40. Rivers of Nihil, The Work, Metal Blade 39. Darkthrone, Eternal Hails……, Peaceville 38. Body Void, Bury Me Beneath This Rotting Earth, Prosthetic 37. Frozen Soul, Crypt of Ice, Century Media 36. Mare Cognitum, Solar Paroxysm, I, Voidhanger 35. Silver Talon, Decadence and Decay, M-Theory 34. Spectral Wound, A Diabolic Thirst, Profound Lore 33. The Ruins of Beverast, The Thule Grimoires, Van 32. Enforced, Kill Grid, Century Media 31. Knoll, Interstice, Self-released
30. Archspire, Bleed the Future, Season of Mist 29. Dungeon Serpent, World of Sorrows, Nameless Grave 28. Exodus, Persona Non Grata, Nuclear Blast 27. Hulder, Godslastering Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry, Iron Bonehead 26. Craven Idol, Forked Tongues, Dark Descent 25. Deafheaven, Infinite Granite, Sargent House 24. Rudimentary Peni, The Great War, Sealed 23. Stormkeep, Tales of Othertime, Van 22. Genghis Tron, Dream Weapon, Relapse 21. Gatecreeper, An Unexpected Reality, Closed Casket Activities
20. Cannibal Corpse, Violence Unimagined, Metal Blade 19. Worm, Foreverglade, 20 Buck Spin 18. Unto Others, Strength, Roadrunner 17. Full of Hell, Garden of Burning Apparitions, Relapse 16. Cerebral Rot, Excretion of Mortality, 20 Buck Spin 15. Amenra, De doorn, Relapse 14. Lingua Ignota, Sinner Get Ready, Sargent House 13. The Silver, Ward of Roses, Gilead Media 12. Skepticism, Companion, Svart 11. Fucked Up, Year of the Horse, Tankcrimes
10. Wolves in the Throne Room, Primordial Arcana, Relapse
9. Iron Maiden, Senjutsu, BMG
8. Lamp of Murmuur, Submission and Slavery, Self-released
7. Converge, Bloodmoon: I, Epitaph/Deathwish Inc
6. Hooded Menace, The Tritonus Bell, Season of Mist
5. Panopticon, …And Again into the Light, Bindrune
4. Apparition, Feel, Profound Lore
3. Tribulation, Where the Gloom Becomes Sound, Metal Blade
