Northern Kings – Take On Me (A-Ha Cover) – Rethroned – Warner
Redemption – Walls – Snowfall on Judgment Day – InsideOut
Fleshgod Apocalypse – Embodied Deception – Oracles – Candlelight
Shadows Fall – Embrace Annihilation – Retribution – Black Industries
Insomnium – Against The Stream – Across The Dark – Candlelight
Slowmotion Apocalypse – Caterpillar – Mothra – Scarlet
Finntroll – Under Bergets Rot – Nifelvind – Century Media
The Few Against Many – One With The Shadow – Sot – Pulverised
Winter Of Life – Form Of Egotism – Mother Madness – Casket New Comers of the year
Hatecode – Disappear – As I See – Independent Unsigned band of the year
Dark Tranquillity – Dream Oblivion – We Are The Void – Century Media
Behemoth – Transmigrating Beyong Realms Ov Amenti – Evangelion – Nuclear Blast No 20
Augury – Aetheral – Fragmentary Evidence – Nuclear Blast No 19
Susperia – The One After All – Attitude – Candlelight No 18
Gory Blister – The Hatch Opens – Graveyard of Angels – Mascot No 17
Entwine – Lost In My Denial – Painstained – Spinefarm No 16
Between the Buried and Me – Obfuscation – The Great Misdirect – Victory No 15
Nightrage – A Grim Struggle – Wearing A Martyr’s Crown – Lifeforce No 14
Epica – Deconstruct – Design Your Universe – Nuclear Blast No 13
Miseration – Sulphury Sun – The Mirroring Shadow – Lifeforce No 12
Hatesphere – To the Nines – To the Nines – Napalm No 11
Trail Of Tears – The Feverish Alliance – Bloodstained Endurance – Napalm No 10
The Bereaved – Parasitic Sleep – Daylight Deception – Megaphon No 9
Kreator – Demon Prince – Hordes Of Chaos – SPV No 8
Disarmonia Mundi – Losing Ground – The Isolation Game – Coroner No 7
Hypocrisy – Sky’s Falling Down – A Taste Of Extreme Divinity – Nuclear Blast No 6
Riverside – Hyperactive – Anno Domini High Definition – InsideOut No 5
Scar Symmetry – A Parenthesis In Eternity – Dark Matter Dimensions – Nuclear Blast No 4
Arch Enemy – The Immortal – The Root Of All Evil – Century Media No 3
Katatonia – Ashen – Night Is The New Day – Peaceville No 2
Within Y – The Predictable End – The Cult – Gain (Album of 2008)
Amorphis – Silver Bride – Skyforger – Nuclear Blast No 1 Album of 2009
Amorphis – From The Heaven Of My Heart – Skyforger – Nuclear Blast No 1 Album of 2009