Editor’s Top Thirty of 2009

After much careful consideration, here is the Jukebox:Metal list of the thirty best releases of 2009. This year rock and metal are mixed into one, so that everything is considered together. Initially this was intended to be a top twenty, but 2009 produced so many good albums that leaving some without a mention wouldn’t have been fair.

1. Tim Ripper Owens – Play My Game (review)
2. The Black Crowes – Before The Frost… (review)
3. Suicidal Angels – Sanctify The Darkness (review)
4. Jupiter Society – Terraform (review)
5. Preacher Stone – Preacher Stone (review)
6. This Misery Garden – Another Great Day On Earth (review)
7. Nomad Son – First Light (review)
8. Forsaken – After The Fall (review)
9. Gunfire 76 – Casualties & Tragedies (review)
10. Paradise Lost – Faith Divides Us Death Unites Us (review)
11. Mastodon – Crack The Skye
12. The 11th Hour – Burden of Grief (review)
13. Obituary – Darkest Day (review)
14. Savage Messiah – Insurrection Rising (review)
15. Count Raven – Mammons War (review)
16. Semlah – Semlah (review)
17. Kreator – Hordes of Chaos (review)
18. Candlemass – Death Magic Doom (review)
19. Heaven & Hell – The Devil You Know
20. Paradox – Riot Squad (review)
21. Tenet – Sovereign (review)
22. Isole – Silent Ruins: Redemption Pt. 1 (review)
23. Memory Driven – Relative Obscurity (review)
24. Katatonia – Night Is The New Day (review)
25. Fu Manchu – Signs of Infinite Power (review)
26. Naughty Boys – Destiny Calling (review)
27. Nightvision – As The Lights Go Down (review)
28. Steve Morse Band – Out Standing In Their Field review)
29. Europe – Last Look At Eden (review)
30. Innocent Rosie – Bad Habit Romance (review)

Honourable mentions: Lions Share, Trippy Wicked & The Cosmic Children of The Knight, Ravage, My Dying Bride, Mystic Prophecy, Jaded Heart

Live Band of The Year:
Bigelf

Live album of the year:
Destruction – Curse of The Antichrist (review)

Written by Jukebox:Metal Admin
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