Albums by year: 1996: Page 5
- Savatage
- Saxon
- Saxorior
- Scald (RUS)
- Scarve
- Scenery
- Scholomance
- Scissorfight
- Scorpions
- Sculptured
- Sea Of Dreams
- Secret Chiefs 3
- Segression
- Sentenced
- Sepultura
- Serpent
- Setherial
- Severance
- Shattered Mass
- Sheavy
- Silentium
- Silent Stream of Godless Elegy
- Sinister
- Sinner
- Six Feet Under
- Skrew
- Skyclad
- Skylark
- Slayer
- Slipknot
- Sólstafir
- Sodom
- Solefald
- Solitude Aeturnus
- Somber Serenity
- Son of a Bitch
- Sorhin
- Soul Cages
- Soulcrusher
- Soundgarden
- Spiral Architect
- Spiritual Beggars
- Stabbing Westward
- StarGazer
- Steel Prophet
- Stormlord
- Stormwind (SWE)
- Stratovarius
- Strident
- Stuck Mojo
- Sulkus
- Summertime Daisies
- Summoning
- SUP (Spherical Unit Provided)
- Superior
- Su Ta Gar
- Svartsyn
- Sweet Savage
- Symphony X
- Tad Morose
- Tankwart
- Taunusheim
- Templario
- Testament
- Tharaphita
- Theatre of Tragedy
- Theatres des Vampires
- Therion
- The Third and the Mortal
- Thorr's Hammer
- Thought Industry
- Throes of Dawn
- Throne of Chaos
- Thy Serpent
- Tipsy Slut
- Today Is the Day
- Tool
- Torgeist
- Torque
- Tourniquet
- Tragedy Divine
- Trail Of Tears
- Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- Tristitia
- Troll
- Trust
- Tsjuder
- Tyrant (US)
- UFO
- Ulver
- Unleashed
- Urgehal
- Uriah Heep
- Vader
- Steve Vai
- Valley's Eve
- Vanden Plas
- Van Halen
- Veles
- Venganza
- Vicious Rumors
- Vinterland
- Virgin Steele
- Vision of Disorder
- Vlad Tepes
- Voice of Destruction
- Volatile
- Vomitory
- Wardog
- Waylander
- Whiplash
- White Zombie
- Windham Hell
- Witchery (USA)
- Wizzard
- World Of Silence
- Xentrix
- X-Japan
- X-Wild
- Zadoc...& the Nightmare
- Zahrim
- Zandelle
- Zao
- Zazozora
- Zoic
- Zoltar