2009. What a great year for metal releases and there are so many albums that I didn’t get to hear and a few albums that are worth a mention that didn’t make my cut, but I’ll get the honorable mentions in another post with perhaps a few tracks from those albums too. Until then, here is a podcast of select tracks from my list of albums that made the cut. Track list after the fold.

Best Albums Of 2009:

1. Mastodon – Oblivion (Crack The Skye)
2. Megadeth – How the Story Ends (Endgame)
3. Skeletonwitch – Where The Light has Failed (Breathing the Fire)
4. 3 inches of Blood – Rock In Hell (Here Waits Thy Doom)
5. Goatwhore – Apocalyptic Havoc (Carving out the Eyes of God)
6. Daath – The Unbinding Truth (The Concealers)

Best Death Metal Of 2009

1. Suffocation – Dismal Dream (Blood Oath)
2. Ignominious Incarceration – Saviour (Of Winter Born)
3. Bloodsoaked – Existence Denied (Sadistic Deads…Grotesque Memories)
4. Obituary – Blood To Give (Darkest Day)
5. Cattle Decapitation – A Body Farm (The Harvest Floor)
6. Cannibal Corpse – Priests of Sodom (Evisceration Plague)

Best Thrash Of 2009

1. Kreator – Warcurse (Hordes of Chaos)
2. Lazarus A.D. – Absolute Power (The Onslaught)
3. Warbringer – Jackal (Waking in To Nightmares)
4. Defiance – Prion (The Prophecy)
5. Evile – Now Demolition (Infected Nations)
6. Dreaming Dead – Manslaughter (Within One)