The Fall of TroyMy Favourite Albums of 2009
1. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Essential Track: Disease, Injury, Madness
2. Baroness - Blue Record
Essential Track - Swollen and Halo
3. Converge - Axe to Fall
Essential Track - Effigy
4. Mew - No More Stories...
ET: Silas the Magic Car
5. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
ET: Crack the Skye
6. The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
ET: I Will Return
7. Isis - Wavering Radiant
ET: Threshold of Transformation
8. Coalesce - OX
ET: The Villain We Won't Deny
9. WHY? - Eskimo Snow
ET: Berkeley By Hearseback
10. Crystal Antlers - Tentacles
ET: Andrew
11. Kylesa - Static Tensions
ET: Scapegoat
12. Suicide Silence - No Time to Bleed
ET: Smoke
13. dälek – Gutter Tactics
ET: No Question
14. City of Ships - Look What God Did to Us
ET: Complacence in the Nest
15. The Red Chord – Fed Through the Teeth Machine
ET: Mouthful Of Precious Stones
16. Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive
ET: Bear Witness
17. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
ET: Two Weeks
18. Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire
ET: Stand Fight and Die
19. Job for a Cowboy - Ruination
ET: Unfurling a Darkened Gospel
20. Wavves - Wavvves
ET: So Bored
21.BeardFish - Destined Solitaire
ET: Awaken the Sleeping
22. Behemoth – Evangelion
ET: Ov Fire and the Void
23.Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky - The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry
ET: Cattle
24. Cobalt - Gin
ET: Pregnant Insect
25. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
ET: Wanderlust
26. Thursday – Common Existence
ET: As He Climbed the Dark Mountain
27. Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
ET: Once We Walked in the Sunlight
28. Darkest Hour – The Eternal Return
ET: No God
29. Architects – Hollow Crown
ET: Early Grave
30. John Frusciante - The Eternal
ET: Unreachable
31. Brand New - Daisy
ET: Bed
32. Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans
ET: False Jesii Part 2
33. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
ET: Young Hearts Spark Fire
34. Swallow the Sun - New Moon
ET: These Woods Breathe Evil
35. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
ET: Teflon
36. The Arusha Accord - The Echo Verses
ET: The New Face of Revenge
37.Bat for Lashes - Two Moons
ET: Daniel
38. Drudkh - Microcosmos
ET: Distant Cries of Cranes
39. Girls - Album
ET: Lust For Life
40. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
ET: Sacred Trickster
41. Gallows - Grey Britain
ET: The Great Deceiver
42. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
43. Handsome Furs - Face Control
ET: Officer of Hearts
44. Buried Inside- Spoils of Failure
ET: VII
45. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
ET: In Your Heart
46. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
ET: The Mountain
47. YOB - The Great Cessation
ET: Breathing From the Shallows
48. Lye By Mistake - Fea Jur
ET: Invincible Bad Ass
49. The Agonist - Lullabies For the Dormant Mind
ET: The Tempest (The Siren's Song; The Banshee's Cry)
50. Chimaira - The Infection
ET: Coming Alive
My Favourite EP's of 2009
1. Torche - Healer/Across the Shields
ET: Mash it Up
2.Nachtmystium - Doomsday Derelicts
ET: Life of Fire
3. Jesu - Opiate Sun
ET: Losing Streak
4. Coalesce - OXEP
ET: Through Sparrows I Rest
5. Cave In - Planets of Old
ET: The Red Trail
They Had Cool Albums Too...
Megadeth, Municipal Waste, Dream Theater, Graf Orlock, Polar Bear Club, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Ghostface Killah (except for "Baby"...!), mewithoutYou, Scar Symmetry, Obscura, Goes Cube, Killswitch Engage, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Cattle Decapitation, Mono, Rumplestiltskin Grinder, Clutch, Nile, Raekwon, Tombs, Dead Swans, Lamb of God, iwrestledabearonce, Struck By Lightning, Russian Circles, Burnt by the Sun, Dinosaur Jr., Camera Obscura, Mount Eerie, Goatwhore, Keelhaul, Napalm Death, Immortal, Pelican, Phoenix, Dark Mountain, Malefice, Suidakra, My Dying Bride, The Color of Violence, Warbringer, DevilDriver, Church of Misery, Diablo Swing Orchestra
Most Overrated:
1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
2. Muse - The Resistance (I hate this album so very much. If I want to listen to Queen, which I don't, then I'll shove my head in a blender. Up yours, Muse. I looked forward to this so much, for nothing.)
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Slayer - World Painted Blood
4. Suffocation - Blood Oath
5. Woods - Songs of Shame
Biggest Disappointments:
1.Muse - The Resistance
2 Porcupine Tree - The Incident
3. The Fall of Troy - In the Unlikely Event
4. 3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom
5. dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Why Are You Alive?
1. Ace Frehley
Get Out of My Sight:
Oasis
(You sucked when you started, you sucked last year, and you'd suck now if you hadn't broken up. Praise Satan.)
RIP
Burnt by the Sun
Burst
Animosity
Battle of Mice
1. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Essential Track: Disease, Injury, Madness
2. Baroness - Blue Record
Essential Track - Swollen and Halo
3. Converge - Axe to Fall
Essential Track - Effigy
4. Mew - No More Stories...
ET: Silas the Magic Car
5. Mastodon - Crack the Skye
ET: Crack the Skye
6. The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
ET: I Will Return
7. Isis - Wavering Radiant
ET: Threshold of Transformation
8. Coalesce - OX
ET: The Villain We Won't Deny
9. WHY? - Eskimo Snow
ET: Berkeley By Hearseback
10. Crystal Antlers - Tentacles
ET: Andrew
11. Kylesa - Static Tensions
ET: Scapegoat
12. Suicide Silence - No Time to Bleed
ET: Smoke
13. dälek – Gutter Tactics
ET: No Question
14. City of Ships - Look What God Did to Us
ET: Complacence in the Nest
15. The Red Chord – Fed Through the Teeth Machine
ET: Mouthful Of Precious Stones
16. Doomriders – Darkness Come Alive
ET: Bear Witness
17. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
ET: Two Weeks
18. Skeletonwitch - Breathing the Fire
ET: Stand Fight and Die
19. Job for a Cowboy - Ruination
ET: Unfurling a Darkened Gospel
20. Wavves - Wavvves
ET: So Bored
21.BeardFish - Destined Solitaire
ET: Awaken the Sleeping
22. Behemoth – Evangelion
ET: Ov Fire and the Void
23.Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky - The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry
ET: Cattle
24. Cobalt - Gin
ET: Pregnant Insect
25. Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic
ET: Wanderlust
26. Thursday – Common Existence
ET: As He Climbed the Dark Mountain
27. Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
ET: Once We Walked in the Sunlight
28. Darkest Hour – The Eternal Return
ET: No God
29. Architects – Hollow Crown
ET: Early Grave
30. John Frusciante - The Eternal
ET: Unreachable
31. Brand New - Daisy
ET: Bed
32. Pissed Jeans – King of Jeans
ET: False Jesii Part 2
33. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
ET: Young Hearts Spark Fire
34. Swallow the Sun - New Moon
ET: These Woods Breathe Evil
35. The Mars Volta - Octahedron
ET: Teflon
36. The Arusha Accord - The Echo Verses
ET: The New Face of Revenge
37.Bat for Lashes - Two Moons
ET: Daniel
38. Drudkh - Microcosmos
ET: Distant Cries of Cranes
39. Girls - Album
ET: Lust For Life
40. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
ET: Sacred Trickster
41. Gallows - Grey Britain
ET: The Great Deceiver
42. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
43. Handsome Furs - Face Control
ET: Officer of Hearts
44. Buried Inside- Spoils of Failure
ET: VII
45. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
ET: In Your Heart
46. Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
ET: The Mountain
47. YOB - The Great Cessation
ET: Breathing From the Shallows
48. Lye By Mistake - Fea Jur
ET: Invincible Bad Ass
49. The Agonist - Lullabies For the Dormant Mind
ET: The Tempest (The Siren's Song; The Banshee's Cry)
50. Chimaira - The Infection
ET: Coming Alive
My Favourite EP's of 2009
1. Torche - Healer/Across the Shields
ET: Mash it Up
2.Nachtmystium - Doomsday Derelicts
ET: Life of Fire
3. Jesu - Opiate Sun
ET: Losing Streak
4. Coalesce - OXEP
ET: Through Sparrows I Rest
5. Cave In - Planets of Old
ET: The Red Trail
They Had Cool Albums Too...
Megadeth, Municipal Waste, Dream Theater, Graf Orlock, Polar Bear Club, ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Ghostface Killah (except for "Baby"...!), mewithoutYou, Scar Symmetry, Obscura, Goes Cube, Killswitch Engage, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Cattle Decapitation, Mono, Rumplestiltskin Grinder, Clutch, Nile, Raekwon, Tombs, Dead Swans, Lamb of God, iwrestledabearonce, Struck By Lightning, Russian Circles, Burnt by the Sun, Dinosaur Jr., Camera Obscura, Mount Eerie, Goatwhore, Keelhaul, Napalm Death, Immortal, Pelican, Phoenix, Dark Mountain, Malefice, Suidakra, My Dying Bride, The Color of Violence, Warbringer, DevilDriver, Church of Misery, Diablo Swing Orchestra
Most Overrated:
1. Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
2. Muse - The Resistance (I hate this album so very much. If I want to listen to Queen, which I don't, then I'll shove my head in a blender. Up yours, Muse. I looked forward to this so much, for nothing.)
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
3. Slayer - World Painted Blood
4. Suffocation - Blood Oath
5. Woods - Songs of Shame
Biggest Disappointments:
1.Muse - The Resistance
2 Porcupine Tree - The Incident
3. The Fall of Troy - In the Unlikely Event
4. 3 Inches of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom
5. dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Why Are You Alive?
1. Ace Frehley
Get Out of My Sight:
Oasis
(You sucked when you started, you sucked last year, and you'd suck now if you hadn't broken up. Praise Satan.)
RIP
Burnt by the Sun
Burst
Animosity
Battle of Mice
