Sábado 13 Jun 2009, 11h:55
This is (obviously) by no means complete yet as we're only about halfway done with the year at the moment, but might as well put this up now. Ratings are certainly not final and will more likely than not change after more and more listens, but feel free to criticize/praise them as I welcome and encourage any comments on the list. Recommendations are also greatly welcomed and appreciated.
One quick note, all albums rated as "n/a" are albums that I currently have not listened to and/or have not been released yet.
3 Segundos Antes da Queda - 3 Segundos Antes De Queda (screamo) 7.25/10
A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage (singer-songwriter) 8.25/10
A Wilhelm Scream - A Wilhelm Scream (melodic hardcore) 8/10
Absu - Absu (black metal) 8/10
Across Tundras - Herds of the Fathomless Valleys (sludge/progressive metal) 7/10
Age Sixteen - Open Up Finders, Please (screamo) 8/10
Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans (funeral doom metal) 6/10
Ajattara - Noiturnaa (acoustic back metal) 7.5/10
Alarum - Natural Causes (progressive metal) n/a
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb (black metal) 7.5/10
American Steel - Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts (pop punk) 6.25/10
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs (shoegaze) 6.5/10
Amorphis - Skyforger (hard rock) 5.75/10
Amplifier - Eternity (prog rock) n/a
Amplifier - The Octopus (prog rock) n/a
Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow (black metal) 7.25/10
Andrew Bird - Noble Beast (singer-songwriter/indie) 6/10
Anti-Flag - The People or the Gun (punk) 4.25/10
Antimatter - Live@An Club (progressive rock) 7.5/10
Anubis Gate - The Detached (progressive metal) 5/10
Archives - Decline (screamo) n/a
Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ (black metal) 7.75/10
Asobi Seksu - Hush (shoegaze/dream pop) 7.5/10
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence (technical/prog death metal) 5.5/10
Awaiting the Autopsy - Couldn't Tell The Bodies Apart (brutal death metal) 6.5/10
Asphyx - Death…the Brutal Way (death metal) 8/10
The Axis of Perdition - Urfe (black metal) 8/10
Azarath - Praise the Beast (black/death metal) 6.5/10
Baliset - A Time for Rust (progressive rock/metal) 8/10
Banner Pilot - Collapser (punk/pop punk) 5.5/10
Baroness - Blue Record (sludge metal) 7/10
Battlefields - Thresholds of Imbalance (sludge metal) 7.5/10
Begrime Exemious - Set Ablaze The Kingdom of Abraham (black/death metal) 6/10
Beherit - Engram (black metal) 7.5/10
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach (melodic death metal) 5.5/10
Bestial Holocaust - Temple of Damnation (black/thrash metal) 7.75/10
Big D and the Kids Table - Fluent in Stroll (ska/punk) 6/10
Black Sun Aeon - Darkness Walks Beside Me (melodic death metal) 6.5/10
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars (black metal) 6/10
Braveyoung - Bloom (atmospheric sludge metal/post-rock) 7/10
Buried Inside - Spoils of Failure (sludge metal/metalcore) 6/10
Callisto - Providence (sludge metal/post-rock) 5/10
Calvin Harris - Ready for the Weekend (electronica/pop) 8/10
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom (doom metal) 6.25/10
Cauldron - Chained to the Nite (heavy metal) 6/10
Celeste - Misantrope(s) (screamo) 7/10
Chinese Telephones - Democracy (pop punk) 6.5/10
Claws - Absorbed in the Nethervoid (death metal) 7/10
Cobalt - Gin (prog black metal) 7.5/10
Code - Resplendent Grotesque (progressive black metal) 7.75/10
Comadre - A Wolf Ticket (screamo) 7/10
Converge - Axe to Fall (hardcore, metalcore) 8.25/10
Cormorant - Metazoa (prog black/death metal) 9/10
Count Raven - Mammons War (doom metal) 8/10
Crimfall - As the Path Unfolds… (power/folk metal) 3.5/10
Crippled Black Phoenix - The Resurrectionists (post-rock) 8/10
Cry of Silence - Wandering Through Pagan Times (black metal) 6/10
Crystal Viper - Metal Nation (power metal) 4.25/10
Daïtro - Y (screamo) 7/10
Dälek - Gutter Tactics (experimental/hip hop) 8.25/10
Dananananaykroyd - Hey Everyone (indie rock) 6.75/10
Dear Landlord - Dream Homes (pop-punk) 7.75/10
Defeater - Lost Ground (hardcore) 7.25/10
Depressed Mode - …for Death (doom metal) 7.25/10
Devin Townsend Project - Addicted (progressive metal) 6/10
Devin Townsend Project - Ki (progressive metal) 6.5/10
Diablo Swing orchestra - Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious (prog/experimental metal/rock) 5/10
Diamond Plate - Relativity (thrash metal) 8/10
Disappearer - The Clearing (sludge metal) 7.5/10
Doomraiser - Erasing the Remembrance (doom metal) 8.25/10
Dr. Manhattan - Jam Dreams (indie rock) 5/10
Dreaming Dead - Within One (melodic death metal) 7/10
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (progressive metal) 4.5/10
Dreams of the Drowned- Thanatotropic Principle (experimental black metal) 8/10
Dredg - The Pariah, the Parrot, the Delusion (progressive rock) 7.75/10
Drowning With Our Anchors - You Can Never Go Home Again (screamo) 6.5/10
Drudkh - Microcosmos (black metal) 8/10
Embrace of Thorns - Atonement Ritual (black/death metal) 8/10
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds… (death metal) 8.5/10
Exxasens - Beyond the Universe (post-rock) 6.75/10
Fall of Efrafa - Inlé (post-hardcore/sludge metal) 7.5/10
The Fall of Troy - In the Unlikely Event (post-hardcore, progressive rock) 5/10
Fen - The Malediction Fields (prog black Metal) 7.75/10
Festered - Flesh Perversion (death metal) n/a
Finsterforst - …Zum Tode Hin (folk metal) 3/10
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles (brutal death metal) 7.75/10
Fucked Up - Year of the Rat (crust punk/experimental hardcore) 7.25/10
fun. - Aim and Ignite (indie rock) 4.75/10
Funebrarum - The Sleep of Mobid Dreams (death metal) 8.5/10
Gazpacho - Tick Tock (progressive rock) 6/10
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs (melodic death metal) 7/10
Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist (progressive metal) 7.5/10
Gifts From Enola - From Fathoms (post-rock) 7/10
Gigantic Brain - Betelgeuse (ambient/electronic) 7.75/10
Gigantic Brain - World (ambient/cybergrind) 8/10
Gorod - Process of a New Decline (technical death metal) 5.5/10
Graf Orlock - Destination Time: Today (grindcore) 6/10
Graveless - Condemned to a Nameless Death (death metal) 7.5/10
Graveyard - One WIth the Dead (death metal) 8.25/10
Greymachine - Disconnected (noise/industrial) 7.75/10
Halestorm - Halestorm (hard rock) 4/10
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know (heavy metal) 7.5/10
Heaven in Her Arms - Duplex-Coated Obstruction (screamo) 7.5/10
Hellbastard - The Need to Kill (crust punk, thrash metal) 7.5/10
Helvetets Port - Exodus to Hell (heavy metal) n/a
Horrific - Your Worst Nightmare (death metal) 8.25/10
If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky (post-rock) 6.75/10
Ignivomous - Death Transmutation (death metal) 7.75/10
Indukti - Idmen (progressive metal/rock) 7.5/10
Isaïah - Ils Consomment, Tuent Et Prient Mais Me Pensent Pas (screamo) 7.25/10
Isis - Wavering Radiant (atmospheric sludge metal) 4/10
Iskra - Bureval (crust punk, black metla) n/a
Isole - Silent Ruins (doom metal) 7.25/10
Japandroids - Post-Nothing (noise rock) 7/10
Jesu - Infinity (post-rock/ambient/experimental) 8.25/10
Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist (post-rock) 7.5/10
Kailash - Past Changing Fast (progressive metal) 4.5/10
Kalisia - Cybion (progressive/melodic death metal) 9/10
Kaospilot - Shadows (screamo) 6.5/10
Katatonia - Night is the New Day (hard rock) 8/10
Kathaarsys - Anonymous Ballad (progressive metal) 5.25/10
The Kidcrash - Snacks (post-hardcore) n/a
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage II (metalcore) 4.5/10
Kiss Kiss - The Meek Shall Inherit What's Left (indie/experimental) 6/10
Krypts - Open the Krypt (death metal) 7.75/10
Kylesa - Static Tensions (sludge metal) 7.75/10
La Roux - La Roux (electronica/pop) 7.75/10
The Lawrence Arms - Buttsweat and Tears (pop punk/punk) 7.5/10
Leathermouth - XO (post-hardcore) 2/10
Long Distance Calling - Avoid the Light (post-rock) 7.5/10
Longing for Dawn - Between Elation and Despair (funeral doom metal) 4/10
Maladie - MAladie (hardcore/screamo) 7.5/10
Master's Hammer - Mantras (black metal) n/a
Mastodon - Crack the Skye (progressive metal) 4/10
Maths - Descenet (hardcore) n/a
maudlin of the Well - Part the Second (experimental) 8.5/10
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind (post-rock) 8/10
Morphosis - Rise of the Bastard Deities (death metal) n/a
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive (crossover/thrash) 5/10
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire (gothic doom metal)) 4.5/10
My Heart to Joy - Seasons in Verse (indie/emo) 7.75/10
Myrkraverk - Nordevegen (folk/black metal) 6/10
Nahemah - A New Constellation (prog death metal) 6.75/10
Napalm Death - Time Waits for No Slave (grindcore) 7/10
Narrows - New Distances (hardcore) 7.5/10
Njiqahdda - Taegnuub - Ishnji Angma (black metal) 5.25/10
NOFX - Coaster (punk/pop punk) 3.5/10
Not So Young - One of the Trigger (melodic hardcore) 8/10
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal (death/doom metal) 7.5/10
Om - God is Good (stoner rock/metal) 7.75/10
Omela - Viscum Album (heavy metal, prog rock) 7/10
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu (black metal) 7.75/10
Overhead - Live After All (progressive rock) 7.25/10
Pain of Salvation - Ending Themes (On the Two Deaths of Pain of Salvation) (progressive metal) 8/10
Peste Noir - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor (black metal) n/a
Pianos Become the Teeth - Old Pride (screamo) 7.25/10
P.O.S. - Never Better (hip hop) 8.5/10
Pensees Nocturnes - Vacuum (black metal) 8.25/10
Persefone - Shin-ken (prog/melodc death metal) 6.5/10
Porcupine Tree - The Incident (progressive rock) 6/10
Portal - Swarth (death/black metal) 7/10
Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg (post-hardcore) 5.25/10
Procession - The Cult of Disease (doom metal) 8/10
Propagandhi - Supporting Caste (punk) 6.25/10
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia (electronica/pop) 6.5/10
RAM - Lightbringer (heavy metal) 7.25/10
Revolting - Dreadful Pleasures (death metal) n/a
Riverside - Anno Domino High Definition (progressive metal) 6/10
Rome - Flowers From Exile (neofolk) 7.75/10
Rudra - Brahmavidya: Transcendental I (death metal) 7.5/10
Ruiner - Hell is Empty (hardcore) 7.25/10
The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite (black metal) 6/10
RX Bandits - Mandala (ska/progressive rock) 7/10
Sabertooth Zombie - …And Your Fathers Are Dead in the Ground (hardcore) 7.5/10
Seance - Awakening of the Gods (death metal) 8/10
Secrets of the Moon - Privilegivm (black metal) 7.5/10
SelfSays - Something Out of Nothing (hip hop) 7.5/10
Semtex - Pot Secret (stoner/doom metal) 7.5/10
Set Your Goals - This Will Be the Death of Us (melodic hardcore/pop punk) 5/10
Shining - VI - Klagospalmer (black metal) 6.5/10
Shook Ones - The Unquotable A.M.H. (melodic hardcore) 4/10
Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder (doom metal) 8.25/10
Sigh & Explode - These Seem Like Tarantulas (screamo) 8/10
Sleepmakeswaves - Split LP With Tangled Thoughts of Leaving (post-rock) 8/10
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising! (heavy metal) 8/10
Solstafir - Kold (psychedelic rock, post-rock) 7/10
Spiritus Mortis - The God Behind the God (doom metal) 8.25/10
STAPH - Keys (screamo) 7/10
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (progressive rock) 8/10
Straighten Things Out - I Think We Better Split Up (melodic hardcore/punk) 7/10
Strike Anywhere - Iron Front (melodic hardcore/punk) 5.5/10
Suidakra - Crogacht (melodic death metal) 6/10
Sun of the Blind - Skullreader (black metal) 7.75/10
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (drone) 7.5/10
The Swellers - Ups and Downsizing (melodic hardcore/punk) 6/10
Teenage Bottlerocket - They Came from the Shadows (pop punk) 6.75/10
Teitanblood - Seven Chalices (death/black metal) 8.5/10
Temnojar - Nordscapes (ambient/electronica) 6/10
Thanatos - Justified Genocide (death/thrash metal) n/a
The_Network - Bishop Kent Manning (grindcore/hardcore) 4/10
These Hands Could Separate The Sky - Save Yourself (post-rock) 6.75/10
This is a Standoff - Be Disappointed (melodic hardcore/punk) 8.5/10
Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió 8.25/10
Touche Amore - …To the Beat of a Dead Horse (screamo/melodic hardcore) 8/10
Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted to Sin (singer-songwriter) 8/10
Trans Siberian Orchestra - Night Castle (progressive rock/metal) 6.5/10
Trapped Under Ice - Secrets of the World (hardcore) 7.5/10
Tribulation - The Horror (death metal) 8.25/10
Trist - Willenskraft (electronica, ambient) 4.5/10
TwinSisterMoon - The Hollow Mountain (experimental/folk) 5/10
Ulcerate- Everything is Fire (death metal) 7.5/10
Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria (death metal) 5.5/10
Vorum - Grim Death Awaits (death metal) 7.5/10
Why? - Eskimo Snow (indie rock) 6/10
Witchmaster - Trucizna (black/thrash metal) 8/10
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade (black metal) 4/10
Wolves in the Throne Room - Maleovelent Grain (black metal) 5/10