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Okay, so everyone's doing this so i decided to join....

10 - O.S.I. - Blood

A great album, at the purest O.S.I. style, it was a hard choice to put it up here in Tenth place, but this was such a great year for music, and i don't listen O.S.I. as much as i should.

9 - Muse - The Resistance

A great album, a lot of Queen influence here and there, ill put it 3rd in my Muse favorites next to Black Holes and Revelations.

8 - Porcupine Tree - The Incident

I could say that PT is one of my favorite bands of all my library, but i can't seem to get into this album, maybe, i just haven't listened to it well enough, it might grow up on me later, but for now, this will do

7 - Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11

More and more flamenco rythms with Metal influences, this time with a little electric guitar solo, which makes us think on the future of this duet...Maybe they will later use Electric guitars instead of acoustic? Let's remember that these guys played Black Metal in their start on music so...maybe...but for now, a great album, indeed.

6 - Megadeth - Endgame

A strong comeback for Mr. Mustaine, an album a lot heavier than their past album, simply great, i was impressed sicne first listen.

5 - Jesse Cook - Rumba Foundation

With a sound change from Flamenco/New Age to a Rumba/Cumbia style, without losing the Jesse Cook's signature sound, this album is probably one of the best the 2009 could give, from a seriously underrated guitarist.

4 - Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

Progressive Metal at it's best, starting with a sweet piano melody, and then slowly fading into a heavier song, it shows that there are still good and original Prog Metal bands, and not only Fates Warning/Dream Theater ripoffs.

3 - Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs For The Damned And Delirious

With my slowly growing taste for Avant Garde (Thanks to Emtay13) comes this almost perfect combination of constantly changing sounds, an overall interesting album, same than their past one, it will never get me bored!

2 - Steven Wilson - Insurgentes

Steven Wilson can do no wrong, specially on his own! Period! A great album, from start to finish, also i like the detail that it has the name of a Mexican Avenue.

1 - Transatlantic - The Whirlwind

In my opinion, the album of the year, i was so excited when they announced their comeback, and i was even more excited because of the 77-Minutes track, and guess what? I came when i listened to it, it has is flaws, but overall, it's a great album, even Mike Portnoy sounds good when he sings here, unlike with DT (Where he sounds like pure shit).

It starts with some sounds and recordings, then moves to a strings opening, moving to a more prog sound, then after 7 minutes of instrumental awesomeness (Not wankery unlike other prog bands i know) Neal Morse enters with his (Like always) awesome vocals, then the song moves to The wind blew them all away which enters with a gentle acoustic guitar, then Neal's vocals enters, after this, comes on the powl which half of it, is an awesome instrumental segment, then follows A man can feel, one of my least favorites themes on the epic, but it's still good, then follows Out of the night which features some Mike's vocals, which, honestly, impressed me (I was expecting those shitty growls he did on Black Poop and Silver Shit so i could go kill him for ruining this awesome song), then moves to Rose colored glasses one of the best part on the song, it features Neal with it's amazing vocals, and you can feel how he's singing with all of his feeling because this song is dedicated to the memory of his father, then comes an amazing guitar solo, then Neal enters again to move to Evermore which i haven't listened enough to review it, then follows Set us free which starts with an awesome mini instrumental, a very happy song, with a great guitar solo, then follows Lay down your life, a song with a more low feeling than the others, but still amazing, then comes Pieces of heaven, a cool mini instrumental song, which serves as a interlude to Is It Really Happening, which starts slowly, very boring and repetitive at the beggining, then slowly building up into one of the most mind blowing instrumentals i've heard, and then comes the climax of the song, Dancing with eternal glory / Whirlwind (Reprise) which starts out with some gentle vocals from Neal, while the lyrics, obviously inspired by his growing faith in religion, don't convince me, the song itself is amazing, great guitar solo coming, then comes the reprise of The Whirlwind with a great Beatles like group vocals work, some more orgasmic solo, finishing with an amazing reprise of the main theme, ending this amazing 77-minutes song.

Then comes the 2nd disc, composed of half original songs, half covers, the original songs aren't bad, but after listening the main theme, nothing's the same, and the covers, well, i enjoy listening to A Salty Dog with Mike's vocals (Excellent work he did here) I Need You with Neal's vocals and that kickass Soul Sacrifice drum solo, but nothing else.

An overall amazing album, which deserves it's place on my list.

I think i did this a little TL;DR hehe, but well, 2009 was a year full of amazing music, let's see what 2010 brings...

Also i want to wish all of you who took the time to read this blog, a happy New Year 2010, let's make it through one more year!

Thank you for reading!

Every time I do one of these the number of albums fitted in seems to rise. Is it because there's more good music out there, or am I just discovering more of it than I used to? Hmmm.
Anyway, a top 100 this time round, and no doubt I'll get the usual comments because heaven forbid, I like pop music. I'm not suggesting that this order is correct in terms of technical ability, songwriting genius or anything else - it's just what I liked most. Sometimes a simple pop album can be far more enjoyable than something complicated, heavy and difficult to reap the rewards from.

As always, it goes back to front, from 100 to 1, and as always there's a couple of albums released elsewhere before 2009 but released in the UK in 2009 and therefore I feel they warrant inclusion on the list as, if I did not have friends in other countries, this year would be the first time I'd listened to the albums in question. It's a grey area, however.

Enough rambling now, on with the list.

100. mewithoutYou – It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright
99. Billy Talent – Billy Talent III
98. Seabird – Rocks Into Rivers
97. The Dangerous Summer – Reach For The Sun
96. Tyler Read– Hallelujiaville
95. Zebrahead – Panty Raid
94. The Summer Set – Love Like This
93. Cheryl Cole – 3 Words
92. Set Your Goals – This Will Be The Death Of Us
91. JLS – JLS
90. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
89. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
88. Memory Tapes – Seek Magic
87. Of Machines – As If Everything Was Held In Place
86. For the Fallen Dreams – Relentless
85. August Burns Red – Constellations
84. Evans Blue – Evans Blue
83. Biffy Clyro – Only Revolutions
82. Frank Turner – Poetry Of The Dead
81. Michael Bublé – Crazy Love
80. Epica – Design Your Universe
79. AFI – Crash Love
78. The Fold – Dear Future, Come Get Me
77. Demi Lovato – Here We Go Again
76. Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment
75. Jonas Brothers – Lines, Vines and Trying Times
74. Dashboard Confessional – Alter The Ending
73. Thrice – Beggars
72. Taking Back Sunday – New Again
71. Atreyu – Congregation Of The Damned
70. Marmaduke Duke – Duke Pandemonium
69. The Mars Volta – Octahedron
68. Steel Panther – Feel The Steel
67. Paolo Nutini – Sunny Side Up
66. Spinnerette – Spinnerette
65. Say Anything – Say Anything
64. Muse – The Resistance
63. The Fray – The Fray
62. Sick Puppies – Tri-Polar
61. Carrie Underwood – Play On
60. Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
59. The Devil Wears Prada – With Roots Above And Branches Below
58. The Higher – It’s Only Natural
57. Esmée Denters – Outta Here
56. Marilyn Manson – The High End Of Low
55. The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Lonely Road
54. 30 Seconds to Mars – This Is War
53. Every Time I Die – New Junk Aesthetic
52. New Found Glory – Not Without A Fight
51. Anaal Nathrakh – In The Constellation Of The Black Widow
50. Asking Alexandria – Stand Up And Scream
49. Papa Roach – Metamorphosis
48. Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers
47. Maximo Park – Quicken The Heart
46. OneRepublic – Waking Up
45. Placebo – Battle For The Sun
44. The Blackout – The Best In Town
43. Vanna – A New Hope
42. Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson – Breakup
41. Four Year Strong – Explains It All
40. Pixie Lott – Turn It Up
39. Florence & The Machine – Lungs
38. Three Days Grace – Life Starts Now
37. Pearl Jam – Backspacer
36. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
35. Megadeth – Endgame
34. Fightstar – Be Human
33. Natalie Imbruglia – Come To Life
32. iwrestledabearonce – It’s All Happening
31. Daniel Merriweather – Love & War
30. Jordin Sparks – Battlefield
29. Leona Lewis – Echo
28. Taylor Swift – Fearless (UK release: March 08th 2009)
27. Little Boots – Hands
26. Boys Like Girls – Love Drunk
25. Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You
24. Lady GaGa – The Fame Monster
23. All Time Low – Nothing Personal
22. The Veronicas – Hook Me Up (UK release: October 12th 2009)
21. A Skylit Drive - Adelphia
20. Asher Roth – Asleep In The Bread Aisle
19. Marianas Trench – Masterpiece Theatre
18. Owl City – Ocean Eyes
17. Rihanna – Rated R
16. The Saturdays – Wordshaker
15. Mayday Parade – Anywhere But Here
14. A Day to Remember – Homesick
13. Daughtry – Leave This Town
12. Brand New – Daisy
11. Enter Shikari – Common Dreads
10. Jimmy Robbins – See Through Secrets
09. The Swellers – Ups and Downsizing
08. The Casino Brawl – Shades; Directions
07. Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
06. Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted
05. Kris Allen – Kris Allen
04. Blake Lewis – Heartbreak On Vinyl
03. The Wildhearts – ¡Chutzpah!
02. Oh, Sleeper – Son Of the Morning
01. Paramore – Brand New Eyes

And there we have it.

I was attempting to do a list of my favourite songs from the year, but it was far too difficult and even more confusing than a list of albums so I'll leave it as that.

THRASH METAL & HARDCORE
Abysmalia - Quid Humanum Est (progressive thrash metal) – 6.75/10
The Accüsed - The Curse Of Martha Splatterhead (crossover thrash) – 9/10
Aggression - Moshpirit (thrash metal) – 8/10
Alastor - Spaaazm (thrash metal) – 8/10
Ancient Dome - Human Key (thrash metal) – 7/10
Artillery - When Death Comes (thrash metal) – 8/10
At War - Infidel (thrash metal) – 7.5/10
Beyond - Thrash (thrash metal) – 5.5/10
Colp - Future: Against All (thrash metal/hardcore) – 6/10
Dismantle - Satanic Force (thrash metal) – 5/10
Down to Concrete - Down To Concrete [demo] (beatdown hardcore) – 7.5/10
Evile - Infected Nations (thrash metal) – 8.5/10
Faithreat - Back To The Pit (crossover thrash) – 9/10
Fatality - Beers From The Grave (thrash metal) – 7.75/10
Fekete Sereg - Ősi Dal, Ősi Szó (thrash metal/power metal) – 6/10
Gama Bomb - Tales From the Grave in Space (thrash metal) – 9.5/10
Hellmouth - Destroy Everything, Worship Nothing (hardcore) – 7.5/10
Invection - Demented Perception (thrash metal) – 8/10
Kids Like Us - The Game (hardcore) – 6/10
LaZarus A.D. - The Onslaught (thrash metal) – 8/10
Mantic Ritual - Executioner (thrash metal) – 8.25/10
Megadeth - Endgame (thrash metal) – 10/10
Monolit - Revolution [demo] (thrash metal) – 7/10
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive (crossover thrash) – 9.75/10
Nocturnal - Violent Revenge (blackened thrash metal) – 7.75/10
Premunition - Call Of Vengeance (thrash metal) – 7.75/10
Sepultura - A-Lex (thrash metal) – 7.75/10
Skeletonwitch - Breathing The Fire (blackened thrash metal) – 7.5/10
Slayer - World Painted Blood (thrash metal) – 9/10
Voivod - Infini (progressive thrash metal) – 7.75/10
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares (thrash metal) – 9.5/10
Whiplash - Unborn Again (thrash metal) – 6/10

DEATH METAL & GRINDCORE
Aesth - Deep Within The Gore (progressive death metal) – 5/10
Antigama - Warning (grindcore) – 9/10
Augury - Fragmentary Evidence (progressive/technical death metal) – 7.5/10
Avatar - Avatar (melodic death metal) – 5.25/10
Be'lakor - Stone's Reach (melodic death metal) – 6/10
Behemoth - Evangelion (blackened death metal) – 6/10
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate (melodic death metal) – 6/10
Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague (death metal) – 7/10
Criminal - White Hell (death thrash metal) – 8/10
Daath - The Concealers (death metal) – 8/10
Dawn of Tears - Dark Chamber Litanies (melodic death metal) – 6.75/10
Dead Mountain Mouth - Unveil (death metal) – 7.25/10
DevilDriver - Prey For Villains (death/thrash metal) – 7/10
Disarmonia Mundi - The Restless Memoirs (melodic death metal) – 5.75/10
Divinity - Singularity (melodic/technical death metal) – 7.5/10
Dying Fetus - Descend Into Depravity
(death metal) – 7/10
Excuse For Pain - Delivering Brutality (death metal) – 7/10
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles (technical/brutal death metal) – 6.5/10
Gorod - Process of a New Decline (technical death metal) – 8.75/10
Hackneyed - Burn After Reaping (death metal) – 6.75/10
Hail Of Bulltes - Warsaw Rising (death metal) – 8/10
Hatesphere - To The Nines (melodic death/thrash metal) – 5.5/10
Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity (death metal) – 9/10
Insomnium - Across the Dark (melodic death metal) – 6.25/10
Job for a Cowboy - Ruination
(deathcore/death metal) – 5.5/10
Malefice - Dawn Of Reprisal (melodic death metal) – 6/10
Mortification - The Evil Addiction Destroying
Machine (death thrash metal) – 7.25/10
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave (death metal) – 7.5/10
Neaera - Omnicide (melodic death metal) – 6/10
Neuropathia - Neuropathia (grindcore) – 8.25/10
Nightrage - Wearing A Martyr’s Crown (melodic death metal) – 5/10
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest (death metal) – 9.75/10
Obituary - Darkest Day (death metal) – 7/10
Persefone - Shin-Ken (progressive/melodic death metal) – 7/10
Scar Symmetry - Dark Matter Dimensions (melodic death metal) – 5.75/10
Skyfire - Fractal (melodic death metal) – 6/10
Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky - The Grand Partition And the Abrogation of Idolatry (grindcore/death metal) – 7/10
Suffocation - Blood Oath (death metal) – 9/10
Syrach - A Dark Burial (doomy death metal) – 7/10
This Ending - Dead Harvest (melodic death metal) – 7/10
Thy Disease - ANSHUR-ZA (industrial death metal) – 8.5/10
Vader - Necropolis (death metal) – 7.25/10
Vielikan - Emotional Void (progressive death metal) – 6.75/10
Vortex Of Clutter - Everlasting Journey (death thrash metal) – 6.5/10
Woe of Tyrants - Kingdom Of Might (melodic death metal) – 8/10

DOOM METAL
Blindead - impulse (sludge/post-metal) – 9.5/10
Dawnrider (P) - Two (doom metal/hard rock) – 7.25/10
Disbelief - Protected Hell (death metal/sludge) – 7.75/10
Ea - Ea II (funeral doom) – 9/10
Isis - The Wavering Radiant (sludge) – 8.25/10
Jesu - Infinity (doom/post-metal) – 6/10
The Lamp of Thoth - Sing As You Slay (doom metal) – 8/10
Mournful Congregation - The June Frost (funeral doom) – 9/10
My Dying Bride - The Lies I Sire (doom metal) – 7.5/10
northless - No uarter For The Damaged (sludge) – 7.75/10
Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal (death doom metal) – 7/10
Ocean Chief - Den Förste (sludge) – 7/10
Revelation - Revelation (doom metal) – 7.75/10
Reverend Bizarre - Death Is Glory…Now! (doom metal) – 9.5/10
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (drone) – 8.5/10
Swallow the Sun - New Moon (death doom metal) – 7.5/10
Universe217 - II (EP) (experimental doom metal) – 8.75/10
Wino - Punctuated Equilibrium (stoner rock) – 8/10
YOB - The Great Cessation (doom metal/sludge) – 9/10

BLACK METAL
Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow (black metal/grindcore) – 7.75/10
Endstille - Verführer (black metal) – 8/10
Fall - Black Autumnal Void (black metal) – 4/10
Marduk - Wormwood (black metal) – 7/10
OLD MAN’S CHILD - Slaves of the World (black metal) – 7/10
Pensées Nocturnes - Vacuum (black metal) – 6/10
Peste Noire - Ballade cuntre lo Anemi Francor (black metal) – 5.75/10
Shining - VI / Klagopsalmer (black metal) – 7/10
Xasthur - All Reflections Drained (black metal) – 6/10

OTHER
Amenra - Afterlife (acoustic) – 8/10
Amoral - Show Your Colors[/album] (pop metal) – 2/10
Amorphis - Skyforger (melodic metal) – 7.5/10
Devin Townsend Project - Ki (progressive rock) – 8/10
Divine Heresy - Bringer Of Plagues (modern extreme bullshit) – 3/10
Egoist - Ultra Selfish Revolution (avant-garde metal) – 3/10
Ensiferum - From Afar (folk metal) – 4/10
Ephel Duath - Through My Dog's Eyes (progressive metal/jazz metal) – 4.5/10
Hunter - HellWood (heavy metal) – 3.5/10
Karl Sanders - Saurian Exorcisms (acoustic) – 8/10
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Here Be Dragons (ambient/dark jazz) – 7/10
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind (post-rock) – 9/10
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition (progressive rock) – 8/10
Rodrigo y Gabriela - 11:11 (acoustic) – 9.25/10
Rootwater - Visionism (heavy metal) – 5.75/10
Stinking Lizaveta - Sacrifice And Bliss (instrumental stoner rock) – 8/10

Here is part VII, I'll try to get to part VIII and part IX later today.

39. Dead Wreckoning

This has an opening some people may not think is necessary, but I think it is necessary. It builds up to the death metal onslaught this song has to offer. The drums sound really heavy. The guitar riffs are really awesome and splendid. This is the best Aborted song.

38. Blood God Rising

I like this song a lot. Those screams and shrieks in the beginning of the song are really great. The drums and guitars are pretty impressive on this song. I also like the vocals a lot. This is fun blasting out of my car.

37. Cleansed by Fire

This is a really heavy song by Deeds of Flesh. I'm really into the guitar work and drumming on this track. This track is really on fire.

36. Death Metal

The drum solo is really great in the beginning. It reminds of the drum solo on Show No Mercy. This is a very raw and heavy track. The song's chorus reminds me of Black Metal. This is an excellent slab of early death metal.

35. Death By Metal

This is an extremely raw and heavy song. I really dig it a lot. It sounds really brutal and primitive. I'm glad more of this kind of stuff came out as the years went by.

34. God of Emptiness

One of the first, if not the first death metal song I ever heard. I was really floored by this song. I remember this was played on Beavis & Butthead. I had no idea what the music was at the time and I was very interested in it. This song is tremendously heavy and it's probably the heaviest song Morbid Angel has ever recorded.

33. Tearing Away

This is a super progressive song. I love how this song flows. This is basically the epitome of progressive death metal. You can't go wrong with Sadist if you wanna listen to prog death metal.

32. Futuristic Doom

This has really awesome guitar work and the guitar solo is really fucking awesome. I also dig the vocals and drums. This was one of the first Deceased songs I ever listened to.

31. The Truth

This is a really pounding track. It is also pretty damn raw. I really like the lyrics a lot. I prefer this over Master's version of the song.

30. In My Darkest Hour

This is one of the best Megadeth songs ever. I remember listening to this quite often around 2005-2007. It's a great tune with great and meaningful lyrics. I wrote about this in my top 10 Megadeth songs and you may read more about it there.

I know he's a terrorist and all, but isn't it a bit racist to keep referring to him as "Niger Ian"?

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AnthraxDeathABBAToolRight Said FredSoundgardenAlice in ChainsFaith No MorePeeping TomLady GaGaPuscifierNine Inch NailsPearl JamMad SeasonTemple of the DogEaglesCreedence Clearwater RevivalA Perfect CircleHelmetFrank ZappaMachine HeadLamb of GodRadioheadThe BeatlesMuseNirvanaScreaming TreesChris CornellMotörheadMegadethMetallicaPanteramc chrisFamily GuyLiving ColourGodsmackDisturbedKings of LeonRage Against the MachineSusan BoyleMastodonGojiraNapalm DeathFive Finger Death Punch

1. Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest 10/10


2. Obscura - Cosmogenesis 10/10


3. Crescent Shield - The Stars Of Never Seen 9,5/10


4. Vektor - Black Future 9,5/10
5. Slayer - World Painted Blood 9/10
6. Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares 9/10
7. Artillery - When Death Comes 9/10
8. Behemoth - Evangelion 9/10
9. Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plaque 9/10
10. Immortal - All Shall Fall 9/10
11. Necrophobic - Death For All 8,5/10
12. Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos 8,5/10
13. Megadeth - Endgame 8,5/10
14. Vader - Necropolis 8,5/10
15. Rammstein - Liebe Ist Für Alle Da 8/10

1 Solstafir - Köld 9,0
2 While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose 9,0
3 Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II 9,0
4 Austere To Lay Like Old Ashes - 8,5
5 When Mine Eyes Blacken - When Mine Eyes Blacken 8,5
6 Tori Amos - Abnormally Attracted To Sin 8,5
7 Shining - Klagopsalmer 8,5
8 Asphyx - Death...the Brutal Way 8,5
9 VULVARK - Vulvark 8,0
10 Regina Spektor - Far 8,0
11 Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs 8,0
12 Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans 8,0
13 Florence & The Machine - Lungs 8,0
14 Happy Days - Happiness Stops Here 8,0
15 Black Sun Aeon - Darkness walks beside me 8,0
16 Emilie Simon - The Big Machine 8,0
17 Absu - Absu 8,0
18 Sun of the Blind - Skullreader 7,5
19 Dead - Hanging Illussions 7,5
20 Megadeth - Endgame 7,5
21 Bat for Lashes - Two Suns 7,5
22 Drudkh - Microcosmos 7,5
23 Slayer - World Painted Blood 7,5
24 Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult - Saldorian Spell 7,5
25 Count Raven - Mammons of War 7,5
26 Altar of Plagues - White Tomb 7,5
27 Isole - Silent Ruins 7,5
28 I Shalt Become - The Pendle Witch Trails 7,5
29 Endstille - Verführer 7,5
30 My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire 7,0
31 Griftegard - Solemn, Sacred, Severe 7,0
32 W.A.S.P. - Babylon 7,5
33 Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces 7,0
34 Smerte - To Mars And Beyond 7,0
35 Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum 7,0
36 Posthum - Posthum 7,0
37 Naxzul - Iconlast 7,0
38 Vreid - Milorg 7,0
39 Self-Inflicted Violence - A Perception of Matter and Energy 7,0
40 Monarque - Ad Nauseam 7,0
41 The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite 7,0
42 Throne of Katarsis - Helvete 7,0
43 Urgehal Ikonoklast - 7,0
44 Bitterness - Genociety 7,0
45 Dusk - Örök Halalban 7,0
46 Porcupine Tree - The Incident 7,0
47 Barnaby Bright - Wake The Hero 6,5
48 Glorior Belli - Meet us at the Southern Sign 6,5
49 Forsaken - After The Fall 6,5
50 Thesyre - Résistance 6,5
51 Cobalt - Gin 6,5
52 PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Man A Woman Walked By 6,5
53 Saxon - Into The Labyrinth 6,5
54 Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt 6,5
55 Sepultura - A-Lex 6,5
56 Grimorium Verum - Rehearsal 666 6,5
57 Skaldic Curse - World Suicide Machine 6,5
58 Hellsaw Cold - 6,5
59 Code - Resplendent Grotesque 6,5
60 Paganizer - Scandinavian Warmachine 6,5
61 Licht Erlischt - The Narrow Path 6,5
62 Fever Ray - Fever Ray 6,0
63 Novembers Doom - Into Night's Requiem Infernal 6,0
64 From the Sunset, Forest and Grief - Empty, Cold & Forgotten 6,0
65 A Fine Frenzy - Bomb in a Birdcage 6,0
66 Xasthur - All Reflections Drained 6,0
67 Swallow the Sun - New Moon 6,0
68 Rachael Yamagata - Elephants 6,0
69 Grimlair - Au Commencement d l'ombre 6,0
70 Dark Funeral - Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus 6,0
71 Beyond Light - The Scars of Daylight 6,0
72 Hypocrisy - A Taste of Extreme Divinity 6,0
73 The 11th Hour - Burden of Grief 6,0
74 Amorphis - Skyforger 6,0
75 Neige et Noirceur - Philosophie des Arts Occultes 6,0
76 Vienna Teng - Inland Terrotory 6,0
77 Through the Pain - Time Heals Nothing 5,5
78 Powerwolf - Bible of the Beast 5,5
79 Jenny Owen Youngs - Transmitter Failure 5,5
80 Empty - The House of Funerary Hymns 5,5
81 Drowning The Light - A Pact With Madness 5,5
82 The Gates of Slumber - Hymns of Blood and Thunder 5,5
83 Sworn - Bastards & Conqueror 5,0
84 Marduk - Wormwood 5,0
85 Sacred Oath - Sacred Oath 5,0
86 Katatonia - Night is the New Day 5,0
87 Den Saakaldte - All Hail Pessimism 5,0
88 Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions 5,0
89 Velvet Cacoon - Paa Opal Poere Pr.33 5,0
90 Kreator - Hordes of Chaos 5,0
91 Peste Noire - La Ballade Contre Lo Anemi Francor 4,5
92 Kratornas - The Corroding Age of Wounds 4,5
93 Shever - A Dialogue with the Dimensions 4,5
94 Wino - Punctuated Equilibrium 4,5
95 Cannibal Corpse - Evisceration Plague 4,0
96 Lenka - Lenka 4,0
97 Azarath - Praise The Beast 4,0
98 Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave 3,5
99 Voqkrre - Palans in Pestilens 3,0
100 Suidakra - Crogacht 3,0

20. Girls At Our Best They only made one album, which is just plain lazy.

19. New Model Army They never found a bass player to match Morrow on the first few albums.

18. Queen Everything Brian and Rodger have done to the name Queen since 1995. I hate them and everything they represent. Don't get me started on Paul bloody Rodgers either. Free were never much cop.

17. Holocaust Where the hell have they gone? A killer album in 2003, then no gigs, no updates... they've just disappeared.

16. The Monochrome Set For not being around in the musical wasteland of 2009, when we need them the most.

15. Iron Maiden For playing the same uninspired setlists year on year. They've got one of the greatest back catalogues in rock and they give us Run To The Hills and the bloody Trooper again and again. How about some Caught Somewhere In Time or Only The Good Die Young guys?

14. Wall of Voodoo Happy Planet was naff

13.Helloween Where to start? Michael Wiekath and his happy clappy power hymn songwriting. Rabbit Don't Come Easy. Covering Sheer Heart Attack. Being generally naff since 1991

12.Leonard Cohen For describing Death Of A Ladies Man as 'horrendous' and refusing to play any of it live. Its his best album!

11. Therapy? For millennium era albums that came a little bit too close to power pop punk (ala Blink 182, Green Day etc) for my taste. But we won't hold that against them.

10.Madness For suffering from the same setlist disease as Iron Maiden

9.Hanoi Rocks For the remake of 'Don't Never Leave Me' on Two Steps From The Move. In fact, for most of that album. For not playing the likes of Cheyenne, Don't Follow Me and Ice Cream Summer live. For leaving us here cold and alone

8.Vain For not coming to scotland on their UK tour this year. Its a minor though, otherwise they cannot be faulted.

7.Rage Rage are just so unrelentingly solid and reliable. I don't think i can fault them.

6. Pulp

5.Rush Some of their nineties stuff was a bit guff.

4.Megadeth Dave Mustaine is a tool and has been since about 2001. Before that he was a legend and its embarrassing to see what he's become. I've said it before and i'll say it again... god and guns kill good musicians dead.

3.Killing Joke They should play Europe live and they should do it soon.

2.The Chameleons For the appalling butchery of their classic album covers on the remastered editions.

1.Blue Oyster Cult For kicking out Albert Bouchard. He was the true soul of the band, and they've never been as good since.