There’s just the one new entry this week, along with three new entries, but there is a new number one – the Christmas number one!

1. (2) Perfect Plan – Live At Sharpener’s House (Frontiers Music)
2. (3) Skid Row – The Atlantic Years (BMG)
3. (4) Dawn After Dark – New Dawn Rising (Chapter 22)
4. (6) Scattered Hamlet – Stereo Overthrow (Buck Moon Productions)
5. (5) Demonztrator – Sinister Forces of Hatred (Ossuary Records)
6. (7) Husqwarnah – Front: Toward Enemy (Fuel Records/Reborn Through Tapes)
7. (10) Vardis – 100 M.P.H. @ 100 Club (SPV/Steamhammer)
8. (9) Wonders – The Fragments of Wonder (Limb Music)
9. (8) Tower – Shock To The System (Cruz Del Sur Music)
10. (13) Screaming Shadows – Legacy Of Stone (From The Vaults)
11. (1) Exodus – Persona Non Grata (Nuclear Blast)
12. (18) Hell Machine – Relentless Aggression (Own Label)
13. (14) Kill City – Last Man Standing (Music-Records)
14. (17) Plush – Plush (Pavement)
15. (12) Cynic – Ascension Codes (Season of Mist)
16. (19) Devil Electric – Godless (Kozmik Artefactz)
17. (20) Deceased – Thrash Times At Ridgemont High (Hells Headbangers)
18. (23) Fortress – Don’t Spare The Wicked (High Roller Records)
19. (16) Life of A Hero – Letting Go (Battlegod Productions)
20. (22) The Three Tremors – Guardians of the Void (Steel Cartel)
21. (15) Sammy Berell – Beyond The Veil (Dark Force Records)
22. (24) Theatres Des Vampires – In Nomine Sanguinis (Scarlet Records)
23. (25) Carl Sentance – Electric Eye (Drakkar Entertainment)
24. (26) Hearts & Hand Grenades – Between The Lines (Eclipse Records)
25. (21) Sarke – Allsighr (Soulseller Records)
26. (28) Crooked Shapes – Crooked Shapes (Own Label)
27. (-) Black Label Society – Doom Crew Inc (Spinefarm)
28. (RE) Shadecrown – Solitarian (Inverse Records)
29. (RE) Victory – Gods of Tomorrow (AFM)
30. (RE) Wings of Destiny – Memento Mori (Wormholedeath)