LET THE END OF YEAR LIST MANIA BEGIN!
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 10:00am by Axl Rosenberg
I love the end of the year. I mean, I hate the cold fucking weather, I hate the getting fucking dark outside early, I think the holidays are fucking retarded, New Year’s is a total fucking pain in the pass, and then starting in January no good movies come out for a least a month or two. So that all blows.
But the lists… Ah, the lists! So much arguing to be done over what is really just the opinion of one person or possibly a congregation of a few people! Behold as all the frail egos collapse under the need to have their opinion justified by someone they will never admit they perceive as “important” regardless of the fact that everyone eats and breathes and shits the same way! OH MY GOD, I HAVE SEEN THE MADNESS, AND THE MADNESS IS FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC.
So. We’re still more than a month away from publishing our own year-end lists here at MetalSucks, but by n0w all those big glossy analog blogs will have collected their staffs’ lists (’cause they gotta get that shit done way in advance, whereas us nerdonauts can procrastinate like we was gettin’ a one-time-only blow job from Bobbie Brown circa 1990), I know of at least one other blog with a looming deadline for all such lists, and now Metal Hammer has proclaimed that “Every day from now until Christmas, we will be revealing a different band/member of a band’s top albums of the year.”
You can see all the lists here. Musicians who have weighed in thus far include Lamb of God’s Chris Adler and Chimaira’s Mark Hunter. Hey, both those dudes were also cool enough to vote in our 21 albums poll! Awesome! So now you can go give Metal Hammer shit for a change.
-AR
So would I be right in assuming there won’t be a Metal Suck’s readers’ vote on best albums of the year?
That would be the best thing this site has ever done.
+1
srsly though, lets do that, yeah?
That would be pretty cool, and might at least stave off some bitching.
wow… im a huge Chimaira fan, but Hunter’s list striaght up sucks. (Jay Z, Chiamara, Killswitch… WTF!)
Yeah listing your band in your own top 10 list is like wearing your own merch all time, everyday.
Only Iron Maiden is allowed to do that; it is a previously established rule.
Or amon amarth cuz they aren’t american
Jay-Z is pretty good…but not top 10. I’ll stick with Eminem lol
What a giant pile of pandering bullshit. They’re all one-dimensional shoutouts to their respective friends and tour mates.
+1
2009 was a great year for metal releases indeed…
the more I think about the albums that could make into my list, the more it changes…
But one album remains in the top three no matter what:
Lion`s Share – Dark Hours…
Im a little disappointed that none of those lists look very good to me. No BTBAM is a no go.
2009 has been a good year for releases and not just Metal.
I agree. Silversun Pickups’ album Swoon is great.
Silversun Pickups are good Swoon was excellent
A bunch of possibilities on my list aren’t metal… the new stuff from Clutch, Priestess, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Supercommuter, The Company Band, Koffin Kats… so many great albums this year.
badass list from Chris Adler of LoG! Kreator, Megadeth, Slayer, Devildriver, Darkane, Municipal Waste, Gwar, Scar Symmetry. All badass albums, just not too big on new Winds of Plague but hey if he likes it thats his thing.
That list is just trying to make himself look cool with combination of the new LOG album trying but failing to be thrash..
Fucking Posers
I have been telling a lot of people around me that 2009 has been one of the best years for music in general.
I think this years list will be quite awesome. But alas, to me ‘The Way of All Flesh’ was soo good it should cross over for this year as well…lol
This year, we have seen Katy Perry, Jason Mraz, new Eminem, and “hello!!!” L.O.G.’s Wrath debuted at # fucking 2 to be the “highest charting extreme metal album in the last fifteen years.”
Ooo yes, a good year indeed…
UHHHH WHAT THE FUCK ADLER? Winds of Plague? Their new album is the top 5 worst albums of all time. It is so painful to try and sit through front to back. He had to of been kidding when he made the list. It will be interesting to see when the year actually ends who makes the lists.
Chris Adler’s list surprises me in the sense of “but why listen to that album when it’s so poor… I see where you’re coming from, but in a year of great releases (and many shit ones) there’s bound to be a much better, more interesting version of that sort of album done by someone else!”
The only exception being Darkane, who are fucking flawless.
Does anyone remember the ad that used to be on metalsucks for Demonic Art, with a quote from (I think) Chris Adler stating “when I grow up, I want to be in Darkane”?
Made my day.
yup, good point brutha
Holy Crap, you guys, it sucks to throw up orange juice.
It has been a great year for new music!
LOL ADLER: WINDS OF PLAGUE AND DESPISED ICON
–THE MAN LIKE HIM SOME DEATHCORE!!
My top 10 list may have to be expanded to 20… there were too many great releases this year.
Mastodon’s Crack the Skye is definitely the album of the year. maybe the album of the decade.
Agreed
It’s a great album, but it’s not even making my top 10. Top 20, maybe.
Easily the best album of 2009. Probably in my top 5 of the decade.
and let’s not forget the new Steel Panther album!!!!!!
I Dig THe CanCer Bats List
Lists?
Hmmm….I’ll be waiting, ready to pounce upon the first crappy list I see…
I didnt read their lists, but heres my albums of the year..in no order..
BTBAM ~ The Great Misdirect
Thy Will Be Done ~ In Ancient Of Days
Shadows Fall ~ Retribution
Narrows ~ New Distances
Mastodon ~ Crack The Skye
Kowloon Walled City ~ Gambling On The Richter Scale
thats all I got for now……
Chris Adler liking WoP and DI? who knew… If anyone remembers Dallas’s blog about deathcore being here to stay, maybe he’s on to something.
Jay Z was on some lists.
That should be a shooting offense.
best of 09 is easy
skambankt
riverside
hypocrisy
solstafir
kotiteolisus