Top Albums of 2009 - The Thread

Those two records are excellent though. I'd be happy with more of the same, but something a little different would be equally awesome.
 
All the ones I have interest in. Pretty sizable list!
June 2009



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15.06 Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer
19.06 Deströyer 666 - Defiance
22.06 Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way
23.06 Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
30.06 Obituary - Darkest Day


July 2009

03.07 Suffocation - Blood Oath
14.07 Drudkh - Microcosmos
17.07 Augury - Fragmentary Evidence


August 2009

········ Hail Of Bullets - Warsaw Rising [EP]
21.08 Vader - Necropolis
29.08 Nomans Land - Farnord


September 2009

········ Fjoergyn - Jahreszeiten
········ Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR
········ Borknagar - Universal
········ Devin Townsend - Addicted
········ Secrets Of The Moon - Privilegivm
········ In Vain - Mantra
15.09 Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity

October 2009

········ Immortal - All Shall Fall
········ Nile - TBA
········ Arch Enemy - TBA
22.10 Månegarm - Nattväsen
31.10 Lair Of The Minotaur - War Metal Battle Master [DVD]

November 2009

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December 2009

········ Katatonia - TBA
········ Odroerir - Götterlieder II
········ Manowar - Hammer Of The Gods
········ Forgotten Tomb - Under Saturn Retrograde (working title)
········ Woods Of Ypres - TBA
········ Unexpect - TBA
········ Morbid Angel - TBA
········ Melechesh - TBA
········ Aeternus - TBA
········ Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
········ Necrophagist - TBA
········ Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt
········ Anata - TBA
········ Summoning - TBA
········ Vader - TBA [EP]
········ Forbidden - TBA
········ Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
········ Deicide - TBA
········ Varathron - Stygian Forces Of Scorn
········ Darkthrone - TBA
········ Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi!
········ Sigh - Scenes From Hell/Tempore Belli/Vanitas
 
So, two months left in the year, any top lists beginning to form?

Definite candidates:

Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Absu - Absu
Katharsis - Fourth Reich
Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi
Destroyer 666 - Defiance
Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland

May be forgetting a few. All around, great year for metal.
 
Final Top 10 list (for now):

1) Devin Townsend - Addicted
2) Absu - Absu
3) The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
4) Katharsis - Fourth Reich
5) Ram Zet - Neutralize
6) Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I
7) Obliteration - Nekropsalms
8) Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland
9) God Dethroned - Passiondale
10) Destroyer 666 - Defiance (I am surprised that I am putting it so low, but frankly hasn't hooked me in as much as the other albums. Still fookin' awesome though.)

Honorable Mentions:
Candlemass - Death, Magic, Doom
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Arkona - Goi, Rode, Goi
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
Cobalt - Gin
Grave Miasma - Exalted Emanation
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb


Awesome fucking year.
 
I'm gonna get a lot of shit for this list but I don't give a shit:

1. Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
2. Behemoth - Evangelion
3. Vader - Necropolis
4. Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
5. Megadeth - Endgame
6. Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
 
1. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
2. Baroness – The Blue Record
3. Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
4. YOB – The Great Cessation
5. Slough Feg – Ape Uprising
6. Devin Townsend Project – Addicted!
7. Kylesa – Static Tensions
8. Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
9. Cilice – Deranged Headtrip
10. Kellermensch – Kellermensch

Honorable Mention:

Cloudkicker – The Map is Not the Territory/Portmanteau EPs



I made a mixtape too.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=83NV930V

Mixtape:

1. Every Time I Die - Roman Holiday
2. Anaal Nathrakh - More of Fire Than Blood
3. Cilice - Mental Breakdown
4. Baroness - A Horse Called Golgotha
5. Slough Feg - Simian Manifesto
6. Kylesa - Running Red
7. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
8. Kellermensch - Nothing Left
9. Devin Townsend Project - Numbered!
10. Cloudkicker - God Be With Ye
11. YOB - The Great Cessation