Top 20 releases for 2003:

1. Masterplan - 'Masterplan'

2. Brainstorm - 'Soul Temptation'

3. Rage - 'Soundchaser'

4. Griffin - 'No Holds Barred'

5. Nevermore - 'Enemies Of Reality'

6. Balance Of Power - 'Heathen Machine'

7. Theocracy - 'Theocracy'

8. Extol - 'Synergy'

9. Evergrey - 'Recreation Day'

10. Dream Evil - 'Evilized'

11. Circle II Circle - 'Watching In Silence'

12. At Vance - 'The Evil In You '

13. Scariot - 'Strange To Numbers'

14. Agent Steel - 'Order Of The Illuminati'

15. Arch Enemy - 'Anthems Of Rebellion'

16. Highland Glory - 'From The Cradle To The Brave'

17. Iron Maiden - 'Dance Of Death'

18. Rob Rock - 'Eyes Of Eternity'

19. Sonata Arctica - 'Winterheart's Guild'

20. Firewind - 'Burning Earth'

Runners up:

Tourniquet - 'Where Moths and Rust Destroy'

Random Eyes - 'Eyes Ablaze'

Mystic Prophecy - 'Regressus'

Place Of Skulls - 'With Vision'

Soilwork - 'Figure Number Five'

Lost Horizon - 'A Flame To The Ground Beneath'

Helloween - 'Rabbit Don't Come Easy'

Harmony - 'Dreaming Awake'

Laudamus - 'Lost In Vain'

Steel Attack - 'Predators Of The Empire'

Narnia - 'The Great Fall'

Stratovarius - 'Elements Pt. 1 & 2'

Biggest disappointment:

Metallica - 'St.Anger'