Top 10 2009 Thread

[Zephyrus]

Let's see those lists. I don't have one yet because I don't feel I've caught up yet, and I'm lazy. Go!

 

[Koude Haat]

It's really difficult to make a top ten, there is really a fuck load of releases that could be on my top ten this year.


1. Grave Miasma - Exalted Emanation
2. Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
3. Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds..
4. Drudkh - Microcosmos
5. Embrace of Thorns - Atonement Ritual
6. W.A.I.L. - Wisdom through Agony into Illumination and Lunacy
7. Slugathor - Echoes From Beneath
8. Procession - Cult of Disease
9. The Devil's Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore
10. Lie in Ruins - Swallowed By The Void


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Master's Hammer - Mantras
Weapon - Drakonian Paradigm
Arghoslent / Martial Barrage
Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
Ketzer - Satan's Boundaries Unchained
Graveland - Spears of Heaven
Tribulation - The Horror
The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder
Funebrarum - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams
Stabat Mater - Stabat Mater
Maim - From The Womb To The Tomb
Tormented - Rotten Death
Archgoat - The Light-Devouring Darkness
Beherit - Engram
Katharsis - Fourth Reich
Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor
Denial - Catacombs of the Grotesque
West Wall - Conquest or Death
Nocturnal - Violent Revenge
Diocletian - Doom Cult
Revelation - For the Sake of No One
Spiritus Mortis - The God Behind the God
Ignivomous- death transmutation
Proclamation - Execration of Cruel Bestiality
Shackles - Traitor's Gate
The Chasm – Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Infinitum Obscure - Sub Atris Caelis
Krypts - Open the Crypt
Affliction Gate - Aeon of Nox
Graveyard - One with the Dead
Stench of Decay - Where Death and Decay Reign
Cruciamentum - Convocation of Crawling Chaos
Graveless - Condemned to a Nameless Death
Miasmal - Miasmal
Disma - The Vault of Membros
Hunters Moon - The Serpents Lust

 

[Onder]

Koude, what the fuck is W.A.I.L.? This is the first time encounter with that band for me. Nice list btw, mine would be similar, will do it later.

 

[Koude Haat]

Varathron sounding black metal, it's also really doomy. This is probably my favorite black metal release of the year.


Sample can be heard here..

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=649d5fa0d3fa1a75e7ba8e3c6e11ce20e04e75f6e8ebb871

 

[TheBountyKiller]

Redemption - Snowfall on judgement day
Queensryche - American soldier
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
Megadeth - Endgame
Dream theater - Black clouds
Slayer - World painted blood
Lazarus ad - The onslaught
Kiss - Sonic boom
Halford - Winter songs
Pearl Jam - Backspacer
Heaven and hell - The devil you know
Warbringer - Waking into nightmares
Municipal waste - Massive aggressive
Shadow gallery - Digital ghost
Hirax - El rostro de la muerte

 

[Hail The Wizard!]

My top ten list in no particular order:

Church of Misery - House of the Unholy
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Fen - The Malediction Fields
Wodensthrone - Loss
Austere - To Lay Like Old Ashes
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
Woods of Ypres - 4: The Green Album
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars
Fäulnis - Gehirn Zwischen Wahn Und Sinn

Just can't get enough of that White Tomb though..

 

[Mort Divine]

Shrinebuilder - s/t
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Converge - Axe To Fall
Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Karen O and the Kids - Where The Wild Things Are
PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
Exxasens - Beyond the Universe
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Cinnamon Chasers - A Million Miles from Home

 

[skeptik]

If I had a gun to my head, this would be my top ten right this second, in order:

1. Beherit - Engram
2. The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
3. Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
4. Master's Hammer - Mantras
5. Grave Miasma - Exalted Emanation
6. Ignivomous - Death Transmutation
7. Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
8. Procession - The Cult of Disease
9. Argus - Argus
10. Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds...

 

[Hail The Wizard!]

Damn I forgot Argus and Chasm! And Drudkh!

 

[IntoPhagist]

Is this the official thread?

1. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
2. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
3. Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
4. Immortal - All Shall Fall
5. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
6. Katatonia - Night is the new Day
7. Vektor - Black Future
8. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue

Come to think of it, I only Bought 4 Metal albums this year. I didn't like anything enough to buy besides my top 5.

 

[Chaosmönger]

Mine will probably be something like this:

1. Ares Kingdom – Incendiary
2. Vektor – Black Future
3. Weapon – Drakonian Paradigm
4. Varathron – Stygian Forces of Scorn
4. Katharsis – Fourth Reich
6. Portal – Swarth
7. Nazxul – Iconoclast
8. The Chasm – Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
9. Absu – Absu
10. Beherit – Engram

 

[Einherjar86]

No order; I just list them as I remember:

1. Bornholm- March For Glory and Revenge
2. Altar of Plagues- White Tomb
3. Amorphis- Skyforger
4. Askival- Eternity
5. Baranduin- A Warrior's Death EP
6. Fairyland- Score to a New Beginning
7. Fen- The Malediction Fields
8. Kalisia- Cybion
9. Powerwolf- Bible of the Beast
10. Suidakra- Crógacht

Honorable mentions would be:
Wodensthrone- Loss
The Project Hate- The Lustrate Process
Manegarm- Nattväsen
Candlemass- Death Magic Doom
Immortal- All Shall Fall

Haven't heard either of Hellveto's 2009 releases yet, or While Heaven Wept's new one, but I'm assuming they would also be included somewhere (either in top ten or honorable mentions).

 

[Evil?]

If I had a gun to my head, this would be my top ten right this second, in order:

1. Beherit - Engram
2. The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
3. Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
4. Master's Hammer - Mantras
5. Grave Miasma - Exalted Emanation
6. Ignivomous - Death Transmutation
7. Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
8. Procession - The Cult of Disease
9. Argus - Argus
10. Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds...

Master's hammer at 4, really? I listened to the samples and they really didn't do much for me. Unless the full songs offer something much more than the samples I wasn't evn sure if I was going to pick it up.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

Fuck There is so many of them, but this would be it for me:

1. Adagio - "Archangels In Black"
2. Ensiferum - "From Afar"
3. Behemoth - "Evangelion"
4. Grave Digger - "Ballads Of A Hangman"
5. Darzamat - "Solfernus' Path"
6. Hammerfall - "No Sacrifice, No Victory"
7. Megadeth - "Endgame"
8. Stratovarius - "Polaris"
9. Tyr - "By The Light Of The Northern Star"
10. Breaking Benjamin - "Dear Agony"

Notable mentions:

Alestorm - "Black Sails At Midnight"
Amoral - "Show Your Colors"
Anubis Gate - "The Detached"
Arch Enemy - "The Root Of All Evil" (I'd have this in my top 10, but it's just re-recorded songs)
Augury - "Fragmentary Evidence"
Axxis - "Utopia"
The Black Dahlia Murder - "Deflorate"
Black messiah - "First War Of The World"
Cannibal Corpse - "Evisceration Plague"
Despised Icon - "Day Of Mourning"
Devildriver - "Pray For Villians"
Divine Heresy - "Facebreaker"
Dream Theater - "Black Clouds & Silver Linings"
Goatwhore - "Carving Out The Eyes Of God"
God Forbid - "Earthsblood"
Gorod - "Process Of A New Decline"
Hackneyed - "Burn After Reaping"
Hypocrisy - "A Taste Of Extreme Divinity"
Insomnium - "Across The Dark"
Job For A Cowboy - "Ruination"
Luna Mortis - "The Absence"
Mystic Prophecy - "Fireangel"
Nightrage - "Wearing A Martyr's Crown"
Nile - "Those Whom The Gods Detest"
Primal Fear - "16.6 (Before The Devil Knows Your Dead)"
Shadows Fall - "Retribution"
Suffocation - "Blood Oath"
Woe Of Tyrants - "Kingdom Of Might"

 

[Jimmy... Dead.]

No order

Ulcerate -Everything Is Fire
YOB-The Great Cessation
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Behemoth - Evangelion
Asphyx - Death...The Brutal Way
The Chasm – Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Ignivomous - Death Transmutation
Funebrarum - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams
Infinitum Obscure - Sub Atris Caelis

 

[arg]

top 10 in order
Behemoth - Evangelion
Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
Suffocation - Blood Oath
Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
Amorphis - Skyforger
Shadows Fall - Retribution
Slugathor - Echoes from Beneath
Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
Epica - Design Your Universe
Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity

runners-up no order
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
Vader - Necropolis
Old Man's Child - Slaves of the World
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
Hatebreed - Hatebreed
Chimaira - The Infection
Impending Doom - The Serpent Servant
Hackneyed - Burn After Reaping
Despised Icon - Day of Mourning
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Blood Red Throne - Souls of Damnation
Austrian Death Machine - Double Brutal

 

[The Ozzman]

Mantic Ritual - Executioner
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage (II)
Amorphis - Skyforger
Megadeth - Endgame
Obituary - Darkest Day
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Insomnium - Across the Dark
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Diana Krall - Quiet Nights
Suffocation - Blood Oath

Katatonia didn't make my list. Disappointing.

 

[Ekinflog]

1.Sunn O)))-Monoliths and Dimensions
2.Katatonia-Night is the New Day
3.Drudkh-Microcosmos
4.Greg Davis-Mutually Arising
5.Rameses III-I Could Not Love You More
6.Wolves in the Throne Room-Black Cascade
7.Om-God is Good
8.Fabio Orsi and Seaworthy-Near and Faraway
9.Mono-Hymn to the Immortal Wind
10.Nick Cave and Warren Ellis-White Lunar

 

[Belligerent]

ugh this is going to be tough:

Vreid - Milorg
Katatonia - NITND
Woods of Ypres - The Green Album
Wodensthrone - Loss
Hatesphere - To The Nines
The Project Hate - The Lustrate Process
Lost Soul - Immersed in Infinity
Behemoth - Evangelion
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
Animals As Leaders - S/T

 

[Goffdahl]

1 - Katharsis - Fourth Reich
2 - Drudkh - Microcosmos
3 - Lifelover - Dekadens
4 - Sólstafir - Köld
5 - Cobalt - Gin
6 - Shining - VI Klagopsalmer
7 - Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
8 - Austere - To Lay Like Old Ashes
9 - Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
10 - Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ