Top 10 albums this year.

[Hugo.]

(In no particular order)

AiC - Black gives way to blue

Nile - Those whom the Gods Detest

Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the black widow

Napalm Death - Time Waits for no Slave

Ulcerate -Everything is fire

Isis - Wavering Radiant

Mastodon - Crack the Skye

Vader - Necropolis

The Red Chord - Fed Through the Teeth Machine

Augury - Fragmentary Evidence (Disappointing, but still worth the top 10)



I've been listening to a bit of Krallice and Between the Buried and me amongst others too. Some good records this year

[Haunty]

Ahab: The Divinity of Oceans

Anaal Nethrakh: In the Constellation of the Black Widow

Behemoth: Evangelion

Gorod: Process of a New Decline

Immortal: All Shall Fall

Karl Sanders: Saurian Exorcisms

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble: Here be Dragons

Nile: Those Whom the Gods Detest

Ulcerate: Everything is Fire

Vader: Necropolis

[djonni greazo]

sorry, but i need to break it down by genre (lists subject to change since i still have a couple hundred albums in my "temp 2009" folder)

Death Metal:

01. Ulcerate - Everything is Fire (overall WINRAR )

02. Portal - Swarth

03. The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm

04. Vengeful - The Omnipresent Curse

05. Slugathor - Echoes from Beneath

06. Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams

07. Cruciamentum - Convocation of Crawling Chaos

08. Goreaphobia - Mortal Repulsion

09. Lost Soul - Immerse in Infinity

10. Requiem - Infiltrate... Dominate... Obliterate

honorable mentions: Eternal, Infinitum Obscure, Ascended, Fragments of Unbecoming, Embrace of Thorns, Denial, Sickening Horror, Azarath, Avenger, Rudra, Necrophobic, The Dead, Krypts, Man Must Die.... fuck, 2009 was way too awesome for death metal



Black Metal:

01. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II

02. The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of the Sheltered Elite

03. Incursus - Eternal Funeral Trance

04. Sun of the Blind - Skullreader

05. Borgia - Ecclesia

06. Pest - Tenebris Obortis

07. Hellveto - Od Poludnia Na Polnoc & Kry

08. End - III

09. Arckanum - PPPPPPPPPPP

10. Beherit - Engram

honorable mentions: Ride for Revenge, Empty, Arizmenda, Lathspell, De Magia Veterum, Skagos, Brown Jenkins, Slagmaur, Drudkh, The Stone, Way to End, Unholy Matrimony, Absu, Sacrificia Mortuorum, Nazxul, Merrimack, Melkor, Absentia Lunae, Geist, Inquinok, Graveland, L'Acephale, Fen, Endstille, Astral Luminous, Borgne, Altar of Plagues...



Other (Metal):

01. Augury - Fragmentary Evidence

02. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

03. Valborg - Glorification of Pain

04. Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans

05. miRthkon - Vehicle

06. Arcana Coelestia - La Mirage de l'Ideal

07. Katatonia - Night is the New Day

08. Converge - Axe to Fall

09. Solstafir - Kold

10. Isis - Wavering Radiant

honorable mentions: The Gathering, Colosseum, Thy Catafalque, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, A Storm of Light, Maudlin of the Well, Giant Squid, Mournful Congregation, Ea, Dysrhythmia, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Amesoeurs, Urna, Amorphis, Abandon, My Dying Bride, Horseback...



Other (non-metal): still under consideration

[droidspawn]

1. Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

2. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

3. Baroness - Blue Record

4. Devourment - Unleash the Carnivore

5. Shrinebuilder - S/T

6. Om - God is Good

7. Converge - Axe to Fall

8. Portal - Swarth

9. Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know

10. Them Crooked Vultures - S/T

[Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man]

Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country

Ulcerate - Everything is Fire

Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II

Portraits of Past - Cypress Dust Witch

Dalek - Gutter Tactics

The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm

Converge - Axe to Fall

Fen - The Malediction Fields

Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity

The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Shattered Elite