Records Of 2009

1.Baroness - Blue Record
Baroness have created a piece of work that is beyond the call of musicianship, melding several genres to create an uplifting, bombastic and ultimately heavy record with more than a slight touch of Thin Lizzy Worship.


2.Sunn 0))) - Monoliths And Dimensions
The Successors to Earth's throne have come up with their best work yet, bringing back Attilla csihar and a whole cast of other musicians including Dylan Carlson, for a drone experience unlike any other.


3.Mastodon - Crack The Skye
They may have slowly strayed into progressive territory and straight out of a lot of fans hearts, but this album is an extremely precise exercise in musical exploration and has created this years best song "Oblivion".


4.Doomriders - Darkness Comes Alive
Finally gracing us with album number two after four years, the 'riders come out heavier and louder than ever with their new school take on Entombed style rock and roll metal.


5.Shrinebuilder - Shrinebulder
Deeply immersive release from the most anticipated supergroup of the last few years, featuring the main players from the doom/metal scene.


6.Church Of Misery - Houses Of The Unholy
The grooviest, catchiest doom record ever!!!.


7.Mariachi El Bronx - El Bronx
Also known as The Bronx, they stepped out from their normal L.A. punk roots and wrote a Mariachi record which to everyones surprise was just as good as their day job.


8.Vader - Necropolis
The Polish Death Metal Veterans, should by now be in a care home, but instead created an ultra heavy relentless death metal assault of an album that just doesnt give up .


9.Isis - Wavering Radiant
Their best work since "Oceanic", That is all.


10.Bon Iver - Blood Bank
Justin Vernon outdoes his first album, with four songs of pure beauty easing up on the melancholy with a warmer approach, "Woods" was a constant fixture throughout this years listening

Honourable Mentions.

Ahab - Divinity Of Oceans
Behemoth - Evangelion
Black Cobra - Chronosphere
Converge - Axe To Fall
Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Kylesa - Static Tensions
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
Obscura - Cosmogenesis
OM - God Is Good
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
Phosphorescent - To Willie
Rise And Fall - Our Circle Is Vicious
Russian Circles - Geneva
Scale The Summit - Carving Desert Canyons
Spylacopa - Spylacopa
Suffocation - Blood Oath
Tombs - Winterhours