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| 5 | Nine Inch Nails | The Slip |
| Scott Kelly | The Wake | |
| Textures | Silhouettes [20] | |
| 6 | Kayo Dot | Blue Lambency Downward |
| Revocation | Empire of the Obscene | |
| Russian Circles | Station | |
| 13 | Abysmal Dawn | Programmed To Consume |
| Aletheian | Dying Vine | |
| Emmure | The Respect Issue | |
| Mourning Beloveth | A Disease for the Ages | |
| 14 | Diablo | Icaros |
| 16 | Moonspell | Night Eternal |
| 23 | Cryptopsy | The Unspoken King [21] |
| Kataklysm | Prevail | |
| 26 | Ihsahn | angL |
| Shai Hulud | Misanthropy Pure | |
| 30 | Communic | Payment of Existence |
| Hollenthon | Opus Magnum | |
| Opeth | Watershed [22] | |
| Pyramaze | Immortal | |
| Sabaton | The Art of War |
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| 3 | Satyricon | The Age of Nero |
| Turisas | A Finnish Summer With Turisas | |
| 10 | The Red Shore | Unconsecrated |
| 11 | Attack Attack! | Someday Came Suddenly |
| Behemoth | Ezkaton | |
| Dance Club Massacre | Circle of Death | |
| Dir en Grey | Uroboros | |
| The Faceless | Planetary Duality | |
| Light This City | Stormchaser | |
| Six Feet Under | Death Rituals | |
| Sympathy | Anagogic Tyranny | |
| Pig Destroyer | Natasha (EP) | |
| 14 | Edguy | Tinnitus Sanctus |
| Elvenking | Two Tragedy Poets (...and a Caravan of Weird Figures) | |
| Hortus Animae | Funeral Nation / 10 Years Of Hortus Animae [23] | |
| 17 | Cynic | Traced in Air |
| 18 | Mononc' Serge & Anonymus | Musique Barbare |
| Mudvayne | The New Game | |
| 24 | Arch Enemy | Tyrants of the Rising Sun |
| 25 | Becoming the Archetype | Dichotomy |
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| 18 | Tankard | Thirst |
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