Ordered list of CDs purchased, best to worst:

Rage – Ghosts
Dream Theater – Scenes From a Memory
The Kovenant – Animatronic
Samael – Eternal
Dark Tranquillity – Projector
Arch Enemy – Burning Bridges
Immortal – At the Heart of Winter
Solefald – Neonism
Heavens Gate – Menergy
Dismal Euphony – All Little Devils

In Flames – Colony
Nevermore – Dreaming Neon Black
Iced Earth – Alive in Athens
Godgory – Resurrection
Angel Dust – Bleed
Agalloch – Pale Folklore
October Tide – Grey Dawn
Evereve – Regret
Dodheimsgard – 666 International
Crematory – Act Seven
Otyg – Sagonvindars Boning
Grave Digger – Excalibur
Grey Skies Fallen – The Fate of Angels
Darkane – Rusted Angel
Liquid Tension Experiment – 2
Dimmu Borgir – Spiritual Black Dimensions
Skyclad – Vintage Whine
Withering Surface – The Nude Ballet
Anathema – Judgement
Kreator – Endorama
Nightfall – Diva Futura
Mithotyn – Gathered Around the Oaken Table
Children of Bodom – Hatebreeder
In the Woods – Strange in Stereo
Nokturnal Mortum – To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire
Amorphis – Tuonela
Peccatum – Strangling From Within
Emperor – IX Equilibrium
Morgion – Solinari
Helloween – Metal Jukebox
Iron Savior – Unification
Ebony Tears – A Handful of Nothing
Seventh Omen – Polarized
The Gathering – How To Measure a Planet?
Diabolique – The Black Flower
Steel Prophet – Dark Hallucinations
Gamma Ray – Powerplant
Iced Earth – Melancholy EP
Gandalf – Deadly Fairytales
Type O Negative – World Coming Down
Arcturus and the Deception Circus – Disguised Masters
Roland Grapow – Kaleidoscope
Shock Machine – Shock Machine
Vond – Slipp Sorgen Los
Various – The Holy Bible Vol. II-III
Various – A Call to Irons 2