Your Top 2009 Releases

[i aint play this]

Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Baroness - Blue Record
Blut Aus Nord - MV2: Dialogue With the Stars
Cobalt - Gin

There are still some albums to check out though, like The Incident and the latest Mew.

 

[Skaldir]

Transatlantic - The Whirlwind
Katatonia - Night is the New Day

Can't remember anything else I really liked this year.

 

[Morfeind]

Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Katatonia - Night is the new day
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Soulsavers - Broken

Jury is still out -

Devin Townsend - Ki
Devin Townsend - Addicted
PT - The Incident

 

[madr0x]

Katatonia is my fav album this year followed by the Horrors - Primary colours(HIGHLY recommended)

This year has been mostly let downs. all the albums I've been keen for have been mostly terrible. PT's album I just can't seem to enjoy, It annoys me that the better songs on the album are only 2min (or less) long. I get that its ment to be one long song but it just don't work for me. Placebos newie is top 40 trash. They have compleatly lost that special somthing. Even Depeche modes Sounds of the universe is a let down(comming from a MASSIVE FAN)

Thank god for Katatonia saving the year!

 

[dwoakee]

although i bought quite a lot of albums in 2009 only five of them have actually been released in 2009, so for me it's too early to pick the best 2009 release yet. you should ask me again in, say, 2011. anyway, if i have to pick now - based on the assumptions that anything i bought i like better than all the stuff i didn't buy - i'ld say its:

- katatonia "night is the new day"
- diablo swing orchestra "sing-along songs for the damned and delirious"
- november's doom "into night's requiem infernal"

in no particular order. the other two 2009 releases i bought where björk's "voltaic" and dream theater's "black clouds and silver linings" (well, i didn't actually buy that last one). I'm still planning to buy the new kittie "into the black" but i don't think that it will be one of the top 2009 albums. and i was close to buying the new paradise lost. maybe i'll come back to that one later. my wishlist is currently cluttered with all those midnight oil remasters...

 

[Heliotropic_Rose]

did anyone else get Wardruna? i just recieved it finally, very kick ass

 

[Pelata]

OK, no changes now...took a lot of filtering and stuff came on and fell off...but here's what I'm left with:


My favorite 2009 releases (in no order):
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
U2 - No Line On The Horizon
Redemption - Snowfall On Judgement Day
Gazpacho - Tick Tock
OSI - Blood
Long Distance Calling - Avoid The Light
Mastedon/John Elefante - 3/Revolution Of Mind
Muse - The Resistance
Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us...
Amorphis - Skyforger

Other really good albums:
Dream Theater - Black Clouds...
W.E.T. - W.E.T.
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Megadeth - Endgame
Overkill - Ironbound

Disappointments:
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
W.A.S.P. - Babylon
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
Queensryche - American Soldier

Still haven't heard but want to:
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Mars Volta - Octahedron
Ghost Brigade-Isolation Songs
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
The Gathering - The West Pole
The Butterfly Effect - Final Conversations
Anubis Gate - The Detached
Novembers Doom - Into Nights Requim Infernal
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind

 

[i aint play this]

Black Gives Way to Blue is a bit of a disappointment, yes, but I still love it very much.

 

[Pelata]

Black Gives Way to Blue is a bit of a disappointment, yes, but I still love it very much.

I really wanted to love it...and I can't say it's "bad"...but it didn't stick.

 

[Phoenix5]

I'd actually classify Night is the New Day as a disappointment... I didn't like too many cds this year.

agreed.

 

[The Emptier]

Still haven't heard but want to:
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
Mars Volta - Octahedron
Ghost Brigade-Isolation Songs
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
The Gathering - The West Pole
The Butterfly Effect - Final Conversations
Anubis Gate - The Detached
Novembers Doom - Into Nights Requim Infernal
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind

go listen!!

 

[the mourner13]

So finally I've decided that the album of the year for me is;

IAMX- Kingdom of Welcome Addiction

It's so catchy, lyrics are clever, vocals are top notch, a little dark, a little aggressive... Everything I can expect from a band.

I think maybe this is the first year that my favourite album is not a rock or a metal album... Things change, so do people...

 

[Fredy_Brown]

Greetings from the Maldives!
Here is the annual Fredy_Brown's 2009 list. 69 titles in alphabetic order. I hope that you'll enjoy it. Congratulations to those of you who made it to the list. Feel free to contact for any additional info/whatever.
Allow me to wish you all the best for the upcoming year.
- Fredy_Brown
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2562 - Unbalance
Alamaailman Vasarat - Huuro Kolkko
Alexander Turnquist - As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color
Alland Byallo - Brick By Brick
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Ametsub - The Nothings of The North
Bizzy B - Retrospective
Ben Frost - By The Throat
Big Bud - Connections
Blitz The Ambassador - Stereotype
Blueneck - The Fallen Host
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II : Dialogue With The Stars
Brock Van Wey (aka Bvdub) - White Clouds Drift On And On
Bruno Sanfilippo - Auralspace
Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
Celer - Close Proximity and the Unhindered Care-all
Clint Mansell - Moon OST
Dalek - Gutter Tactis
Danny Norbury - Light In August
Desiderii Marginis - Years Lend A Golden Charm
Elegi - Varde
Elm - Nemcatacoa
Fabio Orsi & Seaworthy - Near and Faraway
French Teen Idol - El Siete Es La Luz
Gareth Davis & Steven R. Smith - Westering
Gifts From Enola - From Fathoms
Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity
Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
Hear - 5 Pieces
Hannu - Hintergarten
Hecq - Steeltongued
Hildur Guonadóttir - Without sinking
Ian Hawgood - Snow Roads
If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Jóhann Jóhannsson - And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
Jon Hopkins - Insides
Kaito - Trust
Kashiwa Daisuke - 5 Dec
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons
Kool Keith - Tashan Dorrsett
Lawrence English - A Colour For Autumn
Li Jianhong - Lovers With Cloisonne Bracelet
Luke Hess - Transform
Martyn - Great Lengths
Max Richter - From The Art Of Mirrors
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Monolake - Silence
Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter Of Darkness
Nomak - Muziq & Foto
Pimmon - Smudge Another Yesterday
Philip Glass - Symphony No. 7 Toltec
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx PT II
Rafael Anton Irisarri - Hopes and Past Desires
Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak of Araby
Six Organs of Admittance - Luminous Night
Solo Andata - Solo Andata
Starving Weirdos - Into An Energy
Steve Roach - Dynamic Stillness
stg. - Capital of gravity
Strings Of Consciousness - Strings Of Consciousness & Angel
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Succubus
Thomas Koner - La Barca
Tim Hecker - An imaginary Country
Totakeke - The Things That Disappear When I Close My Eyes
Urna - Iter Ad Lucem
White Tree - Cloudland
Xela - The Divine


Artist of the year: Celer

Project of the year: Wixel for his "12 months"

Guilty pleasure of the year: Birdman

LOL prize goes to: Triple C's

 

[Dora]

Gazpacho: Tick Tock
Riverside: ADHD
The Editors: In This Light..

 

[Jesse Pohjalainen]

Katatonia - Night is the New Day

Amorphis - Skyforger

Swallow the Sun - New Moon

My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire

Insomnium - Across the Dark

Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

 

[Belligerent]

Karnivool - Sound Awake (Grooves harder than any, and has enough infectious melody to back it up)

:zombie: didn't know they released a new album. I liked "Themata" quite a bit.








In No Order:

Vreid - Milorg
Katatonia - NITND
Woods of Ypres - The Green Album
Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity
Wodensthrone - Loss
Hatesphere - To The Nines
Lost Soul - Immersed in Infinity
Behemoth - Evangelion
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
Animals As Leaders - S/T

 

[Bound2Fate]

Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

 

[Belligerent]

edit: This new Karnivool album is really good.

 

[season1234]

1. Amorphis - Skyforger
2. The Beatles - Rubber Soul Re-issue
3. Unanimated - In the Light of Darkness
4. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
5. Breaking Benjamin - Dear Agony
6. Theatre Of Tragedy - Forever Is the World
7. A.A. Bondy - When The Devil's Loose
8. Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
9. Darzamat - Solfernus' Path
10. Claire Voyant - Lustre
11. Barren Earth - Our Twilight
12. God Dethroned - Passiondale
13. Oceanlab - Sirens Of The Sea
14. Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity
15. Jim Gaffigan - King Baby
16. Nick Swardson- Serioously, Who Farted?
17. Maudlin Of The Well - Part The Second
18. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
19. Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
20. Alela Diane - To Be Still

********dissapointments:

My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire. This band has officially lost it, only 2-3 good songs. Nothing is worse than an uninspired and BORING album, blah. A million miles from the greatness of turn loose the swans.

Paradise Lost - Faith Divides us, Death Unites Us - Ok, but liked the last one quite a bit more.

*****Looking forward to new Anathema in 2010, can't wait!!!!!!

 

[Grumble Grumble]

1.Ghost Brigade-Isolation Songs(pure win all around)
2.Katatonia-Night is the New Day
3.My Dying Bride-For Lies I Sire(granted yes, not as good as their older stuff but i still enjoyed the hell out of it)