My favourite albums from 2009

1. 50

   Fever Ray

   Fever Ray

   

   

   Electronic pop | Art pop

   Tracks:

   1. If I Had a Heart ●
   2. When I Grow up
   3. Dry and Dusty
   4. Seven
   5. Triangle Walks
   6. Concrete Walls
   7. Now's the Only Time I Know
   8. I'm Not Done
   9. Keep the Streets Empty for Me
   10. Coconut

2. 49

   Snowfall on Judgement Day

   Redemption

   

   

   Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Peel ●
   2. Walls
   3. Leviathan Rising
   4. Black and White World
   5. Unformed
   6. Keep Breathing
   7. Another Day Dies
   8. What Will You Say?
   9. Fistful of Sand
   10. Love Kills Us All / Life in One Day

3. 48

   Vast Oceans Lachrymose

   While Heaven Wept

   

   

   Progressive metal | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Furthest Shore ●
   2. To Wander the Void
   3. Living Sepulchre
   4. Vessel
   5. Vast Oceans Lachrymose
   6. Epilogue

4. 47

   Part the Second

   maudlin of the Well

   

   

   Progressive rock | Art rock

   Tracks:

   1. An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, The Revisitation of the Blue Ghost
   2. Another Excerpt: Keep Light Near You, Even When Dying
   3. Rose Quartz Tuurning to Glass
   4. Clover Garland Island
   5. Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder) ●

5. 46

   New Moon

   Swallow the Sun

   

   

   Death-doom | Gothic metal

   Tracks:

   1. These Woods Breathe Evil
   2. Falling World
   3. Sleepless Swans
   4. ... And Heaven Cried Blood
   5. Lights on the Lake (Horror Pt. III)
   6. New Moon ●
   7. Servant of Sorrow
   8. Weight of the Dead

6. 45

   Addicted

   Devin Townsend Project

   

   

   Progressive metal | Alternative metal

   Tracks:

   1. Addicted!
   2. Universe in a Ball!
   3. Bend It Like Bender!
   4. Supercrush! ●
   5. Hyperdrive!
   6. Resolve!
   7. Ih-Ah!
   8. The Way Home!
   9. Numbered!
   10. Awake!!

7. 44

   Liebe ist für alle da

   Rammstein

   

   

   Industrial metal | Neue Deutsche härte

   Tracks:

   1. Rammlied
   2. Ich tu dir weh
   3. Waidmanns Heil
   4. Haifisch
   5. B********
   6. Frühling in Paris
   7. Wiener Blut
   8. Pussy
   9. Liebe ist für alle da
   10. Mehr ●
   11. Roter Sand

8. 43

   The Resistance

   Muse

   

   

   Alternative rock | Pop rock

   Tracks:

   1. Uprising ●
   2. Resistance
   3. Undisclosed Desires
   4. United States of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)
   5. Guiding Light
   6. Unnatural Selection
   7. MK Ultra
   8. I Belong to You (+Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix)
   9. Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)
   10. Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination)
   11. Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)

9. 42

   Ki

   Devin Townsend Project

   

   

   Progressive rock | Art rock

   Tracks:

   1. A Monday
   2. Coast
   3. Dirsuptr ●
   4. Gato
   5. Terminal
   6. Heaven Send
   7. Ain't Never Gonna Win ...
   8. Winter
   9. Trainfire
   10. Lady Helen
   11. Ki
   12. Quiet Riot
   13. Demon League

10. 41

    A-Lex

    Sepultura

    

    

    Groove metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. A-Lex I
    2. Moloko Mesto
    3. Filthy Rot
    4. We've Lost You!
    5. What I Do!
    6. A-Lex II
    7. The Treatment
    8. Metamorphosis ●
    9. Sadistic Values
    10. Forceful Behaviour
    11. Conform
    12. A-Lex III
    13. The Experiment
    14. Strike
    15. Enough Said
    16. Ludwig Van
    17. A-Lex IV
    18. Paradox

11. 40

    Backspacer

    Pearl Jam

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Gonna See My Friend
    2. Got Some
    3. The Fixer ●
    4. Johnny Guitar
    5. Just Breathe
    6. Amongst the Waves
    7. Unthought Known
    8. Supersonic
    9. Speed of Sound
    10. Force of Nature
    11. The End

12. 39

    Those Whom the Gods Detest

    Nile

    

    

    Technical death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Kafir
    2. Hittite Dung Incantation
    3. Utterances of the Crawling Dead
    4. Those Whom the Gods Detest ●
    5. 4th Arra of Dagon
    6. PErmitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld
    7. Yezd Desert Ghul Ritual in the Abandoned Towers of Silence
    8. Kem Khefa Kheshef
    9. The Eye of Ra
    10. Iskender Dhul Kharnon

13. 38

    Journal for Plague Lovers

    Manic Street Preachers

    

    

    Alternative rock | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Peeled Apples
    2. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
    3. Me and Stephen Hawking
    4. This Sport Joke Severed ●
    5. Journal for Plague Lovers
    6. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
    7. Facing Page: Top Left
    8. Marlon J.D.
    9. Doors Closing Slowly
    10. All Is Vanity
    11. Pretension/Repulsion
    12. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
    13. William's Last Words

14. 37

    Mania

    Truckfighters

    

    

    Stoner rock | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    1. Last Curfew
    2. Monte Gargano ●
    3. The New High
    4. Majestic
    5. Monster
    6. Con of Man
    7. Loose
    8. Blackness

15. 36

    Them Crooked Vultures

    Them Crooked Vultures

    

    

    Alternative rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
    2. Mind Eraser, No Chaser
    3. New Fang
    4. Dead End Friends
    5. Elephants
    6. Scumbag Blues
    7. Bandoliers
    8. Reptiles ●
    9. Interlude with Ludes
    10. Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give up
    11. Caligulove
    12. Gunman
    13. Spinning in Daffodils

16. 35

    Blood

    OSI

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Escape Artist ●
    2. Terminal
    3. False Start
    4. We Come Undone
    5. Radiologue
    6. Be the Hero
    7. Microbust Alert
    8. Stockholm
    9. Blood

17. 34

    Róka Hasa Rádió

    Thy Catafalque

    

    

    Avant-garde metal | Progressive black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Szervetlen
    2. Molekuláris Gépezetek ●
    3. Köd Utánam
    4. Űrhajók Makón
    5. Piroshátú
    6. Esőlámpás
    7. Kabócák, bodobácsok
    8. Őszi varázslók
    9. Fehér berek

18. 33

    Black Future

    Vektor

    

    

    Technical thrash metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Black Future
    2. Oblivion
    3. Destroying the Cosmos
    4. Forests of Legend
    5. Deoxyribonucleic Acid
    6. Asteroid
    7. Dark Nebula ●
    8. Accelerating Universe

19. 32

    The Devil You Know

    Heaven & Hell

    

    

    Heavy metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Atom and Evil
    2. Fear
    3. Bible Black ●
    4. Double the Pain
    5. Rock and Roll Angel
    6. The Turn of the Screw
    7. Eating the Cannibals
    8. Follow the Tears
    9. Neverwhere
    10. Breaking into Heaven

20. 31

    Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm

    The Chasm

    

    

    Death metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Entering a Superior Dimension ●
    2. Callous Spectre / Vehement Opposition
    3. Fiery Rebirth
    4. Farseeing ...
    5. Structure of the Seance
    6. Vault to the Voyage
    7. The Promised Ravage
    8. The Mission / Arrival to Hopeless Shores (Calling the Paranormal Abysm)

21. 30

    The Great Misdirect

    Between the Buried and Me

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Mirrors
    2. Obfuscation
    3. Disease, Injury, Madness
    4. Fossil Genera — A Feed from Cloud Mountain ●
    5. Desert of Song
    6. Swim to the Moon

22. 29

    Två sidor av horisonten

    Horisont

    

    

    Blues rock | Heavy psych

    Tracks:

    1. Nightrider ●
    2. Just Ain't Right
    3. High Time
    4. The Unseen
    5. Oh, My Lord
    6. Horisont Boogie
    7. Du räde
    8. Visa vägen
    9. Tiggaren
    10. Efter min pipa

23. 28

    Blue Record

    Baroness

    

    

    Progressive metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bullhead's Psalm
    2. The Sweetest Curse
    3. Jake Leg
    4. Steel That Sleeps the Eye
    5. Swollen and Halo
    6. Ogeechee Hymnal
    7. A Horse Called Golgotha ●
    8. O'er Hell and Hide
    9. War, Wisdom and Rhyme
    10. Blackpowder Orchard
    11. The Gnashing
    12. Bullhead's Lament

24. 27

    The Time of No Time Evermore

    The Devil's Blood

    

    

    Heavy psych | Occult rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Tiime of No Time
    2. Evermore
    3. I'll Be Your Ghost ●
    4. The Yonder Beckons
    5. House of Ten Thousand Voices
    6. Christ or Cocaine
    7. Queen of My Burning Heart
    8. Angel's Prayer
    9. Feeding the Fire with Tears and Blood
    10. Rake Your Nails Across the Firmament
    11. The Anti Kosmik Magick

25. 26

    Tall Poppy Syndrome

    Leprous

    

    

    Progressive metal | Avant-garde metal

    Tracks:

    1. Passing
    2. Phantom Pain
    3. Dare You
    4. Fate
    5. He Will Kill Again
    6. Not Even a Name
    7. Tall Poppy Syndrome
    8. White ●

26. 25

    Across the Dark

    Insomnium

    

    

    Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Equivalence
    2. Down with the Sun
    3. Where the Last Wave Broke ●
    4. The Harrowing Years
    5. Against the Stream
    6. The Lay of Autumn
    7. Into the Woods
    8. Weighed Down with Sorrow

27. 24

    Red Fang

    Red Fang

    

    

    Stoner metal | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Prehistoric Dog ●
    2. Reverse Thunder
    3. Night Destroyer
    4. Humans Remain Human Remains
    5. Good to Die
    6. Bird on Fire
    7. Wings of Fang
    8. Whales and Leeches
    9. Witness

28. 23

    Hordes of Chaos

    Kreator

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Hordes of Chaos (A Necrologue for the Elite) ●
    2. Warcurse
    3. Escalation
    4. Amok Run
    5. Destroy What Destroys You
    6. Radical Resistance
    7. Absolute Misanthropy
    8. To the Afterborn
    9. Corpses of Liberty
    10. Demon Prince

29. 22

    11:11

    Rodrigo y Gabriela

    

    

    Flamenco | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Hanuman
    2. Buster voodoo ●
    3. Triveni
    4. Logos
    5. Santo Domingo
    6. Master Maqui
    7. Savitri
    8. Hora zero
    9. Chac mool
    10. Atman
    11. 11:11

30. 21

    Death Magic Doom

    Candlemass

    

    

    Doom metal | Epic doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. If I Ever Die
    2. Hammer of Doom ●
    3. The Bleeding Baroness
    4. Demon of the Deep
    5. House of 1000 Voices
    6. Dead Angel
    7. Clouds of Dementia
    8. My Funeral Dreams

31. 20

    Axe to Fall

    Converge

    

    

    Metalcore | Sludge metal | Hardcore punk

    Tracks:

    1. Dark Horse ●
    2. Reap What You Sow
    3. Axe to Fall
    4. Effigy
    5. Worms Will Feed / Rats Will Feast
    6. Wishing Well
    7. Damages
    8. Losing Battle
    9. Dead BEat
    10. Cutter
    11. Slave Driver
    12. Cruel Bloom
    13. Wretched World

32. 19

    Stone's Reach

    Be'lakor

    

    

    Melodic death metal | Progressive death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Venator
    2. From Scythe to Sceptre
    3. Outlive the Hand
    4. Sun's Delusion
    5. Held in Hollows
    6. Husks
    7. Aspect
    8. Countless Skies ●

33. 18

    Wrath

    Lamb of God

    

    

    Groove metal | Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Passing
    2. In Your Words
    3. Set to Fail
    4. Contractor
    5. Fake Messiah
    6. Grace ●
    7. Broken Hands
    8. Dead Seeds
    9. Everything to Nothing
    10. Choke Sermon
    11. Reclamation

34. 17

    Skyforger

    Amorphis

    

    

    Folk metal | Melodic death metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sampo
    2. Silver Bride
    3. From the Heaven of My Heart
    4. Sky Is Mine ●
    5. Majestic Beast
    6. My Sun
    7. Highest Star
    8. Skyforger
    9. Course of Fate
    10. From Earth I Rose

35. 16

    Köld

    Sólstafir

    

    

    Post-metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. 78 Days in the Desert ●
    2. Köld
    3. Pale Rider
    4. She Destroys Again
    5. Necrologue
    6. World Void of Souls
    7. Love Is the Devil (and I Am in Love)
    8. Goddess of the Ages

36. 15

    The Hazards of Love

    The Decemberists

    

    

    Progressive folk | Art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Prelude
    2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
    3. A Bower Scene
    4. Won't Want for Love (Margaret in Taiga)
    5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
    6. The Queen's Approach
    7. Isn't It a Lovely Night?
    8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
    9. An Interlude
    10. The Rake's Song ●
    11. The Abduction of Margaret
    12. The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
    13. Annan Water
    14. The Hazards of Love (Revenge!)
    15. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
    16. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

37. 14

    The Ballad of John Henry

    Joe Bonamassa

    

    

    Blues | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Ballad of John Henry ●
    2. Stop!
    3. Last Kiss
    4. Jockey Full of Bourbon
    5. Story of a Quarryman
    6. Lonesome Road Blues
    7. Happier Times
    8. Feelin' Good
    9. Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
    10. The Great Flood
    11. From the Valley
    12. As the Crow Flies

38. 13

    Sigh No More

    Mumford & Sons

    

    

    Folk

    Tracks:

    1. Sigh No More
    2. The Cave
    3. Winter Winds
    4. Roll Away Your Stone
    5. White Blank Page ●
    6. I Gave You All
    7. Little Lion Man
    8. Timshel
    9. Thistle & Weeds
    10. Awake My Soul
    11. Dust Bowl Dance
    12. After the Storm

39. 12

    Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us

    Paradise Lost

    

    

    Gothic metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. As Horizons End
    2. I Remain
    3. First Light
    4. Frailty
    5. Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us ●
    6. The Rise of Denial
    7. Living with Scars
    8. Last Regret
    9. Universal Dream
    10. In Truth

40. 11

    Night Is the New Day

    Katatonia

    

    

    Alternative metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Forsaker ●
    2. The Longest Year
    3. Idle Blood
    4. Onward into Battle
    5. Liberation
    6. The Promise of Deceit
    7. Nephilim
    8. New Night
    9. Inheritance
    10. Day and Then the Shade
    11. Departer

41. 10

    Black Gives Way to Blue

    Alice in Chains

    

    

    Alternative metal | Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. All Secrets Known
    2. Check My Brain
    3. Last of My Kind
    4. Your Decision ●
    5. A Looking in View
    6. When the Sun Rose Again
    7. Acid Bubble
    8. Lesson Learned
    9. Take Her out
    10. Private Hell
    11. Black Gives Way to Blue

42. 9

    Strange Cousins from the West

    Clutch

    

    

    Blues rock | Stoner rock

    Tracks:

    1. Motherless Child
    2. Struck Down
    3. 50,000 Unstoppable Watts
    4. Abraham Lincoln ●
    5. Minotaur
    6. The Amazing Kreskin
    7. Witchdoctor
    8. Let a Poor Man Be
    9. Freakonomics
    10. Algo ha cambiado
    11. Sleestak Lightning

43. 8

    Octahedron

    The Mars Volta

    

    

    Progressive rock | Avant-garde rock

    Tracks:

    1. Since We've Been Wrong
    2. Teflon ●
    3. Halo of Nembutals
    4. With Twilight As My Guide
    5. Cotopaxi
    6. Desperate Graves
    7. Copernicus
    8. Luciforms

44. 7

    Endgame

    Megadeth

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Dialectic Chaos
    2. This Day We Fight
    3. 44 Minutes
    4. 1320
    5. Bite the Hand
    6. Bodies
    7. Endgame
    8. The Hardest Part pf Letting Go ... Sealed with a Kiss
    9. Head Crusher ●
    10. How the Story Ends
    11. The Right to Go Insane

45. 6

    Sound Awake

    Karnivool

    

    

    Progressive rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Simple Boy ●
    2. Goliath
    3. New Day
    4. Set Fire to the Hive
    5. Umbra
    6. All I Know
    7. The Medicine Wears off
    8. The Caudal Lure
    9. Illumine
    10. Deadman
    11. Change

46. 5

    Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

    Bill Callahan

    

    

    Alt-country | Americana

    Tracks:

    1. Jim Cain
    2. Eid Ma Clack Shaw
    3. The Wind and the Dove
    4. Rococo Zephyr
    5. Too Many Birds ●
    6. My Friend
    7. All Thoughts Are Prey to Soome Beast
    8. Invocation of Rationication
    9. Faith / Void

47. 4

    Crooked Timber

    Therapy?

    

    

    Alternative metal | Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Head That Tried to Strangle Itself
    2. Enjoy the Struggle
    3. Crowns Galore
    4. Exiles ●
    5. Crooked Timber
    6. I Told You I Was Ill
    7. Somnambulist
    8. Blacken the Page
    9. Magic Mountain
    10. Bad Excuse for Daylight

48. 3

    Wavering Radiant

    Isis

    

    

    Post-metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Hall of the Dead
    2. Ghost Key
    3. Hand of the Host
    4. Wavering Radiant
    5. Stone to Wake a Serpent ●
    6. 20 Minutes / 40 Years
    7. Threshold of Transformation

49. 2

    The Weirding

    Astra

    

    

    Space rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Rising of the Black Sun
    2. The Weirding ●
    3. Silent Sleep
    4. The River Under
    5. Ouroboros
    6. Broken Glass
    7. The Dawning of Orphiucus
    8. Beyond to Slight the Maze

50. 1

    Crack the Skye

    Mastodon

    

    

    Progressive metal | Sludge metal

    Tracks:

    1. Oblivion
    2. Divinations
    3. Quintessence
    4. The Czar
    5. Ghost of Karelia ●
    6. Crack the Skye
    7. The Last Baron