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Top 111 Albums of 2003


1.	Vital Remains - Dechristianize
2.	Opeth – Deliverance
3.	Devil Driver - Devil Driver
4.	Dimmu Borgir – Death Cult Armageddon
5.	Bloodbath – Resurrection Through Carnage
6.	Behemoth – Zos Kia Cultus
7.	Dream Theater – Train Of Thought
8.	Opeth – Damnation
9.	Chimaira – The Impossibility Of Reason
10.	Morbid Angel – Heretic
11.	Vampire Mooose – Vampire Mooose
12.	Zyklon - AEON
13.	Enthroned – Carnage In Worlds Below
14.	Psycotogen – The Calculus Of Evil
15.	Ministry - Animositisomnia
16.	Dying Fetus – Stop At Nothing
17.	Skinless – From Sacrifice To Survival
18.	Edge Of Sanity – Crimson II
19.	Arch Enemy – Anthems Of Rebellion
20.	Goatwhore – Funeral Dirge For The Rotting Sun
21.	Exhumed – Anatomy Is Destiny
22.	Type O Negative – Life Is Killing Me
23.	Spawn Of Possessionn - Cabinet
24.	Marduk – World Funeral
25.	Nightrage – Sweet Vengeance
26.	Karmakanik – Entering The Spectra
27.	Evergrey – Recreation Day
28.	Black Label Society – The Blessed Hellride
29.	Misery Index - Retaliate
30.	Symphony X – The Odyssey
31.	Virgin Black – Elegant And Dying
32.	Thro*Cult – Soldiers Of A Blackened War
33.	Severed Savior - Forced To Bleed
34.	Grave – Back From The Grave
35.	Under Threat – Behind Mankind’s Disguise
36.	Enslaved – Below The Lights
37.	Katatonia – Viva Emptiness
38.	Bongzilla - Gateway
39.	Battlelore - Sword's Song
40.	Oratory – Beyond Earth
41.	Divine Empire - Nostradamus
42.	Children Of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll
43.	Poison Black - Escapexstacy
44.	Genocide Superstars
45.	Lamb Of God – As The Palaces Burn
46.	Amon Amarth – Vs. The World
47.	Krisiun – Works Of Carnage
48.	Psycroptic - The Scepter Of The Ancients
49.	Yattering - Genocide
50.	Nora - Dreamers & Deadman
51.	Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age Of Grotesque
52.	Hoods - Pray For Death
53.	Old Man’s Child – In Defiance Of Existence
54.	Macabre – Murder Metal
55.	Deeds Of Flesh - Reduced To Ashes
56.	Withered Earth - Of Which They Bleed
57.	Akercocke - Choronzon
58.	Dream Evil - Evilized
59.	Mudvayne - The End Of All Things To Come
60.	Iron Maiden – Dance Of Death
61.	Malevolent Creation – The Will To Kill
62.	MOD - Rebel You Love To Hate
63.	Rapture – Songs For The Whithering
64.	Kamalot - Epica
65.	Nevermore – Enemies Of Reality
66.	Devin Townsend – Accelerated Evolution/Project EKO
67.	The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
68.	A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
69.	Sick Of It All - Life On The Ropes
70.	Dew Scented - Impact
71.	The Crown – Possessed 13
72.	Nothingface - Skeletons
73.	Cannae - Horror
74.	Hatebreed – Rise Of Brutality
75.	OSI – Office Of Strategic Influence
76.	Strapping Young Lad - SYL
77.	God Dethroned – Into The Lungs Of Hell
78.	Naglfar - Sheol
79.	Pain Of Salvation – Remedy Lane
80.	Marty Friedman – Music For Speeding
81.	Soilwork – Figure Number Five
82.	Grimfist – Ghouls Of Grandeur
83.	Stratovarious – Elements, Pt. II
84.	Anomy - Disquietude
85.	Haunted - One Kill Wonder
86.	Anthrax – We’ve Come For You All
87.	Cradle Of Filth – Damnation And A Day
88.	Fleshgrind - Murder Without End
89.	Moonspell – The Antidote
90.	Bathory – Nordland I
91.	Nightingale - Alive Again: The Breathing Shadow Part IV
92.	Superjoint Ritual – A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred
93.	Scarve - Luminiferous
94.	Decrepit Birth – And Time Begins
95.	Andromeda - II = I
96.	Severe Torture - Misanthropic Carnage
97.	Solefald - In Harmonia Universali
98.	Carpathian Forest - Defending The Throne Of Evil
99.	Cage - Darker Than Black
100.	From Autumn To Ashes - The Fiction We Live
101.	Symphorce – Phorceful Ahead
102.	Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Groun Beneath
103.	Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Norther Sky
104.	Kalmah - Swampsong
105.	All Out War – Condemned To Suffer
106.	Alchemist – Austral Alien
107.	Tidfall - Nucleus
108.	Throwdown - Haymaker
109.	King Diamond - The Puppet Master
110.	Allegiance - Hymns Of Blood
111.	Immolation - Unholy Cult