1. Avantasia - 'The Metal Opera'

2. Ark - 'Burn The Sun'

3. Angra - 'Rebirth'

4. Brainstorm - 'Metus Mortis'

5. Sonata Arctica - 'Silence'

6. Balance Of Power - 'Perfect Balance'

7. Evergrey - 'In Search Of Truth'

8. Kreator - 'Violent Revolution'

9. W.A.S.P. - 'Unholy Terror'

10. Savatage - 'Poets And Madmen'

11. Angel Dust - 'Enlighten The Darkness'

12. Lost Horizon - 'Awakening The World'

13. Grave Digger - 'The Grave Digger'

14. Primal Fear - 'Nuclear Fire'

15. Steel Prophet - 'Book Of The Dead'

16. Edguy - 'Mandrake'

17. Soilwork - 'A Predator's Portrait'

18. Destiny's End - 'Transition'

19. Steel Attack - 'Fall Into Madness

20. Onward - 'Evermoving'

Runners up:

Powergod - 'Bleed For The Godz: That's Metal - Lesson 1'

Witchhammer - 'The Lost Tapes'

Gamma Ray - 'No World Order'

Antithesis - 'Dying For Life'

Eidolon - Hallowed apparition'

Warrior - 'The Code Of Life'

Iced Earth - 'Horror Show'

King's-Evil - 'Deletion Of Humanoise'

Annihilator - 'Carnival Diablos'

Jag Panzer - 'Mechanized Warfare'

Edenridge - 'Arcana'

Ozzy Osbourne - 'Down To Earth'

K-Octave - 'Outer Limits'

Vicious Rumors - 'Sadistic Syphony'

Jacobs Dream - 'Theatre Of War'

Joshua - 'Something To Say'

Alice Cooper - 'Dragontown'

Wayne - 'Metal Church'

Megadeth - 'The World Needs A Hero'

Hades - 'DamNation'

Biggest disappointments:

Deliverance - 'Assimilation'

Mortification - 'The Silver Cord Is Severed'