I thought I’d throw together a post about the good and not so good that I heard in 2009. Despite attempting to listen to more albums from 2009, I really found only a handful of albums from the past year that I thought were really amazing. And as usual, my want list from 2009 is much longer than my actual ‘best of’ list; I still haven’t gotten around to listening to the new ones from Mistur, Nokturnal Mortum, Arckanum, Nazxul, and Askival among others.

Top 5 Albums from 2009:

Solstafir - Kold
Drudkh - Microcosmos
The Beast of the Apocalypse - A Voice from the Four Horns of the Golden Altar
Katatonia - Night is the New Day
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With The Stars

Honorable Mention:

Altar of Plagues - White Tomb
Ulcerate - Everything Is Fire
Sun of the Blind - Skullreader
Semen Datura - Einsamkeit
Urfaust - Einsiedler

Most Disappointing:

The Axis of Perdition - Urfe
Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution