em All

8

1982

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

9