Best of 2009 that Was, Is, and Shall Be

[Gold]

not the best of the year but the new Gorod was great.

mastodon still have the most impressive album along with madulin of the Well.

still waiting on suffocation augury and necro.

 

[Lateralus14]

Blut Aus Nord, Isis, and Mono have been my top 3. Katharsis, Ulcerate, Mastodon, and Cobalt are up there. I have like 15-20 albums from this year, but haven't heard Absu or maudlin of the Well yet.

 

[MasterOLightning]

I think Kylesa - Static Tensions is the leader for me so far.

 

[skeptik]

Oh yeah that fucking rules too. You can get it at Hells Headbangers. Get the Japanese version.

No, get the English version.

 

[Mort Divine]

Good job being a downloading faggot, Mort.

Iron Man - I Have Returned
Argus - Argus
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
Absu - Absu
Bastardator - Identify The Dead
Metalucifer - Heavy Metal Bulldozer
Tribulation - The Horror
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds...
Shackles - Traitors' Gate
Dark Forest - Dark Forest

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I'm sure there are plenty of albums that I haven't listened to that are excellent, but here is my RYM list.

1) Beherit - Engram
2) Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
3) Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
4) Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
5) Katharsis - Fourth Reich
6) Absu - Absu
7) Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
8) Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
9) Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
10) Ribspreader - Opus Ribcage

 

[whiskey funeral]

I think Kylesa - Static Tensions is the leader for me so far.

I'll second this.

 

[Doomguy]

Probably Devourment for me

Second.

Yoda's list is good too.

 

[Nehebkau]

Impressive:

Amorphis - Skyforger
Azarath - Praise the Beast
Depressed Mode - ...For Death
Obscura - Cosmogensis
Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star
Minsk - With Echoes In The Movement Of Stone

 

[Koude Haat]

Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds..
Embrace of Thorns - Atonement Ritual
Graveland - Spears of Heaven
Tribulation - The Horror
Funebrarum - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams
Maim - From The Womb To The Tomb
Minotaur - God May Show You Mercy...We Will Not
Katharsis - Fourth Reich
Beherit - Engram
Denial - Catacombs of the Grotesque
Archgoat - The Light-Devouring Darkness
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor
Sacrificia Mortuorum - Damnatorium Ferrum
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars
Ribspreader - Opus Ribcage
Graveless (Swe) - Condemned to a Nameless Death
Vasaeleth - Demo MMIX
Vorum - Grim Death Awaits
Shackles - Traitors' Gate
Sargatanas - Black Liturgies of Sathanas/I Observe from Under
Assaulter - Sadistic Messiah / Beware the Wounded Beast

 

[Dak]

So far:

Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
Gorod - Process of a New Decline
Absu - Absu
Lamb of God - Wrath
Amorphis - Skyforger
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
CKY - Carver City
Tribulation - The Horror

etc

 

[Rumpole]

So far my favourites have been Shackles, Iron Man, Slough Feg, Metalucifer and Procession's EP. Yet to hear Argus, Altar Of Oblivion or Spiritus Mortis, but I'm sure these will be great. Destroyer 666 will undoubtedly be awesome and hopefully Demons Gate will put out an album this year.

 

[ArneZ]

Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars

A Norwegian extreme metal reviewer sure liked the album too:

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=no&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heavymetal.no%2Fshow.article.asp%3Fmenuid%3D10%26artid%3D9543&sl=no&tl=en&history_state0=

Review of the year

 

[Nehebkau]

Also for anyone who likes blackened thrash check out Razor Of Occam's new album Homage to Martyrs. Really great stuff...

 

[whiskey funeral]

A Norwegian extreme metal reviewer sure liked the album too:

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=no&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heavymetal.no%2Fshow.article.asp%3Fmenuid%3D10%26artid%3D9543&sl=no&tl=en&history_state0=

Review of the year

That was a retarded review. The guy obviously has no idea what good music is.

 

[katierose]

Nothing has come out yet that I was looking forward to but let me down. Everything has been fantastical.

Isis - Wavering Radiant
Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
Devourment - Unleash The Carnivore
Suffocation - Blood Oath
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
Gorod - Process Of A New Decline

 

[Mr. Bungle]

Hey there Katie, didn't know you posted here. I can't wait to hear that Suffocation.

 

[unknown]

so far for me:

Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
Borgne - IV
Cobalt - Gin
Fen - The Malediction Fields
The Morningside - The Moving Crosscurrent of Time

still need to check out new Archgoat, Teitanblood, Graveland, Klabautamann and a few others I've seen on others' lists

 

[katierose]

You won't be disappointed, although I personally believe nothing beats Effigy and Pierced.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It might beat Pierced but not Effigy. I doubt the former but still.