THE 522 ALBUMS THAT DIDN’T MAKE THE LIST

The list was never meant to be definitive – there would be no way to compile a so-called “definitive” list of the “best” metal albums anyways. We were just hoping to have some fun, and we’ve certainly had fun. And hopefully at least some of you have had fun, too.

But no matter which 21 albums our panel ended up selecting, there were always going to be hundreds – literally hundreds – of worthy records that just weren’t going to get the love they deserve.

To that end, throughout the remainder of the week, each MetalSucks staffer will be writing about one album that he wishes had made the list.

In the meantime, after the jump, you can check out all the albums our panelists voted for that didn’t make the list; in other words, these albums would be on a list of the  543 Best Metal Albums of the 21st Century… So Far.

We hope that it continues to provide fodder for your arguments.

Metallica, Death Magnetic – 102 POINTS
Iron Maiden, Brave New World – 99 POINTS
Isis, Oceanic – 98 POINTS
Torche, Meanderthal – 97 POINTS
Meshuggah, obZen – 91 POINTS
Dimmu Borgir,  Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia – 90 POINTS
Cynic, Traced In Air – 89 POINTS
Opeth, Deliverance – 86 POINTS
Baroness, Red Album – 80 POINTS
The Dillinger Escape Plan, Miss Machine – 79 POINTS
Mastodon, Crack the Skye – 79 POINTS
Shadows Fall, Of One Blood – 79 POINTS
Gojira, The Way of All Flesh – 77 POINTS
Shadows Fall, The Art of Balance – 75 POINTS
Pig Destroyer,  Phantom Limb –  74 POINTS
Celtic Frost, Monotheist – 72 POINTS
High on Fire, Blessed Black Wings – 72 POINTS
Chimaira, The Impossibility of Reason – 67 POINTS
Nevermore, Dead Heart in a Dead World – 66 POINTS
Opeth, Watershed – 66 POINTS
In Flames, Come Clarity – 65 POINTS
Trivium, Ascendancy – 64 POINTS
Clutch, Blast Tyrant – 63 POINTS
Meshuggah, Nothing – 63 POINTS
Glassjaw, Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Silence – 60 POINTS
Lamb of God, Sacrament – 60 POINTS
Cave In, Jupiter – 57 POINTS
Between the Buried and Me, Colors – 56 POINTS
Dillinger Escape Plan, Ire Works – 56 POINTS
Soilwork, Natural Born Chaos – 55 POINTS
Cannibal Corpse, Kill – 54 POINTS
The Red Chord, Fused Together in Revolving Doors – 54 POINTS
Neurosis, A Sun that Never Sets – 51 POINTS
Slipknot, Iowa – 51 POINTS
Soilwork, Stabbing the Drama – 51 POINTS
Arch Enemy, The Wages of Sin – 50 POINTS
Lamb of God, Wrath – 49 POINTS
Jesu, Conqueror – 48 POINTS
Testament, Formation of Damnation – 48 POINTS
Electric Wizard, Dopethrone – 47 POINTS
Isis, Panopticon – 47 POINTS
Down, Down III – 46 POINTS
Arsis, A Celebration of Guilt – 44 POINTS
Down, Down II – 44 POINTS
Nevermore, The Godless Endeavor – 44 POINTS
Queens of the Stone Age, Songs for the Deaf – 44 POINTS
Candiria, 300% Density – 43 POINTS
Every Time I Die, Hot Damn! – 43 POINTS
Iron Maiden, A Matter of Life and Death – 43 POINTS
Killswitch Engage, Killswitch Engage (2000) – 43 POINTS
Martyr AD, The Human Condition… – 42 POINTS
Nile, Annihilation of the Wicked – 42 POINTS
As I Lay Dying, An Ocean Between Us – 41 POINTS
Agalloch, The Mantle – 40 POINTS
Converge, No Heroes – 40 POINTS
Tool, 10,000 Days – 40 POINTS
Decapitated, Organic Hallucinosis – 39 POINTS
Indorphine, Glowsticks for Clubbing Baby Seals – 39 POINTS
Kylesa, Time Will Fuse its Worth – 39 POINTS
Shadows Fall, Threads of Life – 39 POINTS
Anthrax, We’ve Come for You All – 38 POINTS
Emperor, Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise – 38 POINTS
Made Out of Babies, The Ruiner – 38 POINTS
Pantera, Reinventing the Steel – 38 POINTS
Thrice, Artist in the Ambulance – 38 POINTS
Unearth, The Stings of Conscience – 38 POINTS
Machine Head, Through the Ashes… – 37 POINTS
The Mars Volta, Deloused in the Comatorium – 37 POINTS
Nothingface, Violence – 36 POINTS
Sevendust, Animosity – 36 POINTS
Kylesa, Static Tenstions – 35 POINTS
Norma Jean, O God The Aftermath – 35 POINTS
Pig Destroyer,  Prowler in the Yard – 35 POINTS
Enslaved, Below the Lights – 34 POINTS
High on Fire, The Art of Self Defense – 34 POINTS
Between the Buried and Me, Silent Circus – 33 POINTS
A Life Once Lost, A Great Artist – 32 POINTS
As I Lay Dying, Frail Words Collapse – 32 POINTS
Converge, You Fail Me – 32 POINTS
Sikth, Death of a Dead Day – 32 POINTS
Buried Inside, Chronoclast – 31 POINTS
The Crown,  Crowned In Terror/Crowned Unholy –  31 POINTS
Decapitated, Nihility – 31 POINTS
Napalm Death, The Code is Red… Long Live the Code – 31 POINTS
The Melvins, A Senile Animal – 30 POINTS
Avenged Sevenfold, Sounding the Seven Trumpets – 29 POINTS
Five Pointe 0, Untitled – 29 POINTS
Opeth, Damnation – 29 POINTS
Wolves in the Throne Room, Two Hunters – 29 POINTS
As I Lay Dying, Shadows Are Security – 28 POINTS
Big Business, Here Come the Water Works – 28 POINTS
Eyehategod, Confederacy of Ruined Lives – 28 POINTS
Glassjaw, Worship & Tribute – 28 POINTS
The Haunted, The Dead Eye – 28 POINTS
The Haunted, rEvolver – 28 POINTS
Himsa, Hail Horror – 28 POINTS
Symphony X, The Odyssey – 28 POINTS
System of a Down, Mezmerize/Hypnotize – 28 POINTS
Unearth, The Oncoming Storm – 28 POINTS
Immortal, Sons of Northern Darkness – 27 POINTS
Strapping Young Lad, Alien – 27 POINTS
Enslaved, Isa – 26 POINTS
Unsane, Blood Run – 26 POINTS
16, Bridges to Burn – 25 POINTS
Deftones, Deftones – 25 POINTS
Dir En Grey, Withering to Death – 24 POINTS
High on Fire, Death is this Communion – 24 POINTS
High on Fire, Surrounded by Thieves – 24 POINTS
Poison the Well, You Come Before You – 24 POINTS
Children of Bodom, Follow the Reaper– 23 POINTS
Darkane, Insanity – 23 POINTS
God Forbid, Determination – 23 POINTS
Municipal Waste, Hazardous Mutation – 23 POINTS
Nile, Black Seeds of Vengeance – 23 POINTS
Pig Destroyer, Terrifyer – 23 POINTS
Protest the Hero, Fortress – 23 POINTS
Russian Circles,  Enter – 23 POINTS
Soilwork, Chain Heart Machine – 23 POINTS
Unsane, Visqueen – 23 POINTS
At the Drive-In, Relationship of Command – 22 POINTS
Avenged Sevenfold, City of Evil – 22 POINTS
God Forbid, IV: Constitution of Treason – 22 POINTS
Green Carnation,  Light Of Day… Day Of Darkness – 22 POINTS
Russian Circles,  Station – 22 POINTS
7 Angels 7 Plagues, Jhazymne’s Lullaby – 21 POINTS
Andrew W.K., I Get Wet –  21 POINTS
Behemoth, The Apostasy – 21 POINTS
Behemoth, Demigod – 21 POINTS
Behemoth,  Zos Kia Cultus – 21 POINTS
Crotchduster, Big Fat Box of Shit – 21 POINTS
The Crown, Possessed 13 – 21 POINTS
Deathspell Omega, Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum – 21 POINTS
Drudkh, Autumn Aurora – 21 POINTS
The Hope Conspiracy, Endnote – 21 POINTS
Intronaut, Void – 21 POINTS
Katatonia, Last Fair Deal Gone Down – 21 POINTS
Krallice, Krallice – 21 POINTS
Meshuggah, Catch 33 – 21 POINTS
Muse, Absolution – 21 POINTS
Nasum, Helvete – 21 POINTS
Pain of Salvation, Remedy Lane – 21 POINTS
Scar Symmetry, Holographic Universe – 21 POINTS
Sunn O))), Flight of the Behemoth – 21 POINTS
The Sword, The Sword – 21 POINTS
Thrice, The Alchemy Index Vol 1 – 21 POINTS
The Austerity Program, Black Madonna – 20 POINTS
Deathspell Omega, Kenose – 20 POINTS
Every Time I Die, Gutter Phenomenon – 20 POINTS
Jesu, Jesu – 20 POINTS
Judas Priest, Angel of Retribution – 20 POINTS
King Diamond, The Puppet Master – 20 POINTS
Municipal Waste, The Art of Partying – 20 POINTS
Porcupine Tree, Lightbulb Sun – 20 POINTS
Satanic Warmaster – Carelian Satanist Madness – 20 POINTS
Satyricon, Volcano – 20 POINTS
Becoming the Archetype, Terminate Damnation – 19 POINTS
Necrophagist, Epitaph – 19 POINTS
Bloodbath, Nightmares Made Flesh – 19 POINTS
Dark New Day, Twelve Year Silence – 19 POINTS
Extol, Undeceived – 19 POINTS
Eyehategod, Preaching the End Time Message – 19 POINTS
Torche, Torche – 19 POINTS
Tragedy, Tragedy – 19 POINTS
Forever is Forgotten, The Architecture is Still Burning – 19 POINTS
Helmet, Size Matters – 19 POINTS
Deathspell Omega, Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum – 19 POINTS
Dying Fetus, Destroy the Opposition – 19 POINTS
Shining, IV: The Eerie Cold – 19 POINTS
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Of Natural History – 19 POINTS
Weakling, Dead as Dreams – 19 POINTS
Amesoeurs, Ruines Humaines – 18 POINTS
Chimaira, Pass Out of Existence – 18 POINTS
Corrosion of Conformity, America’s Volume Dealer – 18 POINTS
Darkest Hour, Deliver Us – 18 POINTS
Deadwater Drowning, Deadwater Drowning – 18 POINTS
Deathspell Omega, Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice – 18 POINTS
From Autumn to Ashesh, Holding a Wolf by the Ears – 18 POINTS
Genghis Tron, Board Up the House – 18 POINTS
Soilent Green, Deleted Symphony For The Beaten Down – 18 POINTS
Swallow the Sun, The Morning Never Came – 18 POINTS
This is Hell, Sundowning – 18 POINTS
Three, The End Is Begun – 18 POINTS
Type O Negative, Life is Killing Me – 18 POINTS
Orthrelm, Ov – 18 POINTS
Rotting Christ,  Theogonia – 18 POINTS
Heaven and Hell, The Devil You Know – 18 POINTS
Isis, Celestial – 18 POINTS
Marduk, World Funeral – 18 POINTS
Kingdom of Sorrow, Kingdom of Sorrow – 18 POINTS
Into Eternity, Buried in Oblivion – 18 POINTS
Dimmu Borgir,  Deathcult Armageddon – 18 POINTS
Benea Reach, Alleviat – 17 POINTS
Between the Buried and Me, Alaska – 17 POINTS
Blind Guardian, A Night at the Opera – 17 POINTS
Blut Aus Nord, The Work Which Transforms God – 17 POINTS
Witchcraft, The Alchemist – 17 POINTS
Cradle of Filth, Midian – 17 POINTS
Crowbar, Sonic Excess in its Purest Form – 17 POINTS
The Darkness, Permission to Land – 17 POINTS
Coffins, Buried Death – 17 POINTS
The Crown, Deathrace King – 17 POINTS
Insomnium, Above the Weeping World – 17 POINTS
Shadows Fall, Fallout from the War – 17 POINTS
Superjoint Ritual, A Lethal Dose of American Hatred – 17 POINTS
Testament, First Strike Deadly Strike – 17 POINTS
Overcast, Reborn to Kill Again – 17 POINTS
Darkthrone, The Cult is Alive – 17 POINTS
Fistula, For a Better Tomorrow – 17 POINTS
Grand Magus, Iron Will – 17 POINTS
Devin Townsend,  Terria – 17 POINTS
Wolves in the Throne Room, Diadem of 12 Stars – 17 POINTS
Amon Amarth, With Oden on Our Side – 16 POINTS
Blut Aus Nord, Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars – 16 POINTS
Norma Jean, The Anti Mother – 16 POINTS
Oxbox, The Narcotic Story – 16 POINTS
Norma Jean, Redeemer – 16 POINTS
The Sword, Age of Winters – 16 POINTS
Vital Remains, Dechristianize – 16 POINTS
The Red Chord, Clients – 16 POINTS
Obscura, Cosmogenesis – 16 POINTS
Bolt Thrower, Those Once Loyal – 16 POINTS
Cavalera Conspiracy, Inflikted – 16 POINTS
Death, Live in LA – 16 POINTS
Exodus, The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A – 16 POINTS
Cult of Luna, Somewhere Along the Highway – 16 POINTS
Disfear, Live the Storm – 16 POINTS
Watain, Casus Luciferi – 16 POINTS
Archgoat, Whore of Bethlehem – 15 POINTS
The Agony Scene, The Darkest Red – 15 POINTS
Battle of Mice, A Day of Nights – 15 POINTS
Blotted Science, The Machinations of Dementia – 15 POINTS
Blut Aus Nord, Mort – 15 POINTS
Darkest Hour, Undoing Ruin – 15 POINTS
Decapitated, The Negation – 15 POINTS
Despised Icon, Ills of Modern Man – 15 POINTS
Nachtmystium, Instinct: Decay – 15 POINTS
Old Man Gloom, Christmas – 15 POINTS
Nadja, Radiance of Shadows – 15 POINTS
Queens of the Stone Age, Lullabies to Paralyze – 15 POINTS
Doomriders, Black Thunder – 15 POINTS
Draconian, Where Lovers Mourn – 15 POINTS
Disfear, Misanthropic Generation – 15 POINTS
Thrice, Vheissu – 15 POINTS
Taint, The Ruin of Nova Roma – 15 POINTS
Dark Fortress, Eidolon –  15 POINTS
A Life Once Lost, Hunter – 14 POINTS
Agalloch, Ashes Against the Grain – 14 POINTS
Clutch, Pure Rock Fury – 14 POINTS
Coliseum, No Salvation – 14 POINTS
Misery Signals, Of Malice and Magnum Heart – 14 POINTS
Snapcase, Designs for Automotion – 14 POINTS
Necrophagist, Onset of Putrefaction – 14 POINTS
Samothrace, Life’s Trade – 14 POINTS
Poison the Well, Tear from the Red – 14 POINTS
Queens of the Stone Age, Rated R – 14 POINTS
Seemless, Seemless – 14 POINTS
Porcupine Tree, Fear of a Blank Planet –  14 POINTS
Nile, In Their Darkened Shrines – 14 POINTS
Pelican, Australasia – 14 POINTS
Dark Tranquility, Character – 14 POINTS
Kayo Dot,  Choirs of the Eye – 14 POINTS
Enslaved,  Ruun – 14 POINTS
Floor, Floor – 14 POINTS
Spiral Architect, A Sceptic’s Universe – 14 POINTS
Devin Townsend, Ziltoid – 14 POINTS
Today is the Day, Sadness Will Prevail – 14 POINTS
Starkweather, Croatoan – 14 POINTS
He is Legend, Suck Out the Poison – 14 POINTS
Dark Tranquility, Fiction – 14 POINTS
Zozobra, Harmonic Tremors – 14 POINTS
Aborted, Goremageddon – 13 POINTS
Avenged Sevenfold, Waking the Fallen – 13 POINTS
Boris, Flood – 13 POINTS
Breather Resist, Charmer – 13 POINTS
Dillinger Escape Plan, Irony is a Dead Scene – 13 POINTS
Fall of Troy,  Doppelganger – 13 POINTS
Melechesh, Emissaries – 13 POINTS
Nasum, Human 2.0 – 13 POINTS
Nasum, Shift – 13 POINTS
Neurorsis, Given to the Rising – 13 POINTS
Salome, Salome – 13 POINTS
Satyricon, Now Diabolical – 13 POINTS
Septic Flesh, Communion – 13 POINTS
Slayer, God Hates Us All – 13 POINTS
Porcupine Tree, In Absentia –  13 POINTS
Spineshank, The Height of Callousness – 13 POINTS
Underoath, Lost in the Sound of Separation – 13 POINTS
Underoath, The Changing of Times – 13 POINTS
*shells, Sea of the Dying Dhow – 13 POINTS
Tombs, Winter Hours – 13 POINTS
Gorguts, From Wisdom to Hate – 13 POINTS
Cannibal Corpse, Evisceration Plague – 13 POINTS
Chimaira, Chimaira – 13 POINTS
Darkane, Layers of Lies – 13 POINTS
Dream Theater, Train of Thought – 13 POINTS
The End, Elementary – 13 POINTS
Young Widows, Old Wounds – 13 POINTS
Arsis, We Are the Nightmare – 12 POINTS
The Banner, Each Breath Haunted – 12 POINTS
Bloodbath, The Fathomless Mastery – 12 POINTS
Cathedral, Endtyme – 12 POINTS
Children of Bodom, Blooddrunk – 12 POINTS
Spylacopa, Spylacopa – 12 POINTS
Swallow the Sun, Hope – 12 POINTS
Goatwhore, The Eclipse of Ages into Black – 12 POINTS
Hate Eternal, I, Monarch – 12 POINTS
Job For A Cowboy, Doom –  12 POINTS
Dead to Fall, Villainy and Virtue – 12 POINTS
Dragonforce, Inhuman Rampage – 12 POINTS
Dream Theater, Six Degrees of Seperation – 12 POINTS
Earthless, Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky – 12 POINTS
The Melvins, Nude with Boots – 12 POINTS
Slayer, Christ Illusion – 12 POINTS
Warbringer, War Without End – 12 POINTS
Woe, A Spell for the Death of Man – 12 POINTS
Amon Amartha, Twilight of the Thunder God – 11 POINTS
Byzantine, The Fundamental Component – 11 POINTS
Boris, Smile – 11 POINTS
Children of Bodom, Hate Crew Deathroll – 11 POINTS
Daath, The Concealers – 11 POINTS
Dagon, Paranormal Ichthyology –  11 POINTS
Diabolical Masquerade, Death’s Design – 11 POINTS
Down to Nothing, Splitting Headache – 11 POINTS
Evergreen Terrace, Wolfbiker – 11 POINTS
God Forbid, Gone Forever – 11 POINTS
Immolation, Close to a World Below – 11 POINTS
Leviathan, Massive Conspiracy Against All Life – 11 POINTS
Mudvayne, LD 50 – 11 POINTS
Naglfar, Pariah – 11 POINTS
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Grand Opening and Closing – 11 POINTS
Soilwork, Figure #5 – 11 POINTS
Suffocation, Suffocation – 11 POINTS
Terror, Lowest of the Low – 11 POINTS
Testament, The Gathering – 11 POINTS
Thursday, Full Coverage – 11 POINTS
Watch Them Die, Watch Them Die – 11 POINTS
Yakuza, Way of the Dead – 11 POINTS
Akercocke, Words That Go Unspoken… – 10 POINTS
The Black Dahlia Murder, Unhallowed – 10 POINTS
The Bronx, The Bronx – 10 POINTS
Cold, 13 Ways to Bleed Onstage – 10 POINTS
Deftones, Saturday Night Wrist – 10 POINTS
Demon Hunter, Demon Hunter – 10 POINTS
Evile, Enter the Grave – 10 POINTS
Fear Before the March of Flames, The Always Open Mouth – 10 POINTS
Job for a Cowboy, Genesis – 10 POINTS
Medeia, Cult – 10 POINTS
Motorhead, We Are Motorhead – 10 POINTS
Pelican, City of Echoes – 10 POINTS
Phobia, Cruel – 10 POINTS
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, In Glorious Times – 10 POINTS
The Sword, Gods of the Earth – 10 POINTS
Sunn O))), Black One – 10 POINTS
Soilent Green, Inevitable Collapse… – 10 POINTS
The Faceless, Planetary Duality – 9 POINTS
Abigail Williams, Legends – 9 POINTS
Big Business, Head for the Shallow – 9 POINTS
Blacklisted, Heavier than Heaven, Lonelier than God – 9 POINTS
Discordance Axis, The Inalieable Dreamless – 9 POINTS
Genghis Tron, Dead Mountain Mouth – 9 POINTS
Goatwhore, Funeral Dirge for the Rotting Sun – 9 POINTS
God Forbid, Earthsblood – 9 POINTS
The Haunted, Made Me Do It – 9 POINTS
Lostprophets, Start Something – 9 POINTS
Mercenary, Eleven Dreams – 9 POINTS
Motorhead, Inferno – 9 POINTS
Regurgitate, Deviant – 9 POINTS
Devin Townsend, Physicist – 9 POINTS
Weedeater, God Luck and Good Speed – 9 POINTS
Yob, Elaborations of Carbon – 9 POINTS
ASG, Win Us Over – 8 POINTS
Amorphis, Am Universum – 8 POINTS
Anaal Nathrakh, The Codex Necro – 8 POINTS
At All Cost, Circle of Demons – 8 POINTS
Blut Aus Nord, Memoria Vetusta I: Dialogue with the Stars – 8 POINTS
Boris, Pink – 8 POINTS
Dalek, Absence – 8 POINTS
Dead Man, Euphoria – 8 POINTS
Hella, There is No 666 in Outer Space – 8 POINTS
Horrorpops, Bring it On – 8 POINTS
Jesu, Silver – 8 POINTS
Keep of Kalessin, Armada – 8 POINTS
Living Sacrifice, The Hammering Process – 8 POINTS
Marduk, Warschau – 8 POINTS
Motorhead, Motorizer – 8 POINTS
Trap Them, Seizures in Barren Praise – 8 POINTS
Amon Amarth, Versus the World – 7 POINTS
Between the Buried and Me, Between the Buried and Me – 7 POINTS
Black Cobra, Bestial – 7 POINTS
Bloodsimple, A Cruel World – 7 POINTS
Byzantine, …And they Shall Take Up Serpents –  7 POINTS
Dissection, Reinkaus – 7 POINTS
Eighteen Visions, Vanity – 7 POINTS
Eluveitie,  Slania – 7 POINTS
Graveyard, Graveyard – 7 POINTS
Impiety, Paramount Evil – 7 POINTS
Lacuna Coil, Karmacode – 7 POINTS
Megadeth, The System Has Failed – 7 POINTS
Mesuggah, I – 7 POINTS
Mnemic, The Audio Injected Soul – 7 POINTS
Monster Magnet, God Says No – 7 POINTS
Norma Jean, Bless the Martyr, Kiss the Child – 7 POINTS
Odious Mortem, Devouring the Prophecy – 7 POINTS
Pelican, The Fire in Our Throats… – 7 POINTS
Remembering Never, God Save Us – 7 POINTS
The Acacia Strain, Continent – 6 POINTS
Bestial Holocaust, Final Extermination – 6 POINTS
Chevelle, Wonder What’s Next – 6 POINTS
Dark Tranquility, Damage Done – 6 POINTS
Death Breath, Stinking Up the Night – 6 POINTS
Decrepit Birth, …And Time Begins – 6 POINTS
Horrorpops, Hell Yeah – 6 POINTS
Isis, Mosquito Control – 6 POINTS
Scarve, Irradiant – 6 POINTS
The Showdown, Temptation Come My Way – 6 POINTS
Slipknot, All Hope is Gone – 6 POINTS
Spawn of Possession, Cabinet – 6 POINTS
Strapping Young Lad, SYL – 6 POINTS
Stuck Mojo, Declaration of a Headhunter – 6 POINTS
3 Inches of Blood, Fire Up the Blades – 5 POINTS
Boy Sets Fire, After the Eulogy – 5 POINTS
Children of Bodom, Hatebreder– 5 POINTS
Cormorant, Metazoa – 5 POINTS
Darkest Hour, So Sedated, So Secure – 5 POINTS
Demiricous, Two (Poverty) – 5 POINTS
Dream Theater, Live Scenes from a Memory – 5 POINTS
Every Time I Die, Last Night in Town – 5 POINTS
Exit Strategy, United States of Amnesia – 5 POINTS
Exodus, Shovel Headed Kill Machine – 5 POINTS
Ihsahn, The Adversary – 5 POINTS
Keelhaul, Subject to Change Without Notice – 5 POINTS
Mustach, Lowlife Highlights – 5 POINTS
Neurosis, The Eye of Every Storm – 5 POINTS
Old Man’s Child, Revelation 666 – 5 POINTS
Porcupine Tree, In Absentia – 5 POINTS
Psyopus, Ideas of Reference – 5 POINTS
Rammstein, Reise, Reise – 5 POINTS
Sigh, Imaginary Sonicscape – 5 POINTS
WASP, Unholy Terror – 5 POINTS
Acid Bath, Demos: 1993 – 1996 – 4 POINTS
Austrian Death Machine, Total Brutal – 4 POINTS
Bleeding Through, This is Love, This is Murderous – 4 POINTS
Cobalt, Eater of Birds – 4 POINTS
Dark Funeral, Attera Totus Sanctus – 4 POINTS
Fuck the Facts, Disgorge Mexico – 4 POINTS
Hate Eternal, King of Kings – 4 POINTS
iwrestledabearonce, It’s All Happening – 4 POINTS
Judas Priest, Nostradamus – 4 POINTS
Killswitch Engage, As Daylight Dies – 4 POINTS
Nightwish, Once – 4 POINTS
The Ocean, Precambrian – 4 POINTS
Old Man’s Child, Vermin – 4 POINTS
Origin, Antithesis – 4 POINTS
Torche, In Return – 4 POINTS
Tomahawk, Tomahawk – 4 POINTS
Velvet Revolver, Contraband – 4 POINTS
Insect Warfare, World Extermination – 4 POINTS
VOD, From Bliss to Devastation – 3 POINTS
Watain, Sworn to the Dark – 3 POINTS
Beatallica, Beatallica – 3 POINTS
Extol, Synergy – 3 POINTS
Gojira, The Link – 3 POINTS
Hammerfall, Renegade – 3 POINTS
Hate Eternal, Fury & Flames – 3 POINTS
The Holy Mountain, Enemies – 3 POINTS
Ihsahn, angL – 3 POINTS
Killing Joke, Killing Joke – 3 POINTS
Living Sacrifice, Conceived in Fire – 3 POINTS
Megadeth, United Abominations – 3 POINTS
Metallica, St. Anger – 3 POINTS
Morbid Angel, Gateways to Annihilation – 3 POINTS
My Dying Bride, Songs of Darkness… – 3 POINTS
Opeth, Still Life – 3 POINTS
Sevendust, Next – 3 POINTS
Strapping Young Lad, The New Black – 3 POINTS
Soilwork, Predator’s Portrait – 3 POINTS
Soulfly, Soulfly – 3 POINTS
Sunn O))), Whitel – 3 POINTS
Sybreed, Slave Design – 3 POINTS
Today is the Day, Kiss the Pig – 3 POINTS
Velnias, Sovereign Nocturnal – 3 POINTS
Weedeater, And Justice for Y’all – 3 POINTS
Wetnurse, Invisible City – 3 POINTS
36 Crazyfists, A Snow Capped Romance – 2 POINTS
Absu, Tara – 2 POINTS
Architects,  Hollow Crown – 2 POINTS
Bantam, Suicide Tourist – 2 POINTS
Burst, Origio – 2 POINTS
Dark Castle, Flight of the Pegasus – 2 POINTS
Everygrey, The Inner Circle – 2 POINTS
Horna, Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne – 2 POINTS
Icepick, Distress Signal – 2 POINTS
Ministry, Animositisomina –  2 POINTS
Misery Index, Dissent – 2 POINTS
Order of the Ennead, Order of the Ennead – 2 POINTS
Ritual Day, Sky Lake – 2 POINTS
Virus, The Black Flux – 2 POINTS
War of Ages, Pride of the Wicked – 2 POINTS
Arch Enemy, Doomsday Machine – 1 POINT
Bad Brains, Build a Nation – 1 POINT
Birushanah,  Akai Yami – 1 POINT
The Black Dahlia Murder, Miasma – 1 POINT
Chimaira, Resurrection – 1 POINT
Chthonic, Seediq Bale – 1 POINT
Embodyment, The Narrow Scope of Things – 1 POINT
Facedowninshit, NPON – 1 POINT
Fantomas, The Director’s Cut – 1 POINT
Godflesh, Hymns – 1 POINT
Gorefest, La Muerte – 1 POINT
H.I.M., Love Metal – 1 POINT
Iced Earth, Horror Show – 1 POINT
In Flames, Soundtrack to Your Escape – 1 POINT
Isis, In The Absence of Truth – 1 POINT
Kreator, Enemy of God – 1 POINT
Meatjack, Days of Fire – 1 POINT
Madball, The Best of Madball – 1 POINT
Nattefrost, Blood & Vomit – 1 POINT
Negativa, Negativa – 1 POINT
Nora, Dreamers and Deadmen – 1 POINT
Psychostick, Sandwich – 1 POINT
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Buried in the Front Yard – 1 POINT
Textures, Polars –  1 POINT
Voodoo Kungfu, Ci An – 1 POINT

THE PANEL OF VOTERS

Chris Adler, Lamb of God
Dan And, Bison B.C.
Ben Apatoff, Apatoff for Destruction/Metal Injection
Jason Bittner, Shadows Fall
Tim Brennan, Ferret Music/Channel Zero Entertainment
Freddy Cai, Painkiller Magazine
Ian Christe, Bazillion Points
Reverend David J. Ciancio, Yeah! Management
Betsey Cichoracki, Relapse Records
Paul Conroy, Ferret Music/Channel Zero Entertainment
J. Costa, Thy Will Be Done
Dallas Coyle, ex-God Forbid/Coyle Media
Doc Coyle, God Forbid
CT, Rwake
Anso DF, MetalSucks/Hipsters Out of Metal!
Vince Edwards, Metal Blade Records
Charles Elliott, Abysmal Dawn/Nuclear Blast Records
Brian Fair, Shadows Fall
Leo Ferrante, Warner Music Group
D.X. Ferris, author 33 1/3: Reign in Blood/Freelance Journalist
Mike Gitter, Roadrunner Records
Nick Green, Decibel
Matt Grenier, August Burns Red
Anthony Guzzardo, Earache Records
Kevin Hufnagel, Dysrhythmia
Mark Hunter, Chimaira
Steve Joh, Century Media
EJ Johantgen, Prosthetic Records
Kim Kelly, Metal Injection/Hails & Horns/Freelance Journalist
Josh “The J” Key, Psychostick
Jason Lekberg, Epic Records
Eyal Levi, Daath
Bob Lugowe, Relapse Records
Matt McChesney, The Autumn Offering
Jake McReynolds, Psychostick
Marc Meltzer, The Syndicate
Josh Middleton, Sylosis
Matt Moore, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Vince Neilstein, MetalSucks
Sammy O’Hagar, MetalSucks
Anton OyVey, MetalSucks/Bacon Jew
Rob Pasbani, Metal Injection
Alex Preiss, Psychostick
Carlos Ramirez, NoiseCreep/Universal Music Group
Brian Rocha, Fresno Media USA
Jeremy Rosen, Roadrunner Records
Axl Rosenberg, MetalSucks
Satan Rosenbloom, MetalSucks/Cerebral Metalhead
David Bee Roth, MetalSucks
Jason Rudolph, Heavy Hitter, Inc.
Amy Sciarretto, Roadrunner Records/NoiseCreep
Carl Severson, Ferret Music/Channel Zero Entertainment
Gary Suarez, MetalSucks/No Yoko No/Brainwashed
Geoff Summers, The End Records/Crustcake
Bram Teitelman, The Syndicate/Metal Insider
Alisha Turull, Heavy Hitter, Inc.
Christopher R. Weingarten, 1000TimesYes/Freelance Journalist