In No Particular Order…

Mike’s Favorites

Principality of Hell – Fire and Brimstone
Descend – Wither
Legion of the Damned – Ravenous
Allegaeon – Elements of the Infinite
Revocation – Deathless
Exodus – Blood In, Blood Out
The Haunted – Exit Wounds
Arch Enemy – War Eternal
Behemoth – The Satanist
At the Gates – War With Reality

Matt’s Favorites

At The Gates – At War With Reality
Unearth – Watchers of the Rule
Abysmal Dawn – Obsolescence
Obituary – Inked in Blood
Exodus – Blood In, Blood Out
Revocation – Deathless
The Haunted – Exit Wounds
Fallujah – The Flesh Prevails
Allegaeon – Elements of the Infinite
Arch Enemy – War Eternal
Behemoth – The Satanist

Mike’s Honorable mentions:
Steel Panther  – All You Can Eat
Pitch Black Forecast – So Low
Voyager – Self Titled
Halcyon Way – Conquer
Obituary – Inked In Blood
Job For A Cowboy – Sun Eater
Fallujah – The Flesh Prevails
Scamp – The Deadcalm
Sanctuary – The Year The Sun Died
Insomnium – Shadows of the Dying Sun
Overkill – White Devil Armory
Bloodbath – Grand-Morbid Funeral
Anaal Nathrakh – Desideratum
Viathyn – Cynosure
White Empress – Rise of the Empress
Opeth – Pale Communion

Matt’s Honorable Mentions:
White Empress – Rise of the Empress
Machine Head – Bloodstone & Diamonds
Sanctuary – The Year The Sun Died
Carcass – Surgical Remission/Surplus Steel (EP)
Job for a Cowboy –  Sun Eater
Psychostick – IV: Revenge Of The Vengence
Cavalera Conspiracy – Pandemonium
Slipknot – .5 The Grey Chapter
Pitch Black Forecast – So Low
Scar Symmetry – The Singularity (Phase I – Neohumanity)
Flying Colors – Second Nature
Decapitated – Blood Mantra
Cannibal Corpse – A Skeletal Domain
Opeth – Pale Communion
Accept – Blind Rage
Within The Ruins – Phomenema
Overkill – White Devil Armory
Judas Priest – Redeemer Of Souls
Mastodon – Once More ‘Round The Sun
Aborted – Necrotic Manifesto
Iced Earth – Plaques Of Babylon
Primalfrost – Prosperous Visions
Carnifex – Die Without Hope
Steel Panther  – All You Can Eat
Exmortus – Slave To The Sword