| 1) |  | Elend - Les Ténèbres du Dehors (1996) | 9.10 (64 votes) |
| 2) |  | Elend - The Umbersun (1998) | 9.09 (56 votes) |
| 3) |  | Yyrkoon - Dying Sun (2002) | 9.06 (9 votes) |
| 4) |  | Elend - Sunwar The Dead (2004) | 9.05 (23 votes) |
| 5) |  | The Old Dead Tree - The Nameless Disease (2003) | 9.04 (35 votes) |
| 6) |  | Nehëmah - Requiem Tenebrae (2004) | 9.03 (20 votes) |
| 7) |  | Anorexia Nervosa - Redemption Process (2004) | 9.01 (64 votes) |
| 8) |  | Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta 1: Fathers of the Icy Age (1996) | 8.99 (46 votes) |
| 9) |  | Himinbjorg - In the Raven's Shadow (1999) | 8.99 (16 votes) |
| 10) |  | Elend - Winds Devouring Men (2003) | 8.98 (43 votes) |
| 11) | Elend - Weeping Nights (1997) | 8.96 (34 votes) |
| 12) | Elend - Leçons de Ténèbres (1994) | 8.93 (62 votes) |
| 13) | Osculum Infame - Dor Nu Fauglith (1997) | 8.91 (23 votes) |
| 14) | Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée (1995) | 8.90 (43 votes) |
| 15) | Himinbjorg - Where Ravens Fly (1998) | 8.90 (14 votes) |
| 16) | Yyrkoon - Occult Medicine (2004) | 8.90 (10 votes) |
| 17) | Himinbjorg - Haunted Shores (2001) | 8.88 (12 votes) |
| 18) | Seth - By Fire, Power Shall Be (1997) | 8.85 (8 votes) |
| 19) | Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God (2003) | 8.81 (38 votes) |
| 20) | Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony (2005) | 8.78 (13 votes) |
| 21) | Nehëmah - Light of a Dead Star (2002) | 8.76 (19 votes) |
| 22) | Himinbjorg - Haunted Shores + Third (2004) | 8.75 (3 votes) |
| 23) | Osculum Infame - The Black Theology (2000) | 8.73 (5 votes) |
| 24) | Seth - Les Blessures de l'Ame (1998) | 8.71 (25 votes) |
| 25) | Penumbra - Emanate (1999) | 8.70 (22 votes) |
