24-7 Spyz – Temporarily Disconnected
AC/DC – Ballbreaker
Alice Cooper – Classicks
Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
Amorphis – Black Winter Day (EP)
Anathema – The Silent Enigma
Anathema – Pentecost III (EP)
Anal Cunt -Top 40 Hits
Anthrax – Stomp 442
At the Gates – Slaughter of the Soul
Ayreon – The Final Experiment
Bad Brains – God of Love
Bal-Sagoth – A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
Behemoth – Sventevith (Storming Near the Baltic)
Belphegor – The Last Supper
Benediction – The Dreams You Dread
Beowülf – 2 Cents
Bestial Warlust – Blood & Valour
Black Sabbath – Cross Purposes Live (live box set)
Black Sabbath – Forbidden
Blind Guardian – Imaginations from the Other Side
Bruce Dickinson – Alive in Studio A (live)
Brujería – Raza Odiada
Cancer – Black Faith
Carcass – Swansong
Cathedral – The Carnival Bizarre
Clawfinger – Use Your Brain
Comecon – Fable Frolic
Craig Goldy – Better Late Than Never
Crematory – Illusions
Crowbar – Time Heals Nothing
The Crown – The Burning (as Crown of Thorns)
Cruachan – Tuatha na Gael
D-A-D – Good Clean Family Entertainment You Can Trust
Damaged – Passive Backseat Demon Engines (EP)
Dangerous Toys – The Rtist 4merly Known As Dangerous Toys
Dark Avenger – Dark Avenger
Dark Tranquillity – The Gallery
Darkthrone – Panzerfaust
Dawn – Nær Solen Gar Niþer For Evogher
Death – Symbolic
Deceased – The Blueprints for Madness
Def Leppard – Vault: Def Leppard Greatest Hits (1980–1995) (compilation)
Deftones – Adrenaline
Deeds Of Flesh – Gradually Melted (EP)
Deicide – Once upon the Cross
Deliverance – Camelot in Smithereens
Dimmu Borgir – For all tid
Dismember – Massive Killing Capacity
Dismember – Casket Garden (EP)
Dissection – Storm of the Light's Bane
Dokken – Dysfunctional
Down – NOLA
Dream Theater – A Change of Seasons (EP)
Earth Crisis – Destroy the Machines
Edguy – Savage Poetry
Excel – Seeking Refuge
Extreme – Waiting for the Punchline
FireHouse – 3 (FireHouse album)
Faith No More – King for a Day... Fool for a Lifetime
Fear Factory – Demanufacture
Fight – A Small Deadly Space
Flotsam and Jetsam – Drift
Forced Entry – The Shore (EP)
Fu Manchu – Daredevil
Funeral – Tragedies
Gamma Ray – Land of the Free
The Gathering – Mandylion
Ghostorm – Frozen in Fire
Grave Digger – Heart of Darkness
Grip Inc. – The Power of Inner Strength
Gwar – Ragnarök
Helmet – Born Annoying
Helstar – Multiples of Black
Iced Earth – Burnt Offerings
Illdisposed – Submit
Immortal – Battles in the North
In Flames – Subterranean (EP)
Incubus – Fungus Amongus
Integrity – Systems Overload
Iron Maiden – The X Factor
Joe Satriani – Joe Satriani
Kamelot – Eternity
Kataklysm – Sorcery
Katatonia – For Funerals to Come... (EP)
Kix – Show Business
King Diamond – The Spider's Lullabye
Konkhra – Spit or Swallow
Krabathor – Lies
Krabathor – The Rise of Brutality (EP)
Kreator – Cause for Conflict
Krisiun – Black Force Domain
Kyuss – ...And the Circus Leaves Town
Lacrimosa – Inferno
Lord Belial – Kiss the Goat
Love/Hate – Im Not Happy
Mad Season – Above
Malevolent Creation – Eternal
Marilyn Manson – Smells Like Children (EP)
Megadeth – Hidden Treasures (EP)
Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve
Metal Massacre – Metal Massacre XII (Compilation, various artists)
Mindrot – Dawning
Mindrot – Forlorn (EP)
Monster Magnet – Dopes to Infinity
Moonspell – Wolfheart
Morbid Angel – Domination
Morgana Lefay – Sanctified
Mortician – House by the Cemetery (EP)
Mortification – Primitive Rhythm Machine
Motörhead – Sacrifice
Mr. Bungle – Disco Volante
My Dying Bride – The Angel and the Dark River
Naglfar – Vittra
Necrophagist – Necrophagist (demo)
Nembrionic – Psycho One Hundred
Nevermore – Nevermore
Night in Gales – Sylphlike (EP)
Nightfall – Athenian Echoes
Ningen Isu – Odoru Issunboushi
Nothingface – Nothingface
Novembers Doom – Amid Its Hallowed Mirth
On Thorns I Lay – Sounds of Beautiful Experience
Oomph! – Defekt
Opeth – Orchid
Orphanage – Oblivion
Ozzy Osbourne – Ozzmosis
Paradise Lost – Draconian Times
Pessimist – Absence of Light (EP)
Powerman 5000 – The Blood-Splat Rating System
Primus – Tales from the Punchbowl
Quiet Riot – Down to the Bone
Rage – Black in Mind
Rainbow – Stranger in Us All
Rammstein – Herzeleid
RAMP – Intersection
Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
Riot – The Brethren of the Long House
Roxx Gang – The Voodoo You Love
Running Wild – Masquerade
Saint Vitus – Die Healing
Samael – Rebellion (EP)
Savatage – Dead Winter Dead
Savatage – Japan Live '94 (live)
Savatage – Ghost in the Ruins – A Tribute to Criss Oliva (live)
Saxon – Dogs of War
Sentenced – Amok
Sentenced – Love & Death (EP)
Septicflesh – Esoptron
Sinister – Hate
Six Feet Under – Haunted
Skepticism – Stormcrowfleet
Skid Row – Subhuman Race
Skyclad – The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
Slash's Snakepit – It's Five O'Clock Somewhere (album)
Slaughter – Fear No Evil
Sodom – Masquerade in Blood
Strapping Young Lad – Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
Stratovarius – Fourth Dimension
Stuck Mojo – Snappin' Necks
Suffocation – Pierced from Within
Sugar Ray – Lemonade and Brownies
Summoning – Lugburz
Summoning – Minas Morgul
Symphony X – The Damnation Game
Tad Morose – Sender of Thoughts
Tankard – The Tankard
Theatre of Tragedy – Theatre of Tragedy
Therapy? – Infernal Love
Therion – Lepaca Kliffoth
The 3rd and the Mortal – Nightswan (EP)
Tony MacAlpine – Evolution
Transport League – Stallion Showcase
Trouble – Plastic Green Head
Tuff – Religious Fix
Unanimated – Ancient God of Evil
Uncle Slam – When God Dies
Unleashed – Victory
Uriah Heep – Sea of Light
Steve Vai – Alien Love Secrets (EP)
Vader – De Profundis
Van Halen – Balance
Vince Neil – Carved in Stone
Virgin Black – Virgin Black (demo)
Virgin Steele – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Part I
Vital Remains – Into Cold Darkness
Voivod – Negatron
W.A.S.P. – Still Not Black Enough
Warrant – Ultraphobic
Warrior Soul – The Space Age Playboys
White Zombie – Astro-Creep: 2000
Y&T – Musically Incorrect
Yngwie Malmsteen – Magnum Opus

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