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108 - A New Beat from a Dead Heart
1349 - Hellfire
3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up the Blades

A
The Absence - Riders of the Plague
AC/DC - Plug Me In (DVD)
A.C.T. - Silence
Aeon - Rise to Dominate
Aetherius Obscuritas - Viziok
Afu-Ra - State of the Arts
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - PCP Torpedo/AnBrX
Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone
Akercocke - Antichrist
Akimbo - Navigating the Bronze
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Animosity - Shut It Down
Animosity - Empires
Animosity - Animal
Antaeus - Blood Libels
Antigama - Resonance
The Arcane Order - In the Wake of Collisions
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Architect/The Network - All Is Not Lost/This Is Your Pig's Portrait
Armando - Trax Classix
Arsis/Neuraxis - A Diamond for Disease/Trilateral Progression
Ascension of the Watchers - Numinosum
Audiopain - The Switch to Turn Off Mankind
Avenger of Blood - Death Brigade
Aversion - Fit to Be Tied
Azalea City Penis Club/Robin Allender - The Coffin Years/The Bird and the Word

B
Sebastian Bach - Angel Down
Bane - The Note
Barbara - Peger
Beatallica - Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band
Behemoth - Chaotica - The Essence of the Underworld
Behold...The Arctopus/Byla & Jarboe - Skullgrid/Viscera
Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
Between the Buried and Me - The Anatomy Of
Bilk - This Bilk Is Radioactive
Bitter End - Climate of Fear
Black Cobra - Feather and Stone
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
Black Elk - Black Elk
Black Tide - Light From Above
Bleeding Through - The Truth
Bloody Panda - Pheromone
Blotted Science - The Machinations of Dementia
Blut Aus Nord - MoRT
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Booka Shade - Movements
Borknagar - Origin
Born From Pain - War
Botch - 061502
Botch - American Nervoso (reissue)
Bring Back the Buffalo - Self-Titled
Brutal Truth - Sounds of the Animal Kingdom/Kill Trend Suicide
Brutus - Slachtbeest
Bullet for My Valentine - Scream Aim Fire
Burst - Origo

C
Caina/Godheadscope - Mourner/A City Out of Sight
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black
Cephalic Carnage - Halls of Amenti
Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
Chiodos - Bone Palace Ballet
Ian Christe - Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga
ChthoniC - Seediq Bale
Cipher - Children of God's Fire
Cog/Vuneny - Course Over Ground/V2
Collabs 3000 - Metalism
Corpus Mortale - A New Species of Deviant
Crimson Falls - The True Face of Human Nature
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not
Cypher 7 - Nothing Lasts

D
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
Dark Funeral - Attera Totus Sanctus
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Deadlock - Wolves
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
xDeathstarx - We Are the Threat
Deicide - The Stench of Redemption
Dekapitator - The Storm Before the Calm
Demiricous - One
Dethklok - The Dethalbum
Devian - Ninewinged Serpent
Devious - Domain
Diagnose: Lebensgefahr/Stalaggh - Transformalin/Projekt Misanthropia
Dieselboy - The Human Resource
The Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
Dim Mak - Knives of Ice
Dokken - From Conception: Live 1981
Doomriders - Black Thunder
A Dozen Furies/Manntis - A Concept from Fire/Sleep in Your Grave
Dub Trio - Another Sound Is Dying
Dying Fetus - War of Attrition
Dysrhythmia - Barriers and Passages
Dysrhythmia/Rothko - Fractures

E
Earache - iCrusher Complete (DVD)
Ed Gein - Judas Goats & Dieseleaters
Edguy/Vader - Superheroes/The Art of War
Enslaved - Ruun
Ephel Duath - Pain Necessary to Know
The Esoteric - Subverter
Evergreen Terrace - Sincerity Is an Easy Disguise in This Business
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Extinction of Mankind - Ale to England

F
The Faceless - Akeldama
Fear Factory - Transgression
Fight Amp - Hungry for Nothing
Flesh - Temple of Whores
Formicide - Self-Titled
Marty Friedman - Loudspeaker
Frozen - In Time
Fuck the Facts/Landmine Marathon - Stigmata High-Five/Wounded

G
Glorior Belli - Manifesting the Raging Beast
God Forbid - IV: Constitution of Treason
Goldie - MDZ.05
Gorod - Neurotripsicks
The Great Deceiver - Life Is Wasted on the Living

H
Hacride - Amoeba
Halford - Metal God Essentials Vol. 1
The Handshake Murders - Usurper
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
Havoc Unit - h.IV+ (Hoarse Indistrial Viremia)
Johannes Heil - Freaks R Us
Helmet - Monochrome
Her Candane - No Battle!
Heresi - Psalm II: Infusco Ignis
High on Fire - Death Is This Communion
High Watt Electrocutions - Night Songs
Hirax - The New Age of Terror
Hirax - Assassins of War
Ezekiel Honig & Morgan Packard - Early Morning Migration
Hot Cross - Risk Revival
Hyatari - The Light Carriers

I
I - Between Two Worlds
Iamthethorn - You Are the Lamb
Ignitor - Road of Bones
Immolation - Shadows in the Light
Impaled - The Last Gasp
Impending Doom - Nailed. Dead. Risen.
Impious - Holy Murder Masquerade
Induce - Cycle
In Flames - A Sense of Purpose
Inked in Blood - Sometimes We Are Beautiful
Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes
Intronaut - Void
Inveracity - Extermination of Millions
Ion Dissonance - Minus the Herd
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death
Isis - In the Absence of Truth

J
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch
Jesu/Final - Silver/3
Jesu - Lifeline
The Jesus Lizard - Live (DVD)
Job for a Cowboy - Doom
Jotunspor - Gleipnirs Smeder
Jucifer - L'autrichienne

K
Keith Kahn-Harris - Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge
Kaskade - House of Om
Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance
Dustin Kensrue - Please Come Home
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Killwhitneydead - Nothing Less Nothing More
Krisiun - AssassiNation
Kylesa - Time Will Fuse Its Worth

L
Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
Laethora - March of the Parasite
Lair of the Minotaur - The Ultimate Destroyer
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Last Chance to Reason - Lvl. 1
Leng Tch'e - The Process of Elimination
Leng Tch'e - Marasmus
Liferuiner - No Saints
Ludicra - Fex Urbis Lex Orbis

M
The Mae Shi - Heartbeeps
Manowar - The Sons of Odin (Immortal Edition)
Marblebog - Forestheart
The Mass - Perfect Picture of Wisdom and Boldness
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Means - Sending You Strength
Melechesh - Emissaries
Merciless Death - Evil in the Night
Meshuggah - Nothing (Reissue)
Metalmania 2006 (DVD)
Midaircondo - Shopping for Images
Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
Ministry - The Last Sucker
Ministry - Cover Up
The Minor Times - Summer of Wolves
Misery Index - Discordia
Modern Life Is War - Midnight in America
Mortuus - De Contemplanda Morte
Mutamassik - Masri Mokkassar: Definitive Works

N
Nadja - Skin Turns to Bliss/Bliss Torn from Emptiness
Naglfar/Nagelfar - Harvest/Virus West
Nahemah - The Second Philosophy
Nasum - Doombringer
Necro - Death Rap
Necronoclast - The Plague
The Negatives - At the End of the Rope
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
N.I.L. - Self-Titled
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Norma Jean/War of Ages - Redeemer/Pride of the Wicked
Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen

O
Obscurus Advocam - Verbia Daemonicus
Obsidian - Emerging
The Ocean - Precambrian
Omnium Gatherum - Stuck Here on Snakes Way
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Origin - Antithesis
Overkill - Immortalis

P
Julius Papp - Montreal Departure
Paths of Possession - The End of the Hour
Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw
Pelican - City of Echoes
The Phantom Family Halo - The Legend of Black Six
Phazm - Antebellum Death 'n' Roll
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Portal - Outre
Premonitions of War - The True Face of Panic
Premonitions of War/Benumb - Split
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Prong - Power of the Damager
Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
PureH - Signia

Q
Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime II

R
Ratos de Porão - Brasil
Rat Skates - Born in the Basement (DVD)
Recyver Dogs - Live at Tresor Berlin (DVD)
The Red Chord - Clients
The Red Chord - Prey for Eyes
Redemption - The Origins of Ruin
Rigor Sardonicous - Vallis Ex Umbra De Mortuus
Roadrunner United - The All-Star Sessions
The Ruins of Beverast - Rain upon the Impure
Russian Circles - Station

S
Sanctity - Road to Bloodshed
Satan's Host - Satanic Grimoire
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
Sauron - The Channeling Void
Dave Seaman - Audio Therapy Presents Across Borders: Greece
The Secret - Disintoxication
Sepultura - Roots
Sepultura - Dante XXI
Severe Torture - Sworn Vengeance
Shadows Fall/The Acacia Strain - Fallout from the War/The Dead Walk
Shinjuku Thief - The Scribbler
Sickening Horror - When Landscapes Bled Backwards
Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
Six Feet Under - Commandment
Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Slough Feg - Hardworlder
Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
Soilwork - Sworn to a Great Divide
Sourvein - Ghetto Angel
Stolen Babies/Unexpect - There Be Squabbles Ahead/In a Flesh Aquarium
The Stooges - The Weirdness
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Suffocation - Suffocation

T
Testament - Live in London
Testament - The Formation of Damnation
They Shoot Horses Don't They - Boo Hoo Hoo Boo
This Ending - Inside the Machine
Thought Chamber - Angular Perceptions
Throne of Katarsis - An Eternal Dark Horizon
Through the Eyes of the Dead - Malice
Thumbscrew - Within Hearts of Redemption
Titan - A Raining Sun of Light and Love, For You and You and You
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Toxic Bonkers - Progress
Trivium - Ascendancy
Trivium - The Crusade

U
Unsane - Blood Run

V
V/A - For the Sick: A Tribute to Eyehategod
V/A - Remastered
V/A - Speed Kills...Again
V/A - The Unholy Alliance Chapter II (DVD)
Vader - And Blood Was Shed in Warsaw (DVD)
Vader - Lead Us!!!
Voivod - Katorz
Von Thronstahl - Sacrificare

W
Warbringer - War Without End
Warface - Insanity of the Obsessed
Watain - Sworn to the Dark
Whitechapel - The Somatic Defilement
Josh Wink - Profound Sounds Volume 3
Wolf - The Black Flame
Wrath of the Weak - Alogon

X
Xasthur - Subliminal Genocide
Xasthur - Defective Epitaph

Y
Yakuza/Intronaut - Samsara/Null
Year of Desolation - Self-Titled
Year of No Light - Nord

Z