At the end of every year, the Metal Express Radio crew makes their lists of the best Rock and Metal albums of the year. Here you will find all the lists from 2004 until today. Click on the names to expand their lists.

2023

The official Metal Express Radio top list of 2023
  1. Metallica – 72 Seasons
    Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold
  1. Invasion – Invasion
  2. Angra – Cycles of Pain
  3. Redemption – I Am the Storm
  4. Prong – State of Emergency
  5. Winger – Seven
  6. Withering Scorn – Prophets Of Demise
    Big City – Sunwind Sails
  1. Primal Fear – Code Red
    Archon Angel – II
    Metal Church – Congregation of Annihilation
Stig Gøran Nordahl
  1. Invasion – Invasion
  2. Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold
  3. Helms Deep – Treacherous Ways
  4. 66crusher – Limbo
  5. Winger – Seven
  6. Girish And The Chronicles – Back On Earth
  7. Redemption – I Am the Storm
  8. Dyspläcer – Temple Heights
  9. AGORA – Empire
  10. Electric Boys – Grand Explosivos
  11. Withering Scorn – Prophets of Demise
Scott Jeslis
  1. Archon Angel – II
  2. Metallica – 72 Seasons
  3. Redemption – I Am the Storm
  4. Withering Scorn – Prophets Of Demise
  5. Mystic Prophecy – Hellriot
  6. Savage Grace – Sign Of The Cross
  7. Invasion – Invasion
  8. Kikimora – For A Broken Dime
  9. George Lynch – Guitars At The End of the World
  10. Ashrain – Requiem Reloaded
  11. Big City – Sunwind Sails
Séverine Peraldino
  1. Sacred Outcry – Towers of Gold
  2. Skálmöld – Ýdalir
  3. Vulture Industries – Ghosts From The Past
  4. Big City – Sunwind Sails
  5. Angra – Cycles Of Pain
  6. Apocalyptica – Live in Helsinki – St John’s Church
  7. Sortilège – Apocalypso
  8. Floor Jansen – Paragon
  9. Mass Hysteria – Tenace – Part 1.
  10. Beyond The Black – Beyond The Black
  11. Theocracy – Mosaic
Matt Zaniboni
  1. Metallica – 72 Seasons
  2. Frozen Soul – Glacial Domination
  3. Immortal – War Against All
  4. Hellripper – Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags
  5. DevilDriver – Dealing with Demons Vol. II
  6. Cannibal Corpse – Chaos Horrific
  7. Unearth – The Wretched; The Ruinous
  8. Cavalera Conspiracy – Morbid Visions
  9. Death Ray Vision – No Mercy From Electric Eyes
  10. Prong – State of Emergency
  11. Dethklok – The Dethalbum IV
Mark Zagotti
  1. Metal Church – Congregation of Annihilation
  2. Overkill – Scorched
  3. Prong – State of Emergency
  4. Night Demon – Outsider
  5. Danko Jones – Electric Sounds
  6. Fires in the Distance – Air Not Meant For Us
  7. Skinner – The Dark Design
  8. Winger – Seven
  9. King Kraken – MCLXXX
  10. Stargazer – Life Will Never Be the Same
  11. Obituary – Dying of Everything

2022

Stig G. Nordahl
Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Monuments – In Stasis
  2. Fit For An Autopsy – Oh What The Future Holds
  3. Ashes Of Ares – Emperors And Fools
  4. Blind Guardian – The God Machine
  5. Obsidious – Iconic
  6. Fallujah – Empyrean
  7. Hammerfall – Hammer of Dawn
  8. Queenrÿche – Digital Noise Alliance
  9. Threshold – Dividing Lines
  10. Soilwork – Övergivenheten
  11. Evergrey – A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament)
Jon Harvey
  1. Lorna Shore – Pain Remains
  2. Black Anvil – Regenesis
  3. Lamb Of God – Omens
  4. Allegaeon – Damnum
  5. Slipknot – The End, So Far
  6. Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
  7. Machine Head – Of Kingdom And Crown
  8. Deathspell Omega – The Long Defeat
  9. Darkthrone – Astral Fortress
  10. Behemoth – Opvs Contra Natvram
  11. Devil Master – Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
Matt Zaniboni
  1. Hypermass – Empyrean
  2. Machine Head – Of Kingdom And Crown
  3. Crowbar – Zero And Below
  4. Dropkick Murphys – This Machine Still Kills Fascists
  5. Megadeth – The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!
  6. Terror – Pain Into Power
  7. Amon Amarth – The Great Heathen Army
  8. Behemoth – Opvs Contra Natvram
  9. Lamb Of God – Omens
  10. Abbath – Dread Reaver
  11. Ghost – Impera
Frank Jaeger
  1. Threshold – Dividing Lines
  2. Ignite – Ignite
  3. Blind Guardian – The God Machine
  4. Thunder – Dopamine
  5. Shinedown – Planet Zero
  6. Satan – Earth Infernal
  7. Voivod – Synchro Anarchy
  8. Audrey Horne – Devil’s Bells
  9. Kreator – Hate Über Alles
  10. Xentrix – Seven Words
  11. Amorphis – Halo
Dan “Ena” Enqvist
  1. The Halo Effect – Days of the Lost
  2. Starchaser – Starchaser
  3. Crashdïet – Automaton
  4. Ginevra – We Belong to the Stars
  5. Arch Enemy – Deceivers
  6. Borealis – Illusions
  7. Nordic Union – Animalistic
  8. Stratovarius – Survive
  9. Evergrey – A Heartless Portrait (The Orphéan Testament)
  10. Induction – Born From Fire
  11. Girish And The Chronicles – Hail to the Heroes

2021

Stig G. Nordahl
  1. Silver Talon – Decadence and Decay
  2. Todd La Torre – Rejoice in the Suffering
  3. The Dead Daisies – Holy Ground
  4. The Quill – Earthrise
  5. Existance – Wolf Attack
  6. Dream Theater – A View From the Top of the World
  7. Flotsam And Jetsam – Blood in the Water
  8. Electric Boys – Upside Down
  9. Tony Mitchell – Hot Endless Summer Nights
  10. Odd Dimension – The Blue Dawn
  11. Voodoo Circle – Locked & Loaded
Scott Jeslis
  1. Gus G. – Quantum Leap
  2. Todd La Torre – Rejoice In The Suffering
  3. Dream Theater – A View From The Top Of The World
  4. The Dead Daisies – Holy Ground
  5. NorthTale – Eternal Flame
  6. Joe Stump – Diabolical Ferocity
  7. Walk The Walk – Walk The Walk
  8. Flotsam And Jetsam – Blood In The Water
  9. Secret Alliance – Revelation
  10. Existance – Wolf Attack
  11. Temple Balls – Pyromide
Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Erra – Erra
  2. Liquid Tension Experiment – LTE3
  3. Born of Osiris – Angel or Alien
  4. The Dead Daisies – Holy Ground
  5. Canvas Solaris – Chromosphere
  6. Vola – Witness
  7. Interloper – Search Party
  8. Domkraft – Seeds
  9. John 5 – Sinner
  10. Tomahawk – Tonic Immobility
  11. Between The Buried And Me – Colors II
Dan 'Ena' Enqvist
  1. Manimal – Armageddon
  2. Light The Torch – You Will Be The Death Of Me
  3. Infinite & Divine – Silver Lining
  4. Of Mice & Men – Echo
  5. Bloodbound – Creatures of the Dark Realm
  6. Our Hollow, Our Home – Burn In The Flood
  7. Todd La Torre – Rejoice In The Suffering
  8. Memphis May Fire – Left For Dead
  9. Ronnie Atkins – One Shot
  10. Evergrey – Escape of the Phoenix
  11. Venues – Solace
Matt Zaniboni
  1. Dropkick Murphys – Turn Up That Dial
  2. Exodus – Persona Non Grata
  3. Iotunn – Access All Worlds
  4. Trivium – In The Court Of The Dragon
  5. Rivers of Nihil – The Work
  6. Gojira – Fortitude
  7. Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
  8. Capra – In Transmission
  9. Go Ahead And Die – Go Ahead And Die
  10. Mouth for War – Life Cast In Glass
  11. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
Séverine Peraldino

2020

Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Igorrr – Spirituality and Distortion
  2. Sons Of Apollo – MMXX
  3. John Petrucci – Terminal Velocity
  4. The Ocean – Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic
  5. Pallbearer – Forgotten Days
  6. Testament – Titans Of Creation
  7. Enslaved – Utgard
  8. Sepultura – Quadra
  9. Finntroll – Vredesvävd
  10. Derek Sherinian – The Phoenix
  11. My Dying Bride – The Ghost of Orion
Matt Zaniboni
  1. Metallica – S&M2
  2. Testament – Titans Of Creation
  3. Body Count – Carnivore
  4. Devildriver – Dealing with Demons Pt. 1
  5. Lamb Of God – Lamb Of God
  6. Sepultura – Quadra
  7. Mindwars – The Fourth Turning
  8. Warbringer – Weapons of Tomorrow
  9. Hatebreed – Weight of the False Self
  10. Deadrisen – Deadrisen
  11. Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man

2019

Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Tool – Fear Inoculum
  2. Periphery – Periphery IV: HAIL STAN
  3. Opeth – In Cauda Venenum
  4. KORN – The Nothing
  5. Evergrey – The Atlantic
  6. Candlemass – The Door to Doom
  7. Spidergawd – Spidergawd V
  8. Jordan Rudess – Wired for Madness
  9. Marco Sfogli – Homeland
  10. Queensrÿche – The Verdict
  11. Devin Townsend – Empath
Dan Enqvist
  1. As I Lay Dying – Shaped By Fire
  2. CyHra – No Halos in Hell
  3. Beast In Black – From HELL with LOVE
  4. Killswitch Engage – Atonement
  5. The Ferrymen – A New Evil
  6. Pretty Maids – Undress Your Madness
  7. Alter Bridge – Walk the Sky
  8. Upon A Burning Body – Southern Hostility
  9. Crashdïet – Rust
  10. Any Given Day – Overpower
  11. The Dark Element – Songs the Night Sing
Bryce Van Patten
  1. SOTO – Origami
  2. Dream Theater – Distance Over Time
  3. Michael Schenker Fest – Revelation
  4. Queensrÿche – The Verdict
  5. King Diamond – The Institute
  6. Death Angel – Humanicide
  7. Dave Ellefson – Sleeping Giants
  8. Hammerfall – Dominion
  9. Dragonforce – Extreme Power Metal
  10. Tygers of Pan Tang – Ritual
  11. UFO – Strangers in the Night
Jerry Alperin
  1. Lord Dying – Mysterium Tremendum
  2. Candlemass – The Door to Doom
  3. Cloak – The Burning Dawn
  4. Death Angel – Humanicide
  5. Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind
  6. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Infest the Rats’ Nest
  7. Spirit Adrift – Divided By Darkness
  8. Angel Witch – Angel of Light
  9. Lo-Pan – Subtle
  10. Alcest – Spiritual Instinct
  11. Wormwitch – Heaven That Dwells Within

2018

Daniel Waters
Bryce Van Patten
  1. Michael Schenker Fest – Resurrection
  2. Saxon – Thunderbolt
  3. U.D.O. – Steel Factory
  4. Judas Priest – Firepower
  5. Seventh Wonder – Tiara
  6. Impellitteri – The Nature of the Beast
  7. Riot V – Armor of Light
  8. Kamelot – The Shadow Theory
  9. Stratovarius – Enigma: Intermission II
  10. Sirenia – Arcane Astral Aeons
  11. Graham Bonnet Band – Meanwhile Back in the Garage
Dan Enqvist
  1. Borealis – The Offering
  2. W.E.T – Earthrage
  3. Light The Torch – Revival
  4. Manimal – Purgatorio
  5. Our Hollow, Our Home – In moment/ /In memory
  6. Parkway Drive – Reverence
  7. Dynazty – Firesign
  8. Judas Priest – Firepower
  9. Primal Fear – Apocalypse
  10. LANDMVRKS – Fantasy
  11. Tad Morose – Chapter X
Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Between the Buried and Me – Automata II
  2. Icefish – Human Hardware
  3. DevilDriver – Outlaws ‘Til The End, Vol. 1
  4. TesseracT – Sonder
  5. Judas Priest – Firepower
  6. Amorphis – Queen of Time
  7. Tad Morose – Chapter X
  8. Saxon – Thunderbolt
  9. Borealis – The Offering
  10. Alien Weaponry –
  11. Bonfire – Temple of Lies
Jerry Alperin
  1. Sleep – The Sciences
  2. YOB – Our Raw Heart
  3. Judas Priest – Firepower
  4. High On Fire – Electric Messiah
  5. Sundrifter – Visitations
  6. Corrosion of Conformity – No Cross No Crown
  7. Anvil – Pounding the Pavement
  8. All Them Witches – ATW
  9. Satan – Cruel Magic
  10. Black Viper – Hellions of Fire
  11. My Regime – Peek Through The Pines

2017

Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Marty Friedman – Wall of Sound
  2. Spidergawd – Spidergawd IV
  3. Sepultura – Machine Messiah
  4. Wintersun – The Forest Seasons
  5. Vintersorg – Till Fjälls, Del II
  6. Adagio – Life
  7. Pain of Salvation – In The Passing Light of Day
  8. Intervals – The Way Forward
  9. Rage – Seasons of the Black
  10. Operation: Mindcrime – The New Reality
Maxxxwell Carlisle
Christian Homma
Daniel Waters (no particular order)

What a great year for Metal considering there were so few “legendary” acts with new material…I could name a dozen albums off the top of my head that I enjoyed nearly as much.

Jerry Alperin (no particular order)
  • Overkill – The Grinding Wheel
  • Pagan Altar – The Room of Shadows
  • Power Trip – Logic
  • The Obsessed – Sacred
  • Cannabis Corpse – Left hand Pass
  • Colour Haze – In Her Garden
  • Hellchamber – MKII
  • Cloak – To Venomous Depths
  • Magda Vega – Destroyer
  • Vulture Industries – Stranger Times
Dan Enqvist
  1. Cyhra – Letters To Myself
  2. The Dark Element – The Dark Element
  3. Eclipse – Monumentum
  4. Arch Enemy – Will To Power
  5. Trivium – The Sin and The Sentence
  6. Stone Sour – Hydrograd
  7. Oz – Transition State
  8. Jorn – Life On Death Road
  9. Cloven Hoof – Who Mourns For The Morning Star
  10. Brother Firetribe – Sunbound

2016

Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Anciients – Voice of the Void
  2. Devin Townsend Project – Transcendence
  3. Obscura – Akróasis
  4. Last in Line – Heavy Crown
  5. Megadeth – Dystopia
  6. Cult of Luna with Julie Christmas – Mariner
  7. Ihsahn – Arktis
  8. Dissona – Paleopneumatic
  9. Rhapsody of Fire – Into the Legend
  10. Abbath – Abbath
Christian Homma
  1. Far Beyond – A Frozen Flame Of Ice
  2. Dynazty – Titanic Mass
  3. Xandria – Sacrificium
  4. Sabaton – The Last Stand
  5. Freedom Call – Master Of Light
  6. Aeternitas – House Of Usher
  7. Stojar – At Twilight Of Battles By The Hammer Of Thunderstorms
  8. Hevidence – Nobody’s Fault
  9. The Kreoles – Psycho
  10. Deathless Legacy – Dance With Devils
Dan Tungesvick
  1. Megadeth – Dystopia
  2. Freedom Call – Master of Light
  3. Sabaton – The Last Stand
  4. Metallica – Hardwired…To Self-Destruct
  5. Herman Frank – The Devil Riders Out
  6. Iron Mask – Diabolical
  7. Anthrax – For All Kings
  8. Far Beyond – A Frozen Flame of Ice
  9. Sixx:A.M. – Prayers For The Blessed
  10. Pretty Maids – Kingmaker

2015

Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Leprous – The Congregation
  2. Periphery – Juggernaut: Alpha/Omega
  3. Blind Guardian – Beyond the Red Mirror
  4. Enslaved – In Times
  5. Slayer – Repentless
  6. Baroness – Purple
  7. Sikth – Opacities
  8. Motörhead – Bad Magic
  9. Faith No More – Sol Invictus
  10. Helloween – My God-Given Right
Maxxxwell Carlisle
  1. Gloryhammer – Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards
  2. Impellitteri – Venom
  3. Stryper – Fallen
  4. Nightwish – Endless Forms Most Beautiful
  5. Galneryus – Under The Force of Courage
  6. Stratovarius – Eternal
  7. Luca Turilli’s Rhapsody – Prometheus
  8. Lynch Mob – Rebel
  9. Primal Fear – Rulebreaker (the 2015 singles)
  10. Queensrÿche – Condition Hüman
Frank Jaeger
  1. Armored Saint – Win Hands Down
  2. Subsignal – The Beacons Of Somewhere Sometime
  3. Caligula’s Horse – Bloom
  4. Sadist – Hyena 9
  5. Riverside – Love, Fear And The Time Machine
  6. Pentagram – Curious Volume
  7. Agent Fresco – Destrier
  8. Year Of The Ghost – The Unspeakable
  9. Leprous – The Congregation
  10. Satan – Atom By Atom

2014

2013

Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)
  2. The Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us Is the Killer
  3. Man the Machete – Idiokrati
  4. Kvelertak – Meir
  5. Extol – Extol
  6. Alice In Chains – The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
  7. SAHG – Delusions of Grandeur
  8. Audrey Horne – Youngblood
  9. Killswitch Engage – Disarm the Descent
  10. Iwrestledabearonce – Late for Nothing
Stig G. Nordahl
  1. Alter Bridge – Fortress
  2. Kingdom Come – Outlier
  3. Annihilator – Feast
  4. Lawless – Rock Savage
  5. Karnya – Coverin’ Thoughts
  6. Queensrÿche – Queensrÿche
  7. Avenged Sevenfold – Hail To The King
  8. Artillery – Legions
  9. Audrey Horne – Youngblood
  10. Trouble – The Distorion Field

Not to forget the albums from: Deadlands, Deep Purple, DGM, Extrema, Heimdall, Jupiter Society, Saffire, Shatter Messiah, Shotgun Revolution, TesseracT, Vandroya

2012

Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Borknagar – Urd
  2. Enslaved – RIITIIR
  3. Ihsahn – Eremita
  4. Gojira – L’Enfant Sauvage
  5. Devin Townsend Project – Epicloud
  6. Storm Corrosion – Storm Corrosion
  7. Meshuggah – Koloss
  8. Lamb of God – Resolution
  9. Katatonia – Dead End Kings
  10. Kråke – Conquering Death
Stig G. Nordahl
  1. Prong – Carved Into Stone
  2. Fatal Smile – 21st Century Freaks
  3. Lamb Of God – Resolution
  4. Van Halen – A Different Kind Of Truth
  5. Flying Colors – Flying Colors
  6. Herman Frank – Right In Your Gut
  7. Mos Generator – Nomads
  8. Stone Sour – House Of Gold And Bones pt1
  9. Adrenaline Mob – Omertà
  10. Trail Of Murder – Shades Of Art
Dan Skiba (alphabetical order)

2011

Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Devin Townsend Project – Deconstruction
  2. Machine Head – Unto the Locust
  3. Opeth – Heritage
  4. Nergard – The Beginning (EP)
  5. Jolly – The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 1)
  6. Benedictum – Dominion
  7. Magic Pie – The Suffering Joy
  8. Pagan’s Mind – Heavenly Ecstasy
  9. Mr. Big – What If…
  10. DevilDriver – Beast
Dan Skiba
  1. Electric Boys – And Them Boys Done Swang
  2. Alice Cooper – Welcome 2 My Nightmare
  3. Myrath – Tales Of The Sands
  4. Tony MacAlpine – Tony MacAlpine
  5. Lance King – A Moment In Chiros
  6. Saxon – Call To Arms
  7. Pagan’s Mind – Heavenly Ecstasy
  8. Metallica – Beyond Magnetic
  9. Transit Poetry – The 5th Element
  10. Anthrax – Worship Music

Honorable Mention from 2011:

2010

Kristian Singh-Nergård
  1. Alter Bridge – AB III
  2. Deftones – Diamond Eyes
  3. Blind Guardian – At The Edge Of Time
  4. Paul Gilbert – Fuzz Universe
  5. Opeth – In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall
  6. Therion – Sitra Ahra
  7. Ratt – Infestation
  8. Manifest – Written In Blood
  9. Pretty Maids – Pandemonium
  10. Accept – Blood Of The Nations
Dan Skiba
  1. Rage – Strings To A Web
  2. Helloween – 7 Sinners
  3. Motörhead – The Wörld Is Yours
  4. Scorpions – Sting In The Tail
  5. Halford – Halford IV: Made Of Metal
  6. Powerglove – Saturday Morning Apocalypse
  7. Innerwish – No Turning Back
  8. Angra – Aqua
  9. Gamma Ray – To The Metal
  10. Krokus – Hoodoo

2009

2008

Allyson B. Crawford
  1. Guns N’ Roses – Chinese Democracy
  2. Alice Cooper – Along Came a Spider
  3. Lynam – Tragic City Symphony
  4. Mötley Crüe – Saints of Los Angeles
  5. Bullet for My Valentine – Scream, Aim, Fire
  6. Britney Spears – Circus
  7. Black Tide – Light from Above
  8. Tonight You Rock – All Comes Down to You
  9. Sammy Hagar – Cosmic Universal Fashion
  10. Buckcherry – Black Butterfly
Joshua Turner
Metal

  1. Opeth – Watershed
  2. Dominici – O3 Part III
  3. 3 – The End Is Begun
  4. Anew Revolution – Rise

Rock

  1. Moon Safari – Blomljud
  2. The Tangent – Not As Good As The Book
  3. Neal Morse – Lifeline
  4. The Third Ending – The Third Ending
  5. Karmakanic – Who’s the Boss in the Factory
  6. RPWL – The RPWL Experience
Dr. Dimitris Kontogeorgakos
  • Metallica – Death Magnetic
  • Mötley Crüe – Saints of Los Angeles
  • Blaze Bayley – The Man Who Would Not Die
  • Exmortus – In Hatred’s Flames
  • Judas Priest – Nostradamus
  • Amon Amarth – Twilight Of The Thunder God

2007

Frode Johnsrud
  1. Pagan’s Mind – God’s Equation
  2. Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli
  3. Circus Maximus – Isolate
  4. Kamelot – Ghost Opera
  5. Within Temptation – The Heart Of Everything
  6. Andre Matos – Time To Be Free
  7. Nightwish – Dark Passion Play
  8. Manowar – Gods Of War
  9. Helloween – Gambling With The Devil
  10. Pink Cream 69 – In10sity
Per Olav Heimstad (alphabetical order)
Torgeir P. Krokfjord (alphabetical order)
Jacky Linville
  1. Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli
  2. Scorpions – Humanity
  3. Sabastian Bach – Angel Down
  4. Vintersorg – Solens Rötter
  5. Nightwish – Dark Passion Play
Neon Blonde
  1. Nightwish – Dark Passion Play
  2. ASKA – Absolute Power
  3. Saxon – The Inner Sanctum
  4. Gamma Ray – Land of the Free II
  5. Primal Fear – New Religion
  6. Helloween – Gambling with the Devil
  7. Pink Cream 69 – In10sity
  8. Silent Force – Walk the Earth
  9. Iced Earth – Framing Armageddon
  10. Megadeth – United Abominations

2006

Zoltan Koncsok
  1. A.C.T. – Silence
  2. Spock’s Beard – Spock’s Beard
  3. Gogol Bordello – Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike
  4. 3 – Wake Pig
  5. Ureas – The Naked Truth
  6. Paatos – Silence of Another Kind
  7. Kim Wilde – Never Say Never
  8. Wig Wam – Hard to be a Rock’n Roller… in Tokyo
  9. Wuthering Heights – The Shadow Cabinet
  10. Mike Oldfield – New Times
Frankie Riester
  1. Billy Talent – II
  2. Black Stone Cherry – Black Stone Cherry
  3. Empire – The Raven Ride
  4. Saga – Trust
  5. Danko Jones – Sleep Is The Enemy
  6. Sunstorm – Sunstorm
  7. Amplifier – Amplifier
  8. The Answer – Rise
  9. Jorn – The Duke
  10. Platitude – Silence Speaks
  11. Tool – 10 000 Days
  12. Benedictum – Uncreation
  13. Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
  14. 30 Seconds To Mars – A Beautiful Lie
  15. Lordi – The Arockalypse
  16. Iron Maiden – A Matter Of Life And Death
Jeremy Juliano (no particular order)

2005

Laios Vasileios (no particular order)
Ross Swinton
  1. Dark Tranquility – Character
  2. Dark Age – Dark Age
  3. Darkest Hour – Undoing Ruin
  4. Trivium – Ascendancy
  5. Nile – Annihilation Of The Wicked
  6. Dew Scented – Issue VI
  7. The Black Dahlia Murder – Miasma
  8. Nevermore – This Godless Endeavor
  9. Galloglass – Heavenseeker
  10. Annihilator – Schizo Deluxe
  11. Akercocke – Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Anne-Lene Rodahl (no particular order)
Metal-Katie
  1. Robert Plant – Mighty Rearranger
  2. Hanoi Rocks – Another Hostile Takeover
  3. Billy Idol – Devil’s Playground
  4. Dug – Emotional Animal
  5. King’s X – Ogre Tones
  6. Mötley Crüe – Red, White and Crüe
  7. Killswitch Engage – (Set This) World Ablaze (DVD)
  8. Hanoi Rocks – Lightnin’ Bar Blues – The albums (box set)
  9. Spock’s Beard – Octane
  10. Opeth – Ghost Reveries
Tina Victoria Strand Hogsdal
  1. Hanoi Rocks – Another Hostile Takeover
  2. Turbonegro – Party Animals
  3. Staind – Chapter V
  4. Queen Of The Stone Age – Lullabies To Paralyze
  5. System Of A Down – Mesmerize
  6. Tommy Lee – Tommyland: The Ride
  7. Candlemass – Candlemass
  8. Dream Theater – Octavarium
  9. TNT – All The Way To The Sun
  10. Stonegard – Arrows
Lars Steffensen
  1. Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree
  2. Fear Factory – Transgression
  3. Dream Theater – Octavarium
  4. Opeth – Ghost Reveries
  5. Cloroform – Cracked Wide Open
Christian Mannsbart (no particular order)

2004

Scott Jeslis (no particular order)
Desley Hemmingsen (no particular order)