Benchmark

1.

Dream Theater – Parasomnia (2025)

2.

Opeth – The Last Will and Testament (2024)

3.

Wintersun – Time II (2024)

4.

Opertus – Golden Shade (2025)

5.

The Halo Effect – March of the Unheard (2025)

6.

Majestica – Power Train (2025)

7.

Unleashing Vengeance – Grand Return of the Thrashfest (2025)

8.

Septicflesh – Amphibians (2025)  [EP]

9.

Kiko Loureiro – Theory of Mind (2024)

10.

The Great Old Ones – Kadath (2025)

11.

Grandemonium – Grande (2024)

12.

Grandemonium – Dark Side (2024)  [Compilation]

13.

Opertus – Dark Side (2024)  [Compilation]

14.

Labÿrinth – In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye (2025)

15.

Emasculator – The Disfigured and the Divine (2024)  [EP]

16.

Saor – Amidst the Ruins (2025)

17.

Towards Hellfire – Inquisitors of Blasphemy (2025)

18.

Revenge – Violation.Strife.Abominate (2025)

19.

Edge of Sanity – Crimson (1996)

20.

Whitesnake – Whitesnake [aka 1987] (1987)