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• (Dis)Figured – “Prelude to Dementia”

A

• Abigor – “Opus 4”
• Aborted – “The Archaic Abattoir”
• Accept – “Death Row”
• Acheron -“Those Who Have Risen”
• Adolf Satan – “Adolf Satan”
• Adramelech – “Seven”
• Adversary – “The Winters Harvest”
• Adversary – “We Must Be in Hell”
• Aeternus – “Burning the Shroud”
• Agathodaimon – “Higher Art of Rebellion”
• Age of S1Lence – “Acceleration”
• Alastis – “The Other Side”
• All Shall Perish – “Hate. Malice. Revenge.”
• Amorphis – “Eclipse”
• Amorphis – “Elegy”
• Amorphis – “Far From the Sun”
• Anal of Blast – “Vaginal Vempire”
• Anasarca – “Godmachine”
• Ancient – “The Cainian Chronicles”
• Angra – “Temple of Shadows”
• Annihilator – “All for You”
• Apocalyptica – “Reflections”
• Arch Enemy – “Dead Eyes See No Future”
• Arch Enemy – “Doomsday Machine”
• Arcturus – “La Masquerade Infernale”
• Arcturus -“Aspera Hiems Symfonia”
• Arghoslent – “Arsenal of Glory”
• Asguard – “Wikka”
• Audrey Horne – “No Hay Banda”
• Autumn Dawn – “Emptiness”
• Avernus – “…Of the Fallen”
• Axel Rudi Pell – “The Ballads III”
• Axenstar – “The Inquisition”

B

• Babylon Mystery Orchestra – “The Great Apostasy”
• Babylonian Tiles -” Green Midnight Glow”
• Balatonizer – “Occlused in Ottusity”
• Bang Tango – “Live”
• Barcode – “Showdown”
• Battlelore – “Third Age of the Sun”
• Beecher – “Beecher”
• Beecher – “This Elegy, His Autopsy”
• Behemoth – “Demigod”
• Belef – “Infection Purification”
• Ben Jackson Group – All Over You
• Bewitched – “Dragonflight”
• Beyond the Flesh – What the Mind Perceives
• Biolich – the Space Between Home and Today
• Biomechanical – “The Empires of the Worlds”
• Bitch “N” Moan -“Silicone Messiah”
• Black Sabbath – “Forbidden”
• Blaster the Rocket Boy -“Succulent Space Food for Teething Vampires”
• Bleed the Sky – “Paradign in Entropy”
• Bleeding Kansas – “Dead Under Decor”
• Blind Stare – “Symphony of Delusions”
• Blood Coven – “Ashes of an Autumn Burning”
• Blood Red Throne – “Altered Genesis”
• Bloodbath – “Nightmares Made Flesh”
• Bloodlet -“The Seraphim Fall”
• Bolt*Thrower – “Mercenary”
• Borknagar – “Epic”
• Breaknek
• Bronx Casket Co – “Hellectric”
• Built for Speed – “A Motorhead Tribute”
• Burden of Grief – “Fields of Salvation”
• Buried Inside – “Chronoclast”
• Burned in Effigy – “Burned in Effigy”
• Burnt Offering – “Walk of the Dead”
• Butter Beans – “Always Tight Advance”
• By Blood Alone – “Eternally”
• By Blood Alone – “Seas of Blood”

C

• Cadacross – “So Pale is the Light”
• Caliban vs Heaven Shall Burn – “The Split Program II”
• Callenish Circle – “Forbidden Empathy”
• Callisto – “True Nature Unfolds”
• Candlemass – “Chapter 6”
• Cans – “Beyond the Gates”
• Carnal Forge – “Aren’t You Dead Yet?”
• Catasexual Urge Motivation – “The Encyclopedia of Serial Murders”
• Cause for Alarm – “Beneath the Wheel”
• Celestial Season – “Solar Lovers”
• Celestiial – “Desolate North”
• Cenotaph – “Riding Our Black Oceans”
• Centinex – “Bloodhunt”
• Centinex – “World Declension”
• Centurian – “Choronzonic Chaos Gods”
• Century Media – “Identity Four Compilation”
• Cephalic Carnage – “Anomalies”
• Chuck Schuldiner – “Zero Tolerance”
• Circus Maximus – “The First Chapter”
• Code-Black – “Penetration”
• Cold Colours – “The Burden of Hope”
• Collapsar – “Collapsar”
• Comminic – “Waves of Visual Decay”
• Contrastic – “Contrastic”
• Control Denied – “The Fragile Art of Existence”
• Core – “The Hustle is On”
• Corpse Vomit – “Bastards of Foreverfilth”
• Corpsefuckingart – “Corpsefuckingart”
• Council of the Fallen – “Deciphering the Soul”
• Crionics – “Armageddon’s Evolution”
• Crisis – “Deathshead Extermination”
• Cronian – “Terra”
• Cryptopsy – “Whisper Supremacy”

D

• Dagoba – “What Hell is About”
• Damn the Machine – “Damn the Machine”
• Damnation – “Destructo Evangelia”
• Dark Disciple – “Unholy Hate Gore”
• Dark Moor – “Beyond the Sea”
• Dark Throne – “Total Death”
• Dark Tranquillity – “Character”
• Daylight Dies – “Dismantling Devotion”
• Deadbird – “The Head and the Heart”
• Deadhole – “Curse of the Ghoul”
• Deadsoil – “The Venom Divine”
• Death – “The Sound of Perseverance”
• Death Angel – “The Art of Dying”
• Deceased – “Fearless Un-Dead Machines”
• Define Divine – “Define Divine”
• Demonoid – “Riders of the Apocalypse”
• Demons & Wizards – “Touched by the Crimson King”
• Depresy – “A Sighting”
• Descend / All That is Evil – “Split Release”
• Desire – “Infinity… a Timeless Journey Through an Emotional Dream”
• Despised Icon – “The Healing Process”
• Destructor – “Maximum Destruction”
• Devilinside – “Prelude”
• Devilyn -“Anger”
• Dew of Nothing – “Doubleueird”
• Diabolos Rising – “666”
• Diecast – “Tearing Down Your Blue Skies”
• Dio – “Master of the Moon”
• Disbelief – “66Sick”
• Dislocation – “Inexorable Devastation”
• Dismember – “Live Blasphemies” (DVD)
• Dissection – “Maha Kali”
• Divine Empire – “Doomed to Inherit”
• Divine Regale – “Ocean Mind”
• Divinity Destroyed – “Eden in Ashes”
• Domain – “Last Days of Utopia”
• Doomtree – “Down Below”
• Dragonforce – “Sonic Firestorm”
• Dreamaker – “Enclosed”
• Drogheda – “Celebrating Five Years of Violence” / “Pogromist”
• Drogheda – “Drogheda”
• Dungeon – “One Step Beyond”

E

• Eat the Evidence – “Various Artists Vol. 2”
• Edguy – “Rocket Ride”
• Ektomorf – “Instinct”
• Emperor – “Emperial Live Ceremony”
• Emperor – “Ix Equilibrium”
• Entwine – “Dieversity”
• Ephel Duath – “Pain Necessary to Know”
• Evergreen Terrace – “Sincerity is an Easy Disguise in This Business”
• Exmortem – “Nihilistic Contentment”
• Exodus – “Shovel-Headed Kill Machine”
• Eyes of Fire – “Ashes to Embers”

F

• F2RC – “Rapture of the Deep”
• Fallen Wisdon – “Immortal”
• Fates Warning – “A Pleasant Shade of Gray”
• Fear My Thoughts – “Hell Sweet Hell”
• Final Breath – “Let Me Be Your Tank”
• Final Dawn – “Under the Bleeding Sky”
• Firewind – “Forged by Fire”
• Fledging Death – “Fledging Death”
• Flowing Tears – “Razorbliss”
• Freedom Call – “The Circle of Life”
• Fury of Five – “At War With the World”

G

• Gadget – “Remote”
• Gardenian – “Two Feet Stand”
• Gehenna – “Malice”
• Generated X-Ed – “Protest and Survive”
• Genghis Tron – “Cloak of Love”
• God Among Insects – “World Wide Death”
• God Dethroned – “The Grand Grimoire”
• Gonkulator – “Satan’s Burial Ground”
• Gooseflesh – “Chemical Garden”
• Gothic – “Criminal Art Motivations”
• Gothic Sex – “Laments”
• Grave – “Fiendish Regression”
• Grave – “Hating Life”
• Grave Digger – “Excalibur”
• Grave Digger – “The Last Supper”
• Graveworm – “[N]Utopia”
• Grenouer – “Try”
• Grey Area – “Fan Belt Algebra”
• Grey Area – “Grey Area”
• Grief of Emerald – “Nightspawn”
• Grone – “Chucklepatch”
• Grone – “Grovel”
• Grone – “Grovel/Stains and Omissions”
• Gwar – “Carnival of Chaos”

H

• Hammerfall – “Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken”
• Handsome – “Handsome”
• Harkonin – “Ghanima”
• Haste – “Pursuit in the Face of Consequence”
• Hate Eternal – “I, Monarch”
• Hatebreed – “Satisfaction is the Death of Desire”
• Hatesphere – “Ballet of the Brute”
• Hecate Enthroned – “Redimus”
• Hegemon – “Chaos Supreme”
• Hemdale / Exhumed – “In the Name of Gore”
• Hibria – “Defying the Rules”
• Horse the Band – “The Mechanical Hand”
• Hypocrisy – “Virus”

I

• I.C.E – “Apocalyptic End in White”
• Iced Earth – “The Blessed and the Damned”
• Iced Earth – “The Dark Saga”
• Immolation – “Harnessing Ruin”
• Impaled – “Death After Life”
• In Cold Blood – “Hell on Earth”
• Incantation – “Decimate Christendom”
• Infamy – “The Blood Shall Flow”
• Insomnium – “Since the Day it All Came Down”
• Integrity – “Humanity is the Devil”
• Internal Bleeding – “Onward to Mecca”
• Iron Savior – “Battering Ram”
• Iron Savior – “Unification”
• Isqarial – “Inheritance”
• Ivory Knight – “Unconscience”

J

• Jag Panzer – “Casting the Stones”
• James Murphy – “Convergence”
• Jon Oliva’s Pain – “Tage Mahal”
• Judas Iscariot – “The Cold Earth Slept Below”
• Judas Priest – “Jugulator”
• Judecca – “Awakened by the Stench of the Dead”

K

• Kaamos – “Lucifer Rising”
• Kaliban – “The Tempest of Thoughts”
• Karma to Burn – “Wild Wonderful Purgatory”
• Katatonia – “The Great Cold Distance”
• Khigh – “Wise Hedonist”
• Khold – “MøRke Gravers Kammer”
• Kill the Thrill – “Tellurique”
• King Diamond – “The Graveyard”
• Kreagan – “Three Song Demo”
• Krisiun – “Bloodshed”
• Kryoburn – “Enigmatic Existence”
• Kuru – “Epidemic”

L

• Labyrinth – “Freeman”
• Lacuna Coil – “Lacuna Coil”
• Lake of Tears – “Blackbrickroad”
• Lament – “Tears of a Leper”
• Leash Law – “Dogface”
• Let Me Dream – “Promo”
• Lifend – “Innerscars”
• Lilitu – “The Delores Lesion”
• Limbonic Art – “Moon in the Scorpio”
• Linea 77 – “Available for Propaganda”
• Linea 77 – “Too Much Happiness Makes Kids Paranoid”
• Liturgy – “Dawn of Ash”
• Lividity – “Rejoice in Morbidity”
• Lock up – “Pleasures Pave Sewers”
• Lord Belial – “The Seal of Belial”
• Lost Soul – “Chaostream”
• Lowbrow – “Victims at Play”
• Lucifixion – “As Evil as Me”
• Lunaris – “Cyclic”
• Lungbrush – “Old School, New School”
• Lyzanxia – “Mindcrimes”

M

• Malevolent Creation – “Warkult”
• Malice 420 – “Hateful Preachings”
• Manegarm – “Nordstjarnans Tidsalder”
• Maroon – “When Worlds Collide”
• Masquerade – “Surface of Pain”
• Mass Psychosis – “Necroporno”
• Masterplan – “Aeronautics”
• Matutina Noctem – “Anima Meam”
• Mayhem – “Dawn of the Black Hearts”
• Mayhem – “Wolf’s Lair Abyss”
• Meliah Rage – “Death Valley Dream”
• Mental Destruction – “Straw”
• Mercenary – “11 Dreams”
• Merciless – “Live Obsession” (DVD)
• Mercyful Fate – “Into the Unknown”
• Meshuggah – “Catch Thirty Three”
• Metal Church – “Live”
• Metalium – “Demons of Insanity – Chapter Five”
• Mindgrinder – “Riot Detonator”
• Misery Loves Co. – “Your Vision Was Never Mine to Share”
• Mistress – “In Disgust We Trust”
• Mnemic – “The Audio Injected Soul”
• Monolithe – “II”
• Moonlyght – “Progressive Darkness”
• Moonspell – ” Sin Pecado”
• Moonspell – “Irreligious”
• Morbid Execution – “Total Devotion”
• Morgoth – “Feel Sorry for the Fanatic”
• Morgul – “All Dead Here”
• Mortem – “Demon Tales”
• Mortician – “Hacked up for Barbecue”
• Mugzu – “Not Really” (demo)
• Municipal Waste – “Hazardous Mutation”
• Murder 1 – “American Junkie”
• My Dying Bride – “Like Gods of the Sun”
• My Ruin – “The Brutal Language”
• Myon – “Ghost in Paradise”

N

• Nashville Pussy – “Get Some”
• Necrodemon – “Allegiance to the End”
• Negator – “Old Black”
• Nevermore – “The Politics of Ecstacy”
• New Eden – “Stagnant Progression”
• Night in Gales – “Thunderbeast”
• Nightrage – “Descent Into Chaos”
• Nile – “Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka”
• Nocturnal Rites – “Tales of Mystery and Imagination”
• Novembers Doom – “The Knowing”

O

• Obituary – “Back From the Dead”
• Oblomov – “Mighty Cosmic Dances”
• Obtained Enslavement – “The Shepherd and the Hounds of Hell”
• Obtruncation – “The Callous Concept”
• Octavia Sperati – “Winter Enclosure”
• Odd Zero – “Odd Zero”
• Omnium Gatherum – “Years in Waste”
• On a Dead Machine – “On a Dead Machine”
• One Man Army and the Undead Quartet – “21st Century Killing Machine”
• Opeth – “Still Life”
• Orange Sky – “Upstairs”
• Order of the Ebon Hand – “XV: The Devil”
• Origin – “Echoes of Decimation”
• Outpatient – “Outcasts 2-85-95”

P

• P.H.O.B.O.S. – “Tectonics”
• Pain Link – “The Burden of Sin”
• Paradise Lost – “Paradise Lost”
• Paragon – “Revenge”
• Pathology Stench – “Accion Mutante”
• Pegazus – “Breaking the Chains”
• Pentacle – “…Rides the Moonstorm”
• Pentacle – “Under the Black Cross”
• Piledriver – “Metal Inquisition / Stay Ugly”
• Polidicks – “Mutenation”
• Positively Negative – “Absolutely”
• Pro-Pain – “Act of God”
• Project Failing Flesh – “A Beautiful Sickness”
• Prophecy – “Contagion”
• Proton Burst – “Proton Burst”
• Provoke – “Truth”
• Psionic – “4-Song Promo”
• Pyrexia – “Cruelty Beyond Submission”
• Pyuria – “Calliphobia Vomitoria Introitus”

R

• Rage – “From the Cradle to the Stage (2Oth Anniversary)”
• Raintime – “Tales From Sadness”
• Raism – “The Very Best of Pain”
• Ram-Zet – “Intra
• Ratos de Parao – “Carniceria Tropical”
• Redemption – “The Fullness of Time”
• Reprisal Scars: “?”
• Rob Rock – “Holy Hell”
• Rob Zombie – “Hellbilly Deluxe”
• Rotting Christ – “Triarchy of the Lost Lovers”
• Royal Hunt – “Paper Blood”
• Rumpelstiltskin Grinder – “Buried in the Front “Yard
• Running Wild – “Death or Glory”

S

• Sacramentary Abolishment – “The Distracting Stone”
• Samael – “Passage”
• Samael – “Reign of Light”
• Sargatanas – “The Enlightment”
• Satan’s God – “Wicked Arrival”
• Sathanas – “Armies of Charon”
• Satyricon – “Nemesis Divina”
• Satyricon – “Now, Diabolical”
• Scar Symmetry – “Pitch Black Progress”
• Scar Symmetry – “Symmetric in Design”
• Scenteria – “Art of Aggression”
• Schaliach – “Sonrise”
• Sea of Tranquility – “The Omegan Ruins”
• Season – “No Cure No Feeling”
• Sentenced – “Down”
• Seraph – “Awakened”
• Sermon – “From Death to Death”
• Seven Foot Spleen – “Enter Therapy”
• Severe Torture – “Bloodletting”
• Shadowcaster – “Temptation” / “Shadowcaster”
• Shadows Fall – “Of One Blood”
• Siebenburgen – “Delictum”
• Siege of Hate – “Subversive by Nature”
• Single Bullet Theory – “Behind Eyes of Hatred”
• Sinisthra – “Last of the Stories of Long Past “Glories
• Sinner – “The Second Decade”
• Skinlab – “Eyesore”
• Skrew – “Shadow of Doubt”
• Slave to the System – “Slave to the System”
• Slayer – “Undisputed Attitude”
• Slumber – “Fallout”
• Soilwork – “Stabbing the Drama”
• Sonata Arctica – “For The Sake of Revenge”
• Sonata Arctica – “Reckoning Night”
• Soulskinner – “Breeding the Grotesque”
• Stab! Stab! Stab! – “Hell’s Coming With Me” (demo)
• Stampin’ Ground – “A New Darkness Upon Us”
• Steel Attack – “Enslaved”
• Strapping Young Lad – “Alien”
• Strapping Young Lad – “City”
• Strapping Young Lad – “The New Black”
• Stuck Mojo – “Pig Walk”
• Stuck Mojo – “Rising”
• Sturmgeist – “Meister Mephisto”
• Supercoven – “Electric Wizard”
• Switchblade Symphony – “Bread and Jam for Frances”
• Switchblade Symphony – “Serpentine Gallery”

T

• T-Nailed – “Drown!”
• Tank – “Filth Hounds of Hades”
• Tearabyte – “Gloom Factory”
• Terror 2000 – “Terror for Sale”
• Thanatos – “Angelic Encounters”
• The Apocaliptic Riders – “Samurai”
• The Chasm – “Death Cult for Eternity: The Triumph”
• The Chasm – “From the Lost Years”
• The Chasm – “The Spell of Retribution”
• The Crest – “Vain City Chronicles”
• The Forsaken – “Traces of the Past”
• The Haunted – “Made Me Do It”
• The Haunted – “Revolver”
• The Kovenant – “Animatronic”
• The Kovenant – “S.E.T.I.”
• The Mass – “City of Dis”
• The Murdersquad T.O. / Hulluus – “Rising Crust”
• The Obsessed – “Incarnate”
• The Project Hate Mcmxcix – “Hate, Dominate, Congregate, Eliminate”
• The Sins of Thy Beloved – “Perpetual Desolation”
• Theatre of Tragedy – “[‘Mju:zik]”
• Thine Eyes Bleed – “In the Wake of Separation”
• Threat Signal – “Under Reprisal”
• Throcult – “Stormbringer: Conjuration of the Nighthorde”
• Thyrfing – “Urkraft”
• TNT – “All the Way to the Sun”
• To Die for – “All Eternity”
• Torsofuck – “Erotic Diahrrea Fantasy”
• Torture Killer – “For Maggots to Devour”
• Trail of Tears – “Disclosure in Red”
• Trail of Tears – “Free Fall Into Fear”
• Tristania – “Ashes”
• Turmoil – “The Process Of:”
• Twelfth Gate – “Threshold of Revelation”

U

• U.D.O. – “Holy”
• Ultimatum – “Puppet of Destruction”
• Underthreat – “Deathmosphere”
• Unholyghost – “Torrential Reign”
• Unleashed – “Eastern Blood-Hail to Poland”
• Unleashed – “Sworn Allegiance”
• Usurper – “Cryptobeast”

V

• V:28 – “Soulsavior”
• Vader – “Live in Japan”
• Van Halen – “Van Halen”
• Various Artists – “Frozen Dawn IV”
• Various Artists – “Mercyful Fate Tribute”
• Various Artists – “Smells Like Team Spirit” Compilation
• Various Artists – “Victory Style 3”
• Venom – “New, Live, and Rare”
• Vicious Art – “Fire Falls and the Waiting Waters”
• Vile – “The New Age of Chaos”
• Vital Remains – “Forever Underground”

W

• Wartorn – “Wartorn”
• Watch Them Die – “Bastard Son”
• We Have Seen the Enemy – “And the Enemy is Us”
• Wesley Willis – “Greatest Hits Volume 2”
• Wicked Innocence – “Omnipotence”
• Widow – “On Fire”
• Willow Wisp – “Delusion of Grandeur: (A Gathering of Heretics)”
• Wintersun – “Wintersun”
• With Passion – “In the Midst of Bloodied Soil”
• Within Temptation – “Enter”
• Wolverine – “The Window Purpose”
• Wolves in the Throne Room – “Diadem of 12 Stars”
• World of Shit: “World of Shit”

X

• Xenomorph – “Necrophilia Mon Amour”

Y

• Y&T – “Yesterday and Today Live”