(Plus-signs symbolize early sorting, and are not necessarily related to final contest outcomes.) +++ The Acacia Strain -- Slow Decay ++ Anaal Nathrakh -- Endarkenment ++ Annihilator -- Ballistic, Sadistic +++ August Burns Red -- Guardians +++ Black Crown Initiate -- Violent Portraits Of Doomed Escape +++ The Black Dahlia Murder -- Verminous +++ Caligula's Horse -- Rise Radiant +++ Carcass -- Despicable +++ Code Orange -- Underneath + Converge -- Endless Arrow ++ Cryptic Shift -- Visitations from Enceladus +++ Deftones -- Ohms ++ DevilDriver -- Dealing With Demons I +++ Ensiferum -- Thalassic +++ Enslaved -- Utgard ++ Fates Warning -- Long Day Good Night ++ Five Finger Death Punch -- F8 +++ Good Tiger -- Raised In A Doomsday Cult +++ Haken -- Virus ++ Havok -- V + Heaven Shall Burn -- Of Truth And Sacrifice ++ Inferi -- Of Sunless Realms +++ Intronaut -- Fluid Existential Inversions ++ Jasta -- The Lost Chapters Volume 2 +++ Katatonia -- City Burials ++ Kirk Windstein -- Dream In Motion +++ Lamb Of God -- Lamb Of God +++ Lorna Shore -- Immortal ++ Napalm Death -- Throes of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism + Nightwish -- Human. :II: Nature. +++ The Ocean Collective -- Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic | Cenozoic ++ Old Man Gloom -- Seminar VIII: Light Of Meaning ++ Old Man Gloom -- Seminar IX: Darkness Of Being +++ Oranssi Pazazu -- Mestarin Kynsi +++ Ozzy Osbourne -- Ordinary Man + Pallbearer -- Forgotten Days ++ Paradise Lost -- Obsidian ++ Primitive Man -- Immersion ++++ Protest The Hero -- Palimpsest +++ Psychonaut -- Unfold the God Man ++ Pyrrhon -- Abscess Time ++ Sepultura -- Quadra ++ Suicide Silence -- Become The Hunter +++ Sylosis -- Cycle Of Suffering +++ Testament -- Titans Of Creation ++ Tombs -- Monarchy Of Shadows ++ Trivium -- What The Dead Men Say + U.D.O. -- We Are One ++ Unleash The Archers -- Abyss ++ Vader -- Solitude In Madness +++ Xibalba -- Años En Infierno ++ Yashira -- Fail To Be