Albums of the Year

Otis Driftwood

As the end of the year is creeping up on us Ive been reflecting on the metal releases of 09.Personally speaking I think it was as good a year as we have ever had.Amazing new releases from Cannibal Corpse,Cattle Decapitation,Lamb of God and many more.The major disappointment was Slayer's frankly lacklustre return to the studio although I felt let down by Nile's new one too.Chimaira's latest was poor enough compared to their own fairly high standards.

Anywhos,Ive picked some of what I thought were the top releases of the year and have added some youtube goodness.Why not do the same!

Job For A Cowboy - Ruination

Absu - Absu

Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God

The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate

Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

Man Must Die - No Tolerence For Imperfection

cedomination

Seconding Goatwhore, Black Dahlia Murder and Anaal Nathrakh. I liked Genesis by Jfac but I couldn't get into Ruination.

Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep8uEGh-LPw

Behemoth - Evangelion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMrBjVoES78

Mumakil - Behold The Failure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZnp9vd6hlQ

Gorod - Process Of A New Decline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HsPliVpT1U

AA= - #1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcVuflAf5JY

ride-the-spiral

Man Must Die's album is great

Numero Uno of the year is most definitely:

Between The Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect.

Amorphis - Skyforger

Hacride - Lazarus

Obscura - Cosmogenesis

Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

Sephiroth_dude

I quite liked lamb of gods new one and Gojiras.

ride-the-spiral

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I quite liked lamb of gods new one and Gojiras.

The Way of All Flesh was last year.

The Frayed Ends

My album of the year would be Evile's Infected Nations. I ****ing love this album . Didn't think Id end up preferring anything to Crack the Skye but this album is brilliant. Much much better then the first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQWL1Py0KAU

I did really enjoy World Painted Blood too. I think it's better than Endgame :pac:

GLaDOS

Stratovarius' album Polaris was pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOXbdrzF7vU

JBnaglfar

I actually enjoyed Nile's new album. Dream Theater and Dark Funeral had decent enough releases. I thought Gorgoroth's latest album was quite poor though with the exception of about one track.

Otis Driftwood

Converge - Axe To Fall

Despised Icon - Day Of Mourning

Belphegor - Pestapokalypse VI

Blood Red Throne - Souls Of Damnation

Salt The Wound - Ares

The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine

Somnus

The first that jumps to mind is Dream Theater's Black Clouds & Silver Linings. Really enjoyed it and thought it was a great improvement on Systematic Chaos.

The new Alice in Chains album is pretty good as well and I also really enjoyed Stratovarious' Polaris.

Didn't even realise Nile had a new album out, I'll have to give it a listen.

If I had to vote one it'd probably be BCSL

Dublin Spur

Black Crowes - Into the Frost

RayCon

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives : Communion
Porcupine Tree : The Incident
Mastodon : Crack The Skye
Warrior Soul : Destroy The War Machine
Kiss : Sonic Boom
WASP : Babylon

Cathy666

1. Manowar - Thunder In The Sky

I've picked my two favourite songs from this album:

Die With Honor

Father - This was released in 16 languages!

2. Ensiferum - From Afar

3. Devildriver - Pray For Villains

I also agree with some of the above: Behemoth, Anaal Nathrakh, Absu and Job For A Cowboy.

Max Power1

alongside slayer and megadeth's albums, i'd like to nominate five finger death punchs latest album..

Nea

Album of the Year IMO goes to Alice In Chains.
14 years worth waiting for

Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Took me ages to get into this one. Much better than previous album

Paradise Lost -Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us.
Great Song, video gives you a headache

Rammstein, Amorphis and Porcupine Tree are up there too.

Otis Driftwood

Max Power1 wrote: »

alongside slayer and megadeth's albums, i'd like to nominate five finger death punchs latest album..

Slayer,really?

Jaysus I thought it was pish compared with some of the other releases mentioned above.

Ah well,each to their own.

H1tmonlii

Biffy Clyro's new album is pretty awesome. It hs a nice range of sounds

Rockettmeister

Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders

ride-the-spiral

Rockettmeister wrote: »

Animals as Leaders - Animals as Leaders

Brilliant album Definitely one of the best guitar albums of the year for me.

ttoppcat

Them Crooked Vultures

Max Power1

nedtheshed wrote: »

Slayer,really?

Jaysus I thought it was pish compared with some of the other releases mentioned above.

Ah well,each to their own.

Yeah, i suppose. But I am a bit fan-boyish when it comes to bands like slayer/megadeth in that i'll probably like any release by them once its not total muck.

I do like the sound of that Evile album now that you mention it

slave_screams

New to this board, although I have read it a few times - I just posted my favourite metal records of the year on a few of the other sites I visit so thought I should also put it up on an Irish site since i'm form here:
In no particular order

Between the buried and me - The great misdirect
Mastodon - Crack the skye
Katatonia - Night is the new day
Devin Townsend - Addicted!
Animals as leaders - Animals as leaders
Baroness - Blue record
Coalesce - Ox
Dream theater - Black clouds and silver linings
Paradise Lost - Faith divides us, death unites us
Isis - Wavering radient
Kylesa - Static tensions
Megadeth - Endgame
Nile - Those whom the gods detest
The red chord - Fed through the teeth machine
Sunno) )) - Moniliths and dimensions
Alice in chains - Black gives way to blue
Porcupine tree - The incident
Pelican -What we all come to need
Obscura - Cosmogenesis

Glico Man

slave_screams wrote: »

New to this board, although I have read it a few times - I just posted my favourite metal records of the year on a few of the other sites I visit so thought I should also put it up on an Irish site since i'm form here:
In no particular order

Between the buried and me - The great misdirect
Mastodon - Crack the skye
Katatonia - Night is the new day
Devin Townsend - Addicted!
Animals as leaders - Animals as leaders
Baroness - Blue record
Coalesce - Ox
Dream theater - Black clouds and silver linings
Paradise Lost - Faith divides us, death unites us
Isis - Wavering radient
Kylesa - Static tensions
Megadeth - Endgame
Nile - Those whom the gods detest
The red chord - Fed through the teeth machine
Sunno) )) - Moniliths and dimensions
Alice in chains - Black gives way to blue
Porcupine tree - The incident
Pelican -What we all come to need
Obscura - Cosmogenesis

+1

Really liked this album

Best stuff from them in a while

slave_screams

aaronh007 wrote: »

+1

Really liked this album

Best stuff from them in a while

Was pleasantly surprised by the new record, had been a huge fan of them before Layne passed away. DuVall's vocals are good both on record and more importantly, live. There just isn't ayone else who sounds like them

Rockettmeister

slave_screams wrote: »

Mastodon - Crack the skye
Devin Townsend - Addicted!
Animals as leaders - Animals as leaders
Dream theater - Black clouds and silver linings
Isis - Wavering radient
Porcupine tree - The incident
Obscura - Cosmogenesis

YES

slave_screams

Rockettmeister wrote: »

YES

If you liked the Mastodon record, you should try Baroness, if you havn't already. There are similarities between the two, 'the red record' is probably my favourite still. Also Katatonia's new record, it's probably their best to date. Bands like BTBAM and the red chord are more of an acquired taste I agree, I'm a big fan of Paul Wagganer's guitar playing (btbam)

ride-the-spiral

slave_screams wrote: »

If you liked the Mastodon record, you should try Baroness, if you havn't already. There are similarities between the two, 'the red record' is probably my favourite still. Also Katatonia's new record, it's probably their best to date. Bands like BTBAM and the red chord are more of an acquired taste I agree, I'm a big fan of Paul Wagganer's guitar playing (btbam)

Baroness are great, I much preferred Blue Record to Crack The Skye to be honest. The Red Chord album is pretty good but I have yet to think it's amazing, and I think I say a bit too much about how much i like BTBAM

slave_screams

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Baroness are great, I much preferred Blue Record to Crack The Skye to be honest. The Red Chord album is pretty good but I have yet to think it's amazing, and I think I say a bit too much about how much i like BTBAM

I'm new to the board so wouldn't have seen that:) Been a fan since Alaska; Colors was my favourite record of 2007 - The great misdirect is a really good record but I think I had my expectations set too high after Colors, there really wasn't any way I could have seen them topping that - I had a couple of other red chord albums and thought they were just ok, I have never been a huge fan of the 'metalcore' vocal style, think that's why I have never fully understood the appeal of bands like Converge, Coalesce etc - The music is good, just I find the vocals grating after a while - Opeth probably have the right mix of death and clean vocals, as do Btbam ofc:)

InigoMontoya

Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious
Swallow The Sun - New Moon
Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs
Gorod - Process Of A New Decline
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal

Few links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nim10BdaTMw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bII6SfW0eBQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hTrgZfw8io

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HsPliVpT1U

Prezatch

I thought it was a very disappointing year for music. There isn't one rock/metal album this year that stood out for me.

Calvin Harris' album was about the best new thing I listened to all year but of course that's not /\/\ETAL :cool:

ride-the-spiral

JoeyD wrote: »

I thought it was a very disappointing year for music. There isn't one rock/metal album this year that stood out for me.

Calvin Harris' album was about the best new thing I listened to all year but of course that's not /\/\ETAL :cool:

Perhaps you just haven't heard enough this year?

Prezatch

ride-the-spiral wrote: »

Perhaps you just haven't heard enough this year?

Hah, perhaps so. Perhaps i'm just getting old.

One thing I did notice from having a listen to some of the youtube tracks posted here was Blood Red Throne's remarkably similar riff to Slayer's Killing Fields.

Play 3.00 mins in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhBFlJjyi4M

And play 0.42 mins in here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU5-s9RJvmM

hitlersson666

Ok Onlt one album which im my books is fantasic (well 2) Mastodon-Crack the skye

Converge-Axe to fall

ride-the-spiral

hitlersson666 wrote: »

Ok Onlt one album which im my books is fantasic (well 2) Mastodon-Crack the skye

Converge-Axe to fall

I really didn't get the hype around either of these albums. I thought Mastodon's was good on the first few spins but after a while I found it drawn out. And I just plain didn't like Axe To Fall.

Each to his own however.

Ally Dick

RayCon wrote: »

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives : Communion

Great band

Paolo_M

hitlersson666 wrote: »

Ok Onlt one album which im my books is fantasic (well 2) Mastodon-Crack the skye

Converge-Axe to fall

Love that album. It's been a while sinice an opening track grabbed my attention like that.

Angron

I loved Dying Fetus newest album, and was lucky enough to get to see them after they released it too

nacho libre

Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough
Altar Of Plauges - White Tomb
Cobalt - Gin
Sólstafir - Köld

ShotgunblueZ

Converge's 'Axe to Fall', Baroness's 'Blue Record' & Nirvana's 'Live at Reading' are all blowing me away currently...

Useful.Idiot

Altar of Plagues - White Tomb yes! Great Irish band! They got signed to Candelight records this month also!
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