| Rank | Artist | Album | Record Label | Spins |
|---|
| 1 | Graves of Valor | Salarian Gate | Relapse | 2 |
| 2 | Cannibal Corpse | Evisceration Plague | Metal Blade | 2 |
| 3 | Goatwhore | Carving Out The Eyes Of God | Metal Blade | 2 |
| 4 | Neaera | Omnicide- Creation Unleashed | Metal Blade | 2 |
| 5 | Oceano | Depths Sampler | Earache | 2 |
| 6 | Lamb Of God | Wrath | Epic | 2 |
| 7 | The Devil Wears Prada | With Roots Above And Branches Below | Ferret | 2 |
| 8 | Heaven & Hell | "Bible Black" Single | Rhino Records | 2 |
| 9 | DevilDriver | Pray For Villains | Roadrunner | 2 |
| 10 | Bury Your Dead | It's Nothing Personal | Victory | 2 |
| 11 | IWrestledABearOnce | It’s All Happening | Century Media | 1 |
| 12 | Napalm Death | Time Waits For No Slave | Century Media | 1 |
| 13 | Old Man's Child | Slaves To The World | Century Media | 1 |
| 14 | Suicide Silence | "Wake Up" Single | Century Media | 1 |
| 15 | Sworn Enemy | Total World Domination | Century Media | 1 |
| 16 | Warbringer | Waking Into Nightmares | Century Media | 1 |
| 17 | Amorphis | Skyforger | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 18 | Darkane | Demonic Art | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 19 | Hammerfall | No Sacrifice No Victory | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 20 | Mantic Ritual | The Executioner | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 21 | Samael | Above | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 22 | Sirenia | The 13th Floor | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 23 | Agoraphobic Nosebleed | Agorapocalypse | Relapse | 1 |
| 24 | Antigama | Warning | Relapse | 1 |
| 25 | Brutal Truth | Evolution Through Revolution | Relapse | 1 |
| 26 | Buried Inside | Spoils Of Failure | Relapse | 1 |
| 27 | Coalesce | Ox | Relapse | 1 |
| 28 | Inevitable End | The Severed Inception | Relapse | 1 |
| 29 | Minsk | With Echoes in the Movement of Stone | Relapse | 1 |
| 30 | Mumakil | Behold The Failure | Relapse | 1 |
| 31 | Obscura | Cosmogenesis | Relapse | 1 |
| 32 | 1349 | Revelations Of The Black Flame | Candlelight | 1 |
| 33 | Abigail Williams | In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns | Candlelight | 1 |
| 34 | Blood Tsunami | Grand Feast For Vultures | Candlelight | 1 |
| 35 | Emperor | Live Inferno | Candlelight | 1 |
| 36 | Havok | Burn | Candlelight | 1 |
| 37 | Susperia | Attitude | Candlelight | 1 |
| 38 | Tardy Brothers | Bloodline | Candlelight | 1 |
| 39 | Amon Amarth | Twilight of the Thunder God | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 40 | As I Lay Dying | "I Never Wanted" Single | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 41 | Autumn | Altitude | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 42 | Believer | Gabriel | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 43 | Cattle Decapitation | The Harvest Floor | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 44 | Darkenss Dynamite | The Astonishing Fury of Mankind | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 45 | Eryn Non Dae | Hydra Lernaia | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 46 | God Dethroned | Passiondale | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 47 | I Killed The Prom Queen | Sleepless Nights and City Lights | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 48 | Into The Moat | The Campaign | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 49 | Lay Down Rotten | Gospel of the Wretched | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 50 | Lazarus A.D. | The Onslaught | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 51 | Malefice | Dawn of Reprisal | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 52 | Molotov Solution | The Harbinger | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 53 | Paria | The Barnacle Cordious | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 54 | Psyopus | Odd Senses | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 55 | Razor Of Occam | Homage To Martyrs | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 56 | Rose Funeral | The Resting Sonata | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 57 | This Ending | Dead Harvest | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 58 | Trigger The Bloodshed | The Great Depression | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 59 | Woe of Tyrants | Kingdom of Might | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 60 | Madder Mortem | 8 Ways | Peaceville | 1 |
| 61 | My Dying Bride | For Lies I Sire | Peaceville | 1 |
| 62 | Friends Of Bill Wilson | Surface Tension | 10 lb. Productions | 1 |
| 63 | Ministry | Adios…Puta Madres | 13th Planet | 1 |
| 64 | Rob Gee | The Great American Melting | Adam Worldwide | 1 |
| 65 | Doro | Fear No Evil | AFM | 1 |
| 66 | Ektomorf | What Doesn't Kill Me | AFM | 1 |
| 67 | Exilia | My Own Army | AFM | 1 |
| 68 | Tankard | Thirst | AFM | 1 |
| 69 | The New Black | The New Black | AFM | 1 |
| 70 | Sacred Oath | Sacred Oath | Angel Thorne Music | 1 |
| 71 | Janvs | Vega | ATMF/KLM Distribution | 1 |
| 72 | Mike Albert Project | Afterlife | Big Deal | 1 |
| 73 | Seventh Void | Heaven Is Gone | Big Vin | 1 |
| 74 | Lion's Share | Dark Hours | Blistering | 1 |
| 75 | Blacklist Union | Breakin' Bread With The Devil | BLU Records | 1 |
| 76 | Thyateira | Beholder | Bota | 1 |
| 77 | Havok | Burn | Candlelight Records | 1 |
| 78 | Castrofate | Cataclysmic Insanity | Cataclysmic Metal | 1 |
| 79 | Bloodsoaked | Sadistic Deeds...Grotesque | Comatose Music | 1 |
| 80 | For The Suffering | For The Suffering | Crash Music Inc. | 1 |
| 81 | Texas Hippie Coalition | Texas Hippie Coalition | Creative Ent. | 1 |
| 82 | Burning Human | Resurrection By Fire | E1 Music | 1 |
| 83 | Hatebreed | For The Lions | E1 Music | 1 |
| 84 | Dirtfedd | The American Nightmare | E1/Sopra Evil | 1 |
| 85 | Stratovarious | Polaris | Eagle Rock | 1 |
| 86 | Various Artists | Heavy Metal Killers | Earache | 1 |
| 87 | The #12 Looks Like You | Worse Than Alone | Eyeball | 1 |
| 88 | Chris Caffery | House of Insanity | Face The Music | 1 |
| 89 | Chimaira | The Infection | Ferret | 1 |
| 90 | Maylene & The Sons of Disaster | III | Ferret | 1 |
| 91 | Poison The Well | The Tropic Rot | Ferret | 1 |
| 92 | Jorn | Spirit Black | Frontiers | 1 |
| 93 | Pathosray | Sunless Skies | Frontiers | 1 |
| 94 | Place Vendome | Streets Of Fire | Frontiers | 1 |
| 95 | Primal Fear | Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | Frontiers | 1 |
| 96 | Saint Deamon | Pandeamonium | Frontiers | 1 |
| 97 | The Trophy | The Gift Of Life | Frontiers | 1 |
| 98 | Vision Divine | 9 Degrees West Of The Moon | Frontiers | 1 |
| 99 | Heal These Wounds | Ambitions | Hotfoot | 1 |
| 100 | Flood | 3 Song EP | Independent | 1 |
| 101 | Isis | Wavering Radiant | Ipecac | 1 |
| 102 | Starring Janet Leigh | Spectrum | Ironclad/Metal Blade | 1 |
| 103 | Children | Hard Times Hanging at the End of the World | Kemado | 1 |
| 104 | Absentia Lunae | Historia Nobis Assentietvr | KLM Distribution | 1 |
| 105 | Satyricon | The Age of Nero | Koch | 1 |
| 106 | Leprous | Tall Poppy Syndrome | Lasers Edge | 1 |
| 107 | Korotory | Age Of Rebellion | Last Resort | 1 |
| 108 | David Chastain | Heavy Excursions | Leviathan | 1 |
| 109 | Miseration | Your Demons, Their Angels | Lifeforce | 1 |
| 110 | Stormlord | Mare Nostrum | Locomotive | 1 |
| 111 | Pestilence | Resurrection Macabre | Mascot | 1 |
| 112 | Volbeat | Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood | Mascot | 1 |
| 113 | Dead Men Dreaming | Impure Thoughts | MD Entertainment | 1 |
| 114 | Halford | Resurrections | Metal God Entertainment | 1 |
| 115 | KMFDM | Blitz | Metropolis | 1 |
| 116 | Alestorm | Black Sails At Midnight | Napalm | 1 |
| 117 | Crimfall | As the Path Unfolds | Napalm | 1 |
| 118 | Fairyland | Score To A New Beginning | Napalm | 1 |
| 119 | Hellsaw | Cold | Napalm | 1 |
| 120 | Iron Fire | To The Grave | Napalm | 1 |
| 121 | Lunatica | New Shores | Napalm | 1 |
| 122 | Sons Of Seasons | Gods Of Vermon | Napalm | 1 |
| 123 | The Modern Age Slavery | Damned to Blindness | Napalm | 1 |
| 124 | Tyr | By The Light Of The Northern Star | Napalm | 1 |
| 125 | Bulletmonks | Weapons Of Mass Destruction | Napalm Records | 1 |
| 126 | Fejd | Storm | Napalm Records | 1 |
| 127 | Hatesphere | To The Nines | Napalm Records | 1 |
| 128 | Isole | Silent Ruins | Napalm Records | 1 |
| 129 | Trail Of Tears | Blood-Stained Endurance | Napalm Records | 1 |
| 130 | Mind Odyssey | Time To Change It | Napam | 1 |
| 131 | Chaosfear | Image of Disorder | Old School Metal | 1 |
| 132 | Kylesa | Static Tensions | Prosthetic | 1 |
| 133 | Syncope Threshold | Tale Of The Complex Circuit | Razorheart | 1 |
| 134 | Acid Drinkers | Verses Of Steel | Regain | 1 |
| 135 | Arise | The Reckoning | Regain | 1 |
| 136 | Hermh | Cold Blood Messiah | Regain | 1 |
| 137 | Voivod | Infini | Relapse Records | 1 |
| 138 | Gallows | Grey Britain | Reprise | 1 |
| 139 | Mastodon | Crack The Skye | Reprise | 1 |
| 140 | Static-X | Cult Of Static | Reprise | 1 |
| 141 | Queensryche | American Soldier | Rhino | 1 |
| 142 | Astra | The Weirding | Rise Above/Metal Blade | 1 |
| 143 | Firebird | Grand Union | Rise Above/Metal Blade | 1 |
| 144 | CkY | Carver City | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 145 | Dream Theater | Black Clouds And Silver Linings | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 146 | Nightwish | Made In Hong Kong (And Various Other Places) | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 147 | Autumn Hour | Dethroned | Rock Ridge Music | 1 |
| 148 | Cycle Of Pain | Cycle Of Pain | Rock Ridge Music | 1 |
| 149 | Gollum | The Core | Rotten | 1 |
| 150 | Great White | Rising | Shrapnel | 1 |
| 151 | Nothingface | Nothingface (re-release) | Sick6 | 1 |
| 152 | Emery | …In Shallow Seas We Sail | Solid State | 1 |
| 153 | The Chariot | Wars And Rumors Of Wars | Solid State | 1 |
| 154 | Pelican | Ephemeral | Southern Lord | 1 |
| 155 | Wolves In The Throne Room | Black Cascade | Southern Lord | 1 |
| 156 | Devin Townsend Project | Ki | SPV | 1 |
| 157 | Iced Earth | The Crucible of Man | SPV | 1 |
| 158 | Nashville Pussy | From Hell To Texas | SPV | 1 |
| 159 | Ripper Owens | Play My Game | SPV | 1 |
| 160 | Saxon | Into The Labyrinth | SPV | 1 |
| 161 | Sepultura | A-Lex | SPV | 1 |
| 162 | Suidakra | Crogacht | SPV | 1 |
| 163 | UFO | The Visitor | SPV | 1 |
| 164 | Orange Sky | Dat Iz Voodoo | Star City Recordings | 1 |
| 165 | Steelheart | Good 2B Alive | Steelheart | 1 |
| 166 | Hammer Horde | Under the Mighty Oath | Storm Surge | 1 |
| 167 | Eyes Set To Kill | The World Outside | Suburban Noize | 1 |
| 168 | Drop Dead, Gorgeous | The Hot ‘N Heavy | Suretone | 1 |
| 169 | Black Math Horseman | Wyllt | Tee Pee | 1 |
| 170 | Various Artists | Tee Pee Sampler | Tee Pee | 1 |
| 171 | Eluveitie | Evocation I | The Arcane Dominion | 1 |
| 172 | Goes Cube | Another Day Has Passed | The End | 1 |
| 173 | Hull | Sole Lord | The End | 1 |
| 174 | Karl Sanders | Saurian Exorcisms | The End | 1 |
| 175 | Nadja | When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV | The End | 1 |
| 176 | To Speak Of Wolves | Following Voices EP | Tragic Hero | 1 |
| 177 | Clutch | Unstoppable Watts sampler | Weathermaker Music | 1 |
| 178 | The Autumn Offering | Requiem | Victory | 1 |
