Grave DiggerThat's right, this is the third time I'm doing musical summary of the year, although nobody cares. Anyway, this time a number of albums rated is the highest so far (I'm too lazy to count though)... yet, I haven't managed to give a listen to every album I wanted, maybe I'll get better luck next year.
Please, note that 7/10 isn't really a high mark - let's say that 6 is for albums which are flawed, yet listenable. 7 means good, but forgettable. 8 is reserverd for very good CDs, and, as you may or may have not figured out, 7.5 is something in between.
I've decided to give one perfect 10. Actually, I do not believe in pure perfection, so let's say - 10 here means 'as close as it gets'.
4/10
Show Your Colors - Amoral
6/10
A-Lex - Sepultura
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
6,5/10
The Empyrean - John Frusciante
Wicked Maiden - Impellitteri
7/10
1,5 - Los Pierdols
9 Degrees West Of The Moon - Vision Divine
Angels Of Love - Yngwie Malmsteen
Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion - Eluveitie
Halford III - Winter Songs - Halford
Monoliths & Dimensions - Sunn O)))
Night Castle - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Sunless Skies - Pathosray
The Visitor - UFO
7,5/10
All Ends In Silence - Dark the Suns
Chained To The Nite - Cauldron
For Lies I Sire - My Dying Bride
Here Waits Thy Doom - 3 Inches of Blood
Last Look At Eden - Europe
Living for Death, Destroying the Rest - Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
No Sacrifice, No Victory - HammerFall
Science of Annihilation - Cage
Spirit Black - Jorn
Through My Dog's Eyes - Ephel Duath
To The Grave - Iron Fire
8/10
A New Constellation - Nahemah
A Taste Of Extreme Divinity - Hypocrisy
Across the Dark - Insomnium
Animals As Leaders - Animals as Leaders
Ape Uprising - Slough Feg
Archangels in Black - Adagio
Babylon - W.A.S.P.
Back From The Dead - Spinal Tap
Ballads Of A Hangman - Grave Digger
Cosmic Egg - Wolfmother
Battle Sluts - Destroy Destroy Destroy
Black'N'Roll - Black River
Black Sails at Midnight - Alestorm
Blood - OSI
Crógacht - SuidAkrA
Dark Matter Dimensions - Scar Symmetry
Enemies - Marionette
Esoteric - Skyfire
Everyday Demons - The Answer
Freedom Comes - Vicious Crusade
Hordes of Chaos - Kreator
Idmen - Indukti
In The... All Together - Skyclad
Japanese Hospitality - Warmen
Linoleum - Pain of Salvation
Massive Aggressive - Municipal Waste
Necropolis - Vader
Pine/Cross Dover - Masters of Reality
Re-Creation - Carnal
Slaughterhouse On the Prairie - Buckethead
Skeletons in the Closet - Children of Bodom
Sonic Boom - KISS
Strażnik Światła - Turbo
The Century of Self - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The Days of Grays - Sonata Arctica
The God Behind the God - Spiritus Mortis
The Incident - Porcupine Tree
The Restless Memoirs - Disarmonia Mundi
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Wavering Radiant - Isis
Wearing A Martyr's Crown - Nightrage
With Echoes in the Movement of Stone - Minsk
When Death Comes - Artillery
World Painted Blood - Slayer
Waking Into Nightmares - Warbringer
8,5/10
Addicted - Devin Townsend Project
Amor Vincit Omnia - Pure Reason Revolution
Dead Harvest - This Ending
Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us - Paradise Lost
Into the Labyrinth - Saxon
Ki - Devin Townsend Project
Sad Day On Planet Earth - Lillian Axe
Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious - Diablo Swing Orchestra
Strange Cousins From The West - Clutch
The Devil You Know - Heaven & Hell
Visionism - Rootwater
9/10
Black Clouds & Silver Linings - Dream Theater
Death Magic Doom - Candlemass
Endgame - Megadeth
Evilution - Chainsaw
From Afar - Ensiferum
HellWood - Hunter
Skyforger - Amorphis
Shin-Ken - Persefone
The Isolation Game - Disarmonia Mundi
9,5/10
Anno Domini High Definition - Riverside
10/10 and the title of The Album Of 2009 goes to...
Cybion - Kalisia
Despite (for some people perhaps too) high ratings, I hope that the 2010 is going to be even better. I wish that to myself and to all of you.
Happy new year, motherfuckers.
Please, note that 7/10 isn't really a high mark - let's say that 6 is for albums which are flawed, yet listenable. 7 means good, but forgettable. 8 is reserverd for very good CDs, and, as you may or may have not figured out, 7.5 is something in between.
I've decided to give one perfect 10. Actually, I do not believe in pure perfection, so let's say - 10 here means 'as close as it gets'.
4/10
Show Your Colors - Amoral
6/10
A-Lex - Sepultura
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot
6,5/10
The Empyrean - John Frusciante
Wicked Maiden - Impellitteri
7/10
1,5 - Los Pierdols
9 Degrees West Of The Moon - Vision Divine
Angels Of Love - Yngwie Malmsteen
Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion - Eluveitie
Halford III - Winter Songs - Halford
Monoliths & Dimensions - Sunn O)))
Night Castle - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Sunless Skies - Pathosray
The Visitor - UFO
7,5/10
All Ends In Silence - Dark the Suns
Chained To The Nite - Cauldron
For Lies I Sire - My Dying Bride
Here Waits Thy Doom - 3 Inches of Blood
Last Look At Eden - Europe
Living for Death, Destroying the Rest - Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
No Sacrifice, No Victory - HammerFall
Science of Annihilation - Cage
Spirit Black - Jorn
Through My Dog's Eyes - Ephel Duath
To The Grave - Iron Fire
8/10
A New Constellation - Nahemah
A Taste Of Extreme Divinity - Hypocrisy
Across the Dark - Insomnium
Animals As Leaders - Animals as Leaders
Ape Uprising - Slough Feg
Archangels in Black - Adagio
Babylon - W.A.S.P.
Back From The Dead - Spinal Tap
Ballads Of A Hangman - Grave Digger
Cosmic Egg - Wolfmother
Battle Sluts - Destroy Destroy Destroy
Black'N'Roll - Black River
Black Sails at Midnight - Alestorm
Blood - OSI
Crógacht - SuidAkrA
Dark Matter Dimensions - Scar Symmetry
Enemies - Marionette
Esoteric - Skyfire
Everyday Demons - The Answer
Freedom Comes - Vicious Crusade
Hordes of Chaos - Kreator
Idmen - Indukti
In The... All Together - Skyclad
Japanese Hospitality - Warmen
Linoleum - Pain of Salvation
Massive Aggressive - Municipal Waste
Necropolis - Vader
Pine/Cross Dover - Masters of Reality
Re-Creation - Carnal
Slaughterhouse On the Prairie - Buckethead
Skeletons in the Closet - Children of Bodom
Sonic Boom - KISS
Strażnik Światła - Turbo
The Century of Self - ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The Days of Grays - Sonata Arctica
The God Behind the God - Spiritus Mortis
The Incident - Porcupine Tree
The Restless Memoirs - Disarmonia Mundi
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Wavering Radiant - Isis
Wearing A Martyr's Crown - Nightrage
With Echoes in the Movement of Stone - Minsk
When Death Comes - Artillery
World Painted Blood - Slayer
Waking Into Nightmares - Warbringer
8,5/10
Addicted - Devin Townsend Project
Amor Vincit Omnia - Pure Reason Revolution
Dead Harvest - This Ending
Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us - Paradise Lost
Into the Labyrinth - Saxon
Ki - Devin Townsend Project
Sad Day On Planet Earth - Lillian Axe
Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious - Diablo Swing Orchestra
Strange Cousins From The West - Clutch
The Devil You Know - Heaven & Hell
Visionism - Rootwater
9/10
Black Clouds & Silver Linings - Dream Theater
Death Magic Doom - Candlemass
Endgame - Megadeth
Evilution - Chainsaw
From Afar - Ensiferum
HellWood - Hunter
Skyforger - Amorphis
Shin-Ken - Persefone
The Isolation Game - Disarmonia Mundi
9,5/10
Anno Domini High Definition - Riverside
10/10 and the title of The Album Of 2009 goes to...
Cybion - Kalisia
Despite (for some people perhaps too) high ratings, I hope that the 2010 is going to be even better. I wish that to myself and to all of you.
Happy new year, motherfuckers.
