| 2009 |
| Mudvayne Mudvayne | 3.0 |
| Binary Code Suspension Of Disbelief | 4.0 |
| Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game | 3.5 |
| Rishloo Feathergun | 4.5 |
| An excellent follow up to their last album. These guys just came out of nowhere for me. |
| The Bravery Stir The Blood | 3.5 |
This is kind of a guilty pleasure for me. Oh well, I kinda enjoy it  |
| Napalm Death Time Waits for No Slave | 4.0 |
| Circle of Contempt Artifacts in Motion | 4.0 |
| Enfold Darkness Our Cursed Rapture | 4.5 |
| Bottom Line: My favorite album of 2009, without a doubt, and one of the best debut albums I've ever heard. Everything about this album is amazing, even the interlude. Maybe I like it so much because they're very very similar to my favorite band, The Faceless, and it makes it so much better that I am seeing them both next week. GET THIS ALBUM. |
| Septycal Gorge Erase the Insignificant | 3.0 |
| A Wilhelm Scream A Wilhelm Scream | 3.5 |
| Lady Gaga The Fame Monster | 3.0 |
| Dark Funeral Angelus Exuro pro Eternus | 3.0 |
| The Empire Shall Fall Awaken | 3.0 |
| A pretty decent first release, lots of potential, maybe they will nail it on their next effort. |
| Devin Townsend Project Addicted | 3.5 |
| Townsend blows me away with the creativity in this record. An end of the year list contender for sure. |
| Person L The Positives | 3.5 |
| Defeater Lost Ground | 4.0 |
| Vektor Black Future | 4.0 |
| Sybreed The Pulse of Awakening | 3.5 |
| Miseration The Mirroring Shadow | 3.5 |
| Dark Age Acedia | 2.0 |
| Gaza He Is Never Coming Back | 4.0 |
| Coalesce OX EP | 4.0 |
| American Me Siberian Nightmare Machine | 4.0 |
| Gama Bomb Tales From the Grave in Space | 4.0 |
| Slayer World Painted Blood | 2.5 |
| Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest | 3.5 |
| Dividing the Line At Least It's Not Light | 3.5 |
| Katatonia Night Is the New Day | 4.5 |
| Loving The Prog elements. Overall a very good album, it was my first listen to these guys, so maybe I should go back and check out their earlier stuff. |
| Shpongle Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland | 4.5 |
| Sworn Bastards and Conquerors | 3.0 |
| Scar Symmetry Dark Matter Dimensions | 3.5 |
| It's still scar symmetry, despite the new vocalists. While there aren't as many stand out songs as on other albums, this gets a 3.5 because of The Consciousness Eaters, which is in my top 3 favorite scar symmetry songs. |
| Atreyu Congregation of the Damned | 2.0 |
| Pelican What We All Come to Need | 3.0 |
| Shrinebuilder Shrinebuilder | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect | 4.0 |
| The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine | 4.5 |
| Stray from the Path Make Your Own History | 4.0 |
| Cartel Cycles | 2.5 |
| Epica Design Your Universe | 3.0 |
| Baroness Blue Record | 2.5 |
| Thrice Beggars | 3.5 |
| Skeletonwitch Breathing the Fire | 3.5 |
| Warmen Japanese Hospitality | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Earthly Delights | 4.0 |
| Lye By Mistake Fea Jur | 4.5 |
| The Arusha Accord The Echo Verses | 4.5 |
| Amazing Debut. Sure to make my end of the year top 10 list. |
| Belphegor Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn | 2.5 |
| The Fall of Troy In the Unlikely Event | 1.5 |
| Blessthefall Witness | 2.5 |
| HORSE the band Desperate Living | 3.5 |
| Shunsuke Kida Demon's Souls OST | 4.5 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Portal Swarth | 4.5 |
| Evergreen Terrace Almost Home | 2.5 |
| Doomriders Darkness Come Alive | 4.0 |
| Revocation Existence Is Futile | 4.5 |
| Strung Out Agents of the Underground | 4.5 |
| The Contortionist Apparition | 3.5 |
| Tracedawn Ego Anthem | 3.5 |
| Five Finger Death Punch War Is The Answer | 1.0 |
| Jeffree Star Beauty Killer | 1.0 |
| Cormorant Metazoa | 3.0 |
| Despised Icon Day Of Mourning | 3.5 |
| Deadmau5 For Lack of a Better Name | 4.0 |
| Porcupine Tree The Incident | 3.0 |
| Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious | 3.0 |
| Maths Descent | 4.0 |
| The Black Dahlia Murder Deflorate | 3.0 |
| Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity | 3.0 |
| Every Time I Die New Junk Aesthetic | 4.0 |
| After the Burial Rareform (Re-release) | 4.5 |
| Dream Theater Wither | 1.5 |
| Megadeth Endgame | 3.5 |
| Ensiferum From Afar | 4.0 |
| Saosin In Search Of Solid Ground | 3.0 |
| The Protomen Act II: The Father of Death | 4.5 |
| Rodrigo y Gabriela 11:11 | 2.5 |
| The Color Morale We All Have Demons | 3.5 |
| No Consequence In the Shadow of Gods | 3.5 |
| Panzerballett Hart Genossen: Von Abba Bis Zappa | 4.0 |
| Oh, Sleeper Son of the Morning | 4.0 |
| Vader Necropolis | 3.0 |
| GWAR Lust in Space | 2.0 |
| Emmure Felony | 2.0 |
| Sleep Serapis Sleep The Dark Awakening | 3.0 |
| Burnt By the Sun Heart of Darkness | 4.0 |
| Behemoth Evangelion | 3.5 |
| Blakfish Champions | 4.0 |
| Dead And Divine The Machines We Are | 3.0 |
| Trapped Under Ice Secrets of the World | 3.5 |
| Pantheon I Worlds I Create | 3.0 |
| Vomit the Soul Apostles of Inexpression | 4.0 |
| Ahab The Divinity of Oceans | 4.0 |
| Set Your Goals This Will Be the Death of Us | 3.0 |
| Memphis May Fire Sleepwalking | 3.0 |
| The Word Alive Empire | 3.5 |
| For the Fallen Dreams Relentless | 3.5 |
| Rx Bandits Mandala | 3.5 |
| Cave In Planets of Old | 4.0 |
| Augury Fragmentary Evidence | 4.0 |
| He Is Legend It Hates You | 3.0 |
| DevilDriver Pray for Villains | 3.0 |
| Arsonists Get All the Girls Portals | 3.5 |
| Owl City Ocean Eyes | 3.5 |
| Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow | 4.0 |
| August Burns Red Constellations | 4.0 |
| The Boy Will Drown Fetish | 3.5 |
| All Time Low Nothing Personal | 1.0 |
| Job For A Cowboy Ruination | 2.5 |
| Shining (SWE) VI - Klagopsalmer | 3.0 |
| Poison the Well The Tropic Rot | 3.5 |
| Born of Osiris A Higher Place | 3.5 |
| Eye Alaska Genesis Underground | 4.0 |
| Broadway Kingdoms | 4.0 |
| The Project Hate MCMXCIX The Lustrate Process | 3.0 |
| Suffocation Blood Oath | 4.0 |
| Suicide Silence No Time to Bleed | 2.0 |
| Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage (2009) | 2.0 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 3.0 |
| Nightrage Wearing a Martyr's Crown | 3.5 |
| Slugathor Echoes from Beneath | 4.5 |
| Darkest Hour The Eternal Return | 2.5 |
| A Textbook Tragedy Rain City State of Mind - EP | 3.0 |
| The Mars Volta Octahedron | 3.5 |
| Sleeping Giant Sons of Thunder | 3.5 |
| Abigail's Ghost d_letion | 3.5 |
| Dream Theater Black Clouds and Silver Linings | 4.0 |
| Drudkh Microcosmos | 4.0 |
| Panopticon Collapse | 3.0 |
| Gorod Process of a New Decline | 4.0 |
| brokeNCYDE I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It! | 1.0 |
| Magrudergrind Magrudergrind | 2.0 |
| Voivod Infini | 3.5 |
| A Skylit Drive Adelphia | 1.5 |
| dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion | 3.5 |
| Dance Gavin Dance Happiness | 3.5 |
| For Today Portraits | 3.5 |
| Coalesce OX | 4.5 |
| Mutiny On The Bounty Danger Mouth | 3.5 |
| Karnivool Sound Awake | 4.5 |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 1.5 |
| Oceana Birth.Eater | 3.0 |
| Sights and Sounds Monolith | 4.0 |
| Grizzly Bear Veckatimest | 4.5 |
| Phoenix (FRA) Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix | 4.0 |
| Dr. Acula Slobology | 1.5 |
| Iron Maiden Flight 666: The Original Soundtrack | 1.5 |
| Devin Townsend Project Ki | 3.5 |
| Spheric Universe Experience Unreal | 4.0 |
| maudlin of the Well Part the Second | 3.0 |
| Narrows New Distances | 3.0 |
| Wisp The Shimmering Hour | 3.5 |
| Exivious Exivious | 3.5 |
| The Red Shore Lost Verses | 4.0 |
| Vomitory Carnage Euphoria | 2.5 |
| Zao Awake? | 3.0 |
| Closure in Moscow First Temple | 4.0 |
| Sunn O))) Monoliths and Dimensions | 4.0 |
| Gallows (UK) Grey Britain | 3.5 |
| Haunted Shores Following Ivy | 4.0 |
| Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders | 4.0 |
| War from a Harlots Mouth In Shoals | 2.5 |
| Celeste Misanthrope(s) | 3.5 |
| Oranssi Pazuzu Muukalainen Puhuu | 3.5 |
| Iron Maiden Flight 666 (DVD) | 1.5 |
| Daath The Concealers | 4.0 |
| ISIS Wavering Radiant | 4.5 |
| Hacride Lazarus | 4.5 |
| Warbringer Waking into Nightmares | 4.0 |
| Iron And Wine Norfolk | 4.0 |
| Funebrarum The Sleep of Morbid Dreams | 4.0 |
| Brutal Truth Evolution Through Revolution | 3.5 |
| Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agorapocalypse | 3.5 |
| Silversun Pickups Swoon | 4.0 |
| Ulcerate Everything Is Fire | 4.5 |
| Gory Blister Graveyard of Angels | 3.5 |
| Silverstein A Shipwreck in the Sand | 2.5 |
| Mumakil Behold The Failure | 2.5 |
| Blackguard Profugus Mortis | 2.5 |
| Eleventh He Reaches London Hollow Be My Name | 3.0 |
| Coheed and Cambria Neverender | 2.0 |
| Mastodon Crack the Skye | 4.0 |
| Trophy Scars Bad Luck | 3.0 |
| Kylesa Static Tensions | 3.5 |
| Cobalt Gin | 4.0 |
| The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone | 4.0 |
| Propagandhi Supporting Caste | 4.5 |
| Soulfallen Grave New World | 3.5 |
| Lazarus A.D. The Onslaught (Re-release) | 3.0 |
| Of Machines As If Everything Was Held In Place | 4.0 |
| The Antlers Hospice | 4.0 |
| Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles | 4.0 |
| 0edit Neotokyo | 4.5 |
| The Sorrow Origin of the Storm | 2.5 |
| Lamb of God Wrath | 2.5 |
| God Forbid Earthsblood | 2.5 |
| Blut Aus Nord Memoria Vetusta II - Dialogue With The Stars | 4.0 |
| Psyopus Odd Senses | 2.5 |
| It Prevails Capture & Embrace | 3.0 |
| Obscura Cosmogenesis | 3.5 |
| Irepress Sol Eye Sea I | 3.5 |
| Scale the Summit Carving Desert Canyons | 4.5 |
| Absu Absu | 4.0 |
| Bomb the Music Industry! Scrambles | 4.0 |
| CiLiCe Deranged Headtrip | 4.0 |
| Giant Squid The Ichthyologist | 3.5 |
| Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague | 3.5 |
| P.O.S Never Better | 3.5 |
| Motionless in White When Love Met Destruction | 2.0 |
| Ephel Duath Through My Dog's Eyes | 2.5 |
| Architects Hollow Crown | 4.0 |
| Rose Funeral The Resting Sonata | 1.5 |
| In Fear and Faith Your World On Fire | 3.0 |
| Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion | 3.5 |
| Bring Me the Horizon Suicide Season Cut Up! | 1.0 |
| Moss Tombs of the Blind Drugged | 2.5 |
| The Destro Harmony of Discord | 2.5 |
| Arghoslent/Martial Barrage Send Forth The Best Ye Breed | 3.0 |
| It's decent, and it's arghoslent. What more do you want. |
| The Eyes of a Traitor A Clear Perception | 4.0 |
| Serdce The Alchemy Of Harmony | 4.0 |
