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Thanks to: Geir Hjerthén Kristiansen of Norway For compiling and sending these lists :-)

1. Soundgarden- Superunknown
2. Therapy? - Troublegum
3. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
4. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
5. Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
6. Black Crowes - Amorica
7. Rollins Band - Weight
8. Megadeth - Youthanasia
9. Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
10. Warrior Soul - Space Age Playboys
11. Green Day - Dookie
12. Queensrÿche - Promised Land
13. Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
14. Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter
15. Slayer - Divine Intervention
16. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
17. Sugar - F.U.E.L.
18. Oasis - Definitely Maybe
19 Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
20. Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations And Things Left Unsaid

1.  Sepultura - Roots
2.  Corrosion Of Conformity - Wiseblood
3.  Type O Negative - October Rust
4=  Pearl Jam - No Code
4=  Soundgarden - Down On The Upside
5.  Imperial Drag - Imperial Drag
6.  Metallica - Load
7.  Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
8.  Screaming Trees - Dust
9.  Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah

1. Feeder - Polythene
2. Entombed - To Ride, Shoot Straight And Speak The Truth
3. 3 Colours Red - Pure
4. Foo Fighters - The Colour And The Shape
5. Deftones - Around The Fur
6. Radiohead - OK Computer
7. Paradise Lost - One Second
8. Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
9. The Verve - Urban Hymns
10. Faith No More - Album Of The Year
11. Sick Of It All - Built To Last
12. Misery Loves Co. - Not Like Them
13. Strapping Young Lad - City
14. Metallica - Re-Load
15. Kerbdog - On The Turn
16. Green Day - Nimrod
17. Reef - Glow
18. Me First And The Gimme Gimmes - Have A Ball
19. Oasis - Be Here Now
20. Life Of Agony - Soul Searching Sun

1. Monster Magnet - Powertrip
2. Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
3. Pitch Shifter - www.pitchshifter.com
4. Pulkas - Greed
5. Slayer - Diabolus In Musica
6. Fear Factory - Obsolete
7. Soulfly - Soulfly
8. Pearl Jam - Yield
9. Backyard Babies - Total 13
10. Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
11. Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
12. Entombed - Same Difference
13. Sepultura - Against
14. Anthrax - Volume 8: The Threat Is Real
15. Dropkick Murphys - Do Or Die
16. Therapy? - Semi-Detached
17. Metallica - Garage Inc.
18. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
19. Ocean Machine - Biomech
20. Rancid - Life Won’t Wait

1.      Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning
2.      Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
3.      Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left To Lose
4.      Incubus - Make Yourself
5.      Limp Bizkit - Significant Other
6.      Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
7.      Machine Head - The Burning Red
8.      Live - The Distance To Here
9.      Misfits - Famous Monsters
10.     Amen - Amen
11.     Slipknot - Slipknot
12.     Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes From A Memory
13.     The Clash - From Here To Eternity
14.     Anathema - Judgement
15.     Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
16.     Emperor - IX Equilibrium
17.     Mark Lanegan - I'll Take Care Of You
18.     Neurosis - Times Of Grace
19.     Stereophonics - Performance And Cocktails
20.     Paradise Lost - Host

1. Queens Of The Stone Age - Rated R
2. Amen - We Have Come For Your Parents
3. Monster Magnet - God Says No
4. The Workhorse Movement - Sons Of The Pioneers
5. A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
6. Disturbed - The Sickness
7. Raging Speedhorn - Raging Speedhorn
8. Pitchshifter - Deviant
9. Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood
10. At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
11. One Minute Silence - Buy Now ... Saved Later
12. Deftones - White Pony
13. My Ruin - A Prayer Under Pressure Of Violent Anguish
14. The Offspring - Conspiracy Of One
15. Soulfly - Primitive
16. Earthtone 9 - Arc'tan'gent
17. AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip
18. Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra
19. Corrosion Of Conformity - America's Volume Dealer
20. Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish & The Hotdog Flavored Water
    

1. System Of A Down - Toxicity
2. Slipknot - Iowa
3. Rammstein - Mutter
4. Tool - Lateralus
5. Static-X - Machine
6. Slayer - God Hates Us All
7. Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge
8. Fear Factory - Digimortal
9. Anyone - Anyone
10. Incubus - Morning View
11. Beautiful Creatures - Beautiful Creatures
12. Biohazard - Uncivilization
13. Ozzy Osbourne - Down To Earth
14. Boyhitscar - Boyhitscar
15. Clutch - Pure Rock Fury
16. Buckcherry - Time Bomb
17. Puddle Of Mudd - Come Clean
18. Machine Head - Supercharger
19. Nonpoint - Statement
20. Kittie - Oracle

1. Soil - Scars
2. Audioslave - Audioslave
3. Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
4. Down - II - A Bustle In Your Hedgerow
5. Murderdolls - Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls
6. Mushroomhead - XX
7. Spiritual Beggars - On Fire
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
9. Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing?
10. Hundred Reasons - Ideas Above Our Station
11. Korn - Untouchables
12. Fu Manchu - California Crossing
13. Glassjaw - Worship And Tribute
14. A - Hi-Fi Serious
15. Opeth - Deliverance
16. The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House
17. Finch - What It Is To Burn
18. 30 Seconds To Mars - 30 Seconds To Mars
19. Five Pointe O - Untitled
20. Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip

1. Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
2. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen
3. Funeral For A Friend - Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation
4. The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
5. Iron Maiden - Dance Of Death
6. Opeth - Damnation
7. Anthrax - We've Come For You All
8. Deftones - Deftones
9. AFI - Sing The Sorrow
10. Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion
11. The Darkness - Permission To Land
12. Metallica - St. Anger
13. Cave In - Antenna
14. Devildriver - Devildriver
15. A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
16. Posion The Well - You Come Before You
17. Chimaira - The Impossibility Of Reason
18. Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather
19. The Distillers - Coral Fang
20. Mondo Generator - A Drug Problem That Never Existed
21. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
22. Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age Of Grotesque
23. Korn - Take A Look In The Mirror
24. Jane's Addiction - Strays
25. Lamb Of God - New American Gospel
26. Jetplane Landing - Once Upon A Spark
27. Muse - Absolution
28. Boysetsfire - Tomorrow Come Today
29. Melt Banana - Cell-Scape
30. Shadows Fall - The Art Of Balance
 

1. Velvet Revolver - Contraband
2. Mastodon - Leviathan
3. Killswitch Engage - The End Of Heartache
4. Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
5. The Bronx - The Bronx
6. Eighteen Visions - Obsession
7. My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
8. Nightwish - Once
9. The Haunted - Revolver
10. Lostprophets - Start Something
11. Clutch - Blast Tyrant
12. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
13. Shadows Fall - The War Within
14. Atreyu - The Curse
15. Motörhead - Inferno
16. Orange Goblin - Thieving From The House Of God
17. Brides Of Destruction - Here Comes The Brides
18. The Used - In Love And Death
19. Unearth - The Coming Storm
20. In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape

1. Mastodon - Blood Mountain
2. Slayer - Christ Illusion
3. Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death
4. Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage
5. AFI - Decemberunderground 6. Lamb Of God - Sacrament
7. Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
8. In Flames - Come Clarity
9. Trivium - The Crusade
10. Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
11. The Sword - Age Of Winters
12. Enslaved - Ruun
13. Tool - 10,000 Days
14. Alexisonfire - Crisis
14. Gallows - Orchestra Of Wolves
16. Lostprophets - Liberation Transmission
17. Deftones - Saturday Night Wrist
18. Exit Ten - This World… They'll Drown
19. Scissorfight - Jaggernaught
20. Ihsahn - The Adversary
21. Lacuna Coil - Karmacode
22. Motörhead - Kiss Of Death
23. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
24. Cradle Of Filth - Thornography
24. Dissection - Reinkaos
24. Unearth - III: In The Eyes Of Fire
27. I - Between Two Worlds
28. Amorphis - Eclipse
29. Audioslave - Revelations
30. Converge - No Heroes
30. Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
32. All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals
32. Ignite - Our Darkest Days
34. Bleeding Through - The Truth
34. Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar
36. Send More Paramedics - The Awakening
37. Fucked Up - Hidden World
38. Korpiklaani - Tales Along This Road
39. Sick Of It All - Death To Tyrants
40. Amplifier - Insider
41. Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
42. 36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside The Flames
42. Insomnium - Above The Weeping World
42. Ministry - Rio Grande Blood
42. Roadstar - Grand Hotel
42. Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
42. The Bronx - The Bronx
48. Eighteen Visions - 18 Visions
48. Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell
50. My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade