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'