2009

Fever Ray

Fever Ray

• Label: Rabid
• Released: 12 January 2009

• Electronic pop
• Art pop

1. If I Had a Heart
2. When I Grow up
3. Dry and Dusty
4. Seven
5. Triangle Walks
6. Concrete Walls
7. Now's the Only Time I Know
8. I'm Not Done
9. Keep the Streets Empty for Me
10. Coconut

Snowfall on Judgement Day

Redemption

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 29 September 2009

• Progressive metal

1. Peel
2. Walls
3. Leviathan Rising
4. Black and White World
5. Unformed
6. Keep Breathing
7. Another Day Dies
8. What Will You Say?
9. Fistful of Sand
10. Love Kills Us All / Life in One Day

Vast Oceans Lachrymose

While Heaven Wept

• Label: Cruz del Sur
• Released: 6 November 2009

• Progressive metal
• Heavy metal

1. The Furthest Shore
2. To Wander the Void
3. Living Sepulchre
4. Vessel
5. Vast Oceans Lachrymose
6. Epilogue

Part the Second

maudlin of the Well

• Label: Antithetic
• Released: 14 May 2009

• Progressive rock
• Art rock

1. An Excerpt from 6,000,000,000,000 Miles Before the First, or, The Revisitation of the Blue Ghost
2. Another Excerpt: Keep Light Near You, Even When Dying
3. Rose Quartz Tuurning to Glass
4. Clover Garland Island
5. Laboratories of the Invisible World (Rollerskating the Cosmic Palmistric Postborder)

New Moon

Swallow the Sun

• Label: Spinefarm
• Released: 4 November 2009

• Death-doom
• Gothic metal

1. These Woods Breathe Evil
2. Falling World
3. Sleepless Swans
4. ... And Heaven Cried Blood
5. Lights on the Lake (Horror Pt. III)
6. New Moon
7. Servant of Sorrow
8. Weight of the Dead

Addicted

Devin Townsend Project

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 17 November 2009

• Progressive metal
• Alternative metal

1. Addicted!
2. Universe in a Ball!
3. Bend It Like Bender!
4. Supercrush!
5. Hyperdrive!
6. Resolve!
7. Ih-Ah!
8. The Way Home!
9. Numbered!
10. Awake!!

Liebe ist für alle da

Rammstein

• Label: Universal
• Released: 16 October 2009

• Industrial metal
• Neue Deutsche härte

1. Rammlied
2. Ich tu dir weh
3. Waidmanns Heil
4. Haifisch
5. B********
6. Frühling in Paris
7. Wiener Blut
8. Pussy
9. Liebe ist für alle da
10. Mehr
11. Roter Sand

The Resistance

Muse

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 14 September 2009

• Alternative rock
• Pop rock

1. Uprising
2. Resistance
3. Undisclosed Desires
4. United States of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)
5. Guiding Light
6. Unnatural Selection
7. MK Ultra
8. I Belong to You (+Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix)
9. Exogenesis: Symphony Part 1 (Overture)
10. Exogenesis: Symphony Part 2 (Cross-Pollination)
11. Exogenesis: Symphony Part 3 (Redemption)

Ki

Devin Townsend Project

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 25 May 2009

• Progressive rock
• Art rock

1. A Monday
2. Coast
3. Dirsuptr
4. Gato
5. Terminal
6. Heaven Send
7. Ain't Never Gonna Win ...
8. Winter
9. Trainfire
10. Lady Helen
11. Ki
12. Quiet Riot
13. Demon League

A-Lex

Sepultura

• Label: Steamhammer
• Released: 26 January 2009

• Groove metal
• Thrash metal

1. A-Lex I
2. Moloko Mesto
3. Filthy Rot
4. We've Lost You!
5. What I Do!
6. A-Lex II
7. The Treatment
8. Metamorphosis
9. Sadistic Values
10. Forceful Behaviour
11. Conform
12. A-Lex III
13. The Experiment
14. Strike
15. Enough Said
16. Ludwig Van
17. A-Lex IV
18. Paradox

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Pearl Jam

• Label: Monkeywrench
• Released: 20 September 2009

• Alternative rock

1. Gonna See My Friend
2. Got Some
3. The Fixer
4. Johnny Guitar
5. Just Breathe
6. Amongst the Waves
7. Unthought Known
8. Supersonic
9. Speed of Sound
10. Force of Nature
11. The End

Those Whom the Gods Detest

Nile

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 3 November 2009

• Technical death metal

1. Kafir
2. Hittite Dung Incantation
3. Utterances of the Crawling Dead
4. Those Whom the Gods Detest
5. 4th Arra of Dagon
6. PErmitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld
7. Yezd Desert Ghul Ritual in the Abandoned Towers of Silence
8. Kem Khefa Kheshef
9. The Eye of Ra
10. Iskender Dhul Kharnon

Journal for Plague Lovers

Manic Street Preachers

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 18 May 2009

• Alternative rock
• Art rock

1. Peeled Apples
2. Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
3. Me and Stephen Hawking
4. This Sport Joke Severed
5. Journal for Plague Lovers
6. She Bathed Herself in a Bath of Bleach
7. Facing Page: Top Left
8. Marlon J.D.
9. Doors Closing Slowly
10. All Is Vanity
11. Pretension/Repulsion
12. Virginia State Epileptic Colony
13. William's Last Words

Mania

Truckfighters

• Label: Fuzzorama
• Released: 22 May 2009

• Stoner rock
• Heavy psych

1. Last Curfew
2. Monte Gargano
3. The New High
4. Majestic
5. Monster
6. Con of Man
7. Loose
8. Blackness

Them Crooked Vultures

Them Crooked Vultures

• Label: RCA
• Released: 16 November 2009

• Alternative rock
• Hard rock

1. No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
2. Mind Eraser, No Chaser
3. New Fang
4. Dead End Friends
5. Elephants
6. Scumbag Blues
7. Bandoliers
8. Reptiles
9. Interlude with Ludes
10. Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give up
11. Caligulove
12. Gunman
13. Spinning in Daffodils

Blood

OSI

• Label: InsideOut
• Released: 27 April 2009

• Progressive metal

1. The Escape Artist
2. Terminal
3. False Start
4. We Come Undone
5. Radiologue
6. Be the Hero
7. Microbust Alert
8. Stockholm
9. Blood

Róka Hasa Rádió

Thy Catafalque

• Label: Epidemie
• Released: 2009

• Avant-garde metal
• Progressive black metal

1. Szervetlen
2. Molekuláris Gépezetek
3. Köd Utánam
4. Űrhajók Makón
5. Piroshátú
6. Esőlámpás
7. Kabócák, bodobácsok
8. Őszi varázslók
9. Fehér berek

Black Future

Vektor

• Label: Heavy Artillery
• Released: 17 November 2009

• Technical thrash metal
• Progressive metal

1. Black Future
2. Oblivion
3. Destroying the Cosmos
4. Forests of Legend
5. Deoxyribonucleic Acid
6. Asteroid
7. Dark Nebula
8. Accelerating Universe

The Devil You Know

Heaven & Hell

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 27 April 2009

• Heavy metal
• Doom metal

1. Atom and Evil
2. Fear
3. Bible Black
4. Double the Pain
5. Rock and Roll Angel
6. The Turn of the Screw
7. Eating the Cannibals
8. Follow the Tears
9. Neverwhere
10. Breaking into Heaven

Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm

The Chasm

• Label: Lux Inframundis
• Released: 15 September 2009

• Death metal
• Thrash metal

1. Entering a Superior Dimension
2. Callous Spectre / Vehement Opposition
3. Fiery Rebirth
4. Farseeing ...
5. Structure of the Seance
6. Vault to the Voyage
7. The Promised Ravage
8. The Mission / Arrival to Hopeless Shores (Calling the Paranormal Abysm)

The Great Misdirect

Between the Buried and Me

• Label: Victory
• Released: 27 October 2009

• Progressive metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. Mirrors
2. Obfuscation
3. Disease, Injury, Madness
4. Fossil Genera — A Feed from Cloud Mountain
5. Desert of Song
6. Swim to the Moon

Två sidor av horisonten

Horisont

• Label: Crusher
• Released: 25 September 2009

• Blues rock
• Heavy psych

1. Nightrider
2. Just Ain't Right
3. High Time
4. The Unseen
5. Oh, My Lord
6. Horisont Boogie
7. Du räde
8. Visa vägen
9. Tiggaren
10. Efter min pipa

Blue Record

Baroness

• Label: Relapse
• Released: 13 October 2009

• Progressive metal
• Sludge metal

1. Bullhead's Psalm
2. The Sweetest Curse
3. Jake Leg
4. Steel That Sleeps the Eye
5. Swollen and Halo
6. Ogeechee Hymnal
7. A Horse Called Golgotha
8. O'er Hell and Hide
9. War, Wisdom and Rhyme
10. Blackpowder Orchard
11. The Gnashing
12. Bullhead's Lament

The Time of No Time Evermore

The Devil's Blood

• Label: Ván
• Released: 11 September 2009

• Heavy psych
• Occult rock

1. The Tiime of No Time
2. Evermore
3. I'll Be Your Ghost
4. The Yonder Beckons
5. House of Ten Thousand Voices
6. Christ or Cocaine
7. Queen of My Burning Heart
8. Angel's Prayer
9. Feeding the Fire with Tears and Blood
10. Rake Your Nails Across the Firmament
11. The Anti Kosmik Magick

Tall Poppy Syndrome

Leprous

• Label: Sensory
• Released: 5 May 2009

• Progressive metal
• Avant-garde metal

1. Passing
2. Phantom Pain
3. Dare You
4. Fate
5. He Will Kill Again
6. Not Even a Name
7. Tall Poppy Syndrome
8. White

Across the Dark

Insomnium

• Label: Candlelight
• Released: 7 September 2009

• Melodic death metal

1. Equivalence
2. Down with the Sun
3. Where the Last Wave Broke
4. The Harrowing Years
5. Against the Stream
6. The Lay of Autumn
7. Into the Woods
8. Weighed Down with Sorrow

Red Fang

Red Fang

• Label: Sargent House
• Released: 10 March 2009

• Stoner metal
• Stoner rock

1. Prehistoric Dog
2. Reverse Thunder
3. Night Destroyer
4. Humans Remain Human Remains
5. Good to Die
6. Bird on Fire
7. Wings of Fang
8. Whales and Leeches
9. Witness

Hordes of Chaos

Kreator

• Label: SPV
• Released: 13 January 2009

• Thrash metal

1. Hordes of Chaos (A Necrologue for the Elite)
2. Warcurse
3. Escalation
4. Amok Run
5. Destroy What Destroys You
6. Radical Resistance
7. Absolute Misanthropy
8. To the Afterborn
9. Corpses of Liberty
10. Demon Prince

11:11

Rodrigo y Gabriela

• Label: Rubyworks
• Released: 7 September 2009

• Flamenco
• Progressive rock

1. Hanuman
2. Buster voodoo
3. Triveni
4. Logos
5. Santo Domingo
6. Master Maqui
7. Savitri
8. Hora zero
9. Chac mool
10. Atman
11. 11:11

Death Magic Doom

Candlemass

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 27 March 2009

• Doom metal
• Epic doom metal

1. If I Ever Die
2. Hammer of Doom
3. The Bleeding Baroness
4. Demon of the Deep
5. House of 1000 Voices
6. Dead Angel
7. Clouds of Dementia
8. My Funeral Dreams

Axe to Fall

Converge

• Label: Epitaph
• Released: 20 October 2009

• Metalcore
• Sludge metal
• Hardcore punk

1. Dark Horse
2. Reap What You Sow
3. Axe to Fall
4. Effigy
5. Worms Will Feed / Rats Will Feast
6. Wishing Well
7. Damages
8. Losing Battle
9. Dead BEat
10. Cutter
11. Slave Driver
12. Cruel Bloom
13. Wretched World

Stone's Reach

Be'lakor

• Label: Prime Cuts
• Released: 20 June 2009

• Melodic death metal
• Progressive death metal

1. Venator
2. From Scythe to Sceptre
3. Outlive the Hand
4. Sun's Delusion
5. Held in Hollows
6. Husks
7. Aspect
8. Countless Skies

Wrath

Lamb of God

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 23 February 2009

• Groove metal
• Thrash metal

1. The Passing
2. In Your Words
3. Set to Fail
4. Contractor
5. Fake Messiah
6. Grace
7. Broken Hands
8. Dead Seeds
9. Everything to Nothing
10. Choke Sermon
11. Reclamation

Skyforger

Amorphis

• Label: Nuclear Blast
• Released: 27 May 2009

• Folk metal
• Melodic death metal

1. Sampo
2. Silver Bride
3. From the Heaven of My Heart
4. Sky Is Mine
5. Majestic Beast
6. My Sun
7. Highest Star
8. Skyforger
9. Course of Fate
10. From Earth I Rose

Köld

Sólstafir

• Label: Spinefarm
• Released: 21 January 2009

• Post-metal
• Progressive metal

1. 78 Days in the Desert
2. Köld
3. Pale Rider
4. She Destroys Again
5. Necrologue
6. World Void of Souls
7. Love Is the Devil (and I Am in Love)
8. Goddess of the Ages

The Hazards of Love

The Decemberists

• Label: Rough Trade
• Released: 24 March 2009

• Progressive folk
• Art rock

1. Prelude
2. The Hazards of Love 1 (The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone)
3. A Bower Scene
4. Won't Want for Love (Margaret in Taiga)
5. The Hazards of Love 2 (Wager All)
6. The Queen's Approach
7. Isn't It a Lovely Night?
8. The Wanting Comes in Waves / Repaid
9. An Interlude
10. The Rake's Song
11. The Abduction of Margaret
12. The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing
13. Annan Water
14. The Hazards of Love (Revenge!)
15. The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
16. The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)

The Ballad of John Henry

Joe Bonamassa

• Label: Provogue
• Released: 23 February 2009

• Blues
• Blues rock

1. The Ballad of John Henry
2. Stop!
3. Last Kiss
4. Jockey Full of Bourbon
5. Story of a Quarryman
6. Lonesome Road Blues
7. Happier Times
8. Feelin' Good
9. Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter
10. The Great Flood
11. From the Valley
12. As the Crow Flies

Sigh No More

Mumford & Sons

• Label: Island
• Released: 2 October 2009

• Folk

1. Sigh No More
2. The Cave
3. Winter Winds
4. Roll Away Your Stone
5. White Blank Page
6. I Gave You All
7. Little Lion Man
8. Timshel
9. Thistle & Weeds
10. Awake My Soul
11. Dust Bowl Dance
12. After the Storm

Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us

Paradise Lost

• Label: Century Media
• Released: 25 September 2009

• Gothic metal
• Doom metal

1. As Horizons End
2. I Remain
3. First Light
4. Frailty
5. Faith Divides Us, Death Unites Us
6. The Rise of Denial
7. Living with Scars
8. Last Regret
9. Universal Dream
10. In Truth

Night Is the New Day

Katatonia

• Label: Peaceville
• Released: 2 November 2009

• Alternative metal
• Doom metal

1. Forsaker
2. The Longest Year
3. Idle Blood
4. Onward into Battle
5. Liberation
6. The Promise of Deceit
7. Nephilim
8. New Night
9. Inheritance
10. Day and Then the Shade
11. Departer

Black Gives Way to Blue

Alice in Chains

• Label: EMI
• Released: 29 September 2009

• Alternative metal
• Doom metal

1. All Secrets Known
2. Check My Brain
3. Last of My Kind
4. Your Decision
5. A Looking in View
6. When the Sun Rose Again
7. Acid Bubble
8. Lesson Learned
9. Take Her out
10. Private Hell
11. Black Gives Way to Blue

Strange Cousins from the West

Clutch

• Label: Weathermaker Music
• Released: 13 July 2009

• Blues rock
• Stoner rock

1. Motherless Child
2. Struck Down
3. 50,000 Unstoppable Watts
4. Abraham Lincoln
5. Minotaur
6. The Amazing Kreskin
7. Witchdoctor
8. Let a Poor Man Be
9. Freakonomics
10. Algo ha cambiado
11. Sleestak Lightning

Octahedron

The Mars Volta

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 23 June 2009

• Progressive rock
• Avant-garde rock

1. Since We've Been Wrong
2. Teflon
3. Halo of Nembutals
4. With Twilight As My Guide
5. Cotopaxi
6. Desperate Graves
7. Copernicus
8. Luciforms

Endgame

Megadeth

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 15 September 2009

• Thrash metal

1. Dialectic Chaos
2. This Day We Fight
3. 44 Minutes
4. 1320
5. Bite the Hand
6. Bodies
7. Endgame
8. The Hardest Part pf Letting Go ... Sealed with a Kiss
9. Head Crusher
10. How the Story Ends
11. The Right to Go Insane

Sound Awake

Karnivool

• Label: Sony
• Released: 5 June 2009

• Progressive rock
• Alternative rock

1. Simple Boy
2. Goliath
3. New Day
4. Set Fire to the Hive
5. Umbra
6. All I Know
7. The Medicine Wears off
8. The Caudal Lure
9. Illumine
10. Deadman
11. Change

Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

Bill Callahan

• Label: Drag CIty
• Released: 14 April 2009

• Alt-country
• Americana

1. Jim Cain
2. Eid Ma Clack Shaw
3. The Wind and the Dove
4. Rococo Zephyr
5. Too Many Birds
6. My Friend
7. All Thoughts Are Prey to Soome Beast
8. Invocation of Rationication
9. Faith / Void

Crooked Timber

Therapy?

• Label: Demolition Records
• Released: 23 March 2009

• Alternative metal
• Punk rock

1. The Head That Tried to Strangle Itself
2. Enjoy the Struggle
3. Crowns Galore
4. Exiles
5. Crooked Timber
6. I Told You I Was Ill
7. Somnambulist
8. Blacken the Page
9. Magic Mountain
10. Bad Excuse for Daylight

Wavering Radiant

Isis

• Label: Ipecac
• Released: 21 April 2009

• Post-metal
• Sludge metal

1. Hall of the Dead
2. Ghost Key
3. Hand of the Host
4. Wavering Radiant
5. Stone to Wake a Serpent
6. 20 Minutes / 40 Years
7. Threshold of Transformation

The Weirding

Astra

• Label: Rise Above
• Released: 25 May 2009

• Space rock
• Progressive rock

1. The Rising of the Black Sun
2. The Weirding
3. Silent Sleep
4. The River Under
5. Ouroboros
6. Broken Glass
7. The Dawning of Orphiucus
8. Beyond to Slight the Maze

Crack the Skye

Mastodon

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 24 March 2009

• Progressive metal
• Sludge metal

1. Oblivion
2. Divinations
3. Quintessence
4. The Czar
5. Ghost of Karelia
6. Crack the Skye
7. The Last Baron