Best of 2009, Part 1

Another year has come to a close, and damn, what an unbelievable year for extreme metal! Since there were so many great albums to sift through, we decided to break it up into two episodes that we'd run back to back-- long enough to fill most holiday commutes (at nearly 3 hours) and timeless enough to act as a mix tape of how truly rad 2009 was for metal!

Kylesa, "Unknown Awareness", Static Tensions

Talkset #1

Unanimated "The Endless Beyond", In the Light of Darkness

Hypocrisy, "Valley of the Damned", A Taste of Extreme Divinity

Asphyx, "Death the Brutal Way", Death... The Brutal Way

Talkset #2

Baroness, "Swollen and Halo", Blue Record

Keelhaul, "Everything's a Napkin", Triumphant Return to Obscurity

Magrudergrind, "Bridge Burner", Magrudergrind

Talkset #3

Sarke, "The Drunken Priest", Vorunah

Mastodon, "The Czar", Crack the Skye