(Plus-signs symbolize early sorting, and are not necessarily related to final contest outcomes.)

++    Aborted -- TerrorVision
+++   The Absence -- A Gift for the Obsessed
++    Alice In Chains -- Rainier Fog
+++   Alkaloid -- Liquid Anatomy
+++   Akhenaten -- Golden Serpent God
      A Perfect Circle -- Eat The Elephant
++    The Armed -- Only Love
+++   ASG -- Survive Sunrise
+++   The Atlas Moth -- Coma Noir
+++   At The Gates -- To Drink From The Night Itself
++    Augury -- Illusive Golden Age
++    Author & Punisher -- Beastland
++    Bad Wolves -- Disobey
+++   Baptists -- Beacon Of Faith
++    Behemoth -- I Loved You At Your Darkest
++++  Between The Buried And Me -- Automata I
+++   Between The Buried And Me -- Automata II
+++   Beyond Creation -- Algorythm
++    Black Label Society -- Grimmest Hits
+++   Bleed From Within -- Era
++    Cancer Bats -- The Spark That Moves
++    Corrosion Of Conformity -- No Cross No Crown
+++   De Profundis -- The Blinding Light Of Fate
++    Derek Smalls -- Smalls Change (Meditations Upon Aging)
++    Dimmu Borgir -- Eonian
+++   Extinction A.D. -- Decimation Treaty
+     Five Finger Death Punch -- And Justice For None
++    Ghost -- Prequelle
+++   Gorod -- Aethra
+++   Good Tiger -- We Will All Be Gone
+     Gruesome -- Twisted Prayers
++    Haken -- Vector
+++   Harms Way -- Posthuman
+++   High On Fire -- Electric Messiah
+++   Ihsahn -- Ãmr
++    Immortal -- Northern Chaos Gods
+++   Imperial Triumphant -- Vile Luxury
+++   Inferi -- Revenant
+++   Infernal Coil -- Within a World Forgotten
+     Into The Great Divide -- Into The Great Divide
+++   Judas Priest -- Firepower
++    Kalmah -- Palo
++    Kamelot -- The Shadow Theory
+     Legend Of The Seagullmen -- Legend Of The Seagullmen
+     Light The Torch -- Revival
+     Machine Head -- Catharsis
+++   Micawber -- Beyond The Reach Of Flame
+     Ministry -- AmeriKKKant
++    Monotheist -- Scourge
++    Monuments -- Phronesis
+++   Nekrogoblikon -- Welcome to Bonkers
++    Obscura -- Diluvium
++    The Ocean -- Phanerozoic I: Palaezoic
?     Omnium Gatherum -- The Burning Cold
++    Orphaned Land -- Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs
+     Otep -- Kult 45
++    Panopticon -- The Scars Of Man On The Once Nameless Wilderness, Pt. 1
+     Parkway Drive -- Reverence
++    Pestilence -- Hadeon
+++   Pig Destroyer -- Head Cage
+     P.O.D. -- Circles
++    Portal -- Ion
++    Primordial -- Exile Among The Ruins
+++   Psycroptic -- As The Kingdom Drowns
++    Revocation -- The Outer Ones
+++   Rivers Of Nihil -- Where Owls Know My Name
+++   Rolo Tomassi -- Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It
++    Saxon -- Thunderbolt
++    Sevendust -- All I See Is War
      Skindred -- Big Tings
++    Skinless -- Savagery
+++   Sleep -- The Sciences
+++   Slugdge -- Esoteric Malacology
+++   Soreption  -- Monument Of The End
++    Soulfly -- Ritual
+++   Sumac -- Love in Shadow
+++   TesseracT -- Sonder
+++   Tomb Mold -- Manor of Infinite Forms
++    The Crown -- Cobra Speed Venom
+++   The Sword -- Used Future
++    Tribulation -- Down Below
++    Turnstile -- Time & Space
+++   Unearth -- Extinction(s)
++    Visigoth -- Conqueror's Oath
++    Watain -- Trident Wolf Eclipse
+++   Yashira -- Shrine
++    Yob -- Our Raw Heart
+     Zeal & Ardor -- Stranger Fruit