Metal Mixtape: Best of 2009

by Cosmo Lee

Here are my favorite (mostly) metal songs of 2009. Well, as many as I could fit into an hour, anyway. I heard a truckload of new music this year. It was tough to pare it down for lists. Even assuming that 99% of art is bad, the total amount is so huge now that the other 1% is still overwhelming. I just picked songs that make me excited to hear them. At the end of the day/year/life, that’s what this is all about.

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1. Sinister Realm – Mongol Horde
2. Scale the Summit – The Great Plains
3. Keelhaul – Waiting for the Moon to Speak
4. Necrophobic – Revelation 666
5. Dreaming Dead – Within One
6. Suffocation – Cataclysmic Purification
7. Revocation – Dismantle the Dictator
8. Burnt by the Sun – Inner Station
9. Converge – Axe to Fall
10. Goatwhore – Apocalyptic Havoc
11. Struck by Lightning – Supercell
12. Vader – When the Sun Drowns in Dark
13. Kylesa – Unknown Awareness
14. Doomriders – Lions