LebMetal’s Top Releases of 2009

Indeed, the Metal world was quite busy this year with great comeback releases and new bands releasing their debut albums. The following is a list of Top 10 Metal albums of 2009 LISTS! Do enjoy it and suggest your own Top 10 by being a part of the active community.

• Patrick Saad’s Top 10

1- Mastodon – Crack the Skye (Review on LebMetal)
2- Riverside – Anno Domini High Definition (Review on LebMetal)
3- Obscura – Cosmogenesis
4- Diablo Swing Orchestra – Sing-Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious
5- Freak Kitchen – Land of The Freaks
6- Pathosray – Sunless Skies (Review / Interview on LebMetal)
7- Old Man’s Child – Slaves Of The World
8- Epica – Design Your Universe
9- Scale The Summit- Carving Desert Canyons
10- Converge – Axe To Fall (Review on LebMetal)

• Rami Rouhana’s Top 9

1- Darzamat – Solfemu’s Path
2- Epica – Design your Universe
3- Pain of Salvation – Linoleum
4- Sirenia – The 13th Floor
5- Alan Azar – Defective Harmony
6 – Remembrance of Pain – Descending Into Chaos
7- Diablo Swing Orchestra – Sing-Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious
8- Guilt Machine – On a Perfect Day
9 – Galneryus – Best of the Awakening Days

Top 10 (according to several LebMetal readers)

• Salim Matta

1- Nile’s “Those Whom The Gods Detest”
2- Belphegor’s “Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn”
3- Dark Funeral’s “Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus”
4- Anaal Nathrakh’s “In the Constellation of the Black Widow”
5- Old Man’s Child’s “Slaves of the World”
6- Vader- Necropolis
7- Marduk- Wormwood
8- Samael – Above
9- Obituary- Darkest Day
10- Gorgoroth- Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt

• Yves Nasrallah

1- Mastodon’s “Crack the Skye”
2- Riverside’s “Anno Domini High Definition”
3- Anaal Nathrakh’s “In the Constellation of the Black Widow”
4- Blut Aus Nord’s “Memoria Vetusta II – Dialogue with the Stars”
5- Katatonia’s “Night is the New Day”
6- Porcupine Tree’s “The Incident”
7- Belphegor’s “Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn”
8- Isis’ “Wavering Radiant”
9- Obscura’s “Cosmogenesis”
10- The Grotesquery’s “Tales of the Coffin Born”

• Jason Mardini

1- Anaal Nathrakh’s “In the Constellation of the Black Widow”
2- Porcupine Tree’s “The Incident”
3- Belphegor’s “Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn”
4- Obscura’s “Cosmogenesis”
5- Agathodaimon’s “Phoenix Retail”
6- Behemoth’s “Evangelion”
7- Dark Funeral’s “Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus”
8- Immortal’s “All Shall Fall”
9- Nile’s “Those Whom The Gods Detest”
10- Megadeth’s “Endgame”

• Savio Doumet

1- Belphegor’s “Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn”
2- Anaal Nathrakh’s “In the Constellation of the Black Widow”
3- Behemoth’s “Evangelion”
4- Nile’s “Those Whom The Gods Detest”
5- GRAVEWORM’s “Diabolical Figures”

• Khaled Tabbal

1 – Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
2 – Megadeth – Endgame
3 – Behemoth – Evangelion
4 – Suffocation – Blood Oath
5 – Mastodon – Crack the Skye
6 – Anaal Natrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow

• Sako Satanarchist

1- Anaal Nathrakh’s “In the Constellation of the Black Widow”
2- Behemoth’s “Evangelion”
3- Nile’s “Those Whom The Gods Detest”
4- Megadeth’s “Endgame”
5- Blut Aus Nord’s “Memoria Vetusta II – Dialogue with the Stars”
6- Cannibal Corpse’s “Evisceration Plague”
7- Old Man’s Child’s “Slaves of the World”
8- Slayer’s “World Painted Blood”
9- Napalm Death’s “Time Waits for no Slave”
10- Kreator’s “Hordes of Chaos”

• Dana Halabi
  

1 – Mastodon – Crack the Skye
2 – Immortal – All Shall Fall
3 – Anaal Nathrakh – In the Constellation of the Black Widow
4 – Dying Fetus – Descend into Depravity
5 – Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites – Hexenwahn
6 – Sunn O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
7 – Nile – Those Whom the Gods Detest
8 – Gama Bomb – Tales from the Grave in Space
9 – Behemoth – Evangelion
10 – ChthoniC – Mirror of Retribution

• Johnny Jabbour

1- Epica – Design Your Universe
2- Megadeth – Endgame
3- Tim Ripper Owens – Play My Game
4- Nile – Those Whom The Gods Detest
5- Primal Fear – (Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead)
6- Metalium – Grounded – Chapter Eight
7- Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know
8- Slayer – World Painted In Blood
9- Hypocrisy – A Taste of Extreme Divinity
10- Obituary – Darkest Day

• Elie Rassi

1- Alice In Chains – “Black Gives Way to Blue”
2- Them Crooked Vultures – (self-titled) (Review on LebMetal)
3- Mastodon – “Crack the Skye”
4- Megadeth – “Endgame”
5- NOFX – “Coaster”
6- The Black Dahla Murder – “Deflorate” (Review on LebMetal)
7- Queensryche – “American Soldier”
8- Mirthkon – ” Vehicle”
9- Pearl Jam – “Backspacer”
10- Dirty Projectors – “Bitte Orca”

• Elie Mahfouz

1- Nile’s “Those Whom The Gods Detest”
2- Megadeth’s “Endgame”
3- Porcupine Tree’s “The Incident”
4- Riverside’s “Anno Domini High Definition”
5- Mastodon’s Crack The Skye

• Eggy Rizkallah
  

1- Megadeth – Endgame
2- Silverstein – A Shipwreck in the Sand
3- The Black Dahlia Murder – Deflorate
4- Atreyu – Congregation Of The Damn
5- August Burns Red – Constellations
6- Suicide Silence – No Time to Bleed
7- Kreator – Hordes Of Chaos
8- DevilDriver – Pray For Villain
9- Shadows Fall- Retribution
10- The Red chord – Fed Through The Teeth Machine

• Ralph Moussa
  

1- Megadeth – Endgame
2- Kreator – Hordes of Chaos
3- Devildriver – Pray for Villains
4- Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures (self titled)
5- Rancid – Let the Dominoes Fall
6 – Coaster – Nofx
7- Hatebreed – For the Lions
8- Warbringer – Waking into Nightmares
9 – Ektomorf – What Doesn’t Kill Me
10- Lamb of God – Wrath

It was a solid year with many impressive comebacks! Apparently 2009 was mainly a Black/Death Metal year with all the major bands in those genres releasing their best material yet. It was also the Megadeth thrash comeback year, and a solid year for Progressive Metal with Mastodon, Riverside, Dream Theatre, Pain of Salvation and others releasing great classic albums as well.

Comment your own Top 10 list below!