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2009 was somehow a weird year. Some of my favorite artists released new records, but I have to say: Some were BIG crap. So there were several records I were disappointed of, but therefor other bands, especially ones I discovered this year released some good stuff.
In comparison I have to say that I didn't buy as many records as in 2008 and I more concentrated on old stuff (<2009)

Really good releases:
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Amorphis - Skyforger
Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster (need to get my own copy, though)
Sólstafir - Köld
W.A.S.P - Babylon


Good releases:
The Clan Destined - In the Big Ending...
Fen - The Malediction Fields
Grave Digger - Ballad of a Hangman
Jennifer Rostock - Der Film
Schandmaul Sinnfonie


Mediocre releases:
Bloodwork - The Final End Principle
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire


Totally disappointed:
Depeche Mode - Sounds Of The Universe
Doro - Fear No Evil
Exilia - My Own Army
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
Megadeth - Endgame


Especially the Doro and Megadeth release were so disappointing for me that I suddenly stopped my extensive listening to them...
But there were also some other great records coming up this year. Some I know, some I don't. Here's the list of records I still want to check out or I checked out but don't own (yet)

Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
Delain - April Rain (listened to)
Ensiferum - From Afar (listened to)
HammerFall - No Sacrifice, No Victory (listened to)
Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You (listened to)
Primal Fear - 16.6 (Before The Devil Knows You're Dead) (listened to)
Rebellion - Arise: From Ragnarök to Ginnungagap - The History of the Vikings, Volume III
Saltation Mortis - Wer Wind Sæt
Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays
Within Temptation - An Acoustic Night At The Theatre

From those that I listened to, I can say Primal Fear, HammerFall and Lily Allen were really convincing.
And yes, I'm getting poppish, but who cares...

1. Metallica
2. Iron Maiden
3. Megadeth
4. Overkill
5. Kreator
6. Slipknot
7. Nightwish
8. Artillery
9. Marduk
10. Vader
11. Behemoth
12. The Dillinger Escape Plan
13. DragonForce
14. Paul Di'Anno
15. Kat
16. Turbo
17. TSA
18. Acid Drinkers
19. Hunter
20. Made Of Hate
21. Primal Fear
22. Chainsaw
23. brain surgery
24. Totem
25. Frontside
26. Perfect
27. Kult
28. Myslovitz
29. Karcer
30. Maanam
31. Kombi
32. Krzysztof Kiljański
33. Edyta Górniak
34. IRA
35. Akurat
36. Konopians
37. Shakin' Dudi
38. Witchking
39. Virgin Snatch
40. Killjoy
41. Szymon Wydra & Carpe Diem
42. Dżem
43. Lauren Harris
44. Beerhead
45. Drown My Day

CD's

AC/DC – Live
Ajattara – Kuolema
Alestorm – Captain Morgan's Revenge
Amon Amarth – Once Sent From the Golden Hall
Amon Amarth – The Avenger
Amon Amarth – The Crusher
Amon Amarth – Versus the World (Viking Edition digipack - signed)
Amon Amarth – Fate of Norns (digipack)
Amon Amarth – With Oden on Our Side (digipack)
Amon Amarth – Twilight of the Thundergod (ltd box set)
Amorphis – Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Ancient Rites – Dim Carcosa
Ancient Rites – Rubicon
Ascension - Durin's Bane Demo
Axenstar – Far From Heaven
Axenstar – Perpetual Twilight
Axenstar – Inquisition
Axenstar – Final Requiem
Ayreon – The Final Experiment (remastered)
Ayreon – The Human Equation
Bad Company – 10 From 6
Bal-Sagoth - Battle Magic
Bal-Sagoth – Atlantis Ascendant
Basil Poledouris – Conan the Barbarian Soundtrack
Bathory – Blood Fire Death
Bathory – Hammerheart
Bathory – Nordland
Bathory – Nordlan II
Battlelore – Where the Shadows Lie (signed)
Battlelore – Sword's Song (digipack, signed)
Battlelore - Third Age of the Sun (Signed)
Battlelore - Evernight (signed)
Battlelore - The Last Alliance (signed)
Battlesword – Failing in Triumph (digipack)
Black Jade – Of Forest and Fire (digipack)
Black Sabbath – Under Wheels of Confusion (box set)
Blackguard - Profugus Mortis (promo)
Blaze – Silicon Messiah (signed)
Blaze – Tenth Dimension (digipack, signed)
Blaze – As Live As It Gets (promo, signed)
Blaze – Blood & Belief (signed)
Blaze Bayley – The Man Who Would Not Die (signed)
Blaze Bayley - The Night That Would Not Die (signed)
Blind Guardian – Follow the Blind
Blind Guardian – A Twist in the Myth (digipack)
Bolt Thrower – Realm of Chaos (remastered)
Bolt Thrower – The IVth Crusade
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
Bolt Thrower – Who Dares Wins
Bolt Thrower – Mercenary
Bolt Thrower – Those Once Loyal
Bretwaldas Of Heathen Doom – Battle Staffs in the Mushroom Woods
Carpathian Forest – Black Shining Leather
Celesty - vendetta (promo)
Children of Bodom – SomethingWild
Children of Bodom – Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom – Follow the Reaper
Children of Bodom – Hate Crew Deathroll
Chrome Division – Doomsday Rock 'n Roll
Cock Sparrer – Shock Troops/Runnin Riot in '84
Crystal Viper - Metal Nation (signed)
Cutting Daisy – The Fools Crowned Themselves Gods
Dark Moor – The Hall of the Olden Dreams
Dark Tranquility – Damage Done
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - The Pest Called Humanity
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Follow the Calls for Battle
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Nocturnal March
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Evoking a Decade
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Hora Nocturna
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Saldorian Spell (digipack)
Darkthrone – A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Darkthrone – The Cult is Alive
Deathchain – Deadmeat Disciples
Deathchain – Deathrash Assault
Deep Purple – Made in Japan (remastered)
Destruction – The Best of Destruction
Dethklok – The Dethalbum (deluxe)
Diamond Head – Best of...
Dimmu Borgir – In Sorte Diaboli
Dissection – The Somberlain (ltd remastered boxset)
Dissection – Storm of the Lights Bane/Where Dead Angels Lie (digipack)
Dissection – Live Legacy (digipack)
Dissection – Reinkaos
Dragobrath – Scripture of the Woods
DragonForce – The Valley of the Damned
Dragonforce – Sonic Firestorm
Dragonforce – Inhuman Rampage
Dreamtale – Beyond Reality
Edguy – The Savage Poetry
Edguy – Mandrake
Edguy – Hellfire Club
Edguy – Superheroes EP
Edguy – Rocket Ride
Elexorien – Elexorien (signed)
Eluveitie – Spirit (signed)
Eluveitie – Slania
The Embodiment – Razor Cut Reality
The Embodiment – Legeon
Emperor – Emperial Live Ceremony
Endstille – Navigator
Ensiferum – Ensiferum
Ensiferum – Iron
Ensiferum – Dragonheads EP
Ensiferum – Victory Songs
Equilibrium – Sagas
Fairyland – Of Wars in Osyrhia (signed)
Fairyland – Fall of an Empire (signed)
Falconer – Falconer
Falconer – Sceptre of Deception
Falkenbach – Heralding the Fireblade
Finntroll – Nattfödd
Folkearth – By the Sword of my Father
Forefather – Ours is the Kingdom
Free - Live
Freedom Call – King of the Crystal Empire
Freedom Call – Eternity
Freedom Call – Live Invasion
Galadriel – The Mirror of Ages
Galadriel – Oblivion
Gorgoroth - Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam
Grave Digger – The Reaper
Grave Digger – Tunes of War (digipack)
Grave Digger – Knights of the Cross (digipack)
Grave Digger – Excalibur (digipack)
Grave Digger – Rheingold
Grave Digger – The Last Supper
Grave Digger – Liberty or Death
Graveland – Will Stronger Than Death (digibook)
Halford – Resurrection
HammerFall – Glory to the Brave
Hammerfall – Crimson Thunder (Comic Book Edition)
Hammerfall – Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken (box set)
Hanging Doll - Reason & Madness (signed)
Hawkwind – Space Ritual (digipack)
Hawkwind – Masters of the Universe
Hawkwind – Live Chronicles
Hawkwind – Epoch Eclipse; the Ultimate Best of...
Heidevolk – De Strijdlust is Geboren
Heol Telwen – An Deiz Ruz (digipack)
Highland Glory - Forever Endeavour (signed)
Hozz – Live (demo)
I – Between Two Worlds (digipack)
Iced Earth – Dark Genesis (Box Set)
Iced Earth – The Dark Saga
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Iced Earth – Days of Purgatory
Iced Earth – Alive in Athens (3-disc edition)
Iced Earth – The Melancholy EP (reissue)
Iced Earth – Horror Show
Iced Earth – The Glorious Burden (digipack)
Iced Earth – Overture of the Wicked EP
Iced Earth – Framing Armageddon (digipack)
Iced Earth – I Walk Among You (Single)
Iced Earth – The Crucible of Man (digipack)
Icy Steel – Icy Steel
Immortal – At the Heart of Winter
Immortal – Sons of Northern Darkness (reissue digipack)
Immortal Souls – Once Upon A Time in the North (digipack)
Iron Fire – Thunderstorm
Iron Maiden – Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden – Killers
Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden – Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden – Powerslave
Iron Maiden – Somewhere in Time
Iron Maiden – Seventh Son of A Seventh Son
Iron Maiden – Maiden England
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For the Dying
Iron Maiden – Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden – A Real Live One
Iron Maiden – A Real Live/Dead One
Iron Maiden – Live at Donington (reissue)
Iron Maiden – The X Factor (signed by Blaze Bayley)
Iron Maiden – Virtual XI (Signed by Blaze Bayley)
Iron Maiden – Ed Hunter (signed by Blaze Bayley)
Iron Maiden – Brave New World
Iron Maiden – Rock in Rio
Iron Maiden – Dance of Death
Iron Maiden – Death on the Road
Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life and Death
Iron Savior – Unification
Iron Savior – Interlude
Iron Savior – Condition Red
Iron Savior – Battering Ram
Iron Savior – Megatropolis
Ironically Maiden – Here's Your Sodding Demo Disk (Demo)
Jag Panzer – Thane to the Throne
Jag Panzer – Mechanised Warfare
Jeff Wayne – Musical Version of the War of the Worlds
Judas Priest – Sad Wings of Destiny
Judas Priest - Stained Class
Judas Priest - Killing Machine/Hell Bent for Leather
Judas Priest - British Steel
Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance
Judas Priest – Defenders of the Faith
Kamelot – Epica
Keep of Kalessin – Armada
Kreator – Past Life Trauma (1985-1992)
KromleK – Strange Rumours...Distant Tremors
Kult – Winds of War
Legion of the Damned – Sons of the Jackal
Leonard Rosenman – The Lord of the Rings Soundtrack (1978)
Luca Turilli – King of the Nordic Twilight
Lux Occulta - Dionysus
Manegarm – Vargstenen (digipack)
Marduk – Panzer Division Marduk
Marduk – Rom 5:12
Megadeth – Killing is my Business...and Business is Good
Megadeth – Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Megadeth – So Far, So Good...So What!
Megadeth – Rust in Peace
Megadeth – Countdown to Extinction
Megadeth – Youthanasia
Megadeth – Hidden Treasures
Megadeth – Cryptic Writings
Megadeth – Risk
Megadeth – The World Needs a Hero
Menhir – Hildebrandslied (digibook)
Mercenary – Everblack
Metallica – Kill 'Em All
Metallica – Ride the Lightning
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica – Metallica
Metallica – Load
Metallica – Reload
Metallica – Garage Inc.
Metallica – S&M
Metallica – Live Shit: Binge & Purge (reissue box set)
Midnattsol – Where Twilight Dwells
Moonsorrow – Kivenkantaja
Mors Principium Est – The Unborn (digipack)
Mors Principium Est – Inhumanity
Motörhead - Overkill
Motörhead – Ace of Spades
Motörhead – Another Perfect Day
Motörhead – No Sleep 'til Hammersmith
Motörhead – Bastards
Motörhead – Take No Prisoners
Mountain – Twin Peaks
Municipal Waste – The Art of Partying
Muse – Black Holes and Revelations
Nebelhorn – Gen Helwegs Grund
Nightwish – 1997-2001 (Digibook)
Nightwish – Century Child
Nightwish – Once
Nightwish – End of an Era (ltd box set)
Nightwish – Dark Passion Play (digipack)
Olympos Mons – Conquistador
Olympos Mons – Medievil
Orden Ogan - Vale (signed)
Overkill – Hello From the Gutter
Pantera – Cowboys From Hell
Pantera – Vulgar Display of Power
Pantera – Far Beyond Driven
Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill
Pantera – Offcial Live: 101 Proof
Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder
Queen – Greatest Hits
Queen – Greatest Hits II
Queen – Greatest Hits III
Rhapsody – Legendary Tales
Rhapsody - Emerald Sword (single)
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory (ltd box set)
Rhapsody – Rain of a Thousand Flames
Rhapsody – Power of the Dragonflame (dvd edition)
Rhapsody – Symphony of Enchanted Lands, Vol 2: The Dark Secret (digipack)
Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolus
Rotting Christ – Theogonia (digipack)
Running Wild – Masquerade
Satyricon – Now, Diabolical
Siebenbürgen – Loreia
Siebenbürgen – Grimjaur
Siebenbürgen – Delictum
Siebenbürgen – Darker Designs & Images
Silent Force – Walk the Earth
Silent Prophecy - Silent Prophecy Demo
The Sins of Thy Beloved – Lake of Sorrow
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Slechtvalk – The War That Plagues the Land
Sodom – Ten Black Years: The Best of Sodom
Status Quo – Whatever You Want
Storm – Nordavind
Stormlord – At the Gates of Utopia
Stormlord – The Gorgon Cult (signed)
Summoning – Minas Morgul
Taake - ...Doedskvad
Tankard – Beast of Bourbon
Teräsbetoni – Vaadimme Metallia
Thronar – For Death and Glory
Timeless Miracle – Into the Enchanted Chamber
Tuatha De Danann - Tuatha de Danann
Tuatha de Danann – Tingaralatingadun
Tuatha de Danann – The Delirium Has Just Began
Tuatha de Danann – Trova di Danu (digipack)
Twilight Guardians – Wasteland
Twisted Tower Dire Battle Hymns to the Pantheon
Týr – How Far to Asgaard? (signed)
Týr – Eric the Red (signed)
Týr – Ragnarok (digipack - signed)
Unleashed – Midvinterblot
Uriah Heep – The Collection
Various Artists - Blackend
Various Artists - Transformers: The Movie Soundtrack
Various Artists – Pagan Battle Tunes V
Various Artists – The Rock Box
Various Artists – Headbanger's Bible
Various Artists – Rock Star Soundtrack
Various Artists – This is Thrash
Various Artists – Noord Geldersch Metaal: Liederen Voor in het Vagevuur
White Skull – The Dark Age
Winters Bane – Redivivus
Wintersun – Wintersun (ltd with slipcase - signed)
Wizard – Odin
Wolfsbane – Lifestyles of the Broke and Obscure
XIV Dark Centuries – Jul EP
XIV Dark Centuries – Skithingi

DVDs
AC/DC - Live at Donington
Amon Amarth - Wrath of the Norsemen
Аркона - Live - For the Glory
Аркона - Noch Velesova
Blaze Bayley - Alive in Poland (signed)
Blaze Bayley - The Night That Would Not Die (signed)
Battlelore - The Journey (signed)
Dissection - Rebirth of Dissection
Ensiferum - 10th Anniversary Live
Iced Earth - Alive in Athens
Iron Maiden - Rock in Rio
Metallica - Live Shit: Binge & Purge
Nightwish - From Wishes to Eternity
Nightwish - End of an Era
Stormlord - The Battle of Quebec City: Live in Canada (signed)
Wintersun - Tour Edition DVD

Gig Memorabilia
Battlelore - Setlist (Signed, Manchester Moho w/ Finntroll 28.09.09)
Celesty - Plectrum (BOA 2009)
Crystal Viper - Red plectrum (sent free by manager)
Crystal Viper - Blue plectrum (sent free by manager)
Hanging Doll - Setlist (Signed. Metalfest, Dudley 27.09.09)
Highland Glory - Setlist (Skuret, Oslo 12.12.09)
Power Quest - Setlist (Signed. Metalfest, Dudley 26.09.09)

Shirts etc:
Amon Amarth - Versus the World (tshirt)
Amon Amarth - Viking (white longsleeve, signed)
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side (tshirt)
Amon Amarth - Asator (tshirt)
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side (flag)
Amon Amarth - logo (beany hat)
Asphyx - Death...the Brutal Way (tshirt)
Battlelore - Sword's Song (tshirt)
Battlelore - The Last Alliance (tshirt)
Blaze Bayley - Kill & Destroy (longlseeve)
Blind Guardian - Twist in the Myth (tshirt)
Crystal Viper - Metal Nation (tshirt)
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - The Pest Called Humanity (tshirt)
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Follow the Calls for Battle (tshirt)
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Hora Nocturna (tshirt)
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Saldorian Spell (hoody)
Darkthrone - Logo (beany hat)
Death - Logo (workshirt)
Dissection - The Somberlain (ltd edition tshirt from remastered The Somberlain boxset)
Dragonforce - Valley of the Damned (tshirt)
Eindhoven Metal Meeting - 2009 (tshirt)
Elexorien - The Curse (tshirt)
Eluveitie - Spirit (tshirt)
Ensiferum - Ensiferum (tshirt)
Ensiferum - Ensiferum's Super (tshirt)
Falconer - Logo (tshirt)
Falkenbach - Heralding the Fireblade (tshirt)
Folkearth - Viking Head (tshirt)
Forefather - Shieldwall (tshirt)
Grave Digger - Rheingold (longsleeve)
Hail of Bullets - Death Metal Supreme (camo tshirt)
Hammerfall - Glory to the Brave (tshirt)
Heidevolk - Wodan Heerst (tshirt)
Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes (tshirt)
Iced Earth - Overture of the Wicked (tshirt)
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness (longsleeve)
Immortal - Reunion 2007 (tshirt)
Iron Maiden - Brave New World (football shirt)
Metal Fest - Festival shirt (tshirt)
Metallica - 5 (football shirt)
Metalliac - logo (polo shirt)
Motörhead - England/Everything Louder Than Everything Else (tshirt)
Olympos Mons - Logo (tshirt)
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild (tshirt)
Tankard - the Beauty and the Beer (tshirt)
Wacken Open Air - Logo (workshirt)
Wacken Open Air - 2006 (tshirt)
Wacken Open Air - Roadsign (tshirt)
Wacken Open Air - Christmas 2007 (tshirt)
Wintersun - Beautiful Death (tshirt)
Wintersun - Snow and Sorrow (tshirt)
XIV Dark Centuries - Jul (tshirt)

Patched Jacket:

Includes the following bands' patches:
AC/DC, Amon Amarth, Ancient Rites, Avantasia, Bal-Sagoth, Bergthron, Black Jade, Black sabbath, Blaze Bayley, Blind Guardian, Bolt Thrower, Children of Bodom, Crystal Viper, Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult, Darkthrone, Death, Deathchain, Debauchery, Destruction, Dimmu Borgir, Dissection, Eastern Front, Eluveitie, Ensiferum, Finntroll, Gorgoroth, Grave Digger, Graveland, HammerFall, Hawkwind, Heidevolk, I, Iced Earth, Immortal, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Kreator, Kroda, KromleK, Led Zeppelin, Legion of the Damned, Marduk, Megadeth, Menhir, Metallica, Moonsorrow, Motörhead, Municipal Waste, Nightwish, Overkill, Pantera, Pink Floyd, Rotting Christ, Satyricon, Saxon, Skyforger, Slayer, Slechtvalk, Sodom, Sonata Arctica, Subway to Sally, Tankard, Unleashed, Warpath, Wolfsbane, XIV Dark Centuries + Amon Amarth bottle opener (ltd editionfrom With Oden on our Side pre-order).

Well here is the list of best albums of 2009. Hope you like it!

34. Sirenia– The 13th Floor

Some good gothic/symphonic metal here from Morten and co. It is definitely an improvement from Nine Destinies and a Downfall being heavier, but unfortunately not as good as At Sixes and Sevens. Still there are great vocals from Morten as always and it is worth checking out.

33. the aeonic order of vacuity – Nether
This is a demo I heard on Myspace and its absolutely fantastic considering that. It is very good slow heavy, brooding funeral doom metal. If you like funeral doom I command you to give this a try.

32. Absu – Absu
fantastic blackened thrash, and their best album to date. Recommended.

31. Exivious – Exivious instrumental progressive metal, really excellent with lots of changes and styles. Recommended to any prog rockers.

30. Paradise Lost – Drown in Dakrness - the early demos
I hadn’t ever heard anything by them before, but this is excellent! Really good death doom, quite badly produced but excellent quality in the musicianship. If you’re looking for something raw, rather than the very well produced stuff like Swallow the Sun, then look no further than this.

29. Stream of Passion – The Flame Within
This is another very good symphonic metal album from Marcela Bovio and co. but after Arjen Anthony Lucassen left, they were left to make this one on their own. They do an amirable follow up to Embrace the Storm, but the songs are less memorable than the first album.

28. Kreator- Hordes of Chaos
Good melodic thrash metal, Hordes Of Chaos is a catchy song that would be good live. It has nice riffs and solos. Not as good as Enemy of God, but highly recommended.

27. Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
The grindcore kings do it again, just as well as on previous releases.

26. Wyrd – Kalivagi
More folky black metal, this time with a few more hard rock elements, this band is just as good as ever!

25. Ashes You Leave – Songs For The Lost
Nearly all doom metal elements are gone; this is solely a gothic metal album, but a very well done one. Their cover of Placebo’s Every You Every Me (which I hate, I can’t stand them) is excellent, and amazingly is the highlight of the album. If you like female fronted gothic metal, then this is for you.

24. Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague
Not as good as Kill, but still a very good death metal album.

23. Within Temptation – An Acoustic Night At The Theatre
Those waiting for a new album may be slightly annoyed at getting another live album, though it is extremely good. It’s completely different from black symphony, being mainly acoustic, but the vocal performance from Sharon Den Adelis breathtaking as ever. Utopia is a very nice new song, but they are straying further and further from the metal genre with this one.

22. Lethian Dreams – Bleak Silver Streams
Good atmospheric doom metal that sounds a bit like Amederia. Excellent vocals, and very heavy. Recommended

21. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
Not as good as Leviathan, but more of a progression away, this is still a very good album with lots of very good ideas. If you want some metal that’s a bit different then give this a listen.

20. Ahab – The Divinity of Oceans
The most depressing album I have ever heard, this is such a monolithic album, heavy and slow, but excellent. My favourite funeral doom album of all time!

19. Alestorm – Black Sails at Midnight
The most fun album of the year! This is not just a gimmick by some idiots wearing pirate hats, it is actually well written heavy metal, and the keyboardist is just excellent.

18. Fen – The Malediction Fields
Seems that most British black metal these days has elements of post rock in it, and this is no exception. Its very good atmospheric black metal with some clean vocals now and again. If you like Negura Bunget, then give this a try.

17. 3 Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom
An excellent heavy metal album, taking influence from lots of different places, from Led Zeppelin, to Judas Priest, to Iron Maiden, but still maintaining their excellent vocal style prevalent in previous albums. Their best yet by far!

16. Dream Theater – Black Clouds and Silver Linings
A really good progressive metal album and their best for several years. Listen out for the cover of Queens Tenement Funster/Flick Of The Wrist/Lily Of The Valley on the bonus disc; this is one of the best covers ever!

15. Epica – [album artist=epica]]design your universe[/album]
Their best yet, Simone is at top notch, and it is possibly the heaviest album they have done to date. A real surprise and a very enjoyable listen.

14. My Dying Bride – For Lies I Sire
The violins are back! Every bit as good as the previous releases and the vocals are absolutely to die for!

13. Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
More of the same, but a bit more atmospheric and experimental, with clean female vocals scattered in it. This, as well as Malevolent Grain are a must hear for any fans of atmospheric black metal.

12. Wodensthrone – Loss
Good organic black metal in the vein of Drudkh. Excellently performed, with a few post rock elements too. Superb atmosphere shows again how good British Black Metal is becoming. If you like Drudkh or Negura Bunget, then you owe it to yourself to give this a try.

11. Leaves Eyes – Njord
Unbelievably this is a step up from the excellent Vinland Saga; both vocalists have improved (although in the case of Alexander Krull it wasn’t hard, he is actually listenable now!). This is a really good symphonic metal album, with the guitaring at top notch, as well as the bassist. There are a lot of folk elements again on this one.

10. Wolves in the Throne Room – Malevolent Grain
This is excellent. It comprises of just two tracks, the first A Looming Resonance is a rather relaxed atmospheric black metal song with clean vocals. It is 13 minutes long, but it’s so good you could listen to it over and over again. Hate Crystal is more of the usual Wolves in the Throne Room we know and love.

9. Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars
Even better than Memoria Vetusta I, this album has less of a fuzz and more melodic beauty. Fantastic.

8. Drudkh – Microcosmos
Drudkh do it again, this is another excellent pagan influenced black metal album, with beautiful melodies, but still retaining the harsh vocals from the previous albums. Even better than Estrangement[album], this is one of the best black metal albums of the year.

7. Sunn O))) – [album artist=sunn O)))]Monoliths and Dimensions
Never heard anything by them before, but this is an excellent work. It is unbelievably heavy and icy cold. Attila’s vocals are fantastic, and all the brass instruments on Alice (best track on the album) just make it. If you have any interest in either doom metal or experimental music you need to hear this. Truly a Monolithic Effort!

6. The Gathering – The West Pole
Anneke has left, but you didn’t expect them to stop rocking did you? This is such an amazing album by all accounts, and Silje Wergeland (previously of Octavia Sperati) is just excellent. She is a really dreamy vocalist; her voice is just a joy to listen to. All the instruments are played very well, creating beautiful atmospheres throughout. The first 3 songs make you want to run about in the sunshine, just really happy songs to put you in a good mood, but after this the atmosphere changes to one of a hopeless desperation. It is still quite experimental, but not as much as Home or Souvenirs. A special mention must go to the bassist Marjolein Kooijman who does a fantastic job.

5. Nox Aurea – Via Gnosis
Absolutely mind blowing. I heard a track on Myspace and was instantly hooked. They play gothic doom and are influenced by Draconian, but are a bit more atmospheric than this, at times sounding like Lethian Dreams and Shape of Despair. If you like Draconian you will go crazy for this.

4. Emperor – Live Inferno
This is the best live black metal album ever. Anyone who has ever seen them live (I haven’t :( ) or heard/watched Emperial Live Ceremony knows just how good they are live, its just a fantastic CD with all their best songs played in stunning fashion

3. Heaven and Hell – The Devil You Know
What a surprise this was. I never really expected any new Black Sabbath material under any pseudonym, but this is fantastic. Its unbelievably heavy, Tony Iommi is on form (when is he not) and every riff is heavy. This is the heaviest album that they have made, and Dio is an absolute god on the vocals. He is 69 and this is still the best vocals all year!

2. Slayer – World Painted Blood
A lot of people like to hate on Slayer for God Hates Us All, but I don’t see why at all. I love that album, as well as everything else they have released. World Painted Blood is a step up from the last two though; it’s a solid thrash metal album and heavy as fuck. It’s easily the best since Seasons in the Abyss, although there is one thing I have noticed. It doesn’t sound great through headphones, or low quality speakers, but when I play it through the excellent ones I have in the house it sounds amazing. Hate Worldwide and Psychopathy Red are two of the best tracks I have ever hard, and easily in my top ten Slayer songs. A lot of people (again for reasons I don’t understand) complain about Tom Araya’s vocals, but I think they are excellent, you can hear all the malice, hatred and venom intended to be put forward.

1. Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
This is such an incredible album. After The Codex Necro, which is the most extreme album I have ever heard in my life, their later releases were somewhat lacklustre, with only 2 or 3 great tracks. But this one brings back the intensity of the The Codex Necro, and combines with it the melodies and clean vocals present on Eschaton and Hell Is Empty, and All the Devils Are Here. This album is fucking heavy, with great riffs and some of the best black metal vocals I have ever heard. The clean vocals are epic, there are piercing screams, amazing shouting, and seriously there are about 15 different vocal styles present here. From start to finish this album kicks serious butt and I am proud to call it my album of the year.

Dissapointing albums, because not everyone can create the best

Xasthur – All Reflections Drained
This is just shitty ambient noise with no good musicianship whatsoever. Malefic just seems to have given up because this is boring as hell. Avoid at all costs, worst album I have heard all year.

Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
Bland and commercial nonsense, this is just sugary sweet pop music. Shame because I seem to be in the minority who enjoyed Karmacode. Spellbound was a fantastic single and I thought this would be good, but no. It’s just plain awful, avoid completely unless you would like to hear Britney Spears with some poor guitars.

Edenbridge – Live Earth Dream
Good songs performed well but the quality of the recordings is awful and on some of the songs they don’t even record the whole thing. Wild Chase is superb and better than the album, but I was expecting more considering how good A Livetime in Eden is.

Epica – The Classical Conspiracy
Ok, so I don’t have a problem with the performance of their own material, in fact I think it is a rather good performance, and I would have really liked it had it just been their own material. But it’s the "classical" stuff that annoys me. It is so patronising! Instead of real classical music (which several metalheads like) we get Pirates of the carribean, Darth Vaders theme tune, and the one from Spiderman. I actually felt slightly insulted by that, after expecting some real classical music.

Delain – April Rain
Not as commercial and bland as Lacuna Coil’s Shallow Life, but its not that good. On Lucidity they had a lot of guests, and they made it all seem like an excellent album. Now that they are down to their own talents it shows that they aren’t really very good. Charlotte is a decent singer though.

Nightwish – Made In Hong Kong
A very poor live album, and not even a whole concert because of some sort of dispute with record labels regarding being able to play pre-Annette songs. The Escapist is a fantastic bonus song though, but it still feels like a cash grab.

1349 – Revelations of the Black Flame
All the intensity present in Hellfire that made it such a good album has completely gone, replaced with some attempt at making intelligent progressive black metal. Instead we are left with a boring album with hardly any good ideas, and a rasped cover of Pink Floyd’s Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, which is a disgrace to those mighty prog rockers. Avoid, particularly if you liked Hellfire.

Belphegor – Walpurgis rites – hexenwahn
Probably my most highly anticipated album of the year, as Belphegor have been one of my favourite bands for years. Unfortuantely it just sounds bland, as if the well of ideas has dried up, and all that was left was some songs rejected while recording Bondage Goat Zombie. That said Veneratio Diaboli – I am Sin, is among their best songs ever.

Muse – The Resistance
Ok, so until about October when I discovered The Gathering I thought that Muse were the only good rock band left on the planet. Rock to me is just dead, with hardly any good bands, but Muse seemed to be the only one I really liked, even loved. But [a;bum artist=muse]the Resistance[/album] fell far short of expectations. They have always had a lot of influence from romantic era classical music, but on this album they actually just become a clone of their influences rather than using them to create something unique. United States of Eurasia just sounds exactly like a Queen Song, with no originality, and on the end they just use a piece from Chopin. Laziness much? Overall it isn’t an awful album, but there is no originality, and instead of using influences they just steal from them.

Anyway thats just my take on the years music. There is a lot of dtuff I haven't gotten round to hearing yet, so it won't have everything. If anyone wants to comment and suggest bands or albums that I may like judging from this journal that would be appreciated!

2009

24/12 - Nightstalker, lord 13, Low Gravity - Athens
20/12 - Red Snapper - Athens
19/12 - Sivert Høyem - Athens
24/11 - Alice in Chains - Prague
12/9 - Asian Dub Foundation - Athens
11/9 - Archive - Athens
10/8 - Faith No More - Athens
19/6 - Ejekt Festival: Röyksopp, Jarvis Cocker, Klaxons, The Subways, James Lavelle, 2 Many DJ's, Echo & The Bunnymen - Athens
18/6 - Ejekt Festival: Pixies, Editors, Starsailor, White Lies - Athens
12/6 - Radioactive Festival: The Last Drive, Deus Ex Machina, Rockin' Bones - Heraklion
15/5 - Goran Bregović - Heraklion
8/5 - Γιάννης Αγγελάκας & Νίκος Βελιώτης - Heraklion
24/4 - the Gaslamp Killer - Dublin
27/3 - Χαΐνηδες - Heraklion

2008
28/7 - Ψαραντώνης - Heraklion
11/7 - Ρόδες - Athens
10/7 - Rockwave Festival: Manu Chao, Patti Smith, Locomondo - Athens
8/7 - Rockwave Festival: The Offspring, Siouxsie, Marky Ramone, Flogging Molly, The Gossip - Athens
5/7 - Locomondo - Varkiza
25/5 - Madrugada - Athens
5/4 - Χάσμα - Heraklion

2007

9/12 - The Toasters, The Smoking Barrels, Les SkartOi! - Athens
28/10 - Manu Chao - Munich
27/10 - W.A.S.P. - Athens
4/10 - Muse - Athens
30/6 - George Clinton - Athens
16/6 - Ejekt Festival: Beastie Boys, Madness - Athens
5/5 - Legalise Protestival: Locomondo - Athens
13/4 - Γιάννης Αγγελάκας & οι Επισκέπτες - Athens

2006
23/12 - Nightstalker, Deus Ex Machina - Athens
8/5 - New Model Army - Athens

2005

9/7 - Rockwave Festival: Twisted Sister, Dio, Katatonia, Ολέθριο Ρήγμα - Athens
8/7 - Rockwave Festival: Slayer, Accept, Candlemass - Athens
30/5 - Slipknot - Athens
15/1 - Rotting Christ - Athens

2004

13/12 - Machine Head - Athens
26/11 - W.A.S.P. - Athens
5/7 - Athens Open Air: Motörhead, Sentenced, The Haunted, Hatebreed - Athens
19/6 - Rockwave Festival: W.A.S.P., Soulfly, Gamma Ray, Dark Tranquillity - Athens
16/6 - Alice Cooper - Athens
7/5 - Nightstalker, Vibratore Bizarro - Athens
25/4 - Hypocrisy - Athens
16/4 - Monster Magnet - Athens
27/2 - Sepultura - Athens
30/1 - Kreator, Ektomorf - Athens

2003

28/12 - Nightstalker, lord 13, The Earthbound - Athens
9/11 - Destruction, Overkill - Athens
12/10 - Nevermore - Athens
21/9 - Dimmu Borgir - Athens
22/7 - Motörhead - Athens
21/7 - Bruce Dickinson - Athens
14/7 - Jethro Tull - Athens
10/7 - Queensrÿche - Athens
3/5 - Cannibal Corpse, Nuclear Assault - Athens
2/3 - Soulfly - Athens
23/2 - Septic Flesh - Athens
8/2 - Rotting Christ - Athens

2002

15/12 - Exodus, The Haunted, Tankard - Athens
24/11 - Sentenced - Athens
16/11 - Deicide, Benediction - Athens
7/11 - Dream Theater - Athens
? - Rotting Christ - Patra
26/10 - Rotting Christ - Agrinio
20/10 - Candlemass, Entombed, Dark Tranquillity - Athens
21/9 - Deadsoul Tribe - Athens
17/8 - Chania Rock Festival: U.D.O., Anathema, The Gathering - Chania
? - Διάφανα Κρίνα - Petroupoli
? - Βασίλης Παπακωνσταντίνου, Tsopana Rave - Athens
11/4 - Nightstalker - Athens
23/2 - Iced Earth - Athens
16/2 - Destruction, Kreator, Sodom - Athens

2001

7/12 - Cannibal Corpse, Kreator, Krisiun - Athens
1/12 - Marduk, God Dethroned - Athens
12/7 - Nightstalker - Piraeus
1/7 - Rockwave Festival: Judas Priest, Megadeth, Cradle of Filth, Savatage, Rotting Christ - Athens

Some albums, eps and demos I've listened so far this year.

Favourites

Ahab - The Divinity Of The Oceans [Funeral Doom Metal]
Aorlhac - Aorlhac [Black Metal]
Arckanum - þþþþþþþþþþþ [Black Metal]
Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way [Death Metal]
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II [Black Metal]
Claws - Absorbed In The Nethervoid [Death Metal]
Drudkh - Microcosmos [Black Metal]
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds... [Death Metal]
Funebrarum - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams [Death Metal]
Goatmoon - Goatmoon (EP) [Black Metal]
Ignivomous - Death Transmutation [Death Metal]
Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence [Death Metal]
Infected Disarray - Disseminating Obscenity [Technical Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Isis - Wavering Radiant [Post-Rock/Sludge]
Jesu - Infinity [Drone/Ambient Post-Rock]
Katharsis - Fourth Reich [Black Metal]
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough [Atmospheric/Progressive Black Metal]
Krypts - Open The Krypt (DEMO) [Death Metal]
Lifelover - Dekadenz (EP) - [Black Metal/Depressive Rock]
Månegarm - Nattvasen [Folk/Viking Metal]
Monarque - Ad Nauseam [Black Metal]
Lie In Ruins - Swallowed By The Void [Death Metal]
Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor [Black Metal]
Skagos - Ást [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Slugathor - Echoes From Beneath [Death Metal]
Sólstafir - Kold [Post-Black Metal/Psychedelic Rock]
Teitanblood - Seven Chalices [Black Death Metal]
The Austrasian Goat - Witch (EP) [Funeral Doom/Black Metal]
The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm [Death Metal]
The Devil’s Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore [Psychedelic Rock]
The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Todeskult - Apathy [Depressive Black Metal]
Tribulation - The Horror [Death Metal/Thrash Metal]
Trist - Ve Snech Nekrvácím (DEMO) [Depressive Black Metal]
Urfaust - Einsiedler (EP) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade [Black Metal]
Wormlust - Seven Paths (DEMO) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Yoga - Megafauna [Dark Ambient/Psychedelic Black Metal]


Really Good

A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head [Shoegaze/Noise/Post-Punk]
Abhordium - Declaration Of Perdition (EP) [Death Metal]
Abigail - Sweet Baby Metal Slut [Blackened Thrash Metal]
Absu - Absu [Black/Thrash Metal]
Acrimonious - Purulence [Black Metal]
Aggression - Moshpirit [Thrash Metal]
Ahamoth Aeternus - Great Darkness Ahamoth [Black Metal]
Austere - To Lay Like Old Ashes [Depressive Black Metal]
Aldrlag - Aldrlag (DEMO) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs [Post-Punk/Black Metal]
Amorphis - Skyforger [Melodic Death Metal/Rock]
Andacht - Chapter I [Black Metal]
Angmar - Zurück In Die Unterwelt [Black Metal]
Arizmenda - Within The Vacuum Of Infinity... [Depressive Black Metal]
Asaru - Dead Eyes Still See [Black Metal]
Ascended - Temple Of Dark Offerings [Death Metal]
Asenblut - Aufbruch [Blackened Thrash Metal]
Asphyxiate - Anatomy Of Perfect Bestiality [Brutal Death Metal]
Axegressor - Command [Thrash Metal]
Balnasar - Ein Kalter Natchgedanke [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]
Baroness - Blue Record [Progressive Sludge Metal]
Bergraven - Till Makabert Väsen [Experimental Black Metal]
Black Wreath - A Pyre Of Lost Dreams [Death/Funeral Doom Metal]
Bleeding Fist - Bestial Krucifix666ion [Black/Thrash Metal]
Bliss Of Flesh - Emaciated Deity [Blackened Death Metal]
Bloody Panda - Summon [Experimental/Sludge/Doom Metal]
BLUT - This Burden (DEMO) [Drone/Noise]
Bone Gnawer - Feast Of Flesh [Brutal Death Metal]
Bornholm - March For Glory And Revenge [Black Metal]
Burial Ritual - Tower Of Silence [Death Metal]
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom [Doom Metal]
CANIS DIRUS - A Somber Wind From A Distant Shore [Depressive Black Metal]
Capitis Damnare - Ex Regnum Spiritus In Manifestus [Black Metal]
Carrion Wraith - Carrion Wraith [Depressive Black Metal]
Chaos Inception - Collision With Oblivion [Brutal Death Metal]
Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy [Stoner/Doom Metal]
Cobalt - Gin [Black Metal]
Code - Resplendent Grotesque [Avant-Garde Black Metal]
Claustrofobia - I See Red [Death/Thrash Metal]
Claws - The Funeral Barge (EP) [Death Metal]
Crucifier - Trampler Under Cloven Hooves (EP) [Black/Doom/Death Metal]
Cry of Silence - Wandering Through Pagan Times [Black Metal]
Dead - Hanging Illusions (DEMO) [Depressive Black Metal]
Deströyer 666 - Defiance [Death Black Thrash Metal]
Depressive Years - Failing To Confront Suicidal Toughts [Depressive Black Metal]
Devourment - Unleash The Carnivore [Slam Death Metal]
Disgorgement - Chamber Of Depravity [Death Metal]
Dreams of the Drowned - Thanatotropic Principle [Post-Black Metal]
Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity [Brutal Death Metal]
Eagle Twin - The Unkidness Of Crows [Drone/Stoner/Sludge Doom Metal]
Embryonic Depravity - Contrained By The Miscarriage Of Conquest [Brutal Death Metal]
EndName - Dreams Of A Cyclops [Instrumental Post-Rock/Sludge]
Entrails - Entrails (DEMO) [Death Metal]
Ensiferum - From Afar [Epic Folk Metal]
Ex Dementia - The Red Mass [Grind/Death Metal]
Faceless and Descending - Endless Reign Of Suffering [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Feral - Welcome To The Graveyard (DEMO) [Death 'N' Roll]
Fjoergyn - Jahreszeiten [Experimental/Epic Melodic Black Metal]
Flagellant - Morbus Nefastus (EP) [Black Metal]
Formaldehyde - God's Will [Death Metal]
Fornicatus - Omnium Animalis Terminus [Depressive Black Metal]
Furia - Grudzién Za Grudniem [Black Metal]
General Surgery - Corpus In Extremis [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt [Black Metal]
Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity [Black Metal/Noise/Industrial]
Grave Miasma - Exalted Emanation [Black Death Metal]
Gravehill - Rites Of The Pentagram [Death/Thrhas Metal]
Gravenloch - Gravenloch [Death/Thrash Metal]
Graveyard - One With The Dead [Death Metal]
Grigori - Principivm Et Finis [Black Metal]
HAT - The Demise Of Mankind [Black Metal]
Helcaraxë - Broadsword [Melodic Death Metal]
Illdisposed - To Those Who Walk Behind Us [Melodic Death Metal]
Immortal - All Shall Fall [Black Metal]
Infested - 1000 Doors [Brutal Death Metal]
Inanition - Eternal Beauty Of The End (EP) [Ambient/Drone/Funeral Doom Metal]
Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I [Instrumental Post-Rock/Metal/Sludge]
Isole - Silent Ruins [Epic Doom Metal]
IXXI - Elect Darkness [Black/Thrash Metal]
Jungle Rot - What Horrors Await [Death Metal]
Karlahan - A Portrait Of Life [Folk/Melodic Death Metal]
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day [Depressive Rock]
Keeper of Dreams - Taste Smashed To Pieces [Technical Death/Thrash Metal]
Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul [Sludge/Drone/Doom Metal]
Kladovest - Escape In Melancholy [Depressive Black Metal]
Kulde - Heart Of The Northern Depression (DEMO) [Atmospheric/Depressive Black Metal]
M8L8TH - Nepokolebimaja Vera [Black Metal]
Managarm - Poems Of The Shadows Disappointment [Depressive Black Metal]
Masske - Masske [Shoegaze/Instrumental/Post-Rock]
maudlin of the Well - Part The Second [Avant-Garde/Progressive Metal]
Methadrone - Better Living (Through Chemistry) [Industrial/Drone Doom Metal]
Mindwork - Into The Swirl [Progressive Death Metal/Fusion]
Moss - Tomb Of The Blind Drugged (EP) [Drone Doom Metal/Sludge]
Mourning Dawn - For The Fallen [Black/Doom Metal]
Muldjord - Hate Breeds Hate (EP) [Death Metal]
Murder Therapy - Symmetry Of Delirium [Technical Brutal Death Metal]
Nadja - Belles Betes [Ambient/Drone Doom]
Nahar - La Fascination Du Pire [Black Metal]
Naumachia - Black Sun Rising [Melodic Death Metal]
Nazxul - Iconoclast [Melodic Black Metal]
Necrophobic - Death To All [Melodic Black Death Metal]
Nidhogg - Siegeszug Der Götter [Viking Metal]
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest [Technical/Brutal Death Metal]
Nomans Land - Farnord [Black Metal/Folk]
Obitus - The March Of The Drones [Black Metal]
Oblomov - Communitas (Deconstructing The Order) [Avant-Garde/Melodic Blackened Death Metal/Folk]
Old Forest - The Kingdom Of Darkness (DEMO) [Ambient Black Metal]
Pale Mist - From A Cruel Obscurity (DEMO) [Depressive Black Metal]
Pelican - Ephemeral (Ep) [Post-Rock/Sludge Drone]
Pelican - What We All Come To Need [Post-Rock/Sludge Drone]
Pyramids with Nadja - Selt Titled [Ambient/Drone Doom]
Portal - Swarth [Post Death Metal]
Prejudice - Megalomanic Infest [Technical Brutal Death Metal]
Process of Guilt - Erosion [Death Metal/Doom]
Putrefy - One Nation Under Gore [Slam Death Metal]
Putrid - Morbid Awakening (DEMO) [Death Metal]
Quintessence - Le Fleau De Ton Existence [Black Metal]
Lathspell - Reborn In Retaliation [Black Metal]
Laudanum - The Coronation [Noise Drone Doom Metal]
Locrian - Drenched Lands (EP) [Noise/Psychedelic]
Los Sin Nombre - Blind Leading Blind [Melodic Death/Thrash Metal]
Lividity[artist/] - To Desecrate And Defile [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Lustmord - [B E Y O N D] [Dark Ambient]
Obscura - Cosmogenesis [Technical Death Metal/Jazz Influences]
Ravens Creed - Albion Thunder [Death Metal]
Revocation - Existence Is Futile [Technical Death/Thrash Metal]
Ribspreader - Opus Ribcage [Death Metal]
Rimfrost - Veraldar Nagli [Black Metal]
Russian Circles - Geneva [Instrumental Post-Rock/Metal]
Sarsekim - Fathom The Spheres [Technical Death Metal/Black Metal]
Self-Inflicted Violence - A Perception Of Matter And Energy [Shoegaze/Depressive Black Metal]
Seven - Cymatics [Ambient/Math/Progressive Rock/Metal]
Skady - Eyn Raunen Im Tannicht [Viking Black Metal]
Skeletal Spectre - Tomb Coven [Doom/Death Metal]
Skogen - Vittra [Black Metal]
Skullflower - Malediction [Drone Doom/Noise]
Smashed Ruins - Silence [Instrumental Black Metal]
Slavland - Lechita [Pagan Black Metal]
Stench Of Decay - Where Death And Decay Reign (Demo) [Death Metal]
Strandhogg - Ritualistic Plague (Evangelical Death Apotheosis) [Black Metal]
Stworz - Po Szasu Kres [Black Metal]
Spiculum Iratus - Summa Anti-Theologica [Black Metal]
Sun of the Blind - Skullreader [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions [Drone Doom Metal]
Survivors Zero - Cmxcix [Death/Thrash Metal]
Templestowe - Cimmerian [Progressive/Melodic Death Metal]
Thanatos - Justified Genocide [Death Metal]
The Beast Of The Apocalypse - A Voice From The Four Horns Of The Golden Altar [Black Metal]
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Lustrate Process [Industrial Death Metal]
These Are They - Who Linger [Death Metal]
Trist - Za Hranicí Skutecnosti (EP) [Depressive Black Metal]
Thy Flesh Consumed - Unrepentant [Death Metal]
Tombs - Winter Hours [Post-Metal/Sludge]
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire [Death Metal]
Ulvhedner - For I Tida [Black Metal]
Vader - Necropolis [Death Metal]
Velvet Cacoon - P Aa Opal Poere Pr. 33 [Ambient Black Metal]
Vesano - Sangue Seco (DEMO) [Depressive Black Metal]
vindicator - Outbreak (EP) [Thrash Metal]
Viscera Trail - Humiliation - Riden Evisceration [Brutal Death Metal/Grind]
Vomepotro - Liturgy Of Dissection [Brutal Death Metal]
Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria [Death Metal]
Waldgeflüster - Herbstklagen [Black Metal]
Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga [Ambient Folk]
Warmarch - Pactum Cum Diabolicus [Black Metal]
West Wall - Conquest Or Death [Death Metal]
White Mice - Ganjahovahdose [Experimental/Sludge/Noise Rock]
Witching Hour - Rise Of The Desecrated [Black Metal/Thrash Metal]
Wodensthrone - Loss [Black Metal]
Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain (EP) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Woods of Desolation - Sorh (EP) [Depressive Black Metal]
Xasthur - All Reflections Drained [Depressive Ambient Black Metal]
Yogth Sothoth - The Dark Waters Are Shaken (EP) [Death Metal]
Zamak - Hate Dominion Revenge [Melodic Death/Thrash Metal]
Аркона - Гой, Роде, Гой! [Folk/Pagan Metal]

[u]Not Bad...[/u]

Abraxas - Promo 2009 (Demo) [Death Metal]
Abysmal Torment - Omnicide [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Aeternam - Disciples Of The Unseen [Melodic Death Metal]
Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constelation Of The Black Widow [Black Metal/Grindcore]
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb [Experimental Black Metal]
Archgoat - The Light-Devouring Darkness [Black Death Metal]
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence [Progressive Death Metal]
Auspicium - Dawnland [Atmospheric Black Metal/Neo-Folk]
Autopsy - Horrific Obsession (EP) [Death Metal]
Avulsed - Nullo [Brutal Death Metal]
Axis Powers - Marching Towards Destruction [Death Metal]
Azaghal - Teraphim [Black Metal]
Azarath - Praise The Beast [Blackened Death Metal]
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach [Melodic Death Metal]
Behemoth - Evangelion [Blackened Death Metal]
Beherit - Engram [Black Metal]
Belphegor - Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn [Blackened Death Metal]
Benighted In Sodom - In Hora Maledictus - Part 2 [Depressive Black Metal]
Black Boned Angel - Verdun [Drone Doom/Noise]
Black Vomit - Jungle Death [Psychedelic/Noise Black Metal]
Blodkalt - Demo 2009 (DEMO) [Black Metal]
Blood Red Throne - Souls Of Damnation [Melodic Death Metal]
Brooding - Shower Of Ageless Light [Black Metal]
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague [Death Metal]
Carcharoth - Antiversum [Black Metal]
Carnal - Re-Creation [Doom/Death Metal]
Circle of Ouroborus - Tree Of Knoweldge [Experimental Black Metal]
Circle of Ouroborus - Islands [Experimental Black Metal]
Coffinworm - Great Bringer Of Night (DEMO) [Sludge/Doom/Black Metal]
Craniotomy - Catharsis [Death Metal]
CSSABA - Toxic Cssaba [Industrial Black Metal]
Cultes Des Goules - The Story Of Dagon [Ambient/Gothic Rock]
Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus [Black Metal]
Dark Paranoia - Dark Paranoia (DEMO) [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Saldorian Spell [Black Metal]
Decrepidemic - The Void Of Un-Existence [Brutal Death Metal]
Denial - Catacombs Of The Grotesque [Death Metal]
Demonium - Nothing Is Truth Everything Is Allowed [Death Metal]
Depravity - Litanies For The World To Suffer [Death Metal]
Devastator - Underground 'N' Roll [Crossover Thrash Metal]
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious [Avant-Garde/Operatic Metal]
Diamatregon - Crossroad [Black Metal]
Die Hard - Nihilistic Vision [Death/Thrash Metal]
Ditchcreeper - Rotting Repugnancy [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Drained - Solutions [Depressive Black Metal]
Drapsnatt - I Denna Skog [Folk/Black Metal]
Drowning the Light - A Pact With Madness [Depressive Black Metal]
Dodsengel - Visioner [Black Metal]
Dysperium - Dysperium [Black/Doom Metal]
Ea - Ea II [Funeral Doom Metal]
Elysium - Nine Ways To Leave [Thrash Metal]
Engaged in Mutilating - Population: Zero [Technical Death Metal]
Enoid - Ataraxiis [Black Metal]
Embedded - Beyond The Flesh [Brutal Death Metal]
Evile - Infected Nations [Thrash Metal]
Eyecult - Morituri Te Salutamus [Black Metal]
Faceless Hulk - ...It Was The Wettest Thing I Had Ever Felt (EP) [Technical Death Metal/Sludge/Grindcore]
Fatum Elisum - Fatum Elisum [Doom/Death Metal]
Fen - The Malediction Fields [Black Metal/Post-Rock]
Festered - Flesh Perversion [Death Metal]
Flame Of War - Transcendence [Black Metal]
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles [Technical Death Metal]
Fleshworks - The Deadventure [Death Metal]
Fondlecorpse - Creaturegore [Death Metal]
Folkearth - Rulers Of The Sea [Epic Folk/Viking Metal]
Folkstorm - De Stemmen Van Het Woud [Black Metal]
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport [Post-Rock/Drone/Electronica]
Fukpig - Spewings From A Selfish Nation [Grindcore/Black Metal]
Funeraille - Dis Pater [Black Metal]
Funeral Feast - Genocide Ad Nauseam [Death Metal]
Funeral Goat - Mass Ov Perversion [Black Metal]
Funeral Mist - Maranatha [Black Metal]
Gama Bomb - Tales From The Grave In Space [Speed/Thrash Metal]
Garden Of Sadness - Travesty Of A Human Being [Depressive Black Metal]
Giant Squid - Ichthyologist [Ambient Progressive Post-Rock/Metal]
Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God [Blackened Death Metal]
God Dethroned - Passiondale [Melodic Death Metal]
GOG - Mist From The Random More [Drone Doom Metal]
Goreaphobia - Mortal Repulsion [Death Metal]
Gnostic - Engineering The Rule [Technical Death Metal]
Glorior Belli - Meet Us At The Southern Sign [Black Metal]
Gorod - Process Of A New Decline [Technical Death Metal]
GRAJ - Полынь трава [Pagan/Folk Metal]
Graveland - Spears Of Heaven [Black Metal]
Hackneyed - Burn After Reaping [Brutal Death Metal]
Hail of Bullets - Warsaw Rising (EP) [Death Metal]
Hellwitch - Omnipotent Convocation [Death/Thrash Metal]
Hetzer - Fall Of The Holy Cult [Black/Death Metal]
Hinsidig - Bak Og Forbi... (DEMO) [Black Metal]
Hirax - El Rostro De La Muerte [Crossover/Thrash Metal]
Horncrowned - Casus Belli Anticristianus [Black Metal]
Horseback - The Invisible Mountain [Ambient/Drone/Psychedelic]
Human Rejection - Decrepit To Insanity [Brutal Death Metal]
Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity [Melodic Death Metal]
Hypomanie - Hypomanie (EP) [Post-Rock/Black Metal]
Impious - Death Domination [Melodic Death/Thrash Metal]
Infernal Revulsion - Dead But Breathing [Brutal Death Metal]
Infidel - Ejaculating Chaos [Black Metal]
Instinct of Survival - North Of Nowhere [Death Metal/Crust]
Iskra - Bureval [Crust/Black Metal]
Kinit Her - Glyms Or Beame Of Radicall Truthes [Psychedelic Neo-Folk]
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos [Thrash Metal]
Kult Ofensivy - Radikální Ateismus [Black Metal]
Laconist - Adveniat Infernus (EP) [Death Metal]
Liturgy - Renihilation [Experimental Black Metal]
Livsnekad - Den Sociala Vanforheten [Doom/Black Metal]
Lordamor - Lordamor [Funeral Doom/Black Metal]
Marduk - Wormwood [Black Metal]
Martyrdöd - Sekt [Blackened Crust]
Massachist - Death Fury March [Death Metal]
Master's Hammer - Mantras [Experimental Black Metal]
Mastodon - Crack The Skye [Progressive/Technical Groove Metal]
Maim - From The Tomb To The Womb [Death Metal]
Maithungh - Lust In The Kingdom Of God [Death Metal]
Man Must Die - No Tolerance For Imperfection [Technical Death Metal]
Mass Infection - The Age Of Recreation [Death Metal]
method - Spiritual Reinforcement [Melodic Thrash Metal]
Minsk - With Echoes in the Movement of Stone [Sludge/Doom Metal]
Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow [Death Metal]
Misere Luminis - Misere Luminis [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]
Mono - Hmn To The Immortal Wind [Instrumental Post-Rock]
Morrah - Sense Of Brutality [Brutal Death Metal]
Morte Lune - Into The Depths Of The Mind [Depressive Black Metal]
Mournful Congregation - The June Frost [Funeral Doom Metal]
Mr. Death - Detached From Life [Death Metal]
My Cat Is an Alien - Mort Aux Vaches [Experimental/Drone/Noise]
Nadja - Clinging To The Edge Of The Sky (EP) [Ambient/Drone Doom Metal]
nailed god - Glorification Of The Unborn [Black Metal]
Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten [Black Metal]
Nachtvorst - Stills [Depressive Black Metal]
Nebelkorona - Des Nachts In Tristen Nebeln (EP) [Dark Ambien/Neo-Classical]
Oak - Oak [Death/Doom Metal]
Of Raven & Ruins - Bound To Prophecy [Melodic Death Metal]
One Master - The Quiet Eye Of Eternity [Black Metal]
Orcustus - Orcustus [Black Metal]
Ordo Templi Orientis - Dysphory Part 1 [Depressive Black Metal]
Ossadogva - Born From A Tomb [Depressive Black Metal]
Osoka - Caustic Smoke [Ambient/Sludge/Drone Doom Metal]
Otargos - Fuck God-Disease Process [Black Metal]
Pandemia - Feet Of Anger [Death Metal]
Panopticon - Panopticon [Black Metal]
Pathology - Age Of Onset [Brutal Death Metal]
Planning for Burial - Leaving [Shoegaze/Drone/Post-Metal]
Pus Vomit - Degrade The Worthless [Slam Death Metal]
Putrid Pile - House Of Dementia [Brutal Death Metal]
Randir - Kampfes Lohn (DEMO) [Folk/Black Metal]
Repulsive Dissection - Cut Open The Aberration [Technical/Brutal Death Metal]
Reverence - Inactive Theocracy [Industrial Black Metal]
[artist]Ritualmord[artist] - Booze Up [Punkish Black Metal]
Rome - Flowers From Exile [Apocalyptic Neo-Folk]
Sacrarium - March To An Inviolable Death [Black Metal]
Sanctification - Black Reign [Death Metal]
Saprophagous - Dimensions Of Diverse Brutality (EP) [Death Metal/Grind]
Savage Messiah - Insurrection Rising [Thrash Metal]
Scourged Flesh - Welcome To The End Of The World [Death/Thrash Metal]
Scythian - To Those Who Stand Against Us... [Death/Thrash Metal]
Sejtane - The Burning Cold [Black Metal]
Sepsism - Distorting The Mortal Visage [Brutal Death Metal]
Sjenovik - Zephaniah [Industrial/Folk/Black Metal]
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire [Blackened Thrash Metal]
Skogen - Todesrune (DEMO) [Black Metal]
Slayer - World Painted Blood [Thrash Metal]
Sorgeldom - Innerlig Formorkelse [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Sound Asleep - Sound Asleep [Sludge Doom Metal]
Spawn - The Wicked Reincarnation [Death Metal]
Splatter Whore - City Of The Sleazehounds [Death Metal/Grind & Roll]
Storhet av Morke - Grandeur Of Eternal Cold [Black Metal]
Suffocation - Blood Oath [Death Metal]
Supreme Pain - Nemesis Enforcer [Brutal Death Metal]
Swallow the Sun - New Moon [Melodic Death/Doom Metal]
Switchblade - Switchblade 2009 [Sludge/Drone Doom Metal]
Temple Of Baal - Lightslaying Rituals [Black Metal]
Tenet - Sovereign [Death Metal/Thrash Metal]
Teloch - Morbid Prayer [Black Metal]
The Accüsed - The Curse Of Martha Splatterhead [Crossover Thrash Metal]
The Cumshots - A Life Less Necessary [Death Metal/Hard Rock]
The Faceless - Planetary Duality [Technical Death Metal/Deathcore]
The Grotesquery - Tales Of The Coffin Born [Death Metal]
The Nihilistic Front - Total Disgust For Mankind [Doom/Death Metal]
The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine [Technical Deathcore]
The Ordher - Kill The Betrayers [Brutal Death Metal]
Thronum Vrondor - Vrondor II [Black Metal]
The Cleansing - Poisoned Legacy [Death Metal]
Through the Pain - Time Heals Nothing [Depressive Black Metal]
TIRAN - Demonia [Thrash Metal]
Tormented - Rotten Death [Death Metal]
Total Negation - Zeitenwende [Depressive Black Metal]
Treha Sektori - Sorieh [Industrial/Dark Ambient]
Unanimated - In The Light Of Darkness [Melodic Death Metal]
Undivine - Into Dust [Blackened Death Metal]
Urgehal - Ikonoklast [Black Metal]
Urheimat - The Gates To An Elder Constellation [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Urna - Iter Ad Lucem [Black Metal/Funeral Doom]
Valborg - Glorification Of Pain [Atmospheric Doom/Death Metal]
Vahrzaw - Defiant [Blackened Death Metal]
Varathron - Stygian Forces Of Scorn [Melodic Black Metal]
Veér - The Measure Of Waste [Black Metal]
Vemoth - The Upcoming End [Black Metal]
Vengeful - The Omnipresent Curse [Death Metal]
Vinland - Ancestors' Age (EP) [Viking Metal]
Vociferian - Glorificia Bestials [Black Metal]
Vomit The Soul - Apostles Of Inexpression [Slam Death Metal]
Vorgus - Hellfueled Satanic Action [Blackened Thrash Metal]
We Are Legion - The Institution Of Disharmony [Death Metal]
Witchmaster - Trücizna [Black Metal/Thrash Metal]
Wrnlrd - Myrmidom [Experimental Black Metal]
Zimierzch - Wicher (DEMO) [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]


[u]Meh[/u]

... - Somebody Save Me (EP) [Depressive Black Metal]
1349 - Revelation Of The Black Flame [Black Metal]
Abaddon Incarnate - Cascade [Black/Grind/Death Metal]
Ad Hominem - Dictator - A Monument Of Glory [Black Metal]
Aluk Todolo - Finsternis [Ambient/Noise/Instrumental Rock]
Amputated Genitals - Family Bloodbath [Slam Death Metal]
Ancient Plague - Demo (DEMO) [Ambient/Drone]
Arallu - Desert Battles [Black Death Thrash Metal]
Arckanum - Pyrmir (EP) [Black Metal]
Astral Luminous - Lunaric Tide [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Au Sacre des Nuit - Anti-Humain [Funeral Doom/Black Metal]
Blood Mortized - Blood Mortized [Death Metal]
Burial Ground - The Horror Has Just Begun [Black/Death Metal]
BRIGHT OPHIDIA - Set Your Madness Free [Avant-Garde/Progressive Metal]
Cannabis Corpse - Weeding (EP) [Death Metal]
Cerebral Incubation - Asphxiating In Exrement [Slam Death Metal]
Cristalys - Surémincence [Black Metal]
Crucifist - Demon Haunted World [Blackened Thrash Metal]
Cumulo Nimbus - Totensonntag [Folk Metal]
Dark lay still - Through Hell [Symphonic Un-Black Metal]
Defiance - The Prophecy [Thrash Metal]
Despondency - Revelation IV (Rise Of The Nemesis) [Slam Death Metal]
Drowning the Light - The Fading Rays of the Sun (EP) [Black Metal]
Echoes Of Yul - Echoes Of Yul [Drone/Sludge/Post-Rock]
Egemony - Baptism Of The Unborn [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Embrace Damnation - Glory Of A New Darkness [Black/Death Metal]
empty - The House Of Funerary Hymns [Black Metal]
Endstille - Verführer [Black Metal]
Epitome - Superotic Experience [Grindcore/Death Metal]
Eternal Grave - Arquitectura Del Horror [Brutal Death Metal]
Eternity (Arg) - In The Corner Of Your Silent Soul (EP) [Black/Doom Metal]
Feeble Minded - Pernicious Intergrowth [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Fields of Elysium - Unraveling Arcane Dynamics [Technical Death Metal/Grindcore]
Forest Stream - The Crown Of Winter [Doom Metal/Black]
Fuelblooded - Off The Face Of The Earth [Melodic Death/Thrash Metal]
Genocide of Prescription - Corporal Violence (EP) [Technical Deathcore]
Genocide Winter - Monastica Holocaust [Depressive Black Metal]
Glittertind - Landkjenning [Viking Folk Metal]
Gravewürm - Funeral Empire [Blackened Thrash Metal/Doom]
Gravsorg - Visions Of Depression [Depressive Black Metal]
Happy Days - Happiness Stops Here... [Depressive Black Metal]
Havohej - Kembatinan Premaster [Experimental Black Metal]
Havok - Burn [Thrash Metal]
[artist]Hollow[artist] - Hollow [Raw Black Metal]
Hyadningar - The Weak Creation [Black Metal]
Hugin Munin - Viking Brothers [Viking/Black Metal]
ID:VISION - X-Ray Sun (EP) [Industrial Black/Death Metal]
Incursus - Eternal Funeral Trance [Black Metal]
Ingested - Surpassing The Boundaries Of Human Suffering [Slam Death Metal]
Insidious Decrepancy - Extirpating Omniscient Certitude [Brutal Death Metal]
Ilkim Oulanem - Iblisbilim (EP) [Black Metal]
Kalisia - Cybion [Progressive Metal]
Korpiklaani - Karkelo [Folk Metal]
Kraanium - The Art Of Female Sodomy [Slam Death Metal]
Kult ov Azazel - Destroying The Sacred [Black Metal]
Kuturlat - Where The Crows Reign [Black Metal]
Lamia Culta - Patre Satane [Symphonic Black Metal]
Leichengott - Cyrograf [Black Metal]
Livimorket - Dark Totally (DEMO) [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]
Moroghor - ...And Space As Chaos [Instrumental/Ambient Black Metal]
Myrkr - Black Illumination [Black Metal]
Nazarene Decomposing - Demonic Inquisition [Black Metal]
Nebukadnezza - There Is No Revolution [Thrash Metal]
Nefandus - Death Holy Death [Black Metal]
Negativity - Life Is A Dead End [Black Metal]
Nocturnes Mist - Southern Storms (DEMO) [Black Metal]
Obituary - Left To Die [Death Metal]
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu [Experimental Black Metal]
Pensées Nocturnes - Vacuum [Depressive Black Metal/Neo-Classical]
Pestilence - Resurection Macabre [Death Metal]
Pigsty - Planet Of The Pigs [Death Metal/Grindcore]
ProRok - Satanisticka Krv [Black Metal]
Psilocybe - Psilosophy [Death Metal]
Sadomator - Infinity Goatsower (EP) [Black Death Metal]
Savaoth - Whispers Often Bleat [Industrial Symphonic Black Metal]
Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions [Melodic Death Metal]
Schrei aus Stein - Talus [Ambient Black Metal]
Scolopendragon - Minden Elet Hanyagolva (DEMO) [Noise/Experimental Black Metal]
Sepultura - A-Lex [Thrash Metal/Groove/Hardcore]
Shining - Klagopsalmer [Experimental Depressive Black Metal]
Sickening Horror - The Dead End Experiment [Experimental Death Metal]
Skitliv - Skandinavisk Misantropi [Experimental Doom/Black Metal]
Slagmaur - Von Rov Shelter [Psychedelic Black Metal]
Slartibartfass - Funkenfeuer [Viking/Folk Metal]
Solarward - As The Sky Stares Down [Melodic Black Metal]
Sombre Présage - Seul... (EP) [Drone/Dark Ambient/Black Metal]
Striborg - Perceiving The World With Hate [Ambient Black Metal]
Tenebrae in Perpetuum - L'eterno Maligno Silenzio [Black Metal]
The Axis of Perdition - Urfe [Industrial/Noise/Black Metal]
Thesyre - Résistance [Black Metal/Thrash Metal]
Tracedawn - Ego Anthem [Melodic Death Metal/Power Metal]
Trismegisto - Eerie Black Path [Black Metal]
Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star [Viking Folk Metal]
Sarke - Sarke [Black Metal/Thrash Metal]
Veirg - Ragnarok [Depressive Black Metal]
Velvet Cacoon - Atropine [Dark Ambient]
Vociferous - Vociferous [Black Metal]
Voqkrre - Palans In Pestilens [Black Metal]
Way to end - Desecrated Internal Journey [Experimental Black Metal]
Won - La Nebbia Dell'antica Religione (EP) [Black Metal]
Wolfdusk - Down Of Christianity [Black/Thrash Metal]
Whiplash - Unborn Again [Thrash Metal]
White Static Demon - Decayed [Ambient/Noise]
Whorethorn - Under The Veil Of Darkness [Black Metal]
Zebadiah Crowe - The Many Deaths Of The Great Beast [Black Metal]



Feel free to recommend me some music.

Dobra, w końcu czas zacząć układać finalną ultymatyczną listę roku, przy czym album roku jest już znany (w każdym razie wszędzie tam gdzie się pojawi bo tworzy piękno i harmonię ;-)). List will be constantly updated (ther's a lot of albums that I'll add but I don't have mood to do it now so be prepared for a daily list growing ;-)) Ok, let's start.

Tête de la course:
Alestorm - Black Sails at Midnight
Andrew Douglas Rothbard - Exodusarabesque (added)
Arvo Pärt - In Principio
Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way
Baroness - Blue Record
Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Robin Trower - What Lies Beneath?
Rome - Flowers from Exile
Ryan Bingham - Raodhouse Sun (added)
Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacum (added)
Tamara & Lucky Peterson - Darling Forever
Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces (added)
The Derek Trucks Band - Already Free
Wardruna - Runaljod - gap var Ginnunga
Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria

Chase:
Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
Antigama - Warning (added)
Arcana Coelestia - Le Mirage de l'Idéal
Archive - Controlling Crowds
Balmorhea - All is Wild, All is Silent
Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution
Candlemass - Death Doom Magic (added)
Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor
dälek - The Gutter Tactics
Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
Gargamel - Descending
Gov't Mule - By a Thread
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know (added)
Jack Marchment - Who is afraid of Iannis Xanakis?
Joanne Shaw Taylor - White Sugar
Joe Bonamassa - The Ballad of John Henry
John Scofiled - Piety Street (added)
J.J. Cale - Roll On
Kreng - L’autopsie phénoménale de Dieu (added)
Lost Soul - Immerse in Infinity
Manimal - The Darkest Room
Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
Megadeth - Endgame
Mournful Congregation - The June Frost
Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
Mumakil - Behold the Failure
Proghma-C - Bar-do Travel (added)
Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles
Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers - Soul Monster
Saxon - Into the Labirynth
SBB - Iron Curtain (added)
Scale The Summit - Carving Desert Canyons (added)
The Black League - Ghost Brothel (added)
The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen Of A Shelterd Elte
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade

Peleton:
Bud Tribe - Roll the Bone
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague (added)
Centaurus-A - Side Effect Expected
Doom - Born Like This
Grave Digger - Ballads of the Hangman
Ignominious Incarceration - Of Winter Born
Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
Lamb of God - Wrath
Lion's Share - Dark Hours
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gods and Guns
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire (added)
Susan Tedeschi - Back to the River (added)
Tardy Brothers - Bloodline
The Dead Weather - Horehound
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
Vader - Necropolis

Stragglers:
Divine Heresy - Bringer of Plagues (added)
Ephel Duath - Through My Dog's Eyes (added)

Awesomness beyond Your imagination and EPIC WIn of the year:
Jon Lajoie - You Want Some of This?
Stachursky - 2009
Waszka G - Życie Ostre jak maczeta (added)

Best soundtracks:

Updates coming soon...

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

1.In Flames
-Soilwork
-Dark Tranquillity
-Sonic Syndicate
-Children of Bodom
-Arch Enemy
-Scar Symmetry
-Passenger

2.Morbid Angel
-Immolation
-Suffocation
-Nile
-Malevolent Creation

3.Entombed
-Dismember
-Death Breath
-Grave
-Unleashed
-Gorefest
-Nihilist
-Asphyx

4.Dream Theater
-Liquid Tension Experiment
-Jordan Rudess
-James LaBrie
-John Petrucci
-Transatlantic
-Symphony X
-Pain of Salvation

5.Obituary
-Pestilence
-Autopsy
-Bolt Thrower

6.Sepultura
-Soulfly
-Cavalera Conspiracy
-Slayer
-Nailbomb
-Kreator
-Pantera
-Ektomorf

7.Death
-Control Denied
-Atheist
-Necrophagist

8.Deicide
-Vital Remains
-Krisiun
-Hate Eternal

9.Carcass
-Napalm Death
-Blackstar Rising
-At the Gates

10.Metallica
-Megadeth
-Iron Maiden
-Anthrax
-Machine Head
-Motörhead

11.Opeth
-Bloodbath
-Katatonia
-Cynic
-Porcupine Tree
-Gojira
-Riverside

12.Alice in Chains
-Mad Season
-Jerry Cantrell
-Soundgarden
-Mother Love Bone
-Temple of the Dog
-Stone Temple Pilots

13.Pearl Jam
-Eddie Vedder
-Stone Gossard

14.King Diamond
-Mercyful Fate
-King Diamond & Black Rose
-Metal Church
-Halford
-Venom
-Judas Priest
-Running Wild

15.Absu
-Deströyer 666
-Melechesh
-Aura Noir
-Razor of Occam
-Averse Sefira
-Gospel Of Horns
-Archgoat

16.Cannibal Corpse
-Six Feet Under
-Dying Fetus

17.Al Di Meola
-Return to Forever
-John McLaughlin
-Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin
-Allan Holdsworth
-Pat Metheny Group
-Jean-Luc Ponty
-Chick Corea

18.Bloodbath
-Hypocrisy
-Vomitory
-Decapitated

19.Atheist
-Gorguts
-Nocturnus
-Martyr
-Obscura

20.Led Zeppelin
-Pink Floyd
-Page & Plant
-Jimi Hendrix
-Robert Plant
-The Doors
-Cream
-The Jimi Hendrix Experience