January 26, 2010

{     "Dizzy" Lizzy Rachtman's Top 12 Metal Releases of 2009.     }    

"I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth."
-Revelations 6:8.

1. Baroness "Blue Record"
2. Shrinebuilder "Shrinebuilder"
3. Agoraphobic Nosebleed "Agorapocalypse"
4. YOB "The Great Cessation"
5. Cobalt "Gin"
6. Converge "Axe to Fall"
7. Dethklok "Deth Album 2"
8. Pestilence "Resurrection Macabre"
9. Cattle Decapitation "Harvest Floor"
10. Vader "Necropolis"
11. Nile "Those Whom the Gods Detest"
12. Slayer "World Painted Blood"

A Sweet 16 of Honorable Mentions:

Mastodon "Crack the Skye"
Cave In "Planets of Old"
Obscura "Cosmogenesis"
Cannibal Corpse "Evisceration Plague"
The Black Dahlia Murder "Deflorate"
Big Business "Mind the Drift"
Om "God is Good"
Burnt By The Sun "Heart of Darkness"
Nadja "When I See The Sun Always Shines on TV"
Kreator "Hordes of Chaos"
Napalm Death "Time Waits for No Slave"
Russian Circles "Geneva"
Doomriders "Darkness Come Alive"
Narrows "New Distances"
Brutal Truth "Evolution Through Revolution"