1) Death - Human
2) Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
3) Coroner - Mental Vortex
4) Autopsy - Mental Funeral
5) Grave - Into the Grave
6) Immolation - Dawn of Possession
7) Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
8) Entombed - Clandestine
9) Sepultura - Arise
10) Asphyx - The Rack
1) The Obsessed - Lunar Womb
2) Solitude Aeturnus - Into the Depths of Sorrow
3) Autopsy - Mental Funeral
4) Beherit - Oath of Black Blood
5) Asphyx - The Rack
6) Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
7) Immolation - Dawn of Posession
8) Running Wild - Blazon Stone
9) Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick
10) Revelation - Salvation's Answer
1. Dismember- Like an Everflowing Stream
2. Autopsy- Mental Funeral
3. Paradise Lost- Gothic
4. Master's Hammer- Ritual
5. Suffocation- Effigy of the Forgotten
6. Running Wild- Blazon Stone
7. Tiamat- Astral Sleep
8. Convulse- World Without God
9. Asphyx- The Rack
10. Samael- Worship Him
Honorable Mentions:
Coroner- Mental Vortex (would have made the list if it wasn't for the stupid Beatles cover).
Death- Human
Pestilence- Testimony of the Ancients
Gorguts- Considered Dead
Root- Hell Symphony
Bathory- Twilight of the Idols
The Venom Trophy (aka overrated album of the year award):
Morbid Angel- Blessed are the Sick