Your Top 2009 Releases

Europe must have got The Butterfly Effect very late, coz that was early last year for Australia. (brilliant album BTW)

 

Exactly. It was released in Europe through a German label only a few months ago.

 

1. The Armed - These Are Lights
1. Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
1. He is Legend - It Hates You
1. Converge - Axe To Fall
1. Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
6. Paramore - Brand New Eyes
7. Thrice - Beggars
8. Cave In - Planets of Old EP
9. ISIS - Wavering Radiant
10. Mastodon - Crack the Skye

pretty much.

 

In no particular order, this is what has been spinning in my home this year;
Danny Cavangh / Anneke Van Giersbergen - In Parallel
Leafblade - Beyond, Beyond
Mars Volta - Octahedron
Muse - The Resistance
Dredg - The parriah..
Enter the hunt - Fighters (it´s only a single, but it is insanely awesome)
Placebo - Battle for the sun
Madness - The liberty of norton folgate
Slayer - World painted blood (Some songs on here is definetly on par with South of heaven era..)
Barren earth - Our twilight

Also, hopes are high for the following;
Katatonia... if i ever receive it... grrrr (honestly, i am so pissed at this it´s horrible...)
Agua de Annique - In your room. ordered it monday.. waiting eagerly.

Looking forward to next year;
Anathema (if they ever get it released)
In Mourning

 

I don't have the order worked out yet, but these releases tickled my fancy this year (in somewhat chronological order):

NECROPHOBIC - Death to All
UNANIMATED - In the Light of Darkness
TRIBULATION - The Horror
SHINING - VI: Klagopsalmer
GHOST BRIGADE - Isolation Songs
PORCUPINE TREE - The Incident
ALICE IN CHAINS - Black Gives Way to Blue
PARADISE LOST - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
KATATONIA - Night Is the New Day

Also discovered the Enter the Hunt album, like it quite a lot, now I must try to find a copy, which has proved nearly impossible.

Also pretty nice:
BONE GNAWER - Feast of Flesh
SLAYER - World Painted Blood

 

No Particular order:

Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Anvil Chorus - The Killing Sun
Beherit - Engram
Embrace Of Thorns - Atonement Ritual
Helcaraxe - Broadsword
Ignivomous - Death Transmutation
Instinct Of Survival - North Of Nowhere
3 - Revisions
Teitanblood - Seven Chalices
Tribulation - The Horror
Shackles - Traitor's Gate
Archgoat - The Light-Devouring Darkness

Yet to hear: Blasphemophagher, Ares Kingdom, Infinitum Obscure, Profanatica, ...

 

10. Skyforger- Amorphis
9. Slaves of the World- Old Man's Child
8. Delforate- Black Daliah Murder
7. Wavering Radient- Isis
6. Anno Dommini High Definition- Riverside
5. The Great Misdirect- Between the Buried and Me
4.5. (edit to lazy to change all the numbers) A SENSE OF LOSS- NOSOUND --- GORGEOUS P.E.R.I.O.D...
4. New Moon- Swallow the Sun
3. Darkness Walks Beside Me- Black Sun Æon
2. Night is the New Day- KATATONIA

and album of the year is................................................................................................................................................................................

















THE INCIDENT- PORCUPINE TREE

 

didn't like that album at all

 

yeah, the Riverside album is pretty terrible tbh.

 

tortoise - beacons of ancestorship
mastodon - crack the skye
isis - wavering radiant
oneida - rated o
animal collective - merriweather post pavilion
alice in chains - black gives way to blue
fuck buttons - tarot sport
health - get color
sunn o))) - monoliths and dimensions
baroness - the blue album
yob - the great cessation

 

Mastodon and Isis need more listens. I haven't really been in the mood for either but I feel like they could be top 10s and of course I need to know before finalizing my list. Katatonia right now is probably #3.

 

arjen lucassen guilt machine- on this perfect day
katatonia night is the new day
dream theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings
redemption snowfall on the judgement day
o.s.i blood
long distance calling avoid the light


not a particular order

 

Gazpacho: Tick Tock (absolute winner, progrock)
Riverside: ADHD (prog, imo it's 10/10)
Sylvan: Force of Gravity (prog rock)
Rammstein: Liebe is für.. (my expectations was low after Pussy)
Katatonia
Devin Townsend: Ki (didn't like Accident)
Dredg: pariah..
Lacuna Coil
Senser: How To Do Battle (rapcore)
Jääportit: Voimasuo (psychoambient metal)

(not in order)

non-metal from 2009: Crystal Method, Editors, Yello, VAST, Simple Minds, Muse

 

ADHD is hands down their worst release, but STILL its a very solid album if you can get past the extensive experimintation and long passages of intrumental filler (thats what they feel like on this album imo)

 

AHD gets rave reviews on progarchives.com. I don't get it...

I'm listening to this beautiful slow doom band Ahab from Germany. Divinity of oceans the album is called. Some of you should like it. Just introduced myself to them today... Top 10 material.

Katatonia is creeping up my list. They're up to 3rd place. The album just gets better with each listen!

 

Soul Savers - Broken -------this is Mark Lanegans band, and by far the best thing he's ever done

 

There's a new Soulsavers????

EFFIN EH!

 

WTF.. I'm a big Lanegan fan also...

 

Hanging tree is the best QOTSA song.