1980:

1. OZZY OSBOURNE - Blizzard of Ozz

2. IRON MAIDEN - Iron Maiden

3. BLACK SABBATH - Heaven and Hell

4. AC/DC - Back in Black

5. JUDAS PRIEST - British Steel

1981:

1. IRON MAIDEN - Killers

2. OZZY OSBOURNE - Diary of a Madman

3. VENOM - Welcome to Hell

4. MOTÖRHEAD -  No Sleep Til Hammersmith

5. OZZY OSBOURNE - Diary Of A Madman

1982:

1. IRON MAIDEN - The Number of the Beast

2. OZZY OSBOURNE - Speak of the Devil

3. VENOM - Black Metal

4. JUDAS PRIEST - Screaming for Vengeance

5. TANK - Filth Hounds

1983:

1. IRON MAIDEN - Piece of Mind

2. METALLICA - Kill em all

3. SLAYER - Show no mercy

4. OZZY OSBOURNE - Bark at the Moon

5. ACCEPT - Balls to the Walls

1984:

1. IRON MAIDEN - Powerslave

2. METALLICA - Ride the Lightning

3. CELTIC FROST - Morbid Tales

4. VENOM - At War with Satan

5. MANOWAR - Hail to England

1985:

1. IRON MAIDEN - Live after Death

2. SLAYER - Hell awaits

3. HELLOWEEN -  Walls of Jericho

4. ANTHRAX -  Spreading the Disease

5. CELTIC FROST -  To Mega Therion

1986:

1. IRON MAIDEN - Somewhere in Time

2. SLAYER - Reign in Blood

3. METALLICA - Master of Puppets

4. KREATOR - Pleasure to Kill

5. OZZY OSBOURNE - The ultimate Sin

1987:

1. HELLOWEEN - Keeper of the 7 Keys Pt.1

2. KREATOR - Terrible Certainty

3. SODOM -  Persecution Mania

4. CELTIC FROST -  Into The Pandemonium

5. BATHORY -   Under The Sign Of The Black Mark

1988:

1. IRON MAIDEN - 7th Son of a 7th Son

2. METALLICA - ...and Justice for all

3. OZZY OSBOURNE - No Rest for the Wicked

4. HELLOWEEN - Keeper of the 7 Keys Pt.2

5. DEATH - Leprosy

1989:

1. KREATOR - Extreme Aggressions

2. SODOM - Agent Orange

3. BATHORY - Blood Fire Death

4. HELLOWEEN - Live in the UK

5. SEPULTURA - Beneath the Remains

1990:

1. KREATOR - Coma of Souls

2. SLAYER - Seasons in the Abyss

3. IRON MAIDEN - No Prayer for the Dying

4. BLIND GUARDIAN - Tales from the Twilight World

5. MEGADETH - Rust in Peace

1991:

1. METALLICA - METALLICA

2. TIAMAT -  The astral Sleep

3. PROTECTOR - A Shedding of Skin

4. CARCASS -  Necroticsm

5. PESTILENCE - Testimony of the Ancients

1992:

1. AMORHIS - The Karelian Isthmus

2. IRON MAIDEN - Fear of the Dark

3. TIAMAT - Clouds

4. MEGADETH - Countdown to Extinction

5. MONSTROSITY - Imperial Doom

1993:

1. CARCASS - Heartwork

2. EDGE OF SANITY - The Spectral Sorrows

3. DEATH -  Individual Thought Patterns

4. SAVATAGE - Edge of Thorns

5. DISMEMBER - Indecent & Obscene

1994:

1. UNANIMATED - Ancient God of Evil

2. EDGE OF SANITY -  Purgatory Afterglow

3. SAMAEL -  Ceremony of Opposites

4. AMORPHIS - Tales from the 1000 Lakes

5. SUPURATION - The Cube

1995:

1. NAGLFAR - Vittra

2. AT THE GATES - Slaughter of the Soul

3. BLIND GUARDIAN - Imaginations from the other Side

4. GAMMA RAY - Land of the Free

5. DISSECTION - Storm of the Lights Bane

1996:

1. CRADLE OF FILTH - Vempire

2. IN FLAMES - The Jester Race

3. ICED EARTH - The Dark Saga

4. CARCASS - Swansong

5. SAMAEL - Passage

1997:

1. EMPEROR -  Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

2. DIMMU BORGIR -  Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

3. EVEREVE - Seasons

4. S.U.P. - Room seven

5. HAMMERFALL - Glory of the Brave

1998:

1. BRUCE DICKINSON - The Chemical Wedding

2. CRADLE OF FILTH - Cruelty and the Beast

3. IRON MAIDEN - Virtual XI

4. ICED EARTH - Something wicked this Way comes

5. NAGLFAR - Diabolical

1999:

1. DREAM THEATER - Scenes from a Memory

2. TORI AMOS - To Venus and back

3. GOD DETHRONED -  Bloody Blasphemy

4. SOILWORK - The Chainheart Machine

5. DEAD SILENT SLUMBER - Entombed in the Midnight Hour

2000:

1. IRON MAIDEN - Brave New World

2. GARDENIAN - Sindustries

3. PAIN OF SALVATION - The Perfect Element Pt.1

4. CRADLE OF FILTH - Midian

5. NIGHTWISH - Wishmaster

2001:

1. OPETH - Blackwater Park

2. DIMMU BORGIR -  Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia

3. TRISTANIA - World of Glass

4. SOILWORK - A Predators Portrait

5. ICED EARTH - The Horror Show

2002:

1. PAIN OF SALVATION - Remedy Lane

2. DARK TRANQUILLITY - Damage done

3. THRESHOLD - Critical Mass

4. DEMIGOD - Shadow Mechanics

5. SENTENCED - The cold white Light

2003:

1. IRON MAIDEN - Dance of Death

2. DIMMU BORGIR -  Death Cult Armageddon

3. DREAM THEATER -  Train of Thought

4. GOD DETHRONED -  Into The Lungs Of Hell

5. EVANESCENCE - Fallen

2004:

1. ORPHANED LAND - Mabool

2. CRADLE OF FILTH - Nymphetamine

3. EVERGREY - The inner Circle

4. HYPOCRISY - The Arrival

5. TRAUMA - Imperfect like a God

2005:

1. KREATOR - Enemy of God

2. DEFLESHED - Reclaim the Beat

3. NEVERMORE - This godless Endeavor

4. DARK TRANQUILLITY - Character

5. AMORAL - Decrowning

2006:

1. IRON MAIDEN - A Matter of Life and Death

2. EVERGREY - Monday Morning Apocalypse

3. AMORPHIS - Eclipse

4. TRIVIUM - The Crusade

5. INSOMNIUM - Above the weeping World

2007:

1. DARK TRANQUILLITY - Fiction

2. KAMELOT  - Ghost Opera

3. HELLOWEEN - Gambling with the Devil

4. BEHEMOTH - The Apostasy

5. TRAUMA - Neurotic Mass