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Top 100 Albums of 2004


1.	Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden
2.	Cannibal Corpse – The Wretched Spawn
3.	Vintersorg – The Focusing Blur
4.	Ayreon – The Human Equation
5.	Insomnium – Since The Day It All Came Down
6.	Burning Skies – Murder By Means Of Existence
7.	Slipknot – Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)
8.	Suffocation – Souls To Deny
9.	Deicide – Scars of the Crucifix
10.	Incapacity – 9th Order Extinct
11.	Cradle of Filth – Nymphetamine
12.	Orphaned Land – Mabool
13.	Borknagar – Epic
14.	Enforsaken – The Forever Endeavor
15.	Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake
16.	Decapitated – The Negation
17.	My Dying Bride – Songs of Darkness Words of Light
18.	Mastodon – Leviathan
19.	Cataract – With Triumph Comes Loss
20.	Shadows Fall – The War Within
21.	Ministry – Houses of the Mole
22.	Kataklysm – Serenity In Fire
23.	Vehemence – Helping the World To See
24.	Hypocrisy – The Arrival
25.	Vader – The Beast
26.	Peccatum – Lose In A Reverie
27.	Sceptic – Unbeliever’s Script
28.	Evergrey – The Inner Circle
29.	Mayhem – Chimera
30.	Gorerotted – Only Tools And Corpses
31.	Into Eternity – Buried In Oblivion
32.	Necrophagist – Epitaph
33.	Nightwish – Once
34.	Psyopus – Ideas of Reference
35.	Fleshcrawl – Made of Flesh
36.	Arsis – A Celebration Of Guilt
37.	Heaven Shall Burn – Antigone
38.	Therion – Lemuria/Sirius B
39.	Pain of Salvation – Be
40.	Fragments of Unbecoming - A Sylphe's Ascension
41.	The Forsaken – Traces Of The Past
42.	Susperia – Unlimited
43.	Joe Satriani – Is There Love In Space?
44.	Primal Fear – Devil’s Ground
45.	Misery Signals – Of Malice & The Magnum Heart
46.	Death Angel – The Art Of Dying
47.	MindGrinder – MindTech
48.	Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns
49.	Illogicist – Subjected
50.	W.A.S.P. – The Neon God Pt. II
51.	Ancient – Night Visit
52.	Torture Killer – For Maggots to Devour
53.	1349 – Beyond The Apocalypse
54.	Crionics - Human Error: Ways To Self Destruction
55.	Poverty’s No Crime - Autumn Years
56.	From A Second Story Window - Not One Word Has Been Omitted
57.	Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor
58.	Dio – Master of the Moon
59.	Backstabbers, Inc. - Kamikaze Missions
60.	Malevolent Creation - Warkult
61.	Ribspreader – Bolted to the Cross
62.	Megadeth – The System Has Failes
63.	Dead Soul Tribe – The January Tree
64.	Fear Factory - Archtype
65.	Motorhead - Inferno
66.	Cattle Decapitation - Humanure
67.	Amorphis – Far From The Sun
68.	Twilight Opera - The End Of The Halcyon Age
69.	Grave – Fiendish Regression
70.	Internal Bleeding – Onward To Mecca
71.	Anathema – A Natural Disaster
72.	Tad Morose – Modus Vivendi
73.	Satyricon - Volcano
74.	Aina – Days Of Rising Doom – The Metal Opera
75.	Amen - Death Before Musick
76.	Sirenia - Sirenia
77.	Darkseed - Astral Adventures
78.	Unleashed - Sworn Allegiance
79.	Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
80.	Unholy Ghost - Torrential Reign
81.	Epica – The Phantom Agony
82.	Soulfly - Prophecy
83.	Carnal Forge – Aren’t You Dead Yet?
84.	Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force – Attack!!
85.	Raunchy - Confusion Bay
86.	Vision Divine – Stream of Consciousness
87.	Hatesphere – Ballet of the Brute
88.	Jordan Rudess – Rhythm of Time
89.	Finntroll - Nattfodd
90.	Green Carnation – A Blessing In Disgiuse
91.	After Forever – Invisible Circles
92.	Deconstruct - The Human Condition
93.	Scum of the Earth – Blah Blah Blah… Love Songs for the New Millennium
94.	Probot - Probot
95.	Centinex – Decadence: Prophecies of Cosmic Chaos
96.	Cypher System – Central Tunnel 8
97.	Stampin’ Ground – A New Darkness Upon Us
98.	Black Label Society – Hangover Music Vol. VI
99.	Metalium – As One
100. 	3 Inches of Blood – Advance and Vanquish