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2009 has been a pretty great musical year for me. So many good albums, I think I'll have a hard time trimming it down to 10. Let see:

10. Dimensional Bleedthrough (Krallice)
Not quite as solid front to back as their debut, this is still an excellent slab of blackened drone / death metal.

9. The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion (dredg)
This one was a grower; Dredg has put some really powerful tracks on here amidst the filler.

8. The Great Misdirect (Between the Buried and Me)
This album seems much less disjointed than their previous releases. Also, Obfuscation kicks a ton of ass!

7. Those Whom the Gods Detest (Nile)
Not much more of a reason other than it is Nile, and it is almost as good as Annihilation of the Wicked.

6. Absu (Absu)
Easily the best mythological-occult metal album you will ever hear.

5. Nostalgia (Gwynbleidd)
These guys remind me of Opeth, and that's a huge compliment. I can't wait to hear more from them.

4. Crack the Skye (Mastodon)
While I might not enjoy this album more than Blood Mountain, it is easily as enjoyable. Mastodon never disappoint.

3. Ape Uprising (Slough Feg)
I consider Hardworlder one of the best albums ever; so I'm not surprised that I didn't enjoy this album on the same level as it. However, Slough Feg can do no wrong; this is a killer record.

2. Wavering Radiant (Isis)
Easily Isis' best record, and with the kind of back catalog they have, that is really saying something. This album blew me away the moment I first heard it.

1. Night is the New Day (Katatonia)
Katatonia is the best hard rock band around. No one can do what they do nearly as good. This album expanded on their sound in so many ways. Instant classic.

Cd's I bought today:
Misery Index - Discordia
Voivod - Voivod

(All Bought)
!T.O.O.H.! - Rad A Trest
3 Inches of Blood - Advance and Vanquish
3 Inches of Blood- Trial Of Champions
Aborted - The Archaic Abattoir
The Absence - From Your Grave
...and Oceans - A.m.g.o.d.
Abaddon Incarnate - The Last Supper
Absu - Absu
Acid Bath - Demos: 1993-1996
Agathodaimon - Higher Art of Rebellion
Agathodaimon - Serpent's Embrace
The Agony Scene - The Darkest Red
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Honky Reduction
Akercocke - Choronzon
Alice In Chains - Dirt
American Head Charge - Can't Stop The Machine
American Head Charge - The Feeding
American Head Charge - The War of Art
Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thundergod
Amon Amarth - Verses the World [2 CD Edition]
Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side
Amorphis - Far From the Sun
Anaal Nathrakh - The Codex Necro
Anal Cunt - It Just Gets Worse
Angel Corpse - Of Lucifer and Lightning
Animosity - Animal
Anthrax - Among The Living
Anthrax - Attack of the Killer B's
Anthrax - Sound of White Noise
Anthrax - Spreading the Disease
Apocalyptica - Plays Metallica By Four Cellos
Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
Arch Enemy - Black Earth
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges
Arch Enemy - Dead Eyes See No Future
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy - Rise Of The Tyrant
Arch Enemy - Stigmata
Arch Enemy - Wages Of Sin [Special Edition]
A Tribute to the Four Horsemen
At the Gates - The Red in the Sky Is Ours
Austrian Death Machine - A Very Brutal Christmas
Austrian Death Machine - Double Brutal
Austrian Death Machine - Total Brutal
Bathory - Nordland
The Beavis and Butthead Experience
Behemoth – Demigod
Behemoth - Pandemonic Incantations
Behemoth – Satanica
Behemoth – The Apostasy
Belphegor - Pestapokalypse VI
Benümb - Withering Strands of Hope
The Berzerker - Dissimulate
The Berzerker - World of Lies
Beyond The Embrace - Insect Song
Biomechanical - The Empires of the Worlds
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
The Black Dahlia Murder - Unhallowed
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Children of the Grave
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Blo.Torch - Blo.Torch
Bloodbath - Breeding Death
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
Bloodbath - Resurection Through Carnage
Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery
Bloodbath - The Wacken Carnage
Bloodbath - Unblessing The Purity
Blood Duster - Blood Duster
Blood Red Throne - Come Death
Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal
Bonded By Blood - Feed The Beast [2 Disc Special Edition]
Borknagar – Epic
Bring You to Your Knees: A Tribute to Guns 'n Roses
Buried Dreams – Necrosphere
Burn the Priest - Burn the Priest
Burzum - Hliðskjálf
Callenish Circle - Forbidden Empathy
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
Cannibal Corpse - Butchered at Birth
Cannibal Corpse - Centuries Of Torment: The First 20 Years DVD
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague [Special Edition]
Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back to Life
Cannibal Corpse - Live Cannibalism
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Cannibal Corpse - Kill
Cannibal Corpse - The Wretched Spawn
Cannibal Corpse - Vile
Cannibal Corpse - Worm Infested
Carcass - Necroticism-Descanting the Insalubrious
Carcass - Heartwork
Carcass - Reek of Putrefaction
Carcass - Swansong
Cardiac Necropsy - Scumwhore Superstar!!!
Carnal Forge - Who's Gonna Burn
Carnifex -The Diseased And The Poisoned
Cattle Decapitation - Karma.Bloody.Karma
Cattle Decapitation - To Serve Man
Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
Celtic Frost – Monotheist
Century Media 2006 Sampler
Century Media Distro Spring Sampler Volume 3
Cephalic Carnage - Anomalies
Cephalic Carnage - Conforming to Abnormality [Reissue]
Cephalic Carnage - Exploiting Dysfunction
Cephalic Carnage - Xenosapien
Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
Children of Bodom - Trashed, Lost & Strungout
Chimaira - Chimaira
Chimaira - Impossibility of Reason
Chimaira - The Infection
Chimaira - Pass Out of Existence
Chimaira - Resurrection
Circle of Dead Children - Exotic Sense Decay
Coal Chamber - Chamber Music
Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber
Coal Chamber - Dark Days
Coal Chamber - Giving the Devil his Due
Coldworker - The Contaminated Void
Contaminated 5.0: Relapse Records Music Sampler
Contaminated 6.0: Relapse Records Music Sampler
Contaminated Vol. 7 Relapse Records Music Sampler
Council of the Fallen - Deciphering the Soul
The County Medical Examiners - Olidous Operettas [Special Edition]
Cradle of Filth - Bitter Suites to Succubi
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Cradle of Filth - Damnation and A Day
Cradle of Filth - Lovecraft & Witch Hearts
Cradle of Filth - Midian
Cradle of Filth - Nymphetamine
Cradle of Filth - Thornography
Criminal - Dead Soul
Cryptopsy - Once Was Not [Special Edition]
Cryptopsy - None So Live
Cryptopsy - The Unspoken King
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
Daath – Hinderers
Dalmerot's Kingdom - Ha'mistorin Ha'nitzchi
Damageplan - New Found Power
Danzig - Danzig
Danzig - The Lost Tracks of Danzig
Darkane - Rusted Angel
Dark Tranquillity – Character
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery [Deluxe Edition]
Dawn of Azazel - Sedition
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Death - Symbolic [The Expanded Edition]
Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Death Angel - Act III
Death Breath – Let it Sink
Death Breath - Stinking Up the Night
Decapitated - Organic Halucinosis
Deeds of Flesh - Inbreeding the Anthropophagi
Dekapitator - Storm Before the Calm
Dethklok - The Dethalbum
Dethklok - Dethalbum II
Disgorge – Gorelics
Dismal Euphony - Autumn Leaves - A Rebellion Of Tides
Deicide - The Best of Deicide
Deicide - Insineratehymn
Deicide - Legion
Deicide - Once Upon the Cross
Deicide - Scars of the Crucifix
Deicide - Stench of Redemption [Box Set Edition]
Deicide - Til Death Do Us Part [Special Edition]
Demon Hunter - Summer of Darkness
Destruction - Inventor of Evil
DevilDriver - Devildriver
DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
DevilDriver - The Last Kind Words [Bonus Track]
DevilDriver - Pray For Villains [Special Edition]
Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon
Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid [Special Edition]
Dimmu Borgir - Godless Savage Garden [Reissue]
Dimmu Borgir - In Sorte Diaboli [Digipack]
Dimmu Borgir - Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst [Reissue]
Disbelief – Disbelief
Disbelief – Infected
Disturbed – Believe
Disturbed - The Sickness (Signed)
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists (Signed)
Divine Heresy - Bleed The Fifth (Signed)
Divine Heresy - Bringer Of Plagues
Drawn and Quartered - Return of the Black Death
Drawn and Quartered - Merciless Hammer of Lucifer [Limited Edition]
Dream Evil - United
Dream Theater - Awake
Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition
Dying Fetus - Killing on Adrenaline
Dying Fetus - War Of Attrition
E-Force - Evil Forces
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Enforsaken - The Forever Endeavor
Ensiferum - Iron
Entombed - Entombed
Evile - Enter the Grave
Exhumed - Gore Metal
Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Exodus - Shovel Headed Kill Machine
Faith No More - Album of the Year
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Fear Factory - Archetype [Digipack]
Fear Factory - Demanufacture [Digipack]
Fear Factory - Digimortal
Fear Factory - Hatefiles
Fear Factory - Obsolete [Digipack]
Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine [Digipack]
Fear Factory - Transgression
Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
Five.Bolt.Main - Venting
Fleshcrawl - Structures of Death (Digital Release)
Freddy Vs. Jason OST
Gadget – Remote
Gama Bomb - Citizen Brain
Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse
God Dethroned - Into the Lungs of Hell [Digi-Pack] (Signed)
God Dethroned - The Toxic Touch
God Forbid - IV: Constitution of Treason
God Forbid - Gone Forever
Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
Gorgasm - Masticate to Dominate
Gorgoroth - Antichrist
Gorgoroth - Pentagram
Gorgoroth - Twilight of the Idols
Gorguts - Considered Dead
Gorguts - The Erosion of Insanity
Gorguts – Obscura
Graveworm - (N)utopia
Grimfist - Ghouls of Grandeur
Gwar - America Must be Destroyed
Gwar - Beyond Hell
Gwar – Hell-O!
Gwar - Scumdogs of the Universe
Gwar - Violence Has Arrived
Hammerfall Sampler
Hatebreed – Perseverance
Hatebreed - Rise of Brutality
Hatebreed - Supremacy
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
The Haunted - The Dead Eye [Special Edition]
The Haunted - Made Me Do It
The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
The Haunted - rEVOLVEr [Digipack]
The Haunted - Versus
The Heart of Roadrunner Records
Heaven Shall Burn - Antigone
Heavy Metal 2000 OST
Hecate Enthroned - Kings of Chaos
Hellhammer - Demon Entrails
Hypocrisy – Abducted
Hypocrisy - The Arrival
Hypocrisy - Into the Abyss
Hypocrisy – Virus
Hyngd - Demo
I – Between Two Worlds
Iced Earth - Days of Purgatory
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Identity 5: I Defy
Identity, Vol. 8
Impaled - Medical Waste
Impaled Nazarene - Pro Patria Finlandia
Impending Doom - Nailed. Dead. Risen.
Imperanon – Stained
Incantation - Mortal Throne of Nazarene
In Flames - Come Clarity [Digipack] (Signed)
In Flames – Colony
In Flames – Clayman
In Flames - Lunar Strain/Subterranean
In Flames - Reroute to Remain
In Flames - Soundtrack to your Escape
Into Eternity - Buried In Oblivion
Into Eternity - The Scattering of Ashes
Ion Dissonance – Minus the Herd
Jagermeister Rareties 2004
Jungle Rot - Dead and Buried
Kataklysm - In the Arms of Devastation
Kataklysm - Prevail
Kataklysm - Serenity In Fire
Kataklysm - Shadows & Dust
Kataklysm – Sorcery & The Mystical Gate of Reincarnation
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies [Special Edition]
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
King Diamond - Abagail II: The Revenge
King Diamond - Conspiracy
King Diamond - The Puppet Master [Digipack]
King Diamond - Them
Kingdom of Sorrow - Kingdom of Sorrow
Kreator - Enemy of God
Krisiun - Bloodshed [Special Edition]
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn
Lamb of God - New American Gospel
Lamb of God - Sacrament
Lamb of God - Wrath
Lay Down Rotten - Reconquering the Pit (Digital Release)
Lollipop Lust Kill – My So Called Knife
Machine Head - The Blackening
Machine Head - The More Things Change
Machine Head – Supercharger
Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empire
Maddface – Denatured
Mahavatar - From the Sun, the Rain, the Wind, the Soil
Malevolent Creation – Envenomed
Man Must Die - The Human Condition
Manowar - Louder Than Hell
Marduk -Dark Endless
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Mastodon - Leviathan
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Megadeth - So Far, So Good...So What!
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythr33
Meshuggah -Chaosphere
Meshuggah -Nothing
Meshuggah - Obzen
Metal For The Masses Vol. 2
Metal For The Masses Vol. 3
Metal For The Masses Vol. 4
Metal Massacre XIII
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Metallica - Kill 'Em All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Metallica
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Misery Index - Discordia
Misery Index - Retaliate
Misery Index - Traitors
Mnemic - The Audio Injected Soul
Moonspell - Darkness and Hope
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Morta Skuld - Surface
Motograter - Motograter
Mudvayne - L.D 50
Mudvayne - The Beginning of All things to End
Mudvayne - The End of All things to Come
Mudvayne - Lost and Found [Dual disc Edition]
Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying
Mushroomhead - Savior Sorrow [3-D Artwork]
Mushroomhead - Superbuick (Signed)
Mushroomhead – XX
Mushroomhead – XIII
The Music of Grand Theft Auto IV
My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings
Nachtmystium - Assassins: Black Meddle Pt. 1
Naglfar – Diabolical
Napalm Death – Conspiracy in Capitals
Napalm Death – Diatribes
Napalm Death - Leaders Not Followers: Part 2
Napalm Death - The Code is Red...Long Live the Code
Nasum - Grind Finale
Necrophagia - Black Blood Vomitorium
Necrophagia - Season of the Dead
Necrophagia - Slit Wrists and Casket Rot
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World
Nevermore - Enemies of Reality
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Nile - In the Beginning
Nile - Ithyphallic
Nile - Legacy of the Catacombs
North - Na Polach Bitew
Nothingface – Skeletons
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal
Nuclear Blast: Weapons of Musical Destruction 2006 Sampler
Obituary - The End Complete (RR two from the Vault)
Obituary - World Demise (RR two from the Vault)
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
ohGr - Devils In My Details
Omnium Gatherum - Spirts and August Light
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Origin - Antithesis
Origin - Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas
Overkill - Killbox 13
Overkill - Years Of Decay
Ozzfest 2001 Summer Sampler
Ozzfest 2001: Second Millennium
Ozzfest 2002 Summer Sampler
Ozzfest 2003 Summer Sampler
Ozzfest Live 2002
Pantera - Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits
Passenger – Passenger
Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Plague Bringer - As the Ghosts Collect, The Corpses Rest
Plague Bringer - Life Songs in a Land of Death
Polterchrist - Engulfed by the Swarm
Possessed - Seven Churches
Powerman 5000 - Tonight The Stars Revolt!
Powerman 5000 - Transform
Primus - They Can't All Be Zingers
Probot - Probot
Protest - The Truth Enslaves Us
Psychostick - Sandwich
Psychostick - We Couldn't Think of a Title
The Punisher OST
Rage - Speak of the Dead
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angelas
Rammstein - Mutter
Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Rammstein - Rosenrot [Special Edition]
Rammstein - Sehnsucht
The Red Chord - Clients [Deluxe Edition]
Requiem for a Scream - Requiem for a Scream
Relapse Records Extreme Music Sampler
Resident Evil O.S.T
Resident Evil Apocalypse O.S.T
Rise Against - Appeal To Reason
Roadrunner Records Fall 2005 Sampler
Roadrunner United (The All-Star Sessions)
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Rob Zombie - House of 1000 Corpses Soundtrack
Rob Zombie - Past, Present, & Future
Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge
Rotting Christ - Passage to Arcturo
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder - Living for Death, Destroying the Rest
Samael - Era One
Samael - Lesson in Magic
Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
Satyricon – Volcano
Savatage - Power of the Night
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Darkness
Sceptic - Unbeliever's Script
Septic Flesh - Sumerian Daemons
Sepultura - Against
Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
Sepultura - Roots [Digipack]
Sentenced - The Cold White Light
Shadows Fall - The Art of Balance
Shadows Fall - Destroyer of Senses
Shadows Fall - Threads of Life
Shakra - Fall
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Six Feet Under - Bringer of Blood [Digipack]
Six Feet Under - Graveyard Classics 2
Six Feet Under - Maximum Violence
Six Feet Under - True Carnage
Skinlab - Nerve Damage
Skinless - Foreshadowing Our Demise
Skinless - Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead
Slayer - Christ Illusion
Slayer - Diabolus in musica
Slayer - Divine Intervention
Slayer - God Hates Us All
Slayer - Haunting the Chapel
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Slayer - Show No Mercy
Slayer - South of Heaven
Slayer - Undisputed Attitude
Slipknot - Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.
Soilent Green – Confrontation
Soul Demise - In Vain
Soundgarden - A-Sides
Staind - Dysfunction
Static-X - Beneath... Between... Beyond
Static-X - Cannibal
Static-X - Cult of Static
Static-X - Machine
Static-X - Shadow Zone
Static-X - Start a War
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Stone Sour - Stone Sour [DigiPack]
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Strapping Young Lad - SYL
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Suffocation - Blood Oath [Limited Blood Red Edition]
Suffocation - Souls to Deny
Suffocation - Human Waste
Suffocation - Suffocation
Superjoint Ritual - A Lethal Dose of American Hatred
Sworn Enemy - Sworn Enemy
Testament - First Strike Still Deadly
Testament - The Gathering
Testament - Low
Testament - Practice What You Preach
Testament - The New Order
Throwdown - Venom & Tears
Today is the Day - In the Eyes of God
Tool - Ænima
Tool - Lateralus
Type O Negative – Life is Killing Me
Unleashed - Viking Raids
Vader – Blood/Reign Forever World
Vader - The Art of War
Vader - The Ultimate Incantation
Venom - Black Metal [Reissue]
Venom - Metal Black
Vital Remains - Dechristianize
Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
Voivod - Voivod
Voivod - War and Pain
Vomitory - Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize
Warbringer - War Without End
Watch Them Die - Watch Them Die
Wednesday 13 - Transylvania 90210
White Zombie - Astro Creep: 2000
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1
White Zombie - Supersexy Swingin' Sounds
Winds of Plague - Decimate the Weak
Zimmers Hole - When You Were Shouting At The Devil...We Were In League With Satan

515 Albums
Itunes Stats:
Songs-9456 Songs
Playing Time-26 Days, 16 Hours, 03 Minutes, 43 Seconds
Size- 45.79gb

На корицата са Slayer
“Ние винаги ще бъдем Slayer, а вие винаги ще ни харесвате заради това, което правим.” Тези думи на Tom Araya кратко и ясно описват смисъла от съществуването на Slayer. Те са тук просто, за да бъдат Slayer. Те са идеология. Затова и всеки албум на Slayerсам по себе си е достатъчен за нашето пълно задоволство. Затова и World Painted Blood ще върне психопатските усмивки по лицата ни - защото без съмнение това са истинските и неподправени Slayer– така, като трябва да звучат.

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Рубрики
Концертни репортажи – ZZ TOP, SENSER, AMORPHIS, SKYCLAD
Бащите на Рока – RUSH, част II
На прицел – ДВАЙСЕТ ГОДИНИ ПО-РАНО - АЛБУМИТЕ НА 1989 г.
Скенер – PEARL JAM
БГ Рок – RAMPART
Историята на една обложка – RATM - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
Историята на един класически албум – ALICE COOPER – WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
„Every day we make it, we'll make it the best we can” – САШО СОКОЛОВ, МАГАЗИН 0.4.3.
Както винаги много новини, ревюта и предстоящи албуми
Плакати на KING DIAMOND и GAMA BOMB
Освен това, ще получите и следните бонуси:
- талон за 50 ml. безплатна водка Finlandia в метъл бар The Black Lodge (важи само за лица, навършили 18 години).
- талон за 15% отстъпка при пазаруване в магазин 0.4.3.

I stole this idea from a metalzine website (metalreview.com), and like them I will be going over all the albums that I know which I deem as must haves for this first decade of the 21st century. I was just going to do metal but decided to open it up to other types of music too, although I will say that the majority of the albums are still within the metal genre simply because I know it better than everything else. The only rule here is that there is no more than one album per band. EPs and demos were fair game for me also. I haven't ranked any of these so no need to complain about a certain album being higher than another. Enjoy.

Decapitated- Winds of Creation


The debut album from these insanely talented Polish guys, who were all extremely young when they recorded this, is a modern death metal classic. I think the thing that really makes this album stand out is the thick as cement guitar tone, inventive riffs, and near flawless drumming of the late Vitek. They came out of the gate with something to prove and forever made their stamp in the ever growing death metal scene.

Extol- Undeceived


An obscure band, even for the metal undeground, Extol were ever changing during their career and this album (while unlike any of their other albums) is their best effort. Their sound is a blend of death metal, progressive metal, even a bit of black metal. Their songwriting has no method at all and that's a good thing. They do things their way and end up sounding like no one else in the metal scene.

In Flames- Clayman


Ah, this is what In Flames is all about. Those sweet, melodic, harmonious guitars. Not only is this one of their best albums, it's the perfect album for new fans to start with and get themselves into the melodic death metal genre. The songwriting is practically flawless. Unfortunately, In Flames took a bit of a nosedive immediately after this work of theirs. They're just not the same.

Morbid Angel- Gateways to Annihilation


Given the grandeur of their earliest works, it seems this later effort of the death metal gods is often forgotten. That's a shame, because this release exudes confidence that only a veteran band can show. The guitar sound on this album has the thickness of sludge and Steve Tucker’s vocals are extremely befitting of the assault that Morbid Angel were going for at this point in their career, and will likely remain their last great album.

Nevermore- This Godless Endeavor


This appears to be the last Nevermore album of this decade, and it’s been five years since its release. When the new album is released is uncertain, but what is certain is that this remains maybe the best in their quality catalogue of work. The bar was raised extremely high on this album and they managed to blow everyone away upon its arrival. It essentially combines all the band’s best attributes into one mind blowing 57 minute journey.

Nightwish- Wishmaster


You better believe Nightwish have made this list. Like it or not, what the band does they do well. Tarja’s soprano vocals never sounded better than she did on this third release for the band, and the production is sheer perfection, bringing out the entire band the way they were meant to sound. Tuomas’ creative juices were working overtime and some of the best songs the band has written to date are on this album. The title track, ‘Wishmaster’, remains a staple in all their live shows.

Opeth- Blackwater Park


I can’t tell you how difficult it was just choosing one Opeth album. All of Opeth’s recent albums easily deserve a spot on this list, but I feel that Blackwater Park perfectly encapsulates what this band is about more so than any release of theirs this decade. Simply put, the band is firing on all cylinders here, with just about every single song on the album becoming a masterpiece in its own right. This is about as close to perfection as albums get.

Anaal Nathrakh- The Codex Necro


Absolute chaos is what this debut is all about from the industrial/grindcore influenced black metal of Anaal Nathrakh. This will test the tolerance of your ears and you will either relish in every second or run away in terror. The vocals are incomprehensible and ugly. The guitars buzz with malevolence and the drums pound your ears into dust. I think a lyric from one song perfectly sums up the response you should have listening, and that is “Down on your knees!”

…And Oceans- A.M.G.O.D.


One of the best mixtures of music that I’ve yet to hear, …and Oceans seemingly perfected the art of integrating electronics into their brand of black metal. There are hooks galore, especially on the infamous “Tears Have No Name”, and the guitars move forward with reckless abandon. The best thing about this album though is the songwriting and how they pull all their influences together to make one tight and cohesive work of experimental black metal.

Ensiferum- s/t


As debut albums go, this certainly ranks near the upper echelon of the crowd. While this band has always put out great material, they’ve never quite matched the power of this first album. There are so many standout tracks that it’s almost ridiculous a new band can have this much creativity and songwriting skills. Even today, this stands as one of the best folk metal albums and I don’t see it being shoved aside in the future.

Lost Horizon- Awakening the World


*Note* I might be changing this to their second album instead, but I haven't yet decided.

By the metal gods, what is this band? From out of nowhere, this band called Lost Horizon delivers one of the great power metal albums of all time, led by the immortal vocal talents of Daniel Heiman. This band is bursting with vibrant energy and their performances reflect their obvious enthusiasm for the metal. They understand that at its roots, it’s about fun and this is as good a traditional metal album you’re bound to find anywhere and anytime.

Summoning- Oath Bound


One of the truly original and unique bands in metal has always been Summoning. Even within the constraints of black metal, they have found a way to make a name for themselves, and an epic one at that. This is perhaps the best work they’ve ever put forth. The kinds of emotions evoked are many and they all touch the soul equally. To experience Summoning is to experience art in music form.

Windir- 1184


When one thinks of tragedy within metal, it’s hard not to think of the heartbreaking and somehow almost appropriate death of Windir’s Valfar. He died in the midst of a blizzard, and given the icy feel of Windir’s music on 1184, it’s rather ironic. Nevertheless, this album is one of few that can go toe to toe with just about any album you can think of and annihilate it in terms of its success. Perfect songwriting, memorable melodies, and passionate vocals…this is Windir’s magnum opus.

Agalloch- The Mantle


There are few bands in music today that have a perfect track record and Agalloch is one of them. This, their second release, is no less amazing than any of their other works. In fact, each of their albums ranks as some of the best material to ever spew forth from the metal scene. But on The Mantle, Agalloch perfected their already perfected sound by adding in elements from post-rock and a more doom-filled atmosphere. The only other thing I can say is, this is on many “Favorite albums of all-time” (including mine) lists for good reason.

Bloodbath- Resurrection Through Carnage


A glorious ode to the sounds of yore, Bloodbath resurrected the Swedish death metal assault of bands like Entombed and Dismember with this debut album and impressed many with their flawless execution. One might believe this album was a lost gem from the early 90s if not for the production clarity. Did I mention Mikael Akerfeldt sounds more brutal here than ever in his career? That’s saying a lot.

Dark Tranquillity- Damage Done


Without a doubt, Dark Tranquillity are the longest enduring band of the melodic death metal scene from the early 90s, and have long surpassed In Flames in terms of consistent quality across their entire career. While their mid-era albums saw more experimentation, Damage Done is a revitalization of sorts where they found their current calling. Damage Done succeeds with a kind of charm that I can’t explain. Perhaps it’s Stanne’s particular vocal styling on this album, or perfect melding of electronic elements the band introduced? All I know is that this is one album that will stick with you.

Darkspace- Dark Space III


Much like Negură Bunget, Darkspace are at the forefront of black metal in terms of progressing the genre in ways previously unexplored. Unlike Negură, Darkspace are the current masters of ambient black metal, taking their influence from the vast blackness of the universe. The atmosphere is so rich and otherworldly that the band becomes hypnotic in their unforgiving performances that defy what makes music usually work. Minimalism is the name of the game and Darkspace utilize it masterfully.

Immortal- Sons of Northern Darkness


Immortal were always considered a classic band due to their involvement in the burgeoning black metal scene in Norway in the early 90s, but after At the Heart of Winter was released, I think everyone was taken by surprise. This album picks up the pieces that were laid out for that album and arranges them into easily one of the best black metal albums of the decade. The production is frigid and even with the crystal clear sound the band’s brutality and grimness comes just as well as any time before. This album proved why these guys truly are the “Sons of Northern Darkness.”

Negură Bunget- Om


I’m not sure any band has taken the concept of progressive black metal to the heights that Negură has on their latest and greatest effort, Om. To even attempt to analyze this beast of an album is to realize your own mortality. In just the three years it’s been out, I feel this to me a monumental album in the black metal genre and one that will influence many bands in the future, though I doubt any will conquer a style like this in the way Negură has here.

Nile- In Their Darkened Shrines


As great as Annihilation of the Wicked is, In Their Darkened Shrines is Nile’s best work thus far for a couple reasons. For one, I’ve never heard a death metal album have this much atmosphere. It captures the Egyptian feel better than any work from the band. Also, the songwriting is extremely focused on this album and there are many standout tracks. No matter how you take in this album, the fact that it’s a masterpiece rings loud and clear.


Well, that's just the first of five volumes that I'll be assembling before the year is up, which means there's still 80 albums to go if you were counting. It might take me awhile before I get all five up because of school and work. So keep checking back periodically to see the rest of the list.

Bloodrunner - Total Annihilation
Fatal (FL, US) - Firebeast / Born 2 Thrash*
Hirax - Broken Neck / Baptized by Fire
Tankard - Space Beer
Fog of War - Taking Over
Suicidal Angels - ... Lies
Defiance- The War Inside
Overkill- Revelation
Sacrifice (Can) - The Ones I Condemn
Minax - Whirlwind of Darkness
Fit of Frustration - Lucky Sevens
Merciless Terror - Descend Into The Void
Tyrants Blood - Torn From The Sky
Post Mortem (US) - Message From The Dead
Braindead - Rise!
Fleshworks - We Are The Dead
Fatal (FL, US) - The Call Of War / Self Destroyed*
Sacrilegio (US) - Dark Purity
Necrosis (Chl) - Hidden Enemy
Death Over Threat - Deathreat
Toxik Society - Human War
Exumer - Waking The Fire
Destruction - Nailed To The Cross (Live)
Nile - Permitting The Noble Dead To Descend To The Underworld
Thanatos - Dawn of Eternity (Massacre Cover)
Sororicide - In Your Empty Eyes
Claws - Skeletal Reincarnation
Outrage - Killing Spree
Thy Flesh Consumed - The Disciplined Scorn
The Ordher - Retaliation
Disorder (Chl) - Burn Motherfucker Burn
Hellbastard - Going Postal
Fatal (FL, US) - Synthetic Satisfaction*
Napalm Death - Circle Of Hypocrisy
Awaiting Fear - Cenotaph (Bolt Thrower Cover)
Sinister - Corridors To The Abyss
Entrails - The Morgue
Anacrusis - Fighting Evil / Annihilation Complete-Disemboweled

*Featured Band

Total Annihilation is now on Brutal Existence Radio every Thursday 7-10pm EST. Featuring three hours of Thrash and Death Metal warfare.

CD/DVDs


top row (amazon.co.uk purchases, all cheap as hell thanks to the low GBP compared to the euro, most expensive thing was about 12 euros, maybe less)
Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way to Blue
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Two and a half men season 5

2nd row (amazon.co.uk purchases)
Sigur Ros - Von
Sigur Ros - ( )
Pelican - What we all come to need
Bossk - .2 (mcd)

3rd/4th row (cds, most of them cheap)
Cult of Luna - Somewhere along the highway
Laethora - March of the Parasite
Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom (2009 re-release incl 'Fire was Born' bonus DVD)

Ensiferum - From afar (Ltd digi)
Unearth - The March
Isis - Wavering Radiant

Cheap ass Movies, all below 7,50 (except for Crank 2, for which I payed 14,99, but I just had to have it :D)
Zack and Miri make a porno
Tropic Thunder
Crank 2: High Voltage
Blade Trilogy
Taken
RockNRolla
Heavy Metal in Bagdad
The Insider
Smoking Aces
Body of Lies


SHIRTS


- Behemoth - 'Youth Against Christ' shirt (front says "yes we can", I thought it was stupidly awesome :D)
- Golden Earring - 'Forever' shirt (Dutch Rolling stones, so they say, only a lot more awesome if you ask me)
- Riverside - 'Anno Domini High Definition Tour 09' shirt


TICKETS FOR UPCOMING SHOWS:
nov 16 - In Flames / Sybreed / +? @ Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL
nov 28 - Clutch / Kylesa / +1 @ Burgerweeshuis, Deventer, NL
dec 17 - Nile / Grave / Krisiun / +? @ Romein, Leeuwarden, NL
jan 17 - Europe / +? @Paradise, Amsterdam, NL
feb 4 - BLACK PROCESSION TOUR: Machine Head / Hatebreed / Bleeding Through / All Shall Perish @ Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, NL
aug 5-7 - WACKEN OPEN AIR 2010 @ Wacken, DE

Nile - They Who The Gods Detest
324 - Rebelgrind
Exhumed - Gore Metal
Ghoul - Maniaxe
Assuck - Misery Index
Sage Francis - Human The Death Dance
The Hope Conspiracy - Endnote
Ahumado Granujo - Splatter-tekk
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh
Terrorizer - World Downfall

....So yeah, I know that's alot.. but I really love my music. I'll try to do one of these every so often. I don't know if any of my 'friends' on here care, but feel free to comment on the list or whatever. Yeah.

Music In 2009.

Good:
1. maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
(Avant-Garde/Progressive Metal)

2. Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist
(Indie Rock)

3. Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor
(Black Metal)

3. Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
(Grindcore)

4. The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm
(Progressive Death Metal)


Continued in no order...

Astra - The Weirding
(Psychedelic/Space Rock)
Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
(Grindcore/Black Metal)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
(Shoegaze)
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
(Black Metal)
Arktika - Heartwrencher
(Post Rock)
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
(Progressive Death Metal)
Bad Actor - Portrait of Finality
(Sludge)
Baroness - Blue Record
(Sludge)
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars
(Black Metal)
Beherit - Engram
(Black Metal)
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
(Death Metal)
Celeste - Misanthrope(s)
(Black Metal)
Claws - Absorbed In The Nethervoid
(Death Metal)
Devin Townsend - Ki
(Progressive Rock)
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted
(Progressive Metal)
Drudkh - Microcosmos
(Black Metal)
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds
(Death Metal)
Fondlecorpse - Creaturegore
(Death Metal)
Gorod - Process of a New Decline
(Technical Death Metal)
Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt
(Black Metal)
General Surgery - Corpus In Extremis: Analysing Necrocriticism
(Grindcore)
Horrific - Your Worst Nightmare
(Death Metal)
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
(Atmospheric Rock)
Keeper of Dreams - Taste Smashed To Pieces
(Technical Death/Thrash Metal)
Kylesa - Static Tensions
(Sludge)
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
(Progressive Metal)
melee beats - I Am Lost
(Electronic)
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
(Crossover)
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
(Technical Death Metal)
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
(Technical Death Metal)
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu
(Psychedelic Black Metal)
Lord Mantis - Spawning The Nephilim
(Blackened Sludge)
Revolting - Dreadful Pleasures
Death Metal)
Tenet - Sovereign
(Thrash Metal)
Porcupine Tree - The Incident
(Progressive Rock)
Viraemia - Viraemia (EP)
(Technical Death Metal)
Vorum - Grim Death Awaits (EP)
(Death Metal)
Fen - The Malediction Fields
(Black Metal)
Isis - Wavering Radiant
(Sludge/Post Metal)
Riverside - Anno Domino High Definition
(Progressive Rock/Metal)
Shining - VI / Klagopsalmer
(Black Metal)
Sólstafir - Köld
(Post Metal)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain (EP)
(Black Metal)
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
(Black Metal)

Bad:
Ad Hominem - Dictator - A Monument of Glory
(Black Metal)
Behemoth - Evangelion
(Blackened Death Metal)
Dead - In The Bondage Of Vice
(Grindcore)
Devourment - Unleash The Carnivore
(Brutal Death Metal)
Funeral Mist - Maranthra
(Black Metal)
Fukpig - Spewings from a Selfish Nation
(Grindcore/Black Metal)
Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
(Sludge)
Hollow Branches - Words Are Fire
(Ambient)
Mantic Ritual - Executioner
(Thrash Metal)
Lamb of God - Wrath
(Groove Metal)
Immortal - All Shall Fall
(Black Metal)
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos
(Thrash Metal)
Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
(Technical Death Metal)
Trepalium - XIII
(Death Metal)
Tribulation - The Horror
(Death Metal)
Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
Death Metal)
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
(Brutal Death Metal)
Wodensthrone - Loss
(Atmospheric Black Metal)
Years - Years)
(Indie Rock)

Mediocre:
Absu - Absu
(Black/Thrash Metal)
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
(Melodic Death Metal)
Bone Gnawer - Feast of Flesh
(Death Metal)
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
(Progressive Metal)
DödsÄngel - Helgrind
(Black Metal/Crust)
Velvet Cacoon - P aa opal Poere Pr. 33
(Ambient Black Metal)
Jesu - Infinity
(Post Rock)
Mumakil - Behold The Failure
(Grindcore)
Saros - Acrid
(Progressive Black Metal)
Cloudkicker - The Map is Not the Territory (EP)
(Post Metal)
Cobalt - Gin
(Progressive Black Metal)
Deströyer 666 - Defiance
(Blackened Thrash Metal)
Exivious - Exivious
(Death Metal)
Funebrarum - The Sleep of Morbid Dreams
(Death Metal)
Gigantic Brain - World
(Cybergrind)
Glorior Belli - Meet Us At The Southern Sign
(Black Metal)
Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
(Gothic Metal)
Wyrd - Kalivägi
(Pagan Black Metal)

To be released/listened to(May ammend later):
Transatlantic, Gama Bomb, Pelican, Ruins, Krallice, Urgehal, Swallow The Sun, Timor et Tremor, Secrets Of The Moon, Paradise Lost

Ignored this year:
Megadeth, Slayer, Dying Fetus, 3 Inches Of Blood, Marduk, Belphegor, Dark Funeral, Vried, Insomnium, My Dying Bride, Vader, Skeletonwitch