Albums
- Aerosmith - Nine Lives
- Alice Cooper - A Fistful of Alice
- Black Sabbath - Reunion
- Body Count - Violent Demise: The Last Days
- Bruce Dickinson - Accident of Birth
- Children of Bodom - Something Wild
- Dark Tranquillity - The Mind's I
- Deftones - Around The Fur
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
- Dokken - Shadowlife
- Dream Theater - Falling into Infinity
- Edguy - Kingdom of Madness
- Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
- Entombed - To Ride Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth
- Europe - Definitive Collection (Compilation Album)
- Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade of Gray
- Freak Kitchen - Junk Tooth EP
- Godflesh - Love and Hate in Dub
- HammerFall - Glory to the Brave
- Immortal - Blizzard Beasts
- In Flames - Whoracle
- Incantation - Tribute to the Goat
- Judas Priest - Jugulator
- Kiss - Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions
- Kreator - Outcast
- Limp Bizkit Three Dollar Bill Y'all
- Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Facing the Animal
- Machine Head - The More Things Change
- Megadeth - Cryptic Writings
- Metallica - ReLoad
- Mötley Crüe - Generation Swine
- Nightwish - Angels Fall First
- No Big Silence - 99
- Pig Destroyer - Demo
- Pig Destroyer - Pig Destroyer / Orchid (Split EP)
- Queensrÿche - Hear in the Now Frontier
- Rammstein - Sehnsucht
- Razor - Decibels
- Rhapsody of Fire - Legendary Tales
- Rotting Christ - A Dead Poem
- Shadows Fall - Somber Eyes to the Sky
- Sodom - 'Til Death Do Us Unite
- Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
- Strapping Young Lad - City
- Stratovarius - Visions
- Stratovarius - The Past And Now
- Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
- The 3rd and the Mortal - In This Room, Streams (EP)
- U.D.O. -Solid
- Vital Remains - Forever Underground
- Whitesnake - Restless Heart
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