What's your album of the year?

2009 pretty sucked.

The least sucky bits for me were Muse's The Resistance, Paramore's Brand New Eyes and Florence and the Machine's Lungs.
 
One Hundred Steps - Human Clouds
Long Distance Calling - Avoid The Light
Loch Vostok - Reveal No Secrets
Be'Lakor - Stone's Reach
 
Toss up for me between Alice in Chains and Devin Townsend....

Usually I'd have a metal CD listed as my favorite for the year, but I suppose I'm getting tired of the same carbon copy crap that just keeps coming out these days...
 
AIC's.

Worst album was KSE. There's a couple of nice songs, and even them start to annoy after a while.
 
Lamb of God - Wrath (altho gets rather repetitive, Reclamation saves it)
Paramore - BNE
Emery - In Shallow Seas We Drown
Lisa Mitchell - Wonder (Australian so most probly won't know)

A really shitty year for metal. Evangelion was alright but not my cup of tea.
 
Here's a couple albums that i thought were pretty sick that hadn't been mentioned yet.

Darkest Hour - The Eternal Ruin
Oh, Sleeper - Son of the Morning
Dethklok - Dethalbum II
It Dies Today - Lividity
Red - Innocence and Instinct
 
Öwen;8774700 said:
2009 pretty sucked.

That

But there were a few excellent albums worthy of a mention:

Katatonia - Night Is the New Day
Waltari - Below Zero
Rammstein - Liebe ist für alle da
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know

Then a few decent albums which I don't foresee lasting the test of time:

Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions
Devin Townsend - Addicted!

Biggest disappointments:

Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
Samael - Above
Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
Karl Sanders - Saurian Exorcisms

And finally some albums which I need to listen to more before deciding (but promising so far):

OSI - Blood
Beherit - Engram
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ
Mumakil - Behold the Failure
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen puhuu
Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria
Arthemesia - a.O.a
Kylesa - Static Tensions
 
1.Katatonia - Night Is the New Day

2.Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
3.VersaEmerge - VersaEmerge (self titled EP)
4.Paramore - Brand New Eyes

New Slayer was atrocious.
New Killswitch Engage was disappointing.