Another year ended with a plethora of releases to flood the stores and become an object of desire for every fan of extreme sound. We hope that most of them are reviewed in our magazine. Read our editors’ personal lists and Metal Invader’s Top 12 Album List, as a result of the scoring system we use and we explain below.
In each list the first place gets 17 (12 +5 bonus) points, the second 11, the third 10 and so on, while any recurrence in any list gets 5 extra bonus points.
1. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu 130
2. Cannibal Corspe – Violence Unimagined 54
3. Enforced – Kill Grid 51
4. Funeral Mist – Deiform 50
5. Darkthrone – Eternal Hails 45
6. Flotsam & Jetsam – Blood In The Water 44
7. Accept – Too Mean To Die 44
8. Stheno – Wardance 43
9. Exodus – Persona Non Grata 39
10. Cradle Of Filth – Existence Is Futile 38
11. Hypocrisy – Worship 38
12. Nestor – Kids In A Ghost Town 35
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13. Tower – Shock To The System 32
14. Warrior Path – The Mad King 32
15. Unto Others – Strength 32
16. Helheim – WoduridaR 28
17. Fortress – Don’t Spare The Wicked 27
18. Empyrium – Uber Den Stemen 26
19. Todd La Torre – Rejoice In The Suffering 25
20. Seven Sisters – Shadow Of A Fallen Star part I 25
21. Wheel – Preserved In Time 25
Andreas Stasinopoulos
1. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
2. Empyrium – Uber Den Sternen
3. Hellheim – Woduridar
4. Converge & Chealsea Wolfe – Bloodmoon I
5. Havukruunu – Kuu Erkylan (EP)
6. Clouds – Despartire
7. Kauan – Ice Feet
8. Wardruna – Kvitravn
9. Me And That Man – New Man, New Songs, Same Shit Vol. 2
10. Godspeed you Black Emperor! – God’s Pee At States End!
11. King Dude – Beware Of Darkness
12. Gelure – The Candlelight Tomes
Giorgos Tsekas
1. Stheno – Wardance
2. At The Gates – The Nightmare Of Being
3. Tower – Shock to the System
4. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
5. Winter Eternal – Land of Darkness
6. The Limit – Caveman Logic
7. Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
8. Outre-Tombe – Abysse Mortifère
9. Heavy Sentence – Bang to Rights
10. Knife – Knife
11. Helheim – WoduridaR
12. Tyrann – Djävulens Musik
Kostas Kondis
1. Enforced – Kill Grid
2. Nekromantheon – The visions of Trismegistos
3. Trivium – In the Court of the dragon
4. Eisenhand – Fires Within
5. Asphyx – Necroceros
6. Exodus – Persona non Grata
7. Unto Others – Strength
8. Desaster – Churches Without Saints
9. Volbeat – Servant of the Mind
10. Ancient Empire – Priest of Stygia
11. Mordred – The Dark Parade
12. Insane – Victims
Crystal Latsara
1. Lordi – Abracadaver
2. Perturbator – Lustful Sacraments
3. Nightfall – At Night We Prey
4. Bodom After Midnight – Paint the Sky With Blood
5. Deafheaven – Infinite Granite
6. Tribulation – Where the Gloom Becomes Sound
7. Dark the Suns – Suru Raivosi Sydämeni Pimeydessä
8. Unto Others – Strength
9. Therion – Leviathan
10. Lordi – Humaninals
11. Cradle of Filth – Existence is Futile
12. Lord Of the Lost – Judas
Popy Sabbath
1. Seven Sisters – Shadow of a Fallen Star- Part 1
2. Running Wild – Blood on Blood
3. Accept – Too mean to die
4. Chez Kane – Chez Kane
5. Flotsam and Jetsam – Blood in the Water
6. Michael Schenker Group – Immortal
7. Nestor – Kids in a Ghost Town
8. Labyrinth – Welcome to the Absurd Circus
9. Enforcer – Live by Fire II
10. Gamma Ray – 30 Years Live Anniversary
11. Helloween – Helloween
12. L.A. Guns – Checkered Past
Nikos Nakos
1. Enforced – Kill Grid
2. Demoniac – So It goes
3. Unleashed – No Sign Of Life
4. Paysage D’hiver – Geister
5. Psychopharmaka – Spastic Hardcore Noise
6. Ice War – Sacred Land
7. Funeral Mist – Deiform
8. Stheno – Wardance
9. Cryptosis – Bionic Swarm
10. Archspire – Bleed The Future
11. Mystras – Empires Vanquished And Dismantled
12. Zvarna – Αδιάγνωστο Ψυχεδελικό
Nick Samios
1. Hypocrisy – Worship
2. Harakiri For The Sky – Mære
3. Thulcandra – A Dying Wish
4. Havamal – The Shadow Chapter
5. Darkthrone – Eternal Hails…
6. Exodus – Persona Non Grata
7. Cradle Of Filth – Existence is Futile
8. Impaled Nazarene – Eight Headed Serpent
9. Helloween – Helloween
10. Bodom After Midnight – Paint the Sky with Blood
11. Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
12. King Of Asgard – Svartvidr
Savvas Kofidis
1. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
2. Hiraes – Solitary
3. Empyrium – Uber Den Sternen
4. Swallow The Sun – Moonflowers
5. In Mourning – The Bleeding Veil
6. Can Bardd – Devoured By The Oak
7. Epica – Omega
8. Therion – Leviathan
9. Todd La Torre- Rejoice In The Suffering
10. Flotsam & Jetsam – Blood In The Water
11. Necromantia – To The Depths We Descend…
12. Stormkeep – Tales Of Othertime
Skylimit
1.Running Wild – Blood on Blood
2. Τower – Shock to the System
3. Accept – Too Mean to Die
4. Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
5. Flotsam and Jetsam – Blood In The Water
6. Knife – Knife
7. Helheim – WoduridaR
8. Tyrann – Djävulens Musik
9. Agnes Vein – Deathcall
10. Hypocrisy – Worship
11. Significant Point – Into The Storm
12. Stheno – Wardance
Giannis Kakavas
1 Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
2 Warrior Path – The Mad King
3 Nestor – Kids In a Ghost Town
4 Wheel – Preserved in Time
5 Hitten – Triumph & Tragedy
6 Enforced – Kill Grid
7 Paradox – Heresy II: “End of a legend’’
8 Green Lung – Black Harvest
9 Knife – knife
10 Need – Norchestrion
11 Yoth Iria – As The Flame Withers
12 Exodus – Persona Non Grata
Leon Douras
1. Funeral Mist – Deiform
2. Dormant Ordeal – The Grand Scheme of Things
3. Concrete winds – Nerve butcherer
4. Spectral Wound – A Diabolic Thirst
5. Darkthrone – Eternal hails
6. Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
7. Hate – Rugia
8. Archgoat – Worship the Eternal Darkness
9. Stormruler- Under the burning eclipse
10. Grave Miasma- Abyss of Wrathful Deities
11. Παροξυσμός – Παροξυσμός
Giorgos Daras
1. Portrait – At One With None
2. Mastodon – Hushed and Grim
3. Herzel – Le Dernier Rempant
4. Lunar Shadow – Wish To Leave
5. Dvne – Etemen Ænka
6. Cradle of Filth – Existence is Futile
7. Darkthrone – Eternal Hails
8. Bonehunter – Dark Blood Reincarnation System
9. Heavy Sentence – Bang To Rights
10. The Silver – Ward of Roses
11. Bewitcher – Cursed Be Thy Kingdom
12. Jordfäst – Hädanefter
Vaios Sven
1. Παροξυσμός (Paroxismos) – S/T LP
2. Dodsrit – Mortal Coil
3. Cannibal Corpse – Violence Unimagined
4. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
5. Hypocrisy – Worship
6. Whitechapel- Kin
7. Aborted – Maniacult
8. Stheno – Wardance
9. Phrenelith – Chimaera
10. Galvanizer – Prying Sight of Imperception
11. Extreme Cold Winter – World Exit
12. Hyperdontia – Hideous Entity
Giannis Kofidis
1. Todd La Torre – Rejoice in the suffering
2. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
3. Flotsam & Jetsam – Blood in the water
4. Exodus – Persona non grata
5. Timo Tolkki’s Avalon – The enigma birth
6. Helloween – Helloween
7. Art Of Illusion – X marks the spot
8. Alvablot – Harmonic dystopia
9. Sweet Oblivion – Relentless
10. Ominous Glory – The elven dream
11. Wonders – The fragments of wonder
12. Constancia – Brave new world
Nikos Tsiolis
1. Funeral Mist – Deiform
2. Unto Others – Strength
3. Mare Cognitum – Solar Paroxysm
4. Wolves in the Throne Room – Primordial Arcana
5. Agnes Vein – Deathcall
6. Mork – Katedralen
7. Forhist – Forhist
8. Sijjin – Sumerian Promises
9. Spectral Wound – A Diabolic Thirst
10. Lvcifyre – The Broken Seal
11. Drakon Ho Megas – Drakon Ho Megas
12. Grave Miasma – Abyss of Wrathful Deities
Nestoras Papakostas
1. Thy Catafalque – Vadak
2. Wheel – Preserved in Time
3. Iotunn – Access All Worlds
4. Nestor – Kids In A Ghost Town
5. Darkthrone – Eternal Hails……
6. Heavy Sentence – Bang to Rights
7. Apostle Of Solitude – Until The Darkness Goes
8. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
9. Fortress – Don’t Spare the Wicked
10. Accept – Too Mean To Die
11. Warrior Path – The Mad King
12. In Aevum Agere – Emperor of Hell: Canto XXXIV
George Asteroic
1. Fortress – Don’t spare the wicked
2. Iron bound – The Lightbringer
3. Steelbourne – A Tale as old as Night
4. Warrior Path – The mad king
5. Hellrock – This is metal
6. Kenn Nardi – Trauma
7. Stormkeep – Tales of othertime
8. Black Soul Horde – Horrors from the void
9. Claymorean – Eulogy of the gods
10. Seven Sisters – Shedow of a fallen star pt1
11. Wardrum – Maverics
12. Tower – Shock to the system
Lefteris Kasmiris
1. Silver Talon – Decadence And Decay
2. Hooded Menace – The Tritonus Bell
3. Iron Maiden – Senjutsu
4. Obscura – A Valediction
5. Cradle Of Filth – Existence Is Futile
6. Impaled Nazarene – Eight Headed Serpent
7. Accept – Too Mean To Die
8. Mayhem – Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando
9. Rapture – Malevolent Demise Incarnation
10. Dread Sovereign – Alchemical Warfare
11. Carcass – Torn Arteries
12. At The Gates – The Nightmare Of Being