2009 Metal Albums

January

Day	Artist	Album
5	Vreid	Milorg[99]
6	Destroy Destroy Destroy	Battle Sluts[100]
9	Bourbon Crow	Long Way to the Bottom
	Grave Digger	Ballads of a Hangman[101]
	Iron Fire	To the Grave[102]
13	Kreator	Hordes of Chaos[103]
	Saxon	Into the Labyrinth[104]
20	Cattle Decapitation	The Harvest Floor[105]
	Rumpelstiltskin Grinder	Living for Death, Destroying the Rest[104]
23	Sepultura	A-Lex[106]
	Napalm Death	Time Waits for No Slave[107]
	Sirenia	The 13th Floor[108]
	Vision Divine	9 Degrees West of the Moon[109]
26	Architects	Hollow Crown[110]
	Dark Moor	Autumnal[111]
	Ephel Duath	Through My Dog's Eyes[112]
30	Buckethead	Slaughterhouse on the Prairie
	Deathstars	Night Electric Night[113]

February

Day	Artist	Album
3	Cannibal Corpse	Evisceration Plague[114]
	This Ending	Dead Harvest[115]
9	Adagio	Archangels in Black[116]
10	Luna Mortis	The Absence[104]
16	God Forbid	Earthsblood[117]
17	Psyopus	Odd Senses[118]
	Saros	Acrid Plains[119]
	Wolves in the Throne Room	Malevolent Grain (EP)[120]
	Obscura	Cosmogenesis[121]
20	HammerFall	No Sacrifice, No Victory[122]
	Suidakra	Crógacht[123]
23	Autumn	Altitude[124]
	Rotting Christ	Non Serviam — A 20 Year Apocryphal Story (live DVD/CD)[125]
	The Agonist	Lullabies for the Dormant Mind[126]
	Wolf	Ravenous[127]
24	Absu	Absu[128]
	August Burns Red	Lost Messengers: The Outtakes (EP)[129]
	Lamb of God	Wrath[130]
25	Impellitteri	Wicked Maiden[131]
27	Arch Enemy	Manifesto of Arch Enemy (compilation)[132]
	The Burning	Rewakening[133]
	Isole	Silent Ruins[134]
	Lunatica	New Shores[135]
	Malefice	Dawn of Reprisal[136]
	The Sorrow	Origin of the Storm[137]

March

Day	Artist	Album
2	Solitude Aeturnus	Hour of Despair[138]
3	Buried Inside	Spoils of Failure[139]
6	Nightwish	Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places) (live CD/DVD)[140]
	Samael	Above[141]
9	The Haunted	Warning Shots (compilation)[142]
10	Dope	No Regrets[143]
	The Number Twelve Looks Like You	Worse Than Alone[144]
	Yngwie Malmsteen	Angels of Love[145]
11	Dark The Suns	All Ends in Silence[146]
13	Domain	The Chronicles of Love, Hate and Sorrow[147]
15	Thanatos	Justified Genocide[148]
16	Pestilence	Resurrection Macabre[149]
17	Believer	Gabriel[150]
	Kylesa	Static Tensions[151]
	Static-X	Cult of Static[152]
20	Agathodaimon	Phoenix[153]
	Black Messiah	First War of the World[154]
	Ektomorf	What Doesn't Kill Me...[155]
	Delain	April Rain[156]
23	My Dying Bride	For Lies I Sire[157]
	Revolution Renaissance	Age of Aquarius[158]
24	Mastodon	Crack the Skye[159]
25	Fairyland	Score to a New Beginning[160]
	Raven	Walk Through Fire[161]
27	Candlemass	Death Magic Doom[162]
30	Hatesphere	To The Nines[163]
31	Impending Doom	The Serpent Servant[164]
	Queensrÿche	American Soldier[165]
	Wolves in the Throne Room	Black Cascade[166]

April

Day	Artist	Album
3	Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky	The Grand Partition and the Abrogation of Idolatry[167]
6	Cauldron	Chained to the Nite[168]
	Code	Resplendent Grotesque[169]
7	The Color of Violence	Youthanize[170]
9	Beherit	Engram[171]
10	Eluveitie	Evocation I - The Arcane Dominion[172]
14	Agoraphobic Nosebleed	Agorapocalypse[173]
	Brutal Truth	Evolution Through Revolution[174]
	Karl Sanders	Saurian Exorcisms[175]
15	Ajattara	Noitumaa[176]
	Rudra	Brahmavidya: Transcendental I[177]
	Soilent Green	Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction[178]
16	Emperor	Live Inferno (live CD/DVD)[179]
17	Death Angel	Sonic German Beatdown – Live in Germany (live album)[180]
	Disbelief	Protected Hell[181]
	Endstille	Verführer[182]
	Maroon	Order[183]
19	Mastercastle	The Phoenix[184]
20	Earth Crisis	To the Death[185]
	Hacride	Lazarus[186]
	Lacuna Coil	Shallow Life[187]
21	Black Label Society	Skullage (compilation/DVD)[188]
	Bloodbound	Tabula Rasa[189]
	Chimaira	The Infection[190]
	Dååth	The Concealers[191]
22	National Napalm Syndicate	Devolution of Species[192]
24	God Dethroned	Passiondale[193]
	Powerwolf	Bible of the Beast[194]
	Wolfchant	Determined Damnation[195]
27	Blood Tsunami	Grand Feast for Vultures[196]
	Heaven and Hell	The Devil You Know[197]
	Nadja	When I See the Sun Always Shines on TV (cover album)[198]
	OSI	Blood[199]
28	Animals as Leaders	Animals as Leaders[200]
29	Impiety	Terroreign (Apocalyptic Armageddon Command)[201]
	Jungle Rot	What Horrors Await[202]

May

Day	Artist	Album
1	Buckethead	A Real Diamond in the Rough
4	Edenbridge	LiveEarthDream[203]
	The Gathering	The West Pole[204]
5	The Chariot	Wars and Rumors of Wars[205]
	The Devil Wears Prada	With Roots Above and Branches Below[206]
	Hatebreed	For the Lions (cover album)[207]
	Isis	Wavering Radiant[208]
	Nachtmystium	Doomsday Derelicts (EP)[209]
	Necrodeath	Phylogensis[210]
	Zao	AWAKE?[211]
6	Obliterate	Something Wrong[212]
8	Epica	The Classical Conspiracy (live album)[213]
	Lacrimosa	Sehnsucht[214]
	The Lord Weird Slough Feg	Ape Uprising![215]
11	Devils Whorehouse	Blood & Ashes[216]
	Nattefrost	Engangsgrill[217]
	Vomitory	Carnage Euphoria[218]
12	Sacred Oath	Sacred Oath[219]
	The Black Dahlia Murder	Majesty (DVD)[220]
13	Spiritus Mortis	The God Behind The God[221]
15	Tim "Ripper" Owens	Play My Game[222]
18	Old Man's Child	Slaves of the World[223]
	Stratovarius	Polaris[224]
	Sunn O)))	Monoliths and Dimensions[225]
	Susperia	Attitude[226]
19	Warbringer	Waking into Nightmares[227]
20	Mystic Prophecy	Fireangel[228]
	Marilyn Manson	The High End of Low
22	Cage	Science of Annihilation[229]
	Devin Townsend	Ki[230]
	Neaera	Omnicide – Creation Unleashed[231]
	Primal Fear	16.6 (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)[232]
	Skyclad	In The... All Together[233]
	Therion	The Miskolc Experience (Live Album)[234]
	Unanimated	In the Light of Darkness (The Covenant of Death)[235]
25	Ava Inferi	Blood of Bacchus[236]
	Heaven Shall Burn	Iconoclast (Part 2: Bildersturm – The Visual Resistance) (DVD)[237]
	Pathosray	Sunless Skies[238]
	Xasthur	All Reflections Drained[239]
26	Bury Your Dead	It's Nothing Personal[240]
	Khanate	Clean Hands Go Foul[240]
	Marilyn Manson	The High End of Low
	Minsk	With Echoes in the Movement of Stone[241]
	Nahemah	A New Constellation[242]
27	Alestorm	Black Sails at Midnight[243]
	Glittertind	Landkjenning[244]
	Stream of Passion	The Flame Within[245]
	Trail of Tears	Bloodstained Endurance[246]
29	Amorphis	Skyforger[247]
	Andreas Kisser	Hubris I & II[248]
	Devourment	Unleash the Carnivore[249]
	Necrophobic	Death To All[250]
	Týr	By the Light of the Northern Star[251]
	UFO	The Visitor[252]

June

Day	Artist	Album
1	Avulsed	Nullo (The Pleasure of Self-Mutilation)[253]
	Buckethead	Forensic Follies
	Pantheon I	Worlds I Create[254]
2	1349	Revelations of the Black Flame[255]
4	Pelican	Ephemeral (EP)[256]
8	Hate	The Litanies of Satan (DVD)[257]
	Steel Panther	Feel the Steel[258]
9	Amoral	Show Your Colors[259]
	The Autumn Offering	Requiem[260]
	Coalesce	OX[261]
	Darkness Dynamite	The Astonishing Fury of Mankind[262]
	Mortification	The Evil Addiction Destroying Machine[263]
15	Artillery	When Death Comes[264]
	Riverside	Anno Domini High Definition[265]
16	Graveworm	Diabolical Figures[266]
	Madder Mortem	Eight Ways[267]
	Sworn Enemy	Total World Domination[268]
19	Deströyer 666	Defiance[269]
	Ex Deo	Romulus[270]
	Goatwhore	Carving Out The Eyes of God[271]
22	Asphyx	Death...The Brutal Way[272]
	Drudkh	Microcosmos[273]
	Nightrage	Wearing a Martyr's Crown[274]
	Spinal Tap	Back from the Dead[275]
23	Darkest Hour	The Eternal Return[276]
	Dream Theater	Black Clouds & Silver Linings[277]
	Seventh Angel	The Dust of Years[278]
	Voivod	Infini[279]
24	Elias Viljanen	Fire-Hearted[280]
26	Korpiklaani	Karkelo[281]
	U.D.O.	Infected (EP)[282]
29	Amberian Dawn	The Clouds of Northland Thunder[283]
	Anaal Nathrakh	In the Constellation of the Black Widow[284]
30	Blood Red Throne	Souls of Damnation[285]
	Killswitch Engage	Killswitch Engage[286]
	Obituary	Darkest Day[287]
	Shining	Shining VI: Klagopsalmer[288]
	Suicide Silence	No Time to Bleed[289]

July

Day	Artist	Album
6	The Project Hate	The Lustrate Process[290]
	Skyfire	Fractal (EP)[291]
7	Born of Osiris	A Higher Place[292]
	Church of Misery	House of the Unholy[293]
	Grief of War	Worship[294]
	Job for a Cowboy	Ruination[295]
	Moss	Tombs of the Blind Drugged (EP)[296]
	Novembers Doom	Into Night's Requiem Infernal[297]
	Suffocation	Blood Oath[298]
14	Arkaea	Years in the Darkness[299]
	Arsonists Get All the Girls	Portals[300]
	August Burns Red	Constellations[301]
	DevilDriver	Pray for Villains[302]
	Jorn	Spirit Black[303]
	Judas Priest	A Touch of Evil: Live[304]
	We Were Gentlemen	Living Hell[305]
17	Horna	Musta Kaipuu[306]
	Manowar	Thunder in the Sky (EP)[307]
	Merauder	God is I[308]
20	Onslaught	Live Damnation (live album)[309]
21	Atheist	Unquestionable Presence: Live at Wacken (live album)[310]
	Stryper	Murder by Pride[311]
	Sybreed	3Aeon[312]
	For the Fallen Dreams	Relentless
	The Word Alive	Empire (EP)
22	Ahab	The Divinity of Oceans[313]
	Persefone	Shin-Ken[314]
24	Leaves' Eyes	My Destiny (EP)[315]
	Narnia	Course of a Generation[316]
27	Dismember	Under Bloodred Skies (DVD)[317]
	Nazxul	Iconoclast[318]
28	Divine Heresy	Bringer of Plagues[319]

August

Day	Artist	Album
3	Ghost Brigade	Isolation Songs[320]
4	Man Must Die	No Tolerance For Imperfection [321]
6	Dead and Divine	The Machines We Are[322]
7	Behemoth	Evangelion[323]
10	Chthonic	Mirror of Retribution[324]
11	Bloody Panda	Summon[325]
	Winds of Plague	The Great Stone War[326]
18	Burnt by the Sun	Heart of Darkness[327]
	Goreaphobia	Mortal Repulsion[328]
	Gwar	Lust in Space[329]
21	U.D.O.	Dominator[330]
	Vader	Necropolis[331]
24	Caliban	Say Hello to Tragedy[332]
	Municipal Waste	Massive Aggressive[333]
25	Azaghal	Teraphim[334]
	Oh, Sleeper	Son of the Morning[335]
26	Leaves' Eyes	Njord[336]
	Warmen	Japanese Hospitality[337]
28	Axxis	Utopia[338]
	Guilt Machine	On This Perfect Day[339]
	Illdisposed	To Those Who Walk Behind Us[340]
	Jorn	The Dukebox (best of)[341]
	Krypteria	My Fatal Kiss[342]
	Saltatio Mortis	Wer Wind Sat[343]
	The 69 Eyes	Back in Blood[344]

September

Day	Artist	Album
8	3 Inches of Blood	Here Waits Thy Doom[345]
	Advent	Naked And Cold[346]
	Dethklok	The Dethalbum II[347]
9	Ablaze My Sorrow	The Suicide Note (EP)[348]
	Candiria	Toying with the Insanities[349]
	Ensiferum	From Afar[350]
	Insomnium	Across the Dark[351]
	Thunderstone	Dirt Metal[352]
11	Secrets of the Moon	Privilegivm[353]
	Threat Signal	Vigilance[354]
13	The Gates of Slumber	Hymns of Blood & Thunder[355]
14	Skyfire	Esoteric[356]
15	The Black Dahlia Murder	Deflorate[357]
	Dream Theater	Wither (EP)[358]
	Dying Fetus	Descend into Depravity[359]
	Every Time I Die	New Junk Aesthetic[360]
	It Dies Today	Lividity[361]
	Kittie	In The Black[362]
	Living Colour	The Chair in the Doorway[363]
	Megadeth	Endgame[364]
	Meliah Rage	Masquerade[365]
	Ministry	The Last Dubber (Re-mix Album)[366]
	Protest the Hero	Gallop Meets the Earth (live CD/DVD)[367]
	Salt the Wound	Ares[368]
	Shadows Fall	Retribution[369]
	Skinlab	The Scars Between Us[370]
18	At Vance	Ride the Sky[371]
	Danger Danger	Revolve[372]
	Europe	Last Look at Eden[373]
	Lynch Mob	Smoke And Mirrors[374]
	Sonata Arctica	The Days of Grays[375]
	Theatre of Tragedy	Forever Is the World[376]
21	Diablo Swing Orchestra	Sing Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious[377]
	Evile	Infected Nations[378]
	Ronny Munroe	The Fire Within[379]
	Sinister	Prophecies Denied (DVD)[380]
22	Children of Bodom	Skeletons in the Closet[381]
	Despised Icon	Day of Mourning[382]
	Echoes of Eternity	As Shadows Burn[383]
	Five Finger Death Punch	War Is the Answer[384]
	Parkway Drive	The DVD (DVD)[385]
	Skindred	Shark Bites and Dog Fights[386]
24	Buckethead	Needle in a Slunk Stack
	Marduk	Wormwood[387]
25	Destruction	The Curse of the Antichrist – Live in Agony (live album)[388]
	Immortal	All Shall Fall[389]
	Metalium	Grounded – Chapter Eight[390]
	Paradise Lost	Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us[391]
26	Tyrants Blood	Crushing Onward into Oblivion[392]
28	Arch Enemy	The Root of All Evil[393]
	Dalriada	Arany-Album[394]
	Redemption	Snowfall on Judgment Day[395]
29	Alice in Chains	Black Gives Way to Blue[396]
	Austrian Death Machine	Double Brutal[397]
	Black Cobra	Chronomega[398]
	Doomriders	Darkness Come Alive[399]
	Evergreen Terrace	Almost Home[400]
	Hatebreed	Hatebreed[401]

October

Day	Artist	Album
2	Scar Symmetry	Dark Matter Dimensions[402]
5	Marionette	Enemies[403]
6	Ancestors	Of Sound Mind[404]
	Hirax	El Rostro de la Muerte[405]
	HORSE the band	Desperate Living[406]
	Inhale Exhale	Bury Me Alive[407]
	KISS	Sonic Boom[408]
	Powerman 5000	Somewhere on the Other Side of Nowhere[409]
9	Belphegor	Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn[410]
	Lifelover	Dekadens (EP)[411]
	Mob Rules	Astral Hand (EP)[412]
10	Pythia	Beneath the Veiled Embrace[413]
12	Ram-Zet	Neutralized[414]
	Slowmotion Apocalypse	Mothra[415]
	W.A.S.P.	Babylon[416]
13	Baroness	Blue Record[417]
	Dawn of Azazel	Relentless[418]
	Saviours	Accelerated Living[419]
	Skeletonwitch	Breathing the Fire[420]
14	Decadence	Chargepoint[421]
	Waltari	Below Zero[422]
16	Brainstorm	Memorial Roots[423]
	Epica	Design Your Universe[424]
	Fragments of Unbecoming	The Everhaunting Past/Chapter IV – A Splendid Retrospection[425]
	Rammstein	Liebe ist für alle da[426]
	Winger	Karma[427]
19	Katatonia	Night Is the New Day[428]
	Skitliv	Skandinavisk Misantropi[429]
20	Converge	Axe to Fall[430]
	Portal	Swarth[431]
21	Freak Kitchen	Land of the Freaks[432]
	Gorgoroth	Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt[433]
	Russian Circles	Geneva[434]
22	Månegarm	Nattväsen[435]
23	Hypocrisy	A Taste of Extreme Divinity[436]
	Savage Circus	Of Doom and Death[437]
	Transatlantic	The Whirlwind[438]
24	To-Mera	Earthbound (EP)[439]
26	Dark Tranquillity	Where Death Is Most Alive (live CD/DVD)[440]
	Hellbastard	Eco-War (mini-CD)[441]
	Hellbastard	The Need to Kill[441]
	My Dying Bride	Bring Me Victory (EP)[442]
	Rob Halford	Halford III - Winter Songs[443]
	Shadow Gallery	Digital Ghosts[444]
27	Atreyu	Congregation of the Damned[445]
	Between the Buried and Me	The Great Misdirect[446]
	Pelican	What We All Come to Need[447]
	The Red Chord	Fed Through The Teeth Machine[448]
	Suffocation	Live in Quebec – The Close of a Chapter (live album)[449]
	Whiplash	Unborn Again[450]
28	Arkona	Goy, Rode, Goy![451]
	Hollenthon	Tyrants and Wraiths (EP)[452]
30	Annihilator	Live at Masters of Rock (Video album)[453]
	Nile	Those Whom the Gods Detest[454]
	Ruins	Front The Final Foes[455]
	Within Temptation	An Acoustic Night at the Theatre (Live Album)[456]
31	Welicoruss	Apeiron

November

Day	Artist	Album
2	Slayer	World Painted Blood[457]
3	Defiance	The Prophecy[458]
	Genitorturers	Blackheart Revolution[459]
5	Gama Bomb	Tales from the Grave in Space[76]
6	Brainstorm	Just Highs No Lows (12 Years of Persistence) (best-of)[460]
	Impious	Death Domination[461]
	Sonic Syndicate	Rebellion (EP)[462]
10	Jacobs Dream	Beneath the Shadows[463]
	Krallice	Dimensional Bleedthrough[464]
	Swallow the Sun	New Moon[465]
	Throwdown	Deathless[466]
	Witchmaster	Trücizna[467]
11	Lonewolf	The Dark Crusade[468]
13	Mob Rules	Radical Peace[469]
	Nostradameus	Illusion's Parade[470]
	Running Wild	ReUnation – A Tribute to Running Wild (tribute album)[471]
16	Miseration	The Mirroring Shadow[472]
	Sybreed	The Pulse of Awakening[473]
	Urgehal	Ikonoklast[474]
17	Devin Townsend	Addicted[475]
	Helix	Vagabond Bones[476]
	Rush	Working Men (Live Album)[477]
18	Dark Funeral	Angelus Exuro pro Eternus[478]
	Nightwish	Lokikirja (box set)[479]
19	Obituary	Live Xecution – Party. San 2008 (live DVD)[480]
23	Metallica	Français Pour Une Nuit (live DVD)[481]
24	Scorpions	Amazonia – Live in the Jungle (live DVD)[482]
25	Elis	Catharsis[483]
	Outrage	Outrage[484]
27	Manowar	Hell on Earth V (DVD)[485]
30	Metallica	Orgullo, Pasión Y Gloria - Tres Noches En La Ciudad De México (DVD)[486]

December

Day	Artist	Album
1	Carcass	Pungent Excruciation: Live (live album)[487]
3	Master's Hammer	Mantras[488]
7	Yngwie Malmsteen	High Impact (compilation)[489]
8	Nonpoint	Cut the Cord (EP)[490]
9	Disarmonia Mundi	The Isolation Game[491]
15	Orchid	Through the Devil's Doorway (EP)[492]
16	Helloween	Unarmed - Best of 25th Anniversary[493]
18	Coronatus	Fabula Magna[494]
	Heavenly	Carpe Diem[495]
	Tankard	Open All Night – Reloaded (DVD)[496]
22	Mudvayne	Mudvayne[497]
23	Heathen	The Evolution of Chaos[498]
26	Nokturnal Mortum	The Voice of Steel[499]