Top Albums of 2025

Thrash:

1. Coroner - Dissonance Theory
2. Warfield - With The Old Breed
3. Dead Heat - Process Of Elimination
4. Sacrifice - Volume Six
5. The Haunted - Song Of Last Resort
6. Violator - Unholy Retribution

Death:

1. Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness
2. Lik - Necro
3. Drawn And Quartered - Lord Of Two Horns
4. Cadaver - Hymns Of Misanthropy
5. Benediction - Ravage Of Empires
6. Gruesome - Silent Echoes

Black:

1. Havukruunu - Tavastland
2. Kaosekt - The Fathomless Void Of Death
3. Afsky - Fællesskab
4. Grima - Nightside
5. The Great Old Ones - Kadath
6. Cult Of Fire - The One Who Is Made Of Smoke

Heavy/Speed/Power:

1. Typhus - Fate Weaver
2. Century - Sign Of The Storm
3. Black Sword Thunder Attack - Black Sword Thunder Attack
4. Helms Deep - Chasing The Dragon
5. Throne Of Iron - Adventure Two
6. Venator - Psychodrome

Crust/Hardcore/Grindcore:

1. Catharsis - Hope Against Hope
2. Barren Path - Grieving
3. Dephosphorus - Planetoktonos
4. Bent Sea - The Dormant Ruin
5. Κατολίσθηση - Λήθη


Viking/Folk/Pagan:

1. Svartsot - Peregrinus
2. Alestorm - The Thunderfist Chronicles
3. Saor - Amidst The Ruins
4. Helheim - HrabnaR / Ad Vesa

Doom/Sludge/Stoner:

1. Crust - Where Light Fears To Descent
2. Conan - Violence Dimension
3. Pagan Altar - Never Quite Dead
4. Castle Rat - The Bestiary

Top Albums Of 2024

Thrash:

1. Bombarder - Sa Dna Groba
2. Hellbutcher - Hellbutcher
3. Violent Definition - Progressive Obsoletion
4. Critical Defiance - The Search Won't Fall
5. Steel Inferno - Rush Of Power
6. F.K.U. - The Horror And The Metal

Death:

1. Deceased - Children Of The Morgue
2. Blood Incantation - Absolute Elsewhere
3. Kvadrat - The Horrible Dissonance Of Oblivion
4. Ulcerate - Cutting The Throat Of God
5. Nocturnus A.D. - Unicursal
6. Dogtag Remains - Forgotten Battlefields

Black:

1. Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge
2. Akhlys – House Of The Black Geminus
3. Isolert - Wounds Of Desolation
4. Dødsferd - Wrath 
5. Sørgelig - Φθορά
6. Likno - Likno

Viking/Pagan/Folk:

1. Korpiklaani - Rankarumpu
2. Tyr - Battle Ballads
3. Alestorm - Voyage Of The Dead Marauder 'Ep
4. Ensiferum - Winter Storm

Crust/Hardcore/Grindcore:

1. Wolfbrigade - Life Knife Death
2. Vile Species - Disqualified As Human
3. Nails - Every Bridge Burning
4. Κεφαλοκλείδωμα - Βαλκανικό Μαυσωλείο 'Ep
5. Downwinder - Claws Of Despair

Heavy/Speed/Power: 

1. Satan - Songs In Crimson
2. Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
3. Riot V - Mean Streets
4. Triumpher - Spirit Invictus
5. Arysithian Blade - Iriath
6. Morgul Blade - Heavy Metal Wraiths

Doom/Sludge/Stoner:

1. Scald - Ancient Doom Metal
2. Crypt Sermon - The Stygian Rose
3. Altar Of Oblivion - In The Cesspit Of Divine Decay
4. My Dying Bride - A Mortal Binding

Top Albums Of 2023

 Thrash:
1. Skourge - Torrential Torment
2. Intöxicated - Sadistic Nightmares
3. Overkill - Scorched
4. Riffobia - Riffobia
5. Bio-Cancer - Revengeance
6. Cruel Force - Dawn Of The Axe

Death:
1. Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite
2. Obituary - Dying Of Everything
3. Dying Fetus - Make Them Beg For Death
4. Cannibal Corpse - Chaos Horrific
5. Cadaver - The Age Of The Offended
6. Vomitory - All Heads Are Gonna Roll 

Black:
1. Uada - Crepuscule Natura
2. Demoniac - Nube Negra
3. Enslaved - Heimdal
4. Auriferous Flame - Ardor For Black Mastery
5. Mork - Dypet
6. Valdrin - Throne Of The Lunar Soul

Viking/Pagan/Folk:
1. Faidra - Militant : Penitent : Triumphant
2. Cruachan - The Living And The Dead
3. Skálmöld - Ýdalir

Crust/Hardcore/Grindcore:
1. Gridlink - Coronet Juniper
2. Poison Ruïn - Härvest
3. Swordwielder - Wielding Metal Massacre 'Ep
4. Birdflesh - Sickness In The North
5. Head Cleaner - The Extreme Sound Of Truth
6. Brujeria - Esto Es Brujeria

Heavy/Speed/Power:
1. Receiver - Whispers Of Lore
2. Megaton Sword - Might & Power
3. Gatekeeper - From Western Shores
4. Satan's Fall - Destination Destruction
5. Century - The Conquest Of Time
6. Legendry - Time Immortal Wept

Doom/Sludge/Stoner:
1. Downfall Of Gaia - Silhouettes Of Disgust
2. Decemberance - Implosions
3. Sadhus (The Smoking Community) - Illegal Sludge
4. Altar Of Oblivion - Burning Memories 'Ep

Top Albums Of 2022

 Thrash:
1. Foreseen - Untamed Force
2. Hammers Of Misfortune - Overtaker
3. Algebra - Chiroptera
4. Voivod - Synchro Anarchy
5. Megadeth - The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!
6. Toxik - Dis Morta

Death:
1. Encryptment - Dödens Födsel
2. Autopsy - Morbidity Triumphant
3. Schizophrenia - Recollections Of The Insane
4. Abyssus - Death Revival
5. Corpsessed - Succumb To Rot
6. Cruz - Confines De La Cordura

Black:
1. Misþyrming - Með hamri
2. Véhémence - Ordalies 
3. Ereb Altor - Vargtimman
4. Kampfar - Til Klovers Takt
5. Becrah - Βωμός Μιας Αλήθειας
6. Devil Master - Ecstasies Οf Never Ending Night

Viking/Pagan/Folk:
1. Alestorm - Seventh Rum Of A Seventh Rum
2. Aherusia - Bacchus ~ Epiphanies of the Crazy God
3. Svartsot - Kumbl
4. Månegarm - Ynglingaättens öde

Crust/Hardcore/Grindcore:
1. Wormrot - Hiss
2. Ορυμαγδός - Ορυμαγδός
3. Dead Cross - II
4. Vile Species - Against The Values Of Civilization
5. Sickrecy - Salvation Through Tyranny
6. Ratos De Porao - Necropolitica

Heavy/Speed/Power:
1. Satan - Earth Infernal
2. Seax - Speed Inferno 
3. Steel Inferno - Evil reign
4. Venator - Echoes From The Gutter
5. Riot City - Electric Elite
6. Sumerlands - Dreamkiller

Doom/Sludge/Stoner:
1. Fer De Lance - The Hyperborean
2. The Temple - Of Solitude Triumphant
3. Candlemass - Sweet Evil Sun
4. Doomocracy - Unorthodox
5. Darkthrone - Astral Fortress
6. Conan - Evidence Of Immortality

Top Albums of 2021

Thrash:

1. Enforced - Kill Grid

2. Demoniac - So It Goes

3. Cryptosis - Bionic Swarm

4. Nocturnal - Serpent Death

5. Artillery - X

6. Paranorm - Empyrean 

Death:

1. Unleashed - No Sign Of Life

2. Archspire - Bleed The Future

3. Cannibal Corpse - Violence Unimagined

4. Baest - Necro Sapiens

5. Carcass - Torn Arteries 

6. At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being

Black:

1. Paysage d'Hiver - Geister

2. Mystras - Empires Vanquished And Dismantled

3. Funeral Mist - Deiform

4. Mork - Katedralen

5. Dødsferd - Suicide And The Rest Of Your Kind Will Follow part II

6. 1914 - Where Fear And Weapons Meet

Viking/Pagan/Folk:

1. Einherjer - North Star

2. Thyrfing - Vanagandr 

3. Helheim - WoduridaR

4. Korpiklaani - Jylhä

5. Bornholm - Apotheosis

Crust/Hardcore/Grindcore:

1. Psychopharmaka - Spastic Hardcore Noise 

2. Stheno - Wardance

3. Zvarna - Αδιάγνωστο Ψυχεδελικό

4. Lock Up - The Dregs Of Hades

5. Downwinder - Downwinder

6. Aborted - Maniacult

Heavy/Power/Speed:

1. Ice War - Sacred Land

2. Tower - Shock To The System

3. Eternity's End - Embers Of War

4. Black Soul Horde - Horrors From The Void

5. Helloween - Helloween

6. Warrior Path - The Mad King

Doom/Sludge/Stoner:

1. Converge & Chelsea Wolfe - Bllodmoon:I 

2. Wheel - Preserved In Time

3. Lake Of Tears - Ominous

Top Albums of 2020

 Thrash:
1. Sodom - Genesis XIX
2. Warfect - Spectre Of Devastation
3. Onslaught - Generation Antichrist
4. Terravore - Vortex Of Perishment
5. Bütcher - 666 Goats Carry My Chariot 
6. Gama Bomb - Sea Savage

Death :
1. Cadaver - Eder & Bille
2. Benediction - Scriptures 
3. Lik - Misanthropic Breed
4. Heads For The Dead - Into The Red
5. Sickening Horror - Chaos Revamped
6. Miasmal Sabbath - Ominous Radiance

Black:
1. Akhlys - Melinoe 
2. Mystras - Castles Conquered And Reclaimed
3. Havukruunu - Uinuos Syömein Sota
4. Uada - Djinn
5. Sad - Misty Breath Of Ancient Forests
6. Katavasia - Magnus Venator

Viking/Pagan/Folk:
1. Passengers In Panic - Passengers In Panic
2. Alestorm - Curse Of The Crystal Coconut
3. Finntroll - Vredesvävd 

Crust/Hardcore/Grindcore/Punk:
1. Napalm Death - Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism
2. Anaal Nathrakh - Endarkenment
3. Internal Rot - Grieving Birth
4. Dropdead - Dropdead
5. 偏執症者 (Paranoid) - Out Raising Hell 
6. Venomous Concept - Politics Versus The Erection

Heavy/Power/Speed:
1. Megaton Sword - Blood Hails Steel-Steel Hails Fire
2. Heathen - Empire Of The Blind
3. Dark Forest - Oak, Ash & Thorn
4. Throne Of Iron - Adventure One 
5. Sacred Outcry - Damned For All Time
6. Glacier - The Passing Of Time

Doom/Stoner/Sludge:
1. Cirith Ungol - Forever Black
2. Crust - ... And A Dirge Becomes An Anthem
3. Spirit Adrift - Enlightened In Eternity

Top Albums Of 2019

Thrash
1. Critical Defiance - Misconception
2. Sacred Reich - Awakening
3. Overkill - The Wings Of War
4. Inhuman Nature - Inhuman Nature
5. Exumer - Hostile Defiance
6. Xentrix - Bury The Pain

Death
1. Possessed - Revelations Of Oblivion
2. Nocturnus - Paradox A.D.
3. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
4. Misery Index - Rituals Of Power
5. Mylingar - Döda Själar
6. Vltimas - Something Wicked Marches In


Black
1. Misþyrming - Algleymi
2. Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen
3. Devil Master - Stan Spits On Children Of Light
4. Kampfar - Ofidians Manifest
5. Mayhem - Daemon
6. The Great Old Ones - Cosmicism

Viking/Pagan/Folk
1. Helheim - Rignir
2. Saor - Forgotten Paths
3. Manegarm - Fornaldarsagor
4. Eluveitie - Ategnatos

Crust/Hardcore/Grindcore/Punk
1. Antimob - II
2. Subhumans - Crisis Point
3. Wolfbrigade - The Enemy: Reality
4. Martyrdod - Hexhammaren
5. Birdflesh - Extreme Graveyard Tornado
6. Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful And Fast

Heavy/Power/Speed
1. Riot City - Burn The Night
2. Traveler - Traveler
3. Angel Witch - Angel Of Light
4. Blazon Stone - Hymns Of Triumph And Death
5. Sanhedrin - The Poisoner
6. Seax - Fallout Rituals

Doom/Stoner/Sludge
1. Smoulder – Times of Obscene Evil and Wild Daring
2. Crypt Sermon – The Ruins of Fading Light
3. Bombus - Vulture Culture
4. Atlantean Kodex - The Course Of Empire
5. Magic Circle - Departed Souls

Top Albums Of 2018

Thrash
1. Deathhammer - Chained To Hell
2. Dungeon - Purifying Fire 'Ep
3. Mongrel's Cross - Psalter Of The Royal Dragon Court
4. Nightbreed - Beyond Inferno
5. Artillery - The Face Of Fear
6. Aura Noir - Aura Noire

Death
1. Deceased - Ghostly White
2. At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself
3. Mylingar - Döda Drömmar
4. Unleashed - The Hunt For White Christ
5. Memoriam - The Silent Vigil
6. Lik - Carnage

Black
1. UADA - Cult Of A Dying Sun
2. Funeral Mist - Hekatomb
3. Summoning - With Doom We Come
4. Immortal - Southern Chaos Gods
5. Nocturnal Graves - Titan
6. Harakiri For The Sky - Arson

Viking/Pagan/Folk
1. Cruachan - Nine Years Of Blood
2. Korpiklaani - Kulkiya

Crust/Hardcore/Grind/Punk
1. Zeke - Hellbender
2. Born To Murder The World - The Infinite Mirror Of Millennial Narcissism
3. Fredag Den 13:e - Dystopisk Utsikt
4. Fukpig - Bastards
5. Slapshot - Make America Hate Again
6. Dead Beat - Paranoia 'Ep

Heavy/Power/Speed/Doom
1. Satan - Cruel Magic
2. Amorphis - Queen Of Time
3. Voivod - The Wake
4. Sacral Rage - Beyond Celestial Echoes
5. Automaton - Talos
6. Black Cyclone - Death Is King

Top Albums of 2017

Hello Friends and a happy new year! A poor year for the blog, since my free time is almost 0. Nevertheless, my top albums list features some great releases for 2017. I'm sure there are pretty good albums out there that i've missed.

Thrash
1. Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
2. Condor - Unstoppable Power
3. Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
4. Antichrist - Sinful Birth
5. Obnoxious Youth - Disturbing The Graves
6. Municipal Waste - Slime And Punishment

Death
1. Paradise Lost - Medusa
2. Obituary - Obituary
3. Dying Fetus - Wrong One To Fuck WIth
4. Benighted - Necrobreed
5. Cannibal Corpse - Red Before Black
6. Resurgency - No Worlds ... Nor Gods Beyond

Black
1. Wolves In The Throne Room - Thrice Woven
2. Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi
3. Enslaved - E
4. Cradle Of Filth - Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness Of Decay
5. Satyricon - Deep Caleth Upon Deep
6. Ravencult - Force Of Profanation

Viking/Pagan/Folk
1. Helheim - landawarijaR
2. Aherusia - Prometheus: Seven Principles On How To Be Invincible
3. Vintersorg - Till Fjälls, Del II
4. Ereb Altor - Ulfven
5. Kawir - Εξιλασμός

Crust/Grindcore/Hardcore/Punk
1. Wolfbrigade - Run With The Hunted
2. Lock Up - Demonization
3. All Pigs Must Die - Hostage Animal
4. Converge - The Dusk In Us
5. Procrastinate - Procrastinate
6. Propagandhi - Victory Lap

Heavy/Speed/Power/Doom
1. Midnight - Sweet Death And Ecstasy
2. Pagan Altar - The Room Of Shadows
3. Jag Panzer -  The Deviant Chord
4. Sorcerer - The Crowning Of The Fire King
5. Vulture - The Guillotine
6. Procession - Doom Decimation

Top albums of 2016

The second half of 2016 was too busy for me, that was the reason of rare posting here. I mainly focused on 'mainstream' releases and i sort of ignored the underground ones. So here are my lists for 2016.

Thrash
1. Vektor - Terminal Redux
2. Hellbringer - Awakened From The Abyss
3. Death Angel - The Evil Divide
4. Testament - Brotherhood Of The Snake
5. Sodom - Decision Day
6. Darkness - The Gasoline Solution


Death
1. Asphyx - Incoming Death
2. Ulcerate - Shrines Of Paralysis
3. Gorguts - Pleiades's Dust 'Ep
4. Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason
5. Master - An Epiphany Of Hate
6. Rotten Sound - Abuse To Suffer

Black
1. Ravencult - Force Of Profanation
2. Anaal Nathrakh - The Whole Of The Law
3. Darkthrone - Arctic Thunder
4. Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem In Blue
5. Destroyer 666 - Wildfire
6. Desaster - The Oath Of An Iron Ritual

Viking/Pagan/Folk
1. Moonsorrow - Jumalten Aika
2. Kawir - Πατερ Ηλιε Μητερ Σελανα
3. Eldamar - The Force Of The Ancient Land
4. Skalmold - Vögguvísur Yggdrasils
5. Amon Amarth - Jomsviking
6. Bifröst - Mana Ewah

Crust/Grindcore/Hardcore/Punk
1. Martyrdod - List
2. Stheno - Liberty Crawls In Waste
3. Suicidal Tendencies - World Gone Mad
4. Venomous Concept - Kick Me Silly-VC III
5. Victims - Sirens
6. Gadget - The Great Destroyer

Heavy/Speed/Power
1. Armory - World Peace... Cosmic War
2. Running Wild - Rapid Foray
3. Ranger - Speed & Violence
4. Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire
5. Sumerlands - Sumerlands
6. Fates Warning - Theories Of Flight

Doom/Sludge/Stoner
1. Karma To Burn - Mountain Czar
2. Clouds Taste Satanic - Dawn Of The Satanic Age
3. 1000Mods - Repeated Exposure To ...

Top Albums Of 2015

2015 was a super-productive year for extreme music in general. A lot of groups managed to release great albums and it was a tough job for me to make the list below. I tried to listen to most of new releases, but it was almost impossible to check every release out there. I am sure, several albums could earn a place in the top albums of 2015, but i focused to the ones i heard most!

Thrash

1. Running Death - Overdrive

2. Slayer - Repentless

3. Volcano - Melt

4. Vhol - Deeper Than Sky 

5. Nuclear - Formula For Anarchy

6. Bio-Cancer - Tormenting The Innocent

Death

1. Cattle Decapitation - The Anthropocene Extinction

2. Malevolent Creation - Dead Man's Path

3. Cruciamentum - Charnel Passages

4. Paradise Lost - The Plague Within

5. Unleashed - Dawn Of The Nine

6. Down Among The Dead Men - Exterminate! Annihilate! Destroy! 

Black

1. Havukruunu - Havulinnaan

2. Macabre Omen - Gods Of War At War

3. Enslaved - In Times

4. Amestigon - Thier

5. Panopticon - Autumn Eternal

Folk/Viking/Pagan

1. Korpiklaani - Noita 

2. Helheim - RaunijaR

3. Svartsot - Vaeldet

4. Heathen Foray - Into Battle

5. Ensiferum - One Man Army

6. Manegarm - Manegarm

Crust/Grindcore/Hardcore/Punk

1. Fredag Den 13:E - Domedagar
2. Napalm Death - Apex Predator-Easy Meat

3. Extreme Noise Terror - Extreme Noise Terror

4. H2O - Use YourVoice

5. Captain Cleanoff - Rising Terror

6. Fuck The Facts - Desire Will Rot

Heavy/Power/Speed

1. Tribulation - The Children Of The Night

2. Satan - Atom By Atom

3. Ranger - Where Evil Dwells

4. Satan's Host - Pre-Dating God

5. Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

6. Trial - Vessel 

Doom/Sludge/Stoner

1. Pentagram - Curious Volume

2. Saturnalia Temple - To Ther Other

3. Dead To A Dying World - Litany

4. High On Fire - Luminiferous

5. My Dying Bride - Feel The Misery

6. King Heavy - King Heavy

Top Albums for 2014

2014 was a strange and tough year for me. I had a very limited time to listen to music, very limited time to post in this blog. So, the list below is just the best albums i managed to listen to, through 2014. (links that don't exist, will be added in the next days!).

Thrash

1. Nocturnal - Storming Evil

2. Hirax - Immortal Legacy

3. Iron Reagan - The Tyranny Of Will

4. Ringworm - Hammer Of The Witch

5. Goatwhore - Constricting Rage Of The Merciless

6. Overkill - White Devil Armory

Death

1. Entombed A.D. - Back To The Front

2. At The Gates - At War With Reality

3. Bloodbath - Grand Morbid Funeral

4. Cannibal Corpse - A Skeletal Domain

5. Misery Index - The Killing Gods

6. Obituary - Inked In Blood

Black

1. Hail Spirit Noir - Oi Magoi

2. Primordial - Where Greater Men Have Fallen

3. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry

4. Master's Hammer - Vagus Vetus

5. Anaal Nathrakh - Desideratum

6. Winterfylleth - The Divination Of Antiquity

Folk/Viking/Pagan

1. Trollfest - Kaptein Kaos

2. Metsatoll - Karjajuht

3. Cruachan - Blood For The Blood God

4. Valknacht - Le Sacrifice D'Ymir

5. Skalmold - Með Vættum

6. Eluveitie - Origins

Crust/Grindcore/Hardcore/Punk

1. Martyrdod - Elddop

2. Gridlink - Longhena

3. Ratos De Porao - Seculo Sinistro

4. Kataxnia - Kataxnia

5. Nausea - Condemned To The System

6. Trap Them - Blissfucker

Heavy/Power/Speed

1. Riot V - Unleash The Fire

2. Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age

3. Space Eater - Passing Through The Fire To Molech

4. Slough Feg - Digital Resistance

5. Dark Forest - The Awakening

6. Bullet - Storm Of Blades

Doom/Sludge/Stoner

1. Electric Wizard - Time To Die

2. Darkest Era - Severance

3. Sorrows Path  - Doom Philosophy

4. Doom's Day - The Devil's Eyes

5. Dö - 2014 'Ep

Top Albums Of 2013

Thrash
1. Power Trip - Manifest Decimation
2. Gama Bomb - The Terror Tapes
3. Mortillery - Origin Of Extinction
4. Warbringer - IV: Empires Collapse
5. Satan's Host - Virgin Sails
6. Protector - Reanimated Homunculus

Death
1. Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death
2. Carcass - Surgical Steel
3. Master - The Witchhunt
4. Portal - Vexovoid
5. Ulcerate - Vermis
6. Gorguts - Colored Sands

Black
1. The Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults, The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer
2. Nocturnal Graves - ... From The Bloodline Of Cain
3. Summoning - Old Mornings Dawn
4. Agnes Vein - Soulship
5. Arckanum - Fenris Kindir
6. Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

Folk/Viking/Pagan
1. Falkenbach - Asa
2. Tyr - Valkyrja
3. Thyrfing - De Odeslosa
4. Aherusia - As I Cross The Seas Of My Soul
5. Manegarm - Legions Of The North
6. Heathen Foray - Inner Force

Crust/Grindcore/Hardcore/Punk
1. Nails - Abandon All Life
2. Passiv Dodshjalp - Kollektiva Monster
3. Fredag Den 13:E - Tjugohundratretton
4. All Pigs Must Die - Nothing Violates This Nature
5. Unkind - Pelon Juuret
6. Lethe - Ληθη

Heavy/Power/Speed
1. Satan - Life Sentence
2. Hell - Curse And Chapter
3. Enforcer - Death By Fire
4. In Solitude - Sister
5. Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance
6. Warlord - The Holy Empire

Doom/Sludge/Stoner
1. Mael Mordha - Damned When Dead
2. Age Of Taurus - Desperate Souls Of Tortured Times
3. Cathedral - The Last Spire
4. Argus - Beyond The Martyrs
5. Blackwitch Pudding - Taste The Pudding
6. Pyramido - Saga

Top Albums Of 2012

Thrash
1. Suicidal Angels - Bloodbath
2. Overkill - The Electric Age
3, Paradox - Tales Of The Weird
4. Slaughtered Priest - Confess Your Sins
5. Rumpelstiltskin Grinder - Ghostmaker
6. Ketzer - Endzeit Necropolis

Death
1. Unleashed - Odalheim
2. Asphyx - Deathhammer
3. Cattle Decapitation - Monolith Of Inhumanity
4. Terrorizer - Hordes Of Zombies
5. Master - The New Elite
6. Incantation - Vanquish In Vengeance

Black
1. Desaster - The Arts Of Destruction
2. Master's Hammer - Vracejte Konve Na Misto
3. Panopticon - Kentucky
4. Hopelorn - Tuonen Musta Joki Virtaa Sydämessäni
5. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
6. The Great Old Ones - Al Azif

Folk/Viking/Pagan
1. Trollfest - Brumlebassen
2. Korpiklaani - Manala
3. Winterfylleth - The Threnody Of Triumph
4. Oakenshield - Legacy
5. Eluveitie - Helvetios
6. Spectral - Gateway To Death

Crust/Grindcore/Hardcore/Punk
1. WolfBrigade - Damned
2. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
3. Tragedy - Darker Days Ahead
4. Black Breath - Sentenced To Life
5. Wadge - Total Volcano Exploding
6. Napalm Death - Utilitarian

Heavy/Power/Speed
1. Arkham Witch - Legions Of The Deep
2. Altar Of Oblivion - Grand Gesture Of Defiance
3. Revenge - Vendetta
4. Zuul - To The Frontlines
5. Validor - Dawn Of The Avenger
6. Axehammer - Marching On

Doom/Sludge/Stoner
1. Woods Of Ypres - Woods 5
2. Saint Vitus - Lillie: F-65
3. Yakuza - Beyul
4. Conan - Monnos
5. Paradise Lost - Tragic Idol
6. My Dying Bride - A Map Of All Our Failures

Top Albums Of 2011

Thrash
1. Havok - Time Is Up
2. Vektor - Outer Isolation
3. Machine Head - Unto The Locust
4. Degradation - Juggernaut
5. Bywar - Abduction
6. Toxic Holocaust - Conjure And Command

Death
1. Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
2. Entrails - The Tomb Awaits
3. Ulcerate - The Destroyers Of All
4. Revolting - In Grisly Rapture
5. The Rotted - Ad Nauseam
6. Bastard Priest - Ghouls Of The Endless Night

Black
1. Absu - Abzu
2. Blut Aus Nord - 777 Sects
3. Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
4. Negative Plane - Stained Glass Revelations
5. Arckanum - HelvitisMyrkr
6. Ravencult - Morbid Blood

Folk/Viking/Pagan
1. Cruachan - Blood On The Black Robe
2. Forefather - Last Of The Line
3. Primordial - Redemption At The Puritan's Hand
4. Moonsorrow - Varjoina Kuljemme Kuolleiden Maassa
5. Falkenbach - Tiurida
6. Trollfest - En Kvest For Den Hellige Gral

Crust/Grindcore/Hardcore
1. All Pigs Must Die - God Is War
2. Gridlink - Orphan
3. Anaal Nathrakh - Passion
4. Rotten Sound - Cursed
5. Brutal Truth - End Time
6. Lock Up - Necropolis Transparent

Heavy/Power/Speed
1. Riot - Immortal Soul
2. Satan's Host - By The Hands Of The Devil
3. Speedwolf - Ride With Death
4. Midnight - Satanic Royalty
5. In Solitude - The World, The Flesh, The Devil
6. Hammer's Of Misfortune - 17th Street

Doom/Sludge/Stoner
1. Dead To A dying World - Dead To A Dying World
2. Black Tusk - Set The Dial
3. Black Cobra - Invernal
4. Doomsword - The Eternal Battle
5. Red Fang - Murder The Mountains
6. Krux - III: He Who Sleeps Among The Stars