2 Months Late: Top Albums Of 2009 So Far

So far in no particular order:

Iron Maiden - Flight 666: The Original Soundtrack
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Mastedon - Crack The Skye
Chickenfoot - S/T
Styper - Murder By Pride
Ultimatum - Lex Metalis

INPO:

Hardcore Superstar - Beg For It
The Last Vegas - Whatever Gets You Off
Gemini Five - Drugs Sex Anarchy
Helloween - Gambling With The Devil
Innocent Rosie - Bad Habit Romance

Saxon - Into the Labyrinth
Lions Share - Dark Hours
Wolf - Ravenous
Hysterica - Metalwar
Stryper - Murder By Pride

...but the best is yet to come!

Some of my favorites, in no order:

Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Amorphis - Skyforger
Goes Cube - Another Day Has Passed
Believer - Gabriel
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
Slough Feg - Ape Uprising

I'm anxious to get new cds by Ensiferum, Pelican, Kiss, Megadeth, Baroness and Paradise Lost just to name a few.

1. Seventh Angel - Dust of Years
2. Megadeth - Endgame
3. Believer - Gabriel


Dissapointments...

Chickenfoot
(i expected more from satriani)

Stryper
(aside from the solos it's boring)

I have to add Megadeth - Endgame to the list!!!!!

thejokeriv wrote:

I have to add Megadeth - Endgame to the list!!!!!

Indeed... We all shall.

I like the number 3, so here's my top of the prior:

1. H&H -- The Devil You Know
2. Hammerfall -- No Sacrifice, No Victory
3. Candlemass -- Death Magic Doom

Metal Misfit wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

I have to add Megadeth - Endgame to the list!!!!!

Indeed... We all shall.

pfffftttt

Based solely on the horrid quality mp3 leaks that only serve to showcase how dang good the songwriting and performances are, there's only one album that needs to be mentioned by me and it's an album with a sucky name and terrible cover art.

KISS - Sonic Boom

No other album will surpass this for me this year as well as probably for many years to come. Yes, I like it that much.

later...Cliffy

mc666 wrote:

Metal Misfit wrote:

thejokeriv wrote:

I have to add Megadeth - Endgame to the list!!!!!

Indeed... We all shall.

pfffftttt

Out of all the 2009 albums I've gotten so far this year, here is how I'd rank em (they are not all metal, but most of them are):


Vision Divine ~ 9 Degrees West of the Moon
Iron Fire ~ To the Grave
Saint Deamon ~ Pandeamonium
Sirenia ~ The 13th Floor
Primal Fear ~ 16.6
Ross the Boss ~ New Metal Leader
The Last Vegas ~ Whatever Gets You Off
Anubis Gate ~ The Detached
Hardcore Superstar ~ Beg for It
Heaven and Hell ~ The Devil You Know
Kreator ~ Hordes of Chaos
Absu ~ Absu
Wolf ~ Ravenous
Cannibal Corpse ~ Evisceration Plague
Lacuna Coil ~ Shallow Life
Combichrist ~ Today We Are All Demons
Hammerfall ~ No Sacrifice, No Victory
U2 ~ No Line on the Horizon
KMFDM ~ Blitz
Depeche Mode ~ Sounds of the Universe

Cliffy wrote:

Based solely on the horrid quality mp3 leaks that only serve to showcase how dang good the songwriting and performances are, there's only one album that needs to be mentioned by me and it's an album with a sucky name and terrible cover art.

KISS - Sonic Boom

No other album will surpass this for me this year as well as probably for many years to come. Yes, I like it that much.

later...Cliffy

I can;t wait for this one!!!!

A buddy hooked my up with a CDr of Sonic Boom, and it rocks! I've been listening to it nonstop the last two days, and it's definitely up there with my favorite KISS albums. Some of Gene's songs are definitely new KISS classics and the tunes with Eric and Tommy singing are two of the best on the CD.

Dave the Boss wrote:

A buddy hooked my up with a CDr of Sonic Boom, and it rocks! I've been listening to it nonstop the last two days, and it's definitely up there with my favorite KISS albums. Some of Gene's songs are definitely new KISS classics and the tunes with Eric and Tommy singing are two of the best on the CD.

You lucky ba*****!!!!!!!

09 has been a slow year for CD buying for me, so I haven't really heard all that much. Of what I have heard the clear winners thus far are Heaven and Hell (THE DEVIL YOU KNOW) and Megadeth (ENDGAME).

Looking forward to hearing the forthcoming KISS and the new Ace Frehley before the year's out.

I'd have to add, Lillian Axe's-Sad Day On Planet Earth to the list.

This is going to be the most difficult year for me to number my list. There were a ton of outstanding albums that came out (or will be) this year and it's only October.

• Ace Frehley - Anomaly
  
• Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
  
• Astra - The Weirding
  
• BarlowGirl - Love & War
  
• Believer - Gabriel
  
• Black Sabbath - The Devil You Know
  
• Doro - Fear No Evil
  
• Enforcer - Classic Chicago Metal
  
• Fu Manchu - Signs of Infinite Power
  
• God Forbid - Earthsblood
  
• Grave Digger - Ballads of a Hangman
  
• Holy Dragons - Iron Mind
  
• House of Lords - Cartesian Dreams
  
• Immortal - All Shall Fall
  
• Iron Maiden - Flight 666
  
• Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
  
• KISS - Sonic Boom
  
• Lady Sovereign - Jigsaw
  
• Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
  
• Megadeth - Endgame
  
• Meliah Rage - Masquerade
  
• Mercy Creek - Another Place To Start
  
• Mortification - the evil addiction destroying machine
  
• Nitefall - Red Moon Rising
  
• Obituary - Darkest Day
  
• Papa Roach - Metamorphosis
  
• Pearl Jam - Backspacer
  
• Saga - The Human Condition
  
• Sathanas - Nightrealm Apocalypse
  
• Satyricon - The Age of Nero
  
• Saxon - Into The Labyrinth
  
• Sepultura - A-Lex
  
• Seventh Angel - The Dust of Years
  
• Shortino - Chasing My Dream
  
• Stryper - Murder by Pride
  
• The Lou Gramm Band - S/T
  
• Thresher - Here I Am
  
• Tokio Hotel - Humanoid
  
• U.D.O. - Dominator
  
• Ultimatum - Lex Metalis
  

SPECTREFATE wrote:

This is going to be the most difficult year for me to number my list. There were a ton of outstanding albums that came out (or will be) this year and it's only October.

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• Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
  
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Fu Manchu - Signs of Infinite Power

I didn't peg you for a Fu-fan Spec. I didn't think you cared for that stoner stuff. BTW, when does that come out? I always enjoy some new, fat, fuzzed out grooves from those guys. Got an ep of theirs on the way to me that I picked up at that CM Distro fire-sale last week.

It's supposed to be October 20th I believe.

I've been a fan since I first heard "In Search Of...." I must admit I prefer Nebula, but the Fu has been nothing but consistent out of the gate.

The new Vision Divine is now my number one pick of the year. I updated my list to reflect this.

thejokeriv wrote:

• Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
  
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Back up punk, I never said I was a metalhead! More of a disgruntled pop fan.

Variety is the spice of life!!!

Sacred Reich said so!!

SPECTREFATE wrote:

It's supposed to be October 20th I believe.

I've been a fan since I first heard "In Search Of...." I must admit I prefer Nebula, but the Fu has been nothing but consistent out of the gate.

I have 1 Nebula disc. I like it ok enough, but nothing that bowled me over. Fu Manchu on the other hand is a band I can't get enough of. I'm slowly gathering up their discography. I saw that a new one was on the way, but I didn't know how soon. And as you stated, they've been pretty consistant from everything I've heard so far. Not a clunker in the bunch. They know what they do and they do it well.