January
- Legion Of the Damned - Slaves of the Shadow Realm
-
Nailed to Obscurity - Black Frost
- Soilwork - Verkligheten
- Born of Osiris - The Simulation
- Dust Bolt - Trapped In Chaos
- A Pale Horse Named Death - When The World Becomes Undone
- Flotsam & Jetsam - The End of Chaos
- Incite - Built To Destroy
- Hecate Enthroned - Embrace Of The Godless Aeon
- Evergrey - The Atlantic
- Malevolent Creation - 13th Beast
February
- Within Temptation - Resist
- Beast In Black - From Hell With Love
- Deserted Fear - Drowned by Humanity
- Herman Frank - Fight The Fear
- Downfall of Gaia - Ethic of Radical Finitude
- Thornbridge - Theatrical Masterpiece
- Windswept - The Onlooker
- A Novelist- Folie
- Rotting Christ - The Heretics
- Avantasia - Moonglow
- Ravager - Thrashletics
- Diabolical - Eclipse
- Vanir - Allfather
- Chainbreaker - Lethal Desire
- Trauma - As the World Dies
- Candlemass - The Door to Doom
- Dream Theater - Distance Over Time
- Overkill - The Wings of War
- Last In Line - II
- Pounder - Uncivilized
March
- Queensryche - The Verdict
- In Flames - I, The Mask
- Demon Hunter - War & Peace
- Equipoise - Demiurgus
- Tyr - Hel
- Children of Bodom - Hexed
- Iron Savior - Kill or Get Killed
- Misery Index - Rituals of Power
- Contrarian - Their Worm Never Dies
- Fallujah - Undying Light
- Battle Beast - No More Hollywood Endings
- Whitechapel - The Valley
- Bloodbound - Rise of the Dragon Empire
- Truth Corroded - Bloodlands
- Usurper - Lords of the Permafrost
April
- Nightrage - Wolf to Man
- Enterprise Earth - Luciferous
- Eluvietie - Ategnatos
- Devil's Gun - Sign of the Chaos
May
- Amon Amarth - Berserker
- Whitesnake - Flesh & Blood
- Inanimate Existence - Clockwork
- Spirit Adrift - Divided by Darkness
- Abnormality - Sociopathic Constructs
- Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion
- October Tide - In Splendor Below
- Vale of Pnath - Accursed
- Savage Messiah - Demons
- Diamond Head - The Coffin Train
- Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion
- Stormhammer - Seven Seals
- Fleshgod Apocalypse - Veleno
- Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion
- Gloryhammer - Legends From Beyond The Galactic Terrorvortex
- Darkthrone - Old Star
- Vader - Thy Messenger EP
- Death Angel - Humanicide
- Nocturnus A.D. - Paradox
- Crazy Lixx - Forever Wild
June
- Enthroned - Cold Black Suns
- Firespawn - Abominate
- Fetid - Steeping Corporeal Mess
- Majestica - Above the Sky
- Nervo Chaos - Ablaze
- Vulture - Ghastly Waves & Battered Graves
- Diviner - Realms of Time
- Consummation - The Great Solar Hunter
- Beheaded - Only Death Can Save You
- Baroness - Gold & Grey
- Skelator - Cyber Metal
- Hate - Auric Gates of Heles
- Ingested - Call of the Void
- Xentrix - Bury the Pain
- Memoriam - Requiem for Mankind
- Organectomy - Existential Disconnect
- Kryptos - Afterburner
- Abyssal - A Beacon in the Husk
- Majesty - Legends
- Vulvodynia - Mob Justice
- Rhapsody - Zero Gravity
- Bloody Hammers - The Summoning
July
- Immortal Bird - Thrive on Neglect
- Rhapsody - Zero Gravity
- Abbath - Outstrider
- Brand of Sacrifice - Godhand
- Elder - Gold & Silver Sessions
- Batushka - Hospodi
- Disowning - Human Cattle
- False - Portent
- Disentomb - The Decaying Light
- Ribspreader - Crawl and Slither
- Demiurgon - The Oblivious Lure
- Dream Troll - Second to None
- Sabaton - The Great War
- Wormed - Metaportal
- Tomb Mold - Planetary Clarivoyance
- Thy Art is Murder - Human Target
- Wormwood - Nattarvet
- Hatriot - From Days Unto Darkness
- Carnal Tomb - Abhorrent Veneration
- All Out War - Crawl Among the Filth
August
- Skillet - Victorious
- Carnifex - World War X
- Sons of Famine - As Razors Gnaw like Wolves
- The Offering - Home
- Northtale - Shape Your Reality
- Narnia - From Darkness to Light
- Volbeat - Rewind, Replay, Rebound
- Sacrilege - The Court of the Insane
- Destruction - Born to Perish
- Suicidal Angels - Years of Aggression
- Pathology - Reborn to Kill
- 1349 - Through Eyes of Stone
- Hammerfall - Dominion
- Cerebral Rot - Odious Descent into Decay
- Twilight Force - Dawn of the Dragonstar
- Devourment - Obscene Majesty
- Killswitch Engage - Atonement
- Freedom Call - M.E.T.A.L
- Equilibrium - Renegades
- Sacred Reich - Awakening
- Illdisposed - Reveal Your Soul for the Dead
- Tarja - In the Raw
- Tool - ???
- Elvenking - Reader of the Runes - Divination
- Entombed AD - Bowels of Earth