 | Deadly Sins by Seven Witches
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $7.47 heaviest and best by an overlooked band
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 | Paradise Lost by Symphony X
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.18 progressive metal with balls!
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 | Framing Armageddon (Something Wicked Pt. I) by Iced Earth
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.27 not as good as the original, but easily the best since...tim owens vocal performance of the year!
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 | Rise of the Tyrant by Arch Enemy
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $4.32 good
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 | Genetic Disorder by Nightmare
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $55.35 power metal, with heavy guitars ala Arch Enemy...but a singer that sounds like Ronnie James Dio.
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 | The Blackening by Machine Head
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $5.37 who'd of thought that rob flynn and co. were capable of releasing one of the best thrash albums of the last decade
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 | Ghost Opera by Kamelot
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.96 slower, darker, more orchestrated...but an undeniable album for fans of gothic power metal
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 | Doomsday X by Malevolent Creation
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.53 Comeback of the Year!
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 | Gambling With The Devil by Helloween
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.10 heaviest since walls of jericho...my favorite Helloween album...paint a new world owns!
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 | In Sorte Diaboli by Dimmu Borgir
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $5.35 a little different...still the best black metal band
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 | Satanic Curses by Mystic Prophecy
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $20.02 the only power metal band who could share a stage with the death metal elite, and not seem out of place...dark, and insanely aggressive melodic metal
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 | An Ocean Between Us by As I Lay Dying
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.99 I never thought I'd see the day where I would add as I lay dying onto a best of list...but this is just an amazing slab of metal
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 | Dark Passion Play by Nightwish
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $12.99 different, but still a very good album...not a bad song
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 | Spitting Venom by Savage Messiah
Buy new: $31.99 Like testament? wished they'd put out a new album...well this may be the closest that you'll get...throw in some Iron Maiden/Judas Priest leads, and in a nutshell...the most promising new thrash band to come out recently
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 | Angel Down by Sebastian Bach
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.61 Skid Row reborn!!!!
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 | United Abominations by Megadeth
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.34 their best since countdown to extinction....
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 | Hell Destroyer by Cage
Buy used from: $19.99 similar to Iced Earths Framing Armageddon, a bit more straight forward, and a bit faster
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 | Enter the Grave by Evile
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.99 slayer incarnate...but this sounds so good, you'll wish that this had been christ illusion
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 | Resurrection by Chimaira
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.67 heavy!!!!!
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 | Come Death by Blood Red Throne
Buy new: $38.99 / Used from: $11.91 heavy groove oriented death metal
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 | Alienigma by Agent Steel
Buy new: $25.98 / Used from: $53.16 classic thrash band, returns with their heaviest and most diverse
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 | The Fourth Season by Vanishing Point
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $7.97 great melodic metal...like a mix between kamelot and evergrey...only a bit faster than either
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 | Sins of the Past by Helstar
Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $55.65 They're back
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 | Immortalis by Overkill
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.99 back to their roots a bit, a good album, not yet perfect, but very mosh friendly
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 | New Religion by Primal Fear
Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $47.44 probably the weakest primal fear album...while the most varied, also the softest...still better than 95% of whats out there
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 | The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A by Exodus
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $5.46 three albums running and the reigning thrash champions! Exodus are brutal as ever.
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 | The Crusade by Trivium
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.48 this is actually a very good album, with its only real flaw being that it sounds too much like Metallica...
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 | As Daylight Dies by Killswitch Engage
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $10.91 this is actually pretty good!
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 | Full Circle by Drowning Pool
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.41 a pretty boring album, by a band with some great potential. but if a nu-metal album is among this list, maybe someone will find some real metal
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 | The Storm Before the Calm by Dekapitator
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.75 if you like the old school style of thrash, here you go...all the way to the production...this is bare knuckles thrash metal the exodus style....
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 | The Black Circus, Pt. 2: Disclosure by Manticora
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $46.59 possibly the fastest, and heaviest you could be, and still be considered power metal...similar to Mystic Prophecy...borderline death metal guitars and drums, melodic vocals, and heavy orchistration
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