January 2010 - Metal Review Features and Editorials

Cruz del Sur 'Triple Six' Package: Winners Announced...

After weeks of anticipation, the time has come for our three winners to claim their spoils: The Metal Mallet SlayerM dimejaguar Congratulations! We will contact you shortly to gather your vital information. Thanks to all that entered! Italy's bastion...

Published Tue, Jan 12 2010 10:44 AM by Rev

Filed under: Slough Feg, While Heaven Wept

John Ray's Top 20 of 2009

First, my apologies for being so late with this. Thing is, I spent the last couple of weeks battling an upper respiratory infection and simultaneous nasal staph infection. If you’ve never had the pleasure of experiencing a staph infection, particularly...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2010 2:33 PM by LoneWatie

Erik Thomas' Top 25 of 2009

Favorite Albums of 2009 1. Kalisa – Cybion 2. Augury – Fragmentary Evidence 3. Fall of Efrafa – Inle 4. Insomnium – Across the Dark 5. Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect 6. Wolves in the Throne Room - Black Cascade...

Published Wed, Jan 6 2010 7:49 AM by erikt@metalreview

Sasha Horn's Top 20 of 2009

10 Impetuous Ritual - Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence A hot mess of raw and uncut pure black bile. This is the dregs of DM. Fuzzed and fizzed; drop-droptuned like they're playing with one pick in hell and one stick in the thick, desperately...

Published Tue, Jan 5 2010 10:20 PM by CrypticSlaughterer

Chris Chellis' Top 20 of 2009

1. Vreid 's Milorg : Nothing this year sounded quite as dangerous while still being lush with detail. 2. Alice in Chains ' Black Gives Way to Blue : This one defies logic. Most of us were left asking, "How in the hell did these guys pull...

Published Mon, Jan 4 2010 5:42 PM by Maupassatan

Chris McDonald's Top 20 of 2009

2009 was kind of an unusual year for me metal-wise. In addition to going through a pretty significant non-metal phase for several months, this year saw so many classic bands either reforming or releasing new material after a long break that I felt like...

Published Mon, Jan 4 2010 4:13 PM by Chris McDonald

Filed under: Gorgoroth, Absu, Municipal Waste, YOB, Slough Feg, The Chasm, Insomnium, Ulcerate, Nile, Wolves in the Throne Room, Mastodon, Pelican, Blut Aus Nord, Drudkh, Devin Townsend, Kylesa, Wodensthrone, Afgrund, Orcustus, Sunn O))), Scale The Summit, Fen

Doug Moore's Top 20 of 2009

What can I say about 2009 that hasn't been said by my esteemed colleagues? This year was outstanding by anyone's definition; even metalcore, that red-headed stepchild of the metal scene, stepped it up and delivered big-time over the last twelve...

Published Sun, Jan 3 2010 6:00 PM by trezevant

Jeremy Morse's Top 20 of 2009

Last years top ten was a bit of a thrown together affair for me. I did not care for most of the records I reviewed, and by December my personal purchases amounted to about a dozen albums, so almost everything I bought made the list by default. 2009 is...

Published Sat, Jan 2 2010 11:49 AM by Achilles

Jeremy Witt's Top 20 of 2009

2009 was a hell of a year, as we've all noted. Thanks to y'all for reading, thanks to my fellow staffers for being the best damn reviewers ever, and thanks to the following twenty records for kicking ass... Horns up for 2010... 1. Napalm Death...

Published Fri, Jan 1 2010 1:58 PM by JW

Dave Pirtle's Top 20 of 2009

Everybody keeps talking about what a great year it was for metal, how much better it was than last year, and how difficult this process was. Indeed, it was a good year, but I still give the edge to 2009. This year, I was literally drowned with new music...

Published Fri, Jan 1 2010 1:43 PM by the madman

Filed under: Heaven and Hell, Mastodon, The Black Dahlia Murder, Devin Townsend, Megadeth, November's Doom, Lazarus A.D., Tyr, Alestorm, Trans-Siberian Orchestra