| Rank | Artist | Album | Record Label | Spins |
|---|
| 1 | Kataklysm | Prevail | Nuclear Blast | 3 |
| 2 | Scar Symmetry | Holographic Universe | Nuclear Blast | 3 |
| 3 | Cancer Bats | Hail Destroyer | Blackmarket/Metal Blade | 3 |
| 4 | Judas Priest | Nostradamus | Epic | 3 |
| 5 | Dissonant | Copy, Burn, Distribute, Repeat | N/A | 3 |
| 6 | Aborted | Strychnine .213 | Century Media | 2 |
| 7 | Bleed The Sky | Murder The Dance | Nuclear Blast | 2 |
| 8 | Keep Of Kalessin | Kolossus | Nuclear Blast | 2 |
| 9 | Whitechapel | This Is Exile | Metal Blade | 2 |
| 10 | Motley Crue | Saints Of Los Angeles | 10th Street Entertainment | 2 |
| 11 | Opeth | Watershed | Roadrunner | 2 |
| 12 | Slipknot | Single TBD | Roadrunner | 2 |
| 13 | Soul Embraced | Dead Alive | Solid State | 2 |
| 14 | Catelepsy | Iniquity | Stillborn | 2 |
| 15 | Bury Your Dead | Bury Your Dead | Victory | 2 |
| 16 | Embrace The End | Ley Lines | Century Media | 1 |
| 17 | Firewind | The Premonition | Century Media | 1 |
| 18 | Nachtmystium | Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1 | Century Media | 1 |
| 19 | Opiate For The Masses | Manifesto | Century Media | 1 |
| 20 | Stick To Your Guns | Comes From The Heart | Century Media | 1 |
| 21 | Sworn Enemy | Maniacal | Century Media | 1 |
| 22 | Terror | The Damned, The Shamed | Century Media | 1 |
| 23 | Vital Remains | Icons of Evil | Century Media | 1 |
| 24 | Warbringer | War Without End | Century Media | 1 |
| 25 | Warrel Dane | Praises To The War Machine | Century Media | 1 |
| 26 | Amorphis | Silent Waters | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 27 | Arsis | We Are The Nightmare | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 28 | Avantasia | The Scarecrow | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 29 | Belphegor | Bondage Goat Zombie | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 30 | Death Angel | Killing Season | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 31 | Divinity | Allegory | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 32 | Eluveitie | Slania | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 33 | Korpiklaani | Korven Kuningas | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 34 | Meshuggah | obZen | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 35 | Testament | The Formation of Damnation | Nuclear Blast | 1 |
| 36 | Abysmal Dawn | Programmed to Consume | Relapse | 1 |
| 37 | Agenda Of Swine | Waves Of Human Suffering | Relapse | 1 |
| 38 | Coldworker | Rotting Paradise | Relapse | 1 |
| 39 | Kingdom Of Sorrow | Kingdom Of Sorrow | Relapse | 1 |
| 40 | Origin | Antithesis | Relapse | 1 |
| 41 | Daylight Dies | Lost To the Living | Candlelight | 1 |
| 42 | Gorefest | Rise to Ruin | Candlelight | 1 |
| 43 | Ihsahn | angL | Candlelight | 1 |
| 44 | Various Artists | Candlelight Sampler | Candlelight | 1 |
| 45 | Desaster | 666 Satan's Soldiers Syndicate | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 46 | Epicurean | A Consequence of Design | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 47 | Hail Of Bullets | Of Frost and War | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 48 | Hatchet | Awaiting Evil | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 49 | Hate Eternal | Fury And Flames | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 50 | Middian | Age Eternal | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 51 | Neaera | Armamentarium | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 52 | Soilent Green | The Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 53 | Vomitory | Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize | Metal Blade | 1 |
| 54 | Bloodbath | Unblessing The Purity EP | Peaceville | 1 |
| 55 | John5 | Requiem | 60 Cycle Hum | 1 |
| 56 | Struggle Withing | Angel's Face | Arctic Music Group | 1 |
| 57 | Destructor | Forever In Leather | Auburn | 1 |
| 58 | Blacklist Union | Breakin’ Bread With The Devil | B.L.U. Records | 1 |
| 59 | Head On Collision | Ritual Sacrifice | Beer City | 1 |
| 60 | From A Second Story Window | Conversations | Blackmarket/Metal Blade | 1 |
| 61 | Romans | All Those Wrists | Blackmarket/Metal Blade | 1 |
| 62 | Sweet Cobra | Forever | Blackmarket/Metal Blade | 1 |
| 63 | The Tenth Circle | Of War And Reflection | Bled Out | 1 |
| 64 | Hemlock | No Time For Sorrow | Blind Prophecy | 1 |
| 65 | Scarpoint | The Silence We Deserve | Blind Prophecy | 1 |
| 66 | Thrust | Diablo’s Ride | Bomb Records | 1 |
| 67 | Verse | Agression | Bridge Nine | 1 |
| 68 | Ihsahn | angL | Candlelight Records | 1 |
| 69 | Dark Fortress | Eidolon | Century | 1 |
| 70 | Heaven Shall Burn | Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) | Century | 1 |
| 71 | Hellhammer | Demon Entrails | Century | 1 |
| 72 | With Dead Hands Rising | Expect Hell | Century | 1 |
| 73 | Zimmers Hole | When You Were Shouting At The Devil... | Century | 1 |
| 74 | Throw The Fight | 3-Song EP | Cordless | 1 |
| 75 | Hydrogyn | Deadly Passions | Demolition | 1 |
| 76 | Lauren Harris | Calm Before The Storm | Demolition | 1 |
| 77 | Dropclutch | The Reason | Drop Entertainment | 1 |
| 78 | Motley Crue | "Saints of Los Angeles" Single | Eleven Seven Music | 1 |
| 79 | Judas Priest | Sampler | Epic | 1 |
| 80 | 36 Crazyfists | The Tide And It’s Takers | Ferret | 1 |
| 81 | Ayreon | 01011001 | Inside Out | 1 |
| 82 | Isis | "Holy Tears" Single | Ipecac | 1 |
| 83 | Aletheian | Dying Vine | Ironclad/Metal Blade | 1 |
| 84 | Apocalyptica | Worlds Collide | Jive/Zomba | 1 |
| 85 | The Sword | Gods Of The Earth | Kemado | 1 |
| 86 | In Flames | A Sense Of Purpose | Koch | 1 |
| 87 | Anew Revolution | Rise | Koch Records | 1 |
| 88 | In Flames | A Sense Of Purpose | Koch Records | 1 |
| 89 | Lazarus | Epidsode One | Lazarus Holdings | 1 |
| 90 | Burning Skies | Greed. Filth. Abuse. Corruption. | Lifeforce | 1 |
| 91 | Fall Of Serenity | The Crossfire | Lifeforce | 1 |
| 92 | Benedictum | Seasons of Tragedy | Locomotive | 1 |
| 93 | Circle II Circle | Delusions Of Grandeur | Locomotive | 1 |
| 94 | Debauchery | Back In Blood | Locomotive | 1 |
| 95 | Doro | All We Are | Locomotive | 1 |
| 96 | Eminence | The God Of All Mistakes | Locomotive | 1 |
| 97 | Empire | Chasing Shadows | Locomotive | 1 |
| 98 | Fatal Smile | World Domination | Locomotive | 1 |
| 99 | Grenouer | Lifelong Days | Locomotive | 1 |
| 100 | Human Zoo | Over The Horizon | Locomotive | 1 |
| 101 | Imagika | Feast For The Hated | Locomotive | 1 |
| 102 | Jon Oliva's Pain | Global Warning | Locomotive | 1 |
| 103 | Maeder | Maeder | Locomotive | 1 |
| 104 | Mekong Delta | Lurking Fear | Locomotive | 1 |
| 105 | Paul Sabu | Strange Messiah | Locomotive | 1 |
| 106 | Primal Fear | New Religion | Locomotive | 1 |
| 107 | Seven Witches | Deadly Sins | Locomotive | 1 |
| 108 | Silent Force | Walk The Earth | Locomotive | 1 |
| 109 | Steel Attack | Carpe DiEnd | Locomotive | 1 |
| 110 | Stormwarrior | Heading Northe | Locomotive | 1 |
| 111 | U.D.O. | Metallized | Locomotive | 1 |
| 112 | Blood Stands Still | Salvation Through Struggle | Mediaskare | 1 |
| 113 | Sebastian Bach | Angeldown | Merovingian | 1 |
| 114 | Proofed | American Metal A Blend | Metal Ink | 1 |
| 115 | Azaghal | Omega | Moribund | 1 |
| 116 | Drawn and Quartered | Merciless Hammer of Lucifer | Moribund | 1 |
| 117 | Godless Rising | Battle Lords | Moribund | 1 |
| 118 | Necronoclast | The Plague | Moribund | 1 |
| 119 | Avsky | Malignant | Moribund Cult | 1 |
| 120 | Grimbane | Let The Empire Fall | Moribund Cult | 1 |
| 121 | Satan's Host | Great American Scapegoat | Moribund Cult | 1 |
| 122 | Emigrate | Emigrate | Motor | 1 |
| 123 | Close Your Eyes | Close Your Eyes | Music Gallery | 1 |
| 124 | Dropclutch | The Reason | N/A | 1 |
| 125 | Rellik | Devoured In Sin | N/A | 1 |
| 126 | Rise As One | Demo 2008 | N/A | 1 |
| 127 | Catastrophic | Anthology of Murder | Napalm | 1 |
| 128 | Edenbridge | My Earth Dream | Napalm | 1 |
| 129 | Enthroned | Tetra Karcist | Napalm | 1 |
| 130 | Isole | Bliss of Solitude | Napalm | 1 |
| 131 | Powerquest | Master of Illusion | Napalm | 1 |
| 132 | Serenity | Words Untold and Dreams Unlived | Napalm | 1 |
| 133 | Visions of Atlantas | Trinity | Napalm | 1 |
| 134 | Iron Fire | Blade of Triumph | Naplam | 1 |
| 135 | Novembre | The Blue | Peacevillie | 1 |
| 136 | Wykked Wytch | Memories Of A Dying Whore | Perish Music | 1 |
| 137 | Century | Black Ocean | Prosthetic | 1 |
| 138 | Funeral Pyre | Wounds | Prosthetic | 1 |
| 139 | Grief Of War | A Mounting Crisis…As Their Fury Got Released | Prosthetic | 1 |
| 140 | Dismember | Dismember | Regain | 1 |
| 141 | Grave | Dominion VIII | Regain | 1 |
| 142 | Hermano | ...Into The Exam Room | Regain | 1 |
| 143 | Sahg | Sahg II | Regain Records | 1 |
| 144 | Genghis Tron | Board Up The House | Relapse Records | 1 |
| 145 | Origin | Antithesis | Relapse Records | 1 |
| 146 | Dokken | Lightning Strikes Again | Rhino | 1 |
| 147 | Dream Theater | Dream Theater’s Greatest Hit(And 21 Other Pretty Cool Songs) | Rhino | 1 |
| 148 | A Different Breed Of Killer | I, Colossus | Rise | 1 |
| 149 | Cavalera Conspiracy | Inflikted | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 150 | Dream Theater | Tour Sampler | Roadrunner | 1 |
| 151 | Salt The Wound | Carnal Repercussions | Rotten | 1 |
| 152 | Fosterchild | Independence Day | Silent Majority | 1 |
| 153 | Seventh Seal | As Lives of One | Sinai Muzik | 1 |
| 154 | Famine | The Raven and the Reaping | Solid State | 1 |
| 155 | Various Artists | Spinefarm Sampler | Spinefarm | 1 |
| 156 | Children Of Bodom | Blooddrunk | Spinefarm/Fontana | 1 |
| 157 | Annihilator | Metal | SPV | 1 |
| 158 | Engel | Absolute Design | SPV | 1 |
| 159 | Iced Earth | "I Walk Among You" | SPV | 1 |
| 160 | Moonspell | Night Eternal | SPV | 1 |
| 161 | Unleashed | Hammer Battalion | SPV | 1 |
| 162 | Whitesnake | Good To Be Bad | SPV | 1 |
| 163 | Sodom | The Final Sign of Evil | Steamhammer | 1 |
| 164 | Made Out Of Babies | The Ruiner | The End | 1 |
| 165 | Thine Eyes Bleed | Thine Eyes Bleed | The End | 1 |
| 166 | Red I Flight | The Years | Victory | 1 |
| 167 | Dead to Fall | Are You Serious? | Victory Records | 1 |
| 168 | Valient Thorr | Immortalizer | Volcom Entertainment | 1 |
| 169 | Wednesday 13 | Skeletons | Wednesday 13, LLC | 1 |
