Official Poll: Your top 10 albums of 2009?

[Tim Charles]

Well, it's finally that time of year again!


Please post your TOP 10 albums of 2009. When voting finishes, I will tally up all the votes and post up an official top 10 of 2009 as voted by the NeO forum!

Please ensure all your top 10 are numbered clearly from 1-10.

The band you vote #1 will get 10 votes, #2= 9 votes, #3=8 votes.....#10= 1 vote.

 

[Tim Charles]

Feel free to throw in some honourable mentions as well if you feel the desire to do so.

 

[Wenchmaster]

1) Absu - Absu
2) Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
3) Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
4) Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
5) Devin Townsend Project - Ki/Addicted (Might as well throw 'em into one)
6) Fen - The Malediction Fields
7) Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way
8) Suffocation - Blood Oath
9) The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
10) Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade

Very notable mentions:
Destroyer 666 - Defiance
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
Ensiferum - From Afar
Cormorant - Metazoa
Myrkr - Black Illumination
Hyadningar - The Weak Creation
Pensees Nocturne - Vacuum
Wodensthrone - Loss
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us
The Great Collapse - s/t (A friend's band whose release I would have put in the top 5 had it not been for my recent surge in listening to what 2009 had to offer. Still a great release.)
Behemoth - Evangelion & Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest (both boring releases from bands who have long passed their peaks, but there were some cool things on the albums. At the least, you can't deny that they keep pushing the boundaries of speed. That was part of the problem really. Too much focus on speed and too little on actual songwriting).

"What the fuck was that?"
Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Obituary - Darkest Day
Megadeth - Endgame

 

[Marskell]

1, If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky
2, Architects - Hollow Crown
3, Aversions Crown - Aversions Crown
4, Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
5, Devin Townsend - Ki/Addicted
6, A Day To Remember - Homesick
7, Converge - Axe To Fall
8, Depressed Mode - ...For Death...
9, Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
10, Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity

 

[Mean Machine]

1. Be'lakor - The Frail Tide
2. Devin Townsend Project - Addicted!
3. Anaal Nathrakh - Constellation of the Black Widow
4. Portal - Swarth
5. Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name
6. Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
7. Amesoeurs - Amesouers
8. Arcane - Chronicles of the Waking Dream
9. Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
10. Voyager - I am the reVolution

 

[requiem]

It makes it hard having to conform to a numerical judgmental code, but here we go - the best albums of 2009, all purchased in their full versions:

1. Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt
2. Katatonia - Night is the New Day
3. Korpiklaani - Karkelo
4. Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
5. Tyr - By the Light of the Northern Star
6. Amorphis - Skyforger
7. Old Man's Child - Slaves of the World
8. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
9. Barren Earth - Our Twilight ep
10. Ensiferum - From Afar

Honourable mentions to the following for being great albums:

Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus
Eluveitie - Evocation 1 The Arcane Dominion
Ex Deo - Romulus
Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays
Leaves Eyes - Njord
Ava Inferi - Blood of Bacchus
Black Sun Aeon - Darkness Walks Beside Me

 

[Reivas Genocai]

This subject to change, but this is what I have so far...
1) The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Lustrate Process
2) Ram-Zet - Neutralized
3) Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
4) Cormorant - Metazoa
5) Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow: Unlike what a lot of people have said, I like this one more than Hell is Empty...
6) Swallow the Sun - New Moon
7) Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
8) God Dethroned - Passiondale
9) Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
10) Katatonia - Night is the New Day

Runner-Ups
Behemoth - Evangelion: Major grower for me, they topped Demigod imo.
Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Devin Townsend Project - Ki
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
Old Man's Child - Slaves to the World

Mixed Opinions...
Skyfire - Esoteric: I cannot sit through this album in one sitting...might be because of being busy or something...not really sure
Ex Deo - Romulus: It's not a BAD album, I actually like it more than Kataklysm's material, I just am not as wowed as I guess I wish I could be...they're awesome live though...
Ensiferum - From Afar: SO MUCH BETTER than Victory songs. I just think Petri's vocals do nothing for me...

To be honest, while this year was great, I didn't have as much time to listen to new material as I would have liked...what with the computer crashing and some other crap happening.

Finally...for fun...
Albums I'm excited about for next year...
Ne Obliviscaris's full length (duh!)
The Faceless's 3rd album - After letting Planetary Duality grow on me quite a bit this year, I have to say I really look forward to hearing where these guys go next.
Agalloch
Dark Tranquillity - We Are the Void
Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
Virgin Black
Enslaved - Probably not until 2011, but I have heard they have enough material for another album at the end of the last recording session
Wintersun - Time: AHAHAHAHAHAHA...this is just funny at this point...
Borknagar
Vintersorg
Daylight Dies
Arcturus ...maybe?!
Gorguts/Negativa: I have to wonder what is going on with Negativa since Luc is out.
Quo Vadis
Anathema
Unexpect: Their mixing process
Akphaezya: Started getting into these guys so much, AWESOME, AWESOME band...
A Window to the Sun's demo: ...not really...not until 2011 at the rate we're writing and with my perfectionism... <_<

 

[Willow of oz]

Albums I'm excited about for next year...
Arcturus ...maybe?!

Awesome!
I was at their show a couple of years ago but started feeling unwell during the supports, and in the few minutes before Arcturus came on I had to leave my front-row-centre-position and flee the building to violently throw up from food poisoning. And then pay for a taxi home since I didn't think I could handle a train trip without further hurling. And then shortly after I hear that they've accomplished all they wanted to accomplish and were disbanding. Gar.

 

[Arcotide]

Imogen Heap - Ellipse (hands down the best album of the year)
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Pain Of Salvation - Linoleum
Devin Townsend Project - Ki
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
Between The Buried And Me - The Great Misdirect
Steve Vai - Where The Wild Things Are
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day (terrible title is the new good title)

 

[requiem]

1. Be'lakor - The Frail Tide

I thought 'Stone's Reach' came out this year...

 

[mark b]

Hourglass ( Oblivious To The Obvious ) Definately Numero Uno

Animals As Leaders ( ST )

The Prophecy ( Into The Light )

Arcane ( Chronicles Of The Waking Dream )

Mistur ( Attende )

Kathaarsys ( Anonymous Ballad )

While Heaven Wept ( Vast Oceans Lachrymose )

Subsignal ( Beautiful Monstrous )

Redemption ( Snowfall On Judgement Day )

Eureka ( Shackletons Voyage )

 

[Tim Charles]

Some cool lists so far! Keep them coming!

 

[CanadianMetalFan]

10. Novembers Doom - Into Nights Requiem Infernal (www.myspace.com/novembersdoom)
9. Augury - Fragmentary Evidence (www.myspace.com/augury)
8. Dark Lay Still - Through Hell (http://www.myspace.com/darklaystillmetal)
7. Dalit - s/t (www.myspace.com/dalitband)
6. My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire (www.myspace.com/mdbride)
**5. A Hill to Die Upon - Infinite Titanic Immortal (http://www.myspace.com/testcircassimilatemediatest)
4. Immortal - All Shall Fall (http://www.myspace.com/immortalofficial)
*3. Hammers of Misfortune - Fields/Church of Broken Glass (http://www.myspace.com/hammersofmisfortune)
2. Katatonia - Night is the New Day (http://www.myspace.com/katatonia)
1. Woods of Ypres - Woods IV: The Green Album (http://www.myspace.com/woodsofypres)


* Its a double album and in my opinion "Fields" is much better, but "Church of Broken Glass" is pretty cool too.
** I don't know whats with the song currently on their myspace maybe it got hacked or something.

Joel

 

[Willow of oz]

*wonders what happens to unnumbered lists in the tallying*

 

[mark b]

*wonders what happens to unnumbered lists in the tallying*

Im glad i'm not the tallyer lol.

 

[Tim Charles]

*wonders what happens to unnumbered lists in the tallying*

I think we'll just take the order they're in from 1 top to 10 at the bottom which is hopefully the order most people meant anyways.

 

[Tim Charles]

Keep voting peoples!

 

[Xochi]

1. Sound Awake - Karnivool.
2. The Root of All Evil - Arch Enemy
3. Ki - Devin Townsend
4. No One's First and You're Next - Modest Mouse
5. Evocation 1 - The Arcane Dominion - Eluveitie
6. Addicted - Devin Townsend
7. Crack the Skye - Mastodon
8. World Painted Blood - Slayer
9. Slaves of the World - Old Man's Child
10. Stone's Reach - Be'lakor

 

[jussstin]

A top 11 because I'm not sure if 'The Unseen' was released in late '08 or early '09. The CD says 2008 but the press release for the tour said 2009. I dunno. Anyway:

1. Arcane - Chronicles of the Waking Dream
2. Propagandhi - Supporting Caste
3. Finsterforst - ...Zum Tod Hin
4. Eyefear - The Unseen
5. Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
6. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
7. Sonata Arctica - The Days of Greys
8. Savage Circus - Of Doom and Death
9. Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing along songs for the Damned and Delirious
10.Pensees Nocturnes - Vacuum
11.Panopticon - Collapse

 

[Svartwerk]

01 Samael - Above
02 Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
03 Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer
04 Den Saakaldte - All Hail Pessimism
05 Frozen Abyss - Notes of Loneliness
06 Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
07 Secrets of the Moon - Privilegium
08 Cantata Sangui - On Rituals and Correspondence in Constructed Realities
09 Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
10 Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing-Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious