What Are Your Favorite Metal Albums of 2009?
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Here at SMNnews we care. That’s why we want to know what your favorite 10 metal albums of the year are. Leave a comment here with your 10 picks and keep an eye out for the SMNnews staff list coming next month.
So whether it’s Gojira or brokeNCYDE, let us know what YOU were listening to in 2009!
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Converge-Axe to fall
Mastodon-Crack the Skye
Baroness-Blue
Isis-Wavering Radiant
Propagandhi-Supporting Caste
Black Dahlia-Deflorate
Gojira-Way Of All Flesh
Them Crooked Vultures-S/T
Pelican-What Have We All Become
Russian Circles – Geneva
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1. KISS – Sonic Boom
2. Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
3. Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know
4. Chickenfoot – Chickenfoot
5. Transatlantic – The Whirlwind
6. Three – Revisions
7. Cirrha Niva – For Moments Never Done
8. The Gathering – The West Pole
9. Epica – Design Your Universe
10. Ace Frehley – Anomaly
The Morningside – Moving Crosscurrent Of Time
Process Of Guilt – Erosion
Wine From Tears – Through The Eyes Of A Mad
Ablaze In Hatred – The Quietude Plains
Daath – The Concealers
Europe – Last Look At Eden
Swallow The Sun – New Moon
Majestic Downfall – Temple Of Guilt
Savage Messiah – Insurrection Rising
Immortal – All Shall Fall
Converge – Axe to Fall
Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
Born of Osiris – A Higher Place
Mastodon – Crack the Sky(e)
Lamb of God – Wrath
Woe of Tyrants – Kingdom Of Might
Winds of Plague – The Great Stone War
Clutch – Strange Cousins From The West
Kylesa – Static Tensions
1. Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
2. Ulcerate – Everything Is Fire
3. Gorod – Process of a New Decline
4. Augury – Fragmentary Evidence
5. Obscura – Cosmogenesis
6. Goatwhore – Carving Out The Eyes of God
7. Dying Fetus – Descend Into Depravity
8. Krallice – Dimensional Bleedthrough
9. Behemoth – Evangelion
10. Swallow The Sun – New Moon
Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Transatlantic – The Whirlwind
Between The Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Kiss – Sonic Boom
Alice in Chains – Black Gives Way to Blue
Animals as Leaders – Animals as Leaders
Katatonia – Night is the New Day
DGM – Frame
Lamb of God – Wrath
1. Gojira – The way of all Flesh, I know it came out last year, but I only found Gojira this year, and they have been wowing me all year.
But if that doesn’t count then
1. Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity
2. Devin Townsend Project – Ki
3. Behemoth Evangelion
4. Steel Panther – Feel The Steel(yeah, seriously)
5. Insomnium – Across the Dark
6. Cky – Carver City
7. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
8. Immortal – All Shall Fall
9. Goatwhore – Carving out the eyes of god
10. Mastodon – Crack the Syke
1. Behemoth – Evangelion
2. Ensiferum – From Afar
3. Alestorm – Black Sails at Midnight
4. Lamb of God – Wrath
5. Arch Enemy – The Root of All evil
6. Megadeth – Endgame
7. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
8. Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
9. Strigampire – When Tourments Drown
10. Swashbuckle – Back to the noose
1. Megadeth – Endgame
2. Slayer – World Painted Blood
3. Kreator – Hordes of Chaos
4. Obituary – Darkest Day
5. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
6. Immortal – All Shall Fall
7. Napalm Death – Time Waits for No Slave
8. God Dethroned – Passiondale
9. Warbringer – Waking Into Nightmares
10. Evile – Infected Nations
1. Baroness – Blue
2. Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect
3. Isis – Wavering Radiant
4. The Devin Townsend Project – Addicted
5. The Red Chord – Fed Through the Teeth Machine
6. Crucified Barbara – ‘Til Death Do Us Party
7. W.A.S.P. – Babylon
8. Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor
9. Steel Panther – Feel the Steel
10. Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Isis – Wavering Radiant
Big Business – Mind the Drift
Baroness – Blue Record
Mastodon – Crack the Skye
Dethklok – Dethalbum II
Russian Circles – Geneva
Pelican – What Have We All Become
Flight of the Conchords – I Told You I Was Freaky
Walken – S/T
The Family Curse – White Medicine
ICP – Bang! Pow! Boom!
Top 10 for 2009 (All Vinyl)
1. Impiety/Terroreign
2. Funebrarum/The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
3. Blut Aus Nord/Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
4. Shining/VI:Klagosalmer
5. ABSU/Self Titled
6. Immortal/All Shall Fall
7. Behemoth/Evangelion
8. The Gates of Slumber/Hymns of Blood and Thunder
9. Between the Buried and Me/Alaska
10. Warbringer/Waking into Nightmares
Honourable Mentions: (All Vinyl)
Iwrestledabearonce/It’s all happening
Mantic Ritual/Executioner
Burnt By the Sun/Heart Of Darkness
1. Suidakra – Crogacht
2. Manegarm – Nattvasen
3. Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divine
4. Vader – Necropolis
5. Tyr – By the Light of the Northern Star
6. Ensiferum – From Afar
7. Kreator – Hordes of Chaos
8. Scar Symmetry – Dark Matter Dimensions
9. Megadeth – Endgame
10. Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us
Been a damn good year for music releases
1. black dahlia murder- deflorate
2. destroyer 666- defiance
3. asphyx- death…the brutal way
4. slayer- world painted blood
5. behemoth- evangelion
6. ulcerate- everything is fire
7. mastodon- crack the skye
8. between the buried and me- the great misdirect
9. lamb of god- wrath
10. converge- axe to fall
1. Nile – Those Whom The Gods Detest
2. Behemoth – Evangelion
3. Megadeth – Endgame
4. God Dethroned – Passiondale
5.Suffocation – Blood Oath
6. Vader – Necropolis
7. Immortal – All Shall Fall
8. Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
9. Goatwhore – Carving Out The Eyes Of God
10. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
1. Satyricon – The Age of Nero
2. Immortal – All Shall Fall
3. Rammstein – Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da
4. Slayer – World Painted Blood
5. Chimaira – The Infection
6. Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites Hexenwahn
7. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
8. Vader – Necropolis
9. My Dying Bride – For Lies I Sire
10. Dying Fetus – Descend Into Depravity
Honorable Mentions: Hatebreed – S/T, Nile – Those Whom The Gods Detest, Goatwhore – Carving Out The Eyes Of God, Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity, Suffocation – Blood Oath
alice in chains – black gives way to blue
slayer – world painted blood
hatebreed – hatebreed
1. For Today – Portraits
2. Killswitch Engage – Killswitch Engage
3. Flyleaf – Memento Mori
4. Iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
5. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
6 .Between The Buried And Me – The Great Misdirect
7. Behemoth – Evangelion
8. Abacabb – Survivalist
9. Arch Enemy – The Root of All Evil
10. Hatebreed – Hatebreed
Ulcerate- Everything is Fire
I do like Arch Enemy, but to have The Root of All Evil on the top 10 of the year list shows you don’t know shit about metal or about music in general.
what is the problem of having root of all evil on the top 10 of the year? It’s a great fucking album man, and this is an opinion, u dont have to say a shit about it…
Helms Alee – Night Terrors
Black Elk – Always a Six, Never a Nine
In no particular order:
Napalm Death “Time Waits For No Slave”
Kylesa “Static Tensions”
Converge “Axe To Fall”
Mastadon “Crack The Skye”
Propagandhi “Supporting Caste”
Black Hell “How The Rest Was Lost”
General Surgery “Corpus In Extremis”
Afgrund ” Vid Helvetets Grindar”
Obscura “Cosmogenesis”
Coalesce “Ox”
No Order:
Ahab-The Divinity Of Oceans
Baroness-Blue Album
P.O.S-Never Better
Magrudergrind-Magrudergrind
1 – Gama Bomb – Tales from the Grave in Space
2 – Mantic Ritual – Executioner
3 – Skeletonwitch – Breathing the FIre
4 – Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
5 – Suicidal Angels – Sanctify the Darkness
6 – 3 Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom
7 – Behemoth – Evangelion
8 – Warbringer – Waking into Nightmares
9 – The Chasm – Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
10 – Asphyx – Death… The Brutal Way
down down 3
alice in chains black gives way to blue
In no order:
Between the Buried and Me- The Great Misdirect
Mastodon- Crack the Skye
The Number 12 Looks Like You- Worse Than Alone
He Is Legend- It Hates You
God Forbid- Earthsblood
Lamb of God- Wrath
Chimaira- The Infection
The Black Dahlia Murder- Deflorate
Horse The Band- Desperate Living
Hatebreed- s/t
The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
Gwar – Lust In Space
ISIS – Wavering Radiant
Lamb of God – Wrath
Burnt By The Sun – Heart of Darkness
The Red Chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine
Skeletonwitch – Breathing The Fire
Coalesce – OX
Megadeth – Endgame
Converge – Axe To Fall
Hatesphere- To The Nines : Full line up change only the main songwriter stays wich is very important, but man what a fucking Modern Trash-Death Metal Album, and first ever North American tour next year, This guys with more exposure are going to do great, yessss.
Arch Enemy – The Root Of All Evil
Dark Tranquillity – Where Death is Most Alive Cd/Dvd
The Agonist- Lullabies For The Dormant Mind
EPICA – Design Your Universe
A Plea For Purging- Depravity
Amorphis – Skyforger
Nightrage – Wearing A Martyr´s Crown
MetallicA- Orgullo, Pasión y Gloria, Tres Noches en la Ciudad de México DVD’S/CD’S
Megadeth- Endgame
whats there to know about metal?
It’s a music genre. You listen to what you like. For some it’s a lifestyle. Trends rule the day, and even when you think you’re not following a trend, you unfortunately are.
1. Cobalt – Gin
2. Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
3. Immortal – All Shall Fall
4. Obscura – Cosmogenesis
5. Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
6. Isis – the Wavering Radiant
7. Altars of Plague – White Tomb
8. Kylesa – Static Tensions
9. Baroness – the Blue Record
10. Katatonia – Night is the New Day
Honourable Mentions: Madgrudergrind, Absu, Kralllice, Asphyx
Something like that, I guess.
Because “The Root of All Evil” isn’t even a ‘real’ album, it’s just rehashes of old songs. But then again the rest of his list in general could say the same about him.
1. Paradise Lost – Faith Divide us, Death Unites Us
2. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
3. Megadeth – Endgame
4. Dark Tranquillity – Where Death is Most Alive (cd/dvd)
5. Dying Fetus – Descend Into Depravity
6. Behemoth – Evangelion
7. Obituary – Darkest Day
8. A Storm Of Light – Forgive Us Our Trespasses
9. Porcupine Tree – The Incident
10. The Eden House – Smoke Sound Mirrors
: None of these picks are in any particular order :
1. Lamb of God – Wrath
2. Devildriver – Pray for Villains
3. Chimaira – The Infection
4. Shadows Fall – Retribution
5. Throwdown – Deathless
6. Arkaea – Years in the Darkness
7. Mastodon – Crack the skye 8. The Devil Wears Prada – With roots above and branches below
9. The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
10. Emmure – Felony