Metal Hammer - главное издание, посвящённое тяжёлой музыке.
1. Tool - Fear Inoculum [Progressive Metal]
2. Rammstein - Rammstein [Neue Deutsche Härte]
3. Slipknot - We Are Not Your Kind [Alternative Metal]
4. Devin Townsend - Empath [Progressive Metal]
5. Venom Prison - Samsara [Death Metal]
6. Lingua Ignota - Caligula [Death Industrial, Darkwave]
7. Employed To Serve - Eternal Forward Motion [Metalcore, Math Metal]
8. Chelsea Wolfe - Birth Of Violence [Dark Folk, Gothic Rock]
9. Baroness - Gold & Grey [Alternative Metal, Progressive Rock]
10. Cult Of Luna - A Dawn To Fear [Post Metal, Atmospheric]
11. Swallow The Sun - When A Shadow Is Forced Into the Light [Doom Metal]
12. Opeth - In Cauda Venenum [Progressive Metal]
13. Alcest - Spiritual Instinct [Post Metal, Blackgaze]
14. Schammasch - Hearts Of No Light [Avant-garde Black Metal]
15. Rotting Christ - The Heretics [Melodic Black Metal]
16. Full Of Hell - Weeping Choir [Grindcore, Death Metal]
17. Killswitch Engage - Atonement [Metalcore]
18. Idle Hands - Mana [Heavy Metal, Gothic Rock]
19. The Wildhearts - Renaissance Men [Hard Rock, Glam Metal]
20. Blut Aus Nord - Hallucinogen [Atmospheric Black Metal]
21. Korn - The Nothing [Nu Metal, Alternative Metal]
22. Heilung - Futha [Dark Folk, Ritual Ambient]
23. Mgla - Age of Excuse [Black Metal]
24. Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race [Progressive Death Metal]
25. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance [Death Metal]
26. Atlantean Kodex - The Course Of Empire [Heavy Metal, Epic Doom Metal]
27. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas [Deathgrind, Progressive Metal]
28. Inter Arma - Sulphur English [Death Doom, Post Metal]
29. Asagraum - Dawn Of Infinite Fire [Black Metal]
30. Exhorder - Mourn The Southern Skies [Groove Metal]
31. Gaahls Wyrd - Ghosts Invited [Black Metal]
32. Fever333 - Strength In Numb333rs [Rapcore, Nu Metal]
33. Darkthrone - Old Star [Black Metal, Heavy Metal]
34. Lacuna Coil - Black Anima [Alternative Metal, Gothic Metal]
35. Twin Temple - Bring You Their Signature Sound... Satanic Doo-Wop [Psychedelic Rock, Doom]
36. Grand Magus - Wolf God [Heavy Metal]
37. Ithaca - The Language Of Injury [Mathcore]
38. Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus [Doom Metal]
39. The Lord Weird Slough Feg - New Organon [Heavy Metal]
40. Whitechapel - The Valley [Deathcore]
41. Overkill - The Wings Of War [Thrash Metal]
42. Puppy - The Goat [Alternative Metal]
43. The HU - The Gereg [Folk Rock, Folk Metal]
44. Bring Me The Horizon - Amo [Pop Rock, Alternative Metal]
45. Mayhem - Daemon [Black Metal]
46. Car Bomb - Mordial [Math Metal]
47. Alter Bridge - Walk The Sky [Alternative Metal, Hard Rock]
48. Astronoid - Astronoid [Alternative Metal, Progressive Metal]
49. Dream Theater - Distance Over Time [Progressive Metal]
50. Candlemass - The Door To Doom [Doom Metal]