VELVET THUNDER

Lee Vickers

1. Acid Reign – The Age Of Entitlement (Dissonance)
2. Oomph! – Ritual (Napalm)
3. Sacred Reich – Awakening (Metal Blade)
4. Soilwork – Verkligheten (Nuclear Blast)
5. Slipknot – We Are Not Your Kind (Roadrunner)
6. Overkill – The Wings Of War (Nuclear Blast)
7. Rotting Christ – The Heretic (Seasons Of Mist)
8. Wednesday 13 – Necrophaze (Nuclear Blast)
9. Witch Vomit – Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave (20BuckSpin)
10. Amon Amarth – Bezerker (Metal Blade)

Steve Pilkington

1. Mostly Autumn – White Rainbow (Mostly Autumn Records)
2. The Far Meadow – Foreign Land (Bad Elephant Music)
3. The Tirith – A Leap Into The Dark (Convergent Recordings)
4. The Room – Caught By The Machine (White Star Records)
5. IQ – Resistance (Giant Electric Pea)
6. Chasing The Monsoon – No Ordinary World (Octiive)
7. Steve Hackett – At The Edge Of Light (InsideOut Music)
8. The Emerald Dawn – Nocturne (World’s End Records)
9. Gandalf’s Fist – The Clockwork Prologue (Nightkeeper Productions)
10. The Blackheart Orchestra – Mesmeranto (Esoteric Antenna)

Stoyan Tsonev

1. Angel Witch – Angel Of Light (Metal Blade)
2. Netherbird – Into The Vast Uncharted (Eisenwald)
3. Traveler – Traveler (Gatesofhellrecords)
4. Inculter – Fatal Visions (Edged Circle Productions)
5. The True Mayhem – Daemon (Century Media)
6. Sweet Oblivion (ft. Geoff Tate) – Sweet Oblivion (Frontiers)
7. Mystik – Mystik (I Hate)
8. Sacred Reich – Awakening (Metal Blade)
9. Flotsam & Jetsam – The End Of Chaos (AFM Records)
10. Screamer – Highway Of Heroes (The Sign Records)

Lorne Murphy

1. Isildur’s Bane & Peter Hammill – In Amazonia (Ataraxia Music)
2. Bent Knee – You Know What They Mean (InsideOut Music)
3. Marko Hietala – Mustan Sydämen Rovio (Savonian Rooster/Supersounds Music Oy)
4. Steve Unruh – Precipice (Bandcamp)
5. Gong – The Universe Also Collapses (Kscope)
6. Anthony Phillips – Strings Of Light (Esoteric Antenna)
7. Chester Thompson – Steppin’ (Joyful Noise Inc.)
8. District 97 – Screens (MindScan Records)
9. Huis – Abandoned (Unicorn Digital)
10. IQ – Resistance (Giant Electric Pea)

Paul Whimpenny

1. Bruce Springsteen – Western Stars (Colombia)
2. Avatarium – The Fire I Long For (Nuclear Blast)
3. Candlemass – The Door To Doom (Avalon Label)
4. Red Box – Chase The Setting Sun (Right Track)
5. Osmo Vanska /Minnesota Orchestra – Maher Symphony 1 (Bis)
6. Amon Amarth – Beserker (Metal Blade)
7. Mantra – Medium (Finisterian Dead End)
8. Mark Wilkinson – Blue Eyed Girls (Mark Wilkinson)
9. Giant Dwarf – Giant Dwarf (Sound Effect Records)
10. Spidergawd – Spidergawd V (Crispin Glover Records)

Graeme Stroud

1. Sari Schorr – Never Say Never (Manhaton Records)
2. Cats In Space – Day Trip To Narnia (Harmony Factory)
3. George Benson – Walking To New Orleans (Provogue Records)
4. Imperial Jade – On The Rise (Listenable Records)
5. Jan Akkerman – Close Beauty (Music Theories Recordings)
6. Collateral – Collateral (Roulette Media)
7. 4th Labyrinth – Better (WDFD Records Ltd)
8. Black Star Riders – Another State Of Grace (Nuclear Blast)
9. Achievers – The Lost Arc (Freehouse Records)
10. Bywater Call – Bywater Call (Gypsy Soul Records)

Trish Heywood

1. Steve Hackett – At The Edge Of Light (Inside Out Music)
2. The Flower Kings – Waiting For Miracles (InsideOut Records)
3. Ingrid Michaelson – Stranger Songs (Cabin 24 Records)
4. Ali Thomson – Songs From The Playroom (Thomson Music & Media Ltd)
5. Yes – From a Page/Live from Lyon (Frontiers)
6. District 97 – Screens (MindScan Records)
7. Jon Anderson – 1000 Hands (Opio Media/Jon Anderson
8. Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventure (Radiant Records)
9. Devin Townsend – Empath (HevyDevy Records)
10. Fiction Syxx – The Alternate Me (Melodic Rock Records)

Laurence Todd

1. Dream Theater – Distance Over Time (InsideOut Music)
2. The Mute Gods – Atheists & Believers  (InsideOut Music)
3. Lonely Robot – Into Stars (InsideOut Music)
4. Pineapple Thief – Hold Our Fire (Kscope)
5. Kaprekars Constant – Depth Of Field (Talking Elephant Records)
6. Beth Hart – War In My Mind (Provogue Records)
7. Quantum Pig – Songs Of Industry & Enterprise (White Star Records)
8. IQ – Resistance (Giant Electric Pea)
9. Steve Hackett – At The Edge Of Light (InsideOut Music)
10. Iamthemorning – The Bell (Kscope)

Terry Craven

1. Avantasia – Moonglow (Nuclear Blast)
2. Freedom Call – M.E.T.A.L. (Steamhammer)
3. The Ferrymen – A New Evil (Frontiers)
4. Devin Townsend – Empath (HevyDevy Records)
5. Iron Savior – Kill Or Get Killed (Avalon)
6. Dream Theater – Distance Over Time (InsideOut Music)
7. Pattern Seeking Animals – Pattern Seeking Animals (Sony/InsideOut Music)
8. Helloween – United Alive (Nuclear Blast)
9. Mob Rules – Beast Over Europe (Steamhammer)
10. Jorn – Live On Death Road (Frontiers)

Richard Proctor

1. Du Bellows – What Was EP (DuBellows.com)
2. Danny Bryant – Means Of Escape (Jazzhaus Records)
3. Inglorious – Ride To Nowhere (Frontiers)
4. Heavy Feather – Debris And Rubble (The Sign Records)
5. Pineapple Thief – Hold Our Fire (Kscope)
6. Black River Sons – Poisons Stuff (Music-Records)
7. Bryan Ferry & His Orchestra – Bitter Sweet (BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd)
8. Anchor Lane – Casino (RZ Records)*
9. INME – Jumpstart Hope (Killing Moon)*
10. Malone Sibun – Come Together (RedLine Music)*

*advance copy received in 2019 for review