Top 10 2009 Thread

[Tonka Time]

Favorites would have to be:
Marduk - Wormwood
Funeral Mist - Maranatha
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II

 

[Eligos]

ITT we make fun of each other's taste, just like every other thread in GMD.

 

[The Ozzman]

General Metal Discussion: Where your taste is never good enough

 

[Tonka Time]

General Metal Discussion: Where your taste is never good enough

envisioning that at the end of a commercial.

 

[MasterOLightning]

I thought the Porcupine Tree album was really good until the title track, which sucked, and then the 11 minute song was so poor in comparison to what they usually come up with when they go for long songs. (Anasthetize, Arriving Somewhere..., Russia On Ice are among their absolute best works.) It wasn't ambitious at all by their standards. The B-sides on the second disc were so blah and characterless and samey, which almost can never be said about about PT songs. FoaBP was great, so this massively disappointed me. Just when it seemed like they were getting a better grasp on how to integrate heavy riffs, they got away from it. Also, I thought there was a problem with the mixing where the quiet parts in the interludes were way too soft and hard to hear, which led to some sleepy points where it was hard to hear anything.

I shouldn't have to explain by White Tomb was bad. It's one of the least creative albums I've heard. There are maybe five captivating minutes there. Too many parts that sound completely aped from other bands. It's like the starting point was the sticker on the front that said, "For fans of Wolves In The Throne Room, Isis, Primordial, and Nachtmystium" and then they went and recorded an album. It's not nearly fun enough or well-executed enough to get away with being so unoriginal.

 

[unknown]

General Metal Discussion: Where your taste is never good enough

I love it

 

[Eligos]

Me too. It's laughable now.

 

[Belligerent]

I thought the Porcupine Tree album was really good until the title track, which sucked, and then the 11 minute song was so poor in comparison to what they usually come up with when they go for long songs. (Anasthetize, Arriving Somewhere..., Russia On Ice are among their absolute best works.) It wasn't ambitious at all by their standards. The B-sides on the second disc were so blah and characterless and samey, which almost can never be said about about PT songs. FoaBP was great, so this massively disappointed me. Just when it seemed like they were getting a better grasp on how to integrate heavy riffs, they got away from it. Also, I thought there was a problem with the mixing where the quiet parts in the interludes were way too soft and hard to hear, which led to some sleepy points where it was hard to hear anything.

The only song that disappointed me was "Time Flies".

 

[MasterOLightning]

Time Flies was really not good, and most of the interludes were a waste of time. I thought the back half was mostly poor by the band's standards. Also, I had almost no clue what was going on with the concept. I didn't do excessive amounts of background reading, but it seemed pretty obtuse beyond the central car crash. That part is a pretty terrible song, so maybe I'm missing something every time I skip it.

But Blind House through Drawing the Line is very good.

 

[Belligerent]

I will agree with a few of the interludes being a waste of time but i enjoyed The Incident as a whole. A few songs off the back half really struck me as great imo. Especially Bonnie The Cat, Black Dahlia, and Flicker.

 

[unknown]

I haven't been impressed with anything Porcupine Tree has released since Lightbulb Sun. In Absentia was pretty good and Deadwing had a few decent tracks, but since then, I haven't been particularly wowed by them

 

[MasterOLightning]

I'm re-listening to Deadwing and FoaBP tonight, and these albums are >>>>>>>>> The Incident. It especially stands out how badly produced it is.

I might also be the only person who thinks Fear Of A Blank Planet is their best album.

 

[Zarrix]

I thought the Porcupine Tree album was really good until the title track, which sucked, and then the 11 minute song was so poor in comparison to what they usually come up with when they go for long songs. (Anasthetize, Arriving Somewhere..., Russia On Ice are among their absolute best works.) It wasn't ambitious at all by their standards.

Title Track was the best part of the album, along with Circle of Manias and Blind House. But yes, I think Time Flies is the weakest song overall, especially when compared to Anesthetize in terms of long tracks. If that epic was on The Incident, the album would of been ****ing godly.

 

[Goffdahl]

If you have a hard time figuring out your 2009 top ten, here's some help to get you inspired:

3 Inches of Blood - Battles and Brotherhood
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Absu - Magic(k) Square Cipher
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Alestorm - Keelhauled
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Alice in Chains - A Looking in View
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Altar of Plagues - Earth as a Womb
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Amorphis - Silver Bride
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Anaal Nathrakh - More Fire than Blood
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Arckanum - Þursvitnir
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Artillery - When Death Comes
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Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way
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Austere - This Dreadful Emptiness
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Autumnia - Breathe Your Mourning Into Me
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Baroness - A Horse Called Golgotha
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Behemoth - Ov Fire and the Void
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Beherit - Pagan Moon
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Black Math Horseman - Deerslayer
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Blut aus Nord - Disciple's Libration
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Bornholm - Where The Light Was Born (Thule Ultima A Sole Nomen Habens)
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Born of Osiris - A Higher Place
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Brainstorm - The Conjunction of 7 Planets
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Candlemass - If I Ever Die
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Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
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Celeste - A défaut de te jeter sur ta progéniture
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Chimaira - The Disappearing Sun
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Church of Misery - Born to Raise Hell
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Cobalt - Pregnant Insect
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Code - The Rattle of Black Teeth
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Converge - Axe to Fall
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Count Raven - The Poltergeist
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Despised Icon - Day of Mourning
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Disparaged - Thy Will
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The Devil's Blood - The Yonder Beckons
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Dream Theater - Wither
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Drudkh - Ars Poetica
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Dying Fetus - Shepherd's Commandment
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Emesis – Painkiller
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Ensiferum - From Afar
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Ereb Altor - By Honour
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Gama Bomb - Three Witches
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God Dethroned - Poison Fog
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The Gates of Slumber - Chaos Calling
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The Gathering - All You Are
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Ghost Brigade - My Heart Is a Tomb
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Goatwhore - Apocalyptic Havoc
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Hammerfall - Any Means Necessary
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Heaven and Hell - Bible Black
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Insomnium - Down with the Sun
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Isis - 20 Minutes / 40 Years
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Job for a Cowboy - Unfurling a Darkened Gospel
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Katatonia - Day & Then the Shade
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Killswitch Engage - Starting Over
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Korpiklaani - Vodka
(http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/3121/ko...video)

Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
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Lay Down Rotten - Hours of Infinity
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Legion of the Damned - Cult of the Dead
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Maroon - Stay Brutal
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Mastodon - Oblivion
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Megadeth - Head Crusher
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Municipal Waste - Wrong Answer
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My Dying Bride - Bring Me Victory
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Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave
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Nearea - Prey to Anguish
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Obscura - The Anticosmic Overload
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Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
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Pestilence - Devouring Frenzy
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Powerwolf - Raise Your Fist, Evangelist
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Primal Fear - Six Times Dead
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Requiem - Marked by the Signs of Chaos
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Sarke - Attaullah
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Sepultura - What I Do
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Slayer - Psychopathy Red
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Solstafir - Love Is the Devil
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Sonata Arctica - Flag in the Ground
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Trepalium - Inner Hell
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Tyr - Hold the Heathen Hammer High
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Vader - Never Say My Name
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Vreid - Milorg
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[sevag00]

You forgot to put the Marduk album.

 

[Ric]

...and Teitanblood, Katharsis, Lamb of God oh wait....

 

[Master_Yoda77]

I am amazed that Beherit is even listed there with so much gayshit.

 

[rms]

was that really necessary? 500 youtube? dont you have something better to do with your time at the very least?

 

[Goffdahl]

First off - this wasn't "collected" by me. I just copy pasted from a private metal forum I frequent. So no, I guess it wasn't necessary. But I don't think many posts on this forum really are. Was your post really necessary?

And yeah, of course there are bands missing - like Katharsis. Actually I stated earlier in this thread that Katharsis would be my pick for best album of 2009.

 

[Eligos]

Epic post is epic. I approve.