Albums of 2009

10 - Rise And Fall - Our Circle is Vicious

Favorite Tracks: Built On Graves, Harm’s Way, To The Bottom, Knowing

Pissed off hardcore from deathwish, that sounds like the rest of the label....perfect.

9 - Black Breath - Razor To Oblivion

Favorite Tracks: Razor To Oblivion, Beneath the Crust, Fatal Error, Murder

Hardcore with a healthy dose of black metal, so good.

8 - Mastadon - Crack The Skye

Favorite Tracks: The Czar, Divinations, Oblivion, The Last Baron

Shredding record from the very unique Mastadon that made me a fan of Prog in 2009

7 - Katharsis - Fourth Reich

Favorite Tracks: So Nail the Hearts, Eucharistick Funereal, Reckoning, Emerald Graves, Sinn Koronation

Brutal Metal. So Brutal

6 - Baroness - Blue Album

Favorite Tracks: BullheadŐs Psalm, The Sweetest Curse, Jake Leg, Steel That Sleeps the Eye, A Horse Called Golgotha

The 4th album from Baroness delivers a sound that is very hard to pin down, but is quickly becoming the love of metalheads everywhere

5 - Nachtmystium - Doomsday Derilicts

Favorite Tracks: Bones, Life On Fire, Hellish Overdose, Pitch Black Cadence

Throwback to thrash. A much welcome change from Chicago’s monsters for this EP.

4 - Cold Cave - Love Comes Close

Favorite Tracks: Love Comes Close, Life Magazine, I.C.D.K

Guilty pleasure that kidnapped my record player for 2 straight months.

3 - Wolves In The Throne Room - Black Cascade

Favorite Tracks: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Ahrimanic Trance, Ex Cathedra, Crystal Ammunition

3rd album from WITTR is the darkest, and most chaotic to date.

2 - Doomriders-Darkness Come Alive

Favorite Tracks: Bear Witness, Come Alive, Lions, Jealous God, Rotter

Doomriders transformed from beer drinking heshers to beer drinking poser hating metal gods.

1 - Converge - Axe To Fall

Favorite Tracks: Dark Horse, Effigy, Worms Will Feed, Cutter, Cruel Bloom, Wretched World

Converge reinvents themselves with a new album that introduces many new apsects while still holding true to the groundwork that makes them rad.

Singles of 2009

5 - Karen O And The Kids - "Heads Up"

Feel good song that lets me forgive Karen O of the fact that she has no idea what its like to be a pissed off boy playing with monsters.

4 - The Hope Conspiracy - "In the Shadow Of God"

Hardcore like it should be made. Loud and pissed with a huge breakdown

3 - Alberta Cross - "Leave Us And Forgive Us"

Super rad vocals over an epic wall of emotional rock.

2 - Phoenix - "1901"

Regardless of the car commercials, I love this song

1 - Cold Cave - "Theme From Tomorrowland"

Bummed dude, chick vocals, synthesizer....need I say more?

Best concert of 2009

Valient Thorr

Hardest Ive partied at a show in years. One leg up on the stage, headbanging, and pouring every third beer on my buddies’ heads. So lound and personal. I encourage everyone to catch Valient Thorr at least once..... They are from Venus for chirst’s sake

Biggest musical dissapointment 2009

1349-Revelations Of The Black Flame

Dear 1349, release another Hellfire or Beyond The Apocolypse, please.

Most overrated album of 2009

3 Inches Of Blood-Here Waits Thy Doom

None of the original members are on the album.....it shows

Most anticipated album of 2010

Nachtmystium-Black Meddle Part II

Recording in Jan, Released in April. Its gonna push extreme music into new territories.

2009 | site by itscalledlove.com