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Holy crap, so many great albums were released this year that it was difficult for me to narrow this album down to just 25 picks. Before I start naming my top albums, here's just a list of honorable mentions, all of which probably could have found their way onto my list:

3 Inches Of Blood - Here Waits Thy Doom
Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight
Arsonists Get All The Girls - Portals
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
Austrian Death Machine - Double Brutal
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach
Billy Talent - Billy Talent III
Buckethead - Slaughterhouse On The Prairie
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
Cormorant - Metazoa
Dååth - The Concealers
Dalriada - Arany-Album
Deströyer 666 - Defiance
Dethklok - Dethalbum II
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Eluveitie - Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion
Evile - Infected Nations
Exivious - Exivious
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
Fu Manchu - Signs Of Infinite Power
God Forbid - Earthsblood
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
House Of Broken Promises - Using The Useless
Insomnium - Across The Dark
Kalisia - Cybion
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
Kong - What It Seems Is What You Get
Lamb Of God - Wrath
Mantic Ritual - Executioner
NOFX - Coaster
OSI - Blood
Revocation - Existence Is Futile
Scale The Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire
Skyclad - In The... All Together
Slayer - World Painted Blood
Street Sweeper Social Club - Street Sweeper Social Club
Suidakra - Crógacht
The Company Band - The Company Band
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
White Wizzard - High Speed GTO
Wino - Punctuated Equilibrium
Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg

See what I mean? Anyway, without further ado, the list.

25) Mastodon - Crack The Skye: So many people have this album at the top of their lists. I personally liked the album a great deal, but didn't feel that it was up to the quality of their previous work.

24) Katatonia - Night Is The New Day: I'm a bit new to Katatonia, but I really found myself enjoying this album early on. I heard some similarities to Opeth that really helped draw me in.

23) HORSE the band - Desperate Living: HtB can always be relied on for some serious weirdness with their music, and this was no different. I felt it improved upon A Natural Death, although it's not quite as great as The Mechanical Hand was.

22) Obscura - Cosmogenesis: This was the album that really drew into technical death metal, and was one of my favorites of the year. The fretless bass work is fantastic.

21) Rammstein - Liebe Ist Für Alle Da: It had been too long since the last album Rammstein had released an album, and considering the direction the band had taken with their last few albums, I was worried at how this one would come out. As it turned out, I had nothing to worry about. Their best work since Mutter.

20) Koffin Kats - Forever For Hire: As far as I'm concerned, Koffin Kats are the best psychobilly band out there, and they continued to reinforce that opinion with this release.

19) Celldweller - Wish Upon A Blackstar Chapter 01 & 02: The man known as Klayton began releasing his latest album two tracks at a time this year. These first two chapters are excellent and really left me wanting more.

18) Les Claypool - Of Fungi And Foe: Ah, Les Claypool. The mad genius from Primus continues to get weirder with age, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

17) Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect: For a long time I believed BTBAM to be a screamo band based solely on their name; as it turned out, I was completely wrong. And I have never been happier to be proven wrong.

16) KMFDM - Blitz: KMFDM are a bit like the AC/DC of industrial rock... you always know what you're getting with their music, and yet, it's still pretty damn great.

15) TrollfesT - Villanden: In addition to possessing the most patently ridiculous album art, Villanden is a deliriously entertaining blast of bizarre folk metal. Enjoyable from start to finish.

14) Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió: I was really surprised at how much this album grew on me, considering my usual opinions on black metal. Then again, Thy Catafalque is not your typical black metal. The highlight for me is the 19 minute, 11 second Molekuláris gépezetek, which digresses into a hypnotic drumbeat with a smattering of saxophone and piano before its final metallic crescendo.

13) Devin Townsend Project - Ki & Addicted: Both of these albums could easily occupy spots on this list, but for the sake of simplicity I'm combining them. Ki's mellow, propulsive guitars are an amazing complement to the bombastic pop-metal riffs of Addicted.

12) Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11: 2009 was the year I learned that acoustic guitars can shred just as hard as electric when played right. This album blew my mind.

11) Megadeth - Endgame: Dave Mustaine may be a dick, but he showed this year that he still remembers Megadeth's thrash roots, and subsequently released his best work since Rust In Peace. Endgame is as great a return to form as Death Magnetic was for Metallica.

10) Supercommuter - Supercommuter: Alright, I like a bit of nerdcore hip-hop now and then, and Optimus Rhyme was probably the cream of the crop until their unfortunate decision to part ways. Take vocalist Wheelie Cyberman, replace the funk rock beats with 8-bit bleeps, and you have a recipe for success.

9) Animals as Leaders - Animals As Leaders: Tosin Abasi managed to make an instrumental metal album that doesn't really sound like anything I've ever heard, brilliantly showing just what a guitarist is capable.

8) Metroid Metal - Varia Suite: Seeing as Powerglove didn't get an album out this year, I had to find my fix of video game metal elsewhere. Fortunately, Metroid Metal was more than up to the task, transforming the music of the Metroid games into some sublimely brilliant instrumental metal.

7) Amorphis - Skyforger: Amorphis' last three albums now have been consistently brilliant, with fantastic vocals, evocative lyrics, and beautifully heavy music. Truly an incredible album.

6) Baroness - Blue Record: As great as Baroness' previous work was, I felt that there was a certain unevenness that kept me from really enjoying them. Blue Record took care of that.

5) Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious: It's not often that you find an artist that truly does something original in music, but DSO do just that by mashing metal, jazz, swing, opera, and electronic into one amazing package. This album is unlike anything you have ever heard, and it's an incredible ride from start to finish.

4) Priestess - Prior To The Fire: Priestess got some much-deserved recognition when their song 'Lay Down' was included on Guitar Hero, but their last album, while solid, was not great. Prior To The Fire completely and totally blows away anything they've done and elevates stoner rock to a new level.

3) Ensiferum - From Afar: Ensiferum have long been recognized as one of the premier bands in folk metal, with a flair for epic songs, and they continue to separate themselves from the pack on From Afar. Not only do they have the two 10+ minute epic 'Heathen Stone' tracks, but they actually incorporate some Ennio Morricone-style western sounds and a shredding banjo solo on 'Stone Cold Metal' and make it work. Phenomenal.

2) Clutch - Strange Cousins From The West: I was almost certain that this album would be number one on my list this year, simply because it's Clutch. They consistently manage to release incredible blues/stoner rock and yet seem fresh, and like a fine wine they only get better with age.

1) Gorod - Process Of A New Decline: This album came out of nowhere and completely ripped my face off. Obscura may have really gotten me a taste of tech-death, but Gorod made me realize just what could be done within the genre. In spite of the dizzying tempo changes, ridiculous guitar leads, and light-speed drumming, I discovered that the riffs were memorable and that there were moments where the band actually slowed things down just a bit and settled into a groove. I never thought that technical death metal could be described as catchy... and yet, Gorod manages to achieve just that. Unbelievable.

Albums:

Necrophobic - Death To All
Behemoth - Evangelion
Celesty - Vendetta
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Eternal Tears of Sorrow - Children of the Dark Waters
Paradise Lost - Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us
Insomnium - Across The Dark
Amorphis - Skyforger
Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro pro Eternus
Trail of Tears - Bloodstained Endurance
Mystic Prophecy - Fireangel
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
Redemption - Snowfall on Judgment Day
Vader - Necropolis
Leaves' Eyes - Njord
Dark Moor - Autumnal
Epica - Design Your Universe
Sirenia - The 13th Floor
Delain - April Rain

Live albums:

Onslaught - Live Damnation
Destruction - The Curse of the Antichrist - Live in Agony
Within Temptation - An Acoustic Night At The Theatre

DVDs:

Dark Tranquillity - Where Death Is Most Alive
Leaves' Eyes - We Came With The Northern Winds

Debuts:

Gothmog - A Step In The Dark
Nox Aurea - Via Gnosis
Crimfall - As The Path Unfolds...
ARMAGA - In The Ruins
Black Sun Aeon - Darkness Walks Beside Me
Fractal Gates - Altered State of Consciousness

Disappointments:

Ensiferum - From Afar
Thunderstone - Dirt Metal
Sonata Arctica - The Days Of Grays
Stratovarius - Polaris
Revolution Renaissance - Age of Aquarius
Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life

Well 2009's not quite over yet, but I probably won't get a chance closer to New Year's to do this, so here ya go. And yes, this took forever. I don't mind though ^__^ Means I had something to do whilst scrobbling! \:D/

So here we go, my top 40 most scrobbled artists of the year, accompanied by their most scrobbled albums and tracks. Knock yourselves out xD


DNC = "Did not chart"
NTY = "New this year"
IC = "Incomplete" i.e. I don't have the full album yet. This is usually because I've downloaded two or three songs so that I can listen to them a fair few times before deciding whether or not to buy the full album. If I just research on youtube, I wouldn't be giving a band enough time to grow on me (or to grow old, in fact!)

Chart positions determined 5:30 p.m., Thursday 17th December 2009. As if that matters xDD


=#40 - Circa Survive (103 plays)
> One of the best bands I've listened to. They're just not my genre xD
Top Album of 2009: On Letting Go (#75, 57 plays)
> An almost flawless album
Top Track of 2009: DNC

=#40 - Genesis (103 plays)
> Grew up with these guys, one of the only bands that both my parents like xD
Top Album of 2009: We Can't Dance (#136, 28 plays)
> The final track, Fading Lights, is just pure amazingness
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#39 - Depeche Mode (112 plays)
> They seem to have inspired everyone somewhere along the lines, and for good reason xD DM are one of the main reasons for English pride!
Top Album of 2009: Playing The Angel IC (#101, 38 plays)
> A superb album, really superb :)
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#38 - Amorphis NTY (114 plays)
> Initially interested, I slowly realised that it all sounded the same ¬__¬
Top Album of 2009: Silent Waters NTY (#84, 49 plays)
> What a disappointment. It's so mediocre, easily my worst buy of 2009.
Top Track of 2009: House of Sleep NTY (#105, 36 plays)
> See, this was interesting. It's just that the rest is either boring or a boring clone >__>

#37 - 下村陽子 NTY (121 plays)
> Because I like the Kingdom Hearts game >w<
Top Album of 2009: KINGDOM HEARTS Original Soundtrack COMPLETE [Disc 1] NTY (#121, 31 plays)
> Same as above, really xD
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#36 - Metallica (130 plays)
> The influence of the great 'Tallica just can't be ignored, nor escaped :)
Top Album of 2009: S&M (#97, 41 plays)
> The first time I heard a proper orchestra used in metal - in other words, the set-up for Nightwish ;)
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#35 - Korpiklaani NTY (135 plays)
> A pure last.fm discovery, this was. My first taste of folk metal too, I think.
Top Album of 2009: Korven Kuningas NTY, IC (#62, 76 plays)
> I still want to buy this at some point...
Top Track of 2009: Kipumylly NTY (#94, 38 plays)
> I love this song! I even learned the Finnish lyrics, though I forgot them before too long... xD

#34 - Indica NTY (138 plays)
> I got into Indica because they were one of the support bands for the Nightwish gig. They're a pretty fun little group ^__^
Top Album of 2009: Valoissa NTY, IC (#71, 60 plays)
> Ah, the infamous Tuomas-produced album. If I ever buy an Indica album, it won't be this one xD
Top Track of 2009: Vuorien taa NTY (#100, 37 plays)
> Easily the best out of the few I know. Jonsu's fiddle *makes* it :)

=#32 - Deadlock (144 plays)
> I've known about them for ages but last.fm rekindled my drive to investigate their music :) and MAN they're good! :D
Top Album of 2009: Manifesto NTY, IC (#82, 52 plays)
> Getting this album for Christmas :D It was a hard choice which to get, though, this or Wolves...
Top Track of 2009: Martyr To Science NTY (#206, 25 plays)
> What a great track @__@ I'm not sure you can get much better than this, the guitars are great and Sabine's voice... wuaaah!

=#32 - Evanescence (144 plays)
> This artist had the single greatest influence on my musical (and personal, thinking about it) life. Evanescence showed me that I liked rock/metal combined with classical styles, which has paved the way for the vast majority of what I listen to today. And they're still fun to listen to occasionally, even after six years x) (Feels like longer...!)
Top Album of 2009: The Open Door (#108, 36 plays)
I actually prefer this to Fallen, I really do. Fallen is too boring and samey - there's some fail on The Open Door but there's much more win too to make up for that.
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#31 - Kate Bush (157 plays)
> Probably one of the greatest solo artists ever. She's just amazing @__@
Top Album of 2009: Aerial: A Sky of Honey NTY (#130, 29 plays)
> Easily, *easily* my favourite Kate Bush album. The way it just flows as if it's just one massive, chaptered song... amazing, and so calming to listen to ^__^
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#30 - For My Pain... NTY (162 plays)
> I listened to these guys because of Tuomas being in the band and to be fair, I do like their music, but... it's just so incredibly emo!! @___@ And emo in a very unemotional way, which is... just weird xD
Top Album of 2009: Fallen NTY, IC (#42, 129 plays)
> I nearly bought this. I'm glad I didn't xD Though maybe one days... *shrugs*
Top Track of 2009: My Wound Is Deeper Than Yours NTY (#214, 24 plays)
> Not my favourite FMP song xD It's good, but not the best :P

#29 - Green Day (165 plays)
> I got really fond of these guys again during the summer x)
Top Album of 2009: International Superhits! (#89, 46 plays)
> It's my top album mostly because it has the most tracks xDD
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#28 - Eluveitie NTY (172 plays)
> Another last.fm discovery. I really love their brand of folk metal, especially since they're not afraid to put down their guitars and stuff and just play pure folk.
Top Album of 2009: Evocation I: The Arcane Dominion NTY, IC (#69, 62 plays)
> This is probably the album I'd buy, if I get round to it. Like I said, the "pure folk" element is what makes me respect Eluveitie the most...
Top Track of 2009: Bloodstained Ground NTY (#177, 27 plays)
> ...even though what made me fall for them was the combination of metal and folk on this here track x) Bloodstained Ground is pretty close to perfect :P

#27 - Galneryus (173 plays)
> Shock horror! A Japanese band that I discovered, not my sister! xD I really want to buy some albums of theirs but you know... postage from Japan is a killer T^T
Top Album of 2009: One For All - All For One NTY, IC (#82, 52 plays)
> When I eventually buy a Galneryus album, this is the one I want most!
Top Track of 2009: Cause Disarray (#118, 33 plays)
> My first Garu track :3 It struck me as similar to Sonata, and that was enough to investigate them further x3

#26 - Jamiroquai (182 plays)
> Aww, Jamiroquai :D *smiles at them in fondness* They were my favourites for a long, long time back at school and college, and I'll always have a soft spot for them :)
Top Album of 2009: The Return of the Space Cowboy (#97, 41 plays)
> THE best Jamiroquai album. There's no question - greatest sound, greatest consistency, just a great funk album :)
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#25 - The Gathering NTY (191 plays)
> They make very nice, calm music, but that's the problem xD It's so nice and calm that I got bored of it very quickly ^__^;; Still, it's good for relaxing every now and then :)
Top Album of 2009: The West Pole NTY (#31, 179 plays)
> A good solid album, if you don't mind music that doesn't really pack a punch.
Top Track of 2009: The West Pole NTY (#94, 38 plays)
> The song that made me pay attention to The Gathering, and probably still my favourite. It just transports you to another world~~

#24 - Sydänpuu NTY (192 plays)
> *flails arms in totally fangirly way* I love Sydänpuu!! \:D/ I got into them because I found out that Jani Liimatainen (ex-guitarist of Sonata, of course) does everything but drums for this project. I listened, not seriously expecting anything of Jani's voice, and OH MY GOD. BLOWN AWAY @___@ Jani, stop messing around with Cain's Offering and get your butt back to Sydänpuu! This project shows so much promise!!
Top Album of 2009: Sydänpuu NTY (#29, 192 plays)
> Well, it's not really an album xD It's six demo tracks, the only Sydänpuu stuff we have ;____; In a way that makes it more precious but at the same time I WANT MORE DANGIT!
Top Track of 2009: Hautaa Minut Tänään NTY (#33, 53 plays)
> The first track I listened to, the one that made me fall in love with Jani's voice, and I still can't get enough of it. REPEATREPEAT.

#23 - Michael Jackson (204 plays)
> Believe it or not, most of those scrobbles were from before his death. I've always loved this guy, for my whole life; a great man and a great musician. Rest in peace, dearest, rest in peace. *moonwalks*
Top Album of 2009: HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I Disc 2 (#84, 49 plays)
> Bad is actually my favourite album, but this one has more tracks so it gets more scrobbles :P
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#22 - Finntroll NTY (250 plays)
> Got into these guys because of the Nightwish-Tapio Wilska-Finntroll connection x3 Just gotta love the sound they create, trolls partying into the night x)
Top Album of 2009: Nattfödd NTY (#52, 94 plays)
> I finally bought this at Halloween, and it's absolutely perfect for that time of year x) And, oddly, Christmas xDD (don't know how that works... O.o)
Top Track of 2009: Hel Vete NTY (#108, 35 plays)
> This was my self-righteous anger song at some point, and I really don't know how I got that from the song xD It's great, in spite of my odd usage of it :P

#21- Elias Viljanen NTY (259 plays)
> Yeap, Sonata Arctica's current guitarist! I've only discovered his solo stuff really recently but OH MY GODD I absolutely adore his work!! @__@ Ahh, so amazing... Elias' music is just so great to listen to, because even though he's a fantastic guitarist, the album isn't just one long solo - he really thinks about the music. It's so heartfelt, and so uplifting, there's almost nothing that's better to listen to! :P
Top Album of 2009: Fire-Hearted NTY (#20, 259 plays)
> Got this for my birthday just over a week ago and it's already my third favourite album for this year :3 I could listen to it all day and night; I know I wouldn't get tired of that warm fuzzy feeling ^w^ And it doesn't hurt at all that this album features my two favourite male singers of all time, Tony Kakko and Marco Hietala :P
Top Track of 2009: Kiss of Rain NTY (#2, 101 plays)
> The song that features Tony Kakko x) For about a month or two, this was the first song I listened to when I woke up and the last song I listened to before I went to sleep. My god, it just doesn't get better than this. This is my official song of 2009 :)

#20 - Dark Moor NTY (295 plays)
> Since my sister's friend Harry is addicted to Dark Moor, I ended up inheriting seven albums at once xD It was pretty difficult to get my head around at first, and I was very scathing for a long time, but I'm at last enjoying and appreciating their somewhat... "not-perfect" style of symphonic power metal xD
Top Album of 2009: The Gates of Oblivion NTY (#76, 56 plays)
> Definitely one of my favourites. Elisa's great here, and the instrumentation is better than on post-Elisa albums, I think.
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#19 - Machinae Supremacy NTY (297 plays)
> I got these beauties from Chris x) They're good fun but to be honest the guy's voice kind of bugs me, which is why I'm not listening to them as much as I used to.
Top Album of 2009: Overworld NTY (#28, 194 plays)
> I actually like this pretty much the same as Deus Ex Machinae, but I got Overworld earlier.
Top Track of 2009: Violator NTY (#206, 25 plays)
> I still love this song :D It's one of those where the guy's voice doesn't annoy me, and I love the lyrical content >w<

#18 - Patrick Doyle (317 plays)
> Paddy! \:D/ Actually I'm in a bit of a rut with him - at one point he was my favourite Harry Potter composer and now he's my least favourite ^__^;; His themes are okay, but... not *Harry* enough I guess :P
Top Album of 2009: Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (#16, 317 plays)
> Correction: ONLY album of 2009 xDD
Top Track of 2009: Harry in Winter (#177, 27 plays)
> I do still love this one :) Learned to play it on the piano, too!

#17 - 北出菜奈 (327 plays)
> Yay for Nana! \:D/ Probably my favourite solo singer (we'll have to see how Anette can do, hmm? x3) although I don't listen to her so much.. She was also the first step into the world of Japanese music for me and Chrissi, so we'll always be grateful to her for that :)
Top Album of 2009: BONDAGE NTY (#52, 94 plays)
> This new album is easily Nana's best. Sophisticated but fun at the same time. Hopefully if Loveless (her new project) sounds like any of her solo albums, it'll sound like this one :)
Top Track of 2009: 鏡の国のアリア NTY (#409, 16 plays)
> Easily, easily the best song Nana has produced. Now why the hell didn't you put it on an album, eh? This is too good for a b-side!!

#16 - Tarja (338 plays)
> The bitch is back! \:D/ Okay, I don't really mean that, it's a reference to a Sinergy song, but the point is that Tarja's back in my good books again (about time!). In fact, right now, she's my favourite female singer to listen to, which is JUST WEIRD xD (I phase with her like you wouldn't believe!! @__@) Looking forward to What Lies Beneath anyways! :3
Top Album of 2009: My Winter Storm (#19, 260 plays)
> Such a hit-and-miss album, and again I phase with it constantly, but I'm enjoying it for now :)
Top Track of 2009: Our Great Divide (#230, 23 plays)
> Yey! \:D/ My favourite song, at least from MWS - "sounds of waves" indeed, and I can't help but think it's about the friendship lost between her and Tuomas... It feels like we're actually seeing *Tarja*, rather than her "brave face" or her "ice queen" mask.

#15 - Stewart Copeland NTY (339 plays)
> HELL YEAH!! >8D Well, it says "new this year" but that's only in terms of scrobbles. I've actually been listening to Stewart Copeland for about two-thirds of my life since he made the.greatest.soundtrack.of.all.time for the original Spyro the Dragon game :P It's still my favourite game and the music has a huge part to play in that :3 And unlike most soundtrack music, it actually passes for popular music too, instrumental-style. The only reason he's not my highest soundtrack artist is because the Harry Potter OSTs are Harry Potter, I mean, what do you expect? ;D
Top Album of 2009: Spyro The Dragon OST - Disc 1 NTY (#32, 176 plays)
> ... which just means that I play the first half of the OST more than the second, which I guess makes sense. After all, Magic Crafters homeland is in the first half, and ALL the Magic Crafters levels have good music :D
Top Track of 2009: Ice Cavern NTY (#290, 20 plays)
> You can't really pick a favourite track from this OST but this is definitely one of the strongest ones :3

#14 - My Dying Bride NTY (342 plays)
> Oooh, dour and gloomy! I went and found MDB because Tuomas loves them, and I'm glad I took the effort. They're easily one of the most mature bands I've listened to. Their music is elegant and yet very rough at the same time. I can't listen to them for long periods of time, not because they're depressing but because I get a little bored, and that's why they don't have more scrobbles. (Plus that their songs are ridiculously long @__@)
Top Album of 2009: Like Gods of the Sun NTY (#40, 145 plays)
> The first of the two albums I've bought so far. There are a handful of really great tracks but the rest I can kind of overlook without even the slightest feeling of guilt .___.
Top Track of 2009: Catherine Blake NTY (#127, 32 plays)
> It would probably actually have been For You if it wasn't for the fact that For You was mistagged originally. But Catherine Blake deserves this spot, because it was the song that made me fall for MDB. And Aaron's voice @__@ Aaron's VOICE!

#13 - In Flames (343 plays)
> I listened to these guys loads when I first came to last.fm, I think because I wanted to boost scrobbles of such a non-mainstream band. I lol at my innocence back then xD I don't listen to them so much these days simply because they're a little *too* heavy for my tastes.
Top Album of 2009: A Sense of Purpose (#29, 192 plays)
> Of course, the trve fans hate this album. I care not. It's good ^w^
Top Track of 2009: The Chosen Pessimist (#167, 28 plays)
> Easily the best In Flames song. It shows such maturity, skill and emotion.

#12 - John Williams (359 plays)
> And the magic that is Harry Potter returns! :3 Johnny is the classic sound of HP :) I have mixed feelings about this guy coming back for the last two movies, though... on the one hand, Philosopher's Stone is my favourite HP score, but on the other, Prisoner of Azkaban was just two and a half hours of WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!
Top Album of 2009: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone NTY (#25, 213 plays)
> *The* Christmas album :D I love this so much, and it would be higher in the charts but the scrobbles are split because I had it mistagged initially ;____;
Top Track of 2009: Leaving Hogwarts (#177, 27 plays)
> This track always makes me want to cry xD Seriously, if they end the final movie with this piece, I will absolutely fall apart in the cinema. I promise ;D

#11 - HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR (379 plays)
> I am AMAZED that Haikara got that many scrobbles this year @__@ I've been a fan of them for a long time but I really hit a wall with them this year; I haven't got anything out of listening to them for ages now. They put on a good live show, though, I enjoyed watching the latest DVD :)
Top Album of 2009: ROCK PIT (#54, 89 plays)
> Yeah, this is my favourite, I think. I mean, it has MEKIMEKI. What more do you want? \:D/
Top Track of 2009: DNC

#10 - Nicholas Hooper NTY (392 plays)
> And thus completing the Harry Trinity of composers! \:D/ Nicky did the score for the most recent two movies, and whilst I was unimpressed by Order, Half-Blood was AMAZINGsauce. One of my favourite movie scores of all time! \:D/
Top Album of 2009: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince NTY (#12, 367 plays)
> Freakin' love this xD It's so good. I could listen to it for years but I'd miss my other music xD
Top Track of 2009: Fireworks NTY (#214, 24 plays)
> Ironic, then, that my most played track is not from Half-Blood xD Well, actually it is, because they re-used it but didn't put it on the HBP OST. So there! :P

#9 - Pain NTY (444 plays)
> These guys also supported Nightwish and man were they amazing! \:D/ Such a good live band, and I totally fell in love with Peter's voice. I plan to go right through the back catalogue eventually :)
Top Album of 2009: Cynic Paradise NTY (#22, 256 plays)
> A good, solid album :) For some reason it's really good music to listen to when you're cleaning ovens O_o Anyway, it's the only album I have at the moment but that'll change! :D
Top Track of 2009: Play Dead NTY (#23, 62 plays)
> This is easily, easily my favourite Pain track. In fact, it's one of my favourite songs everever! :D I was so surprised when I found out it was a cover, but both this and the original are amazing pieces of music, and the way that Peter altered it to suit his own voice and style whilst keeping all the best parts of the original... just perfect evidence of his genius! \:D/

#8 - Versailles NTY (519 plays)
> Definitely my favourite new discovery this year :D No thanks to me though ^__^;; I got the free download from last.fm and didn't really think much of it... THANK GOD Chrissi picked it up herself and decided to investigate them further or we would have missed out on one of the greatest bands of all time @__@ They haven't put a foot wrong so far so I can't wait to see what comes next with Jubilee. And it's important to mention the sad loss of Jasmine You (rest in peace, you crazy witch, rest in peace ;___;) and the unbelievable strength the other members have shown in the wake of his passing. I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration for those guys T^T
Top Album of 2009: Noble NTY (#17, 294 plays)
> The only full-length album so far. I actually prefer Lyrical Sympathy, but hell no am I complaining, because Noble is awesome as well :D
Top Track of 2009: SUZERAIN NTY (#118, 33 plays)
> This ends up being quite random because when a Versailles song comes up, I just can't skip it, ever xD They're just all so good and we have so terribly few! @__@

#7 - Dir en grey NTY (734 plays)
> The second-best new discovery of the year, and again it's thanks to Chrissi :D I used to think Diru were a complete waste of space before she came across the DOZING GREEN PV on youtube. Now I absolutely love this band! Kyo may be a bit (a lot xD) masochistic but if he wasn't, we wouldn't have Dir en grey. He's like a martyr for the exorcism of our darkest feelings >3
Top Album of 2009: UROBOROS NTY (#11, 378 plays)
> By far and away my favourite Diru album so far. It's pretty much perfect (aside from STUCK MAN and the incomprehensible decision to make the album versions of GLASS SKIN and DOZING GREEN in English) and it's my third favourite album by anyone at the moment :)
Top Track of 2009: GAIKA, CHINMOKU GA NEMURU KORO NTY (#88, 39 plays)
> This was the song that really made me fall in love with Dir en grey, and it's still one of my favourites ^__^ Although it's hard to pick favourites with Diru... they're just not a "this is my favourite song!" kind of band! ^__^;;

#6 - Kamelot NTY (746 plays)
> It's thanks to Cerefi that I went and looked up this band, and I'm glad I did. I was wayy over-obsessed with them when I bought my first albums from them, but thankfully a period of really not liking them calmed all that down, and now I'm enjoying them at levels I consider appropriate xD Musically, I love 'em, but Khan, not so much. I seem to be the only person who thinks this besides my sister, however @__@ (Also: Boo at Glenn leaving! :( I loved Glenn...)
Top Album of 2009: The Black Halo NTY (#14, 326 plays)
> Hands down the best. Best quality, best consistency, best album feel. And Khan's voice is sometimes very nice. O.o
Top Track of 2009: When the Lights Are Down NTY (#52, 47 plays)
> Not my *favourite* (that's Serenade) but one of my "preview" songs for Kamelot, which is why it's so dominant in the charts.

#5 - Tarot NTY (749 plays)
> I literally looked these guys up the very first day I got last.fm :D I actually love Marco more in Tarot at the moment than in Nightwish, he just seems more at home here. And I'm really getting fond of Zachary too, which is cool :)
Top Album of 2009: Suffer Our Pleasures NTY (#9, 390 plays)
> One of my favourite albums ever (it's just full of so much win) which leads me to wonder what the hell went wrong when they made that hit-and-miss oddity, Crows Fly Black o_O
Top Track of 2009: Tides NTY (#7, 76 plays)
> Haha xD Shall I tell the story of its dominance? I think I shall. It was one of my preview songs but more than that I listened to it about 30 times in one night when I was writing my Marco/Tuomas fanfic :P It really helped get the mood for that last scene, and also helped me get into Marco's head more. Add that to the fact that it is, of course, one of the greatest Tarot songs. Marco's voice is truly beautiful on it *__*

#4 - Fightstar (776 plays)
> In my opinion Fightstar is the one of the best English bands we have right now :) I really haven't listened to them that much recently (about half these plays probably came from the new album and when I wrote my Fightstar fanfic) I guess because they're not heavy enough, but I'll always support these guys. I love 'em so much, I shall always be a fan! >w</~~
Top Album of 2009: Alternate Endings (#27, 197 plays)
> I kind of wish my top album wasn't a collection of b-sides, but hey xD It can't be denied that many of the best Fightstar songs come from this collection :)
Top Track of 2009: The English Way NTY (#118, 33 plays)
> ENGLISH PRIDE!! \:D/ This song appeals to my patriotism and it is just raw awesome anyways :)

#3 - Within Temptation (802 plays)
> It's a miracle these guys hung onto third place, what with the fact that I'm... well... completely and utterly bored of them at the moment @__@ They're good (that's why they were my third favourite for about half the year) but there's just not enough substance to them. However, I'll always stay fond of them since they were part of my original eurometal trinity that started everything x)
Top Album of 2009: The Heart of Everything NTY (#24, 222 plays)
> The scrobbles for this are actually split because I had the album mistagged for ages before I actually did something about it and fixed it :P It's technically the best WT album in my opinion, but not always the most enjoyable to listen to.
Top Track of 2009: Sounds of Freedom NTY (#136, 31 plays)
> Mwahaha, I am unusual! \:D/ I just loved this song when I first got it, listened to it over and over again ^^ It made me feel like I could do anything >w<

#2 - Sonata Arctica (3,457 plays)
> Holy.... right, I'm going to have to be really careful not to talk forever about these guys. Because, over the course of this year, Sonata Arctica have truly earned the right to be called my favourite band :D Along with WT and Nightwish, they formed my original eurometal trinity but they always played second fiddle to Nightwish. Living in their shadow, they gradually grew on me more and more. Earlier this year I fell in love with them properly, but it was only with the release of Flag in the Ground video and the anticipation of The Days of Grays album that I realised the truth - Sonata were displacing Nightwish as my favourite band. I resisted the change at first, claiming they were equal favourites, but now Sonata is so far ahead Nightwish doesn't even figure. The simple fact is that I enjoy Sonata's music over and above everyone else's! And of course seeing them live earlier this month merely intensified my love for Sonata Arctica :) Five magnificent musicians (eight, including old members) and a ridiculously impressive back-catalogue of sensational music covering the whole spectrum of life... for me, right now, it just doesn't get better :)
(I didn't do very well at not writing much xD)
Top Album of 2009: Unia NTY (#2, 775 plays)
> This is the album that really made me fall in love with Sonata :) I was ridiculously late buying it but I'm actually really glad I waited. If I hadn't, I might have reacted like a lot of other Sonata fans and hated it. Instead, it became my favourite on the first listen :) It's second favourite now, after The Days of Grays, but seriously, by about *this* much *demonstrates tinytiny distance with fingers*
Top Track of 2009: In Black and White NTY (#6, 80 plays)
> Holy crap @__@ Could there *be* a more deserving top Sonata track? This song is the reason I bought Unia and thus really it's this song that made me fall in love with Sonata properly. When I first heard it my only thought was, "Why the hell do people hate Unia so much? THIS IS FUCKING GENIUS!!!" I listened it over and over again before I got my paws on the album and it still hasn't been beaten from the top spot :) Add to that that they used it as an encore song at our gig and oh my days, I can't help but say that this is one of my favourite songs of all time! :3

#1 - Nightwish (3,670 plays)
> What a surprise to see you here! */sarcasm* Until these last few months when Sonata displaced them, Nightwish were my most favouritest and bestest band of all time from the moment I first heard them :D That means two solid years at the top of my favourites list which, for someone as fickle as me, is really saying something @__@ I had a low with them recently, poking them and shouting at them, "WHY AREN'T YOU BETTER? DX" Mostly I was annoyed with Tuomas (he's suffered from negative comparison with Tony Kakko :P) which obviously meant that I was unable to help passing that annoyance on to the music. But thankfully (partly due to getting From Wishes to Eternity DVD for my birthday! thanks Chrissi! \:D/) I recovered my love and affection for that most magnificent of bands, Nightwish - I just don't love them *quite* as much as I did before. But you know what? I'm cool with that :) It was high time things changed around here :)
Top Album of 2009: Dark Passion Play (#1, 900 plays)
> The whole time that Nightwish were my favourite band of all time, this was my favourite album of all time. Now that Nightwish are less stable, so is DPP (Wishmaster and Oceanborn are fighting with it for first place) but all things told, I think I will still say that Dark Passion Play is my album of the decade. It just changed so much of the way I thought about music and really, despite currently boring me in places, it's a masterpiece of modern popular music. Let's see how the next album fares!
Top Track of 2009: The Poet and the Pendulum (#1, 110 plays)
> And all the time Nightwish were my all-time favourite band, Poet was my all-time favourite song. And just like DPP, with Nightwish being less stable, Poet has been displaced by Last of the Wilds and Over the Hills and Far Away. Nonetheless this is still one of the greatest songs ever written. This musical acheivement is something that I'll always, always respect Tuomas for :)


Finally, some predictions for 2010:
> Sonata Arctica for #1
> less symphonic metal, more power metal
> older Nightwish albums to become more dominant
> less listenings of old favourites and "classic" bands
> less listenings of British and American bands
> an even higher bias in favour of Finland xD
> fewer new discoveries. I'm taking a well-earned break ;)



If you read all that you deserve a medal @__@ And unfortunately I don't have any medals so you'll just have to make do with this virtual cookie. Don't eat it all at once now! \:D/

Rouzna's top albums (overall) 1. Sentenced - The Funeral Album (1216) 2. Deathstars - Termination Bliss (1000) 3. Norther - N (926) 4. Slipknot - Slipknot (903) 5. Slipknot - Iowa (838) 6. Poisonblack - Lust Stained Despair (800) 7. Sentenced - The Cold White Light (651) 8. Norther - Till Death Unites Us (636) 9. Sentenced - Buried Alive (606) 10. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone [Bonus Tracks] (599) 11. Sixx:A.M. - The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack (598) 12. Amorphis - Silent Waters (588) 13. Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses (574) 14. Sentenced - Frozen (566) 15. Five Finger Death Punch - The Way Of The Fist (558) 16. Children of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet? (539) 17. Norther - Death Unlimited (521) 18. Norther - Mirror of Madness (516) 19. Deathstars - Night Electric Night (Gold Edition) (482) 20. Stone Sour - Stone Sour (449)

Some albums, eps and demos I've listened so far this year.

Favourites

Ahab - The Divinity Of The Oceans [Funeral Doom Metal]
Aorlhac - Aorlhac [Black Metal]
Arckanum - þþþþþþþþþþþ [Black Metal]
Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way [Death Metal]
Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II [Black Metal]
Claws - Absorbed In The Nethervoid [Death Metal]
Drudkh - Microcosmos [Black Metal]
Excoriate - On Pestilent Winds... [Death Metal]
Funebrarum - The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams [Death Metal]
Goatmoon - Goatmoon (EP) [Black Metal]
Ignivomous - Death Transmutation [Death Metal]
Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence [Death Metal]
Infected Disarray - Disseminating Obscenity [Technical Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Isis - Wavering Radiant [Post-Rock/Sludge]
Jesu - Infinity [Drone/Ambient Post-Rock]
Katharsis - Fourth Reich [Black Metal]
Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough [Atmospheric/Progressive Black Metal]
Krypts - Open The Krypt (DEMO) [Death Metal]
Lifelover - Dekadenz (EP) - [Black Metal/Depressive Rock]
Månegarm - Nattvasen [Folk/Viking Metal]
Monarque - Ad Nauseam [Black Metal]
Lie In Ruins - Swallowed By The Void [Death Metal]
Peste Noire - Ballade Cuntre Lo Anemi Francor [Black Metal]
Skagos - Ást [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Slugathor - Echoes From Beneath [Death Metal]
Sólstafir - Kold [Post-Black Metal/Psychedelic Rock]
Teitanblood - Seven Chalices [Black Death Metal]
The Austrasian Goat - Witch (EP) [Funeral Doom/Black Metal]
The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm [Death Metal]
The Devil’s Blood - The Time Of No Time Evermore [Psychedelic Rock]
The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen Of A Sheltered Elite [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Todeskult - Apathy [Depressive Black Metal]
Tribulation - The Horror [Death Metal/Thrash Metal]
Trist - Ve Snech Nekrvácím (DEMO) [Depressive Black Metal]
Urfaust - Einsiedler (EP) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade [Black Metal]
Wormlust - Seven Paths (DEMO) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Yoga - Megafauna [Dark Ambient/Psychedelic Black Metal]


Really Good

A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head [Shoegaze/Noise/Post-Punk]
Abhordium - Declaration Of Perdition (EP) [Death Metal]
Abigail - Sweet Baby Metal Slut [Blackened Thrash Metal]
Absu - Absu [Black/Thrash Metal]
Acrimonious - Purulence [Black Metal]
Aggression - Moshpirit [Thrash Metal]
Ahamoth Aeternus - Great Darkness Ahamoth [Black Metal]
Austere - To Lay Like Old Ashes [Depressive Black Metal]
Aldrlag - Aldrlag (DEMO) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs [Post-Punk/Black Metal]
Amorphis - Skyforger [Melodic Death Metal/Rock]
Andacht - Chapter I [Black Metal]
Angmar - Zurück In Die Unterwelt [Black Metal]
Arizmenda - Within The Vacuum Of Infinity... [Depressive Black Metal]
Asaru - Dead Eyes Still See [Black Metal]
Ascended - Temple Of Dark Offerings [Death Metal]
Asenblut - Aufbruch [Blackened Thrash Metal]
Asphyxiate - Anatomy Of Perfect Bestiality [Brutal Death Metal]
Axegressor - Command [Thrash Metal]
Balnasar - Ein Kalter Natchgedanke [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]
Baroness - Blue Record [Progressive Sludge Metal]
Bergraven - Till Makabert Väsen [Experimental Black Metal]
Black Wreath - A Pyre Of Lost Dreams [Death/Funeral Doom Metal]
Bleeding Fist - Bestial Krucifix666ion [Black/Thrash Metal]
Bliss Of Flesh - Emaciated Deity [Blackened Death Metal]
Bloody Panda - Summon [Experimental/Sludge/Doom Metal]
BLUT - This Burden (DEMO) [Drone/Noise]
Bone Gnawer - Feast Of Flesh [Brutal Death Metal]
Bornholm - March For Glory And Revenge [Black Metal]
Burial Ritual - Tower Of Silence [Death Metal]
Candlemass - Death Magic Doom [Doom Metal]
CANIS DIRUS - A Somber Wind From A Distant Shore [Depressive Black Metal]
Capitis Damnare - Ex Regnum Spiritus In Manifestus [Black Metal]
Carrion Wraith - Carrion Wraith [Depressive Black Metal]
Chaos Inception - Collision With Oblivion [Brutal Death Metal]
Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy [Stoner/Doom Metal]
Cobalt - Gin [Black Metal]
Code - Resplendent Grotesque [Avant-Garde Black Metal]
Claustrofobia - I See Red [Death/Thrash Metal]
Claws - The Funeral Barge (EP) [Death Metal]
Crucifier - Trampler Under Cloven Hooves (EP) [Black/Doom/Death Metal]
Cry of Silence - Wandering Through Pagan Times [Black Metal]
Dead - Hanging Illusions (DEMO) [Depressive Black Metal]
Deströyer 666 - Defiance [Death Black Thrash Metal]
Depressive Years - Failing To Confront Suicidal Toughts [Depressive Black Metal]
Devourment - Unleash The Carnivore [Slam Death Metal]
Disgorgement - Chamber Of Depravity [Death Metal]
Dreams of the Drowned - Thanatotropic Principle [Post-Black Metal]
Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity [Brutal Death Metal]
Eagle Twin - The Unkidness Of Crows [Drone/Stoner/Sludge Doom Metal]
Embryonic Depravity - Contrained By The Miscarriage Of Conquest [Brutal Death Metal]
EndName - Dreams Of A Cyclops [Instrumental Post-Rock/Sludge]
Entrails - Entrails (DEMO) [Death Metal]
Ensiferum - From Afar [Epic Folk Metal]
Ex Dementia - The Red Mass [Grind/Death Metal]
Faceless and Descending - Endless Reign Of Suffering [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Feral - Welcome To The Graveyard (DEMO) [Death 'N' Roll]
Fjoergyn - Jahreszeiten [Experimental/Epic Melodic Black Metal]
Flagellant - Morbus Nefastus (EP) [Black Metal]
Formaldehyde - God's Will [Death Metal]
Fornicatus - Omnium Animalis Terminus [Depressive Black Metal]
Furia - Grudzién Za Grudniem [Black Metal]
General Surgery - Corpus In Extremis [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt [Black Metal]
Gnaw Their Tongues - All The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity [Black Metal/Noise/Industrial]
Grave Miasma - Exalted Emanation [Black Death Metal]
Gravehill - Rites Of The Pentagram [Death/Thrhas Metal]
Gravenloch - Gravenloch [Death/Thrash Metal]
Graveyard - One With The Dead [Death Metal]
Grigori - Principivm Et Finis [Black Metal]
HAT - The Demise Of Mankind [Black Metal]
Helcaraxë - Broadsword [Melodic Death Metal]
Illdisposed - To Those Who Walk Behind Us [Melodic Death Metal]
Immortal - All Shall Fall [Black Metal]
Infested - 1000 Doors [Brutal Death Metal]
Inanition - Eternal Beauty Of The End (EP) [Ambient/Drone/Funeral Doom Metal]
Irepress - Sol Eye Sea I [Instrumental Post-Rock/Metal/Sludge]
Isole - Silent Ruins [Epic Doom Metal]
IXXI - Elect Darkness [Black/Thrash Metal]
Karlahan - A Portrait Of Life [Folk/Melodic Death Metal]
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day [Depressive Rock]
Keeper of Dreams - Taste Smashed To Pieces [Technical Death/Thrash Metal]
Khanate - Clean Hands Go Foul [Sludge/Drone/Doom Metal]
Kladovest - Escape In Melancholy [Depressive Black Metal]
Kulde - Heart Of The Northern Depression (DEMO) [Atmospheric/Depressive Black Metal]
M8L8TH - Nepokolebimaja Vera [Black Metal]
Managarm - Poems Of The Shadows Disappointment [Depressive Black Metal]
Masske - Masske [Shoegaze/Instrumental/Post-Rock]
maudlin of the Well - Part The Second [Avant-Garde/Progressive Metal]
Methadrone - Better Living (Through Chemistry) [Industrial/Drone Doom Metal]
Mindwork - Into The Swirl [Progressive Death Metal/Fusion]
Moss - Tomb Of The Blind Drugged (EP) [Drone Doom Metal/Sludge]
Mourning Dawn - For The Fallen [Black/Doom Metal]
Muldjord - Hate Breeds Hate (EP) [Death Metal]
Murder Therapy - Symmetry Of Delirium [Technical Brutal Death Metal]
Nadja - Belles Betes [Ambient/Drone Doom]
Nahar - La Fascination Du Pire [Black Metal]
Naumachia - Black Sun Rising [Melodic Death Metal]
Nazxul - Iconoclast [Melodic Black Metal]
Necrophobic - Death To All [Melodic Black Death Metal]
Nidhogg - Siegeszug Der Götter [Viking Metal]
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest [Technical/Brutal Death Metal]
Nomans Land - Farnord [Black Metal/Folk]
Obitus - The March Of The Drones [Black Metal]
Oblomov - Communitas (Deconstructing The Order) [Avant-Garde/Melodic Blackened Death Metal/Folk]
Old Forest - The Kingdom Of Darkness (DEMO) [Ambient Black Metal]
Pale Mist - From A Cruel Obscurity (DEMO) [Depressive Black Metal]
Pelican - Ephemeral (Ep) [Post-Rock/Sludge Drone]
Pelican - What We All Come To Need [Post-Rock/Sludge Drone]
Pyramids with Nadja - Selt Titled [Ambient/Drone Doom]
Portal - Swarth [Post Death Metal]
Prejudice - Megalomanic Infest [Technical Brutal Death Metal]
Process of Guilt - Erosion [Death Metal/Doom]
Putrefy - One Nation Under Gore [Slam Death Metal]
Putrid - Morbid Awakening (DEMO) [Death Metal]
Quintessence - Le Fleau De Ton Existence [Black Metal]
Lathspell - Reborn In Retaliation [Black Metal]
Laudanum - The Coronation [Noise Drone Doom Metal]
Locrian - Drenched Lands (EP) [Noise/Psychedelic]
Los Sin Nombre - Blind Leading Blind [Melodic Death/Thrash Metal]
Lividity[artist/] - To Desecrate And Defile [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Lustmord - [B E Y O N D] [Dark Ambient]
Obscura - Cosmogenesis [Technical Death Metal/Jazz Influences]
Ravens Creed - Albion Thunder [Death Metal]
Revocation - Existence Is Futile [Technical Death/Thrash Metal]
Ribspreader - Opus Ribcage [Death Metal]
Rimfrost - Veraldar Nagli [Black Metal]
Russian Circles - Geneva [Instrumental Post-Rock/Metal]
Sarsekim - Fathom The Spheres [Technical Death Metal/Black Metal]
Self-Inflicted Violence - A Perception Of Matter And Energy [Shoegaze/Depressive Black Metal]
Seven - Cymatics [Ambient/Math/Progressive Rock/Metal]
Skady - Eyn Raunen Im Tannicht [Viking Black Metal]
Skeletal Spectre - Tomb Coven [Doom/Death Metal]
Skogen - Vittra [Black Metal]
Skullflower - Malediction [Drone Doom/Noise]
Smashed Ruins - Silence [Instrumental Black Metal]
Slavland - Lechita [Pagan Black Metal]
Stench Of Decay - Where Death And Decay Reign (Demo) [Death Metal]
Strandhogg - Ritualistic Plague (Evangelical Death Apotheosis) [Black Metal]
Stworz - Po Szasu Kres [Black Metal]
Spiculum Iratus - Summa Anti-Theologica [Black Metal]
Sun of the Blind - Skullreader [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions [Drone Doom Metal]
Survivors Zero - Cmxcix [Death/Thrash Metal]
Templestowe - Cimmerian [Progressive/Melodic Death Metal]
Thanatos - Justified Genocide [Death Metal]
The Beast Of The Apocalypse - A Voice From The Four Horns Of The Golden Altar [Black Metal]
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - The Lustrate Process [Industrial Death Metal]
These Are They - Who Linger [Death Metal]
Trist - Za Hranicí Skutecnosti (EP) [Depressive Black Metal]
Thy Flesh Consumed - Unrepentant [Death Metal]
Tombs - Winter Hours [Post-Metal/Sludge]
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire [Death Metal]
Ulvhedner - For I Tida [Black Metal]
Vader - Necropolis [Death Metal]
Velvet Cacoon - P Aa Opal Poere Pr. 33 [Ambient Black Metal]
Vesano - Sangue Seco (DEMO) [Depressive Black Metal]
vindicator - Outbreak (EP) [Thrash Metal]
Viscera Trail - Humiliation - Riden Evisceration [Brutal Death Metal/Grind]
Vomepotro - Liturgy Of Dissection [Brutal Death Metal]
Vomitory - Carnage Euphoria [Death Metal]
Waldgeflüster - Herbstklagen [Black Metal]
Wardruna - Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga [Ambient Folk]
Warmarch - Pactum Cum Diabolicus [Black Metal]
West Wall - Conquest Or Death [Death Metal]
White Mice - Ganjahovahdose [Experimental/Sludge/Noise Rock]
Witching Hour - Rise Of The Desecrated [Black Metal/Thrash Metal]
Wodensthrone - Loss [Black Metal]
Wolves in the Throne Room - Malevolent Grain (EP) [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Woods of Desolation - Sorh (EP) [Depressive Black Metal]
Xasthur - All Reflections Drained [Depressive Ambient Black Metal]
Yogth Sothoth - The Dark Waters Are Shaken (EP) [Death Metal]
Zamak - Hate Dominion Revenge [Melodic Death/Thrash Metal]
Аркона - Гой, Роде, Гой! [Folk/Pagan Metal]

[u]Not Bad...[/u]

Abraxas - Promo 2009 (Demo) [Death Metal]
Abysmal Torment - Omnicide [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Aeternam - Disciples Of The Unseen [Melodic Death Metal]
Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constelation Of The Black Widow [Black Metal/Grindcore]
Altar of Plagues - White Tomb [Experimental Black Metal]
Archgoat - The Light-Devouring Darkness [Black Death Metal]
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence [Progressive Death Metal]
Auspicium - Dawnland [Atmospheric Black Metal/Neo-Folk]
Autopsy - Horrific Obsession (EP) [Death Metal]
Avulsed - Nullo [Brutal Death Metal]
Axis Powers - Marching Towards Destruction [Death Metal]
Azaghal - Teraphim [Black Metal]
Azarath - Praise The Beast [Blackened Death Metal]
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach [Melodic Death Metal]
Behemoth - Evangelion [Blackened Death Metal]
Beherit - Engram [Black Metal]
Belphegor - Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn [Blackened Death Metal]
Benighted In Sodom - In Hora Maledictus - Part 2 [Depressive Black Metal]
Black Boned Angel - Verdun [Drone Doom/Noise]
Black Vomit - Jungle Death [Psychedelic/Noise Black Metal]
Blodkalt - Demo 2009 (DEMO) [Black Metal]
Blood Red Throne - Souls Of Damnation [Melodic Death Metal]
Brooding - Shower Of Ageless Light [Black Metal]
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague [Death Metal]
Carcharoth - Antiversum [Black Metal]
Carnal - Re-Creation [Doom/Death Metal]
Circle of Ouroborus - Tree Of Knoweldge [Experimental Black Metal]
Circle of Ouroborus - Islands [Experimental Black Metal]
Coffinworm - Great Bringer Of Night (DEMO) [Sludge/Doom/Black Metal]
Craniotomy - Catharsis [Death Metal]
CSSABA - Toxic Cssaba [Industrial Black Metal]
Cultes Des Goules - The Story Of Dagon [Ambient/Gothic Rock]
Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus [Black Metal]
Dark Paranoia - Dark Paranoia (DEMO) [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]
Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Saldorian Spell [Black Metal]
Decrepidemic - The Void Of Un-Existence [Brutal Death Metal]
Denial - Catacombs Of The Grotesque [Death Metal]
Demonium - Nothing Is Truth Everything Is Allowed [Death Metal]
Depravity - Litanies For The World To Suffer [Death Metal]
Devastator - Underground 'N' Roll [Crossover Thrash Metal]
Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs For The Damned & Delirious [Avant-Garde/Operatic Metal]
Diamatregon - Crossroad [Black Metal]
Die Hard - Nihilistic Vision [Death/Thrash Metal]
Ditchcreeper - Rotting Repugnancy [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Drained - Solutions [Depressive Black Metal]
Drapsnatt - I Denna Skog [Folk/Black Metal]
Drowning the Light - A Pact With Madness [Depressive Black Metal]
Dodsengel - Visioner [Black Metal]
Dysperium - Dysperium [Black/Doom Metal]
Ea - Ea II [Funeral Doom Metal]
Elysium - Nine Ways To Leave [Thrash Metal]
Engaged in Mutilating - Population: Zero [Technical Death Metal]
Enoid - Ataraxiis [Black Metal]
Embedded - Beyond The Flesh [Brutal Death Metal]
Evile - Infected Nations [Thrash Metal]
Eyecult - Morituri Te Salutamus [Black Metal]
Faceless Hulk - ...It Was The Wettest Thing I Had Ever Felt (EP) [Technical Death Metal/Sludge/Grindcore]
Fatum Elisum - Fatum Elisum [Doom/Death Metal]
Fen - The Malediction Fields [Black Metal/Post-Rock]
Festered - Flesh Perversion [Death Metal]
Flame Of War - Transcendence [Black Metal]
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles [Technical Death Metal]
Fleshworks - The Deadventure [Death Metal]
Fondlecorpse - Creaturegore [Death Metal]
Folkearth - Rulers Of The Sea [Epic Folk/Viking Metal]
Folkstorm - De Stemmen Van Het Woud [Black Metal]
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport [Post-Rock/Drone/Electronica]
Fukpig - Spewings From A Selfish Nation [Grindcore/Black Metal]
Funeraille - Dis Pater [Black Metal]
Funeral Feast - Genocide Ad Nauseam [Death Metal]
Funeral Goat - Mass Ov Perversion [Black Metal]
Funeral Mist - Maranatha [Black Metal]
Gama Bomb - Tales From The Grave In Space [Speed/Thrash Metal]
Garden Of Sadness - Travesty Of A Human Being [Depressive Black Metal]
Giant Squid - Ichthyologist [Ambient Progressive Post-Rock/Metal]
Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God [Blackened Death Metal]
God Dethroned - Passiondale [Melodic Death Metal]
GOG - Mist From The Random More [Drone Doom Metal]
Goreaphobia - Mortal Repulsion [Death Metal]
Gnostic - Engineering The Rule [Technical Death Metal]
Glorior Belli - Meet Us At The Southern Sign [Black Metal]
Gorod - Process Of A New Decline [Technical Death Metal]
GRAJ - Полынь трава [Pagan/Folk Metal]
Graveland - Spears Of Heaven [Black Metal]
Hackneyed - Burn After Reaping [Brutal Death Metal]
Hail of Bullets - Warsaw Rising (EP) [Death Metal]
Hellwitch - Omnipotent Convocation [Death/Thrash Metal]
Hetzer - Fall Of The Holy Cult [Black/Death Metal]
Hinsidig - Bak Og Forbi... (DEMO) [Black Metal]
Hirax - El Rostro De La Muerte [Crossover/Thrash Metal]
Horncrowned - Casus Belli Anticristianus [Black Metal]
Horseback - The Invisible Mountain [Ambient/Drone/Psychedelic]
Human Rejection - Decrepit To Insanity [Brutal Death Metal]
Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity [Melodic Death Metal]
Hypomanie - Hypomanie (EP) [Post-Rock/Black Metal]
Impious - Death Domination [Melodic Death/Thrash Metal]
Infernal Revulsion - Dead But Breathing [Brutal Death Metal]
Infidel - Ejaculating Chaos [Black Metal]
Instinct of Survival - North Of Nowhere [Death Metal/Crust]
Iskra - Bureval [Crust/Black Metal]
Kinit Her - Glyms Or Beame Of Radicall Truthes [Psychedelic Neo-Folk]
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos [Thrash Metal]
Kult Ofensivy - Radikální Ateismus [Black Metal]
Laconist - Adveniat Infernus (EP) [Death Metal]
Liturgy - Renihilation [Experimental Black Metal]
Livsnekad - Den Sociala Vanforheten [Doom/Black Metal]
Lordamor - Lordamor [Funeral Doom/Black Metal]
Marduk - Wormwood [Black Metal]
Martyrdöd - Sekt [Blackened Crust]
Massachist - Death Fury March [Death Metal]
Master's Hammer - Mantras [Experimental Black Metal]
Mastodon - Crack The Skye [Progressive/Technical Groove Metal]
Maim - From The Tomb To The Womb [Death Metal]
Maithungh - Lust In The Kingdom Of God [Death Metal]
Man Must Die - No Tolerance For Imperfection [Technical Death Metal]
Mass Infection - The Age Of Recreation [Death Metal]
method - Spiritual Reinforcement [Melodic Thrash Metal]
Miseration - The Mirroring Shadow [Death Metal]
Misere Luminis - Misere Luminis [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]
Mono - Hmn To The Immortal Wind [Instrumental Post-Rock]
Morrah - Sense Of Brutality [Brutal Death Metal]
Morte Lune - Into The Depths Of The Mind [Depressive Black Metal]
Mournful Congregation - The June Frost [Funeral Doom Metal]
Mr. Death - Detached From Life [Death Metal]
My Cat Is an Alien - Mort Aux Vaches [Experimental/Drone/Noise]
Nadja - Clinging To The Edge Of The Sky (EP) [Ambient/Drone Doom Metal]
nailed god - Glorification Of The Unborn [Black Metal]
Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten [Black Metal]
Nachtvorst - Stills [Depressive Black Metal]
Nebelkorona - Des Nachts In Tristen Nebeln (EP) [Dark Ambien/Neo-Classical]
Oak - Oak [Death/Doom Metal]
Of Raven & Ruins - Bound To Prophecy [Melodic Death Metal]
One Master - The Quiet Eye Of Eternity [Black Metal]
Orcustus - Orcustus [Black Metal]
Ordo Templi Orientis - Dysphory Part 1 [Depressive Black Metal]
Ossadogva - Born From A Tomb [Depressive Black Metal]
Osoka - Caustic Smoke [Ambient/Sludge/Drone Doom Metal]
Otargos - Fuck God-Disease Process [Black Metal]
Pandemia - Feet Of Anger [Death Metal]
Panopticon - Panopticon [Black Metal]
Pathology - Age Of Onset [Brutal Death Metal]
Planning for Burial - Leaving [Shoegaze/Drone/Post-Metal]
Pus Vomit - Degrade The Worthless [Slam Death Metal]
Putrid Pile - House Of Dementia [Brutal Death Metal]
Randir - Kampfes Lohn (DEMO) [Folk/Black Metal]
Repulsive Dissection - Cut Open The Aberration [Technical/Brutal Death Metal]
Reverence - Inactive Theocracy [Industrial Black Metal]
[artist]Ritualmord[artist] - Booze Up [Punkish Black Metal]
Rome - Flowers From Exile [Apocalyptic Neo-Folk]
Sacrarium - March To An Inviolable Death [Black Metal]
Sanctification - Black Reign [Death Metal]
Saprophagous - Dimensions Of Diverse Brutality (EP) [Death Metal/Grind]
Savage Messiah - Insurrection Rising [Thrash Metal]
Scourged Flesh - Welcome To The End Of The World [Death/Thrash Metal]
Scythian - To Those Who Stand Against Us... [Death/Thrash Metal]
Sejtane - The Burning Cold [Black Metal]
Sepsism - Distorting The Mortal Visage [Brutal Death Metal]
Sjenovik - Zephaniah [Industrial/Folk/Black Metal]
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire [Blackened Thrash Metal]
Skogen - Todesrune (DEMO) [Black Metal]
Slayer - World Painted Blood [Thrash Metal]
Sorgeldom - Innerlig Formorkelse [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Sound Asleep - Sound Asleep [Sludge Doom Metal]
Spawn - The Wicked Reincarnation [Death Metal]
Splatter Whore - City Of The Sleazehounds [Death Metal/Grind & Roll]
Storhet av Morke - Grandeur Of Eternal Cold [Black Metal]
Suffocation - Blood Oath [Death Metal]
Supreme Pain - Nemesis Enforcer [Brutal Death Metal]
Swallow the Sun - New Moon [Melodic Death/Doom Metal]
Switchblade - Switchblade 2009 [Sludge/Drone Doom Metal]
Temple Of Baal - Lightslaying Rituals [Black Metal]
Tenet - Sovereign [Death Metal/Thrash Metal]
Teloch - Morbid Prayer [Black Metal]
The Accüsed - The Curse Of Martha Splatterhead [Crossover Thrash Metal]
The Cumshots - A Life Less Necessary [Death Metal/Hard Rock]
The Faceless - Planetary Duality [Technical Death Metal/Deathcore]
The Grotesquery - Tales Of The Coffin Born [Death Metal]
The Nihilistic Front - Total Disgust For Mankind [Doom/Death Metal]
The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine [Technical Deathcore]
The Ordher - Kill The Betrayers [Brutal Death Metal]
Thronum Vrondor - Vrondor II [Black Metal]
The Cleansing - Poisoned Legacy [Death Metal]
Through the Pain - Time Heals Nothing [Depressive Black Metal]
TIRAN - Demonia [Thrash Metal]
Tormented - Rotten Death [Death Metal]
Total Negation - Zeitenwende [Depressive Black Metal]
Treha Sektori - Sorieh [Industrial/Dark Ambient]
Unanimated - In The Light Of Darkness [Melodic Death Metal]
Undivine - Into Dust [Blackened Death Metal]
Urgehal - Ikonoklast [Black Metal]
Urheimat - The Gates To An Elder Constellation [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Urna - Iter Ad Lucem [Black Metal/Funeral Doom]
Valborg - Glorification Of Pain [Atmospheric Doom/Death Metal]
Vahrzaw - Defiant [Blackened Death Metal]
Varathron - Stygian Forces Of Scorn [Melodic Black Metal]
Veér - The Measure Of Waste [Black Metal]
Vemoth - The Upcoming End [Black Metal]
Vengeful - The Omnipresent Curse [Death Metal]
Vinland - Ancestors' Age (EP) [Viking Metal]
Vociferian - Glorificia Bestials [Black Metal]
Vomit The Soul - Apostles Of Inexpression [Slam Death Metal]
Vorgus - Hellfueled Satanic Action [Blackened Thrash Metal]
We Are Legion - The Institution Of Disharmony [Death Metal]
Witchmaster - Trücizna [Black Metal/Thrash Metal]
Wrnlrd - Myrmidom [Experimental Black Metal]
Zimierzch - Wicher (DEMO) [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]


[u]Meh[/u]

... - Somebody Save Me (EP) [Depressive Black Metal]
1349 - Revelation Of The Black Flame [Black Metal]
Abaddon Incarnate - Cascade [Black/Grind/Death Metal]
Ad Hominem - Dictator - A Monument Of Glory [Black Metal]
Aluk Todolo - Finsternis [Ambient/Noise/Instrumental Rock]
Amputated Genitals - Family Bloodbath [Slam Death Metal]
Ancient Plague - Demo (DEMO) [Ambient/Drone]
Arallu - Desert Battles [Black Death Thrash Metal]
Arckanum - Pyrmir (EP) [Black Metal]
Astral Luminous - Lunaric Tide [Atmospheric Black Metal]
Au Sacre des Nuit - Anti-Humain [Funeral Doom/Black Metal]
Blood Mortized - Blood Mortized [Death Metal]
Burial Ground - The Horror Has Just Begun [Black/Death Metal]
BRIGHT OPHIDIA - Set Your Madness Free [Avant-Garde/Progressive Metal]
Cannabis Corpse - Weeding (EP) [Death Metal]
Cerebral Incubation - Asphxiating In Exrement [Slam Death Metal]
Cristalys - Surémincence [Black Metal]
Crucifist - Demon Haunted World [Blackened Thrash Metal]
Cumulo Nimbus - Totensonntag [Folk Metal]
Dark lay still - Through Hell [Symphonic Un-Black Metal]
Defiance - The Prophecy [Thrash Metal]
Despondency - Revelation IV (Rise Of The Nemesis) [Slam Death Metal]
Drowning the Light - The Fading Rays of the Sun (EP) [Black Metal]
Echoes Of Yul - Echoes Of Yul [Drone/Sludge/Post-Rock]
Egemony - Baptism Of The Unborn [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Embrace Damnation - Glory Of A New Darkness [Black/Death Metal]
empty - The House Of Funerary Hymns [Black Metal]
Endstille - Verführer [Black Metal]
Epitome - Superotic Experience [Grindcore/Death Metal]
Eternal Grave - Arquitectura Del Horror [Brutal Death Metal]
Eternity (Arg) - In The Corner Of Your Silent Soul (EP) [Black/Doom Metal]
Feeble Minded - Pernicious Intergrowth [Brutal Death Metal/Grindcore]
Fields of Elysium - Unraveling Arcane Dynamics [Technical Death Metal/Grindcore]
Forest Stream - The Crown Of Winter [Doom Metal/Black]
Fuelblooded - Off The Face Of The Earth [Melodic Death/Thrash Metal]
Genocide of Prescription - Corporal Violence (EP) [Technical Deathcore]
Genocide Winter - Monastica Holocaust [Depressive Black Metal]
Glittertind - Landkjenning [Viking Folk Metal]
Gravewürm - Funeral Empire [Blackened Thrash Metal/Doom]
Gravsorg - Visions Of Depression [Depressive Black Metal]
Happy Days - Happiness Stops Here... [Depressive Black Metal]
Havohej - Kembatinan Premaster [Experimental Black Metal]
Havok - Burn [Thrash Metal]
[artist]Hollow[artist] - Hollow [Raw Black Metal]
Hyadningar - The Weak Creation [Black Metal]
Hugin Munin - Viking Brothers [Viking/Black Metal]
ID:VISION - X-Ray Sun (EP) [Industrial Black/Death Metal]
Incursus - Eternal Funeral Trance [Black Metal]
Ingested - Surpassing The Boundaries Of Human Suffering [Slam Death Metal]
Insidious Decrepancy - Extirpating Omniscient Certitude [Brutal Death Metal]
Ilkim Oulanem - Iblisbilim (EP) [Black Metal]
Kalisia - Cybion [Progressive Metal]
Korpiklaani - Karkelo [Folk Metal]
Kraanium - The Art Of Female Sodomy [Slam Death Metal]
Kult ov Azazel - Destroying The Sacred [Black Metal]
Kuturlat - Where The Crows Reign [Black Metal]
Lamia Culta - Patre Satane [Symphonic Black Metal]
Leichengott - Cyrograf [Black Metal]
Livimorket - Dark Totally (DEMO) [Ambient/Depressive Black Metal]
Moroghor - ...And Space As Chaos [Instrumental/Ambient Black Metal]
Myrkr - Black Illumination [Black Metal]
Nazarene Decomposing - Demonic Inquisition [Black Metal]
Nebukadnezza - There Is No Revolution [Thrash Metal]
Nefandus - Death Holy Death [Black Metal]
Negativity - Life Is A Dead End [Black Metal]
Nocturnes Mist - Southern Storms (DEMO) [Black Metal]
Obituary - Left To Die [Death Metal]
Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu [Experimental Black Metal]
Pensées Nocturnes - Vacuum [Depressive Black Metal/Neo-Classical]
Pestilence - Resurection Macabre [Death Metal]
Pigsty - Planet Of The Pigs [Death Metal/Grindcore]
ProRok - Satanisticka Krv [Black Metal]
Psilocybe - Psilosophy [Death Metal]
Sadomator - Infinity Goatsower (EP) [Black Death Metal]
Savaoth - Whispers Often Bleat [Industrial Symphonic Black Metal]
Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions [Melodic Death Metal]
Schrei aus Stein - Talus [Ambient Black Metal]
Scolopendragon - Minden Elet Hanyagolva (DEMO) [Noise/Experimental Black Metal]
Sepultura - A-Lex [Thrash Metal/Groove/Hardcore]
Shining - Klagopsalmer [Experimental Depressive Black Metal]
Sickening Horror - The Dead End Experiment [Experimental Death Metal]
Skitliv - Skandinavisk Misantropi [Experimental Doom/Black Metal]
Slagmaur - Von Rov Shelter [Psychedelic Black Metal]
Slartibartfass - Funkenfeuer [Viking/Folk Metal]
Solarward - As The Sky Stares Down [Melodic Black Metal]
Sombre Présage - Seul... (EP) [Drone/Dark Ambient/Black Metal]
Striborg - Perceiving The World With Hate [Ambient Black Metal]
Tenebrae in Perpetuum - L'eterno Maligno Silenzio [Black Metal]
The Axis of Perdition - Urfe [Industrial/Noise/Black Metal]
Thesyre - Résistance [Black Metal/Thrash Metal]
Tracedawn - Ego Anthem [Melodic Death Metal/Power Metal]
Trismegisto - Eerie Black Path [Black Metal]
Týr - By The Light Of The Northern Star [Viking Folk Metal]
Sarke - Sarke [Black Metal/Thrash Metal]
Veirg - Ragnarok [Depressive Black Metal]
Velvet Cacoon - Atropine [Dark Ambient]
Vociferous - Vociferous [Black Metal]
Voqkrre - Palans In Pestilens [Black Metal]
Way to end - Desecrated Internal Journey [Experimental Black Metal]
Won - La Nebbia Dell'antica Religione (EP) [Black Metal]
Wolfdusk - Down Of Christianity [Black/Thrash Metal]
Whiplash - Unborn Again [Thrash Metal]
White Static Demon - Decayed [Ambient/Noise]
Whorethorn - Under The Veil Of Darkness [Black Metal]
Zebadiah Crowe - The Many Deaths Of The Great Beast [Black Metal]



Feel free to recommend me some music.

Hey, it's almost 2010. Crazy, yeah? Here's some stuff I liked and some stuff I hated in the past year.

Remember guys, music is objective. This list is based solely on facts
and can be scientifically proven.

Loved:
- Converge - Axe To Fall
- Kylesa - Static Tensions
- maudlin of the Well - Part The Second
- Touche Amore - To The Beat of a Dead Horse
- Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation of the Black Widow.
- Japandroids - Post-Nothing
- Ulcerate - Everything is Fire
- Snowing - Fuck Your Emotional Bullshit
- Animal Collective - Merritweather Post Pavillion
- Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

Liked:
- The Chasm - Farseeing The Paranormal Abysm
- HEALTH - Get Color
- Asphyx - Death... The Brutal Way
- Black Math Horseman - Wyllt
- Candlemass - Death Magic Doom
- Modest Mouse - No One's First and You're Next
- Dinosaur Jr. Farm
- Mono - Hymn To The Mortal Wind
- Andrew Jackson Jihad - Can't Maintain
- Lightning Bolt - Early Delights
- The Mars Volta - Octahedron
- Mos Def - The Ecstatic
- Clark - Totems Falre
- Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
- Magrudergrind - Mageudergrind
- As Tall as Lions - You Can't Take It With You
- Portal - Swarth
- Eagle Twin - The Unkindness of Crows
- Sleepy Sun - Embrace

indifferent
- The Antlers - Hospice
- Mastodon - Crack The Skye
- The xx - XX

Disliked:
- Lamb of God - Wrath
- Obscura - Cosmogenesis
- Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
- The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate
- Augury - Fragmentary Evidence
- Suffocation - Blood Oath
- Pestilence - Resurrection Macabre
- Gorod - Process of a New Decline
- Katatonia - Night is the New Day
- Thy Catafalque - Róka Hasa Rádió
- Exivious - Exivious
- fun. - Aim and Ignite
- Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

The stuff I didn't listen to but probably sucked anyway
- Behemoth - Evangelion
- Chimaira's new album
- Amorphis - Skyforger
- new Dying Fetus album
- Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague
- Megadeth - Endagame
- Porcupine Tree - The Incident
- Immortal - All Shall Fal
- Dethklok - Dethalbum II
- Slayer - World Painted Blood
- The new Born of Osiris album

More to come as I listen to / remember them

Albums of the year - 2009
Two ratings, one for the album, one for the album compared to average of artist's previous albums. Mostly just for me to come back to next year to have a look.

LPs

1) dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion, 10/10 - 8.5/10
Most poppy of their albums but it’s still fucking amazing.
2) Muse- The Resistance, 9/10 – 7.5/10
Exogenesis <3
3) Alice in Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue 8.5/10 - 8/10
Not quite up there with Dirt and EPs, but it’s growing on me.
4) Amorphis – Skyforger, 8/10 – 8/10
5) AFI - Crash Love, 7.5/10 - 8/10
One of my fav AFI albums. I thought they were full-on going emo after Decemberunderground, but luckily they decided to write a decent rock record
6) Placebo- Battle For The Sun 7/10 - 6/10
6) Porcupine Tree - The Incident, 7/10 - 6/10
7) The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die, 7/10 - 7/10
9) N.A.S.A. - The Spirit of Apollo, 7/10
Good bunch of collaborations with decent artists. It works.
10) K'naan – Troubadour, 7/10 - 6/10
Much shorter and not as good as The Dusty Foot Philosopher, but has some good songs (my favs – Wavin Flag, Fire In Firetown, I Come Prepared, Fatima)

EPs.

1) Puscifer- "C" Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference HERE), 10/10 - 10/10. (The new 3 tracks are pretty much the best Puscifer tracks)
2) Massive Attack - Splitting The Atom, 8/10 - 8/10 (3 really good songs and1 really boring one- Bulletproof Love)
3) RJD2 - Tin Foil Hat, 6.5/10 - 6/10 (fav track - Thine Planetarium)
4) Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next, 6/10 – 4/10 (it is a collection of B-sdies hence why it’s not that good)

Pretty Decent LPs

Katatonia - Night Is The New Day (need to listen to this more)
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
k-os - Yes!
Norah Jones - The Fall
Weezer – Ratitude (usual weezer immaturity)
Owl City - Ocean Eyes
Billy Talent - Billy Talent III (solid catchy album as usual)
Chali 2na - Fish Outta Water
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings (need to listen to more)
Dub Pistols - Rum & Coke
Eminem – Relapse (never gonna match SS or MM Lps but not bad)
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Zero 7 - Yeah Ghost
Ziggy Marley - Family Time
Jazz Liberatorz – Fruits of the Past (random good find, jazzy hip-hop)
Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon: The End Of Day (pretty good for mainstream hip-hop. Whole album is pretty good)
Metric– Fantasies
The Sounds - Crossing The Rubicon
Tech N9ne – Sickology 101 (pretty angry lyrics but he can rhyme pretty damn well)
Awol One & Factor – Owl Hours
The Crystal Method – Divided By Night

Ones that should have been much better

311 - Uplifter
Air - Love 2
Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life (really forgettable)
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures (eh.. guys, it doesn’t work especially well. Let’s get back to Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age and retirement)
Street Sweeper Social Club - Street Sweeper Social Club (a lot of it blends into one, maybe I’m just pissed it’s not RATM)
Elysian Fields –The Afterlife (maybe I need to listen to it more, but not especially liking this one)
Dizze Rascal - Tongue N' Cheek (only a few ok songs, the others are puke-inducing - Holiday, Leisure, etc)

The utter anal crap

Chris Cornell – Scream

Pretty good year for music. The top 10, especially top 3 made it a pretty excellent year.

I'll try to list all the bands and artists I've seen live and enjoyed. Some I enjoyed more than others. Of course I saw many more bands, but most of them I forgot since they weren't that interesting for me or they simply failed.

ASP 2x
Amberian Dawn
Amorphis 2x
Apocalyptica
Atrocity
Autumn
Blind Guardian
Children of Bodom
Delain 6x
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
Doro 2x
Dream Theater
Egotrippi
Elis
Eluveitie 2x
Ensiferum
Epica 3x
Equilibrium
Faun
Helge Schneider 2x
Iced Earth
Jesus on Extasy
Kamelot 2x
Keane
Kivimetsän Druidi2x
Korpiklaani
Kotiteollisuus
Krypteria 2x
L'Âme Imortelle
Leaves' Eyes 3x
Letzte Instanz 2x
Lordi
Midnattsol
Moonsorrow 2x
Nightwish
oneiros
Opeth
Orden Ogan
Ronan Keating
Runrig
Samsas Traum
Serenity 2x
Sirenia
Skyforger
Sonata Arctica 4x
Stream of Passion 2x
Subway to Sally
SuidAkrA
Tarja Turunen 9x
Tarot
The Corrs
Turisas
Týr
van Canto 2x
Waylander
Within Temptation 4x
Xandria