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	52	0
2	Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings	Jun 23, 2009	87.9	107	9
3	Epica Design Your Universe	Oct 16, 2009	91	51	3
4	Mastodon Crack the Skye	Mar 24, 2009	91.4	46	3
5	Behemoth Evangelion	Aug 7, 2009	90.6	49	3
6	Megadeth Endgame	Sep 15, 2009	87.3	87	8
7	Be'lakor Stone's Reach	Jun 20, 2009	91.7	28	0
8	Dying Fetus Descend into Depravity	Sep 15, 2009	93.8	17	1
9	The Chasm Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm	Sep 15, 2009	91.8	26	1
10	Colosseum Chapter 2: Numquam	Jan 14, 2009	93	19	4
11	Dark Tranquillity Where Death Is Most Alive [Live]	Oct 26, 2009	92.8	19	1
12	Insomnium Across the Dark	Sep 7, 2009	89.8	37	2
13	Persefone Shin-Ken	Jul 22, 2009	90.1	34	3
14	Archgoat The Light-Devouring Darkness	Feb 7, 2009	93.2	16	0
15	Between the Buried and Me The Great Misdirect	Oct 27, 2009	89.4	38	1
16	DGM FrAme	Feb 23, 2009	89.3	38	2
17	Kalisia Cybion	Jan 2009	93.5	14	1
18	Nokturnal Mortum Голос Сталі (The Voice of Steel)	Dec 26, 2009	94.2	11	1
19	Heavenly Carpe Diem	Dec 18, 2009	86.2	69	4
20	Amorphis Skyforger	May 29, 2009	90.2	27	0
21	Swallow the Sun New Moon	Nov 4, 2009	92.7	15	1
22	Devin Townsend Project Addicted	Nov 16, 2009	93.3	13	0
23	Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles	Mar 30, 2009	88	41	1
24	Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us	Sep 28, 2009	93.2	12	0
25	Lamb of God Wrath	Feb 24, 2009	86.2	55	1
26	Cain's Offering Gather the Faithful	Jul 22, 2009	89	28	2
27	Anaal Nathrakh In the Constellation of the Black Widow	Jun 29, 2009	92.8	11	1
28	Katharsis Fourth Reich [EP]	May 18, 2009	93.6	9	0
29	Redemption Snowfall on Judgment Day	Sep 28, 2009	90.5	18	1
30	Riverside Anno Domini High Definition	Jun 15, 2009	90.3	18	0
31	August Burns Red Constellations	Jul 14, 2009	89.4	22	2
32	Devourment Unleash the Carnivore	May 29, 2009	92.2	11	1
33	Obscura Cosmogenesis	Feb 17, 2009	89	22	2
34	Hypocrisy A Taste of Extreme Divinity	Oct 23, 2009	91.1	13	0
35	Therion The Miskolc Experience [Live]	Jun 8, 2009	93.6	7	0
36	Cormorant Metazoa	Sep 22, 2009	93	8	2
37	Teitanblood Seven Chalices	Mar 27, 2009	95	5	0
38	Disarmonia Mundi The Isolation Game	Dec 9, 2009	88.4	22	1
39	Fairyland Score to a New Beginning	Mar 25, 2009	88.3	21	1
40	Nile Those Whom the Gods Detest	Nov 3, 2009	89.4	16	1
41	Immortal All Shall Fall	Sep 25, 2009	88.2	20	1
42	Celesty Vendetta	Mar 18, 2009	88.1	20	2
43	Embrace of Thorns Atonement Ritual	2009	93.3	6	0
44	Killing Touch One of a Kind	Apr 30, 2009	88.4	17	2
45	The Poodles Clash of the Elements	May 20, 2009	91.9	7	1
46	Exivious Exivious	May 11, 2009	90.6	9	0
47	Heaven and Hell The Devil You Know	Apr 28, 2009	84.7	33	5
48	Gorgoroth Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt	Oct 21, 2009	88.4	14	0
49	Fog of War Fog of War	Oct 10, 2009	93.8	4	0
50	Pagan's Mind Live Equation [Live]	Sep 14, 2009	95	3	0

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