1.Machine Head - The Blackening

2.Overkill - Ironbound

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Rush - Clockwork Angels

5.Rush - Snakes & Arrows

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1.Obscura - Cosmogenesis

2.Ensiferum - From Afar

3.While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose

4.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

5.Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares

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Adjusted KREATOR albums ratings with Negative Binomal Distribution (using Metalstorm data itself).

1.Kreator - Coma Of Souls

2.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

3.Kreator - Extreme Aggression

4.Kreator - Enemy Of God

5.Kreator - Gods Of Violence

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Only a "20 best" list for this quite good year - or well, 'quite good year' for prog at least.

The first four are arranged in preference order, then th sixteen order are in alphabetical order.

Beware: this is a consolidated - but not definitive - version, it might see some changes in the newt few months.

1.Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

2.Kalisia - Cybion

3.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

4.Sólstafir - Köld

5.Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs

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Kreator are one of the my favourite thrash metal bands.They have a lot of masterpieces in these genre and some experimental albums in which Kreator played some fresh music.Those albums are not regarded as being very good,but I like all of them and here is the list

1.Kreator - Extreme Aggression

2.Kreator - Coma Of Souls

3.Kreator - Violent Revolution

4.Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos

5.Kreator - Enemy Of God

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Favorite metal/heavier music albums thus far.

1.Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny

2.Venom - Black Metal

3.Strapping Young Lad - City

4.Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

5.Scars On Broadway - Scars On Broadway

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My top Metal picks for 2009. It was in interesting year and a good transition into what I feel will be a decade of progression as never seen before.

If you don't agree with my list, make your own. I obviously don't have time to listen to 5,000 albums every year. Magazines that do, such as Decibel or Terrorizer, usually have trouble conjuring up 40 quality albums to throw on their yearly lists, so cut me some slack...I am not working with a team of people, and I don't get paid. I'm sure there are plenty of great albums that I have yet to discover or that I have just not been able to listen to...but all of those that are listed have been personally approved by me. The numbers are not as important to me. I would greatly appreciate some "Thumbs ups", as I have put a lot of my personal time into this list, and also into reviewing these great albums.

1.Wodensthrone - Loss

2.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

3.Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4.Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough

5.Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave

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1.Kreator - Enemy Of God

2.Vektor - Black Future

3.Exodus - Tempo Of The Damned

4.Sodom - M-16

5.Overkill - Ironbound

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Here we go... I'd rate this year a 9 for the unusual quality of album releases! Qué impressionante! \m/

1.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2.Amorphis - Skyforger

3.Suidakra - Crógacht

4.Ensiferum - From Afar

5.Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

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1.Mastodon - Crack The Skye

2.Rammstein - Liebe Ist Für Alle Da

3.Amorphis - Skyforger

4.Kalisia - Cybion

5.Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos

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Top 50 of albums I rated 8 and above.

Album count: 222
Average rating: 6.96

1.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

2.Insomnium - Across The Dark

3.Fen - The Malediction Fields

4.Ghost Brigade - Isolation Songs

5.Isis - Wavering Radiant

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1.Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

2.Iron Maiden - Killers

3.Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

4.Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

5.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

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1.Metallica - ...And Justice For All

2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace

3.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos

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1.Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

2.Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

3.Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts

4.Gotthard - Need To Believe

5.Rebellion - Arise: From Ginnungagap To Ragnarök - The History Of The Vikings Volume III

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1.Heaven And Hell - The Devil You Know

2.Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos

3.Behemoth - Evangelion

4.Epica - Design Your Universe

5.My Dying Bride - For Lies I Sire

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