CMR Top Albums of 2009

1. Stryper--Murder By Pride
2. Megadeth--Endgame
3. Saint--Hellblade
4. WASP--Babylon
5. Dream Theater--Black Clouds and Silver Linings
6. Narina--Course of a Generation
7. Impellitteri--Wicked Maiden
8. Ultimatum--Lex Metalis
9. Bride--Tsar Bomba
10. Believer--Gabriel
11. Orphan Project--Spooning Out The Sea
12. Heaven and Hell--The Devil You Know
13. Mortification--The Evil Addiction Destroying Machine
14. Ace Frehley--Anomoly
15 (tie) KISS--Sonic Boom
(tie) Thresher--Here I am
17. Winger--Karma
18. Grave Digger--Ballad Of A Hangman
19. Chickenfoot--Chickenfoot
20. Amorphis--Skyforger
21. (tie) House Of Lords--Cartesian Dreams
(tie) Thieves And Liars--American Rock And Roll
23. Redemption--Snowfall on Judgment Day
24. Hirax--El Rostro De La Muerte
25 (tie) Mainline Riders--Worldshaker
(tie) Transatlantic--The Whirlwind
27. Michael Phillips--Mirrors In Morrors
28. Epica--Design Your Universe
29. Hammerfall--No Sacrifice No Victory
30. Riverside--Anno Domini High Definition
31. Shadow Gallery--Digital Ghosts
32. I Built The Cross--Bridging The Gap Between Heart And Mind
33. Europe--Last Look At Eden
34. Kreator--Hordes Of Chaos
35 (tie) Grave Robber--Inner Sanctum
(tie) Skillet--Awake
37 (tie) Maylene and the Sons of Disaster--III
(tie) Napalm Death--Time Waits For No Slave
39. Heaven's Force--Aggressive Angel
40. Nile--Those Whom The Gods Detest
41. Suffocation--Blood Oath
42 (tie) Candlemass--Death Magic Doom
(tie) Liberty N Justice--Light It Up
(tie) Sonata Arctica--The Days of Grace
45 (tie) Obscura--Cosmogenesis
(tie) Ravage--The End Of Tomorrow
47 (tie) Ensiferum--From Afar
(tie) Seventh
Angel--The Dust Of Years
49 (tie) Alice In Chains--Black Gives Way To Blue
(tie) Jorn Lande--Spirit Black
(tie) Primal Fear--16.6
52. Vains Of Jenna--Art Of Telling Lies
53 (tie) Creed--Full Circle
(tie) Hardcore Superstar--Beg For It
(tie) Saxon--Into The Labyrinth
56. Gotthard--Need To Believe
57. (tie) Ale Storm--Black Sails At Midnight
(tie) Cage--Science of Annihilation
(tie) Mystic Prophecy--Fireangel
60. Dagon--Terraphobic
61. Decyfer Down--Crash
62. Broken Flesh--Forever In Flames
63 (tie) Anubis Gate--The Detached
(tie) Bon Jovi--The Circle
(tie) Dalit--Dalit
(tie) Danger Danger--Revolve
67. Mastedon--III
68. Place Vendome--Streets Of Fire
69. (tie) Artillery-When Death Comes
(tie) Immortal--All Shall Fail
(tie) Under Command--Back In The Thick
72. (tie) Fires of Babylon--Fires of Babylon
(tie) Pestilence--Resurrection Macabre
74. Thousand Foot Krutch--Welcome To The Masquerade
75 (tie) Ecthirion--Apocalyptic Visions
(tie) Grave Forsaken--This Day Forth
77 (tie) Crescent Shield--The Stars Have Never Seen z
(tie) Flyleaf--Memento Mori
(tie) Hibria--The Skull Collectors
(tie) Mastodon--Crack The Sky
(tie) Saint--Crimescene Earth 2.0
82 (tie) Lynyrd Skynyrd--God and Guns
(tie) Testify--24:27
84 (tie) Cannibal Corpse--Evisceration Plague
(tie) Delain--April Rain
(tie) Fairyland--Score To A new Beginning
(tie) Killswitch Engage--Killswitch Engage
(tie) The Poodles--Clash Of The Elements
(tie) Woe Of Tyrants--Kingdom Of Might
90. Vektor--Black Future
91. U.D.O.--Dominator
92 (tie) Miseration--The Mirroring Shadow
(tie) Obituary--Darkest Day
94. (tie) Asphyx--Death The Brutal Way
(tie) Foreigner--Can't Slow Down
(tie) Jacob's Dream--Beneath The Shadows
(tie) Stream Of Passion--The Flame Within
(tie) Wizard--Thor
(tie) Babylon Bombs--Bablyon's Burning
100 (tie) A Hill To Die Upon--Infinite Titanic Immortal
(tie) Austrian Death Machine--Double Bruta;
(tie) Sgt. Roxx--Weapons Of Miss Distraction
(tie) Wolf--Ravenous

In total, 279 albums received votes, including 68 that received just a
single vote from a single voter (ahem...Great White....). Saint is the
only band that is represented twice. Of course, I had initially asked
that re-issues not be counted, but so many people voted for Crime
Scene Earth 2.0 that it would have skewed things if I had eliminated
it.

Creed...


Creed got votes?



....


Seriously?



Creed...





WITH AAAAAAARMS WIDE OOOPEN...that Creed?

Ok, on a serious note, good to see Believer so high up on the list. Gabriel is an amazing album.

Also pleasantly surprised to see Nile, Suffocation, and the mighty Napalm Death in the top 50.

Black Coffee wrote:

Creed...


Creed got votes?



....


Seriously?



Creed...





WITH AAAAAAARMS WIDE OOOPEN...that Creed?

Sad thing is that album blows most of those on that list away...

I like Creed.

A lot of great bands on that list. Being that it's a Christian metal site, I'm not surprised that a lot of Christian bands were listed so highly.

Nice to see VEKTOR make the list. I voted for it. Black Future is fantastic.

Cool to see Ace Frehley so high as well. It was my #1 of the year. Funny that it came in at #14 and Kiss' Sonic Boom came in at #15.

Shocked to see Lex Metalis so high. I didn't think it would do well on the CMR due to it being a cover album.

The Chickenfoot album is boring IMO. I haven't really loved anything that Sammy Hagar has done since his days with Montrose.

Heaven's Force - Aggressive Angel is a CD re-release of a poorly recorded thrash metal demo. Not sure how that made it onto the list.

Hirax, Ravage and Kreator deserve to be much higher.

I expected Dagon to be much higher as well, as I see so many people speak so highly of that band.

Good to see bands like Decyfer Down and Thousand Foot Krutch on there as well. Great Christian Modern Rock bands....

Surprised to see Saint - Hell Blade so high. The opinions on that one are either love it or hate it. I found it to be boring.

not shocked to see "Lex Metalis" score so high! very happy it did so well! IMHO just proves that the christian metal fan understands that you guys were having fun and never caved with the faith issue! heres hopin this time next year;our brothers in Stryper have the same support!

This board is way better than the CMR.

Why didn't we have a list like this? We all voted on our albums. Did someone forget to tally the votes?

I own seven of them...and I enjoy six of them.

Obituary's on there!!

What about HOM's 100 top albums of 2009?

Addy wrote:

What about HOM's 100 top albums of 2009?

Yeah dude. That's what I'm saying. We never had one did we?