Top 20 releases for 2004:

  1. Evergrey - The Inner Circle

  2. Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast

  3. Jon Oliva's Pain - 'Tage Mahal

  4. Angra - Temple Of Shadows

  5. Edguy - Hellfire Club

  6. Thunderstone - The Burning

  7. Jorn - Out To Every Nation

  8. Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden

  9. Symphorce - Twice Second

  10. U.D.O. - 'Thunderball'

  11. Megadeth - The System Has Failed

  12. Annihilator - All For You

  13. Susperia - Unlimited

  14. Dream Evil - The Book Of Heavy Metal

  15. Axel Rudi Pell - Kings And Queens

  16. Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned

  17. Cans - Beyond The Gates

  18. Rhapsody - Symphony Of Enchanted Land II - The Dark Secret

  19. Saint - In The Battle

  20. Into Eternity - Buried Into Oblivion

 

Runners up:

 

Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

Chris Caffery - Faces/God Damn War

Antestor - The Forsaken

Magnitude Nine - Decoding The Soul

Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven

Blaze - Blood & Belief

Scorpions - Unbreakable

Nightwish - Once

In Flames - Soundtrack To Your Escape

TNT - My Religion

Sympathy - Arcane Path

God Forbid - Gone Forever

Collapse 7 - In Deep Silence

Sirenia - An Elixir For Existence

Biggest disappointment:

Primal Fear - Devil's Ground