| 2002 | Agalloch | The Mantle | The End Records |
| 2002 | Arcana | Inner Pale Sun | Cold Meat Industry |
| 2002 | Atrox | The Other Face Of Delusion | Steinklang Industries |
| 2002 | Aube | Data-X | G.R.O.S.S. |
| 2002 | Bathory | Nordland I | Black Mark Production |
| 2002 | Beequeen | A Touch Of Brimstone | Korm Plastics |
| 2002 | Beequeen | Ownliness | Moloko+ |
| 2002 | Birchville Cat Motel | Creeping Frost Onset | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon |
| 2002 | Birchville Cat Motel | Home | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon |
| 2002 | Birchville Cat Motel | Mighty Spine Catcher | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon |
| 2002 | Birchville Cat Motel | Zenkoji | Celebrate Psi Phenomenon |
| 2002 | Black Dice | Beaches & Canyons | DFA |
| 2002 | Bocksholm | Excursions By The Bank Of The Black River | Tesco Organisation |
| 2002 | Bucket Full Of Teeth | I | Youth Attack |
| 2002 | Bucket Full Of Teeth | II | Youth Attack |
| 2002 | Bucket Full Of Teeth | III | Youth Attack |
| 2002 | Cattle Decapitation | To Serve Man | Metal Blade Records |
| 2002 | Chaos As Shelter | In Absentia | Blade Records |
| 2002 | Chaos As Shelter | Message | Harmonie | taâlem |
| 2002 | City Of Caterpillar | City Of Caterpillar | Level Plane Records |
| 2002 | Con-Dom, Schimpfluch-Gruppe & C.C.C.C. | Old Street In Taiwan - Aktion 950907 | Tochnit Aleph |
| 2002 | Contagious Orgasm | 源流 - The Cause Of The Flow | Ant-Zen |
| 2002 | Danzig | Danzig 777 I Luciferi | Spitfire Records, Evilive |
| 2002 | De Fabriek | Waterring | Artware Production |
| 2002 | De Mange Machine | Gourmandise | Brume Records |
| 2002 | Désaccord Majeur | La Neuvième Heure | Harmonie | taâlem |
| 2002 | Deutsch Nepal | A Silent Siege | Old Europa Cafe |
| 2002 | DJ Spooky | Optometry | Thirsty Ear |
| 2002 | Double Leopards | Double Leopards | Polyamory |
| 2002 | Drexciya | Grava 4 | Clone |
| 2002 | Drexciya | Harnessed The Storm | Tresor |
| 2002 | Dronæment | E Stœ | Trümmer Kassetten | Dachstuhl |
| 2002 | Dälek | From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots | Ipecac Recordings |
| 2002 | Dödfödd | Besvärjelse För Omvänd Rekreation | Orderless Evil Productions |
| 2002 | Electric Wizard | Let Us Prey | Rise Above Records |
| 2002 | Emit | Unknown Presences Whisper | Dark Whispers |
| 2002 | Fe-mail | Syklubb Fra Hælvete | TV5, Important Records [RE] |
| 2002 | Fred Frith | Freedom In Fragments | Tzadik | Composer Series |
| 2002 | Hazard | Land | Touch |
| 2002 | Heid | Pilgrim Of The Sublunary World | Cold Meat Industry |
| 2002 | Internal Fusion | NedenBahe | Harmonie | taâlem |
| 2002 | Irgun Z'wai Leumi | Tracks That Lead Nowhere | Hatband |
| 2002 | IRM | Four Studies For Crucifixion | Cold Meat Industry |
| 2002 | Isis | Oceanic | Ipecac Recordings |
| 2002 | Jazkamer & Government Alpha | Saturday Night Groove Sessions | Xerxes |
| 2002 | Kapotte Muziek | [Not] Lost (1) | Korm Plastics | Bake Records |
| 2002 | KnifeLadder | Organic Traces | Operative Records |
| 2002 | Krieger | ...Denn Dein Ist Das Reich | Steinklang Industries |
| 2002 | Liquid Sphere | Hypocracy | Harmonie | taâlem |
| 2002 | L'Ombre | Medicine For The Meaningless | Ant-Zen |
| 2002 | Melvins | Hostile Ambient Takeover | Ipecac Recordings |
| 2002 | Men Behind The Sun | Unit 731 | Steinklang Industries |
| 2002 | Merzbow | Ikebukuro Dada | Mad Monkey Records | Circumvent Recordings |
| 2002 | Meshuggah | Nothing | Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast [RE] |
| 2002 | Muslimgauze | Hamas Cinema Gaza Strip | Staalplaat |
| 2002 | Muslimgauze | Hummus | Soleilmoon Recordings |
| 2002 | Natural Snow Buildings | Ghost Folks | hinah |
| 2002 | Navicon Torture Technologies | The Church Of Dead Girls | Malignant Records |
| 2002 | Nazti Skinz | Sic Semper Tyrannis | Youth Attack |
| 2002 | Negru Voda | From Liquid Steel To Frozen Metal | Cold Meat Industry |
| 2002 | Nile | In Their Darkened Shrines | Relapse Records |
| 2002 | Norma Jean | Bless The Martyr And Kiss The Child | Tooth & Nail Records | Solid State Records |
| 2002 | Nový Svět | Venezia | Junges Wien |
| 2002 | Orthrelm, Touchdown | Split | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 2002 | Orthrelm | 2nd 18/O4 Norildivoth Crallos-Lomrixth Urthiln | Three One G |
| 2002 | Othila | Elements | Divine Comedy Records |
| 2002 | P·A·L | Live At 2:00 A.M. | Pflichtkauf |
| 2002 | PainKiller | Talisman (Live In Nagoya) | Tzadik | Archival Series |
| 2002 | Patton, Mori & Zorn | Hemophiliac | Tzadik | Special Edition |
| 2002 | Plagiarism Is Art | Elektroiberia | WKN | Hau Ruck! |
| 2002 | Rapoon | Pell Mell | Staalplaat |
| 2002 | Regurgitate | Hatefilled Vengeance | Putrid Filth Conspiracy, M&M Records |
| 2002 | Relevant Few | Who Are Those Of Leadership? | No Tolerance Records |
| 2002 | Rhythm & Sound | Aground; Aerial | Basic Channel | Rhythm & Sound |
| 2002 | Sewage | Naughty! Naughty! | Alienation |
| 2002 | Silk Saw | Walksongs | Ant-Zen |
| 2002 | Skin Area | New Skin | Cold Meat Industry |
| 2002 | Song Of Zarathustra | A View From High Tides | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 2002 | Sonic Youth | Murray Street | Geffen Records | DGC |
| 2002 | Sorhin, Puissance | To Give Death By The Sword Of Christ! | Svartvintras Productions |
| 2002 | STROM.ec | Neural Architect | Malignant Records | Black Plagve |
| 2002 | Subtonix | Tarantism | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 2002 | Sunn O))) | 3: Flight Of The Behemoth | Southern Lord |
| 2002 | Synapscape | Raw | Ant-Zen |
| 2002 | Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine | Rampton | Southern Lord |
| 2002 | Telepherique & Contagious Orgasm | Cyouwa | SSSM |
| 2002 | Telepherique | Hörspiele | Afe Records |
| 2002 | Templegarden's | Done Rooms | Ant-Zen |
| 2002 | The Dillinger Escape Plan & Mike Patton | Irony Is A Dead Scene | Epitaph |
| 2002 | The Flying Luttenbachers | Infection And Decline | Troubleman Unlimited, ugEXPLODE |
| 2002 | The Locust, Melt-Banana | Split | Gold Standard Laboratories |
| 2002 | The Mars Volta | Tremulant EP | Gold Standard Laboratories |
| 2002 | Toy Bizarre | kdi dctb 084a | Tu M'p3 |
| 2002 | Tragedy | Vengeance | Tragedy Records |
| 2002 | Troum & Yen Pox | Mnemonic Induction | Malignant Records |
| 2002 | V/A | Don't Hunt What You Can't Kill | L. White Records |
| 2002 | Vromb | Le Tourne-Disque | Ant-Zen |
| 2002 | Wadada Leo Smith | Luminous Axis (Caravans Of Winter And Summer) | Tzadik | Composer Series |
| 2002 | Wolf Eyes | Dead Hills | Troubleman Unlimited |
| 2002 | Z'EV | The Sapphire Nature | Tzadik | Radical Jewish Culture |