Metal Reviews

Thread titles explains it. What have been your favorite songs this year?

Origin - Antithesis
Nachtmystium - Assassins
Belphegor - Bondage Goat Zombie, Sexdictator Lucifer
Septic Flesh - We the Gods, Sunlight Moonlight
Metallica - All Nightmare Long
Bloodbath - Earthrot
Protest the Hero - Bloodmeat
Rotted - Nothin But A Nosebleed, Fear and Loathing in Old London Town
Arghoslent - In Coffles They Were Led, The Grenadier
Benediction - Seeing Through My Eyes
Valkyrie - Apocalypse Unsealed
Motorhead - Teach You How to Sing the Blues
Moonspell - Spring of Rage, Scorpion Flower
The Berzerker - Disassembly Line
Amon Amarth - Guardian of Asgaard, Twilight of the Thunder God
Opeth - Lotus Eater
Serpent Cult - New World Order
Lair of the Minotaur - Doom Trooper

Good idea- was thinking of making a thread like this for individual tracks.

But now you've made it, I've comletely forgotten what mine are. Will fill this in whilst I'm working on my top 15 albums.

Ok

Mourning Beloveth -- The Burning Man
Tyr -- Fipan Fagra, Land
Metallica -- My Apocalypse
Cynic -- The Space for This, Adam's Murmur
Aura Noir -- Iron Night/Torment Storm
Arghoslent -- Hornets of the Pogrom
Belphegor -- Stigma Diabolicum
MyndSnare -- Visionary Realism
Behexen -- And all Believers Shall be Damned
Tankard -- Hyperthermia
Judas Priest -- Revelations (Fucking hell!!! )

Many really, they are the first that spring to mind.

Off the top of my head and with the aid of itunes:

Rotten Sound - Colonies
Cancer Bats - Smiling Politely
Cancer Bats - Lucifer's Rocking Chair
Opeth - Heir Apparent
Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook
Origin - The Aftermath
Meshuggah - Bleed
Meshuggah - Dancers To A Discordant System
Johnny Truant - Last Arms Of The Apocalypse
Johnny Truant - The Grotesque
Envy - Life Caught In The Rain
In Flames - Sleepless Again
The Fall Of Troy - Chapter IV: Enter The Black Demon
Dir en grey - Vinushka
Dir en grey - Glass Skin
Dir en grey - Bugaboo
Bring Me The Horizon - Sleep With One Eye Open
Coldplay - Violet Hill
Black Francis - When They Come To Murder Me
The Berzerker - An Unforgotten Force
Aborted - A Murmer In Decrepit Wits
Paramore - Decode
Underoath - Breathing In A New Mentality
Underoath - Anyone Can Dig A Whole But It Takes a Real Man To Call It Home


a few of these were on albums that weren't on my overall best list because I didn't feel that as a full album they were that good, but some individual songs were fantastic.

Scar Symmetry - Ghost prototype II : Deus Ex Machina
Communic - Raven's Cry
Protest The Hero - Bloodmeat
Coldplay - Viva la vida
In Flames - March to The Shore
Kiuas - Of Sacrifice, Loss and Reward
Trivium - Torn Between Scylla And Charybdis

Very good songs indeed.

A few others that I come to think of right now are:

Ayreon - Age of Shadows
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Bloodbath - Weak Aside
Gojira - Yama's Messengers
Equilibrium - Mana
The Monolith Deathcult - I Spew Thee Out of My Mouth
Pin-up Went Down - Cadavre exquis
The Mars Volta - Soothsayer
Ásmegin - Prunkende, Stolt I Jokumsol. Probably my favorite of the year. I was playing GTA IV the first time I heard it, smashing shit up, killing people, the usual stuff. But I just had to stop when I heard this song. I put the controller down and closed my eyes. It's so charming and beautiful.

Real quick list, off the top of my head:

The Mars Volta -- Oroborous
The Mars Volta -- Metatron
The Black Mages -- Grand Cross
The Black Mages -- Premonition
Protest The Hero -- Sequoia Throne
Moonspell -- Spring Of Rage
Soilent Green -- Antioxidant
Dir en grey -- Reiketsu Nariseba
Neuraxis -- Deviation Occurs

Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne . There are many others but this is my definite fave. I probably didn't go 24 hours without listening to it at least once.

Origin - The Aftermath deserves a mention here for being the craziest song that put me off my guitar. How do the play those sweeps?

fuck how did I forget The Mars Volta - Goliath. Best breakdown ever.

ooooo I like this

The Mars Volta--Ilyena
Protest the Hero--Sequoia Throne
Protest the Hero--Bloodmeat
Thrice--The Flame Deluge
Thrice--The Whaler
Trivium--Torn Between Scylla and Charybdis
The Stiletto Formal--We Are All Muckrackers

I don't think I really bought any metal this year. I'll have to fix that...Origin

adx - lycantrophie
the cavalera conspiracy - hex (great song!)
crystal vipers- the last axeman (from their compilation cd)
dezperados - when the circus comes to town (haunting)
judas priest - pestilence and plague (if you don't like this song you haven't listened good enough.
testament - the persecution won't forget
white lion - finally see the light

Judas Priest - Future Of Mankind
Manilla Road - Totentanz
Warrel Dane - August
Amon Amarth - Guardians Of Asgaard
Blaze - Smile Back At Deah
Order Of Nine - Ninth Knight
Darkestrah - The Silk Road
Sinister - The Silent Howling
Dismember - Death Conquers All
Marshall Law - Nothing Lasts Forever
Helstar - In My Darkness
Testament - F.E.A.R.
Krisiun - Slaying Steel
Squealer - Grey
Zero Hour - Dark Deceiver
The Berzerker - Spare Parts
Motorhead - Rock Out

Avantasia - The Scarecrow
Avantasia - Another Angel Down
Firewind - Angels Forgive Me
Seventh Wonder - Welcome To Mercy Falls
Judas Priest - Alone
Judas Priest - Lost Love
Symphony X - Set This World On Fire
Edguy - The Pride Of Creation
Stormwarrior - The Holy Cross
Pyramaze - A Beautiful Death
Pyramaze - Caramon's Poem
Sabaton - Unbreakable

That's pretty much it for now. But MUCH remains to be heard. I think I'm not getting very much 2009 releases if I'm gonna "dig" through this year.

Isn't Paradise Lost by Symph X from 07?

I really like it. And is the chorus sung in latin? I think it really suits the song and adds a nice touch making it different from the rest.

Ooopps... Sorry, my mistake. I don't know why I put that down. I'm sitting here roaming through my favourite songs from this year and it just came along for whatever reason.

It's Italian.

I'm not good with this. Been thinking, but albums tend to stand out more than individual albums for me.

Seventh Avenue - Terium
Seventh Avenue - Future's Dawn
Seventh Avenue - Two Masters

really, I could put down almost all the songs off of Terium... but I won't

Seventh Wonder - Break The Silence
Seventh Wonder - The Black Parade
Protest The Hero - Palms Read
Protest The Hero - Sequoia Throne
Royal Hunt - Divide and Reign
Evergrey - Fear
Suspyre - Siren (probably my favorite track of the year)
Opeth - Heir Apparent
DragonForce - Heroes of Our Time
Grand Magus - Silver Into Steel
Communic - Stone Carved Eyes
Serenity - Derelict
Meshuggah - Combustion

Thrice - Daedelus; the change in mood during the second verse is amazing. i don't know how they do it and i don't really want to know.
Thrice - A Song for Milly Michaelson; can't listen to this without crying.
Colour Haze - Turns; perfect song. i've always thought backwards guitars were really pretty, but never really heard them used as anything other than a neat little intro or outro or gimmick. Stefan Koglek proves that they're fucking gorgeous.
The Mars Volta - Agadez; perfect song.
The Mars Volta - Wax Simulacra; usually it takes them like 10 minutes to trigger this much emotion but they can do it in 3 too.
Paramore - Decode; last chorus = holy fuck.
Protest the Hero - Bloodmeat; pretty much everything about Bloodmeat is perfect
Protest the Hero - Bone Marrow; THE ROYALTY MUST DIE LIKE COMMON BEGGARS AND PETTY THIEVES = shit.
Trivium - Between ... can't spell the names
Trivium - Shogun; chorus lyrics are so win
Hammers of Misfortune - Fields pt2
Hammers of Misfortune - Butchertown; the vocals on these two songs are unreal. so beautiful.
Canvas Solaris - the first one on Atomized Dream; PRETTY GUITARS. i wish they'd write more than one non-metal song per album.
The Stiletto Formal - 6pm Your Time; inspired to me to write a love poem including the line "girl, you and i are nothing special"
Day Without Dawn - The Undertide; gets really great during the second half
Jacob Bannon - The Blood of Thine Enemies; why does he have to taunt us with this teaser and not release the full album like he said he would? what the fuck Jake.
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo - Arendering; listened to this once a day for like a month. over and over again and i'm still not tired of it.
Triclops! - Love Song for a Botfly; whoever thought they could make a song about a parasitic fly so umm... poetic and meaningful? also informative. lots of sciency words in this one.

Should've included that. Sooooooooooooo good. Actually might be my favorite song from that album...