TOP 20 2021 (EDITORS’ CHOICE)

Διαβάστε παρακάτω τις λίστες με τα αγαπημένα album των συντακτών του Rockway για το έτος 2021, σύμφωνα με τις οποίες διαμορφώθηκε η γενική λίστα του Rockway Top 20 2021:

Ιωάννης Φράγκος

1. SHUMAUN: “Memories & Intuition”
2. NESTOR “Kids in A Ghost Town”
3. LOCH VOSTOK: “Opus Ferox-The Great Escape”
4. UNTO OTHERS: “Strength”
5. SILVER TALON: “Decadence And Decay”
6. THE PARADOX TWIN: “Silence From Signals”
7. OBSCURA: “A Valediction”
8. SEVEN SISTERS: “Shadow Of A Fallen Star Pt.1”
9. LEPROUS: “Aphelion”
10. NEED: “Norchestrion: A Song For The End”
11. KONQUEST: “The Night Goes On”
12. HELLOWEEN: “Helloween”
13. DORIC: “Great Dead Cities”
14. CRADLE OF FILTH: “Existence Is Futile”
15. GREY GALLOWS: “Garden of lies”
16. GOJIRA: “Fortitude”
17. ELDRITCH: “Eos”
18. SOEN: “Imperial”
19. BLACK JUJU: “Purple Flower Garden Black”
20. U.D.O: “Game Over”
    
    Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: NESTOR: “On The Run”, IAM NOTHE: “Lord You Are The Cure”, UNTO OTHERS: “Hell Is For Children”
    Απογοήτευση της χρονιάς: AGENT STEEL: “No Other Godz Before Me”
    EP της χρονιάς: CIRITH UNGOL: “Half Past Human”

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Δημήτρης Μαρσέλος

1. MASTODON: “Hushed & Grim”
2. GREEN LUNG: “Black Harvest”
3. TURNSTILE: “Glow On”
4. VOLBEAT: “Servant of the Mind”
5. EKULU: “Unscrew My head”
6. SLANT: “1집”
7. THY CATAFALQUE: “Vadak”
8. GREENLEAF: “Echoes from a Mass”
9. CAPRA: “In Transmission”
10. TRIVIUM: “In The Court Of The Dragon”
11. CRADLE OF FILTH: “Existence Is Futile”
12. MYSTRAS: “Empires Vanquished and Dismantled”
13. ASPHYX: “Necroceros”
14. GOJIRA: “Fortitude”
15. DARKTHRONE: “Eternal Hails……”
16. QUICKSAND: “Distant Populations”
17. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM: “Primordial Arcana”
18. DIABLERY: “Candles”
19. SOEN: “Imperial”
20. GRIEF COLLECTOR: “En Delirium”

Δίσκος που τελικά έπρεπε να μπει στο περσινό top: FATES WARNING: “Long Day Good Night”
Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: TURNSTILE: “Holiday”, EKULU: “Proven Wrong”, GREENLEAF: “Bury Me My Son”
Γεγονός της χρονιάς: IRON MAIDEN: “Senjutsu” (άσχετα από την γνώμη μου για αυτό)

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Στέφανος Στεφανόπουλος

1. CONVERGE: “Bloodmoon: I”
2. BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME: “Colors II”
3. GOJIRA: “Fortitude”
4. MYLES KENNEDY: “The Ides Of March”
5. MASTODON: “Hushed & Grim”
6. MOL: “Diorama”
7. VOLBEAT: “Servant Of The Mind”
8. LEPROUS: “Aphelion”
9. ARCHITECTS: “For Those that Wish To Exist”
10. SOEN: “Imperial”
11. FOO FIGHTERS: “Medicine at Midnight”
12. GREEN LUNG: “Black Harvest”
13. ROB ZOMBIE: “The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy”
14. RIVERS OF NIHIL: “The Work”
15. STEVEN WILSON: “The Future Bites”
16. LOCH VOSTOK: “Opus Ferox- The Great Escape”
17. SLEEP TOKEN: “This Place Will Become Your Tomb”
18. ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS: “Raise The Roof”
19. TRIVIUM: “In the Court of the Dragon”
20. FIVE THE HIEROPHANT: “Through Aureate Void”
    
    Δίσκος που τελικά έπρεπε να μπει στο περσινό top: PALLBEARER: “Forgotten Days”
    Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: THE OFFSPRING: “Let The Bad Times Roll”, FOO FIGHTERS: “Medicine at Midnight”, LEPROUS: “Out of Here”
    Αρπαχτή της χρονιάς: Τα ξαναζεσταμένα leftovers των Guns n’ Roses, “Hard Skool” και “Absurd”

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Γιώργος Γεωργίου

1. RIVERS OF NIHIL: “The Work”
2. LEPROUS: “Aphelion”
3. SHUMAUN: “Memories & Intuition”
4. TERAMAZE: “Sorella Minore”
5. VOLA: “Witness”
6. AZURE: “Of Brine And Angel’s Beaks”
7. NEED: “Norchestrion: A Song For The End”
8. STEVEN WILSON: “The Future Bites”
9. SUBTERRANEAN MASQUERADE: “Mountain Fever”
10. CYNIC: “Ascension Codes”
11. BLACK JUJU: “Purple Flower Garden Black”
12. THE PARADOX TWIN: “Silence From Signals”
13. OTHERS BY NO ONE: “Book II-Where Stories Come From”
14. MASTODON: “Hushed And Grim”
15. LOCH VOSTOK: “Opus Ferox-The Great Escape”
16. WITHIN PROGRESS: “Inner”
17. GOJIRA: “Fortitude”
18. TERRA ODIUM: “Ne Plus Ultra”
19. A DYING PLANET: “When The Skies Are Grey”
20. SUNNATA: “Burning In Heaven, Melting On Earth”
    
    Δίσκος που τελικά έπρεπε να μπει στο περσινό top: LUCID PLANET: “II”
    Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: TERAMAZE: “Sorella Minore”, RIVERS OF NIHIL: “ The Void From Which No Sound Escapes”, SHUMAUN: “A Planetary Shift”
    Γεγονός της χρονιάς: το νέο άλμπουμ των Cynic μετά τον θάνατο των δυο Sean.

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Ιορδάνης Κιουρτσίδης

1. HALOCRAFT: “A Mother To Scare Away The Darkness”
2. MASTODON: “Hushed & Grim”
3. MØL: “Diorama”
4. CRADLE OF FILTH: “Existence Is Futile”
5. VOLBEAT: “Servant Of The Mind”
6. TRIVIUM: “In The Court Of The Dragon”
7. DEAFHEAVEN: “Infinite Granite”
8. RUNNING WILD: “Blood On Blood”
9. RICKY WARWICK: “When Life Was Hard And Fast”
10. OBSCURA: “The Valediction”
11. HYPOCRISY: “Worship”
12. EXODUS: “Persona Non Grata”
13. YOTH IRIA: “As The Flame Withers”
14. MYSTRAS: “Empires Vanquished and Dismantled”
15. LOCH VOSTOK: “Opus Ferox – The Great Escape”
16. SHUMAUN: “Memories & Intuition”
17. AT THE GATES: “The Nightmare Of Being”
18. NECROMANTIA: “To The Depths We Descend…”
19. NEED: “Norchestrion: A Song for the End”
20. WHITE VOID: “Anti”
    
    EP της χρονιάς: ΑΟΡΑΤΗ ΑΠΕΙΛΗ: “Βάλε στις πόλεις φωτιά”
    Απογοήτευση της χρονιάς: HELLOWEEN: “Helloween”
    Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: VOLBEAT: “Dagen Før (Michael Vox version)”, KIRIAKOS GP: “Lianohortaroudia”, THE OMNIFIC: “Ne Plus Ultra”

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Πελοπίδας Χελάς

1. CRADLE OF FILTH: “Existence Is Futile”
2. IRON MAIDEN: “Senjutsu”
3. HELOWEEN: “Helloween”
4. CRYSTAL VIPER: “The Cult”
5. BRAINSTORM: “Wall of Skulls”
6. SILENT WINTER: “Empire of Sins”
7. PORTRAIT: “At One with None”
8. YOTH IRIA: “As the Flame Withers”
9. WITHERFALL: “Curse of Autumn”
10. GREEN LUNG: “Black Harvest”
11. ETERNITY’S END: “Embers of War”
12. HYPOCRISY: “Worship”
13. EXODUS: “Persona Non Grata”
14. RAGE: “Resurrection Day”
15. ACCEPT: “Too Mean to Die”
16. RAVAGER: “The Third Attack”
17. WARRIOR PATH: “Mad King”
18. PARADOX: “Heresy II: End of a Legend”
19. 1914: “Where Fear and Weapons Meet”
20. KK’S PRIEST: “Sermons of the Sinner”
    
    Ντεμπούτο της χρονιάς: TENTATION: “Le berceau des dieux”
    Απογοήτευση της χρονιάς: AGENT STEEL: “No Other Godz Before Me”
    Τραγούδι/α που μου κόλλησαν: IRON MAIDEN: “Hell On Earth”, HELLOWEEN: “Skyfall”, SILENT WINTER: “Gates of Fire”

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Άγγελος Χόντζιας

1.KK’S PRIEST: “Sermons Of The Sinner”
2.RUNNING WILD: “Blood On Blood”
3.HELLOWEEN: “Helloween”
4.IRON MAIDEN: “Senjutsu”
5.U.D.O: “Game Over”
6.EVERGREY: “Escape Of The Phoenix”
7.MOONSPELL: “Hermitage”
8.ACCEPT: “Too Mean To Die”
9.DREAM THEATER: “A View From The Top Of The World”
10.GOJIRA: “Fortitude”
11.BLAZE BAYLEY: “War Within Me”
12.NECROMANTIA: “To The Depths We Descend…”
13.NIGHTFALL: “At Night We Pray”
14.BRAINSTORM: “Wall Of Skulls”
15.WOLFTOOTH: “Blood And Iron”
16.KHEMMIS: “Deceiver”
17.MASTODON: “Hushed And Grim”
18.FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: “Blood In The Water”
19.EXODUS: “Persona Non Grata”
20.TRIVIUM: “In The Court Of The Dragon”

Γέγονος Της Χρονιάς: Το νέο album των Iron Maiden
Τραγούδια Που Μου Κόλλησαν: KK’S PRIEST: “Sermons Of The Sinner”, HELLOWEEN: “Skyfall”, RUNNING WILD: “Diamonds & Pearls”

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Σταύρος Βλάχος

1. THE PARADOX TWIN: “Silence from Signals”
2. TUESDAY THE SKY: “The Blurred Horizon”
3. HALOCRAFT: “A Mother to Scare Away the Darkness”
4. MOONSPELL: “Hermitage”
5. SERVANTS TO THE TIDE: “Servants to the Tide”
6. EMPYRIUM: “Über den Sternen”
7. HELLOWEEN: “Helloween”
8. BILLY F GIBBONS: “Hardware”
9. ADRIAN SMITH/RICHIE KOTZEN: “Smith/Kotzen”
10. KK’S PRIEST: “Sermons of the Sinner”
11. EXODUS: “Persona Non Grata”
12. RUNNING WILD: “Blood on Blood”
13. DREAM THEATER: “A View from the Top of the World”
14. IRON MAIDEN: “Senjutsu”
15. FROZEN CROWN: “Winterbane”
16. ENFORCED: “Kill Grid”
17. ACCEPT: “Too Mean to Die”
18. RICKY WARWICK: “When Life Was Hard and Fast”
19. MASTODON: “Hushed and Grim”
20. WARRIOR PATH: “Mad King”

Γεγονός της χρονιάς: Η συμπλήρωση 40 χρόνων από την ίδρυση μιας από τις σημαντικότερες και επιδραστικότερες μπάντες στην ιστορία της μουσικής. METALLICA!! : “Can(not) the Kingdom of Salvation Take me Home?” (If it is music, hell yeah!!)
Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: SERVANTS TO THE TIDE: “North Sea”, ADRIAN SMITH/RICHIE KOTZEN: “Scars”, IRON MAIDEN: “Writing on the Wall”
Ντεμπούτο της χρονιάς: SERVANTS TO THE TIDE: “Servants to the Tide”

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Σπύρος Χονδρογιάννης

1. EMPYRIUM: “Uber Den Sternen”
2. LOCH VOSTOK: “Opus Ferox – The Great Escape”
3. SWALLOW THE SUN: “Moonflowers”
4. THE PARADOX TWIN: “Silence From Signals”
5. WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM: “Primordial Arcana”
6. UNTO OTHERS: “Strength”
7. TRIBULATION: “Where The Gloom Becomes Sound”
8. DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT: “Noctvrn”
9. VOLBEAT: “Servant Of The Mind”
10. SOEN: “Imperial”
11. NEED: “Norchestrion: A Song For The End”
12. IOTUNN: “Access All Worlds”
13. CRUEL WONDERS: “Clay Vessels”
14. THE ANSWER LIES IN THE BLACK VOID: “Forlorn”
15. LEPROUS: “Aphelion”
16. YENISEI: “Reflections”
17. TERRA ODIUM: “Ne Plus Ultra”
18. SILVER TALON: “Decadence And Decay”
19. MASTODON: “Hushed And Grim”
20. CRADLE OF FILTH: “Existence Is Futile”
    
    Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: KORDA: “Sialia”, GHOST: “Hunter’s Moon”, MASTODON: “Teardrinker”
    Απογοήτευση της χρονιάς: THE TEA PARTY: “Blood Moon Rising”
    EP της χρονιάς: STELLAR VOID: “Chrysalis”, LETHIAN DREAMS: “Last Echoes Of Silence”, WOLVERINE: “A Darkened Sun”

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Βασίλης Χατζηβασιλείου

1. Converge: “Bloodmoon: I”
2. Mastodon: “Hushed & Grim”
3. Fucked Up: “Year of The Horse”
4. Green Lung: “Black Harvest”
5. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: “G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!”
6. Old Man Wizard: “Kill Your Servants Quietly”
7. Turnstile : “Glow On”
8. Motorpsycho: “Kingdom of Oblivion”
9. Gojira : “Fortitude”
10. King Buffalo: “Acheron”
11. Count Raven: “The Sixth Storm”
12. Warish: “Next To Pay”
13. The Osiris Club: “The Green Chapel”
14. Mono: “Pilgrimage of the Soul”
15. Quicksand: “Distant Populations”
16. John Carpenter: “Lost Themes III – Alive After Death”
17. Nightfall: “At Night We Pray”
18. Red Fang: “Arrows”
19. Vangelis: “Juno to Jupiter”
20. Kowloon Walled City: “Piecework”

Δίσκος που τελικά έπρεπε να μπει στο περσινό top: Daliborovo Granje: “Hainin”
EP,7”,Split της χρονιάς: Giöbia/The Cosmic Dead: “The Intergalactic Connection – Exploring The Sideral Remote Hyperspace”, Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: “The Helm of Sorrow” EP, Zombi : “Liquid Crystal”
Τραγούδι/α που μου κόλλησαν: Converge “Failure Forever”, Gojira “Amazonia”, Black Label Society “End of Days”

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Αντώνης Ξενάκης

1. IRON MAIDEN: “Senjutsu”
2. KONQUEST: “The Night Goes On”
3. HOT BREATH: ”Rubbery Lips”
4. CRIMSON FIRE: “Another Dimension”
5. SEVEN SISTERS: “Shadow Of A Fallen Star Pt.1”
6. KRYPTOS: “Force Of Danger”
7. TYRANN: “Djävulens Musik”
8. WANTON ATTACK: “Wanton Attack”
9. NESTOR: “Kids In A Ghost Town”
10. LUCIFER’S HAMMER: “The Trip”
11. THE NIGHT ETERNAL: “Moonlit Cross”
12. RUNNING WILD: “Blood On Blood”
13. ACCEPT: “To Mean To Die”
14. WHEEL: “Preserved In Time”
15. WITCH CROSS: “Angel Of Death”
16. LUCIFUGE: “Infernal Power”
17. BLACK SOUL HORDE: “Horrors From The Void”
18. HITTEN: “Triumph & Tragedy”
19. VOLBEAT: Servant Of The Mind”
20. LYNX: “Watcher Of The Skies”

Αρπαχτή της χρονιάς: Παρά την αγάπη μου για το Keep It True Festival στην Γερμανία, παρά το καταπληκτικό line up, παρά την άψογη οργάνωσή του, θα έλεγα ότι ήταν η αρπαχτή της χρονιάς. Μιας ακόμα χρονιάς με όλη την Ευρώπη και όλο τον κόσμο να φλέγεται από τον Covid- 19. Ανακοινώθηκε σε σχεδόν ούτε 2 μήνες πριν την διεξαγωγή του. Τουλάχιστον πήγαμε και περάσαμε καταπληκτικά.
Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: RUBBERY LIPS: “One Hit (To The Body)” (Rolling Stones cover), IRON MAIDEN: “Hell On Earth”, TYRANN: “Undergång”
Ep της χρονιάς: CIRITH UNGOL: “Half Past Human”

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Αλέξης Δρυμιώτης

1. NON SERVIAM: “Le Cœur Bat”
2. MYSTRAS: “Empires Vanquished And Dismantled”
3. ALKERDEEL: “Slonk”
4. FLUISTERAARS: “Gegrepen Door de Geest der Zielsontluiking”
5. GREEN LUNG: “Black Harvest”
6. SLANT: “1집”
7. ESOCTRILIHUM: “Dy’th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath”
8. RUDIMENTARY PENI: “Great War”
9. DODSRIT: “Mortal Coil”
10. SPECTRAL LORE: “Ετερόφωτος”
11. ΠΑΡΟΞΥΣΜΟΣ: S/T
12. THRONEHAMMER: “Incantation Rites”
13. KING WOMAN: “Celestial Blues”
14. UNIDAD IDEOLOGICA: S/T
15. AMENRA: “De Doorn”
16. CONVERGE/CHELSEA WOLFE: “Bloodmoon: I”
17. WALDGEFLUSTER: “Dahoam”
18. ETHEREAL SHROUD: “Trisagion”
19. FLAME, DEAR FLAME: “Aegis”
20. ARDE: “Ancestral Cult”

EP, 7”, Split της χρονιάς: ETXEGINA: “Herederos del Silencio” EP, NON SERVIAM: “Work” EP, MAGGOT HEART/OKKULTOKRATI: Split EP, AWENDEN & FEMINAZGUL: Split EP, ΓΕΜΑΤΟΣ ΑΡΑΧΝΕΣ, ΡΕ ΦΙΛΕ! & ΒΕΛΖΕΒΟΥΛ: “Τα μη χειρότερα”, DREAMS OF THE DROWNED: “Missed Springs” EP, ZVARNA: “Αδιάγνωστο Ψυχεδελικό Demo 2021”

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Παναγιώτης Σπυρόπουλος

1. MASTODON: “Hushed & Grim”
2. RUNNING WILD: “Blood On Blood”
3. THE PARADOX TWIN: “Silence From Signals”
4. FROST*: “Day and Age”
5. MØL: “Diorama”
6. GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR: “G_d’ s Pee AT STATE’S END!”
7. ACCEPT: “Too Mean Τo Die”
8. TRIVIUM: “In The Court Of The Dragon”
9. HELLOWEEN: “Helloween”
10. GREEN LUNG: “Black Harvest”
11. LEPROUS: “Aphelion”
12. GOJIRA: “Fortitude”
13. OLD MAN WIZARD: “Kill Your Servants Quietly”
14. CONVERGE & CHELSEA WOLFE: “Bloodmoon: I”
15. MERCURY CIRCLE: “Killing Moons”
16. HALOCRAFT: “A Mother To Scare Away”
17. NEED: “Norchestrion: A Song for the End”
18. DREAM THEATER: “A View from the Top of the World”
19. STEVEN WILSON: “The Future Bites”
20. MOGWAI: “As The Love Continues”

Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: MØL: “Photophobic”, GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR: “Government Came (9980.0kHz 3617.1kHz 4521.0 kHz)/Cliffs Gaze/cliffs’ gaze at empty waters’ rise/Ashes to Sea or Nearer to Thee”, HALOCRAFT: “Don’t Break The Loop”
EP, Split EP της χρονιάς: GIÖBIA/THE COSMIC DEAD: “The Intergalactic Connection:Exploring the Sideral Remote Hyperspace”, MACHINE HEAD: “Arrows in Words from the Sky”
Δίσκος που τελικά έπρεπε να μπει στο περσινό top: THE OCEAN COLLECTIVE: “Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic|Cenozoic”

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Γιώργος Μακρής

1.MERCURY CIRCLE: “Killing Moons”
2.THE PARADOX TWIN: “Silence From Signals”
3.EMPYRIUM:” Über den Sternen”
4.SWALLOW THE SUN: “Moonflowers”
5.WISBORG: “Into the void”
6.GREY GALLOWS: “Garden of lies”
7.ANGEL’S ARCANA: “The reveries of Solitude”
8.PLOHO: “Фантомные чувства” (“Fantom Feelings”)
9.BLEIB MODERN:” Afraid to leave”
10.UNTO OTHERS: “Strength”
11.DEINE LAKAIEN: “Dual”
12.MINISTRY: “Moral Hygiene”
13.WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM: “Primordial Arcana”
14.LEPROUS: “Aphelion”
15.SOEN: “Imperial”
16.THY CATAFALQUE: “Vadak”
17.LOCH VOSTOK: “Opus Ferox – The Great Escape”
18.YOTH IRIA: “As The Flame Withers”
19.NECROMANTIA: “To The Depths We Descend…”
20.MASTODON: “Hushed & Grim”

Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: MERCURY CIRCLE: ”Like Matches“, THE PARADOX TWIN: “Wake Vortex”, GREY GALLOWS: “Don’t Bring Flowers”
Απογοήτευση της χρονιάς: DIE KRUPPS: “Songs from The Dark Side of Heaven”
EP, 7”, Split της χρονιάς: DARK:” Inside the Void”, CEMETARY ECHO: “Come Share My Shroud”

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Νίκος Κορέτσης

1. HYPOCRISY: “Worship”
2. EXODUS: “Persona Non Grata”
3. RIVERS OF NIHIL: “The Work”
4. UNTO OTHERS: “Strength”
5. CANNIBAL CORPSE: “Violence Unimagined”
6. EVERGREY: “Escape of the Phoenix”
7. HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY: “Maere”
8. AT THE GATES: “The Nightmare of Being”
9. BE’LAKOR: “Coherence”
10. GOJIRA: “Fortitude”
11. THE CROWN: “Royal Destroyer”
12. SOEN: “Imperial”
13. ASPHYX: “Necroceros”
14. CRADLE OF FILTH: “Existence Is Futile”
15. MINISTRY: “Moral Hygiene”
16. ENFORCED: “Kill Grid”
17. RUNNING WILD: “Blood on Blood”
18. SILVER TALON: “Decadence and Decay”
19. PARADOX: “Heresy II”
20. LOCK UP: “The Dregs of Hades”

Τραγούδια που μου κόλλησαν: HYPOCRISY: “They Will Arrive”, EVERGREY: ”Where August Mourns”, EXODUS: “The Beatings Will Continue (Until Morale Improves)”
Ντεμπούτο της χρονιάς: SILVER TALON: “Decadence and Decay”
Γεγονός της χρονιάς: Καινούργιο άλμπουμ από τους Iron Maiden μετά από 6 χρόνια “σιωπής”

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