| 1980 |
Ozzy Osbourne "Crazy Train" |
| Black Sabbath "Heaven and Hell" |
| 1981 |
Iron Maiden "Wrathchild" |
| Black Sabbath "The Mob Rules" |
| 1982 |
Iron Maiden "Hallowed Be Thy Name" |
| Judas Priest "BloodStone" |
| 1983 |
Dio "Holy Diver" |
| Metallica "The Four Horsemen" |
| 1984 |
Metallica "Creeping Death" |
| Iron Maiden "Aces High" |
| 1985 |
Anthrax "Madhouse" |
| Helloween "Walls of Jericho / Ride the Sky" |
| 1986 |
Metallica "Battery" |
| Slayer "Angel of Death" |
| 1987 |
Helloween "Halloween" |
| King Diamond "Abigail" |
| 1988 |
Metallica "One" |
| Helloween "Eagle Fly Free" |
| 1989 |
Blind Guardian "Valhalla" |
| Exodus "The Toxic Waltz" |
| 1990 |
Pantera "Cemetery Gates" |
| Judas Priest "Painkiller" |
| 1991 |
Metallica "The Unforgiven" |
| Helloween "Kids of the Century" |
| 1992 |
Dream Theater "Metropolis—Part I: 'The Miracle and the Sleeper' " |
| Manowar "The Power of Thy Sword" |
| 1993 |
Death "The Philosopher" |
| Angra "Carry On" |
| 1994 |
Overkill "They Eat Their Young" |
| Helloween "Sole Survivor" |
| 1995 |
Gamma Ray "Man on a Mission" |
| Death "Crystal Mountain |
| 1996 |
Helloween "Power" |
| In Flames "Artefacts of the Black rain" |
| 1997 |
Stratovarius "Black Diamond" |
| In Flames "Jotun" |
| 1998 |
Rhapsody "Emerald Sword" |
| Opeth "Demon of the Fall" |
| 1999 |
Sonata Arctica "8th Commandment" |
| Lacuna Coil "My Wings" |
| 2000 |
In Flames "Clayman" |
| Rhapsody "Holy Thunderforce" |
| 2001 |
Sonata Arctica "Wolf & Raven" |
| Avantasia "Sign of the Cross" |
| 2002 |
Avantasia "Seven Angels" |
| Blind Guardian "And Then There Was Silence" |
| 2003 |
Stratovarius "Eagleheart" |
| Dimmu Borgir "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" |
| 2004 |
Edguy "Mysteria" |
| Nightwish "Wish Had an Angel" |
| 2005 |
Dragonforce "Through the Fire and Flames" |
| Opeth"Ghost of Perdition" |
| 2006 |
Mastodon "Colony of Birchmen" |
| Mercenary "Redefine Me" |
| 2007 |
Between the Buried and Me "Informal Gluttony" |
| Iced Earth "Something Wicked, Part 1" |
| 2008 |
Sabaton "Ghost Division |
| Avantasia "Shelter from the Rain" |
| 2009 |
Cain's Offering "My Queen of Winter" |
| Lacuna Coil "Spellbound" |
| 2010 |
Helloween "Are You Metal?" |
| Blind Guardian "Tanelorn (Into the Void)" |
| 2011 |
Ancient Bards "To the Master of Darkness" |
| Amaranthe "Amaranthine" |
| 2012 |
Kamelot "Sacrimony (Angel of Afterlife)" |
| Gojira "L'Enfant Sauvage" |
| 2013 |
Black Sabbath "God Is Dead?" |
| Amaranthe "Burn with Me" |
| 2014 |
Within Temptation "Paradise (What About Us?)" |
| Insomnium "While We Sleep" |
| 2015 |
Nightwish "The Greatest Show on Earth" |
| Iron Maiden "If Eternity Should Fail" |
| 2016 |
Metallica "Spit out the Bone" |
| Gojira "Silvera" |
| 2017 |
Helloween "Pumpkins United" |
| Trivium "The Sin and the Sentence" |
| 2018 |
Amorphis "The Bee" |
| Judas Priest "Firepower" |
