Best Metal Albums of 2009 - Rated by Users


Album ratings averaged across users. Ranking does not represent staff consensus.
 

01
DIR EN GREY
Hageshisa To, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita...

Rating: 4.59
22 votes
02
Vektor
Black Future

Rating: 4.26
211 votes
03
Nokturnal Mortum
The Voice of Steel

Rating: 4.23
127 votes
04
Fall of Efrafa
Inle

Rating: 4.23
108 votes
05
Ea
Ea II

Rating: 4.21
31 votes
06
Blut Aus Nord
Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue with the Stars

Rating: 4.14
138 votes
07
Dragged Into Sunlight
Hatred For Mankind

Rating: 4.12
72 votes
08
Mistur
Attende

Rating: 4.11
18 votes
09
Ulcerate
Everything Is Fire

Rating: 4.11
323 votes
10
Leprous
Tall Poppy Syndrome

Rating: 4.1
67 votes
11
The Waters Deep Here
Sunden

Rating: 4.1
24 votes
12
Be'lakor
Stone's Reach

Rating: 4.1
306 votes
13
Arcana Coelestia
Le mirage de l’idéal

Rating: 4.09
16 votes
14
Horseback
The Invisible Mountain

Rating: 4.09
39 votes
15
Kowloon Walled City
Gambling On The Richter Scale

Rating: 4.09
29 votes
16
Shadow Gallery
Digital Ghosts

Rating: 4.08
66 votes
17
Animals as Leaders
Animals as Leaders

Rating: 4.08
1187 votes
18
Thy Catafalque
Róka Hasa Rádió

Rating: 4.08
51 votes
19
Vreid
Milorg

Rating: 4.08
46 votes
20
maudlin of the Well
Part the Second

Rating: 4.07
456 votes
21
CiLiCe
Deranged Headtrip

Rating: 4.07
82 votes
22
Epica
Design Your Universe

Rating: 4.07
212 votes
23
Obliteration
Nekropsalms

Rating: 4.06
27 votes
24
While Heaven Wept
Vast Oceans Lachrymose

Rating: 4.05
43 votes
25
Mastodon
Crack the Skye

Rating: 4.03
2674 votes
26
Eryn Non Dae.
Hydra Lernaia

Rating: 4.03
19 votes
27
Klabautamann
Merkur

Rating: 4.02
23 votes
28
Converge
Axe to Fall

Rating: 4.02
1963 votes
29
HORSE the band
Desperate Living

Rating: 4.01
430 votes
30
Hacride
Lazarus

Rating: 4
112 votes
31
Chimp Spanner
At the Dream's Edge

Rating: 3.98
163 votes
32
Hexen
State of Insurgency

Rating: 3.98
25 votes
33
Divinity
The Singularity

Rating: 3.98
24 votes
34
Every Time I Die
New Junk Aesthetic

Rating: 3.98
993 votes
35
The Safety Fire
Sections

Rating: 3.98
20 votes
36
Funebrarum
The Sleep of Morbid Dreams

Rating: 3.97
113 votes
37
Impetuous Ritual
Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Excrescence

Rating: 3.97
55 votes
38
Dagon
Terraphobic

Rating: 3.97
18 votes
39
Arckanum
ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ

Rating: 3.97
34 votes
40
Giant Squid
The Ichthyologist

Rating: 3.97
188 votes
41
Megadeth
Endgame

Rating: 3.97
1506 votes
42
Augury
Fragmentary Evidence

Rating: 3.96
209 votes
43
Return From Exile
Return From Exile

Rating: 3.96
53 votes
44
Kalisia
Cybion

Rating: 3.95
104 votes
45
Powerwolf
Bible Of The Beast

Rating: 3.95
20 votes
46
Isis
Wavering Radiant

Rating: 3.94
1220 votes
47
Nile
Those Whom the Gods Detest

Rating: 3.94
475 votes
48
Mayhem
Life Eternal

Rating: 3.94
24 votes
49
Katatonia
Night Is the New Day

Rating: 3.93
764 votes
50
Panopticon
Collapse

Rating: 3.93
130 votes
51
Hypocrisy
A Taste Of Extreme Divinity

Rating: 3.93
217 votes
52
All the Empires of the World
Blessings

Rating: 3.93
35 votes
53
Slugathor
Echoes from Beneath

Rating: 3.93
21 votes
54
Peste Noire
Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor

Rating: 3.93
89 votes
55
Painted in Exile
Revitalized

Rating: 3.93
89 votes
56
East of the Wall
Split

Rating: 3.92
19 votes
57
Cormorant
Metazoa

Rating: 3.92
113 votes
58
Lost Soul
Immerse in Infinity

Rating: 3.91
47 votes
59
Cloudkicker
Portmanteau

Rating: 3.91
97 votes
60
Persefone
Shin-Ken

Rating: 3.91
57 votes
61
Shrinebuilder
Shrinebuilder

Rating: 3.91
94 votes
62
The Red Chord
Fed Through the Teeth Machine

Rating: 3.91
609 votes
63
Paradise Lost
Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us

Rating: 3.91
251 votes
64
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Oracles

Rating: 3.9
324 votes
65
Cobalt
Gin

Rating: 3.9
150 votes
66
Amia Venera Landscape
Amia Venera Landscape

Rating: 3.9
41 votes
67
Code
Resplendent Grotesque

Rating: 3.9
20 votes
68
Baroness
Blue Record

Rating: 3.9
989 votes
69
Lazarus A.D.
The Onslaught

Rating: 3.9
78 votes
70
Psychostick
Sandwich

Rating: 3.9
53 votes
71
Scale The Summit
Carving Desert Canyons

Rating: 3.9
443 votes
72
Trepalium
XIII

Rating: 3.89
19 votes
73
The Chasm
Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm

Rating: 3.89
61 votes
74
Lifelover
Dekadens

Rating: 3.89
23 votes
75
Sun of the Blind
Skullreader

Rating: 3.89
55 votes
76
August Burns Red
Constellations

Rating: 3.89
1860 votes
77
Vomit the Soul
Apostles of Inexpression

Rating: 3.89
35 votes
78
Artillery
When Death Comes

Rating: 3.88
60 votes
79
Eagle Twin
The Unkindness of Crows

Rating: 3.88
17 votes
80
Disappearer
The Clearing

Rating: 3.88
17 votes
81
Insomnium
Where the Last Wave Broke EP

Rating: 3.88
21 votes
82
Arizmenda
Within the Vacuum of Infinity...

Rating: 3.88
50 votes
83
Der Weg Einer Freiheit
Der Weg Einer Freiheit

Rating: 3.88
33 votes
84
Bloody Panda
Summon

Rating: 3.88
24 votes
85
Coalesce
OX EP

Rating: 3.87
71 votes
86
Between the Buried and Me
The Great Misdirect

Rating: 3.87
2155 votes
87
Mournful Congregation
The June Frost

Rating: 3.87
23 votes
88
The Project Hate MCMXCIX
The Lustrate Process

Rating: 3.87
23 votes
89
No Consequence
In The Shadow of Gods

Rating: 3.87
46 votes
90
Ghost Brigade
Isolation Songs

Rating: 3.86
107 votes
91
Poison the Well
The Tropic Rot

Rating: 3.86
451 votes
92
Finsterforst
Zum Tode Hin

Rating: 3.86
21 votes
93
Solstafir
Kold

Rating: 3.86
80 votes
94
Latitudes
Agonist

Rating: 3.86
59 votes
95
Dethklok
Dethalbum II

Rating: 3.85
468 votes
96
Church of Misery
Houses of the Unholy

Rating: 3.85
67 votes
97
Dysrhythmia
Psychic Maps

Rating: 3.85
33 votes
98
Shining (SWE)
VI - Klagopsalmer

Rating: 3.84
109 votes
99
Sumatra
Heliocratic Infinity

Rating: 3.84
38 votes
100
Cave In
Planets of Old

Rating: 3.84
188 votes
101
Drudkh
Microcosmos

Rating: 3.84
188 votes
102
Anaal Nathrakh
In the Constellation of the Black Widow

Rating: 3.83
298 votes
103
The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Worse Than Alone

Rating: 3.83
519 votes
104
Vomitory
Carnage Euphoria

Rating: 3.83
39 votes
105
Obscura
Cosmogenesis

Rating: 3.83
432 votes
106
Geist
Galeere

Rating: 3.83
35 votes
107
Kingdoms
Daughters of Atlas

Rating: 3.83
23 votes
108
Psyclon Nine
We the Fallen

Rating: 3.82
37 votes
109
Aborted
Coronary Reconstruction

Rating: 3.82
42 votes
110
Dark Castle
Spirited Migration

Rating: 3.82
28 votes
111
Pantheon I
Worlds I Create

Rating: 3.82
28 votes
112
The Shizit
The Shizit

Rating: 3.82
64 votes
113
The Sorrow
Origin of the Storm

Rating: 3.82
60 votes
114
Warbringer
Waking Into Nightmares

Rating: 3.82
125 votes
115
Fell Voices
Fell Voices

Rating: 3.82
76 votes
116
Septycal Gorge
Erase the Insignificant

Rating: 3.81
21 votes
117
Tyr
By the Light of the Northern Star

Rating: 3.81
89 votes
118
Black Sun Aeon
Darkness Walks Beside Me

Rating: 3.81
31 votes
119
Buried Inside
Spoils Of Failure

Rating: 3.81
85 votes
120
The 11th Hour
Burden Of Grief

Rating: 3.81
18 votes
121
Portal
Swarth

Rating: 3.8
146 votes
122
God Dethroned
Passiondale

Rating: 3.8
61 votes
123
Vildhjarta
Omnislash

Rating: 3.8
128 votes
124
Coalesce
OX

Rating: 3.8
280 votes
125
Revocation
Existence Is Futile

Rating: 3.8
198 votes
126
Mantic Ritual
Executioner

Rating: 3.8
32 votes
127
Dead Man In Reno
Ideology

Rating: 3.8
27 votes
128
YOB
The Great Cessation

Rating: 3.79
51 votes
129
Woe Of Tyrants
Kingdom of Might

Rating: 3.79
118 votes
130
Kylesa
Static Tensions

Rating: 3.79
392 votes
131
Secrets of the Moon
Privilegivm

Rating: 3.79
19 votes
132
Puscifer
C is for...

Rating: 3.79
97 votes
133
Tribulation
The Horror

Rating: 3.78
59 votes
134
Om
God is Good

Rating: 3.77
148 votes
135
Gorod
Process of a New Decline

Rating: 3.77
201 votes
136
Behemoth
Evangelion

Rating: 3.77
625 votes
137
Conducting From the Grave
When Legends Become Dust

Rating: 3.77
263 votes
138
Architects
Hollow Crown

Rating: 3.77
931 votes
139
The Ruins Of Beverast
Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite

Rating: 3.76
34 votes
140
Kreator
Hordes Of Chaos

Rating: 3.76
319 votes
141
Black Pyramid
Black Pyramid

Rating: 3.76
25 votes
142
DOOMRIDERS
Darkness Come Alive

Rating: 3.76
118 votes
143
Heaven and Hell
The Devil You Know

Rating: 3.75
285 votes
144
Altar of Plagues
White Tomb

Rating: 3.75
181 votes
145
Abysmal Torment
Omnicide

Rating: 3.75
30 votes
146
Sybreed
The Pulse of Awakening

Rating: 3.75
86 votes
147
Poison the Well
I/III / II/III / III/III

Rating: 3.75
79 votes
148
Lye By Mistake
Fea Jur

Rating: 3.75
51 votes
149
The Armed
These Are Lights

Rating: 3.74
47 votes
150
VNV Nation
Of Faith, Power, and Glory

Rating: 3.74
39 votes
151
The Boy Will Drown
Fetish

Rating: 3.74
113 votes
152
Primal Fear
16.6: (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)

Rating: 3.74
35 votes
153
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious

Rating: 3.74
136 votes
154
Enfold Darkness
Our Cursed Rapture

Rating: 3.74
101 votes
155
Knives Exchanging Hands
The War Of Speech, The Weapon Of Words

Rating: 3.74
31 votes
156
Gwynbleidd
Nostalgia

Rating: 3.74
77 votes
157
Amogh Symphony
Abolishing the Obsolete System

Rating: 3.74
25 votes
158
Austere
To Lay Like Old Ashes

Rating: 3.74
46 votes
159
Keelhaul
Keelhaul's Triumphant Return To Obscurity

Rating: 3.74
17 votes
160
Blood Red Throne
Souls of Damnation

Rating: 3.73
32 votes
161
Minsk
With Echoes in the Movement of Stone

Rating: 3.73
60 votes
162
The Contortionist
Apparition

Rating: 3.73
219 votes
163
Blackguard
Profugus Mortis

Rating: 3.73
43 votes
164
Revolting
Dreadful Pleasures

Rating: 3.73
24 votes
165
Slough Feg
Ape Uprising

Rating: 3.73
42 votes
166
Candlemass
Death Magic Doom

Rating: 3.73
100 votes
167
Putrid Pile
House of Dementia

Rating: 3.73
20 votes
168
Wolves in the Throne Room
Black Cascade

Rating: 3.72
384 votes
169
Inferi
The End of an Era

Rating: 3.72
18 votes
170
Greymachine
Disconnected

Rating: 3.72
25 votes
171
A Textbook Tragedy
Rain City State of Mind - EP

Rating: 3.72
51 votes
172
Hester Prynne
The Goswell Divorce

Rating: 3.72
100 votes
173
Stench of Decay
Where Death and Decay Reign

Rating: 3.71
31 votes
174
Insomnium
Across the Dark

Rating: 3.7
386 votes
175
Ahab
The Divinity Of Oceans

Rating: 3.7
93 votes
176
Swallow The Sun
New Moon

Rating: 3.7
146 votes
177
The Empire Shall Fall
Awaken

Rating: 3.7
101 votes
178
Ensiferum
From Afar

Rating: 3.7
270 votes
179
Destroy Destroy Destroy
Battle Sluts

Rating: 3.7
23 votes
180
Ex Deo
Romulus

Rating: 3.69
42 votes
181
The Arusha Accord
The Echo Verses

Rating: 3.69
209 votes
182
Nahemah
A New Constellation

Rating: 3.69
24 votes
183
Disarmonia Mundi
The Isolation Game

Rating: 3.69
78 votes
184
Wretched
The Exodus of Autonomy

Rating: 3.68
113 votes
185
Amenra
Afterlife

Rating: 3.68
25 votes
186
Skagos
Ast

Rating: 3.68
42 votes
187
Arkona
Goi, Rode, Goi!

Rating: 3.68
20 votes
188
Dying Fetus
Descend Into Depravity

Rating: 3.67
229 votes
189
Wodensthrone
Loss

Rating: 3.67
63 votes
190
Destroyer 666
Defiance

Rating: 3.67
46 votes
191
GWAR
Lust in Space

Rating: 3.67
67 votes
192
The Crimson Armada
Guardians

Rating: 3.67
213 votes
193
Dream Theater
Black Clouds & Silver Linings

Rating: 3.67
1195 votes
194
Arghoslent/Martial Barrage
Send Forth The Best Ye Breed

Rating: 3.66
22 votes
195
Believer
Gabriel

Rating: 3.65
62 votes
196
Fairyland
Score To A New Beginning

Rating: 3.65
23 votes
197
Rammstein
Liebe Ist Für Alle Da

Rating: 3.65
461 votes
198
Combichrist
Today We Are All Demons

Rating: 3.65
66 votes
199
Circle Of Contempt
Artifacts In Motion

Rating: 3.65
271 votes
200
Krallice
Dimensional Bleedthrough

Rating: 3.64
84 votes



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