HeavyMattL’s Top Albums of 2009

What a great year for music!
This year we had some huge releases in the metal and hardcore world! The following is a list of my top 30 albums of 09:

1.  Baroness- Blue Record
2.  Coalesce- Ox
3.  Mastodon- Crack The Skye
4.  Tombs- Winter Hours
5.  Cobalt- Gin
6.  Kylesa- Static Tensions
7.  Converge- The Ax To Fall
8.  Between The Buried And Me- The Great Misdirect
9.  Alice In Chains- Black Gives Way To Blue
10. Thrice- Beggars
11. Iron Age- The Sleeping Eye
13. Goes Cube- Another Day Has Passed
15. Obscura- Cosmogenesis
16. Cable- The Failed Convict
17. Them Crooked Vultures- ST
18. Pelican- What We All Come To Need
19. Poison The Well- Tropic Rot
20. City Of Ships- Look What God Did
21. The Red Chord- Fed Through The Teeth Machine
22. Burnt By The Sun- Heart Of Darkness
23. Brutal Truth- Evolution Through Revolution
24. He Is Legend- It Hates You
25. Krallice- Dimensional Bleedthrough
26. Skeletonwitch- Breathing The Fire
27. P.O.S.- Never Better
28. Every Time I Die- New Junk Aesthetic
29. Kid Cudi- Man In The Moon
30. Doomriders- Darkness Comes Alive

I purchased well over a hundred albums in ‘09 and could have done top 50 no problem! Several great albums such as Megadeth, Slayer and Dream Theater could have been on the list also!
This year I am going to do my best to send reviews and updates on the new albums I am rocking out to!

I think the new Fear Factory being released in February is a great place to start!
-HeavyMattL

(Matt will be contributing to the site in the months to come. Stay tuned!)