(Plus-signs symbolize early sorting, and are not necessarily related to final contest outcomes.) + 1349 -- Massive Cauldron of Chaos + '68 -- In Humor and Sadness ++++ Aborted -- The Necrotic Manifesto + A Breach Of Silence -- The Darkest Road ++ Abysmal Dawn -- Obsolescence ++ The Acacia Strain -- Coma Witch ++ Accept -- Blind Rage +++ Aenaon -- Extance +++ Agalloch -- The Serpent & The Sphere Al-Namrood -- Heen Yadhar Al Ghasq +++ Alestorm -- Sunset on the Golden Age ++++ Allegaeon -- Elements of the Infinite ++ Amaranthe -- Massive Addictive +++ Anaal Nathrakh -- Desideratum +++ Ancient Ascendant -- Echoes and Cinder +++ Animals As Leaders -- The Joy of Motion ++ Anti-Mortem -- New Southern ++ Anubis Gate -- Horizons + Apostolum -- Winds Of Disillusion ++ Appearance Of Nothing -- A New Beginning ++ Arch Enemy -- War Eternal + Architects -- Lost Forever // Lost Together ++ Archspire -- The Lucid Collective +++ Artifical Brain -- Labyrinth Constellation ++ A Sense of Gravity -– Travail ++ As We Draw -- Mirages ++++ At The Gates -- At War With Reality ++ The Atlas Moth -- The Old Believer Attila -- Guilty Pleasure ++ Austrian Death Machine -- Triple Brutal ++ Autopsy -- Tourniquets, Hacksaws, and Graves +++ The Austerity Program -– Beyond Calculation Axel Rudi Pell -- Into The Storm +++ BABYMETAL -- BABYMETAL ++ Baptists -- Bloodmines ++ Barrows -- Red Giant + Basement Torture Killings -- A Night Of Brutal Torture +++ Bastard Feast -- Osculum Infame ++ Behemoth -- The Satanist +++ Belphegor -- Conjuring The Dead +++ Beneath -- The Barren Throne + Betraying The Martyrs -- Phantom +++ Beyond Creation -- Earthborn Evolution +++ Black Anvil -- Hail Death +++ Black Crown Initiate -- The Wreckage of Stars ++ Black Map -- ...And We Explode + Black Space Riders -- D:REI ++ Bloodbath -- Grand Morbid Funeral + Body Count -- Manslaughter ++ Bombs Of Hades -- Atomic Temples ++ Boris -- Noise ++ Caliban -- Ghost Empire +++ Cannibal Corpse -- A Skeletal Domain +++ Cannabis Corpse -- From Wisdom To Baked ++ Carnifex -- Die Without Hope +++ Cavalera Conspiracy -- Pandemonium ++ Cloudkicker -- Little Histories ++ The Contortionist -- Language +++ Cretin -- Stranger ++ Cripple Bastards -- Nero In Metastasi ++ Coffinworm -- IV.I.VIII ++ Conan -- Blood Eagle ++ Conquering Dystopia -- Conquering Dystopia +++ Cormorant -- Earth Diver ++ Corrosion Of Conformity -- IX +++ Crowbar -- Symmetry in Black + Cryostatic Dream -- Boundaries + Culted -- Oblique To All Paths ++ Cynic -- Kindly Bent to Free Us +++ Darkest Hour -- Darkest Hour +++ Dead Congregation -- Promulgation of the Fall ++ Decapitated -- Blood Mantra + Demon Hunter -- Extremist +++ Destrage -- Are You Kidding Me? No. +++ Devin Townsend -- Z² +++ Devil You Know -- The Beauty of Destruction + Diabulus In Musica -- Argia +++ Distorted Harmony -- Chain Reaction +++ DragonForce -- Maximum Overload ++ Earth -- Primitive And Deadly + Edguy -- Space Police: Defenders Of The Crown + Ektomorf -- Retribution ++ Electric Wizard -- Time To Die ++ Eluveitie -- Origins + Emmure -- Eternal Enemies +++ Enabler -- La Fin Absolue Du Monde + Enthroned -- Sovereigns ++ Entombed A.D. -- Back To The Front ++ Epica -- The Quantum Enigma ++ Equilibrium -- Erdentempel +++ Every Time I Die -- From Parts Unknown + Ex Libris -- Medea +++ Exmortus -- Slave To The Sword ++ Exodus -- Blood In, Blood Out + Eyehategod -- Eyehategod ++++ Fallujah -- The Flesh Prevails +++ Gamma Ray -- Empire of the Undead ++ Ghost Brigade -- IV - One With The Storm ++ Goatwhore – Constricting Rage of The Merciless +++ Godflesh -- A World Lit Only By Fire Godsmack -- 1000hp + Grand Magus -- Triumph And Power ++ Grave Digger -- Return Of The Reaper ++ Gridlink -- Longhena +++ Hark -- Crystalline ++ Haken -- Restoration +++ Hannes Grossmann -- The Radial Covenant (Hed) p.e. -- Evolution +++ He Is Legend -- Heavy Fruit Hellyeah -- Blood For Blood N/A The Haunted -- Eye Of The Storm +++ The Haunted -- Exit Wounds ++ Iced Earth -- Plagues of Babylon ++ I Killed The Prom Queen -- Beloved +++ Indian -- From All Purity +++ Inferi -- The Path Of Apotheosis ++ In Flames -- Siren Charms + Insense -- De:Evolution ++ Insomnium -- Shadows Of The Dying Sun ++++ Inter Arma -- The Cavern EP ++ Intervals -- A Voice Within ++ Iron Reagan -- The Tyranny of Will + IXXI -- Skulls N Dust +++ Job For A Cowboy -- Sun Eater ++ Judas Priest -- Redeemer of Souls +++ Junius -- Days of the Fallen Sun EP + Killer Be Killed -- Killer Be Killed +++ Karma To Burn -- Arch Stanton ++ The Kennedy Veil -– Trinity of Falsehood ++ Krokodil -- Nachash ++ KXM -- KXM + Lacuna Coil -- Broken Crown Halo ++ Lazer/Wulf -- The Beast Of Left And Right ++ Lay Down Rotten -- Deathspell Catharsis ++ Legion Of The Damned -- Ravenous Plague +++ Lo-Pan -- Colossus + Lord Mantis -- Death Mask + Lvcifyre -- Svn Eater ++ Machine Head -- Bloodstone & Diamonds ++ Magenta Harvest -- Volatile Waters +++ Marty Friedman -- Inferno + Massacre -- Back From Beyond + Mastodon -- Once More Around The Sun ++ Mayan -- Antagonise + Mayhem -- Esoteric Warfare ++ Mechina -- Xenon ++ Mekong Delta -- In A Mirror Darkly +++ Miasmal -- Cursed Redeemer +++ Misery Index -- The Killing Gods Mushroomhead -- The Righteous And The Butterfly ++ Mustasch -- Thank You For The Demon ++ Mutilation Rites — Harbinger + Monte Pittman -- The Power Of Three +++ Monuments -- The Amanuensis ++ Morbus Chron -- Sweven +++ Murmur -- Murmur + Nachtmystium -- The World We Left Behind ++ Narcotic Wasteland -- Narcotic Wasteland ++ Nausea -- Condemned To The System +++ Ne Obliviscaris -- Citadel +++ Nero di Marte -- Derivae +++ Nervosa -- Victim Of Yourself + Nightfell -- The Living Ever Mourn + Nightingale -- Retribution +++ Noneuclid -- Metatheosis + Nonpoint -- The Return ++ Nux Vomica -- Nux Vomica + Obituary -- Inked In Blood +++ Old Man Gloom -- The Ape Of God I ++ Old Man Gloom -- The Ape Of God II ++ Opeth -- Pale Communion +++ Origin -- Omnipresent +++ Overkill -- White Devil Armory +++ Pallbearer -- Foundations of Burden ++ Pantokrator -- Incarnate +++ Periphery -- Clear ++ Pig Destroyer -- Mass & Volume ++ Pitch Black Forecast -- As the World Burns ++ Prong -- Ruining Lives ++ Prostitute Disfigurement -- From Crotch to Crown ++ Pyrrhon -- The Mother Of Virtues + Raubtier -- Pansargryning ++++ Revocation -- Deathless +++ Rigor Mortis -- Slaves to the Grave + Rings Of Saturn -- Lugal Ki En ++ Ringworm -- Hammer of the Witch ++ Sabaton -- Heroes Saliva -- Rise Up ++ Sanctuary -- The Year The Sun Died ++ Saor -- Aura ++ Savage Messiah -- The Fateful Dark ++ Scar Symmetry -- The Singularity (Phase I – Neohumanity) + Septicflesh -- Titan N/A Set And Setting -- A Vivid Memory + Sevendust -- Time Travelers & Bonfires +++ Shrapnel -- The Virus Conspires ++ Sick Of It All -- Last Act Of Defiance ++ Sidious -- Revealed In Profane Splendour Skindred -- Kill The Power ++ Skinfather -- None Will Mourn ++ Skull Fist -- Chasing The Dream +++ Skyharbor -- Guiding Lights ++ Sleeping Giant -- Finished People + Slipknot -- .5: The Gray Chapter ++++ Soen -- Tellurian ++ Son Of Aurelius -- Under a Western Sun +++ Soreption -- Engineering The Void + Soulburn -- The Suffocating Darkness ++ Starkill -- Virus of the Mind +++ Steel Panther -- All You Can Eat + Structures -- Life Through A Window ++ Suicidal Angels -- Divide And Conquer ++ Suicide Silence -- You Can't Stop Me Supermassive Black Holes -- Calculations Of The Ancients ++ Svarttjern -- Ultimatum Necrophilia +++ Tempel -- On The Steps Of The Temple +++ Thou -- Heathen ++ Throwdown -- Intolerance + Tiger Flowers -- Dead Hymns + Today Is The Day -- Animal Mother + Tombs -- Savage Gold +++ Torrential Downpour -— Truth Knowledge Vision +++ Tortorum -- Katabasis ++ Trap Them -- Blissfucker ++ Trash Talk -- No Peace ++++ Triptykon -- Melana Chasmata Tungsten -- The Reservoir +++ Unearth -- Watchers of Rule +++ Vader -- Tibi Et Igni +++ Vainaja -- Kadotetut ++ Vallenfyre -- Splinters + Vanna -- Void ++ Voice Of Ruin -- Morning Wood ++ Whitechapel -- Our Endless War ++ Winger -- Better Days Comin' + Winterstorm -- Cathyron + Within Temptation -- Hydra +++ Wo Fat -- The Conjuring + Wolves in the Throne Room -- Celestite ++ Wovenwar -- Wovenwar +++ Wretched -- Cannibal ++++ Xerath -- III ++ YOB -- Clearing the Path to Ascend ++ Young And In The Way -- When Life Comes To Death