It's November guys so time to think when 2009 is said and done what were the ten best albums in your opinion?

Two pop into my mind immediately:

The Last Vegas - Whatever Gets You Off
Innocent Rosie - Bad Habit Romance

But only glam/sleaze fans would dig these discs.

1. W.E.T. - W.E.T.
2. Sunstorm - House Of Dreams
3. Foreigner - Can't Slow Down
4. Bon Jovi - The Circle
5. Brainstorm - Memorial Roots
6. Place Vendome - Streets Of Fire
7. Free Spirit - Pale Sister Of Light
8. Gotthard - Need To Believe
9. Constancia - Lost and Gone
10. Places Of Power - Now Is The Hour

Honorable mentions:

Hardline - Leaving The End Open
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Daughtry - Leave This Town
Danger Danger - Revolve
The Poodles - Clash Of The Elements
Silent Memorial - Retrospective
Bloodbound - Tabula Rasa
KISS - Sonic Boom
Impellitteri - Wicked Maiden
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Saxon - Into The Labyrinth
HammerFall - No Sacrifice No Victory

I'm not sure if I even bought 10 CDs in 2009. Let me list what I have so far from this year, in no particular order.

Studio releases
WASP -- Babylon
Trans-Siberian Orchestra -- Night Castle
Epica -- Design Your Universe
Megadeth -- Endgame
Grave Robber -- Inner Sanctum
Diablo Swing Orchestra -- Sing-Along Songs for the Damned and Delirious
Sirenia -- The 13th Floor
Amorphis -- Skyforger

Live releases
Epica -- The Classical Conspiracy
Therion -- The Miskolc Experience

I keep thinking that I forgot something...

I've picked up 27 new releases so far this year. I'm still missing many that I plan on getting for the year as well.

I still need: Brainstorm, Bon Jovi, Slayer, Place Vendome, WET, and a whole lot more!

Anyway here's my top 10 so far:

1. Dead By Sunrise ~ Out of Ashes
2. Vision Divine ~ 9 Degrees West of the Moon
3. Iron Fire ~ To the Grave
4. Saint Deamon ~ Pandeamonium
5. Sirenia ~ The 13th Floor
6. Primal Fear ~ 16.6
7. Ross the Boss ~ New Metal Leader
8. The Last Vegas ~ Whatever Gets You Off
9. Anubis Gate ~ The Detached
10. Heaven and Hell ~ The Devil You Know

honorable mentions:

Green Day ~ 21st Century Breakdown
Care Bears On Fire ~ Get Over It!
Holy Cross ~ Under the Flag
Kreator ~ Hordes of Chaos
Absu ~ Absu
Wolf ~ Ravenous
Cannibal Corpse ~ Evisceration Plague
Lacuna Coil ~ Shallow Life
Combichrist ~ Today We Are All Demons
Hardcore Superstar ~ Beg for It



and with these, I was somewhat disappointed:

Hammerfall ~ No Sacrifice, No Victory
U2 ~ No Line on the Horizon
KMFDM ~ Blitz
Depeche Mode ~ Sounds of the Universe

Dream Theater-Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Stryper-Murder By Pride
Winger-Karma
Shadow Gallery-Digital Ghosts
Redemption-Snowfall on Judgement Day

I still have more releases to get but here is my top 20 so far:

1. Amorphis - Skyforger +1 2009 Nuclear Blast Records
2. Anubis Gate - The Detached 2009 Locomotive Records
3. Ravage - The End of Tomorrow 2009 Metal Blade Records
4. Free Spirit - Pale Sister of Light 2009 Carpel Records
5. Place Vendome - Streets of Fire 2009 Frontiers Records
6. House of Lords - Cartesian Dreams 2009 Frontiers Records
7. The Poodles - Clash of the Elements 2009 Rosehip Alley Records
8. Pathosray - Sunless Skies +1 2009 Frontiers Records
9. Hardline - Leaving the End Open 2009 Frontiers Records
10. Primal Fear - 16.6 +2 (digi) 2009 Frontiers Records
11. Hibria - The Skull Collectors +1 2009 Spiritual Beast Records
12. Artillery - When Death Comes 2009 Metal Mind Records
13. Narnia - Course of a Generation +1 2009 Nightmare Records
14. Wolf - Ravenous 2009 Century Media Records
15. Grave Digger - Ballad of a Hangman +1 2009 Napalm Records
16. Believer - Gabriel 2009 Metal Blade Records
17. Impellitteri - Wicked Maiden 2009 Metal Heaven Records
18. Pantommind - Lunasense 2009 Spectastral Records
19. Hardcore Superstar - Beg For It 2009 Nuclear Blast
20. Megadeth - Endgame 2009 Roadrunner Records

I forgot that I also have Amorphis -- Skyforger

1. Constancia - Lost And Gone
2. Place Vendome - Streets Of Fire
3. Delain - April Rain
4. Astra - From Within
5. Aeon Zen - A Mind's Portrait
6. Mastercastle - The Phoenix
7. Mindkey - Pulse For A Graveheart
8. Red Circuit - Homeland
9. Hardline - Leaving The End Open
10. Anubis Gate - The Detached
11. Pathosray - Sunless Skies
12. Brainstorm - Memorial Roots
13. Praying Mantis - Sanctuary
14. Lunatica - New Shores
15. Pantommind - Lunasense
16. W.E.T. - W.E.T.
17. Silent Memorial - Retrospective
18. Amorphis - Skyforger
19. Epica - Design Your Universe
20. Sunstorm - House Of Dreams

Honorable Mentions (Very good to great, but not in top 20):

Subsignal - Beautiful & Monstrous
Southern Cross - Down Below
AtmosFear - Zenith
Three - Revisions
Crash The System - The Crowning
Europe - Last Look At Eden
Status Minor - Dialog
Foreigner - Can't Slow Down
Echoes Of Eternity - As Shadows Burn
Theatre Of Tragedy - Forever Is The World
Sirenia - The 13th Floor
Primal Fear - 16.6
Vindictiv - Ground Zero
Impellitteri - Wicked Maiden
Manimal - The Darkest Room
Infinity Overture - Kingdom Of Utopia
Hammerfall - No Sacrifice, No Victory
Lacuna Coil - Shallow Life
Bloodbound - Tabula Rasa
Iron Fire - To The Grave
Entwine - Painstained
Saxon - Into The Labyrinth
Spheric Universe Experience - Unreal

Still to get:

Holyhell - Holyhell
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
House Of Lords - Cartesian Dreams
Shadow Gallery - Digital Ghosts
Cirrha Niva - For Moments Never Done
Winger - Karma
Pain Of Salvation - Linoleum EP

Disappointments:

The Poodles - The Clash Of Elements
Stryper - Murder By Pride
Narnia - Course Of A Generation
Vision Divine - 9 Degrees West Of The Moon
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know

I've got tons of albums from 2009. Some favorites would be:

Megadeth - Endgame
Stryper - Murder By Pride
Rumplestiltskin Grinder - Living For Death, Destroying The Rest
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
Evile - Infected Nations
God Forbid - Earthsblood
Killswitch Engage - Killswitch Engage
Devildriver - Pray For Villians
Lamb Of God - Wrath
Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos
Cage - Science Of Annihilation
Chimaira - The Infection
Believer - Gabriel
Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
Hatebreed - For The Lions
Wolf - Ravenous
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Hardcore Superstar - Beg For It
Death Before Dishonor - Better Ways To Die
Creed - Full Circle
Project 86 - Picket Fence Cartel
Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster - III
The Last Vegas - Whatever Gets You Off

Well in no order to hard to decided the best of them,
Killswitch Engage- S/T 2009
Rampage - The End of Tomorrow
Sol Asunder - Mechanzie
Austrian Death Machine - Double Brutal
Ex Deo - Romulus
Heaven and Hell- The Devil You Know
Chimaira - The infection
Lion's Share - Dark Hours
Megadeth - Endgame
Absu -Absu
Immortal - All Shall Fall

Honorable Mention
Tim Ripper Owens - Play My Game
Arch Enemy - The Root of All Evil
Winds of Plague - The Great Stone War
Arkaea - The Years In Darkness

Disapointments
Shadow's Fall - Retribution ( Not a bad album ...but not their best)
Impeding Doom - Serpent Servant ( just an ok album)

I still plan to get Kiss - Sonic Boom
and Ace Frehely 's new one, and the new Alice In Chains before the end of the year.

I forgot the new Redemption

Kreator - Hordes of Chaos
Megadeth - Endgame
Ultimatum - Lex Metalis
Kiss - Sonic Boom
Ace Frehley - Anomoly
Heaven & Hell - Devil You Know
Believer - Gabriel
Impellitteri - Wicked Maiden
Hammerfall - No Sacrifice, No Victory
Saxon - Into The Labyrinth
Grave Digger - Ballad of a Hangman
Mortification - The Evil Addiction Destroying Machine
Main Line Riders - World Shaker
Scourged Flesh – Welcome to the End of the World
Voivod – Infini
Bride – Tsar Bomba
Vindicator / Metal Witch- Outbreak of Metal Vol. I
Stryper - Murder By Pride

Want to get yet:
Ravage - The End of Tomorrow
Hexen - State of Insurgency
Hirax- El Rostro De La Muerta
Rumplestiltskin Grinder - Living For Death, Destroying The Rest
Municipal Waste - Massive Aggressive
Evile - Infected Nations
WASP - Babylon
Primal Fear - 16.6
House Of Lords - Cartesian Dreams
Narnia - Course Of A Generation