Favourite Albums of 2009

ride-the-spiral

Rather broad discussion but anyway...

What are your favourite albums of the year so far? And what albums are you looking forward to the most?

My best would probably be Skyforger by Amorphis, it's pretty straightforward verse - catchy chorus - interlude stuff but they seem to do it better than anyone else:o

Also, Isis - Wavering Radiant, not as good as Panopticon but a great album nonetheless! Would also say Obscura - Cosmogenesis on the death metal side of things.

I have very, very high hopes for Between the Buried and Me's new album, The Great Misdirect. Colors is probably my favourite album ever and i'm hoping this will be even better.

And can i just say that Crack the Skye is slightly overrated...

Jako8

Well my fave was crack the Skye :P


Looking forward to Rammsteins new album.

Karl Hungus

Crack the Skye.

My Dying Bride's For Lies I Sire is pretty good as well.

Mushy

Them Crooked Vultures:D

Also really liked Crack The Skye

But favourite released so far is definitely Dream Theater's Black Clouds & Silver Linings. A Nightmare To Remember is hugely epic, although few bits I dont like(Blast Beats ffs). Rite of PAssage, really liking it now, love the chorus. Wither is just perfect in EVERY way. A Shattered Fortress is my least favourite song, but still right good. Best of Times, really really powerful, emotional song about losing a father, with some sweet soloing. Then for The Count of Tuscany...easily most epic song this year(although Muse do have 3 part symphony, and Porcupine Tree have 14 part, 55 minute epic). Will still stand up there.

damonjewel

Faust: C'est Complique

The Frayed Ends

Got to go with Crack the Skye too. Could never get into Mastodon until I heard this. Brilliant album

Also enjoyed Wrath :pac:


I can't wait for Slayer and Megadeths new albums

Morf

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Rather broad discussion but anyway...

What are your favourite albums of the year so far? And what albums are you looking forward to the most?

My best would probably be Skyforger by Amorphis, it's pretty straightforward verse - catchy chorus - interlude stuff but they seem to do it better than anyone else:o

Also, Isis - Wavering Radiant, not as good as Panopticon but a great album nonetheless! Would also say Obscura - Cosmogenesis on the death metal side of things.

I have very, very high hopes for Between the Buried and Me's new album, The Great Misdirect. Colors is probably my favourite album ever and i'm hoping this will be even better.

And can i just say that Crack the Skye is slightly overrated...

Amorphis are painfully boring these days.

The new ISIS was extremely dull and uninspiring.

I did like Obscura a lot.

BTBAM were crap before Colors and it wouldn't surprise me hugely if they return to the usual fare.

• Kylesa - Static Tensions
  
• Colblat - Gin
  
• Animal Collective - Merriweather Port Pavillion
  
• Big Business - Mind The Drift
  
• Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West

I'm in the middle of putting my music onto a new laptop so of the ones i've ripped they are my favourites.

rainbow kirby

Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Lamb Of God - Wrath

Eagerly awaiting Sonata Arctica's new album next month.

nacho libre

Amorphis - Skyforger
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
Askival - Eternity
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Eluveitie - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
Destroyer 666 - Defiance
Finsterforst - Zum tode hin
My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire
Novembers Doom - Into Nights Requiem Infernal
Skaldic Curse - World Suicide Machine
Solstafir - Kold
Skagos- Ást
Razor of Occam - Homage to Martyrs
Yggdrasil - Vedergällning
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire

GrizzlyMan

In no particular Order:

My Dying Bride's - For Lies I Sire
Amorphis - Skyforger
Old Mans Child - Slaves of the World
Eluveitie - Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion
Behemoth - Evangelion
Wardruna - Runaljod – gap var Ginnunga

weisses

Winds of Plague - The great stone war :eek:

The Sorrow - Origin of the storm :cool:

Vader - Necropolis :pac:


Can't wait for the new Rammstein ... + irish gig

cedomination

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse Now
Napalm Death - Time waits For No Slave
Behemoth - Evanglion
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
GWAR - Lust In Space

Otis Driftwood

Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow

Goatwhore - Carving out the Eyes of God

Job for a Cowboy - Ruination

Lamb of God - Wrath

Hatesphere - To the Nines

Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague

Cattle Decapitation - The Harvest Floor

Absu - Absu

Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria

Blood Red Throne - Souls of Damnation


Its been a good year and with new releases from The Black Dahlia Murder,Dying Fetus,Hatebreed,Converge and Despised Icon (among others) to come its going to get even better.

Nephilim Wolf

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Rather broad discussion but anyway...

What are your favourite albums of the year so far? And what albums are you looking forward to the most?

My best would probably be Skyforger by Amorphis, it's pretty straightforward verse - catchy chorus - interlude stuff but they seem to do it better than anyone else:o

Also, Isis - Wavering Radiant, not as good as Panopticon but a great album nonetheless! Would also say Obscura - Cosmogenesis on the death metal side of things.

I have very, very high hopes for Between the Buried and Me's new album, The Great Misdirect. Colors is probably my favourite album ever and i'm hoping this will be even better.

And can i just say that Crack the Skye is slightly overrated...

Good to see someone else who really likes Amorphis. They are unfortunately unheard of in this country.:(Skyforger for me was the only great album I heard this year.:( I'm not 100% sure if it's as class as 'Silent Waters', but it's still a great album with a lot of great songs. The opening song 'Sampo' is just awesome, and is just as class as 'Weaving The Incantation'.

I've never been that mad about Mastadon, and they have become very overrated these days.:rolleyes:

triv88

Blut aus Nord
:Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars

Katharsis
:Fourth Reich

nacho libre

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

Good to see someone else who really likes Amorphis. They are unfortunately unheard of in this country.:(Skyforger for me was the only great album I heard this year.:( I'm not 100% sure if it's as class as 'Silent Waters', but it's still a great album with a lot of great songs. The opening song 'Sampo' is just awesome, and is just as class as 'Weaving The Incantation'.

Amorphis are well known in this country. Their early albums, such as Tales From the Thousand Lakes, are regarded by many people into metal as classics in the doom/death metal genre.

Max Power1

Crack the skye atm for me..

however ive a feeling that both slayer and megadeth will be my joint faves once they are released

GrizzlyMan

nacho libre wrote: »

Amorphis are well known in this country. Their early albums, such as Tales From the Thousand Lakes, are regarded by many people into metal as classics in the doom/death metal genre.

Tales From the Thousand Lakes - Classic Album:D

Trogdor

Gotta be
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
and
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
for me atm

chin_grin

I really don't know how you people like Crack Me Ars€? It's terrible, boring and a far jump from their rocking earlier stuff. Ah well. This forum is not to get in to a flame war about a band that started off well and is now on its downward spiral to mediocrity.

I'd have to say Evisceration Plague too. And Man Must Die - No Tolerance for Imperfection.

Otis Driftwood

chin_grin wrote: »

I really don't know how you people like Crack Me Ars€? It's terrible, boring and a far jump from their rocking earlier stuff. Ah well. This forum is not to get in to a flame war about a band that started off well and is now on its downward spiral to mediocrity.

100% agree.
Barring 1 or 2 tracks I thought CTS was pretty duff.

bigbadcon

Havent liked Mastodon up til now but might give the new album a shot seeing as most people seem to like it.

Any favourite songs on it I should check out?

GrizzlyMan

bigbadcon wrote: »

Havent liked Mastodan up til now but might give the new album a shot seeing as most people seem to like it.

Any favourite songs on it I should check out?

Yeah I never liked them either apart from 2 or 3 songs, but after seen there performance at metallica, I got the new album and really liked it. I think best tracks are:

Crack the Skye
Ghoast Of Karelia

cedomination

bigbadcon wrote: »

Havent liked Mastodon up til now but might give the new album a shot seeing as most people seem to like it.

Any favourite songs on it I should check out?

Just listen to the whole album and decide for yourself.

ride-the-spiral

Oblivion's probably the best track to hear first.

Otis Driftwood

Personally I think Divinations is by far the stand out track on it.

cedomination

Quintessence for me.

ShotgunblueZ

In no particular order:

Isis - Wavering Radiant
Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Xasthur - All Reflections Drained (nearly drained me!)
Mastodon - Crack the Skye

...currently liking Greymachine (members of Isis/Jesu/Godflesh)

Looking forward to:
Alice in Chains Black - Gives Way to Blue
Baroness - Blue Record
Isis - Live V (full Oceanic show...Live)

Nephilim Wolf

nacho libre wrote: »

Amorphis are well known in this country. Their early albums, such as Tales From the Thousand Lakes, are regarded by many people into metal as classics in the doom/death metal genre.

I've never heard them being mentioned over here. 'Tales From a Thousand Lakes' is indeed a great album.:)

ride-the-spiral

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

I've never heard them being mentioned over here. 'Tales From a Thousand Lakes' is indeed a great album.:)

Me neither, I haven't found them getting as much love as the melodeath scene. But then again over here you're considered underground and dark if you like Linkin Park

Morf

Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind

This is an absolutely fantastic album. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Somnus

For me it's Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings, was expecting it to be rubbish after Systematic Chaos, but was pleasantly surprised. In fact it's damn catchy! Listened to it non stop when I got it.

Am looking forward to hearing the new Alice in Chains album too though

nacho libre

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Me neither, I haven't found them getting as much love as the melodeath scene. But then again over here you're considered underground and dark if you like Linkin Park

Truly Shocking.:P I'd love to see them play here. Most bands i've wanted to see have done so.

ride-the-spiral

nacho libre wrote: »

Truly Shocking.:P I'd love to see them play here. Most bands i've wanted to see have done so.

Most bands seem to do a convenient skip of this country, but i'll leave that for ranting and raving :P