What were some of your favorite albums of 2009?

2009

The Agonist - Lullabies For the Dormant Mind

Amorphis - Skyforger

Arch Of Hell - One Day

Black Sun Aeon - Darkness Walks Beside Me

Celesty - Vendetta

Dark The Suns - All Ends In Silence

Dope Stars Inc. - 21st Century Slave

Doro - Fear No Evil

Insomnium - Across The Dark

Megaherz - Totgesagte Leben Langer

Metallspürhunde - Boese Wetter

Mono Inc. - Voices Of Doom

NoyceTM - Unwelt

Psyclon Nine - We The Fallen

The Shizit - The Shizit

Sonata Arctica - The Days of Grays

Subway To Sally - Kreuzfeuer

Sybreed - The Pulse of Awakening

Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself

This Ending - Dead Harvest

Unleash The Archers - Behold The Devastation

Vision Divine - 9 Degrees West Of The Moon

Vreid - Milorg

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

Wumpscut - Fuckit

2010

Alas, Tyranny - Domination Liberation Purification

Anders Manga - Infinite Gaze To The Sun

Fear Factory - Mechanize

Santa Hates You - Crucifix Powerbomb

Suicide Commando - Implements of Hell

Unter Null - Moving On

Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavilion

Baroness- Blue Record

Bear in Heaven- Beast Rest Forth Mouth

Cattle Decapitation- The Harvest Floor

Dan Deacon- Bromst

Darkest Hour- The Eternal Return

The Dead Weather- Horehound

Dirty Projectors- Bitte Orca

Earth Crisis- To the Death

The Flaming Lips- Embryonic

The Heavy- The House That Dirt Built

Jeremy Enigk- OK Bear

Julian Casablancas- Phrazes for the Young

Karen O and the Kids- Where the Wild Things Are Soundtrack

Monster of Folk- S/T

Modest Mouse- No One's First and You're Next

Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

So Many Dynamos- Loud Wars

Sunset Rubdown- Dragonslayer

Tortoise- Beacons of Ancestorship

Umphrey's McGee- Mantis

Dark Was the Night (compilation)

2009 - My Top 40 :)

..1. Magma -- "Emehntehtt-Re"

..2. Big Big Train -- "The Underfall Yard"

..3. Maudlin Of The Well -- "Part the Second"

..4. Riverside -- "Anno Domini High Definition"

..5. Nemo -- "Barbares"

..6. The Decemberists -- "The Hazards of Love"

..7. Mastodon -- "Crack the Skye"

..8. Delirium -- "il Nome del Vento"

..9. Exivious -- "Exivious"

10. Phideaux -- "Number Seven"

11. 5Bridges -- "The Thomas Tracks"

12. IQ -- "Frequency"

13. Shadow Gallery -- "Digital Ghosts"

14. Miriodor -- "Avanti!"

15. Beardfish -- "Destined Solitaire"

16. Gazpacho -- "Tick Tock"

17. Guy Manning -- "Number Ten"

18. The Dear Hunter -- "Act III: Life and Death"

19. Diablo Swing Orchestra -- "Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious"

20. Between The Buried And Me -- "The Great Misdirect"

21. Ageness -- "Songs From The Liar's Lair"

22. Redemption -- "Snowfall on Judgment Day"

23. Moongarden -- "A Vulgar Display of Prog"

24. Martigan -- "Vision"

25. Mono -- "Hymn to the Immortal Wind"

26. Astra -- "The Weirding"

27. Isis -- "Wavering Radiant"

28. The Tangent -- "Down And Out In Paris And London"

29. Devin Townsend Project -- "Addicted"

30. Black Bonzo -- "Operation Manual - The Guillotine Model Drama"

31. Porcupine Tree -- "The Incident"

32. Giant Squid -- "The Ichthyologist"

33. Hourglass -- "Oblivious to the Obvious"

34. Wobbler -- "Afterglow"

35. Deluge Grander -- "The Form Of The Good"

36. Satellite -- "Nostalgia"

37. Sylvan -- "Force Of Gravity"

38. Guilt Machine -- "On This Perfect Day"

39. Devin Townsend Project -- "Ki"

40. The Mars Volta -- "Octahedron"

Note -- I have yet to year last year's Transatlantic album, but I have heard it was one of the Best Releases of 2009!! :)

Journal For Plague Lovers - Manic Street Preachers

Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures

The Eternal - Sonic Youth

Farm - Dinosaur Jr

Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective

Life And Times - Bob Mould

11:11 - Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Fork In The Road - Neil Young

Goodnight Unknown - Lou Barlow

Ignore The Ignorant - The Cribs

--2009--

fun. - Aim and Ignite

Manchester Orchestra - Mean Everything To Nothing

Portugal. The Man - The Satanic Satanist

Thrice - Beggars

Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement

Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic

Emery - ...In Shallow Seas We Sail

Ahh... too many.

--2010--

Four Year Strong - Enemy Of The World

Fang Island - Self-titled

Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life

Greeley Estates - No Rain, No Rainbow

I'll tell you my top 5 from last year

1, Duff Mckagan's Loaded - Sick

2, Hardline - Leaving The End Open

3, Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

4, Sunstorm - House Of Dreams

5, Dange Danger - Revolve

I also liked, Steel Panther Feel The Steel, Doro Fear No Evil and Hammerfall No Sacrifice No Victory

so far this year I got Jimi Hendrix's new one and it's ok, most of the albums I'm looking forward to are out in April to be honest

Lamb of God Wrath

Static-X Cult of Static

Mastodon Crack the Skye

Lacuna Coil Shallow Life

Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage

Children of Bodom Skeletons in the Closet

Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil

Atreyu Congregation of the Damned

Mudvayne Mudvayne

Five Finger Death Punch War is the Answer

My big three last year (in order)

1. Liebe ist fur alle da - Rammstein (My favorite band, hadn't realeased an album in 5 years and they toured so I got to see them in concert, what's not to love there? Oh yeah wicked album too.)

2. Black gives way to Blue - AIC (just the fact that its AIC even without Layne, it's still good, different but good. The album took time to grow on me, but I really like it)

3. Endgame - Megadeth (it's Megadeth, enough said)

There were other good ones, I can't recall offhand. I havent picked up any released 2010 yet. Oh yeah 3 Days Grace had a new one, I got it for Christmas, it's really good too.

I picked up Bon Jovi - The Circle (I used to be a huge Jovi fan) I actually wasn't that impressed, its not the caliber that the last few even were, but it does have that distinctly 'Jovi' feel to it.

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Arctic Monkeys - Humbug

Dark Was The Night (compilation)

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion

Them Crooked Vultures.....self titled

Heaven & Hell.....The Devil You Know

Chickenfoot....self titled

Jimmy Buffett....Buffet Hotel

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood...Live from Madison Square Garden

Bon Jovi...The Circle

John Fogerty....The Blue Ridge Rangers Rises' Again

Queensryche....American Soldier

Dave Matthews...Big Whiskey & The CrooGeux King

Kiss.....Sonic Boom

Bob Dylan...Together Through Life

Slipknot...10th Anniversay Edition

Yusuf...Roadsinger

and a lot more for this year none so far. when I go on a buying trip that is when I'll buy a hand full of music.

take care

dave