Looking back to everything that came out, this has been an amazing year for metal releases. We’ve seen some great albums come out from bands we’ve followed for years and the resurrection of other metal bands that we otherwise though we though would never put out anything better than their last. With the new year rolling in we can expect nothing but another great year in Metal. As Dan pointed out, Lamb Of God, Cattle Decapitation, Deadlock and Too Pure To Die are all set for a new record in 2009. I’ve been doing a little more searching and this is what we can expect in ’09. Some of us aren’t looking forward to all of them and all of us aren’t looking forward to some of them…

January 13th

• Kreator – Hordes Of Chaos
• Saxon – Into The Labyrinth
• Too Pure To Die – Confess
• Metallica – Collectors Box Set
• Satyricon – The Age Of Nero
• Enemy State – Smashes The State Live DVD

January 20th

• Cattle Decapitation – The Harvest Floor
• Deadlock – Manifesto
• Rumpelstiltskin Grinder – Living for Death
• 16 – Bridges To Burn

January 27th

• Sylosis – Conclusion Of An Age
• Arsonists Get All The Girls – Hits From The Bow
• Thyrfing – Hels Vite
• Sepultura – A-Lex
• Despised Icon – Montreal Assault Live DVD

February 3rd

• Zombi – Spirit Animal
• Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist
• Dir En Grey – A Knot Of
• Cannibal Corpse – Evisceration Plague

February 10th

• Luna Mortis – The Absence

February 24th

• Lamb Of God – Wrath
• Hatebreed – For The Lions
• God Forbid – Earthsblood

March 10th

• Testament – Live at Eindhoven

April 21st

• Chimaira – The Infection

Here are some other bands that are planning a release or have been rumored for 2009. Some have titled their records already and some have not.

• Alice In Chains
• Anthrax – Worship Music
• Candlemass
• Deftones – ErosDown
• Down – Down IV
• Dream Theater
• Iron Maiden
• Killswitch Engage
• Korn
• Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
• Mastodon – Crack the Skye
• Megadeth
• Poison The Well
• Queensryche – American Soldier
• Rammstein

So things are looking great so far. I’m really looking forward to some new KSE and Megadeth…and perhaps a new Iron Maiden album, we’ll have to see about that. I’m also really looking forward to the Hatebreed For The Lions cover album. The Sepultura cover of Refuse/Resist is a great cover song and they did it well.

I’m sure it’s going to be another great year for tours too as most of the bands that put out albums this year are going to be touring behind them pretty much through the new year.

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