The Best Metal Albums of 2009

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Rank	Artist / Album	Release date	Rating	Votes	Reviews
1	Vektor Black Future	Nov 17, 2009	91.4	56	0
2	Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings	Jun 23, 2009	87.8	115	9
3	Mastodon Crack the Skye	Mar 24, 2009	91.4	49	3
4	Epica Design Your Universe	Oct 16, 2009	90.8	53	3
5	Behemoth Evangelion	Aug 7, 2009	90.3	52	3
6	Be'lakor Stone's Reach	Jun 20, 2009	91.7	33	0
7	Megadeth Endgame	Sep 15, 2009	87.2	91	8
8	Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity	Sep 15, 2009	93.4	21	1
9	Dark Tranquillity Where Death Is Most Alive [Live]	Oct 26, 2009	93.3	20	2
10	Archgoat The Light-Devouring Darkness	Feb 7, 2009	93.4	18	0
11	Insomnium Across the Dark	Sep 7, 2009	89.8	39	2
12	Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect	Oct 27, 2009	89.6	40	1
13	Persefone Shin-Ken	Jul 22, 2009	90.1	34	3
14	Amorphis Skyforger	May 29, 2009	90.4	31	0
15	The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm	Sep 15, 2009	90.9	27	1
16	Colosseum Chapter 2: Numquam	Jan 14, 2009	91.7	22	4
17	DGM FrAme	Feb 23, 2009	89.1	39	2
18	Kalisia Cybion	Jan 2009	93.5	14	1
19	Heavenly Carpe Diem	Dec 18, 2009	86.3	70	4
20	Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles	Mar 30, 2009	88.2	45	1
21	Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us	Sep 28, 2009	93.1	14	0
22	Devin Townsend Project Addicted	Nov 16, 2009	93.3	13	0
23	Cain's Offering Gather the Faithful	Jul 22, 2009	88.8	36	3
24	Swallow the Sun New Moon	Nov 4, 2009	91.3	17	1
25	Redemption Snowfall on Judgment Day	Sep 28, 2009	90.8	19	1
26	Lamb of God Wrath	Feb 24, 2009	85.8	59	1
27	Katharsis Fourth Reich [EP]	May 18, 2009	93.4	10	1
28	August Burns Red Constellations	Jul 14, 2009	89.5	24	2
29	Riverside Anno Domini High Definition	Jun 15, 2009	90.5	19	0
30	Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest	Nov 3, 2009	90.4	19	1
31	49 Morphines Partial Eclipse	Jan 15, 2009	98.3	3	0
32	Nokturnal Mortum Голос Сталі (The Voice of Steel)	Dec 26, 2009	91.8	12	1
33	Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow	Jun 29, 2009	91.4	13	1
34	Obscura Cosmogenesis	Feb 17, 2009	89	22	2
35	Teitanblood Seven Chalices	Mar 27, 2009	93.1	8	1
36	Cormorant Metazoa	Sep 22, 2009	93	8	2
37	Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game	Dec 9, 2009	88.3	23	1
38	Fairyland Score to a New Beginning	Mar 25, 2009	88.2	23	1
39	Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity	Oct 23, 2009	90.3	14	0
40	Therion The Miskolc Experience [Live]	Jun 8, 2009	92.5	8	0
41	Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know	Apr 28, 2009	85.6	37	5
42	Immortal All Shall Fall	Sep 25, 2009	88	21	1
43	Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt	Oct 21, 2009	89.1	16	0
44	Celesty Vendetta	Mar 18, 2009	88.1	20	2
45	Embrace of Thorns Atonement Ritual	2009	93.3	6	0
46	Killing Touch One of a Kind	Apr 30, 2009	88.4	17	2
47	Devourment Unleash the Carnivore	May 29, 2009	89.5	13	1
48	The Poodles Clash of the Elements	May 20, 2009	91.9	7	1
49	Exivious Exivious	May 11, 2009	90.6	9	0
50	Breaking Benjamin Dear Agony	Sep 29, 2009	93	5	0

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