| Rank | Artist | Album | Record Label | Spins |
|---|
| 1 | Opeth | Watershed Sampler | Roadrunner | 4 |
| 2 | Fall Of Serenity | The Crossfire | Lifeforce | 3 |
| 3 | Abysmal Dawn | Programmed to Consume | Relapse | 3 |
| 4 | Testament | The Formation of Damnation | Nuclear Blast | 3 |
| 5 | Thine Eyes Bleed | Thine Eyes Bleed | The End | 3 |
| 6 | Origin | Antithesis | Relapse | 3 |
| 7 | Arsis | We Are The Nightmare | Nuclear Blast | 2 |
| 8 | 36 Crazyfists | The Tide And It’s Takers | Ferret | 2 |
| 9 | Aletheian | Dying Vine | Ironclad/Metal Blade | 2 |
| 10 | In Flames | A Sense Of Purpose | Koch | 2 |
| 11 | Wednesday 13 | Skeletons | Wednesday 13, LLC | 2 |
| 12 | Desaster | 666 Satan's Soldiers Syndicate | Metal Blade | 2 |
| 13 | Bloodbath | Unblessing The Purity EP | Peaceville | 2 |
| 14 | Wykked Wytch | Memories Of A Dying Whore | Perish Music | 2 |
| 15 | Embrace The End | Ley Lines | Century Media | 1 |
| 16 | Firewind | The Premonition | Century Media | 1 |
| 17 | Stick To Your Guns | Comes From The Heart | Century Media | 1 |
| 18 | Sworn Enemy | Maniacal | Century Media | 1 |
| 19 | Vital Remains | Icons of Evil | Century Media | 1 |
| 20 | Warbringer | War Without End | Century Media | 1 |
| 21 | Warrel Dane | Praises To The War Machine | Century Media | 1 |
| 22 | Amorphis | Silent Waters | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 23 | Avantasia | The Scarecrow | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 24 | Belphegor | Bondage Goat Zombie | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 25 | Death Angel | Killing Season | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 26 | Divinity | Allegory | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 27 | Eluveitie | Slania | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 28 | Korpiklaani | Korven Kuningas | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 29 | Meshuggah | obZen | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 30 | Coldworker | Rotting Paradise | Relapse | 1 |
| 31 | Jucifer | L'Autrichienne | Relapse | 1 |
| 32 | Kingdom Of Sorrow | Kingdom Of Sorrow | Relapse | 1 |
| 33 | Unearthly Trance | Electrocution | Relapse | 1 |
| 34 | Vverevvolf Grehv | Zombie Aesthetics | Relapse | 1 |
| 35 | Gorefest | Rise to Ruin | Candlelight | 1 |
| 36 | Various Artists | Candlelight Sampler | Candlelight | 1 |
| 37 | Brain Drill | Apocalyptic Feasting | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 38 | Cataract | Cataract | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 39 | Desaster | 666 Satan's Soldiers Syndicate | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 40 | Epicurean | A Consequence of Design | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 41 | Fate | Vultures | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 42 | Hail Of Bullets | Of Frost and War | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 43 | Hate Eternal | Fury And Flames | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 44 | Lizzy Borden | Appointment With Death | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 45 | Middian | Age Eternal | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 46 | Neaera | Armamentarium | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 47 | Soilent Green | The Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 48 | The Ocean | Precambrian | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 49 | Vomitory | Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 50 | Bloodbath | Unblessing The Purity EP | Peaceville | 1 |
| 51 | Ministry | The Last Sucker | 13th Planet | 1 |
| 52 | Ministry | Cover Up | 13th Planet/Megaforce | 1 |
| 53 | Destructor | Forever In Leather | Auburn | 1 |
| 54 | The Tenth Circle | Of War And Reflection | Bled Out | 1 |
| 55 | Ekotren | Light The Fire | Blind Prophecy | 1 |
| 56 | Hemlock | No Time For Sorrow | Blind Prophecy | 1 |
| 57 | Scarpoint | The Silence We Deserve | Blind Prophecy | 1 |
| 58 | Spyder Baby | Let Us Pray | Blind Prophecy | 1 |
| 59 | Overkill | Immortalis | Bodog | 1 |
| 60 | Ihsahn | angL | Candlelight Records | 1 |
| 61 | Dark Fortress | Eidolon | Century | 1 |
| 62 | Heaven Shall Burn | Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | Century | 1 |
| 63 | Hellhammer | Demon Entrails | Century | 1 |
| 64 | The Agony Scene | Get Damned | Century | 1 |
| 65 | Winds Of Plague | Decimate The Weak | Century | 1 |
| 66 | With Dead Hands Rising | Expect Hell | Century | 1 |
| 67 | Zimmers Hole | When You Were Shouting At The Devil... | Century | 1 |
| 68 | P.O.D. | "Addicted" Single | Columbia | 1 |
| 69 | Dropclutch | The Reason | Drop Entertainment | 1 |
| 70 | Scum of the Earth | Sleaze Freak | Eclipse | 1 |
| 71 | Motley Crue | "Saints of Los Angeles" Single | Eleven Seven Music | 1 |
| 72 | Judas Priest | Sampler | Epic | 1 |
| 73 | Mudvayne | By The People, For The People | Epic | 1 |
| 74 | Parkway Drive | Horizons | Epitaph | 1 |
| 75 | Five Finger Death Punch | The Way of the Fist | Firm Music | 1 |
| 76 | Immortal Dominion | Awakening | Fist Music | 1 |
| 77 | Tarja | My Winter Storm | Fontana International | 1 |
| 78 | Infernophoenic | Spark It Up | Godlyke | 1 |
| 79 | Arson Anthem | Arson Anthem | Housecore | 1 |
| 80 | Down | Over the Under | ILG/Warner | 1 |
| 81 | Various Artists | Gigantour 2 | Image | 1 |
| 82 | Gigan | Gigan | Index | 1 |
| 83 | MOD | Red,White and Screwed | Index | 1 |
| 84 | P.O.D. | When Angels & Serpents Dance | INO/Columbia | 1 |
| 85 | Ayreon | 01011001 | Inside Out | 1 |
| 86 | Dominici | O3 A Trilogy Part 3 | Inside Out Music | 1 |
| 87 | Black Tide | Light From Above | Interscope | 1 |
| 88 | Isis | "Holy Tears" Single | Ipecac | 1 |
| 89 | Aletheian | Dying Vine | Ironclad/Metal Blade | 1 |
| 90 | Israel Unleashed | Jewish Music Sampler | Jewish Music Group | 1 |
| 91 | Apocalyptica | Worlds Collide | Jive/Zomba | 1 |
| 92 | Bullet For My Valentine | Scream Aim Fire | Jive/Zomba | 1 |
| 93 | The Sword | Gods Of The Earth | Kemado | 1 |
| 94 | Within Caos | Virulent | Koch | 1 |
| 95 | Anew Revolution | Rise | Koch Records | 1 |
| 96 | In Flames | A Sense Of Purpose | Koch Records | 1 |
| 97 | Lazarus | Epidsode One | Lazarus Holdings | 1 |
| 98 | Burning Skies | Greed. Filth. Abuse. Corruption. | Lifeforce | 1 |
| 99 | Benedictum | Seasons of Tragedy | Locomotive | 1 |
| 100 | Debauchery | Back In Blood | Locomotive | 1 |
| 101 | Doro | All We Are | Locomotive | 1 |
| 102 | Eminence | The God Of All Mistakes | Locomotive | 1 |
| 103 | Empire | Chasing Shadows | Locomotive | 1 |
| 104 | Fatal Smile | World Domination | Locomotive | 1 |
| 105 | Jon Oliva's Pain | Global Warning | Locomotive | 1 |
| 106 | Maeder | Maeder | Locomotive | 1 |
| 107 | Paul Sabu | Strange Messiah | Locomotive | 1 |
| 108 | Primal Fear | New Religion | Locomotive | 1 |
| 109 | Seven Witches | Deadly Sins | Locomotive | 1 |
| 110 | Silent Force | Walk The Earth | Locomotive | 1 |
| 111 | Steel Attack | Carpe DiEnd | Locomotive | 1 |
| 112 | U.D.O. | Metallized | Locomotive | 1 |
| 113 | Belay My Last | The Downfall | Mediaskare | 1 |
| 114 | The Ghost Inside | Fury And The Fallen One | Mediaskare/Century Media | 1 |
| 115 | Sebastian Bach | Angeldown | Merovingian | 1 |
| 116 | Azaghal | Omega | Moribund | 1 |
| 117 | Drawn and Quartered | Merciless Hammer of Lucifer | Moribund | 1 |
| 118 | Godless Rising | Battle Lords | Moribund | 1 |
| 119 | Necronoclast | The Plague | Moribund | 1 |
| 120 | Avsky | Malignant | Moribund Cult | 1 |
| 121 | Grimbane | Let The Empire Fall | Moribund Cult | 1 |
| 122 | Satan's Host | Great American Scapegoat | Moribund Cult | 1 |
| 123 | Emigrate | Emigrate | Motor | 1 |
| 124 | Close Your Eyes | Close Your Eyes | Music Gallery | 1 |
| 125 | Dropclutch | The Reason | N/A | 1 |
| 126 | Rellik | Devoured In Sin | N/A | 1 |
| 127 | Various Artists | C U LaTour Sampler | N/A | 1 |
| 128 | Alestorm | Captain Morgan's Revenged | Napalm | 1 |
| 129 | Atrocity | Small Town Boy/Relax 2 Song Sampler | Napalm | 1 |
| 130 | Catastrophic | Anthology of Murder | Napalm | 1 |
| 131 | Draconian | Turning Season Within | Napalm | 1 |
| 132 | Enthroned | Tetra Karcist | Napalm | 1 |
| 133 | Isole | Bliss of Solitude | Napalm | 1 |
| 134 | Mehida | Blood and Water | Napalm | 1 |
| 135 | Midnattsol | Nordlys | Napalm | 1 |
| 136 | Serenity | Words Untold and Dreams Unlived | Napalm | 1 |
| 137 | Sinamore | Seven Sins A Second | Napalm | 1 |
| 138 | Svartsot | Ravnenes Saga | Napalm | 1 |
| 139 | Vesania | Distractive Killusions | Napalm | 1 |
| 140 | Visions of Atlantas | Trinity | Napalm | 1 |
| 141 | Iron Fire | Blade of Triumph | Naplam | 1 |
| 142 | Dimension | Ego | Nightmare | 1 |
| 143 | Fountain Of Tears | Fate | Nightmare | 1 |
| 144 | Katagory V | Hymns of Dissension | Nightmare | 1 |
| 145 | Iron Steel | Devil May Care EP | Nipple | 1 |
| 146 | Novembre | The Blue | Peacevillie | 1 |
| 147 | Byzantine | Oblivion Beckons | Prosthetic | 1 |
| 148 | Century | Black Ocean | Prosthetic | 1 |
| 149 | Grief Of War | A Mounting Crisis…As Their Fury Got Released | Prosthetic | 1 |
| 150 | Dead Child | Attack | Quarterstick | 1 |
| 151 | Dismember | Dismember | Regain | 1 |
| 152 | Hermano | ...Into The Exam Room | Regain | 1 |
| 153 | Sahg | Sahg II | Regain Records | 1 |
| 154 | Genghis Tron | Board Up The House | Relapse Records | 1 |
| 155 | Origin | Antithesis | Relapse Records | 1 |
| 156 | Dokken | Lightning Strikes Again | Rhino | 1 |
| 157 | Dream Theater | Dream Theater’s Greatest Hit(And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) | Rhino | 1 |
| 158 | A Different Breed Of Killer | I, Colossus | Rise | 1 |
| 159 | Cavalera Conspiracy | Inflikted | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 160 | Devildriver | The Last Kind Words | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 161 | Dream Theater | Tour Sampler | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 162 | Killswitch Engage | As Daylight Dies (Bonus Tracks) | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 163 | Opeth | Watershed Sampler | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 164 | Polka Dot Cadaver | Purgatory Dance Party | Rotten | 1 |
| 165 | Salt The Wound | Carnal Repercussions | Rotten | 1 |
| 166 | Fosterchild | Independence Day | Silent Majority | 1 |
| 167 | Vayden | Children Of Our Mistake | Silent Majority | 1 |
| 168 | Seventh Seal | As Lives of One | Sinai Muzik | 1 |
| 169 | Destroy The Runner | I, Lucifer | Solid State | 1 |
| 170 | Various Artists | Spinefarm Sampler | Spinefarm | 1 |
| 171 | Children Of Bodom | Blooddrunk | Spinefarm/Fontana | 1 |
| 172 | Annihilator | Metal | SPV | 1 |
| 173 | Engel | Absolute Design | SPV | 1 |
| 174 | Type O Negative | Dead Again | SPV | 1 |
| 175 | Type O Negative | "September Sun" Single | SPV | 1 |
| 176 | Whitesnake | Good To Be Bad | SPV | 1 |
| 177 | Sodom | The Final Sign of Evil | Steamhammer | 1 |
| 178 | Thine Eyes Bleed | Thine Eyes Bleed | The End | 1 |
| 179 | A Gruesome Find | Of Blood And Nobility | Unsigned | 1 |
| 180 | Protest The Hero | Fortress | Vagrant | 1 |
| 181 | Arise And Ruin | The Final Dawn | Victory | 1 |
| 182 | Between The Buried and Me | Colors | Victory | 1 |
| 183 | Bury Your Dead | Bury Your Dead | Victory | 1 |
| 184 | Red I Flight | The Years | Victory | 1 |
| 185 | The Autumn Offering | Fear Will Cast No Shadow | Victory | 1 |
| 186 | With Blood Comes Cleansing | Horror | Victory | 1 |
| 187 | Across Five Aprils | Life Underwater | Victory Records | 1 |
| 188 | Dead to Fall | Are You Serious? | Victory Records | 1 |
| 189 | Farewell To Freeway | Definitions | Victory Records | 1 |
